CNN commentator and Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord on Thursday compared President Donald Trump's moves to overhaul healthcare to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., prompting a backlash from a fellow panelist. Following is a transcript of the video.

JEFFREY LORD: Think of President Trump as the Martin Luther King of healthcare.

SYMONE SANDERS: Oh, Jeffrey. Jeffrey.

LORD: When I was a kid, President Kennedy did not want to introduce the civil rights bill because he said it wasn't popular, he didn't have the votes for it, etcetera. Dr. King kept putting people in the streets, in harm’s way, to put the pressure on so that the bill would be introduced. That's what finally worked.

SANDERS: You do understand that Dr. King was marching for civil rights because people that looked like me were being beaten, dogs were being sicced on them. Basic human rights were being held from these people merely because the color of their skin. So let’s not equate Dr. Martin Luther King JR, a humanitarian, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, to the vagina-grabbing president, Donald Trump.

