most damning on this topic. thank you very much for all the information. we look forward to hearing what happens with the new and resized ord -- revised order today. we are following a lot of news today, so let's get to it. >> mcmaster will become the national security adviser. >> i look forward to advancing the protection of the american people. >> nobody will be speaking ill of mcmaster. >> this is an upgrade over general flynn. >> the trump administration is tweaking the president's executive order on immigration. >> there's a fine line between keeping our community safe and taking away basic protections. >> and i am the least anti-semitic person. >> there's a question as to why the president has not condemned

anti-semiticism in america. >> the president naming h.r. mcmaster as his new national security adviser, and the active duty officer assumed the role with several foreign policy changes under way. >> first off will be president trump's new executive order which is nearing completion, we are told, and now is the white house going to change the travel ban to address the concerns of the federal appeals court and will that be enough to satisfy political critics, and they are mounting questions as to why president trump doesn't go after anti-semitism in america like he does other things he says he is against. let's start with correspondent joe johns at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, chris. likely to be a lot on the agenda today. the white house hoping to get off on the right foot with a meeting of the national security council and a new national security adviser, a man who is highly regarded and who didn't

have a choice in turning down the job. >> he's a man of tremendous talent and experience. >> reporter: president donald trump unveiling mcmaster as his new national security adviser. >> we are very honored to have him. >> mcmaster is a veteran of the first gulf war, iraq and afghanistan, and a widely respected military strategist. >> i would just like to say what is privilege it is to continue to serve our nation. >> known as a creative thinker, mcmaster holds a phd in military history, and the pick drawing praise from both sides of the spectrum. john mccain calling mcmaster an outstanding choice, a man of genuine intellect, character and ability. mcmaster takes the helm of a

national security council one week after michael flynn was forced to resign for misleading the vice president about his communications with the russian ambassador. >> i was disappointed to learn that the facts that have been conveyed to me by general flynn were inaccurate. >> president trump's first choice to replace flynn was replaced by bob harward, but he turned down because of family reasons, and he was concerned about being able to form his own team, but as an active duty officer, mcmaster did not have the option of saying no thanks. and it will be interesting to see how mcmaster will work with steve bannon who sits on the national security council. >> the president has said very clearly the new nsa director will have total and complete say over the makeup of the nsc, and

all of the components of the nsc. >> reporter: the president expected a short while from now to take a trip over to the smithsonian african-american museum, and he will be accompanied by, among others, ben carson. >> we will bring you the visit when it happens. the white house is set to unveil the new immigration order this week. new guidelines for law enforcement will be announced today by the department of homeland security that is already a material difference than the last time. this time we are seeing that this order is being put through the vetting and coordination that was missing the last time. >> that's exactly right. so we are expecting to see two big pieces of news earlier this week on immigration. first the department of homeland security is set to release formal guidance to federal agencies later this morning,

explaining just exactly how to implement the president's executive orders on immigration and border security. we know from earlier drafts of the memos we saw over the weekend that we can expect to see language detailing an exp d expanded process of expedited deportations of undocumented immigrants, and a deputizing, if you will, of local police officers to serve as immigration officers, and tightening of standards of asylum seekers. interesting the trump administration is expected to leave in place, at least for now, we are hearing, president obama's program known as daca, and that provides protection for children brought here separately, and then there's new versions of the travel ban. some are wondering what are the key differences the second time around. the head of homeland security said the rollout of the new ban

will include a phase-in period instead of the automatic switch over we saw last time, and it's safe to assume green card holders will not be affected by the ban, and sources tell us the white house council's office is taking a lead role in drafting to avoid legal problems like in the last go around. one critical issue, alisyn, is going to be what happens to foreign visitors, like somebody on a foreign visa. >> big question, and other questions as well. we will have to see all the details as they play out, laura. there's lots to discuss. let's bring in our panel. we have matt lewis, and senior column northwest at the daley beasts, and thank you to all of you. let's talk about the new national security adviser, general mcmaster, who has a highly regarded representation

and history, but the big question is how much autonomy and power and access to the president will he have? the reason we wonder about that is because other candidates turned down the job because they felt that somehow they would be eclipsed by, say, steve bannon? >> i think this is a great pick, and this is a guy -- the stereotypes of guys that study war, either they are tough and macho guys that want to go in and break things and kill people, or intellectuals in ivory tower thinking of a theory, and he combines the two things, and he is a tough guy, and a smart guy when it comes to count counter insurgency. how does it fit in? you never know until you get a group of people together who will emerge as a leader and how it will shake out. i will say this, i am hardened

by the fact that we are sending tough generals into the room to deal with steve bannon. if steve bannon can walk all over somebody, such as general mcmaster and general kelly, then he is quite the alpha dog if he pulls that off. >> interesting how in the analysis of the effectiveness in mcmaster, we leave out the name of the president and how he fits into the dynamic. in light of what we just saw with flynn, by the way, we still don't know why flynn was forced to resign. the more facts that come out, it seems like he was made some kind of political scapegoat, and what does that inform us as to the challenge of mcmaster? >> the challenge will be to put into action some of his impressive background. i have not heard his name before, and one of the things that comes up in researching him is a list of names he comes up

with subordinates, and it includes "the art of war", and the memoirs from jgeneral grant. and he contributes to a long line of history and he knows he is stepping into a very fraught situation, where he has a commander-in-chief, and on the other hand, he has a lot of history. rather than tinlcontinu continu back to inaction, this is a person that is part of a important tradition, and if he brings that to the table he will carry a more moral force than any of the political people there. >> it's interesting to think about what matt raised, and that's the dynamic in the oval office. what do we think about how he

comes into that pecking order? >> at the end of the day it matters if trump listens to his advisers, and we know he listened to bannon and we know he listened to flynn, and to get his ear will be the biggest challenge. now he is a general and trump does like to surround himself with generals. he said during the campaign he said he does not like to listen to them, and he said the best example off the top of my head is general mattis and the issue of torture, and he said torture is not something that works and trump repeated, well, you know, he says it doesn't work so it doesn't work. in the way that mattis can earn his respect and have his ear is going to be the biggest challenge when you do have, perhaps, competing people, like steve bannon, who has not shown a willingness to, let's say, disseminate power in the white house. >> bannon is an x factor. most of what we hear is hearsay

and he's not talking to the president and the president wants people to believe he is setting the tone from the top, but what do you see in the contrast between what we assume is bannon's agenda and what we have seen these big dogs doing on their own, whether it's pence going out there and saying things about russia, and i never learned the president say in terms of huing to logical customs of putin's invasion, and taking on the responsibility of what nato should be, and kelly going over to palestine and talking about what a two-state solution to be. >> with steve bannon, what always happens is, we need to make a bogeyman to a certain degree, and karl rove was bush's brain, and maybe we are attributing more to steve bannon than what he deserves. if you are going to have spokesman and leaders that go around the country astepbsively

speaking on your behalf, and the question is do they have credibility. i think it's very clear when he says we're not going to torture and do waterboarding, and trump says we are not going to do that anymore, right? general mattis says we are not going to take their oil, and i think president trump will go along with that, and my concern is mike pence, is he out of the loop, and when he goes to nato and says something, i don't know that that really represents donald trump's -- what donald trump is going to do and that's a problem. >> if he flew flynn under the bus because pence was insulted by what he didn't know, and that was a high price. >> he mislead his vp? >> how do we know that? >> that's what the president keeps saying, and that's the explanation -- >> he said i was fine with the conversations flynn was having, and the fbi says he was not misleading.

>> pence was not on the same page. >> if that's true. >> and we are just getting word right now that the state department just confirmed that secretary of state tillerson and secretary kelly will be heading to mexico tomorrow, and that's interesting, obviously with all the president has been saying about mexico, and we are expecting this new and resized version of the travel ban to be coming out at some point this week. there are a lot of pieces in flux right now. what do you think their message to mexico will be? >> we see a pattern in the first 33 days of donald trump jumping out with facts that may or may not be accurate, and he does it with sweden and australia, and he does it with the first round of the travel ban, and then his people come behind him to try and clean the whole thing up. i would interpret them trying to

clean up, and this is going to be, i think, a pattern that repeats itself over and over again, and that's because getting to chris's point, there's no doctrine there or foreign policy doctrine, and there's a series of tweets that can change at a moment's notice, and we are having a lot of need for cleanup, which is what we are seeing. >> the man tasked with following the biggest elephant in the gop, not always a easy job. >> thank you very much, panel. talk to you soon. is president trump doing enough to condemn a wave of anti-se anti-semiti anti-semitism? ivanka is calling for religious tolerance. so what? why isn't the president calling for religious intolerance? h&r block and ibm watson together. come see us and get your taxes won.

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increase in threats of anti-s l sesepl teuz many. there have been nearly 70 threats this year, and go online and research for yourself, you will see that's high. over the weekend, vandals damaged dozens of head stones at a cemetery in missouri, and the white house put out a statement. the president has made it abundantly clear that these

actions are unacceptable. has he made it abundantly clear? let's test that. we have a former republican senator of pennsylvania, rick santorum, and christine quinn, the new york city council speaker and president of women in need. rick santorum, if the president of the united states does not like something i say in this segment, there's a better than 50% chance he will tweet about it and say it is wrong and fake, but nothing about this increase in violence and threats towards the jewish community, why? >> i don't know why he has not tweeted. i wish he would. it's a legitimate thing to tweet about. let's look at the president's record and compare it with what we have seen in the last eight years. number one the president has stood by israel in ways that president obama has not and stood solidly with the state of israel, and his daughter, who is

jewish, she has been clear about these things, and that's an important thing coming out of the white house. this is why you hear about, quote, fake news, and for eight years the obama administration sat by and said nothing about the increasing anti-semitism coming out of colleges, and president obama said and did nothing and no comment from the national news media, not a single wood. >> christine is shaking her head that is not true. >> i will give you the two wrongs that make a right analysis, which, by the way, i don't accept. you said it quickly and you moved on and your voice went -- >> it's an outrage that you are

pointing to this -- >> let's bring in christine quinn. you hear his point, in light of you not saying anything in the last eight years, what trump is doing is not bad. >> the campaign is over. campaigning about obama, they are now the united states, and it's what he does now that matters. well, you know, why isn't he striving to be the best versus comparing to somebody who he might disagree with, and he says he did not do enough. this is a man, let's not forget, that failed to mention jewish people in his holocaust official statement. so he does not have a good track record. i agree with senator santorum, there were things that were troubling at college campuses,

and -- >> did the white house bury them? >> they were debates and discussions about whether groups could come on to campus that had a point of opinion that i disagree with and it became a passionate first amendment debate, and i am not in any way saying what was said at times, which is anti-semitic was okay, and we are talking hear, and that was a debate about the first amendment that people said inappropriate things, and this is a case of bomb threats, violence and desecrating se cemeteries, and i don't understand the school of thought, and if you think president obama did not do enough, then do more. this is not about being compared to your predecessor, and it's about defining yourself and does trump want to be somebody defined as somebody that fights

that. >> hillary clinton put out a tweet about it. let's see what she says. online attacks are so troubling and they must be stopped, and everybody must speak out starting with potus. >> i agree with this and i agree the president should be more forceful, but let's be honest, he has been incredibly forceful for his support for israel, and much more than obama, and there's a harmony between the state of israel and the united states and the white house that we have not seen in eight years. this president is solidly and squarely behind the jewish people when it comes to israel. i agree with you. he should say more about this. he should say something about what is going on continually on college campuses, and -- >> be that as it may, let's say you are right. >> you know what, rick -- wait,

wait, you just said, and we can come on another segment and have a conversation about that, and i agree with you, what was said was wrong, but it is different than threats of violence, but you just said president obama has been great for israel and -- >> trump? >> sorry, president trump has been great for israel and jewish people in israel, and what about jewish people in the united states and what about all americans that don't want anybody attacked violently for any reason, and nonetheless in the cancer that is a hate crime. i just don't understand, particularly since you are saying that he has tried so hard to have a deeper relationship with israel, why he wouldn't speak out? it just doesn't make any sense. it calls into question hypocrisy on the part of his administration, and maybe, i don't know, he's not speaking out because he thinks it will upset some of his base, who, in

fact, have espoused -- not through president trump but their own, anti-semitic beliefs and statements. >> wait a minute. donald trump's base is more pro jewish people than anybody. if you talk to anybody in the pro israel movement and they will tell you the bedrock of that is the evangelical christian community in the country, and the folks who have been walking away are liberal jews who are walking away are not the christians. >> this is an attack on jews in america. so if the president feels in such a deep kinship with the jewish state of israel, why won't he speak out? statements not made by him or

vice president, but people at rallies supporting him, you heard discriminatory statements about many people, including jewish americans. you can't erase his inaction, and not mentioning jewish people on holocaust remembrance day and not speaking out personally when he speaks out chris on a regular basis, and about "saturday night live" every sunday like clock work. this is a man who expresses his opinions freely. >> the question is, rick, why do you think he doesn't say more? >> you know, i go -- i don't know. i will repeat it for the third time. i believe he should be speaking out about -- >> i'm not asking you for personal opinions, but why do you think he doesn't? why not? it's such a layup to do just what hillary clinton just did,

and you throw out a tweet saying this is disgusting, and if i find the people who did it, i will punish them? >> if you look at the fact of the people responsible for a lot of the anti-se sepsep sepanti-s coming from the -- >> i don't know that's a fact, by the way. >> you have white haters that target the jews -- >> that's not what is going on on college campuses, white haters. let's tell the truth about this. >> it's -- >> you are mixing, but i am okay with you mixing also because it all goes under the same umbrella, and i will tell you you have no problem going after muslims they don't do, let alone what they do do, and why doesn't trump going after the muslims doing this on college campuses --

>> i am for him doing that. i think he should. >> i know, i am asking you why does he not do it? >> i don't know the answer to that other than the fact that maybe that he has been so much in favor of this restored and renewed relationship, and maybe he says that as the way he is communicating that message. that's the only thing i can think of. >> because he never double downs on twitter or repeats himself? >> i have a suggestion, and i think this was seen played out in real time when a jewish reporter asked him a question about this, and the president didn't listen or misheard it, and saw it as an attack. here's my suggestion. because you and people on the left and a lot of independent people, and just people who want a tolerance in the country have attacked the president for this

by not being critical or it's happening on his watch in increase the proportions, you made it something that he now takes as a personal criticism, and the way president trump deals with personal criticism is to reject it, so that you have made the topic of attacks against jews and threats against jews is something he is somehow responsible for, and he rejects that notion so he will not pay any mind to the assertion? >> he is responsible for what he says and does, and not just as a citizen, but as the president of the united states. the way to stop hate is unequivocally for decent people to stand up and speak out, and if that's the psychological makeup of how he sees things, that's unfortunate for him, but there are bigger things than how he feels offended, and if he had just done a tweet immediately after it happened nobody would

have said anything. trust me, if you are a victim and you hear the president speak out, it makes you feel supported. >> tomorrow is another day, and we'll see if he does anything. i was thinking about the whole thing in mass on sunday, and it was turn the other cheek gospel, and i wonder what those terword mean to him in terms of the gospel? we went to the battleground of ohio and found passions on both sides running high. that's next. this. it's over. i've found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say: if you love something...

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it has been one month since president trump took office, so how are voters feeling about him? we travelled to columbus, ohio, to take the pulse of the heartland and we sat down with trump supporters and critics, and as you will see, very quickly our conversation turned into the big issues of faith and fear. >> how many people here are very excited by what they have seen in the past month? >> i am. >> you three are very excited? dennis, tell me about what the good signs are and what you are most excited about? >> i am a christian and i believe from our perspective i see hope in what i call religious freedom and restoring

values we look at from our perspective. >> what has mr. trump done that has given you hope? >> he has a vice president that definitely stands firm in my belief, very firm. i believe in him and he's a very conservative man and i think he will be good for everybody. >> chris, tell me what good signs you have seen? >> from a business perspective, i think it's turning jobs, and i would like to see things going back to america and too many jobs have gone overseas. >> i'm a big school choice person and my husband and i both do a lot of work in that arena, and i am excited we are going down that path, too, and whatever you think of betsy devos, i think he's in a position to implement trump's policies. >> on the other side of the table, i see you feel differently. >> we have to really find our integrity again, and that's what concerns me the most, maybe, i

see a lack of integrity in this administration. >> michael. what we have seen in the first month, we have seen -- his administration is in disarray, and we have no national security apparatus, and flynn just stepped down because he was in violation of the logan act because of the russians, and that's a real concern. it's on the level of smithsonian style scandals in just a month. >> i am heartbroken often, and this last month has been heartbreaking. as a christian, i am offended often by what other people are calling christian behavior, which is -- i see it as furthest from that. >> such as? >> the immigration. there's so much lack of empathy for anybody that is different from themselves, and often times

people that are claiming to be doing this in the name of christ, in the name of god, it's -- it's offensive to me. it's offensive to me as a christian because it's so far from what god has laid out as a plan for us. >> what do you think and feel when you hear everybody talking about how quite concerned they are, dennis? >> well, first of all, i would apologize for the christian faith, if we ourselves are causing any of this problem because jesus said we are to love one another, but we are not one, and we are totally separated, but even within the republican party we are separated. >> as a christian, do you think the travel ban is less than compassionate? >> every president, the last six presidents have had a travel ban of some kind on foreign entry and even in the obama administration have admitted that's where most of the problems have come from, those

people, those groups, and it's true because you don't see israelis coming in here and bombing people. >> you don't see syrian refugees coming in and bombing people either? >> syria, the problem with syria is the fact that many of the people that come, if you noticed, are men more than women and children. >> i don't know that to be true. >> what i was finding, it seemed to be true. i do agree the vetting process they are using should be strong enough, but evidently there's still problems. we know this is a fact. muslims are not separating government and their faith. it's one thing. >> do you want to take this on? mary, are you a minister? >> i am a minister. >> what do you think when you hear people, and there are many people that feel like dennis that feel like muslims are in a different category? >> i just don't buy it. if you go to the gospels, and we can look at the story of jesus and the woman at the well and

she was a samaritan, and jews and samaritans back in the day hated each other and there was a social contract they did not speak to each other, and jesus' message was we are in this together, and you can say you are muslim and i am christian and it doesn't matter. >> i believe in most of what you said. >> what part? >> well, i guess going down what all has been said. i don't care if somebody is christian or muslim or if they are hindu, but in this day and age we have laws and ways of come into the country. i do not hate muslims and i do not hate people who are refugees, and that's not what it's about. i wish that you all didn't think that that's what we thought, because it truly isn't. at the end of the day it's simply a matter of when somebody comes here, whenever they are from, i want to know when they come here they want to be here for the right reasons and when they come here they are going to assimilate. >> we don't believe you hate muslims, any of you, or -- i

think that -- there are quite a few that hate muslims, i think that's pretty rare. by the way, both sides are fiercely patriotic, and that's the one common ground we have, we love this country and want to be safe and we want everybody, as you just said to assimilate. >> when the muslims want to make it the sharia law, and -- >> there is not sharia law, and i don't think that law supersedes our constitution. >> i don't think any of us want. >> it doesn't. >> that's a fear. that's a big, big part of the fear. >> dennis, i hear what you are saying. you are scared -- >> i am scared for my family and my daughters and my grandchildren, and i am scared for your children. >> he ran on a whole campaign of fear, and he continues to do that. every time he says it, he tells you how horrible it is and then he leaves it there for you to sit in it and be afraid. >> i don't think trump is saying

he is against somebody that has values different from him, and he said i am hear to protect every american citizen, did he not say that? everybody's rights. >> when you are afraid of all the muslims coming in and hurting us and blowing us up, and shooting us, and most are white americans doing this. people are afraid, and there are dangerous things and they believe things that backup what they have, and i think that's the case for some trump supporters out there. that is what i am seeing happening a lot, and that's not putting your faith in god either. >> i think that was an interesting point, the intermingling of faith and fear and which one trumps which. you heard dennis there, there are a lot of websites and alleged news sites that have talked erroneously about sharia law.

it's basically fake news, but it depends on where you are getting your news. >> sharia law is real and it's a cultur cultural add duck taeugs. the point the muslims want to come here and make sharia our law, and you heard the woman in there say i want to make sure -- i don't care who they are, but whoever comes here i want to make sure they want to be here for the right reasons and they want to assimilate. those were questions never asked of any other ethnic group. not my grandparents and notasia the test and it speaks to a prejudice. it just does? >> we will have more with those voters tomorrow with many more topics. meanwhile on a much lighter note, beloved giant panda, bao bao, leaving her the home she has only known. her washington send-off.

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you right now, because president donald trump just arrived at the smithsonian national museum of african-americ african-american culture. joe, tell us about the visit? >> reporter: we have been told this morning that the president was to be accompanied at the museum with among others, hud secretary nominee, ben carson and his wife, candy carson, and we were given other names, including al sraeta king, who is the niece of dr. martin luther king, as well as mr. scott, and ben carson's family, including his grandkids expected to be there also. this is a visit to the museum set up by presidential aide, am

rosa man galt, and it was pencilled in on trump's schedule before he was inaugurated mid januaryish, and it was nixed, we are told, according to a source by the secret service citing security concerns. so this is an opportunity for the president to get to this very popular attraction in washington, d.c. that only opened back in september of last year to some fanfare, and since then it has taken in about a million visitors, and very hard to get a ticket. so the president and a group of african-american folks from here in washington, d.c. are all going to the museum, and don't know if we are going to hear from the president, but he is there. back to you. >> joe, let's bring in our cnn political director, david chalian. what does the trip mean? what issues are supposed to be raised? do we have any indication of how

the white house is supposed to use this? >> not more than the optics of the trip. this was something not fully confirmed on the schedule and was planned for mid january preinauguration, so that did not happen in getting this trip done during black history month after his wife was there with netanyahu's wife, and it's a good time for him to go and make this trip, and also, as you know, he made comments last week in his press conference about his performance with african-american community in the election, and pushing back on any charges that he is racist, and he was pushing back against that accusation in the press conference last week, and so having this trip here with the president going to the very popular new attraction in

washington during black history month, it seems to me they are optically moving through this. >> we just saw the first lady there with netanyahu's wife. this museum took 13 years to build and create, and this is some of the first visitors -- it opened in september, but the first high-profile visitors, and it's interesting to hear how decisions are made at the white house and who has the president's ear, and this is amarosa. >> yeah, and she has been advising him on outreach to the african-american community and others, and you see her sitting along the side room of staffers when sean spicer gives his briefings in the press briefing room. listen, you guys know, nothing ends up on the president of the

united states schedule haphazardly. there are tons of request for the president's time and the fact he is making this time to make this trip and bring the accompaniments of the office to be with him, that's no small. >> i hope it's not just about the optics, and there are so many issues that came up during the campaign that still demands a voice. chicago is not the sum total of all things that matter to african-americans, and it's an opportunity for the president to use the trip to then make some statements about what he wants to see on his own agenda, and what he wants people to focus on in terms of prioritiepriorities. it could be used for a lot of things, couldn't it? >> reporter: that's true, and president trump talked about rebuilding the inner cities, which he describes in some terms that some african-american

leaders disagree with, and it's significant to see ben carson traveling over to the museum with him even though carson has yet to be confirmed by the senate, and he is one of the people who would lead the charge on some of the president's issues, including rebuilding the inner cities when he gets around to them. >> as you guys are speaking, chris and i are monitoring the feed from inside the museum, and it doesn't look like our camera is completely set up and ready to go, but we did just see sean spicer scurry by obviously on the way to either find the president or get into the right position. yeah. so you know, we have been talking this morning about how the president decides what he is going to speak out about, and most sir tpeus kwrufly, david. this past weekend there was bad news for jewish community centers around the country, and

there was a speight of bomb scares, hoaxes there, and ivanka trump, president trump's daughter, tweeted out just how important religious tolerance is and are faith centers. do you think we will hear from the president responding to what we are seeing about the anti-semitism across the country? >> we may. we did get a very strongly-worded statement from his press secretary, and we have not heard the president in his own words that way, and sean spicer put out a statement last night that indicated where the president's thinking is on this, and it would not surprise me if we do eventually hear from the president on this himself, and we have heard from him when he was questioned about it twice, and he did not issue a statement that was as forceful as his press secretary or daughter, and

his response was talking about his election victory. hillary clinton tweeted, and you guys put it up earlier, this is the first tweet since president trump has been president that she directly, specifically, referenced the president and gone to the president with his suggestions, and she has been supportive of the women's march and the travel ban, and she says step up, mr. president. >> the president is walking in right now, and we just saw his advance team, and we are waiting for him to come into focus here. let's see what we see. >> we just saw -- here we go. photographers. we saw some of his secret service detail, and again, everybody seems to be -- okay, so people -- and there he is. there is the president now along with dr. ben carson behind him. >> his daughter, ivanka, joins

him here. as we heard, the first lady was there with the prime minister of israel's wife. let's see if we can hear anything. >> even more importantly, we talk about slaves. i want to talk about peter, william, and try to humanize everything. and for us, this whole museum is about humanizing stories of people left out of history, and make sure you don't think about migration and slavery, and you think about the individual that lived their lives, and for us this is an opportunity to tell these stories, and we have wonderful material from jefferson, and also we have benjamin backer who helped to create washington, d.c., and we have many that are so important, and so many slave owners came to the new world, and it increased

the number of slaves. we have basically to give people a sense of who was living around this time, and so i just think that we wanted to give people the sense to understand that the 19th century is really all about -- >> these were actual shackles. >> he made the conference, too. [ cameras shuttering ] >> i come down here sometimes, and just say their names.

>> yes. >> so we were listening to lonnie bunch, the director of the national museum of of african-american culture, and the man discussing it with the president, and it was interesting what lonnie was explaining what he wanted to communicate with the stories of slaves, and he didn't want people to think about the slave migration as numbers but individual people and their stories and journey. >> reporter: and just talking over the weekend with so many people who have been to the museum, i, in fact, tried to get passes just yet with my kids. it is a real experience that is

described by many as sort of exhilaration going in, and a real sense of depth and almost sadness in places coming out. >> joe johns, appreciate it. david chalian, thank you very much. it will be interesting to see what the president takes away from this, and what he talks to the rest of us about, and the world. cnn "newsroom" with poppy harlow will pick up after the break. thank you for spending your morning with us. >> see you tomorrow.

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order your kit now at ancestrydna.com. good morning, everyone. i am poppy harlow, and john berman has the day off. you are looking at live pictures of the president visiting the national museum of african-american history and culture. this is his visit. next to him you see ben carson along with his wife, candy. we are also told senator tim scott is with the president, and we will monitor this and bring you more of this, and president trump making a visit to the national museum of african-american history and culture. we will get more of that in just a moment. we have a lot ahead today, and the president stepping out to make this visit, andls