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>> good morning. i'm al sharpton. tomorrow congress is back in session for the first time since the election. will lawmakers on both sides beginning to grapple with what a trump presidency will look like. back in their home districts, millions of americans are nervous, especially those targeted by trump's rhetoric over the last year and a half. >> my eighth grader going to school cried on her way. that's real. >> he's just been really disrespectful to a lot of the minorities and a lot of the demographics and he's about to represent us for the next four years. it is really unsettling. >> i love this country. i need that country to love me back as much as i love it. >> i'm scared of the hate crimes that will start to spike. >> hopefully it doesn't mean

mass deportations, separations of families, that's our biggest fear right now. >> just every interaction that they have might lead to separation from their spouse, from their children. >> already we're hearing reports like these in communities across the country. >> reports of charged racial scenes in schools after the election. a video clip caught them chanting white power as they held up a trump campaign sign. >> vandals included the president elect's name in racist graffiti in a bathroom. >> words written on a toilet paper dispenser and using the n word and other racist terms on the bathroom stall. >> a group of community members spent their whole morning today cleaning up a message that at one point said black lives don't matter and neither do your votes. >> there are several kids chanting build that wall. >> so people have a right to be nervous and fearful. they heard what trump said during the campaign.

and are wondering if he'll follow through on his promises. >> on day one, we will begin working on an inpenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall. i am going to create a new special deportation task force. >> immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as obamacare. i am putting pro life justices on the court. planned parenthood does some very good work, but i would defund as long as they're doing abortions. cancel every constitutional action, memoranda and order issued by president obama. i would do stop and frisk. i think you have to. we did it in new york. it worked incredibly well. we're already seeing signs of resistance. thousands of protesters in the streets. democrats promising, quote,

total war over obamacare. progressive leaders refusing to back down. senator bernie sanders says he'll be trump's worst nightmare if the president elect targets minorities and senator elizabeth warren says the fight is on. >> we will stand up to bigotry. no compromises ever on this one. bigotry in all its forms, we will fight back against attacks on latinos, on african-americans, on women, on muslims, on immigrants, on disabled americans, on everyone. whether donald trump sits in a glass tower or sits in the white house, we will not give an inch on this. not now. not ever. >> joining me now is congresswoman jan schakowsky,

democrat from illinois. still a proud member of the progressive caucus. thank you for being here, congresswoman. >> it is my pleasure. thank you. >> there is real hurt and fear out there. what are you hearing from your constituents and what is your message to them? >> the wednesday after the election i stood with an immigrant coalition and what i heard was fear and tears and determination. these are people who are determined, one, to stick together, and, two, to be fear unless fighting back. we heard from a young woman, a dreamer, came to this country when she was 6 years old and she was so happy when the president made it possible to have her driver's license, to have a work permit, to be able to get a scholarship, to a public university in illinois.

and now she and her family are afraid. but those people in that room from all ethnic backgrounds were determined to stick together, not only with each other, but with that whole coalition that we heard from elizabeth warren, with people with disabilities, with the women's community, with muslims, who were also at that press conference, we are standing together against -- we aren't going to go back. that is our message. we will not go back. >> as we build and see this broad coalition and others are trying to protect things that were done in civil rights and voting rights and a lot of things that all of us are involved with, what can democrats do? what can they do to stop the repeal of obamacare, to stop deportations? what can be done when we don't have a majority democratic congress or senate? what can be done, congresswoman?

>> well, first of all, we can mobilize the majority of americans that voted for hillary clinton. and are still getting their, you know, heads together, but tomorrow, on monday, we all have to be ready to get to work. i think there are a number of things that we can do. is the president of the united states and the republicans really going to say to 20 million americans you don't have health insurance anymore, and women with breast cancer and men with prostate cancer, oh, i'm sorry, you're not going to be able to get insurance anymore because of your pre-existing condition. and all those kids that are on their parents policies, good-bye now, you're on your own. they have never, ever offered a real alternative and i think that many of the people who voted for donald trump are not expecting to be left on the sidelines with no options at all. and so i think they're going to have one heck of a time in repealing obamacare. and dodd/frank for that matter.

donald trump talked about how we're going to take on wall street. oh, really? now he says he wants to participate in repealing the law that actually stopped the abuses of wall street? you know, he's bumping up against reality, and he's bumping up against the majority of the american voters who did not go to the polls and support him. >> now, let me ask you, are there areas that democrats can find common ground with trump, like infrastructure, for example, he talked about -- are there things that can be worked together, because i heard senator sanders and warren and others say that they would look to work with him where possible. but they're not going to back down on other things. what are the possible areas if any that can be common ground with president elect trump? >> i think -- i think you said the big one, infrastructure, which translates into jobs,

improving our local economies, making sure that our bridges aren't falling down. so it is good work, good jobs, good pay, in our communities. these are not jobs that can go overseas. so we'll be happy to work with them on th. but what we need to see from donald trump is that he really does believe what he said, that he wants to be the president for all americans. we are seeing so much fear right now and so much bullying going on. he has to make sure that he explains to his supporters, the people who did vote for him, there is no place for that in a trump america or any america. >> congresswoman jan schakowsky, thank you for your time. >> my pleasure, reverend al, glad to be back with you. now let's bring in clarence page, columnist for "the chicago tribune," and michelle coddle from "the atlantic ."

thanks to both of you for being here. clarence, how do democrats oppose trump's policies without becoming the party of no that republicans were in the obama years? >> well, republicans didn't become the party of no, remember, until they started to have something to object to. so i think what we're going to see is, as bernie sanders illustrated, they're going to put out the olive branches of peace and see if there are areas that they can work together on. but there are some areas where they're going to have stiff opposition and maybe the only thing they can do is in the senate to use the filibuster or in the house to bottle things up as -- >> but even before they had something to oppose, republicans, leaders, republican leaders met the night barack obama was inaugurated and said in a three hour meeting that

they plan to block all of his legislation and plan to make him a one-term president. they didn't have any period, they waited to become the party of no, they planned that the night of his inauguration. >> difference between one term president party of no, i don't think that democrats are going to go and declare that donald trump is going to be one term president. that's like declaring war which was something the imprudent republicans did. everybody can see what they're up against. let's take obamacare, for example. even donald trump just -- at a wall street journal interview that hasn't aired yet, has indicated there are some parts of obamacare he may keep. >> he seems to be back tracking a little michael jackson moon walking. >> that's right. >> michelle, let me ask you. you heard congresswoman schakowsky this morning. do you think because hillary clinton did get the majority of the popular vote that democrats

feel that they have to rally and stand on those issues that frankly most american voters did vote for in terms of the popular vote. >> well, look, i'm sure that the democratic party is going to bring that up a lot. and i'm sure the republican party is pretty much going to ignore it. you know, george w. bush didn't win the popular vote either. it happens. but republicans have finally got control of both the white house and both chambers of commerce and they're going to move full steam ahead to try to do exactly what they have been promising their voters to do. the question is, they don't know anything about the president elect. none of us know anything about what donald trump really cares about, what his ideology is, what his politics are. that's not what he was elected on. so not even republicans know what they're dealing with in the white house. >> clarence, the supreme court selection. we saw this week democratic

senator jeff murphy said there needs to be a vote on president obama's supreme court nominee. listen to this. >> we really have to pay attention to the supreme court seat. the seat that is sitting empty is being stolen. it is being stolen from the obama administration, and the construct of our constitution and it is being delivered to an administration that has no right to fill it. >> so if the republicans block president obama's choice of judge merrick garland, will the democrats then filibuster whoever the republicans nominate to fill that still open seat, clarence? >> well, that's their right and we may see a serious clash here because donald trump is determined to get not just any conservative, but to get another scalia conservative. that means a pretty hard core.

i doubt chuck schumer and other democrats are going to go along with that. this reminds me of the robert bork hearings. we may see that sort of thing coming up ain where they said, well, you know, we'll approve a republican, but not that republican. he's too conservative. so much so that it begins to challenge the constitution as democrats interpret it. so i can see that possibly happening. at least they will moderate the pick. but i think merrick garland is probably toast right now. >> we're in a crisis there. let's go back to something you said, michelle, about republicans, nor democrats, we don't know what donald trump believes and i've known -- interacted with donald trump for 30 years, nothing really sporadic sporadically, but we know what he says and we know the bombast that he represented. what do you expect to happen in the first 100 days?

>> i think he will kind of do a continuation of his acceptance speech, where he comes out and he says i want to be the president for all americans, he's, you know, kind of moderating his harsh tone. this is a guy who will say anything on the campaign trail, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he'll start out like that. now, what happens, though, is when he starts clashing with either republicans or democrats in congress or anyone else who doesn't want to follow what his particular priorities are, then things will likely get super ugly again. but i think he starts out knowing he's got people watching him, and knowing that people are nervous, and until he has a reason to clash with folks, i think he's going to try to moderate a little bit. >> it may come down also to temperament and temperament and reason might be different for some people than they offer others. clarence, michelle, stay with me. straight ahead, how donald trump's transition team doesn't

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>> a change of tone from house speaker paul ryan this weekend, he congratulated donald trump on his win. of course, during the election, they clashed repeatedly. >> wouldn't you think that paul ryan would call and say, good going? there is a whole sinister deal going on. >> do you think it is a good idea for donald trump to release his tax returns. >> i released mine. >> i wouldn't want to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people, including ryan. >> i do not think a muslim ban is in our country's interest. >> we don't get the support from guys like paul ryan. look. i don't want his support. i don't care about his support. >> a mix of insults and real policy disagreements. over social security, free trade deals, and whether to deport undocumented immigrants or give them legal status. right now, trump and republicans

are making a show of unity and they agree on some things like repealing obamacare. what happens when things get hard? what happens if trump names this guy his chief of staff? steve bannon, the former head of breitbart, who once called paul ryan the enemy. what happens? the first time trump doesn't get his way. joining me now is michael stihl, msnbc political analyst and former rnc chairman. thank you for being with me this morning. >> great to be with you as always. >> republican leaders and trump are all smiles right now. is this really a lasting peace in your opinion? >> i say right through the inauguration everybody is going to be feeling each oth out here, a whole new regime is coming to washington. typically in these transitions,

whether it is democrat or republican, there are a lot of familiar faces that come back into town. some that are already here, sort of brought into the administration. you're going to see some of that, but not a lot of it. a lot of new faces, less political in their orientation, more of the world, more out of the business world if you will. so there is going be to be adjustments on both sides. between the speaker and the president, and the majority leader and the president, that trifecta, that relationship has got to develop and has got to be tight. it is going to be tested. it is going to be tested early. donald trump is a big thinker. he's going to be a big doer. >> let me push you right there. because what happens if then president trump decides to ban muslims or deport millions of people. what happens then? >> well, first off, i don't think that's going to happen. i think you saw at the end of the campaign the rhetoric on that shift.

and shifts significantly and as the exit polls showed that, you know, his supporters never took that seriously. the press took it literally. they never took it seriously. and i don't think that's going to be part of the agenda. i'll go with that. if that's the type of legislation that comes out of the west wing, and presented to the congress, yeah, there are going to be really strong thought lines drawn there and pushback. i don't think the administration is going to proceed down that particular road. i really believe, reverend, that you're going to see donald trump govern as a pragmatic populist. he recognizes he's in the best spot any president has been in in a generation. he's not beholden to democrats, he's not a democrat and not beholden to republicans because he's not a republican. let me throw one name at you. steve bannon has been throated around as a possible chief of staff. he called paul ryan, speaker ryan, the enemy. if he is appointed chief of

staff or plays a key role in the trump white house, which he's expected to, what does that do to the trust of speaker ryan, this late trust he's displayed in donald trump? >> well, it goes back to the -- talk about trust, what was said by the clinton campaign about barack obama in 2008? yet they found a way to get around those -- that hot rhetoric, particularly from the former president, bill clinton, during that campaign in places like south carolina. the racist undertones of the comments he was making at that time about barack obama. what joe biden said about barack obama and, you know, being well dressed and articulate and all of that. in politics as in business, you find a way to get along. you get over those hurdles, i suspect, reverend, with steve bann bannon, if he comes into the administration in any way, paul ryan and steve bannon will work together because the president will want them to. >> let me ask you this, i have

to ask you this before i let you go, we have seen a lot of names floated around. let me give you some. former house speaker newt gingrich may be a candidate for secretary of state. treasury secretary, may be a goldman sachs banker and congressman. secretary of defense, senator jeff sessions of alabama. attorney general former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. what happened to this whole idea of, quote, draining the swamp and putting in some fresh faces? these do not look like fresh faces to me. >> there will be some familiar names and faces that will be part of the mix. but that's -- >> low in the mix though. >> that's a small portion of the overall cabinet and administration of the trump government. so, let's wait to see, first off, if any of these people land the kind of positions that are being touted right now. the one thing you know and i know in this transition period,

a lot of names are floated. why are they floated? to see how people respond to them. to see what the trial balloon tells them about that particular person and that particular position. a lot of names will not wind up in the jobs they're being touted for. some of them will have a different role in the trump orbit. we'll wait and see. but if they are at the table, that still doesn't mean that donald trump's overall effort will be to drain the swamp. >> all right, michael steele, thank you for your time this morning. >> you got it, reverend. still ahead, still ahead, we'll look at why trump may not have the mandate that republicans claim. and we'll dive into the search for new leadership in the democratic party. who should set the party's agenda? all that, plus some historical perspective from dr. henry louis gates. stay with us. you're a smart saver.

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what donald trump just pulled off is an enormous political feat. it is an enormous feat, he heard the voices out there that other people weren't hearing and he earned a mandate avenue win a unified republican government. >> spear paker paul ryan claimi that president collect trump has a mandate to pass his agenda. but, of course, ryan had a different view four years ago about president obama. >> president wins 330 some electoral votes, every battleground state with the exception of north carolina, does barack obama now have a mandate? >> i don't think so because they also re-elected the house republicans. >> so it is a mandate for trump now, but not a mandate for obama back then. even though obama won by a much larger margin. folks, here's what we know about the will of the american people.

more americans voted for hillary clinton than voted for trump. period. trump won because of the electoral college. and you know what he said about that four years ago. quote, the electoral college is a disaster for democracy. that's what trump tweeted after obama's re-election. the thousands of americans who marched in the streets after the election night this week may agree with that. and look at this, trump actually got fewer votes than mitt romney did when he lost the election in 2012. trump in that race would have been the loser, not the winner. these are all facts for democrats to think about as they face the road ahead. what are the right lessons to take from this election and what are the wrong lessons? who is now the leader of the democratic party? we'll talk about that next.

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democrats enter the trump era facing some tough questions. they're a party out of power, with no clear sense of who's in charge. but before they chart a way forward, they need to understand how they got here on election day. the democratic base did not turn out. hillary clinton's black vote was down from 2012. her share of latino vote down. her share of young vote down. her share of the union vote down. that might have been a key factor in rust belt states like michigan and wisconsin. so democrats have a tough job ahead. they need to expand the party and regain the trust of working class white voters. but they also need to regain and re-energize the obama coalition. let's bring back michelle coddle

and clarence page. michelle, democrats need to find a way forward in trump era. they can't blame the minority vote that was there, but many women, whites, came and did not vote for mrs. clinton. how do they re-energize their base white vote, white working vote, and energize the minorities at the same time? >> well, just on that point exactly, white women usually don't vote for the democrat. white women usually break for the republican. >> even when it is a woman candidate that is going to break the glass ceiling? >> even a woman candidate, women don't vote with the block. >> and the republican party that had done things that many women consider offensive? even -- >> exactly. it is surprising what people will put up with from their team's standard bearer. so going forward, though, the problem was hillary clinton was

never an inspirational candidate. she never motivated people the way barack obama did with that kind of gut level hope, change, feeling that she could make a big difference. she was a work horse candidate, highly experienced, highly qualified, but it is a person that moves them with a message, but it is whatnot she did. >> let's talk about the message. people want change. we have heard it, seen it, many fighting for it a long time. listen to what elizabeth warren said they need to do. >> this political system is working for a slice of those at the top. and shutting everybody else out. the american people want to see change. our job now is to try to give some direction to that change. >> is she right, clarence? >> yes, every election is about change versus more of the same.

and this was certainly a year where you wanted to be on the side of change. hillary clinton was just stuck. she is so familiar and she could not get a really winning and engaging and inspirational theme like barack obama had with his hope and change themes. so that it really prevented her from having more of -- more victories among more states. by the way, i think michelle would agree with me that while married women tend to vote republican, single women vote democrat and this year especially educated women with higher degrees turned out in larger numbers than before. and i just point that out because the funny thing was trump, as you mentioned, got fewer votes turning out than mitt romney did, but he had a different constituency. a lot of voters turned out for mitt romney didn't show up this time and others who didn't vote before did show up. and they were much more conservative.

>> and therein lies the problem. let's get to the leadership question of who is going to lead the democratic party, michelle. we're hearing names floated like howard dean, congressman keith elson. we're hearing mr. former governor o'malley. and others. we even here thomas perez. will the fight really be about the future of the direction of the party and determine the chair person? >> a think a lot of people are going to be looking back to the elizabeth warren more populist version of this and saying, you know, maybe it is time we too go in this direction. and i think that's kind of the big split that they're going to have to figure out. i think elizabeth warren in the sena will be a very big voice, pushing in that direction. >> michelle coddle, clarence page, thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> up next, presidential history made this week, but not the type many were expecting.

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if you look at the backlash after the great society, and of a lot of the unrest, that is what defeated hubert humphrey and brought in richard nixon. he did all of the dog whistles. this is not bernie sanders populism. this is george wallace populism he's doing. >> five hours after donald trump declared victory, i was on the air trying to make sense of what it meant. after the civil rights progress of the 1960s, we got richard nixon. after the nation's first black president, we got donald trump. there were a lot of factors, voter suppression, inequality,

apathy and working class anger. all issues we must confront in the years ahead. joining me now is dr. henry louis gates jr., harvard professor, and the creative force behind the new documentary, black america since mlk. and still i rise. thanks for being here, dr. gates. >> thank you for having me on your show. >> how are you thinking of it from a historical perspective? >> 1876, the haze/tilden compromise, the end of reconstruction. we had more power, we showed that we were human beings, that we were equal, elected senators, elected members of the house of representatives. we ran in the labor force.

ten years, boom, the door is slammed shut. and what happened? the period called redemption. who was redeemed? the south. birth of jim crow, segregation, starting in the 1890s, separate car act in louisiana, the proliferation of racist images about black people, reducing the complexity of our humanity to syphers, culminating with the birth of a nation, shown where? the white house. by whom? the president of the united states, woodrow wilson. >> we always had heights and then immediately followed by these great depths. >> absolutely. except you and i, anyone in our generation, thought this cycle was over. that it would be impossible to repeat it. particularly after the election and re-election of the first black man in the white house. i don't know about you, but i was totally shocked. >> i was shocked and at the same time i was challenged because

this will change things one way or another and maybe energize people. let me ask you directly how will president trump change the life of the average person of color in this country? >> i have no idea. i'm more concerned -- the first thing i want to talk to you about is how he's going to affect the legacy of a man you and i both love and admire, barak hussein obama. there was a black pharaoh, the 25th dynasty was the nubbian pharao pharaohs. when he lost his throne, they chiselled his name off monuments. >> wow. >> that's the analogy. i keep thinking of that. and this is what president elect trump, candidate trump, more or less, pledges himself to. it worries me, the supreme court, obamacare, the image of

diversity andopenness. >> all of these things are at stake. let me go to your documentary. it is important to me. your documentary focuses on the last 50 years of black history. here is part of the trailer. let me show that. >> my grandparents were colored. my parents were negros and, me, i'm black. >> from i have a dream to i can't breathe, from straight out of compton to the white house, black history is american history. >> you must not surrender. >> what lessons should the younger generation learn from this history? >> well, the conceit of the series is this. imagine martin luther king woke up and said, al, what happened since i've been gone? what would you tell him? you would say on the one hand, reverend, it is the best of times for our people.

the black middle class doubled since 1970, black upper middle class tripled. why? because of something called affirmative action. we have the biggest black middle class in history, we have a black president, we have more black elected officials, over 40 black people in the black caucus. what is the black caucus? we have so many congress people, they have an organization. you say, wow, what happened? was there a revolution? you say, well, in a sense there was. he would say, that means poverty was obliterated, right? he died and poor people -- well, it didn't happen that way. how did it happen? how many black poor? well, when you died, 41% of all black children are ling at or beneath the poverty line. what is it today? 38%. what has happened? we have a class gap. the biggest class gap among the following three groups. white americans, hispanic

americans, and african-americans, we within our own people, within the race, have the largest class gap. called the gene co-efficient. the door opened for some of us and slammed shut. it celeste peopleft people in a self-perpetuating cycle. martin luther king couldn't believe that, over 800,000 black men in the prison system, huge percentage of the prison population, 6.5% of the population, and 33% of the incarcerated. >> president obama was just beginning to make some inroads in. >> absolutely. a black man has a one in three chance of going to prison. one in three. think about how many black men you know and do the math. what is it for a white man? 1 in 17. the best of times, the worst of times. >> throughout the documentary, you talk about the successes and

the setbacks. is that how we should view this election this week? >> i think so. i think, well, i think we -- what we have to do is mobilize as you indicated. we have to anticipate, and mobilize. i think we became complacent, not enough of us voted. none of us could actually believe the outcome of this election was possible. i think we thought now that we crossed this ultimate barrier, and remember the joy that we had, eight years ago, when barack was lefted, it w e elect impossible to go back and it is possible to go back. nobody thought it was possible to go back to slavery. they went to neo slavery. they replaced slavery with sharecropping. they disenfranchised. it was horrible. >> they reenslaved slavery by another name. >> absolutely. >> dr. gates, thank you for your time. be sure to catch his documentary

black america since mlk and still i rise, premiering this tuesday on pbs. >> thank you. >> thank you. up next, what president obama told me about a trump presidency before the election. and what you can do about it now. for lower back pain sufferers, the search for relief often leads... here... here... or here. today, there's a new option. introducing drug-free aleve direct therapy. a tens device with high intensity power that uses technology once only available in doctors' offices. its wireless remote lets you control the intensity. and helps you get back to things like... this... this... or this.

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don't take any of this personally because he is not somebody who is fit to be president in any circumstances. i would feel deeply frustrated not because anything he said about me, but because i would fear for the future of our country. >> my interview with president obama just days before the election, asking about what then seemed unimaginable. this week, we saw the president shake hands with the man who denied he was a u.s. citizen, over trump's shoulder was a bust of martin luther king jr. if that image angers you, then do something about it. look at this. nearly half of the eligible americans didn't vote. that means trump supporters, just 26% of the whole, made the decision for the other three-quarters of the population. this is not how democracy is

supposed to work. so if you didn't vote, vote next time. if you did vote, then get more involved. attend a rally. march in a protest. volunteer to help immigrants or the poor. it is time to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get busy. when i saw dr. king's bust, it reminded me had they given up, are they winning the parties, had they just said it is worthless we never would have had the right to vote, we never would have had a barack obama, we must protect it. many of us are mobilizing in many ways to do that, not to be against somebody, but to be for something. we're going to culminate king day in king's name so that bust will not just be a statue, but it will be the values that we continue to aspire in this country. that does it for me. thanks for watching.

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