i'm richard lui at msnbc headquarters in new york city. it is president trump's 100th day in office. it's a day he plans to commemorate in pennsylvania though with a large rally this evening. the president expected to depart for that event about an hour from now. he'll be leaving washington, d.c. where thousands of protesters have marched in opposition to his policies on climate change. that march one of dozens being staged in cities across the country. all right. nbc's anthony terrell is in washington, d.c. for us now. the question right now when we look at it, anthony, washington, chicago, denver, he'll be joining us very soon, anthony, when we do get that signal we'll go straight to him. in office as a ridiculous standard, that's what has been said. he's singing a very differently tune today touting himself as the only commander in chief to accomplish so much in his first 100 days. the president took to twitter this afternoon to blast media coverage of his 100th day posting, quote, mainstream fake media refuses to state our long

list of achievements including 28 legislative signings, strong borders and great optimism. and here's what he had to say when pressed on the lack of major legislative accomplishments during his time in office. >> i was with a reporter the other day who said the same thing, you didn't pass anything. i said, no, we passed 28 bills. by the way, tomorrow it could be 32. these are bills passed by the legislation -- i'm sorry, i'm not talking executive orders which frankly are equally as important. >> breaking down those 28 pieces of legislation, a new majority of them, 13, were ones that undid obama regulation while nine others focused on personnel, commemorations and renaming of facilities. in fact, just six of those bills were substantive, but even the president admits the job is not exactly a walk in the park. take a listen. >> this is more work than in my previous life. i thought it would be easier. >> now, joining us for more from the white house, nbc's monica

alba. monica, this 100th day, a lot has been talked about, you've been watching it there from d.c. from the white house right now. president, he won't be there for what will be the large media event of the day. he's going to go to pennsylvania instead. what does that say about the mood that you're sensing there from the white house as he moves onto actually take on another executive action in addition? >> that's right, richard. certainly no accident that the president is heading out to pennsylvania. he'll be departing the white house in the next hour or so, but of course we should note that even though it's the white house correspondents dinner tonight, it's also the president's 100th day in office. so he is taking this opportunity to sort of celebrate that milestone marker for his young administration. and as you mentioned he has been signing a ton of executive orders. he's done about 30, and today will be the latest. he will make a show in pennsylvania signing a new order that will review in effect all of the united states' trade agreements. he'll be accompanied we're told by the commerce secretary wilbur

ross. and then he'll be holding a big trademark president trump campaign-style rally in pennsylvania where we believe he will really feed off sort of the energy of his base. but of course white house aides have pointed out all week long that you can't ignore the contrast between the two events. the black tie dinner where the media will be celebrating the first amendment and this big event in pennsylvania where we can expect to hear those trademark chants from the crowd and all of those sort of signature campaign lines and reiterating some of those campaign promises we heard from candidate trump and talking about now what that means in the first 100 days for president trump, richard. >> yeah, monica, today really analogous of this president's first 100 days as things are not necessarily typical but very normal for this presidency as we mark 100. monica, thank you so much, at the white house. back to thousands of marching in cities all over the nation, which we showed you a little bit earlier. this time though it's for climate change.

and now we have anthony terrell, nbc's reporter on the ground, he's been there in washington, d.c. anthony, the question is, i know it's a warm day, are we seeing the crowds increase? are we seeing the energy increase right now, or have we already hit that peak? >> reporter: well, we've hit the peak of the energy, but folks continue to stream in here from the march. when we were walking here we had marchers walking past us to get some rest. there are still some others under the trees right now. but we have speakers up here, we had some musical guests. and then we also have some families like maria's family here, they traveled in from maryland. they all had the same shirts. and, maria, let me ask you, why did you bring your children here? why was it important? >> because i want to bring my community -- and they're learning -- >> reporter: take care of the community and the environment? >> yeah. >> reporter: linda, i was speaking to you a little bit earlier. what did you learn about coming

here that you can bring back to your school? >> i'm going to share to my school about the climate and how to help it. >> reporter: yeah. >> and to help the climate. there's different kind of ways to help the climate. >> reporter: yeah. >> one of them might be recycling. >> reporter: uh-huh. >> that's what i think it's the most important thing that i learned here. >> reporter: all right. and, joslyn, speaking to you earlier, you planted some seeds earlier today? can you tell me about that? >> we planted because we need a healthier environment for people to raise more kids and raise them in a good environment. >> reporter: that's good. thank you all for joining us. i have ingrid right here as well as jaylor, thank you guys very much. and, richard, to sum it up, these families are going to go back to their communities. when i was speaking to some elected officials earlier,

that's the whole point of today. one is to show the white house there's some activism here about the climate, but two, is to go back to local communities and do something about it, richard. >> which you're really underlining with those you interviewed, anthony, the new generation. when they're polled, they care more about this than the generation before. anthony, always nice to hang out there on a sunny day. appreciate it, my friend. in just under an hour the president will leave the white house, board air force one and head to pennsylvania to ring in his 100th day with a crush of supporters. ahead of the event he tweeted this saying he was looking forward to the rally expecting a, quote, big crowd and big energy. nbc's jacob rascon is ahead there with big energy and big crowd in harrisburg for us outside the expo center where the crowd has already lined up for tonight's rally. a lot of things happening here. and the question is these are mostly trump supporters and the polling has shown they are happy with what their president is

doing. >> reporter: they are thrilled. in fact, one woman i was just walking back in the line to see how long it was, it goes on for blocks and blocks. one woman had made a shirt 100 days and going strong. that's the mood. i mean, generally you talk to people, you ask them to grade the president and they'll say an a, a b, maybe an a-plus. because in their eyes for those i've talked to even though health care failed in the initial effort, it's congress' fault or even if the travel ban failed, maybe they'll blame the courts. they are happy, they say, with his efforts so far. i kind of want to bring in one person here with the pennsylvania young republicans. thank you so much, katie. how would you grade him and why? >> i would give president trump an "a" so far because he came through with the supreme court justice. >> reporter: i've talked to a lot of people. that's been their number one. what else has been exciting or encouraging about his presidency? >> i love he's had a focus on deregulation and on lowering taxes. i think that's exactly what our country needs to become economically prosperous. >> reporter: so what do you still really want to see, you

looking forward to most going forward? >> i'm really looking forward to the corporate net income tax being lowered. i'm hoping that income taxes will be lowered as well. and i'm looking forward to actually enforcing our immigration laws. >> reporter: thank you. and what if anything, i was talking to you earlier about this, are you disappointed about in the first 100 days? >> i didn't think the rollout for the immigration ban the very first time it was a failure in my opinion. but i think those are the kinds of things you learn when you're first starting out as a president. everyone though it was a public failure, i think we're going to be able to bounce back and we'll be okay. >> reporter: what do you think generally people may who don't support the president misunderstand about people who support the president? >> well, we don't all fit into a box. we're not all -- we don't all fit into these isms, we're not all racist or sexist or anything like that. a lot of us are average americans who just want to see our country succeed and are happy to finally hear somebody talking about putting america first domestically and in foreign policy. >> reporter: thank you.

and final question, what do you make of the investigation into possible ties between russia and the trump campaign? for a lot of people that's overshadowed a lot of what's happened, but for somebody who voted for donald trump, what do you make of it? >> i think i'm just going to wait and see what ends up happening, if they're going to have hearings on it, i'm going to wait and see what the truth is. ultimately regardless of who i voted for, i want the truth. and i want non-illegal things to be happening. so i'm going to hold off and see. >> reporter: thank you very much. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> reporter: i'll end by saying the first five people in line, one from new york, one from florida, another from new jersey, feels like the campaign out here, they're thrilled. >> thrilled and pragmatic as she was, right? both saying that she did not like the rollout of the immigration ban but she was very supportive of the considerations regarding the corporate tax rate. great conversation there. nbc's jacob rascon in harrisburg, thank you, sir. the president has called the 100-day milestone a ridiculous standard, but he's also said

this. >> i truly believe that the first 100 days of my administration has been just about the most successful in our country's history. >> i don't think anybody has done what we've been able to do in a hundred days. >> i think we're doing tremendously well. i don't think anybody has ever done this much in 100 days. >> something the president and his administration have pointed to are the number of executive orders signed, today that number standing at 30. 31 if you count the one he is set to sign in just a few hours where ja cob rascon is at. that tops past presidents, obama with 19, h.w. bush with 11. but when you look past the executive orders, president trump has gotten few legislative wins during his first 100 days. the effort to repeal and replace obamacare is still in the works. the president did release a one-page tax proposal, but included very few details. he also avoided the government shutting down on his watch only because congress passed a short-term extension. the bright spot to note, his

supreme court pick, neil gorsuch, was confirmed. to put this all into context on day 100, joining us now politico's ben, washington bureau chief for the chicago sun times lynn sweet and rick shankman, not a big ask of all three of you necessarily, but to put the first 100 days and looking at his domestic policy in context in history, not a big ask at all here for the three of you. we'll start with you, lynn, on this in your years of reporting on white houses, on administrations, at this benchmark we look back and i ask you to answer this question only on domestic policy, what do you believe the trump domestic operating ideology is? >> well, that is a very interesting question. i think it is pragmatic. i think it is free wheeling. it's not tied to any ideology. by that i mean you can make proclamations on the fly if you

think it further some bigger agenda, one day nato is obsolete, the next day it's not. one day you're going to tear up nafta, the next day now we're going to renegotiate it. so we'll see how this pans out, but this certainly, you know, shows kind of a very unique to say the least free wheeling unstrategy-strategy here. >> so an unstrategy-strategy. you're also saying free wheeling. rick, you're our historian here. is there something that you're looking to who has really been as unpredictable at day 100? >> no, we've never had a president like donald trump. and you know for a historian to say that is really something because usually it's media people or journalists saying this is unprecedented and you're always going to find some historian to say, wait a minute, back 150 years ago in 1852 or something like that -- >> you're still a nice guy. >> yeah, i'm sorry, but no. donald trump is unprecedented. we've never seen anything like

this presidency. >> so you have -- when you go back and look at the books, you're saying anybody close then that you've seen at day 100 like this? >> no. there's nobody close. every other president had either been a chief executive of a state or they had been a general or they had been a prominent u.s. senator. we've not had anybody who was just a businessman who became president. he obviously didn't know very much about politics. he figured it out how to get elected. but he doesn't know about government. and that's the real problem. even in his claim just the other day that he's the most successful first 100-day president in our history. well, it's just laughable. fdr set the gold standard for that. does donald trump not know what fdr did that he got passed 15 major bills -- >> potentially true. >> -- change the economy.

>> potentially true. >> or is he -- >> sorry to interrupt you there, rick. i want to get ben in on the conversation real quick. you can add to it. ben, you know, as rick was noting here, the question of using untruths or lies consistently with the "new york times" saying that 91 of the first 99 days this president has tweeted something that was not true, for instance. is this it's okay not to focus on truth all the time? >> well, i think that as reporters certainly we have to be constantly fact checking leaders, trump especially. there was a question of whether that sort of tweeting would stop when he assumed the presidency. trump promised his twitter would become very presidential if he were elected. at the end of the day he's a 70-year-old man, he's not going to change a lot now that he's working out of a new building. and so it's sort of the job of

the media to keep fact checking day in and day out. >> the way that he is implementing his ideology has been through executive orders when it comes to working with congress and actually getting legislation passed, you know, very poor in terms of wins at this moment. so, lynn, the question would be then is it going to be another year of executive orders? we have one today symbolically, right, number 31 on this day 100. >> well, i want to underscore that the role of a journalist is to set the record straight. and that is needed even more than ever with trump in the white house. i just can't emphasize this enough. when you look at whitehouse.gov list of achievements it includes things that just are not true. you can do a whole show if we go through them. but that vigilance is what reporters are supposed to do.

so the use of executive orders in the trump air now a lot of it is just optics, richard. it's signing a signature that seems to get prominent display. and some of the achievements on his list is an order to have a study or an order to undo something. you can't spend four years just ordering studies and commissions or signing an order to say build a wall. you've got to get the money appropriated and a bill passed. sooner or later you will have undone whatever you want to undo. you got to get something done. >> getting something done and the efficacy of eos at this moment seems to be diminishing, right, in the first 100 days at least in terms of newsworthiness or actual efficacy as we look at it on the ground. so to you on this, rick, are his tweets also losing efficacy? an analysis done by for instance as many times as he has used the word fake news or fake reporting

that that's getting less resonance at least when it comes to his tweets in terms of rts and likes? are we seeing though he's sticking to white house it's losing some steam? >> well, since he made the outrageous allegation that barack obama personally was wiretapping him in trump tower, he has stopped making really, really outrageous claims. so that's part of what's going on there. but look, the tweets aren't really directed at the mainstream media so much as they are directed at his base. he has millions and millions of followers. and so far his base is sticking with him through thick or thin. so he's going to continue doing what he's doing to amp up that base and to keep them loyal. without the base, if they start to split or fracture, he's done. so he's got to maintain the base. >> so domestic operating ideology then as we go back to you here on this, ben, is it just to go to his base?

is he evergoing to try to go for mt. id l? it appears at least from what we've seen the first 100 i'm going to stick to my base, we're seeing from jacob rascon, they're still very happy with him but he's not going to get much done if that's all he's doing. >> his base is very happy with him. we may be seeing the beginnings of a shift on that front. just in terms of the advisors he's empowering, son-in-law jared kushner -- >> family. >> that's right. who in the eyes of the aides who are more in touch with his base like steve bannon referred to di visively as the democrats. trump may find the only way to get big legislative wins is to start doing deals with the democrats. that could really shift what his appeal is and could also at the same time undermine his popularity with the base. i think that's one of the big dynamics that we're all looking for in this next 100 days and beyond. >> lynn, quickly to you on this. the thing about him being so

unpredictable as you were saying is he therefore also when you look at beta, when we look at risk, right, how far it can go left or right, which a lot of people don't know, it means he could actually get a lot done if he so chooses because people know he's a wild card. >> well, he has to know except in congress there's only one thing that's important. how do you get to 216 in the house? >> right. >> and 60 in the senate. might be 217 depending if there's a vacancy that's filled. so he has to do that constant calibration. if you go over across the aisle too much to get democratic report, use republicans. that's called legislating. so far he hasn't shown he has much of a knack for it. going to rallies like the one tonight with your base is psychologically invigorating. but it can't get things done. and going to the point of fake news, he is conflating stories he doesn't like with just calling it fake news. as he just did a few minutes ago in a tweet i just looked at. >> right. >> because he doesn't like that

everyone hasn't just done a segment i suppose if he were producing this we would have gone through what his achievements in the first 100 days, so he's conflating what he has been stories he doesn't like in the mainstream media and calling it fake news and we hope people can tell the difference. >> on day 100 donald trump's domestic ideology, where is it, thank you all three for trying to dig into which is very broad topic and could spend a whole show on it. appreciate all three of you. ben, lynn as well as rick, thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks. no legislation on health care or tax reform in the president's first 100 days. how hard will democrats try and stop any momentum by republicans? we'll talk to a democratic congressman on that topic. and protesting the president's policies on climate change, you're looking at oakland, california, one of many cities that are looking at marches. it's about 1:20 local time

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first two jobs reports under president donald trump are already out showing that nearly 500,000 jobs have been created this year including more than 135,000 new jobs in construction and manufacturing. >> vice president mike pence praising president trump's job report numbers since he took office. during the campaign trail trump said that he would create and bring jobs back to the united states. and today marking his 100th day in office we go to nbc's rehema ellis who talked to folks about the president's promise and if he followed through on it. >> reporter: at this community college in indianapolis, students are putting a spark in

their future. >> i feel good about the job market from my position. >> reporter: and with good reason. the indiana unemployment rate is at a 16-year low of 3.9%, below the national average of 4.5%. and jacob is retraining for high demand jobs like welding and engineering. >> it's important to make sure that we improve our skills and don't just stay with those lowest level jobs that get shipped overseas so easily. >> reporter: he thinks in the first 100 days president trump is setting the right tone to keep jobs here. >> we want to make sure that we have the workforce development programs we need to ensure these jobs are being filled by american workers. >> reporter: jerome cummings likes what the president did at the carrier plant where he works. even though union officials say the 800 jobs saved was lower than trump claimed, cummings counts himself among the lucky. >> i can generally say in the company and the employees we're

very grateful for that. >> reporter: while there is growth, some manufacturing towns in indiana and nationwide are still struggling. and some economists wonder what's the president's plan for those areas. >> the president and the congress are going to need to do is create actual policies that drive the economy, not just look at one deal here or one deal there and try to save jobs that way. >> reporter: there's also concern about the future of job retraining. the president's early budget proposal would cut back on some of those programs. but for now are you feeling optimistic or pessimistic? >> i'm feeling optimistic definitely. >> reporter: students learning new skills here are giving the president a passing grade. >> i think he's doing the right steps, the right beginning steps. i mean, i don't agree with everything, but i believe he's going the right way. >> and thanks to rehema ellis for that report. now let's bring in democratic congressman dan kildee of michigan. a space you know well, my

friend. when you look at this, representative, that is the question, right? we think about the midwest, we think about what that quote/unquote manufacturing base is, and certainly the michigan economy has evolved over the decades to involve tech, for instance, in the ann arbor corridor and throughout in detroit, i should say, in addition to that. what is your reaction to donald trump's plan on jobs? do you see, do you hear what rehema was hearing on the ground? >> well, you know, we hear that anecdotally. people sort of like the fact he talks about jobs. but at the end of the day it's really about policy. so here in the midwest where growing the economy is going to depend on educating our kids, and he's cutting education in his budget, worker training programs, which he cuts in his budget, new infrastructure, roads, bridges, rail, ports, locks, which he talks about but

is such a low priority that in his first 100 days he hasn't done one thing to advance that sort of an agenda, when it comes to creating jobs in the midwest and in lots of places around the country, talk is cheap. you know, it's 140-character tweet does not put people in flint or saginaw or bay si back to work. he's got to do some actual real work and just stop talking about all this stuff. >> part of that real work here, representative, is we look at the numbers, job report did not look good in that last month. we have a gdp that also that number did not look good at all. those are big sort of omens although they're lagging indicators of what this president will have to deal with. michigan by itself is evolving too though. for instance, if you pull out some of the headlines here, over 10,000 tech jobs created in michigan in 2016. you don't think about michigan being that. call center jobs, hot in southeast michigan, that's a detroit free press headline in

the last month. how are jobs evolving in a state like michigan? >> well, i think some of it's natural. some of it is that we have some really bright private sector investors that see the potential, for instance in a place like detroit. i'm not too far from detroit right now. you've had really significant private sector investment that is spurring some of this. but it's not fast enough. michigan still continues to lag in terms of real wages, still continues to lag in terms of population growth. we need reinvestment. and we especially need infrastructure. that's why it is so disappointing that he is led and failed on health care, he has led and so far done nothing but a one-page sheet on taxes. i mean, any teacher that gave him an assignment to come back with a book report on tax plan would give him an "f" for what he put out. >> some have called it a wish list, representative. reflect on very quickly here on the tax plan and health care, at

least the plans we've seen so far. what it means for those for michigan. >> well, it's pretty frightening. when his plan actually would increase the number of people who lose health care, when his plan for taxes for example is really not tax reform that closes loopholes and creates tax fairness, but is just a big giveaway to the people at the very top, people who work hard in michigan can see right through that. and it's not very encouraging. >> well, in this last election the swingingest of sates that we have seen there in southfield, michigan, what an election that was. we're looking forward on this 100th day. thank you so much, michigan congressman democrat dan kildee. >> thank you. always good to talk to another wolverine. >> that's right. go blue. today is also the 25th anniversary of the los angeles riots sparked by the acquittal of four police officers accused of beating rodney king. we'll take a look at how the city changed since those deadly riots. and across the coast, we're

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los angeles, california is remembering a dark day in its history. 25 years ago today riots claimed the lives of over 50 residents. the city exploding in violence after a jury acquitted four officers in the beating of rodney king. this was a first what you see right here videotaped by a resident. the beating of a u.s. citizen captured on video, a flashpoint for police brutality. civil rights leaders plan to mark the an ver say by returning to ground zero of the riots today. area residents say recovery has been slow and also been fragile. >> we're finally, finally kind of moving forward. it took a long time. things are finally getting better. we don't have our market back anymore, and we don't have a lot of our conveniences, but i can

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welcome back. i'm richard lui here at msnbc world headquarters in new york city. north korea continues to dominate the conversation when it comes to the trump administration and its foreign policy. the rogue nation led by kim

jong-un once again made headlines after launching another ballistic missile test last night. a u.s. and south korean defense officials reported it exploded within seconds of being launched. that prompted the following tweet from president trump, north korea disrespected the wishes of china and its highly respected president when it launched, though unsuccessfully, a missile today. bad. the missile test coming within hours of u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson discussing the concern at the u.n. take a listen. >> with each successive detonation and missile test north korea pushes northeast asia and the world closer to instability and broader conflict. and it is likely only a matter of time before north korea develops the capability to strike the u.s. mainland. >> joining us now john finer, former chief of staff for secretary john kerry, former fbi agent, great to have you both here. the question as we hit day 100, what is the trump administration foreign policy, quote/unquote

doctrine or operating ideology, whatever you want to call it. i'll start with you, naveed, when i'm speaking to those at conferences in europe or africa, that's the question they're asking. they don't know what that is right now. but if you had to put it into a sentence, what would it be? >> well, that's a great one. it seems to be twitter diplomacy. that's the catch phrase. the problem as you illustrated, richard, is not so much the lack of policy we have here, but the dangerous part is how our friends and our allies and adversaries alike interpret what that policy is. my goodness, every day i wake up and watch the news cycle trying to figure out what the -- it's not one story, it's ten. i can only imagine what someone in china or pyongyang or moscow who is an analyst looking at this trying to figure out what our policies -- >> or brussels or morocco or shanghai -- >> absolutely. >> keep on naming. john, get in on this. what's your one sentence? >> look, i think 100 days is frankly too soon. i'm not known as a big defender

of the trump administration approach to foreign policy, to put bumper sticker on their approach. i would settle for something much less than that, basic coherence about what their policy is toward any particular issue. whether or not you can stitch them all together into some sort of coherent doctrine. the real problem is you have as many policies as you have speakers among senior members of the administration. one day someone will go out and say x with regard to russia or north korea. the next day someone else will go out and contradict that completely. and then the president is totally unpredictable as you've indicated. i think the first order of business would be someone going out and laying out a speech that explains what the trump administration's approach is to some of these big issues and then the process of forming that speech can give everybody points they can use to talk about these issues going forward. but right now it's every man and woman for themselves. >> okay. we're going to get back to that in just a second, jon. toipt g i want to get to na veed,

looking at foreign policy day 100, sort of the unexpected, his meetings with shinzo abe, his meetings with xi jinping, those meetings were not expected to end necessarily with a positive, but from what we see right now the mood was good. so is this idea of his foreign policy approach unexpected is good? >> you can't be taken seriously by other states if you have to essentially do a complete 180 pivot. i mean, to come out and in the first days of his presidency to call taiwan and then -- look, grant it he may have started to formulate a policy, i have to say that the reaction of how he's handling north korea now by not threatening escalation and using rex tillerson to sort of saber rattle in the u.n. is probably the right one, but the bar has been set so low, richard, that i have to say that, you know, i don't understand what the trajectory is here. you're right, i think at the end

of the day what's going to happen is it's not so much about trump but it's other nations are going to look at us and say how do we formulate a plan to counter this, to get our interests pushed forward. and i think there's no coherent response to that. and that's really the miscalculation perhaps what is so dangerous. >> jon finer, last word to you on this. so it has been said by the trump administration what was done for the last couple decades as an example with north korea didn't work. so we got to shake this up and do something different. although people are not fully supporting what is next. is going it alone, which is basically this sort of nationalist policy that the united states would like to at this point from the administration's perspective undertake, is that good for international relations? because go it alone brings upon other go it alones. >> what's interesting about that critique that you just mentioned of the previous policy supposedly not working is that the trump administration really does seem to be building on the

policy approach the obama administration use toward the end of our time. we dramatically increased pressure on north korea through two u.n. security council resolutions and got china to support those resolutions. china which is the key to north korea's economy and to its limited connectivity to the rest of the world, that seems to be the approach the trump administration is continuing. where they have made a change is through dramatically escalating the rhetoric that they are using. and also with lack of kind of clarity as to whether they are, for example, open to negotiations. at one point they said no, now they're signaling maybe they are. it's not clear what north korea would have to do to get into those talks. >> right. >> the second thing i think is very important is they seem to be simultaneously putting pressure on our ally, south korea, as it is going through a presidential election next week. president trump signalled earlier, yesterday, the day before that they would look at undoing the free trade agreement that we have with south korea, that they would ask south korea to pay for $1 billion the missile defense system we were deploying. now does not seem to be the time

to ratchet up pressure. we should be working with south korea. >> jon, naveed, thank you for putting that together in a very short amount of time. hundreds of thousands of women descended on washington to protest donald trump's presiden presidency. next we're looking at whether it is prompting more women to run for office. and we're gathering in pennsylvania president trump about to talk about his 100 days in office. you don't let anything

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they said he invaded her space. i invaded her space. believe me, the last space that i want to invade is her space. when you looked at that horrible woman last night, you said i don't think so. i don't think so. such a nasty woman. >> and as you just saw, president donald trump does not shy away from voicing his opinion of women. his rhetoric has galvanized

women across the country, many expressing their interest now to run for office. some are even taking classes to launch their own campaigns. nbc's mariana otencio takes a look at this new march for office. >> reporter: they took to the streets, just one day after president trump's inauguration. hundreds of thousands in cities across the country marching for womens rights and to send a message they would be watching. >> we've seen in the first 100 days where he has really put at risk the values that we hold dear. >> reporter: business owner lindsey davis stover marched in washington, and with her daughters in virginia too. now she's running for congress. is there ever a good time to run for office? >> i think the best time is when you feel passionate. >> reporter: that passion now driving lindsey and other women to run for office for the first

time. >> with the women's march did is it organized us and activated all of us. >> what's your ideal of what a representative would be? >> reporter: this is emerge america, a monthly class where 25 first-time first-time democratic candidates, all women, are learning how to run a campaign. >> it's really important for you to get the speech down. >> reporter: on today's agenda? speech prep. >> my name is lindsey davis dover and i'm running for congress. >> reporter: where they give feedback. >> i kind of felt like you were giving a speech. >> you need to get people sooner. >> reporter: and just as important, expand their network. >> they are finding like-minded women they have never talked to brve. >> reporter: emerge america offers training in 18 states. they have seen an 87% increase in applicants since the election. >> if we can get them to run and give them the tools to run, they win just as often as men do. >> reporter: what challenges are as unique to you as women who want to run? >> we kind of get mixed messages

a lot of the times as far as us communicating. so be authoritative but also approachable. be soft but also be strong. >> asking for money and being able to get out there and connect with the voter, that was really scary for me. >> reporter: at a fund-raiser hosted for emerge, they learned to do just that. >> how nice to meet you. >> reporter: virginia state senator adam ebben said the new voices are welcome. >> we cannot reinvigorate the democratic party without them. >> reporter: these women say they are up for the challenge. >> i think this is an incredible moment in time for the party and for our country. and it is an incredible moment for women. >> thank you so much for that. now a live look, we take you, harrisburg, pennsylvania. president trump heading there for what he's calling a large rally tonight. we'll go there when we come back. ♪ you supported him through four years of undergrad... and medical school. it's no wonder he said,

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bee is kicking off the first not white house correspondents' dinner special. she aims to post the president while we still have one. joining me now from the dinner is digital reporter ali vitali. walk us through what you have seen so far. >> reporter: so that committee to protect journalists, samantha bee said at the end of the program, it raised almost $200,000 for the organization. that's really amazing when you consider the fact of what she told me before the show, which is that there is the trump angle to this, which we all know very well. but there's the journalism angle and the celebration of journalism. take a look at what she said to me before she went on stage inside. >> it's really mostly the journalism angle for us. we routinely dismantle trump on our show. we don't really feel the need to do that too much tonight. i mean, that's our show right now. but we do need to celebrate the journalists who make our show possible. >> reporter: so there was a celebration of journalists, but

there was also the classic trump rivering that samantha said her show is notorious for. one of the folks inside said there was a revival of will ferrell of the george w. bush take from, "how do you like me now"? he showed a painting that shows that he run out of orange and yellow in his palate. the full thing airs later tonight, but that's the vibe from what we saw from samantha bee and her guests on stage, richard. >> in 20 seconds, what does it look like in terms of the energy on the ground there? >> reporter: people inside were excited. talking to them on the red carpet, a lot of comedians and producers, people here for the comedic aspect, the political aspect and the celebration of journalism. even it was not the white house corp sporespondents dinner, it share the same mentality about it. >> ali, thank you. that's all for me.

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new flonase sensimist well, hello, everyone. welcome to our special coverage of president trump's 100th day in office. i'm chris jansing live in washington. we're following several major events across the country. this is a very busy saturday. any moment now, the president will board air force one heading to pennsylvania where he's expected to take executive action on this 100th day. we'll explain what that's all about and whether that will have any impact. meanwhile, a crush of supporters have been lining up all across the expo center in the state capital of harrisburg, pennsylvania, where the president will hold a campaign rally. touting all he said he's achieved so far. pennsylvania was key to winning the presidency. the