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find a middle ground between keeping disgruntled fans happy and respecting players' concerns about civil rights. as a sports icon's legacy is honored through today's athletes activist from a sports hero and a sports historian later on on that. but first, president trump's utter lack of shame when it comes to the black community was at its most palpable yesterday in jackson, mississippi, where he joined the state's governor for the opening of the museum of mississippi history and mississippi civil rights museum. not in attendance was an entire slate of civil rights icons and black public servants, united in their disgust that this president with his record on civil rights, policing, and the place of white nationalism in

america would detract from the ceremony with his presence, which drew protests and ultimately an accommodation from organizers. a separate private event for this president. >> the civil rights museum records the oppression, cruelty and injustice inflicted on the african-american community, the fight to end slavery, to break down jim crow, to end segregation, to gain the right to vote, and to achieve the sacred birth right of equality. that's big stuff, that's big stuff. those are very big phrases, very big words. >> joining me now from jackson, mississippi, is bobby moak, chairman of the mississippi democratic party and a former

mississippi state senator, and civil rights attorney judith brown, executive director of the project's national office. bobby, many of us, especially myself, have even before he was president come to terms with some of our disagreements with him in this area. but don't you think despite the boycott, despite the legitimate concerns, that the president missed an opportunity to really lay out that he does have a plan for civil rights and he does have a plan for advancement, even though many of us disagreed in the past with conservative and republican presidents, they at least had a plan. he didn't even try or attempt to do that yesterday, bobby.

>> well, reverend sharpton, first of all, good morning. but when you only spend about 15 minutes in this civil rights museum, which is really a testament to the movements in our state, when you've got 200 years of history there and you spend 15 minutes in the facility trying to view and speak to that 200 years and all of it involving civil rights, no. now that plan doesn't have to be laid out yesterday, it should have been laid out in the past, and part of the issues yesterday was because of the statements the president has made in the past during his campaign and while in the white house, and that's what you saw come to fruition yesterday because yesterday was a huge day, a huge day for a lot of people looking forward to the opening of this civil rights museum. and because of the invitation by the governor, it was tamped

down. so there were a lot of forces at work yesterday. >> so let's be clear so people around the country understand, the president was invited by the governor of mississippi. it was not like the civil rights leaders that invited him and then reneged. the governor invited him. he came in belatedly accepting the invitation and many of the civil rights leaders and elected officials, some of who are honored in the museum, said they would not stand on the platform or be part of a ceremony with him. >> and that's exactly right. and they were not going to subject themselves to a photo opportunity, which is basically what it turned out to be. when you're there for only a short time, you come in, you're out, but this is the first in the nation. you have mississippi --

mississipmi mississippi goodness who has put their tax dollars forward to build this beautiful monimeumen locals have put up their huge money, that was a huge step looked forward to by a lot of civil rights leaders and the public in general. and because of what has happened in the past, nobody wanted to disrespect this president, he's the president. this place is worthy of a presidential visit, just not yesterday in that particular venue at that time. >> judith, you and i have worked together in national civil rights for some time and one of the things that mississippi seriously is, i think, appropriately heralded for is the freedom summers, the fight

to vote, and of course when we saw voting rights people killed for coming down to mississippi to register blacks to vote in the early '60s, and for this president, who has advocated things that suppresses that vote, the advancement that you lead and others of us have fought vehemently to protect that vote, i think that crystallized what a lot of us are saying. some were killed for registering us to vote and you advocate policies that we feel return us to the days of voter suppression. >> that's right, rev. this is the ultimate in hypocrisy. for him to speak the name of medger evers who was slain because he tried to secure the right to vote for

african-americans in mississippi yet he set up -- this president set up a commission, an election commission that really only seeks to suppress the vote, to make it harder for people, for americans, for african-americans to vote, for him to appear at a museum, to even step foot in a civil rights museum when he is the person who touted the people who were tiki torch carrying white supremacists and called them very fine people, but also to have appointed jefferson beauregard sessions as the attorney general, a person who actually seeks to gut the civil rights division, which actually was an important division in protecting people in mississippi in the '60s from hate groups that he touted as the very finest groups shows the ultimate in hypocrisy. >> and attorney general sessions

has not only done that, one of the first acts that he did when he came in as attorney general is the justice department was suing the state of texas -- >> that's right. >> -- over voter i.d. laws based on discrimination. he withdrew the justice department as plaintiffs in the case. he's actively tried to roll back some of the things that the very justice department he was taking over was doing to keep in place some of the things that was fought for since i was a little boy and even before you were born. >> that's right. i mean in mississippi in particular, freedom summer was a time when people came from across the country, black and white students, to secure the right to vote. but here you have a justice department that flipped its role to actually be against voting rights. in fact in a case where a court had already decided that there

was intentional discrimination in texas, but this department of justice and this president stand on the other side of the civil rights legacy and he should not have stepped foot in that museum. >> and they have done it consistently. bobby, the politics of it, you're a state chair of the party in mississippi, but right across the border in alabama you have the senate race and the republican candidate, it was just brought out with a tape just days ago, when he was asked when was america great before, he said in the days of slavery, all of our families got together. yes, slavery was wrong or something to that effect, but we got along. how do you go to the state of florida, pensacola, 20 miles from the alabama border to do a campaign rally for a man who just made a statement about slavery in positive terms and then get up the next morning and go to the civil rights museum

and wonder why everybody is outraged about it? i mean he is actively endorsing someone who has taken this public position. he's endorsing him to go to the u.s. senate, aside from the other issues about whether or not he was a pedophile or other issues. >> yeah. you know, reverend sharpton, and judith, i hear you. i was able to spend a good bit of yesterday morning with folks who are actually in that museum, and because of the actions, the brave actions that they took during the '50s and during the '60s and spent some time with them. and that was a good opening day for me, if you will. but the president goes to pensacola the night before, then shows up here in mississippi, another 95 miles away from the border of alabama, and wants to push and has been very deep-throated about his support for candidate moore in alabama.

and for all the things for moore to say that are just completely opposite of what we were trying to bring together here in mississippi, you know, that issue was there, but my goodness, it's 2017. you can talk about it, but not in the way that this candidate moore is doing. that is -- my gosh, that is just unbelievable, reverend sharpton. >> what was amazing, judith, in slavery, blacks couldn't even have legal families. it was against the law for us to marry, it was against the law for us to name our children. it was inaccurate and insulting. >> right. >> but at the same time, i'm out of time, but judith, i think that when we look at this and this president are saying fine people on both sides when you see a young white female killed like the female that was killed in mississippi, that we all talk

about so often out of the days of the '50s and '60s, and for this man to stand there, who has in these times talked about fine people on the other side that marched with torches talking about jews and that led to a death, it is just the worst of situations in our realtime of now. but i thank you, bobby moak, i thank you, judith, for being with me this morning. >> reverend sharpton, thank you so much. but yes, his statements of candidate moore are even unconscionable to be spoken. >> we'll talk about that up next, moving from mississippi to alabama where a heated senate race is getting national attention. my thoughts and what's happening on the ground 48 hours before the election. we'll be right back. copd makes it hard to breathe.

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we're just two days away until alabama votes for its next senator. rare is a race in the state that gets national attention, but republican nominee roy moore has changed that. he's been accused of sexual abuse with underage girls in his past. despite that, he's won the endorsement of president trump and is receiving campaign funding from the republican national committee.

against moore, democratic nominee doug jones, the strategy for jones, to get voters out in droves from predominantly black areas. but are they planning to show up? joining me now is nbc's alex seitz-wald, who just came back from alabama. alex, i am talking to people i've known on the ground for a couple of decades. my father's famili-- mother's f is from alabama. i'm not high in the enthusiasm level in black counties in alabama. what's going on down there? >> you hear a lot of that and a lot of concerns among democrats that african-americans are not aware or excited about this race as much as they would want them to be. this is the key demographic group for democrats in alabama. they really need super high turnout from african-americans. there's a couple of things that are not working as well as they

should be for doug jones. one is he's not as well known, he hasn't run statewide. this is his first campaign for public office. he's really leaning on his former work prosecuting kkk members in the church bombing years after the fact. that got him some attention in birmingham but not so much statewide. but he's also made a couple of mistakes i think in his appeal to those voters. in particular there was one mailer that said what if roy moore was a black man with accusations against him, would anyone want him to run for the senate? i think that backfired. the root called it racist. there's a wider sense for years that people feel like their votes have been taken for granted, they haven't been given a seat at the table and that's all coming together. at the same time there's a lot of antipathy for roy moore and president trump and that might save doug jones in the end with african-americans. >> i hear on the republican side people saying things like roy

moore may not speak to my morals, but he speaks to my interests. is any of that being said on the black community side? i'm talking now about the african-american democratic voters, saying, well, i don't like being taken for granted, and many of us feel that's the way we've been taken, but my interest is at stake because roy moore has said that he's embraced this whole idea that in slavery we all got along even though slavery may have been wrong, we were all family, and so many other things that could be absolutely considered as not in the interest of the average african-american? >> absolutely. and everyone that i talked to is aware of roy moore, has negative feelings about roy moore. very few african-americans expected to vote for roy moore. i do think it's a bit of a parallel where you might get some people who kind of reluctantly go out and vote because they think doug jones

has their interest at heart or might be more enthusiasm for it. but because the big question is turnout, this is going to be a low turnout race, 13 days before christmas, they really need supercharged turnout among african-americans and that's why the enthusiasm piece really matters. >> now, when you look at what's at stake, and i don't know that a lot of this has been communicated on the ground in alabama, i'm getting varying reports on it. when you look, though, at what is at stake, if roy moore is the senator, it preserves the slight edge in the senate majority of the republican party, which deals with the tax plan, which deals with rolling back the affordable care act, known as obamacare, which confirms federal judges, when you see what's at stake in terms of what the senate will do and that one vote which will keep them with a razor-thin majority or that one vote that could go the other way

which could add to a lot of blocking of what they could do to judges all the way to the affordable care act, i think if that was communicated, that might energize a lot of voters to understand this is about as serious as it can get in terms of everything that dr. king fought for all the way to what barack obama was able to get done. >> right. but the issue is that doug jones at the same time is trying to appeal to african-american democrats where that message would really appeal, but he's also trying to appeal to white ri republicans who are turned off by roy moore. so he's distancing himself from the national party and not trying to emphasize those stakes because there's a lot of republicans who don't like roy moore because of these allegations and even before that, but they want conservative judges, they want the tax plan through. >> let me stop you right there because i'm out of time, but let me say this. i'm told with polls that 50 something -- over 50% of white

women say they still are going to vote for roy moore despite these allegations, despite he was banned from his own local mall because he was known to be running around chasing young girls. yet the polls say the majority of white women in the state is still going to vote for him. >> well, actually that sounds like a high number but if that ends up being the turnout on tuesday, that could work for jones. republicans typically get more like 80% or 70% of white women, so he'll need a lot of those voters at the same time that he's trying to turn out african-americans. >> well, thank you, nbc's alex seitz-wald. up next, a court case that highlights why justice for all is an expectation and not an aberration.

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second-degree murder and obstruction of justice in the shooting death of walter scott in april of 2015. he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, an outlier for a judicial system that has time and again seen police officers exonerated in cases of alleged police misconduct. while i'm heartened by the verdict, i cannot bring myself to rejoice as fully as some cynics and critics to expect, critics and cynics who will cup tend that we in the social justice community should look at the verdict as evidence that the system works if given time. but for the mother of tamir rice or the father of michael brown, a friend of sandra bland and eric garner's family, time is all they have.

if it ever brings them to any comfort at all. and just as the sense of one or even a dozen workplace predators does not equate to true justice for working women, the rightful conviction of michael slager is far from full vindication for people of color, and we've seen this week white americans who have been slain by police under dubious circumstances. perhaps it's worth to note that slager pled guilty. before his sentencing said, quote, i wish i could go back in time and change the events. but i can't. i'm standing before the scott family and the court and taking responsibility. and when walter scott's mother, judy, looked directly at slager from the stand saying that she forgave him for the murder of her son, mr. slager cried.

while i will never excuse the actions that put officer slager in this position, as a minister i can respect the contrition that he has shown. as i said before, what we saw this week was an aberration and one that is not likely to be repeated under the umbrella of the trump/sessions justice department, one that has all but killed top down efforts to reform police practices, but it is these conditions that inequality of outcomes for people of color under the law, that prompted nfl players, that prompted continued protests and other actions to stand up, even by taking a knee, sparking a national conversation that needs to be had and had and had until justice for all is expectation and not an aberration.

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in april of 1967, muhammed ali at his physical and professional peaks refused sk d induction into the united states army and, thus, service in the vietnam war. in his religious and political beliefs he was arrested and sentenced to five years in

prison, though he would remain free while appealing his conviction. thrown out four years later. but in that time he was stripped of his heavyweight title, barred from boxing, and faced with j. edgar hoover's justice department. ali's defiance has been embraced by contemporary america, but it made him a pariah to the mainstream of his era. fast forward half a century and the nfl is currently struggling to placate its most white conservative fan base while protecting the rights of its mostly black players from a very similar rhetorical attack to the one that ali faced, one that is all but deference to american institution. even as the current administration attacks athletes that speak out and dismantles what was an already fragile

progress to reform law enforcement's approach to communities of color, one that all too often ends in the police violence, protested by the nfl players and others in the first place. earlier this week sports illustrated presented the muhammed ali award to colin kaepernick for drawing attention to these issues. but as with ali's legacy, i and others question whether his message has already lost on a business eager to get back to business as usual. joining me now is bill roy, writer for espn's "the undefeated" and jack brewer, former nfl player and ceo of the brewer group. let me start with you, bill. as one that has been out there raising a lot of these issues, you know, eric garner now and

all the way back to ferguson, i was heartened to see what kaepernick and others did bring a new spotlight. but has that now been lost? we are now hearing that the owners are talking about giving millions of dollars to players to set up social justice. what will that do about the issues of police -- what does that have to do with law enforcement and the issues of trying to straighten out the criminal justice system? is this just a distraction and a payoff? >> well, it's hush money. a, i'm happy that colin is being recognized. >> colin i think is great. >> that's a good thing. >> i think he's done a good service. >> it's a good message to young people, just like ali, you will be recognized for standing up. however, you're absolutely right. remember, he didn't kneel to get $100 million from the nfl. >> it was the deal with the garner case, the tamir rice

case. so money in athletes foundations doesn't answer that. when ali fought, ali went to the supreme court and affirmed the right to have your religious views respected with war. we aren't dealing with law, we're dealing with donations here. >> and what they got is barely a percent of what the nfl is actually worth. but listen, okay, good, so you get some money. everybody goes to the beach. but you're absolutely right, i think the thing of protest has been lost. in other words, it's kind of been muted. and the question is, okay, what's next, where do we go? and the problem is that the nfl players association, which was complicit and invisible in this, i think demaurice smith should be really called to task, it was his responsibility and the association to put a philosophical backbone and spine behind this movement and give it some definition.

>> did demaurice smith reach out to the victims, the people that they were supposed to be kneeling for, deal with the people that were fighting the issues? i know i haven't spoken with them but maybe it was others. did they use this to go and deal with some ways of getting donations to try to quiet down what colin and others did and not really deal with the issue, the fundamental issue? >> they should not have. they did not aggressively pursue kaepernick and those people, who continue to kneel. there's still some players who are continuing to kneel. and that's not important -- >> and jack, the problem, let me bring you into this. jack, the problem is still there. it's not like we've resolved the issue. it's not the supreme court did with ali saying, yes, they have a right to respect their religion. it's not that these courts have said, yes, we've got to deal with the police issues that they were dealing for in the first place. this is not a sitcom here, this is real life.

>> yes, it is. and, rev, you make some incredible points. you know, we've talked about this before. we need to find some focus here. you know, i applaud the league for trying to make an effort, but at the same time it's not really their responsibility to put real policy and put real focus on these conversations. but, you know, as for the players, i get asked questions all the time. where does sports and politics -- where does that come together? and i happen to believe that we need to as professional athletes use our platform not just to advocate for things but also find some solutions. you know, we're educated men. i have two master's degrees. there's a lot of guys in the national football league who are very educated. we could actually go to congress and talk about policy, right. >> that's right. >> we can get behind some of these and really put some definition behind what we're talking about, and that's where we have to get to. you're right, giving money to foundations, and i'm a huge

philanthropist, i love to do charity work, but at the end of the day it's about solutions and we've got to help find some. >> and i think, bill, here again is where i look at the players association. where is this being directed? fine, if they want to donate to foundations, are those foundations going to fight for criminal justice reform? are those foundations going to be on the ground dealing with the issues? or is this just hush money, and is it to just say, all right, colin, who had his day, move on. and the victims and the victims in the future are left on the sidelines here, which to me would be the most egregious thing that could happen. >> kaepernick did not kneel to get $100 million, okay? and this money that was given to the players association, i think when malcolm's group took it, he said, okay, we're done. we're done protesting. and so kind of mission accomplished. and just one last thing -- >> but it wasn't their mission.

>> nfl's mission accomplished. that's exactly right. >> what about the mission of those that were in the forefront and involved in the movement that kaepernick and others came and highlighted. they didn't start that movement. this movement has been going on for a long time. they highlighted that movement. how does then the nfl owners and the players association become the solvers of something they weren't even involved in? >> it's almost a sort of complicity. the thing is, what this whole thing is, activism is important. you talked about roy moore. trust me, if the university of alabama football players, which is the most important entity in that state, predominantly black players, if those guys were suddenly to come out and tell the voters to register and to go against roy moore, trust me, that thing would turn on a dime. >> jack, i hear you saying yes, because when you get in states like alabama, they have more political influence than most.

i'm talking about the players. >> and unfortunately that's where we're the most quiet and we need to speak up right now. there's a lot of issues we're facing as a people and you're 100% right. you want to really make some change and effectuate change. when you have a disgusting person like roy moore who is allowed to run for congress, you know, and i'll say this. anybody who sat back and watched that sean hannity interview, a lot of people probably haven't, go back and watch the sean hannity interview and you will hear how disgusting this man is. it should have sent the entire state of alabama in an uproar, particularly the athletes. and i hope they're listening to this, because we do have real issues and there's times that our voices can really be heard. that's at the ballot box. we've got to start voting. and, you know, we can continue to hoop and holler whenever things happen to black men in our country, but unless we're willing to get involved in a political system and start

understand a political system, we're just screaming out to unheard ears, unfortunately. >> thank you so much, bill rhoden and jack brewer for being with me this morning. up next, big promises from republican lawmakers as they control the fate of the tax bill. but will that really help you in the end? be right back. ♪ eras. they're defined by accomplishments. by victories. by those with the resourcefulness, the ingenuity, and the grit to help ensure the next energy to power our dreams, will be american energy.

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just moments ago, president trump tweeted this. getting closer and closer on the tax cut bill. shaping up even better than projected. house and senate working very hard and smart. end result will be not only important, but special. the essence of the unified republican vision gives corporations a massive tax break and caps and ends various individual deductions in exchange. but what does all that mean for your pocketbook? well, when i want to know something about real economics, i go to the economic expert, julie ann malvo. she is the president emeritus of

bennett college. dr. malvo, to the average person watching, what does this tax bill really mean? >> it a word it means they're going to be screwed. there's a much more academic word i could use but i think people could understand. if you make less than $25,000, in the first five years you might see a $300 a year break but then that's going to go away. the evil in this tax bill is that the corporate cuts of permanent, but the individual cuts are temporary. >> so the corporate cuts are permanent and the corporate cuts are a lot more than $300. >> oh, yeah. >> it's from 39% down to -- >> 20%. and there's a little 2% last week, 45 said i don't care if it goes up to 22 which caused republicans to start fighting because their commitment was to take it down to 20. they say they want it to be the same as it is in other countries but with all the loopholes, the

effective rate is 20%. >> so you get a 19% drop in percentage, which is billions upon billions of dollars from corporations, and the middle class gets $300 that gets eaten up with health costs? >> under $25,000. if you make around $75,000 a year, get about $2,000 in the short run. if you make 150 or so you'll get about $4,000, but that's going to go away. if you look at the size of this thing, it's $1.5 trillion roughly. $1 trillion goes to the corporations and another 100 million is going for -- or 100 billion is going for the -- to get rid of the estate tax, automatic minimum. and then the other $300 billion -- so less than a third of it is going to the other people. >> so $1.2 trillion goes to corporations? >> and the wealthy, absolutely. >> now when we look at the fact that they also announced saying that they're going to put the

affordable care act into this bill, what happens there? >> if they eliminate the individual mandate, it means that costs for everybody else will go up. young people, people who are relatively healthy will say, i don't need health insurance. but they will need it eventually. and the way that the insurance system works, you're in a pool. so you have the old, unhealthy people, young healthy people. it averages out. basically this is another way for them to get at the affordable care act, which they've been trying to do since the beginning. this is one where susan collins may hold out. >> the senator. >> senator from maine. she's been very flexible. she played ball with her party so far but she may hold out on this. the other thing that some senators and congresspeople, regardless of party, are likely to hold out on is the state and local taxes. because if you live in a city like new york, you're talking about -- >> or california or new jersey. >> exactly. you have very high local taxes. it used to be deductible. now it isn't.

so that's what -- >> under this law you cannot deduct the state tax in those big states, which happen to be blue states. >> exactly. so, you know, i mean, there's so many things -- when 45 was elected, he said he was going to simplify the tax code. i don't know if you recall the news conference he held where he held up a postcard and said you could fill out your tax return with a postcard. there's so many gifts for the wealthy. 529 tax deductible college fund now they're opening up so you can use that money not just for college but for private schools. who is that? that's the wealthy, who don't need that deduction anyway. corporations are awash in cash right now. wealthy are clearly getting richer. yet we're giving them all these breaks with the odd theory if you give corporations breaks they will invest more and hire people. they're actually also giving them an investment break. you can write off investments in

kim right away. usually you have to depreciate it over a period of time. and a break for repatriation. if you have a factory in ireland, you bring it back to the united states, you get a tax break. that would seem like a good thing. guess what they're going to do with it. buy back their stock. they're not planning to use it to hire people but buy back their stock. >> nowhere in history have we seen trickle down since we first heard about it with reagan. >> it does not work. >> it doesn't work for the average person. maybe that's why they tolerated such bizarre behavior from this president because he's altering the tax structure and tilting it for the rich. >> absolutely. the average person if they see something, they'll see it, reverend, in four, five years. after those five years are up or those seven years, they're not going to see it. there are so many loopholes in here for the wealthy that it's really just disgusting. >> dr. malveaux, thank you for clearing that up. dr. julianne malveaux.

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as i thought about the state of civil rights as the mississippi civil rights museum was opened yesterday and the controversy around president trump being there, thought about how we just saw this weekend another videotape of a policeman shooting a man at point blank

with his hands up, according to what the tape shows. thought about what we saw when we saw the verdict this week and the sentencing of slagel, who had been taped shooting walt er scott in north charleston, south carolina. i remember going to north charleston that weekend. we had a vigil at the scene of where slagel had actually shot scott down. all the ministers and even the mayor came to join me at the site. and i called the local minister to pray and lead the prayer. his name was reverend clementa. a few weeks later i got a call that he had been killed in his church with eight of his parishioners in bible class, the man who prayed at the scott scene became the central figure in the charleston nine massacre.

the struggle continues. you make one step forward, they push two back but you've got to keep going. whether it's for rights for women, rights for lgbtq, whether it's rights for blacks. whatever it is, you can't stop. what gives us the strength, i remember at reverend pigmy's funeral, president barack obama broke out singing "amazing grace." members of civil rights and those of us still on the scene, that's what we really believe, that grace will bring us home. and sometimes in the middle of having to depend on grace, you might feel lonely. you might feel awkward. but history says you have to keep going. you can't give up. you depend on that grace. not regular grace, but amazing grace. that does it for me.

thanks for watching. i'll see you back here next sunday. let's send it over to alex witt. alex? >> can i say amen to what you just said? that was great. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good to see you always. >> you, too, my friend. thank you so much. good to see all of you. good morning at that. i'm alex witt here at msnbc headquarters in new york. it's just about 9:00 a.m. in the east, 6:00 a.m. out west. here is what's happening. down to the wire, a new poll suggesting the alabama senate race say toss-up. whether one side might have an edge because of last-minute moves. >> that's big stuff. very big phrases, very big words. >> museum fallout, how the president's remarks at the civil rights museum are playing and whether there are any important takeaways. a day in the life. new report on president trump's oval office routine. insider's spill what the president's day is like and apparent addiction to a diet soda. republicans insist