when you talk about black lives matter, the role of protest to consolidate the power of black america to preserve civil rights but also so that we have space to show how varied we are and monolithic we are not. >> in terms of organizing, one thing i find fascinating about black lives matter is in some ways you have different economic classes to protect, for so long the first right is protection of one's life. in the history of american politics has also been a bad some level seemingly secured and the fight gets brought to other rights. for me, one of the lessons moving forward is black political organizing, a number of different issues, can't just be focused on voting and education, the hope that everything else will follow this is focusing directly on economic concerns, not specifically on issues of criminal injustice of the 60s and 70s. once the workplace was open african-american fall into that. that did not necessarily happen has to be a movement in which we focus on immigration and religion and in terms of especially we think of religion there is a segment of black muslims that h

i wanted to see what this very experienced black america has with politics going forward. that is what i was spent by year at new america looking into. we have got a great panel here today. first, we have got dr. kenisha university, aard professor of political science there. she is a graduate of florida a hbcu, and she earned a degree in public participation, where she explored the great migration on the politics of america. and next to her have dr. megan francis, a political scientist and now professor at the university of washington. and she specializes in the study of american politics, race, and constitutional law. she is the author of civil rights, the making of the modern american state, which you altered by when the -- you all should buy when the panel is over. thes a campaign for anti-lynching legislation and state sanctioned violence and how successful the activism was that the naacp employed. booy,hen we have got jamal a correspondent for cbs news and a brighter on politics here in the country. his work has appeared in "the new yorker", "the washington other publi

and i wonder where you think there is opportunity in the trump administration for black america? you talk about inner cities, infrastructure program. are there any lights in the trump tunnel for black americans? ted: i think just. [laughter] jamelle: the inner-city thing. he talked so much that one gets the impression he did not realize that black people do not only live in the inner cities. but his focus on the inner-city reveals may be opportunity, maybe ways you can leverage a housing and urban development, which has taken a role in the black apartment in the administration. and urban development, getting more community funds. which is really basic. it is similar to under the nixon administration, there was lobbying of these departments for funds for development and so forth. but there are limits of it, because his perception of black america seems to be actually pretty racist and shaped by that racism. and so when he talks about black communities, he is not only talking about inner cities, he says we need to bring in the feds to cities like chicago to deal with crime. his imag

i'm out of time, but i just want you to quickly assess, what are the challenges for black history right now in america made tremendous progress, and i want us all to hold on to that and be reminded in we just had a black president for the last eight years, so i think we are still postured in a place of hope and opportunity. if we look around us, we see so many african-americans as still first but as leaders in our businesses, our communities and driving our economy in multiple ways and education, et cetera. so i want us to be reminded that we are still making black history, but we continue to drive ourselves forward and we have momentum. >> yep. >> and that history is threatened if we don't stay focused on what gave us the ability to make those historic leaps forward. they did not happen by themselves. thank you, james peterson and asia moody mills. >> thanks, rev. >> thanks, rev. >>> up next, for my final thoughts, another history lesson. stay with us. ♪ don't just eat. ♪ mangia! bertolli. they all...want...to... how charge me.xes going? have you tried credit karma? does credit karma do taxes now? ye

not just inner city black america, by the way. are african-americans who live in the suburbs all across this country and many african-americans, a substantial number live in rural america. there's a whole host of issues we would like to discuss with him. our broken criminal justice system and need to reform it. we incarcerate more people in america than any other country in the world. that's shameful. we want to create an economy that works for communities all across this country regardless of race. we've got to fix the voting rights act. these are issues that have been put on the table. hopefully, he now realizes that entertainers and actors like steve harvey and others aren't the ones who speak for black america. there are actually 49 members of congss inheousend in the sena who are african-american, who are looking forward to improving things for the communities we represent. >> what do you make of him asking april ryan to set up that meeting? >> it was very strange but he's done a lot of strange things over the last 28 days. ho

respectful of african-americans in general but there was ground swell of resentment about a black man in charge. if white america can't love and appreciate barack obama there's not a black man created they'll be attracted to. as affable and genial as one can imagine and despite very low toned in dealings with white america failed to tell them the truth and hold them accountable for the vicious consequences of -- i doesn't inspect him to stand up with a black power sign but deploy the bully pulpit to be as truthful to white folk as black folk. >> farparis what would you say, part of president's counsel now, invited into the room. what do you say? tell him he's sometimes tone deaf and like steve bannon said maybe he should listen a little bit instead of doing all the talking. >> title of this meeting was a listening session. that's what he was doing. what's he's done multiple times throughout the campaign. what i told him specifically today, i said mr. president you have the opportunity to go down as one of the greatest presidents of the united states, especially as it relates to african-american community and fra

and until donald trump, there's no republican but has said we need a new deal for black america.we need a new deal for the inner-city. i actually had proposed to the bush administration in 2000 what you need to do is have a 100 billion-dollar voucher program for the inner-city kids and the democrats democrats will lie through their teeth and destroy the public school. they are not teaching these kids. how dare you. you are running the schools, it is a jobs program for the adults, for the teaching unions which is a slush fund, the heart and soul of the democratic party, teaching unions. at the expense of the kids. and i submitted this proposal and the bush administration didn't buy it. i said the tuition has to be equal in to what they get in the public school. republicans have this idea you do a voucher program and let's look at what they did for dc, $1,500 so the parent to raise the rest of it. the kids who qualify, not only does the school failing to teach them, but it's dangerous because republicans think they are dealing on the other side with rational people, with democrats

april ryan, one of the only reporters t asking questions pertaining to policy when it comes to black americang able to ask follow-up questions during a press briefing. she quipped she should be allowed to because it's black history month. but they see their voices being marginalized. one listener saying there's a sense that the president and his advisers are tone deaf when it comes to black america. >> that's april ryan in the green jacket. she recently had a fall-out with omagh rosea and they used to be good friends. >> there was an argument between the two women, steps away from sean spicer's office. mana gal has accused ryan of accepting money from the clinton campaign to garner favorable coverage during the race for the white house. ryan is denying any wrongdoing. she's a dossier on her and other black journalists and she's out to smear her reputation. there's also word some of the heated exchange was recorded and shared with some journalists and april ryan cmaintains part of i may have been edited. i spoke with the former publisher of usa today, and he tells me it's notable we haven't s

suggest that i'm not hopeful to the cause of liberal america and therefore i'm not hopeful to black america because they see those as one in the same. pages i brought some of the pages of the tests and the comments i get from twitter send an uncle tim's got. it is in firs isn't first off, t fertilizer. my chief of staff the only african-american chief of staff in the united states out of 100 is the chie chief of staff for e republicans. the second african-american chief of staff in the senate is the chief of staff of thef republicans. and yet they say it's the implication that she is not black enough.ed go on to read from folks that wanted to share their opinions about jeff sessions is a disgrace to the black race. anthony burn says you and uncle tom scott, mr. sessions, how did he turn on his own.f senator tim scott is not an uncle tom. he also writes a black man who's a racist, think for your selves. i left out all the ones that use appr the n-word. i felt like that would not be appropriate. but i'm surprised by is the liberal left that speaks and desires for all of us to be tolerant do n

trump says i want to do a new deal for black america. any seasonallible person who is part of the same american community, harvey says, okay, i want to see if you will put your money where your mouth is. want to test you. so i'm being to go to trump tower and meet with you. and then this moron calls him a mediocre negro for that. how racist is that? incredibly effective. normal people who have normal jobs and normal networks of people where people have different views and some of them will react violently to -- when you ring the right bell, are cautious and political correctness is a way of shutting them up and making them powerless. and the biggest thing conservatives have to do is to stop fearing being called racist or islamophobe or deplorable. i have so many people on my twitter feed who call themselves deplorable jane or tom. fear. got to get over the fear. begin to take the hits. >> we'll get two very quick questions and -- >> very quick questions. we have a room here and i think we're all mad. we have had enough of this. what do w

turn 0 to your neighbor and i -- light versus dark is being in black america. you happen to have two yellow negroes, one good looking, the other another guy. and so the light versus dark -- my daddy was blue black. saw how negroes lookedded a him and how he was judge it. some ape and that's among black people. don't let your children play too long in the sun, they might get darker, or don't let your dark skin child mary another dark skinned person because at the time the i deal with the class simple and homophobia, percolating forms of bigotry and tribalism that narrates themselves the heart of our own self-consciousness and i want to grapple with that as well but the end of the day i am about trying to tell white brothers and sisters this is what i think the deal is, what i think you need do, and i think i'm trying to answer at long last the question that the young white woman asked mall -- malcolm x with a good heart asked, what can i do and mallcome x said, nothing, turned around. sometimes you feel like that. they kind of day. youary lead are, you're black,

reporter: so he and two of his colleagues brought 50 photographers together to take a snap shot of black america, for one simple reason. >> we have a responsibility to argue our case. for black people. and the best way to argue that case for black people, for us is through our art and through our oumeras. >> reporter: the collection was sitled songs of my people and contained 200 portraits of life- and-death, struggle and success, even sacrifice like in this one taken by cheers. >> what did that picture say to you. >> i saw in that old lady, i saw my grandmother. you know, how in a larger sense, black folk, you know, don't turn away anybody, from the table. you know, you bring home johnny from down the street, grandma will feed that child even if grandma will go hungry. >> and grandma will feed that cat. >> and grandma will feed that cat. >> the book fed the imagination of cheers then 12 year old eaughter imani. >> an image of three doctors, three black women in their scrubs just posing. wey were so cough dent and so powerful and that right there is, sky's the limit. you can do anything. >> repo

common, "black america again." and it was just -- you'll be like, "wow."ay, it's probably fun, you know, hanging out with me -- [ light laughter ] >> yeah. >> jimmy: 'cause you know, because, we're on -- you know, we're kind of label mates. kind of, and you know we're on the same -- we're on the hamilton mix tape together. >> oh, so we're label mates, right? yeah. >> jimmy: you didn't know that? >> yeah. >> jimmy: yeah we -- did you know that? >> yeah, no, i did know. i did know. i did -- >> jimmy: did you know i love that? >> i was just trying to, play you like a new emcee and play you like i didn't know you was on the album. but -- >> jimmy: i did. but look i was a cool -- i kept my cool the whole time. >> i know you kept it. >> jimmy: yeah, like a new emcee. yeah. >> you did a good job. >> jimmy: i tried, man. >> you did a great job. >> jimmy: how cool is that we're on that? i mean the "hamilton" -- it's just that's a kind of -- >> man, i love -- i love "hamilton." and then to get to do it with the roots is like, for me, i was like, yes. like -- it was

almost as unfortunate as the history of black america. what were we talking about? laughter ] "i am very proud now that we have a museum on the national mall, where people can learn about reverend king." and he's back to black history. soan "frederick douglass is a example of somebody who's done an amazing job, and is being recognized more and more i noticed." [ light laughter ] now here we learn, he likes frederick douglass so much that he thinks he's still alive. [ laughter ] i think that's great. "harriet tubman, rosa parks, and millions more black americans, who made america what it is today. and paris." now, i don't know who paris is, but here he starts talking about someone named paris. "has done an amazing job in a very hostile cnn community. he's all by himself, you'll have seven people and paris. [ light laughter ] and i'll take paris over the seven --" dwarves? [ light laughter ] "but i don't watch cnn, so i don't get to see you as much as i used to. i don't like watching fake news, but fox has treated me very nice. wherever fox is, thank you." he's talking

this is not the prime thing that black america needs dealt with. need the war on drugs dealt with. we need policing violence dealt with. he's dealing with some black people and one half of 1%. some black people are killing others in chicago. no recognition that the murder rate in chicago is about half of what it was 20 years ago. that's a massive success story in terms of the long history of chicago. all we hear about is our criminality, our problematic nature for the nation. does america first include me? >> bruce, your response to that? >> youow, like you said beforefo a president to come out and be so profound on the inauguration speech -- >> you're not answering what was said. >> excuse me? >> we only have a limited amount of time. if you're going to give a speech, i need you to answer what he just said. >> the president made it very clear about the money he wants to put in the communities. >> how much money is that? >> we've only been two weeks. the president is two weeks into his presidency and moved mountains. >> what mountains has he moved?

i wanted to combine that with what i knew to be the ability of the black pull pet to speak directly to white america. >> martin luther king jr., i wanted to harkin back to what dr. king was doing, and dig deep into black rhetoric and say, this is what we want to give you, i'm a scholar, i got a ph.d. but i wanted to go back -- old people said i had my burnin' before i had my learnin'. how do we give an adequate picture. i knew that preaching was the basis of it. paul tillic said, i reserve one arrogance, when it comes to theology, germans have it. when it comes to preachin', we killing that name. you all do something else, do scooby doo or something, we're killing the american preaching. >> yet there's a fine line -- you don't want to be guilty of preaching in a way where you misconnect humanity. >> exactly. >> how do you get to the humanity, which is the only part of them you touch. >> that's a brilliant point, tavis. there are at least two different traditions. absolutist, thundering down from the pulpit or getting down on the ground with the people. sing from the gaze of god. we're down here on t

but you'll also find stories of the hidden history of black america. who are often forgotten-- like blind tom wiggins. as travell eiland reports-- tom was a black, blind, slave and musical prodigy who astounded white america with his classical piano abilities. natsthe melody may seem simplistic... but the story behind the composer is anything but. 158 tom wiggins born in 1856 in columbus georgia --thomas green wiggins was slave... born blind with mental challenges. 300he might the world came to know him as blind tom. 207 he composed nats at the age of 3, while playing in the slave master's house.... tom found a piano and played his piece.by 5 tom was preforming for audiences around the world. 827 travell: white people were in awe of his talent?the musical prodigy was an apt title for what he could do.... he could play two melodies at one time.1857 imagine seeing that on stage you can see why the audience was astounded. tom's most famous piece was the battle of manassas.natstom heard his slave owner's son describe the confederate victory at bull run and

the new deal for black america represents the sold trickle down assumptions that didn't work for themunity. charles: what did obama do? young people struggling to get jobs, common core that hurts our community. what did obama do from an economic stand point to benefit the community? charles: there are many in the democratic party who don't want to see these meetings happen. whether it's back-handed invitation or not, i want to see the unleashing of the american spirit that president trump talked about in south carolina pitch want every american to feel like they are part of that. some of these sold school civil rights leaders are the walls between feeling that way and being out ther >> yre talking about the polled guard driving to stay relevant. when you are talking about people affected by a broken criminal justice system. i think we are open the new ideas. especially the when it comes to young people interested in business and entrepreneurship. let's get the regulations out of the way and the rules that make it harder for to you start your own businesses. they are open to hearing t

and it's very exciting, i'm hopeful and i'll tell you from a black america perspective for the firstut doing things in the black community. >> reporter: clearly, a lot of enthusiasm here. right out of the gate, they say it's controversy at cpac. the invitation to conservative out spoken blogger milo was yanked because of an old video. ap pedophilia. a lot of participants say they agree with cancelling that invitation and they want to get on with the business of hand and reforming this conservative party around the trump white house. we're live at national harbor, tom fitzgerald fox 5 local news. >>> from the republicans to the democrat governor of virginia terry mcauliffe talked about a lot of issues during ask the governor session and one of the big items on the agenda federal immigration enforcement. we talked to the governor about the recent murder of a teen girl body found in fairfax county. that's where a group of suspected gang members were arrested. ice confirmed they had detainers out. the question for the governor, could increased immigration enforcement have prevent that da

jackie robinson came to town for a gala event the other day, right, the black press is covering black america. again, because main stream newspapers are not doing this work. with the advent of migration, with more african-americans leaving the south and coming to the north, you see an increased coverage. we see a massive increase in circulation. so black newspapers go from a circulation of about 300,000 copies in the 1920's to over 1.8 million in 1945. 1.8 million in 1945. and so what we see is that the papers are reflecting the attitudes of the readers. black folk are clearly fed up with the double standard of discrimination. this is becoming blazingly evident. again, as we fight a war for democracy, right? we can already see, we can already see, in terms of thinking about the contradictions and tensions inherent in this moment, in this time. so p.b. young the editor of the norfolk journal and guide out of norfolk, virginia, one of the larger african-american newspapers, speaks from the heart when he sees in his paper, he is addressing this to white liberals who are very concerned about all

he is used to being called unhelpful to black america. >> greg: this is nothing new. if you stray from the left-wing plantation, a black freethinker will be vilified. nothing scares a left-winger more than a black conservative. that shakes the foundation of the whole identity coalition they got going. if the black coalition leaves, what happens to the rest? will they follow suit? the democratic party, the progressive party right now are white social justice elitists. they are pampered, petulant, and pasty. >> kimberly: and not nice to dr. ben carson or cornel west. >> bob: this is twitter we are talking about. this is small stuff. there are some passionate people on this issue, including me, about sessions. i think it's not surprising he would get that. he didn't read probably the hundreds he got which were favorable. number one, number two i think my guy -- he is sitting there complaining about this. what does he expect in a high-voltage situation? jeff sessions. and also he says it represents the left. it does not represent the left. those people who sent >> kimberly

if you want to talk about black america and where we are in our challenges, wouldn't you engage in that dialogue so that you not unilaterally just by the advice of one or two people who are african-american, you would truly engage yourself and that's why when he had that conversation was so inappropriate at the press conference. >> you're talking about the conversation with april ryan? >> yes. >> let's play that conversation, april ryan -- >> are you going to conclude the congressional black caucus and the -- >> i would. i tell you what, do you want to set up the meeting? >> do you want to set up the meeting? we'll just let that go for a second. congresswoman, you talk about 49 members representing 80 million people. do you not do those 80 million people a disservice by hanging on to your objection to steve bannon and others in the administration who have documented examples of things that would not seem to be in the service of african-americans but you got the president and the president seemed to be moved at his visit to the museum today so maybe he'll be moved by meeting with you. >>

. >> trump last week had his roundtable sort of with black america to mark black history month, and liberalsy critical of some of the things he said, but also in talking to black republicans, they were also critical as well in terms of the people he is surrounding himself with. they look at people like amarosa, who is in his -- on his staff, people like ben carson, and they don't see many black republican establishment types. they do see white establishment types who have been welcomed into the white house. people like reince. they don't see a lot of those same type of people in terms of black republicans. i think in looking in the coming weeks for black republicans to make a little bit of noise in terms of wanting to have real sort of establishment black republicans who are steeped in policy to have a voice in this white house because so far they don't really see it that. >> still a lot of vacancies. >> one of the most interesting things is establishment versus nationalist. reince priebus versus steven bannon. i have i could approximate up over the weekend a little bit of unease among some

she and other listeners say there are concerns over policies with black america, and they aren't going to be going away anytime soon. they have some fundamental issues with mr. trump. >> it was his persona before the the white house. you can't stand outside my door and call me all kinds of names and then expect me to invite you in. it doesn't work that way. if he knew something about the community instead of thinking every black community, we have drug dealers standing on the corner, and it's ridden with crime, and welfare mothers and welfare fathers. he doesn't know us. >> troy, just last week on this newscast, we talked about the dust-up between april ryan and omarosa manigault, one of president trump's aides. they're both african-american. and the very next day we saw the tense exchange between ryan and the president at the white house when she asked if he would meet with the congressional black caucus and he asked her to set up the meeting. >> there are people engaged with what's happening with the trump administration, many watching e the events on social media. and the press conf

honorable cedric richmond, for his continued leadership of our caucus and on issues impacting black america and minority communities across this nation. mr. speaker, black history month is a time to reflect on notable african-american icons, their achievements as a people and our continued struggle for a more perfect union. not only does it serve as a source of great pride and an anchor to the african-american descendants and the african-american community, but it's also a vehicle to educate the masses on the totality of the black experience throughout the history of this nation. as we gather this evening to celebrate the life legacy and a-- the life, legacy, and achievement of african descendants, it's important to tell the journey told and the same resilient spirit in our continued push for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. the congressional black caucus is a body of 49 members in both houses of congress representing millions of african-americans and other minority and majority people across this country. we're alarmed by the recent actions of this administration and the threat

the impact the picture that was , painted for me in black america was that the cops were bad. so i grew up as a kid not liking the police. but i didn't have to worry too much about that, because i had an engaged dad on a two parent family. my dad was real big on discipline. and when you get my book, i relate a story in there about my first exposure to the police. i was with a couple of buddies and mine hanging outside my house. my dad didn't let hang out on the street corners are down the street. he wanted my rear end at home. he said you can invite your friends over to hang out here. he wanted to keep an eye on me. i had an engaged dad. and squad car drives by. stick up the black power symbol, right? i was about 12, 13 years old, a punk kid, right? the car stops. i didn't expect that. [laughter] and backs up and the cop says can i help you? my dad was at home at the time, summer day when the doors are open. he comes outside, he walks up to the squad car and says officer, that's my son. and he said i thought he was flagging us down, he had his hand up. my dad said to the cop,

the stories that are cherry -- in some wise it is donald trump's vision of black america. you have nothing to loose, every shooting people day, families are broken, all of the immigrants who come to the country are rapists and immigrants. that idea tears at the fabric of the country. how are you supposed to hear that message about communities that you do not live near, then say, yes i think those kids should have health care subsidies. i think we should raise all of our taxes so that college is debt-free for those community college students. it is a very slippery slope from a stereotype that is at an individual basis to tearing apart the sense of who we all are as americans. it comes back and affects white people too. host: going back to the video from our call in show, it was 8 million at one point. you know what the number is now? heather: it was 8 million before the new york times got there. i am sure it is much more now. host: what has happened to you as a result of this? rough fall.was a i was in north carolina meeting with gary the week before the election. personall

he did that through his wonderful book "the brief, violent history of america's most repressive era." "thunder at the gates: the black civil war regiments that redeemed america." and edna green medford, executive member of the lincoln forum, chairman of the department and professor of history at howard university. co-author of "abraham lincoln and the emancipation proclamation reviews." so, before i ask each of them to make remarks, i have asked each to speak for three to five minutes and then i will give them some questions. then we will open the floor for you. we hope there are many questions. but for many americans, reconstruction is still remembered if it is remembered at all as a period of racial anarchy, political failure and humiliation of the defeated south. it is probably there to say american's impressions of the era have been shaped, if only have consciously, by films such as "birth of a nation" and "gone with the wind," with their caricatures of yankee carpetbaggers and scalawags more than bite details knowledge of what happened in the south between 1865 and 1876 and the years that followed. it is sometim

black press. this is the headline, negro college youth to boost first moviegoer into over --moongoer i orbit. in achievement for african americans as a whole, the space program was america's single accomplishment at this time, and this showed that the black community was going to help get america to the moon. -- this wasst the the new york times. it called the young men social pioneers. it also said that nasa was having trouble recruiting african-american engineers, and the experience of the co-op students had in alabama demonstrates why that was the case. tommy , frank williams, george boorda and morgan watson did in the book we talk with george boorda and with morgan watson. the co-op's experience demonstrated the problems. when they got to alabama, no one would rent them a hotel room, morgan wallace said all the guys went to a rate -- concert date -- ray charles concert. down one aisle and blacks on the other. he said the same thing happened at the muhammad ali sonny liston fight. a rope right down the middle of the field with blacks on one side and whites on the other. nasa inter at huntsville got the young men homes in the black community in huntsville, and that is w

hbcus have been there for us to make a middle class in black america. it's a big component of making a middle class and the cbc is very concerned about that as well as other issues and i kind of folded everything all into one. >> sure. and, april, how many years have you been covering the white house? roughly? >> 20. >> 20 years, okay. >> four presidents, yes. >> we found out this whole press conference was called when president trump walked into the oval office and told a member of his senior staff essentially today is the day, i want to hold this press conference. it was sort of hastily put together. >> yes. >> have you ever seen anything like this in your 20 years? >> never. >> what was it like being in the room? >> well, first of all, you know, sometimes there are times when they put something together when there is -- that hidden variable, that variable that comes out of nowhere. and they'll put something together and people assemble before a formal -- this was a formal press conference in the east room of the white house. we were told they had 45

i was just telling some friends at dinner the other day, this new deal for black america, i'm going tom accountable. i need to see results. i'm not talking about omarosa or all the other strategists, i need to see him in the community making a concerted effort to improve jobs, to improve the broken education system and to make lives better for black folks. and what is best for black folks is what's best for all americans. so that is what i'm specifically looking for from the president. i won't be carrying his water. i will celebrate him when he does the right things, but when he's not doing the right thing, i will hold him accountable. >> and that is a campaign promise that he made and also villified certain communities, more urban communities, because of violence and distress. my hometown of baltimore was one of the communities that he brought up a lot on the campaign trail and since he's taken office. so what's your timeline look like for results? >> i need to see something happening within the next two to three months. i'm not expecting it to be a miracle in my community, but i knee

and he does not really represent the black people of america.e represents more the white people of america. anybody have representing us and we are taxpayers so i am disappointed in the cabinet not be more different races like chinese, mexican and making it look more like america. i am hoping things work out and we are not in a war seeing our young people get killed for nothing. thanks. host: david talked about north , the and general mathis defense secretary traveling to south korea and onto tokyo. that's general james mattis in korea yesterday. kelly is in rome, georgia, on the republican line. what is your confidence in donald trump and his team? caller: yes, sir. thank you for taking my call. one of the things that i have in the past eight years ,hen barack obama was president - about hisd anything policies or anything, he would , he would call a big it. now whoave a president is trying to do the right thing for the right people. most is thate the the liberals and the -- ressives and everything different, you can do everything different but

how much better did black america's lives get for the last eight years? it did not.better did our public schools get? they did not. so i would say while there are things there are things donald trump should not have said, yes, but look at what has been done -- >> i think that's a different kind of prejudice. >> i don't want to relitigate the campaign. >> now you don't, and i do. >> what i do want to say is racism, sexism, classless and by other definition, alex is the contestaon of someone's humanity and there are a whole lot of americans who felt that during the campaign and are feeling it right now with the way we're normalizing this nonsensical issue. >> there is a lot of pressure on the democrats. >> if it were a muslim ban he would have banned saudi arabia and indonesia. these are unstable governments and we don't know who is coming from these places. >> i'll pause quickly and sneak in a commercial break and we'll continue the conversation. endgame, we are trying to get to the endgame of our conversation, the endgame of our conversation, but we may go an extram

how much better did black america lives get under the last eight years? did it not.tter did our public schools get? they did not. are there things donald trump should not have said, yes. but look at what has been done to this country in action and i think that's a different kind of prejudice. >> i don't want to relitigate the campaign. >> but i do. >> i don't want to take chuck too far field, but i want to say that racism, sexism and classism, there are a whole lot of americans who felt that during the campaign and with the way we're normal liedsing this behavior. >> no. if this had been a muslim ban he would have banned saudi arabia. these are unstable governments that we can't work with. >> let me pause this, sneak in a commercial break. end game, we are trying to get at the end game of our conversation. we may go an extra hour, but you won't. we'll be right back. i'll never find a safe used car. start at the new carfax.com show me minivans with no reported accidents. boom. love it. [struggles] show me the carfax. start your used car search at the all-new carfax.co

there's that expression if america gets a cold, black america gets the flu.the economic downturn is being felt here, the housing crisis is still being felt here. these communities haven't climbed out of it the way we think the rest of the country has. >> how do we begin to address that or climb out of it? >> people say these communities have to lift themselves up. i guarantee there are block clubs all around here and people are doing individual things but these are larger structural issues. how do you recruit businesses and do neighborhood improvement plans? that's when city officials, state, federal, all these different layers to come in and help. >> chris, so often headlines are dominated by gun violence but one thing natalie talked about and so many people i've talked to before say the violence is spread beyond gu. poverty is violence. [ applause ] hunger is real violence. the trauma folks are seeing inside the home but the repeated exposure to violence in the streets, people are wound up and traumatized and that is violence but we don't address that viole