invisible on the skin. it works like a dream. why didn't someone think of this sooner? >> good evening and welcome to politics nation. tonight's lead. the bully pulpit.

tonight, the new trump administration is reveling in its bare knuckle approach to governing. just hours ago, president trump riled up the crowd at the conservative political action conference in washington. the right wing event has been a celebration of the cruelest qualities of trump 2.0, including mass firings and deportations, plus unrelenting demonization of immigrants, transgender americans and anyone who would dare to embrace the values of diversity, equity and inclusion. but while the strong arm tactics may excite the maga faithful, who have the time and money to travel to d.c. for a political pep rally, they are getting a chillier reception out in everyday america. even lawmakers in republican

districts are now getting an earful from constituents waking up to the fact that they may not be able to rely on this white house to competently provide the government services needed to keep this country running. the question is how americans will respond to a new administration that's leading with a closed fist. when they voted for a helping hand. joining me now to start us off is congressman eric swalwell, democrat of california. thanks for joining us, congressman. as we mentioned, as we mentioned, president trump spoke at cpac just just about an hour or so ago. i want to play you a little bit of what he had to say. take a listen. >> just stick together for because what we've done has never been done before. nobody's ever seen anything like this. and nobody's ever seen four

weeks like we've had. especially the four weeks. the first four weeks. you know, that's like, if you golf when you sink that first four footer in the first hole, it gives you a confidence on the next hole, you sink another one. >> your response? are you feeling confident, congressman? >> let me use a golf analogy that the president will understand. he's the duke of hazards. he can't shoot straight on the golf course and he can't shoot straight with america. he's a hazard to our health, as he puts it, an anti-vaxxer to get rid of and gut the cdc. as measles rages across texas, he's a hazard for air safety as we have airline crashes in america and he's firing people at the faa. he's a hazard for public safety as he fires fbi agents and take people off the watch for terrorism. he is a hazard for people in california who have suffered through fires and live in fire zones. as he gets

rid of firefighters, as we continue to have unseasonable winds. this guy is an absolute hazard. i haven't seen anyone who has benefited from this first four weeks. >> now you talk about firing. we learned last night the president has fired joint chiefs of staff, chairman of cq brown junior, the highest ranking military officer. he is just the second african american to serve in that position, after colin powell, a defense secretary. pete hegseth said before his nomination he would fire general brown for being too woke. do you have any confidence at all that this decision is being made for readiness reasons, rather than just pure political ideology? >> let's be real. donald trump fired this general because he's black. that's it. he said, and his defense secretary said that

they did not support any dei efforts in the pentagon. that had only the second time in the history of our country, an african american, african american, chairman of the joint chiefs. and that's why he was fired. and he fired the head of the navy because she's a woman. that's it. you don't have to look any further with these guys. this is who they are. and that's why every american should be concerned. they are both impeccably qualified. and they were fired because of the color of their skin and the gender to which they were born. >> now, trump's new fbi director was sworn in yesterday. one of his first acts was to move thousands of agents to a field offices and a campus in huntsville, alabama, relocating fbi agents isn't unprecedented, but it's also unclear what this administration is hoping to accomplish with the move. you've been a critic of patel. what

should americans be watching for in the early days of his tenure? >> we're not safe with kash patel. he has absolutely zero experience to lead this job. he also is presiding over an fbi where before he took office, he was helping clear out and fire agents who were responsible for fighting terrorism, fighting public corruption, fighting money laundering, fighting child sex trafficking. and so we've put in somebody who's unqualified. his only qualification is that he has promised to go after donald trump's enemies. i know a thing or two about that, because this guy wrote a book declaring who the enemies are of the government, and he made a list of 100 people. and on top of that list, he put me and adam schiff. so that's who this guy is, if you want to know a thing or two about him. but it's not about me. it's not about anyone else on this list. it's about whether americans are going to be safe with someone unqualified who is out for vengeance.

>> now, patel has been criticized for his relationship to january 6th. he even listed he. he was even listed as a producer for the song released by the so-called j six choir. yesterday s proud boy leader enrique tarrio was arrested on assault charges outside of the us capitol just weeks after being granted clemency from president trump, along with more than 1500 other january 6th rioters. other j. six participants have been in court arguing their presidential pardons should also apply to other all crimes, including a murder plot, gun violations, and even possession of child pornography. have these pardons already aged badly for trump, who ran claiming to be the candidate of law and order? >> the leader of the proud boys

has no business being out of jail. i was at the capitol yesterday and i saw the pain on the faces of the capitol police officers, who had to again stand guard at the capitol and protect the public as hundreds of proud boys showed up, people who had violently rioted on january 6th, who had gone away for very long sentences. tarrio, as you referenced, he was sentenced to 22 years, and now he's out running free. as these officers, they'll never get back what they lost. many of them died in the days after january 6th. one lost an eye, one lost a finger, and many of them still suffer from sd. but what worries me now is that with 1600 individuals out in the community, many of them who committed violent acts on behalf of donald trump is that they are going to re-offend. they have essentially been told that as long as you commit crimes in the nature of in the spirit, for someone you politically support, you're

going to be okay. and so it shouldn't shock us that a couple of weeks ago, one of these guys who was released tried to pull a gun on a cop because he thought he was invincible because he had been given a free permission slip to commit crimes. so we're not safe with these individuals out and about in our communities. >> finally, congressman, before i let you go, i want to take your take on the mayor eric adams situation in new york. a federal judge yesterday indefinitely adjourned the mayor's corruption trial while ordering an independent attorney to put together an argument against the trump justice department's motion to dismiss the case. now, new york's governor has said she'll place guardrails on adams while this process plays out because of concerns the white house is placing undue pressure on on the mayor to cooperate with their agenda of mass deportation and other issues. are you confident this mayor can continue to

perform his duties independently and impartially, in the manner that new yorkers expected when they elected him to office? >> no. this mayor is completely compromised. he has no business being the mayor of new york, one of the greatest cities in america. they deserve a leader who is not compromised. but rev, when i watched on television, the immigration czar sitting next to the mayor on fox and friends and basically dangling over his head his prison sentence and said that if the mayor doesn't do what trump wants him to do, the mayor knows essentially what's going to happen. that type of corruption is something you usually see on russian television, not american television. and what we're seeing now is donald trump is just nakedly corrupt, and he feels like he's not accountable at all. and to your viewers, i say we can still hold him accountable. we can continue to go to the courts. we've got a fight coming up in a couple of

weeks in congress for government funding and public sentiment, and going to the streets and using your right to free speech and to peacefully dissent. that still means something in america. and we cannot shrink in this moment when we need more courage. >> well, i've been involved in some of the conversations around this, who i've known the mayor for years, and i do feel that the president has been disingenuous and put a leash on his neck and the neck of the people in the city, and i think that i'll talk about that later in the show. thank you for being with us. california congressman eric swalwell. swalwell, let's turn now to the budget where the republican senate passed this blueprint yesterday or three. $40 billion plan that includes money for the border, energy production and defense. president trump has voiced his support for the more aggressive house plan. a single bill that would also include a massive tax

cut for the wealthy and a lifting of the debt ceiling. joining me now is democratic pennsylvania congressman brendan boyle, ranking member of the house budget committee. congressman, what are you hearing from colleagues in the house about these negotiations? >> well, it does appear as if the house republican leadership, led by speaker johnson, will put their draconian budget plan on the house floor for a vote on tuesday. democrats, we have a real chance to block that proposal. after all, republicans can only lose one of their members to vote with us. if they lose more than one, then we'll be able to carry the day. and i hope and pray that we will be able to carry the day and stop this radical budget proposal, because what it does is it provides the biggest cuts to medicaid in american history in

order to partially pay for $4.5 trillion of tax cuts, almost all of which go to the richest 1% of americans. it is truly radical. >> now congress is facing a march 14th deadline to come up with a budget or face a shutdown. and past history suggests republicans will need democratic support if they cannot unite their own party around a plan. now, what will democrats want from the gop leadership to work with them? and are you optimistic republicans and trump can make a compromise and stick to it? >> there is nothing that has happened in the last month to in any way give me optimism or confidence that this is a president or administration that wants to work with democrats. look, i'll get questions from the media a lot about a potential government shutdown that ignores the fact that we are already in a partial

government shutdown every single day, almost at whim. you have elon musk and his dodge bros. going into agency after agency, just deciding they're going to shut it down. now, that's not the way our system of government works. we're supposed to have three co-equal branches of government. these are lawful appropriations. they are indeed laws that elon musk and donald trump are violating. so my approach to the march 14th deadline is we need to get the government shutdown addressed and fixed that were already in first and foremost. >> now, you just said it. before you even get to the budget, you have elon musk and the doge slashing a group of the federal government. they're slashing the government from within. gop lawmakers across the country have reportedly been getting backlash from their constituents on musk and his so-called

department of government efficiency. aggressive and swift efforts to make cuts within the federal government is what they claim they're doing. but one of those that are getting flak is congressman republican congressman rich mccormick, who faced an angry crowd on thursday during a town hall in his district over constituent concerns over his support for the massive federal layoffs and budget cuts. take a look at thi. >> the. >> budget. >> not the president. >> and you. >> are doing. >> us a. >> disservice to set that down and. >> not. >> stand up for us and show. >> that i. >> will be litigating. >> there you go. now here's your

now. >> be litigated. >> for you're. >> not going to stand up for you stand. ways. i thought we had, you know over. >> that this this comes as this week musk was touting a chainsaw on the cpac stage, alluding to his crusade through doge. do you think public opinion is turning against this administration's purge of the government? >> well, first, i am happy and heartened to see the dramatic rise in in citizens paying attention and speaking out and being outraged at what's going on. the record town hall attendance is pretty remarkable. i had an emergency town hall about a week and a half ago. we had the biggest attendance for a town hall that we've ever had. i will say, as someone who spent every single day campaigning in

my home state of pennsylvania, i really wish some of these folks had been more active. about 4 or 5 months ago, when i was trying to warn people what would happen if donald trump was elected, just how dangerous it would be. nonetheless, we're in the situation we are in now, and there's no question that people have a voice here that if enough people speak out and enough people are active and enough people are engaged and energized and showing up at town hall after town hall, i do believe we can sway a few republicans, frankly, out of their own fear for losing their reelection to join with us in order to stop some of the radical things that donald trump and elon musk are doing right now and get them reversed. >> congressman brendan boyle, thank you for being with us. coming up, president trump finally gets around to acknowledging black history month. but the celebration fell

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his administration's efforts to fire federal employees and making questionable claims about social security fraud. his appearance caps off four days of conservatives flaunting their most extreme positions. you had elon musk on stage waging, waving a chainsaw, and he said it symbolized cutting bureaucracy, while steve bannon was accused of making nazi salutes, which he denied, claiming he was doing the wave. joining me now is juanita tolliver, democratic strategist and host of what a day podcast, and susan del percio, republican strategist. they both they're both msnbc political analysts. susan, it seems republicans are leaning more into the more in your face aspects of trump 2.0.

are they courting a backlash? >> they're not going to catch a backlash. for a. little bit. >> i think. >> that people who voted for trump are happy with what they're seeing. it's what trump promised. it was the over the top rhetoric that he used, and now he's running government, frankly, over the top. so once these cuts start to hit home, like we saw in georgia with that representative who had a town hall meeting, whose district is in where the cdc is and people were getting cut. it starts to affect legislators. but at the same time, reverend, this is so important. a lot of members of congress are happy that they don't have to take the votes. they are happy to keep quiet because doge is doing the work for them, and they don't necessarily have to defend certain votes. i mean, policies in the president, maybe, but that that goes a long way with a lot of these representatives.

>> juanita, i want to get your take on a story that went under the radar this week. president trump shut down a database to track federal police conduct that he himself proposed after the murder of george floyd in 2020. experts say the database helped keep bad cops from jumping to new agencies with clean records. it was president biden that actually got the site up and running in late late 2023. but now the white house is killing it, claiming the database is too woke. what does this tell you about the difference between trump's first and second terms? >> honestly. >> i don't think. >> there's any. >> much bit of a. >> difference between his first and second terms. >> because even though. >> he said. >> okay, let's start this database, he didn't start it. and also the move. >> to eliminate this. >> nascent database, which has only been collecting. >> data for. >> about a year.

>> it shows. >> how far it aligns with how trump responds. >> to people. >> who do. >> commit acts of misconduct. >> or violence. think about how he still celebrating those january 6th. >> insurrection, even the ones with violent. actions and criminal like crimes. >> that they committed on. >> january 6th. >> and were found guilty of in court. >> and served time for. >> there were. >> all released. >> due to donald trump. >> he is the one. >> who got them back out on the streets. >> again. >> causing harm and. >> potentially threatening the lives of officials who. >> are. >> also on january 6th. >> so i think. >> it fully aligns. >> with his. >> his desire to eliminate transparency, to. >> to. >> disrupt peace. >> in public, because, like you said, the only people that benefited from this are the officers. who are found guilty of those types of misconduct, who try to jump from law enforcement agency to law enforcement agency. >> this does. >> nothing to protect the public. >> public service or the people. >> now, susan, that brings me to the indefinite adjournment of new york city's mayor eric adams

corruption trial. yesterday he, the judge, said an offer of game of thrones or thrones in new york state governor kathy hochul has decided to leave the mayor in office for now, but with guardrails to prevent him from working too closely with the trump administration. that currently still has the option of pursuing criminal charges against adams. governor hochul's decision came after close consultation with community leaders, including myself, in my capacity as head of national action network. and what i said to her was she should wait on the judge's decision. and i think that what and i've been a friend of the mayor for 35 years, but i am disturbed that the justice department left open the possibility of picking up the case after the charges were to be dropped whenever they want, by having the charges,

having the trial postponed without prejudice, which to me, if they sincerely felt the mayor was a political victim of joe biden or damian williams, the us attorney who is a capable us attorney, then why ain't he pardon him like he pardoned violent men who showed their violence on film? i'm not saying i'm not endorsing a pardon. i'm saying there's a hypocrisy there. what do you think are the what is your take on the latest developments and their implications for the upcoming mayor's race in new york? >> well, there are hypocrisies everywhere, reverend. i don't know if a pardon would be warranted because the mayor has not been taken through the judicial process. so it would have been for crimes that he may have committed within a certain window of him being mayor. maybe that could work, but i don't see it happening. and frankly, kathy hochul solution was trying to please everyone, which means no

one's happy with her. eric adams is going to run for, you know, continue his plans to run for mayor. i don't think he will become the democratic nominee. there has been talk and he has a few days left in this year or in this month for him to switch his party to become a republican. i don't see that happening either. then can he become an independent? not going to happen. so he is going to have to run. but he's he's never stronger than when he is in office. so i understand why he's not resigning, which would have been the right thing to do. but i think that the administration, the trump administration, its biggest fault, was dropping the case in the first place. i mean, to me, that's what we really have to keep our focus on is that donald trump, the president of the united states, directly meddled in in a d.o.j. case. he caused it to be dropped. that's not being independent. and now we know, and we have to keep an

eye on our eyes on him like a hawk, because this is the stuff donald trump thinks he could get away with. this is a big, big, big crack in the pillar of justice. >> well, anita, i want to finish on black history month. we talked about the white house reception in this week's gotcha. there were some who found it a little odd that golfer tiger woods played such a prominent role in trump's celebration, even though he hasn't had a lot to say about politics during his career. woods reportedly also attended a meeting hosted by the president earlier that day, bringing together players from the pga tour and the saudi-backed liv golf league. if trump can broker a deal between the two organizations, it could mean more tournaments for his own golf courses throughout the world. what does this tell you about the priorities of our commander in chief? >> that he's. using the white house and his position.

>> in the. >> oval office. >> to broker business. >> deals that. >> will further. >> line his pockets? >> that's what he's. >> been in the business of, from selling meme coins to bibles. right. like that's all. donald trump sees this as an opportunity to is for enriching himself. not the people, not the farmers who risk losing their farms because. >> he's. >> frozen federal funds, not the civil servants who are now without a job, even though they probably many for months. not not the individuals who are still struggling to pay for the cost of goods and groceries, as the cost of eggs and other things continue to increase. it's about enriching himself. so when i said earlier, there's not a bit of difference between trump term one and term two, it's because he's still using the white house and the oval office to enrich himself and his family. >> juanita tolliver and susan del percio, thank you both for being with us. coming up, we'll take a look at how trump's mass deportation plans are affecting

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cruelty of this migrant purge, we learned yesterday that the acting director of immigration and customs enforcement was removed as trump and his border czar, tom homan, have been fuming over deportation numbers that haven't kept pace with the administration's promises. as we near the end of black history month, tonight's politics nation civil rights summit tackles the input and the impact of trump's mass deportation. the face of which so far has been overwhelmingly black and brown. joining me now is a key tomatoes president of national immigration law center. and nana jomphe executive director of black alliance for just immigration. the acting director of ice last lasted barely a

month before he was removed by the administration yesterday, following both the president and the border czar, tom homan, complaining that the numbers of deportations haven't met those goals, their goals. those numbers have stalled since the first weeks of the crackdown. despite trump's pressure and the questions about the focus of moving from violent criminals to just anyone undocumented. we just heard from homan on this at today's cpac conference. listen. >> now we're getting a question. well, you said you're going to concentrate on public safety threats and national security threats, but you're resting on criminals. yeah, damn right we did. because we're in the country legally, which happens to be a violation of our law. entering this country illegally is a crime, and we're not going to forgive it. >> starting with you, kika, how far will the administration

expand this purge and get the results it wants? >> they are cruel. >> they are ambitious. >> they don't care. >> about our. >> constitution, and they are determined to try to. detain and deport as many. brown and black people as they possibly can. the challenge they're facing is that they clearly didn't know what they were getting themselves into, because they don't have the forces that they need in order to carry out this terrible crackdown. but the other piece of it, reverend, is that our communities are fighting back. we have been very doggedly and determinedly and in a very disciplined way, making sure that people know what their rights are. so this very same gentleman, homan, was running his mouth about a week or two ago because they were trying to carry out raids in chicago, and immigrants knew their rights.

and so he started grousing about how terrible it is that they can't carry out deportations, that they the way that they planned to. so do they want to and will they eventually get there? they are certainly determined to do that. they will do it by trampling on people's constitutional rights. but part of what we're seeing is the power of community. >> now, you remember that haitian refugees in the us were demonized by trump and vice president vance on the campaign trail. now, as many of us predicted, trump has canceled former president biden's extension of temporary protection status for more than 500,000 haitian refugees that have fled the ongoing turmoil in haiti. that extension runs out in august, and i just want to remind our viewers that trump was offered has offered refuge to white south africans and

annexation to predominantly white countries who refused his offer. nana, in that context, what do you make of this crackdown, which so far has primarily affected migrants of color? >> thank you. >> first of all, so much for having. >> us on the show and for. >> talking about this. >> particular issue. what we're. >> seeing with this. revocation of the extension of haitian tps is really part of a centuries old retaliation against haitians for daring to. >> be free. if you. >> look at the immigration policy in the united states, from the first people to have restrictions from coming into this country around the time of the civil war, when haiti was a free country, all the way to the detention in guantanamo bay, which i know, reverend, you know much about, as well as to what happened in del rio and what we see happening now, saying that people are eating the pets. all of that is all part of this demonization of black migrants

generally. but there's a particular hostility that they have for the haitian people. what people should remember is that we know black folks don't go quietly into that night. that's not how it works. this happened the first time around with the trump administration. he revoked the tps for haiti, sudan and several other countries, and we fought him in the courts and in the streets, in the legislative houses, wherever we saw people in power, we pushed against it, and we kept our people in this country till we could get re-designated again and new designations, in fact. and so we know this is part of their effort to have the racist, fascist future that they're looking for. and we are determined to fight them tooth and nail. >> now, nbc learned this week that the trump administration has deported all of the migrants that had been holding in guantanamo bay. immigrant rights groups have already sued the administration over guantanamo

demanding in-person access to detainees, and at least 72 hours of notice before migrants are flown into or out of the facility. the administration has countered that detainees can request phone visits with their lawyers, and that advance notice of deportation would violate the authority of homeland of the homeland security department. now, it's reported that the administration is accelerating its plan to detain migrants at a domestic military site. what's your reaction to? >> it's appalling. and we are one of the organizations, as well as many others, i'm sure, who will begin to litigate and sue this administration for using the military to engage in deportations. let's just be clear. this administration is the first administration ever to use military planes to deport

people. this administration is the first administration that has been so determined and stated that part of their plan is to use the military to engage in immigration enforcement. for folks who don't understand what this could lead to. let me just say that if we don't fight back and on the street and in the courts and like nana said in the legislative houses, it is entirely possible that a year from now there will be military tanks rolling up in our communities to take people away. so what we have seen with this administration is a complete disregard for the constitution in their efforts to carry out these plans. that should horrify any american who cares about our civil rights and about our constitution. >> nana, this week the president signed another executive order on immigration, this one

purporting to end federal benefits to undocumented migrants. of course, there really aren't many immediate benefits available to migrants other than an emergency medical care and a k through 12 public education for children. so what's the idea behind this eo in your view? >> it's the same idea, you know that that he's running again in this time of his being the commander in chief. and that is to try to be at to try to get people to want to leave. they know, actually, reverend, that they're not going to be able to deport all these people. they claim they're going to deport. they know that, right? they're trying to get as many people as possible to have such miserable lives that they're going to decide that, hey, i'm being hunted, i'm being denied, i'm out of here. and what they don't realize is that we understand how to work under these circumstances. right? it's like what? what is the saying that

when america gets a cold, black folks get the flu, right? so we know how it is when gardless of our citizenship or immigration status to have to do what needs to be done in order to stay where we are, we deserve the sweet life. that's what everyone deserves. and this oligarchy, these billionaires, these, you know, white male leaders that think they're going to run us over, that's not going to happen. >> all right. thank you to kiko matos and anna jomphe for being with us tonight. up next, a somber anniversary. my final somber anniversary. my final thoughts. stay with us. (♪♪) (phone dings) for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in adults, nurtec odt can provide relief in 2 hours which can last up to 2 days. (♪♪) don't take if allergic to nurtec odt. allergic reactions can occur even days after use, like trouble breathing and rash.

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