they're going to be building them in this country and not in some other countries. we're meeting with unions, meeting with law enforcement and leaders from all around the world. where the white house doors used to be totally closed, they were closed, folks, you don't realize that, they were closed. they're now wide open and they're open for people doing business for our country and putting people to work. and when they come into the white house, we're translating these meetings into action. one by one we're checking off the promises we made to the people of the united states. one by one. a lot of promises. and we will not stop until the job is done. we will reduce your taxes, we will cut your regulations, we

will support our police, we will defend our flag. we will rebuild our military. we will take care of our great, great veterans. we're taking care of our veterans. [ cheers and applause ] we will fix our broken and embarrassing trade deals that are no good. none of them. you wonder where did the people come from that negotiated these

deals? where did they come from? well, they came also from campaign contributions, i must be honest with you. they're not as stupid as you think. we will cut wasteful spending. we will promote our values. we will rebuild our inner cities. we will bring back our jobs and our dreams. so true. so true. and, by the way, we will protect our second amendment. [ cheers and applause ]

you know, wayne and chris are here from the nra, and they didn't have that on the list. it's lucky i thought about it. but we will indeed. and they're great people. and, by the way, they love our country. they love our country. the nra has been a great supporter. they love our country. the fgotten men and women of america will be forgotten no longer. that is the heart of this new movement and the future of the republican party. people came to vote and these people, the media, they said where are they coming from? what's going on here? these are hard working, great, great americans. these are unbelievable people who have not been treated fairly. hillary called them deplorable. they're not deplorable.

who would have thought that a word was going to play so badly? that's the problem in politics. one wrong word and it's over. she also said irredeemable, but we won't mention that. the gop will be from now on the party also of the american worker. you know, we haven't been as a group given credit for this, but if you look at how much bigger our party has gotten during this cycle, during the early days when we had 17 people running, the primaries, millions and

millions of people were joining. i won't say it was because of me bu it was, okay? and we have an amazing, strong, powerful party that truly does want to see america be great again and it will see it and it's going to see it a lot sooner than you think, believe me. a lot sooner than you think. we will not answer to donors or lobbyists or special interests, but we will serve the citizens of the united states of america, believe me. global cooperation, dealing with other countries, getting along with other countries is good. it's very important, but there is no such thing as a global anthem, a global currency or a global flag. this is the united states of america that i'm representing.

i'm not representing the globe. i'm representing your country. [ cheers and applause ] [ crowd chanting "usa" ] >> there's one allegiance that unites us all, and that is to america. america. it's the allegiance to america. no matter our background or income or geography, we're all citizens of this blessed land, and no matter our color or the blood, color of the blood we bleed, it'she same red blood of great, great patriots.

remember great patriots. we all salute with pride the same american flag and we all are equal, totally equal in the eyes of almighty god. we're equal. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. and i want to thank, by the way, the evangelical community, the christian community, communities of faith. rabbis and priests and pastors,

ministers because the support for me was a record, as you know, not only in terms of numbers of people but percentages of those numbers that voted for trump. so i want to thank you folks. it was amazing, an amazing outpouring and i will not disappoint you. as long as we have faith in each other and trust in god, then there is no goal at all beyond our reach. there is no dream too large, no task too great, we are americans and the future belongs to us, the future belongs to all of you. and america is coming about, it's and it's coming back and it's roaring and you can hear it. it's going to be bigger and better. it is going to be, it is going to be. remember. and it's roaring.

it's going to be bigger and better and stronger than ever before. [ cheers and applause ] i want to thank you and matt and mercedes, i want to thank the two of you, and all of the supporters i have all over the place, you are really great people. i want to thank you. and i want to say to you god bless you and god bless the united states of america. thank you, folks. thank you. thank you. ♪ ♪ >> president donald trump wrapping up his comments at

cpac, the conservative political action conference in maryland, just outside of d.c. to a crowd of thousands. he had been attending that conference since 2011, notably did not attend it last year after a number of conservatives criticized him for not being conservative enough. but he made a lot of comments here about the republican party. he said the gop will be the party now also known as the party of the american worker. he made special reference to evangelical christians, christian communities, rabbis, priests, pastors and ministers, made a number of references to god, talked about trusting in god, say that america was going to be bigger, better and stronger than ever before. these are some of the comments that he made, started off of course with a fairly traditional attack these days on the media.

he also talked about sweden, doubled down on his references to sweden. we're going to have more on that. i will continue to bring you repeated snippets of what the president said over the last hour or so. i'm ali velshi at msnbc headquarters in new york. president trump just finishing up addressing the conservative police call action conference. it is the fifth time since 2011 that he's done that. he did cancel his appearance last year at the last minute as he was criticized for not being conservative enough, after delivering conservatives a huge victory november, senior white house counselor kellyanne coay had predicted yesterday this event has turned into t-pac, the trump political action conference as the president took the stage today. listen. >> i would have come last year but i was worried that i would be at that time too controversial. we wanted border security, we

wanted very, very strong military, we wanted all of the things that we're going to get and people consider that controversial but you didn't consider it controversial. so i've been with cpac for a long time. all of these years we've been together and now you finally have a president, finally. took you a long time. took you a long time. >> all right, we got reaction from every angle. we begin with nbc's kasie hunt, who was in the room as the president spoke. kasie, a lot of stuff to discuss. particularly he made reference right at the top. he asked everyone to sit down because he said if you don't sit down, the media will say i didn't get a standing ovation. >> reporter: a portion of it was oriented exactly towards the media and talking about his

criticisms of the media, the stories that have been written about him, unnamed sources being used in publications, which you point out just this morning there were white house officials giving an unnamed background briefing to many reporters about some of the issues we've been talking about today as relates to the fbi and the white house. but otherwise, yes, beyond his media contra media criticism, a sprawling speech that touched on a number of priorities for this group at cpac. he has spoken here before. it's a place where he has appeared but he did avoid it last year because of concerns there would be appropriatiprote. in the room there was back and forth about a section of the crowd that appeared to be waving russian flags. i just want to clear that up. it seems that people who were waving them may have been unwitting. theyppre to be people who were celebrate being president trump here.

they were participating in chants of "usa, usa" and the other piece of anymore here, president trump claimed there were six blocks of lines waiting to get in here to this ballroom at cpac. now, it was a capacity crowd of about 4,000 people, we're told. they shut down access to the ballroom half an hour, 45 minutes before president trump took the stage. but when i walked in here right before the ballroom was declared to be at capacity, there were no lines to get in and our truck operators have not been age to find any out on the streets around this sprawling complex here. i just want to clear a couple of those things up as we continue to talk about this. ali. >> there are a few groups of people, matt schlapp, who leads the american conservative union, you've got a libertarian contingent, movement conservatives, establishment republicans who may or may not be movement conservatives and

then you've got president trump sort of populist wing. from what we could see here, everybody seemed to be standing for the president, the standing ovation seemed to be throughout the room. >> reporter: i think you're right. this was a crowd that got here early, there was standing room only at the back. there was one person who was clearly a protester who was escorted out by secret service. this is an invitation-only event. you come into this room because you've been again a credential. i was here yesterday for reince priebus and today they were excited for president trump. clearly they were willing to embrace their new president, even if there may be questions on how this administration is going to unfold.

>> the reaction to the president's speech is pouring in. joining me live is jean march seeny. she's of march for life. it drew hundreds of thousands of supporters this year. thanks for being with us. you have called the trump administration's anti-life actions, quote, incredibly exciting. what's your reaction to the president's remarks this morning? >> it was a very interesting speech. he didn't specifically mention the pro-life issues but, hey, we didn't frankly elect him to be a pro-life spokesperson. we elected him to bring pro-life solutions and a lot of support in the march for life in the first 33 days of this administration. it was a very interesting speech. he made comments about american values. eight out of ten americans would limit abortions at most to the

first three months of pregnancy. that's not the law of the land in the united states now. so talked about keeping promises. he's done some great pro-life work in his first 33 days in his administration, including putting of cours nominating neil gorsuch to the supreme court. >> is the nomination of neil gorsuch the biggest thing that the federal government can do or the executive can do? in other words, many of the things that have been happening on the abortion front have taken place at states. what is it that you want the president to do? >> well, yes, for starters, the supreme court was enormously important. we know from exit polling that many americans came and voted for trump because of the supreme court and because of the life issues and the social issues. now, there is something else, though. he mentioned the health care law and obamacare and the repeal and replace plan. we haven't heard anything from

the white house about pro-life protections in the replace plan, so we are concerned about that. of course obamacare expanded abortion almost more than anything really since roe v. wade so that's a major concern for us. we've heard folks on capitol hill putting specific pro-life protections into the replace plan but we haven't heard the white house on this yet. >> what specifically do you mean? >> there's talks of tax credits for abortion. there needs to be specific pro-life protection language included in the plan. the white house has been silent on that. that's something he spoke a lot about the health care plan today and a lot about repeal and replace. but that's something that pro-lifers feel very stronger about. >> one thing i was talking to kasie about is there are a lot of movement conservative who is didn't regard donald trump even a year ago as conservative. he did during the campaign talk about not wanting to cut funding to planned parenthood, largely because of other work that planned parenthood does for women's health.

is there anything about donald trump right now that worries you, given your main issue? >> well, just real quickly on the planned parenthood thing, what we're talking about there frankly is redirecting money to community health care providers that provide holistic women's health. there are 20 times more of these clinics than there are abortion clinics. planned parenthood of course is our nation's largest abortion provider and they get almost half of their billion dollar budget in government funding. that is one of the promises trump made to pro-life leaders he would enact into law a redirection of funding as long as they continue to do aborti s abortions. it would be now making sure the replace plan includes pro-life protections. >> thank you, jeanne mancini. joining us from the cpac site is

national syndicated talk showhoushow host michael medved. you seem to be surrounded by a lot of trump supporters right now but during the campaign you blasted donald trump as, quote, insecure, unprepared and angrily unhinged. you warned more than a year ago he would destroy the conservative movement. seems to me behind you in that room at least he's doing all right with the conservative movement. >> oh, he's doing great with the conservative movement because he won the election. but the same way that if you lose an election you have to get over it, if you win an election you have to get over it. and i would not describe myself today as a trump critic, i'd describe myself as a trump skeptic. in other words, he himself a rare opportunity. this really is the first time since eisenhower that we have a republican president coming in new with a republican senate and a republican house.

and what i didn't hear in the speech and wish i had was, number one, a way to actually focus on tax reform, for instance, budgetary control, choice in education, aspirational positive goals. he's still campaigning against hillary. one of the things that disturbed me here is you heard again chants of "lock her up, lock her up" and president trump and attorney general sessions have already indicated very appropriately it seems to me that's not a priority for the conservative movement. >> i'm going to ask you to hold for a second. i see jeanne mancini, whom i said good-bye to moments ago. jeanne, i apologize, you're quite welcome back in this conversation and i'm glad you're there. >> thank you. >> michael, let me ask you this, though, you just mentioned things that i really appreciate, the idea that you're calling for a policy discussion on some of the issues that are important to conservatives and liberals and

people who don't identify, including tax policies and budget policies and things like that. that is one area where donald trump keeps on telling people we're farther ahead than anybody else has been and, in fact, we're not. we're not as far as other administrations have been at this time on real policy discussions that lead to legislation that become the law. >> well, that's the difficulty is this is a precious opportunity. and i think we do need to hear more from speaker ryan. we do need to hear more from leader mcconnell. we need to hear more from trump's republican partner in all of this. this should not be sort of bill clinton's version of the permanent campaign. if i were advising president trump and i want him to succeed, i want him to succeed for the sake of the country and for the sake of the conservative movement, he should strip from his vocabulary the words hillary clinton. forget it. hillary clinton is retired.

you won the election. and this is like trump alleging falsely that there were 3 million illegals who voted in the election. there is one thing worse than being a sore loser, that's being a sore winner. you won this precious victory, now seize the moment and make something of it. his tax ideas that have been articulated by people like my friends larry kudlow and stephen moore, those tax ideas could work for the country. but, again, the angry tone that i think was too often here at cpac really needs to be retooled into a hopeful, optimistic, positive tone. >> jeanne, let me ask you this. the president is going to be speaking to a joint session of congress on tuesday. i kind of understand. i get what michael was saying but i get that cpac is a friend live crowd this year at least for him and it sounds like a continuation of a campaign-type speech. but on tuesday that's going to be a different story. that's congress.

that's where the rubber hits the road on legislation. in terms of your issue, for instance, in terms of abortion, what would you like the president to present to congress? >> well, i just want to -- i'm not going to disagree necessarily with, you know, form of how he speaks or his speeches or what have you with michael, but what's more important to me is keeping his promises and his actions. and at least for our issues, his actions in the first 33 day toward life issues have been ve generous, especially with regard -- >> but, jeanne, the reality is the country has to live with laws and it has to -- and things have to be changed. so are these actions that he's done or is he just saying he is going to do it? >> no, actions. for example, he reinstated the mexico city policy within the first three days of the inauguration. so the first three days of his administration. he -- i guess it's considered more of an action but it's important action to me that he really supported the march for life by sending the vice

president -- >> it the first time in more than 40 years a vice president has gone to the rally. >> and asked the media to cover the march for life in a way it's never been covered before. we were tremendously grateful for that. we also had kellyanne conway. and his biggest action is the nomination of neil gorsuch. giv again, not to be competitive, but what drove voters to the polls in the first place. at least now for us what we need is for congress to act and to get some bills on the president's desk so that he can then sign them into the law. he's promised at least three other bills. our biggest concern as i mentioned before is the health care replace plan, that it would have specific pro-life protections in it. sure, in terms of actual style of speaking and what have you, we were delighted to have vice president pence and he had a lovely line during the march for life, that gentleness is the

strength, that being gentle is the strongest that someone can be. that's my specific style and preference but when you put your money where your mouth is and when you really make a difference in terms of our issues, we've seen all sorts of wonderful actions in the first 33 days. >> jeanne and michael, good to talk to both of you. thank you both for taking time to be with us. michael medved is a nationally syndicated talk radio host. we're going to get back to cpac. the white house is pushing back against a potentially explosive media report. last night cnn and the associated press reported that reince priebus asked the fbi to publicly knock down media reports about the trump campaign's contacts with russian agents. this morning president trump took not only to his personal twitter account but he posted this on the official potus feed and facebook "thebi is totally unable to sto the national security leakers that have permeated our government for a long time. they can't even find the leakers

within the fbi itself. classified information is being given to the media that could have a devastate being effect on the u.s. find now." joining me is kelly o'donnell at the white house. you have been working on the story all morning. white house officials held a 40-minute briefing this morning for reporters on the matter. walk us through the story and what we know. >> well, first of all, i can tell you i hear the helicopter so that means the president is arriving back to the white house after his cpac speech. let's go back to what this story was originally about. the original story said officials related to the donald trump campaign had contacts with russians during the campaign. some report being said russian intelligence, some report being said constant contact. nbc's reporting backed off of both of those things, not assigning it to intelligence agents and not saying it was constant contact. the nature of this story is very

upsetting to now the trump white house. so then we move forward and it is reince priebus who was at a meeting where there was a senior fbi official and the white house is indicating from senior administration officials that it was the fbi official who came over to thehite house chief of staff a told him that that sty was inaccurate. then we hear from senior white house officials that it was the chief of staff who asked for clarification from the fbi. now, this rings alarm bells for a certain series of reasons. typically when there's any kind of ongoing investigation, a white house would steer clear of this. now, the distinction that senior administration officials are making is that this was about a news story, not about the underlying investigation, that they had been informed that information had been published that was not correct, harmful to this white house and they were seeking clarification. so today what we are learning from senior administration

officials is they want to set this straight, that they were not going to the fbi to seek help in the p.r. end of this. they claim it was an fbi official who went to the white house and at the end of a meeting in just a conversation saying that that information is wrong but that the fbi could not do anything more publicly. so you get the idea of how sensitive this is. the original story harmful to the white house, that investigation still going on. nbc's own reporting suggests there were some contacts between people affiliated with the trump campaign and russian individuals. more than that needs to be determined and now the white house is saying they weren't trying to get in the way of an investigation, they didn't d anything inappropriate, and it was the chief of staff who said he was given permission to say on "meet the press" for example and through reporters that the story was inaccurate. and that the white house was trying to push back very hard on this saying that this is untrue

and, therefore, harmful to the president. so it gets complicated but the issue here, ali, is that the white house is saying that there is information known to the fbi that the fbi is not letting the public know, the fbi suggesting that they can't fact check stories, that's not their role. ali? >> it is complicated story. thank you for making some sense of it. kelly o'donnell for us at the white house as the president returns from cpac to the white house. i want to bring in the senior fellow in the program on national security at the foreign policy research institute, but before that, here's the juicy part, he worked for the fbi four years as a double agent dealing with the russian government. so he knows a lot about this stuff. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> it might sound like reince priebus made a huge mistake but when the deputy fbi director comes to you and says the media reports are overblown, i don't know, if i were the white house

i'd say, well, why don't uf tell somebody other than me that. >> it's a very good point. i tnk thi is a bit of a red herring. at the end of the day, the question is really a binary one. everyone wants to know was there a quid pro quo, an attempt leading up to the election between the trump campaign staff and the russians. that's the core of the question. look, i don't think even if this conversation did happen, i don't believe it to be illegal. it's certainly one that doesn't inure good tst in the fbi by the rank and file ihe bureau, as well as the general public but to say an administration official wouldn't reach out, i find these things probably happen probably far more than the public is aware of. >> let's just start with the first part where your point, and kelly made this point, is that none of this speaks to the underlying stuff. this is all about whether the media reports are right or wrong

and to some people that's more important than the underlying stuff. but the underlying stuff, let's just talk about that for a second. the fbi rank and file, we have heard from some people that our nation's law enforcement and intelligence agents probably lean a little bit conservative but regardless, fbi agents want to get the job done and they're not thrilled to the degree with which the fbi over the last 18 months or so has seemed to be more political. >> yeah, that's exactly right. look, at the end of date when we're talking about the rank a file, we're notalki about directors, talking special agents, the people that actually conduct these investigations or in the case of counterintelligence, also operations, they just want to finish this up. wherever the investigation goes, it goes. and i think that the proper protocol and respect to their work would be to wait until that investigation is closed and then present it in that manner. so i think for the rank and file to hear that the deputy director is talking to priebus, i don't think that inures a lot of confidence in their work there. >> because the fbi shouldn't be

concerned with that part of things. they should be conducting their investigation and it sort of irrelevant that the press might have certain information. >> absolutely. >> good to talk to you. i'm talk to you again soon. >> thank you. >> coming up, how the dems are fighting the administration's social policies and how they plan to stop the gop in mid-term elections. i'm going to speak with the former chief of staff to vice president joe biden. he helped prep hillary clinton in her debates with donald trump in the election. i'll get his take on what the democrats need to do now. ahh, sir?

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let's play a little more now of what president trump had to say this morning at the annual cpac conference. >> our victory was a victory and a win for conservative values. and our victory was a win for everyone who believest's time to stand up for america, to stand up for the american worker, and to stand up for the american flag. >> joining me now live from cpac is bruce lefel, the executive director of president trump's national coalition and is currently a republican candidate to replace georgia congressman tom price who resigned to become

health and human services secretary. good to see you, my friend. i appreciate you being with us. >> thanks, ali. >> how did you feel about president trump's attempts to mend what at least a year ago was a rift with the conservative movement that populates cpac. >> thanks for having me. i'm so excited. there was so much energy in the room, i'm just hyped right now. >> very good. >> it was a powerful speech. one thing about president trump when he came through as a candidate during the time we had 17 candidates on the playing field you might say, there was a lot of skepticism but here we are now, a lot of conservative bases, people on the fence that were skeptical, now they're on board. it's everything he says in his speech is always we, we, we, we,

never me, me, me and one blood. that sends a message that, hey, we got you, we're one blood, we're one america. that's powerful. >> talk to me about this diversity effort. who is that crowd behind you? >> sitting next to me is head of muslim america for trump president, i got robbie acons over to my left. so many diverse groups representing from the diversity coalition, who was founded by michael cohen, who works for president trump and pastor scott. we have so many diverse groups from all over the country. there's millions signed up as we grow to embrace this new president. >> and what efforts will you undertake, though? we hrd president trumpalk about words that he used to call us part of the republican -- the

conservative, the gop coalition. but in terms of actually getting a broader swath of americans and given the tensions that you've seen recently, how do you do it? >> well, for example, historically unfortunately, the old establishment didn't do a really good job reaching out to guys to look like me until it takes a president donald trump come here, reach in, grab america by their arms and say come on, i got you no matter what color you are, what religion you are, where you're from. he loves everyone. he keeps saying we, we, we, not me, me, me. we represent all different states, haitian americans down in florida shouts out to everyone down there to hispanic americans trump, we had a huge voting bloc down in florida, we got 28 plus percent of the vote, which is climbing, 13% african-american male votes across the country and in ohio we got as high as 20% african-american votes and

climbing. so that sends a message out there that this president is serious about uniting the country, all makes and don't matter where you're from, what you look like, what you got. he kept saying one blood, one nation under god. it was awesome today. >> your enthusiasm is contagious. >> thanks for having me, ali. >> bruce levell, the national diversity coalition for donald trump. and with me now is the former chief of staff to vice president joe biden and vice president al gore. ron, you have stood in a few times as donald trump while helping secretary clinton prepare. you -- that means that you're probably better studied than most or at least were on the psychology of donald trump, how he thinks, how he thinks on his feet. today he stuck to his prompter, only going off a couple times and generally just to underscore a point he already made, which is very typical of the way he

does. but let's talk a little bit about this donald trump and what you just heard bruce say about his attempt not only to mend wounds with the republican party but with americans of diverse backgrounds. >> yeah. well, i didn't see much reaching out to americans who aren't part of the core trump base that's the way his whole presency has gone. he's belittles and attacked anyone who is not a supporter of himself. he's furthered the divide morning people. as he mentioned earlier in the show, he's not a person who is delivering on his agenda. there's a lot of talks, action, noise, a lot of attacks but he's really know where on the core bread and butter things he promised voters in the campaign. >> i read something the other day that was written after talking to you and you said something like the more he is frustrated by the system, the more he will turn on the system. tell me what you meant by that.

>>i iyeah, sure. donald trump is not interested much in running the government, he's interested in tweeting at the government. i think if he continues on the path he's on, a path of divisiveness, of hateful attack of opponents and a path of really disinterest in delivering jobs and working on health care, taxes, if that's the path he's on, he's going to get more frustrated and angry. he angry tweeted at the fbi this morning. i think you're going to see more and more of that and more and more anger and antipathy. >> so play it out. what does it mean? >> it will rally the kinds of people that you saw in the room at cpac today, who are core supporters of trump. but it's going to further divide the country and i think fundamentally it's going to mean that some of those voters in the election who really thought this guy was going to bring change, really thought this guy was going to create jobs or fix the health care system, whatever, are going to get very alienated with him and that will make him

angrier and angrier and angrier. >> ron, you have been through a few administrations. and one thing democrats have said for eight years, the republicans just dug in and said we're not letting this president do anything. now you in january proposed something called a hundred day fight club as a way for democrats to come out swinging against president trump's agenda. is this useful given the complaints that democrats had been republicans? is doing what they did the right idea? >> well, i think it's different. one thing that we saw with president obama was he tried very hard to reach out to republicans. we brought them into his office many times, tried to get their support for bipartisan legislation to bri the economy back and they wouldn't play along with that. trump's doing the exact opposite. trump is really antagonizing and alienating people and really doing nothing to make progress. just yesterday, ali, they announced the one thing on which there had been some discussion about bipartisan work, infrastructure projects, they were going to put off till next year.

they want infrastructure as a political football. they're not going to really create jobs. i'm for a very strong fight back against the trump administration, but i will say this, donald trump is making it super easy to sell democrats on fighting against his policies because he's not doing what he promised in the campaign, he's not really reaching out to democrats and he's pursuing very extreme approaches to most of these issues. >> the problem of course is that democrats don't have a unified voice. it's by nature that's what happens when you lose an election and you're the person around who you rallied is no long there are to rally around. now you're focusing on a number of members of congress and some senators, who we're going to have this democratic party election tomorrow. who do democrats rally around? >> well, i think -- it not so much who the democratic elect rallies around, it who democratic activists rally around. it interesting, i lived through the 2000 defeat and after that democrats were sad and depressed and lying on their sofas. this time up siyou see this ama

activism, millions for the women's march, people flooding town hall. we don't have one voice, we have many voices. that's where the strength is. we're seeing so much grass roots activism. it's not really who in the country should listen to our elected, it's our electeds should listen to people on the streets and laying out the kind of things we should be for as a party and as a movement. >> ron, good to talk to you. thank you for being with us, a political veteran. too much time would be taken to explain everything ron has done but let just call him a political veteran. we were just looking at pictures of donald trump who had just landed after speak ting at the cpac conference. there's donald trump walking back to the white house. the two front-runners for the democrats, a progressive fire brand congressman and former labor secretary. we're live in atlanta where the

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chairman of the new hampshire democrat party. he dropped out of the race last week. for those who are not following this as closely, ray, tell me how americans should think of keith ellison versus tom perez. >> well, i am so excited about the possibility of keith ellison serving as chair of the party because this is going to be a clear signal, a signal to the grassroots across the country, to the activists, those who have cared and worked so hard in the trenches of the democratic party, that the party is theirs again. it's note about the entrenched part running in washington. we can see the results and what keith is going to do is bring everybody to the table. it is going to be no matter who you supported or what walk of life you're in or what state you live in, everyone is going to have a part in the democratic

party. >> to somebody like me who doesn't understand the insides of the party, that's just word salad. i don't know what that means. why will keith ellison do something for the democratic party tom perez doesn't. why would either do anything for the democratic party you heard ron claim to be in some degree of disarray. >> i think what ron was talking about quas the fact that the grassroots of the party had taken control of the party and they're out there on the streets and organizing and not waiting for orders from washington. that's exactly what we need to do. we need to empower those people and the candidates for national chair, we had over a dozen debates. we got to know each other very well. we communicated, sent emails, we had meetings. we got to know each other. i'm telling thaw you've been around this party my entire life, i've been chair for five terms and been an officer of the

dnc the last eight years. keith gets it and keith is going to make sure this party moves forward and is united. i'm excited to be supporting him. >> i appreciate the time, ray, i wish you all happy deliberations tomorrow in atlanta. we'll follow up with it as it's going on. >> thank you, ali. >> ray buckley for us. we'll be right back. ou take on , or fill a big order or expand your office and take on whatever comes next. find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com.

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guidelines have some farmers in the u.s. worried, even some who voted for president trump. nbc's joling kent went to california, they are wondering whether their seasonal worker also be able to travel back and forth from mexico. >> jeff is a fourth generation pardon mer who voted for president trump. >> we're definitely positive about some of the decisions he can make regarding business and taxes. >> reporter: but he harvests everything from almonds to cotton to grapes employs up to 300 workers a year, many from mexico. the recent immigration actions have him worried about his labor supply. >> just concerned on the immigration front how it's going to play out. labor is very difficult to come by right now and it feels like it's going to get even tighter. >> reporter: many farmers are concerned about president trump's immigration policies as a quarter of the nation's food is produced right here in california's central valley.

32,000 miles away another farmer who voted for trump. >> they want to provide for their families and work hard and make a better life for the next generation to come. >> reporter: he and other farmers want trump to overhaul the h2a via program that allows foreign agriculture workers into the u.s. on a temporary basis. he hopes they will lower the wait time. this farmer voted for trump as well. you guys essentially feeding the country here, huh? >> we're feeding the world. >> reporter: moore wants trump more farmers a seat at the table when it comes to immigration policy. >> the immigration policy is broken, since 1995 we have been in favor of a comprehensive immigration reform but it hasn't happened. ag is very important, and it's what the central valley lives

and dies on. >> reporter: immigrant labor is what these farmers say the central valley relies on, standistand ing by president trump. saying give him time to prove he can deliver. thank you for your time. that's it for me on this hour of "msnbc live." you can find me on twitter, facebook and instagram. right now on msnbc, my good friend peter alexander hosts "andrea mitchell reports." >> thank you very much. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," victory lap, president trump trump returns triumphant to the conservative cattle call cpac to rally the faithful railing against the media. and driving home what fueled his election win. >> the core conviction of our movement that we are a nation that put at will its own citizens first. we get the bad ones out, the ones that go first and i said it

from day one. basically all i've done is keep my promise. we also inherited a failed health care law that threatens our medical system with absolute and total catastrophe. the era of empty talk is over. it's over. [ cheers and applause ] now is the time for action. we are going to keep radical islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. [ cheers and applause ] and in a matter of days we will be taking brand new action to protect our people and keep america safe. >> the trump whisperer completing team trump's takeover of cpac, steve bannon speaking openly and candidly about his top three priorities for the next four years. >> the first is kind of national security and sovereignty, and th