so i just think, and again, bakari, my friend bakari is playing the game here on changing the subject't say that president trump was dr. king. what i said their strategy was the same. that's a different thing. strategy can be about anything. >> jeffery, i'm not playing a game. i'm not using a race card. excuse me. i'm a black american citizen who stands on the shoulders of people like dr. martin luther king jr. and the fact is -- >> i agree. >> and the fact is from february 1, 1960, when the students at north carolina decided they were going to sit in and they started something amazing with the sit-in movement to ella baker and samuel hamlin and all the many heroes and sheros that we lost along the way on this struggle, the fact that you want to compare donald trump, who was trying to find -- to meet some political promise. >> i didn't do that, bakari. >> to meet some political promise is astounding and even more astoundingly absurd. the fact is this, jeffery. in our political discourse, we have to remove these hitler and nazi comparisons. donald trump is not martin luther king jr. we

. >> bakari, does it make sense to you?no, it doesn't make sense to me, donald trump has ushered in this culture of anti-intellectualism and ignorance, i think the argument is disingenuous at best. donald trump is trying to bring democrats to the table to gut a piece of legislation which has insured many and saved lives. if he is successful, people will die in rural hospitals like the one i used to represent will close. dr. king, his end game was to get america to confront its racist past and give black citizens equality under the law. you cannot compare the two or juxtapose the two. i have a sincere problem with this because people often think in our political discourse, somehow ignorance can be cavalier. my father marched with dr. king, many were beaten and killed so i could sit here on this set today. the fact somebody who can make the comparison, even somebody a friend of mine shows just how low our political discourse has sunken. >> jeff, i know you isolate that line from his writing, the crisis it seemed to me, existe

. >> bakari said they can only go up to a certain number. they didn't even go up to the number. if they know that is a problem, then you go to congress and you raise a number. no one is congress is going to say no. >> with this video, i just have to say i know the police are brought onto do a certain job and the airlines got them involved, but imagine if that a family member being yanked off that plane. >> i agree. >> i would be so passed off. all right, we've got a lot more to talk about. >>> donald trump famously squuered president obama for playing golf, but since becoming president he's spent plenty of time playing himself. back with me now, my panel. you guys are going to love to talk about this. >> there's goes the bipartisan agreement. >> yeah, let's talk about what's looking more and more like president trump's routine here. we crunched the numbers and found the president has spent six weekends and a total of 21 days at mar-a-lago. the total cost of those trips $21.6 million. i'm going to check those numbers, but i think it's like 13 times he's been to the golf course --

what about you, bakari, as far as missteps from the president? what's the biggest one?> well, i think the largest one, the one that is the most glaring over his administration, is probably the hiring and subsequent firing of michael flynn. there is is a la lot there to c. don't know what it is. it goes to abby's point of the white house not having a structure in place to do simple things like vet. i think right now, there are a number of things we can go down. right now today one of the hottest things in america in terms of missteps, the michael flynn rabbit hole, where does it go? >> what about you, maria? >> to that point, his lack of wanting to provide -- be more open on the russia investigation issue because that really gives everybody the sense that here is something to hide. that's on the russia thing which i think will be a huge issue that we'll be dealing with for months on end. but i think broadly, he had a great chance, ana, to reach out to those people who did not support him. he gave one speech which was the night that he won, that could have been seen as a

you know, he may or may not have things he is selling, what bakari sellers was talking about, but he to sell it from the white house or mar-a-lago. >> i think that's right. a big part of it is the lack of legislative agenda, but the other part is a president who's trying to do this, to try to sell himself and his policies and ideas through twitter, through television, through social media, rather than some of the more traditional mechanisms. and we don't know, the verdict's out if that will work, but i think he's very invested in continuing some of what he did in the campaign as a mode of governance. >> john? >> i keep looking down at the picture there. not taking my eyes off all of you. i'm just trying to see if we can get a sense of what the president is doing. alice, you can jump in on that, but i also wanted to ask you about the other major political event, besides the easter egg roll on the south lawn of the white house house, happening early this week, the special election to fill the seat of tom price, the secretary of human services. you are from there, you know this is a rac

. >> i'm wondering, bakari, north korea's promise of a merciless response. is this president trump's biggest foreign policy challenge? >> if you look during the transition process when barack obama and donald trump were having these conversations, the 44th president of the united states told donald trump that the greatest threat he would have to facehe foreign policy arena was a nuclear north korea. the a.p. came out with an amazing article today about any actions we may have. we're not going to respond to military force unless north korea strikes any of our allies throughout the country. if it's just a missile test, then we'll just fall back. but what we're doing right now, what president trump is doing is playing a very dangerous game of chicken. not just in syria, but in afghanistan and north korea. our footprint is expanding in a very war wary country. and many people are fixated on -- >> we're still looking at live pictures, at these festives that are happening in pyongyang and again, this is extremely rare for this to be happening, for will to do a liv

bakari, xwgary cohn, we don't kw his party affiliation, but does it give you comfort to have him close>> as a democrat, gary is as close as you'll get. to being in donald trump's inner circle, all of these people who come in and then are just shown the door, we see steve bannon with one foot in, one foot out. the only people who stay in his inner circle are his children, that is it. that's really no loyalty within this donald trump inner circle. but i do love the fact that donald trump is a part of one of the largest cons this country has ever seen in him becoming the president of the united states, got someone from goldman sachs to sell populism to the american people and talk about cutting taxes for middle class worker that. is phenomenal. but gary cohn has one problem, they just had a jobs report that had 94,000 jobs. those numbers are small, bigtime. >> what's interesting about gary cohn, he's a late comer. he wasn't with the campaign as long as many of his closest advisers. how did he jump to the front of the pack? >> part is that donald trump started off trying to be a nationalis

. >> bakari, i know you're not a fan of steve bannon. you made that very clear. if that is what is happening jared kushner more and more power who is 37 years old and had success in the private sector, but no government experience is the right move? >> well, personally, i don't think that ivanka, jared or steve bannon have the experience and make the decisions that they're making. with that being said, if i am going to have to choose world views one over the other, i think anyone who doesn't want to see the destruction "of the deep state." whatever that may mean and wants us to be a leader in the world, would pick jared kushner over steve bannon any day of the week. his history of breitbart and comments that have been made lend me and others to believe that he has no place in the white house. not in this administration or any other. >> this is still someone who has the president's ear and see where this all lands. great to be with you. >> thank you. >>> over the weekend, more bloodshed in syria. the very same sight of that deadly chemical weapons attack last week

. >> bakari and sit mother salennena and you give some reckless kpards. >> it is not reckless. >> good night. >> you should not judged by the color of your skin but by the content. >> we're done. we're done. test test. >>> the biggest non-nuclear weapon in the american arsenal deployed for the first time. now we're learning how many isis soldiers were killed live in the middle east. >> and conversations picked up between trump and russian associates also picked up overseas, who picked up on them and how did they stumble on them. i'm chris tetine romans and i'm dave briggs. >> the damage assessments are coming in after the militar