poallergies?reather. stuffy nose? can't sleep? take that. a breathe right nasal strip instantly opens your nose up to 38% more than allergy medicine alone. shut your mouth and say goodnight, mouthbreathers. breathe right. welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian, msnbc world headquarters in new york. it's 1:00 out east, 10:00 in the west. now here's what's happening. happening right now, you're looking at climate marches happening in denver, chicago and washington, d.c., all happening on day 100 of the trump administration. a live report in just a moment. and today, president trump

marking 100 days in office, but that hasn't stopped him from looking ahead, way ahead to the next election. at a meeting of the nra on friday, the president offered his prediction for his matchup. >> i have a feeling that in the next election you're going to be swamped with candidates, but you're not going to be wasting your time. you'll have plenty of those democrats coming over and you'll say, no, sir, no, thank you. no, ma'am. it may be pocahontas, remember that. pocahontas is a favorite trump nickname for massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, who claims native american ancestry. but warren, she had some fighting words of her own for the president in an interview with bill maher later that day. >> i went to trump's inauguration. i watched. i wanted to see it. i wanted it burned into my eyes. you know, my view on this was if

there was ever going to be a moment where i was like i'm too tired to get up all i had to do was close my eyes and oh, my god, i'm up. >> the president not faring much better with average voters. less than half of those surveyed approve of the job that he has done so far. even president trump admits the job of commander in chief is not exactly what he expected. here's what he told reuters in a new interview. >> i love my previous life. i love my previous life. i had so many things going. i actually -- this is more work than my previous life. i thought it would be easier. i thought it was more of a -- i'm a details oriented person, i think you would say that. but i do miss my old life. this -- i like to work, so that's not a problem, but this is actually more work. >> so does he actually love his current life? and president trump last night reflecting on one of the defining setbacks of his first 100 days in office, his failure

to repeal and replace obamacare. >> i'm disappointed. i'll tell you, paul ryan is trying very, very hard. i think everybody is trying very hard. it is a very tough system. and we're dealing with obstructionists. the democrats -- i don't have one democratic vote. i once said it's complicated. it's not complicated compared to other things being complicated. it's not that hard. i was disappointed that they didn't have more in line by the time i walked in. >> of course our own kelly o'donnell is at the white house for us. kelly, trump hitting the road today for his 100th day in the white house, attending a rally in pennsylvania. are we going to see more pointing fingers at the democrats here? that's what we've heard all along the way up until this point. >> reporter: that's pretty standard for president trump when he goes out in these campaign events. and when i say campaign, it's being paid for and organized by his trump-pence campaign for

2020. it is not an official white house event. that is notable. the president does have white house duties on the road today, and that will include signing an executive order related to trade, ordering a review of all the current trade deals the united states has with countries around the world. so it's a mix of white house and campaign w th campaign. with that, you expect the president will lay out his own grade for how he's done the nirs 100 days. the things he believes he has done well. he always talks about being able to appoint and see confirmed a united states supreme court justice. that's a big deal to him, something that will last long after his presidency, whether it's four years or eight years. also talking about laying out some of the principles at least of where they want to go on tax reform and tax cuts. as the clips we showed indicate. the health care repeal, something that the president thought would be easier to accomplish, not so much. and yet they do indicate that they believe there is progress to see a repeal happen, perhaps in the next few weeks.

he's been personally working with lawmakers trying to get their support. so for president trump who also is experiencing just the change of what his life is like now compared to being even a very famous private citizen, he talked about not having privacy now, not being able to drive. when asked how his life is different, this is a marker in time that the white house has been in many ways reluctant to shine a light on and then sort of came around to it, knowing that there would be so many stories about the 100-day mark. so many report cards from both allies and adversaries about the 100-day mark that they have set out a lot of their own way of describing it. there's a video put out by the white house that has clips of all the best moments. none of the negative moments from these first 100 days. and there is an opportunity for the president to try to say to supporters, we're on our way. not much in the way of reaching out to anyone from the

opposition, whether it's democrats or citizens who have been protesting. we just have not seen that in the first three months of the president's term. historically, often when presidents come into office, they do that kind of outreach. that just hasn't been the trump way so far. there hasn't been the kind of honeymoon other presidents have sometimes had. but they are moving forward and saying that they have got a lot to do and they plan to now move past this marker and try to get some things done. yasmin. >> maybe the honeymoon is delayed, kelly, who knows. >> we'll see. >> thank you. as we told you at the top of the hour, happening now in washington, d.c., where kelly i, also some cities across the u.s., another big rally under way in protest of president trump's environmental policies. the people's climate march kicked off just a short time ago from the capitol building. crowds will march down pennsylvania avenue and then surround the white house. nbc's anthony terrell is with the protesters now and joining me. anthony, what are you seeing out

there? >> reporter: hi, yasmin. it's quite a crowd. tens of thousands of people from all over the country have flown in today for this march. this march is a little different. it's about action as opposed to last week's march about awareness. there's about eight different contingencies here and folks around the country try to fit in with one of eight. joining me is larry from maryland. this isn't his first march. he was with the builders of democracy, which is the group you see walking by us now. hey, larry, what concerns you about the environment? what obstacles do you find to clean energy? >> well, there's no way to turn back once we put enough poison in our atmosphere. the sun is shining right now and it could be creating electricity for thousands and thousands of homeowners. in the district of columbia, there are tremendous tax incentives available for people who put solar on their roofs. my average bill is now $8 a month. >> so you're a tax accountant who specializes in folks putting solar on their roofs. what obstacles do you find to that? >> well, it's a convoluted and slow process.

it takes almost a year from the time you want to get interested until you can flip the switch and turn it on. the system is designed to slow you down. the electric company doesn't want to come and put the new meter on your home that registers the amount that you're producing an selling back to them. that's called net metering. >> what do you hope comes out of this march? >> i hope that we can wake up the guy at the other end of the street who just thinks profits over people will solve all the problems. we can all be richer and get in golden coffins as we get buried in the ground, but it's going to come sooner than it needs to if we keep poisoning our earth. >> thank you very much, larry. enjoy the march. as larry was talking about, president trump -- this group is going to surround the white house in about four blocks in a symbolic effort meant to tell president trump and his administration that they oppose a lot of the regulations that they're talking about imposing as well as rolling back some of the obama era regulations. yasmin. >> anthony, as you were talking

to him, we saw sort of the protests happening across the entire country. we went washington, denver, chicago as well. just everywhere people joining in on this climate march. are you seeing sort of a politicized front there? or are they taking politics out of this day? >> reporter: no, no, it's very politicized here. they want to send a message to president trump. that's what this week is about and this weekend is about. it's an action. it's meant to tell president trump and his administration that they want changes that benefit the climate and so it's very politicized. we've seen t-shirts that say don't taurur us, trump. a lot of signs say i'm with her, with a finger point to planet earth. >> but a lot of people are not identifying as republican and democrat, have they? >> reporter: i haven't heard anybody identify when i've asked them. they are just activists for the climate. they tend to lean more towards democrat, but from the other folks that i've talked to out

here, they're here to send a message to president trump, so you can guess their politics. >> and i can imagine the message is pretty loud. that's for sure. anthony terrell, thank you. i want to bring in seema metah and betsy woodrouuff. protests happening across the country. i think every single weekend we've talked about protests happening. it's sort of been a time of resistance within the last 100 days leading up to this major mark for president trump. is this sort of a new era of the presidency? is this how it's going to be? seema, i'm going to you first. is this how it's going to be for president trump's next four years, possible eight years? >> the day after he was sworn in, we saw the enormous women's march. there was so much energy but a lot of people questioned whether that was sustainable or whether that was just one day people got their unhappiness out and go back to their lives. but as you said, almost every

weekend. there was the tax march, the travel ban, the science march and now the climate change march, so it does seem like the energy is sustaining. the question for democrats is whether they can keep this going through the midterm elections. >> betsy, people are identifying this as a new class, a protest class. weigh in. >> i think there's certainly truth to that. the reality is that given social media developments and just increasingly connected nature of the world we live in, it's a lot easier to organize these kind of protests, for people to visit these protests and participate than it has been in years past. that said, i think it's also important to remember that this sort of almost unprecedented nature of sustained mobilization is happening on both sides of the aisle. i covered the trump campaign, went to tons of trump rallies and was constantly struck by how many people were willing to drive for hours and hours to stand in line for hours and hours to wait to be part of sort of these mass movements. one thing to keep an eye on tonight is the audience that the president is able to attract in

pennsylvania when he has his dueling speech that will go up against the white house correspondents dinner. is there any parallel to that with the marches that we're seeing in d.c. today. that's something to keep an eye on. >> whatever side of the aisle that you actually sit on, i think we're noticing that people are getting more and more involved in their government and policy decisions. and either way, that's a positive for everybody across the board because we all need to be more involved in the government and policy decisions as well. seema, one of the criticisms of the president is that he spends every weekend on a golf course. >> right. >> so he had an explanation for that. take a listen. oh, we actually don't have it. oh, we do have it. all right, go ahead. >> going back is very expensive for the country because they close up fifth avenue and they close up 56th street. so if i go to one of my clubs like in new jersey, they'll say, oh, he's going to play golf. i'm not going to play golf, i couldn't care less about golf, but i have a place there. that costs almost nothing because it's hundreds of acres. >> seema, i've got to say, i

think i've seen him swing a club or two. so i think he is playing some golf unless he's just doing it for a photo op. >> it's kind of funny -- i don't know if funny is the right word because we know how much and how frequently he criticized president obama for playing golf of the and he basically said i'm never going to be doing this. yes, it's true he's playing at his own course but he's frequently playing at his own course in florida near mar-a-lago and getting everybody like the secret service and staff and everybody to florida is costing a lot of money. >> betsy, a lot of people point to donald trump's failed promises in these first 100 days, but what's so interesting is it seems like a lot of those failures have the little impact in the polls when it comes to those who actually voted for him. what do you think is behind that, that they have this undying support for president trump. you see right there, 96% would vote for him again, which is a pretty unbelievable number, i think we have to admit. what do you think is behind all of that? >> it makes sense given -- having had dozens of conversations with trump

supporters over the course of the campaign. one thing that struck me is they would talk about supporting him not necessarily because of any wonky policy goals or specific promises that he made but they said he tells it like it is. they liked his rhetoric. they like the way he talked about government and politics and the united states' place in the world was so dramatically different, that they found that really appealing and they found the vision really appealing. trump hasn't changed. the way that he talks about what he wants to do is largely consistent with how he talked about it on the campaign trail. that's something we're expecting to see tonight. i really think a lot of the support that he has is more about his personality, his approach to politics, than about specific legislative goals. of course give it a year or two. if the affordable care act is still in place, if trump hasn't made the economy significantly better, if these rust belt communities that he reached out to so well are struggling, i think it's likely that we'll see a dip in the support that he has. but it doesn't surprise me at all that his core supporters look back at the first 100 days

that he had and they see good things. >> so you do think that this support could actually waivver. seema, a lot of foreign policy being done by tweeting as well, which is pretty rare for a president, i think we could all admit. like this one in response to north korea's attempt to test a ballistic missile. he's in effect pitting north korea against china. what do you make of that? do you think this is actually a strategy that he's taking there? >> with china, i think so, because during the campaign he had a pretty hard line on china. since he became president an met with china's president, he's described a warm relationship. i think he expects china to play a major role in trying to keep north korea from developing a nuclear weapon that could reach the united states. the tweeting is fascinating. i think a lot of us thought he would adhere to the norms that we're used to. white houses, republican,

democrat, whichever party. but he still enjoys getting his feelings directly to his supporters, so it's definitely interesting. >> betsy, what's interesting is that he tweets this stuff out and then has a sweeper comes in. so he tweets this stuff out and then has a good cop come out and be more about what the policies should be. >> i think you can definitely have a way of making sense of the tweets that he's doing. speaking more broadly, he hasn't been tweeting in a way that's as erratic as he did the first couple of weeks of his campaign. we haven't seen another twitter catastrophe like when he tweeted obama had him illegally wiretapped. the way he's using the medium is more strategic. whether that's deliberate or coincidental, unclear. but there certainly seems to be more organization going on, particularly the way that rex tillerson talked about north korea late last week -- or this past week, suggesting that the united states would be open to actually giving a significant

amount of foreign aid to that country if they denuclearize. he played the sweeper role, coming in and adding more detail to what the president tweeted. that good cop/bad cop dynamic is very real. >> we'll cover some of president trump's more notable tweets over the last 100 days later on in the show. betsy, seema, thank you both for joining me. very much appreciate it. >> thank you. you might not expect to hear democrats give president trump credit for an achievement over the past 100 days, but they are. and the president probably would disagree with them. that's coming up next. poor mouth breather.

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another day of protests in america. at this hour the climate march, what could be one of the largest taking place in the nation's capital but there are similar protests in a number of cities across the country.

protesters plan to soon circle the white house where president trump is reflecting on his first 100 days in office. an online poll of trump supporters shows the president with a 93% approval rating while a nationwide gallup poll puts his approval rating at 43%. today president trump giving him a thumbs up. >> my fellow americans, i truly believe that the first 100 days of my administration has been just about the most successful in our country's history. most importantly, we're bringing back jobs. you ask the people of michigan, you ask the people of ohio, you can ask the people of pennsylvania, see what's happening. >> illinois congressman luis gutierrez joining me to talk all about that. congressman, thank you for joining us. the president says he's bringing back jobs to michigan, to ohio, to pennsylvania. is he right, are they coming

back? >> well, we just had the report on economics and the economic growth of our nation and it's the weakest in the last five years. so obviously when you look at the economic report, it's just not there to back it up. look, donald trump will say whatever donald trump wants to say. regardless of what the truth is. so you really can't believe anything he says. it's probably a little too early in 100 days for him to be bragging about bringing back jobs. the fact is, he said he's going to bring back jobs by withdrawing from nafta. now he says he's just going to renegotiate nafta. oh, we're going to save a bunch of money and withdraw from nato. it's bad, it's expensive. then he sits down with the secretary general of nato. what a great guy. oh, wait, with the chinese. those are manipulators of currency, we're going to real strong and denounce them in the international community. now they have a piece of chocolate cake, according to him, the most delicious

chocolate cake and now they're the best of friends. the only thing donald trump has been consistent about is his anti-immigrant policies that divide and destroy families. on that issue he has been very clear. he came down those escalators as he announced his candidacy for president and said mexicans are murderers, rapists, drug dealers, they're bad people. we're going to get rid of them. and he's trying to put in an enforcement policy that's very destructive of families and it is a very racist policy that he is implementing in the united states of america. >> congressman, are you angry more about the decisions he's made in regards to nafta and changing his view on china and being a manipulator of currency or more angry and upset about his wavering and his back and forth? >> my only point is this, he's not consistent. he doesn't believe in anything. except one thing he does believe

in. and he has been very, very clear about it. and that is being as destructive as he can to the immigrant community, sowing fear and terror in the immigrant community. taking dreamers. he says, oh, i'm going to leave them alone. they are registered with the united states of america. they paid a $600 fee. they put their fingerprints on a piece of paper and went through a background check. they are doctors, lawyers, teachers. they are involved in our community and interwoven in our community. what's he doing? he's going after them. that is the policy that donald trump, the policy of pat rhatre prejudice, bigotry, he has been very, very consistent about. >> interestingly you bring up immigration. it seems with his immigration policy that he's keeping people from crossing the u.s./mexico border. customs saying there was a steep decline in arrests. not nearly as many people

crossing the border since donald trump was elected to the white house. does he deserve credit there for slowing undocumented people from making those border crossings? >> look, look, let's be clear. you can't believe anything he says. these are all facts according to him. they could be alternative facts. >> but this is u.s. customs saying there's a steep decline. >> but u.s. customs is controlled by him and his secretary of homeland security that's in the tank along -- look, last week they went to the border. the head of homeland security went to the border with the attorney general of the united states to talk about stopping the filth. that's how they describe human beings, as filth. you can't believe a thing that donald trump -- who really believes anything that donald trump says? i certainly don't. but here's what i will tell you. there has been a diminishing of people crossing that border for the last five years. there are more people returning to mexico than coming across. but let me just ask you and the american public, if he says he's reduced it by 75%, that's what

he says. then why does he need a wall? then why does he need tens of thousands of millions of -- why does he need billions of additional dollars to hire thousands of additional border patrol agents? it doesn't make sense. he brags about things and he says things. i will tell you one thing that is true. that the fear that exists in the immigrant community, and this is about people. donald trump doesn't make a distinction between a murderer, a rapist and somebody who does harm and a man that's been here 20 years building a family and building a future in america and wants to get right with the law. he makes no distinction. he doesn't -- the prosecutions are up against immigrants for the most minute of infractions. you know what we're not putting attention against, kidnappers, murderers, money launderers, people selling drugs. they're going after hard-working men and women. >> there's a question that i want answered because i did tease it before we came into your segment and that's what do

you think -- i know it's a tough one to answer. but what do you think, if anything, the president did right in his first 100 days? and i don't want to hear that unified the democratic party because we've been hearing that all day and a lot of people don't necessarily agree with it. so what do you think, if anything, he did right in the first 100 days? >> here's what i think he did do right. he brought up more women than ever has been seen. i've been in congress 25 years. the experience of the women's march to me has been the singularly most important experience that i have had and it has energized me and energized so many people. this monday i know you and msnbc along with the rest of the media will move from the climate day protest march of today, you will move to 30 states over 90 venues, l.a., new york, chicago, washington, d.c., i'll be in washington, d.c. at 2:00 beginning the march for immigrant rights.

you will never see such a march and such a concentration of people before. and i know you say, well, he hasn't unified -- you know what, everybody keeps saying, well, can they sustain the resistance? it's not about the democratic party of bernie sanders or anybody maintaining, the people must maintain the resistance. >> it's interesting that you bring that up because we were speaking about how there is this new class, this protest class. no matter what side of the aisle that you sit on, it has -- president trump's time in office has invigorated people to get more involved in government and i think that's a good thing across the board absolutely. >> and it has invigorated women across this country, and that's exciting to me. >> congressman luis gutierrez, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. candidate trump spoke passionately about improving life for black americans on the campaign trail, so why do americans believe racism is becoming an imminent threat across the country? that's next.

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welcome back, i'm yasmin vossoughian. at the half hour here's what we're monitoring. protesters are expected to march along pennsylvania avenue and eventually surround the white house. all of this taking place on what could be a record hot day with forecasters predicting temperatures in the low 90s. meanwhile, the president marking his 100th day in office in the keystone state. he's going to take the stage at 7:30 p.m. eastern tonight at a rally in harrisburg, pennsylvania. this amid new poll numbers with trump with a 39% approval rating among the state's voters. jacob rascon is there. what are you hearing on the ground there? >> reporter: what they say is they don't believe those poll numbers just like they didn't believe the poll numbers before the actual election. they're excited here, they're thrilled, they're ecstatic. all week i've been out across the country, asked to talk for folks who voted for donald

trump, how did they think he was doing his first 100 days. they see, for example, the health care bill getting stuck in congress as congress' fault. or the travel ban being stuck in the courts as the court's fault. but they look at what he's doing and saying, look, he's trying to do everything he promised to do. that's the view from those i've been talking to so far. this is gene. gene is from florida, flew up to be here. i interviewed you once before at florida. >> you did. >> why come all this way and how is trump doing his first 100 ways? >> number one, i love our president. i'm also on a mission. i have a team that we're going to be doing some things on the ground for him. i'll talk more about that at another time. a plus. he's doing a plus for these first 100 days. >> you were telling me immigration may be one of your top issues. >> absolutely. >> how's he doing there? no money for the border wall yet. >> there's so many different avenues to get this money for the wall. no matter what, all the money he's saving, our president, it's going to all even out.

that's how it's going to be. >> but you want the wall to be built eventually? >> definitely. if they didn't listen, it will be built even higher, like he says. >> so that is the bar for you. >> yes, absolutely. >> we'll look for that. thank you so much. >> jacob, could i ask him one question. >> please. we have a question from yasmin, the anchor. go ahead. can you just ask him about the russia investigation, jacob, if he has any concerns about that and sort of the trump administration's ties to russia and michael flynn and how he had to step down as national security advisor. >> reporter: the question is that the fbi is investigating, as i'm sure you know, connections between the trump campaign and russia. >> yes. >> michael flynn was fired over lying about this. >> yes. >> what are your concerns, if any, about this? >> nothing. whatever the situation is, i mean i know it's the congress, they want -- the democrats, you know, everything is russia with them. whatever michael flynn did, president trump fired the guy, okay, for a reason. now, if they find things on him,

then so be it. i mean that's not nothing we can do, okay. so that's really it. >> but you don't think they'll find anything? >> i don't think so. i really don't. i don't think they will. if they do, i'm wrong. but i really don't. for president trump to take care of this guy and not let him work no more, there had to be a reason, you know what i mean, behind that. but i don't think what they're going to find what they're really thinking in the long run, the big picture. thank you so much, everybody. >> reporter: thanks, yasmin, back to you. >> it's interesting, jacob, because the narrative that president trump has had throughout the last 100 days is sort of translating pretty accurately to his supporters, if we take a listen to what gene just had to say. so many people are perplexed as to how it is that the people that voted for him in the first place could easily support him now considering some of the things that he's walked back on and we just heard it right there, and that's why it's so interesting to get interviews like that on the ground for

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find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. that's amazing! welcome back. new reaction to north korea's latest missile launch attempt, the ninth try under the president, but the fourth successive failure. president trump tweeting that north korea disrespected the wishes of china and its highly respected president when it launched thousand unsuccessfully a missile today, bad. joining me is chiron skinner, professor and former senior advisor for trump's security council transition team. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> absolutely. is there a strategy behind this approach with president trump saying so blatantly that north korea is disrespecting china?

>> i believe it absolutely -- there absolutely is a strategy, because as you've noticed during the first 100 days, the north korean leader has done as many missile tests as he possibly could. numerous ones have failed. to attempt to show force in the world. the u.s. has responded in a very measured way, actually going after the source in terms of north korea's economic survival. i'm talking about the growing relationship between the american and chinese president. and the fact that president trump has decided not to list china as a currency manipulator, not to focus so much on high tariffs, new tariffs that he could throw up in that bilateral relationship or other protectionist measures i think is really making the north koreans nervous.

add that to the fact that international public opinion is on the side of the united states in terms of isolating north korea for using its missile tests as a way to add provocation to an already tense environment in the korean peninsula. >> so you think the president is putting a spotlight on president xi and saying, look, you better respond to this, you better choke them out. you better ray down some economic prohibitions, some economic sanctions in order to get north korea to calm down? >> he's doing that but perhaps a little bit more diplomatically than you're putting it, though i think the substance of what you've said is absolutely right. i think by developing closer ties with china, trying to study the relationship, it's really having a negative impact on north korea and the north korean/chinese relationship. there's only so much we can make the chinese do. we would like to see more sanctions enforced but a growing

u.s./china relationship is the pathway to north korea and the north koreans understand it. >> the missile launch failure is raising questions about whether we're seeing the u.s. cyber sabotage program at work. i want to take a listen to steve clemons, editor at large for "the atlantic." >> when the briefing of 100 u.s. senators at the white house happened the other day, i talked to a number of those senators. they said they had classified briefing in which they were told that american capacity right now to penetrate north korea's weapons systems with malware and other sorts of controls is high. there's a significant degree of confidence that we have right now in our ability to do that. >> so considering what you know about our capabilities, kiron, is that what happened here? >> i'm not sure, but i'm disappointed in u.s. senators revealing information at that level if in fact we are penetrating north korea's military networks using cyber

tactics such as malware. i think it's inappropriate to reveal that kind of information in the midst of the use of it, which is probably ongoing, if in fact that's the case. but let everyone understand the u.s. is a major cyber force in the world. others are as well. the russians, the chinese, and several other nations, but the united states has enormous capacity in the new realm of cyber warfare to dominate any adversary. and if in fact that is happening right now with the north koreans, i think they're in for a fight that they're completely unprepared for, given the capacity of the united states and its allies to respond and to act preemptively. >> president trump has said we could have major, major conflicts with north korea. how do you think this is going to end? >> hopefully it's going to end peacefully. and what i like about the first

100 days of the trump administration is that it's taking some time, but the administration is developing and evolving a national security team that is measured, speaks with strength, but despite what many say, there is a lot of common language around north korea and around our resolve and the desire to have the north koreans back down by getting rid of their nuclear program. that's the center of the message of everyone in this administration, and it's unwavering in that way. >> kiron skinner from kaucarneg melon university, thank you for joining us. omarosa defense donald trump in terms of the african-american community but what has he done for any minorities. also entertainers off-beat all tirn afternoon to the white house correspondents dinner. ♪

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there's a new poll out today on the state of race relations and the results are start telling. nearly 60% surveyed say racism is a tlit in threat in the units and there's a 7% increase from two years ago. i want to bring in dr. james

peterson and oliver mcgee, secretary of transportation and a former trump adviser. secretary mcgee, how much does president trump bear for those numbers that i just listed? >> i think he bears quite a bit of responsibility because he's the president of the united states. he's in his first 100 days but his responsibility lies on how it's going to unfold the next 100 days. a visiting session akin to what ben carson is doing right now and looking in the cities of detroit, milwaukee, wisconsin, walking through even chicago. so you can see and listen to the community right at the heart. those are great presidential pictures. that would be a fantastic tour. a walking city tour we're looking at technology and

infrastructure so we can get a 3% growth model. we cannot even begin to fix the deep forces that face this country which are educational, technological, economical and political. president trump in his second 100 days. fdr took 105 days to implement his government of 500 appointees with a $4 billion budget. president trump has to do in the next 105 days appoint 2,000 appointees in a $4 trillion budget that involves building or crumbling infrastructure. but also building our cities. when we get people jobs, then they can begin to develop health care and housing. >> i don't mean to interrupt, but i want the professor to weigh in as well. talking about this walking tour, do you think the president should have visited flint,

michigan, in the first 100 days of his office? >> well, i mean, it depends on why he's going, yasmin. >> we all know why he would be going. because of the water crisis that's been in flint, michigan, for years now. >> is he going to bring federal solutions to bear on it? if he's going in it for a photo op, it doesn't make any sense. if you're going there to bring solutions and experts to bear onto the challenges faced by inner cities, that's fine. there's no time because there's been no moves, professor. some have said that there's been no moves. >> that critique is fair and we know what is wrong in flint, michigan. there's resources required to address it. we know that making water safe for our most vulnerable population is an important challenge, not just in flint but in other cities that requires federal oversight and resources. we know some of the problems.

we want the president to be there because it draws attention to it. i'm not sure that a photo op is what is needed and i don't know if this poll is necessarily about whether or not president trump has visited flint or other cities in the united states, right? because the reports reporting in the poll are actually responding to the sort of climate around race, which is important. they're responding to things like the muslim ban and to the kind of vitriol we've seen displayed around issues of race and that misses the mark. if we look at access to health care, you just did a segment on the climate march. if you look at who is most vulnerable and exposed to climate change, not just in our nation but around the world, that's folks of color. when you look at mass incarceration, you can see biases there. there's systemic challenges around race that are for more imminent than things like folks calling each other names and

saying bad words to each other. in terms of capturing the sentiment that responds to the muslim ban and vitriol from the campaign of trump, we should keep our eyes focused on the systematic changes. >> jumping off what the professor just brought up, he's nominated a number of officials who have been accused of racist comments and behavior. do you think he can ever win over minority voters if he's willingly serving alongside these people? >> when president trump invokes his 3% growth plan and gets jobs, jobs, jobs and people can have better housing and better educational opportunities in this country going beyond affirmative action and civil rights -- >> i'm talking about right now.

can he make any inroads with the minorities? >> this is what i was getting to, yasmin. he will be able to create that climate that when people have their jobs, that's what people are crying for right now. they are crying for economic opportunity because this is not a civil rights issue. this is an economic rights issue. when people don't have jobs, the country gets angry. and if he doesn't save this jobs problem, he's not going to be able to solve health care or education at all. we need a 3% growth model in order to be econocompetitive an compete with russia and china and korean peninsula and other areas. >> gentlemen, i have to go. i appreciate you joining me. thank you both for joining me. that's going to do it for me at this hour.

i'm yasmin vo. stephanie gosk is next.

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