the guy asking that question polster frank luntz. frank is with us tonight. good evening.watch joe biden sworn in as the 46th president of the united states. so, what's going through their minds? >> they are afraid. in fact, they are petrified. they are nervous that the country won't be the same america that they remember. they are nervous that the social and the cultural aspects of the country are changing. it's not a financial concern it's a concern for the country. and they felt ignored and forgotten until donald trump got elected. now, you may not agree with everything they had to say but it is passionate. it is clear, it is concise. they are extremely articulate and i would suggest that they deserve to be heard. it's the fact that they weren't heard for so long that made them so angry. there are a couple more soundbites that i want to play for you one of them is in response to how people reacted when they saw the will some republicans voted for impeachment and they were not happy about it. let's listen. >> when trump needed them, where were they? they didn't stick up

howie: joining us now frank luntz, veteran republican pollster.behind the extraordinary revolution like trump supporters in focus group and how much of that reflects the attacks by the former president over 4 years on the media? frank: they simply don't believe they are getting the truth and they cannot distinguish from what former president trump says and what others say that in reality they're getting their news to affirm themselves rather than inform themselves and that's a problem. it's the responsibility of the news media to tell the truth to provide the fact and if you are going to give opinion, make it clear that that's exactly what it is. the problem with the trump people is they think that's all opinion. they think it's opinion from the left and they can't find any place to go that's going to validate them and what they believe. howie: but isn't also true that people on the liberal side of the spectrum try to seek out news that validate their opinions? >> here is the problem, we did a survey within the last ten days, msnbc, 95% of msnbc v

see to offset that would be cuts, cuts, cuts, to social programs >> and this morning as always, frank luntz us frank, walk us through that. you saw two people with two very different views of what should happen here? >> i had trouble sleeping last night. it was the most contentious group that i have done in a long long time. it was even more contentious than in the lead up to the election they don't see eye to eye. they don't find common ground. they actually seek to divide themselves so if somebody says something positive about corporations, the next person will say something negative if someone says we need to raise x, they'll argue that we need to cut y, and it's going to be very touch for the president and congress to find that middle ground because quite frankly, it doesn't exist. >> so when you think, though, about just the fight, let's just -- over taxes, for example, you don't think there was any middle ground there? >> you've got about a third of the country that wants to raise taxes on the wealthy, wants to institute a wealth tax you've got most people who want -- there is one com

thank you to frank luntz, politics and communications consultant. we are going to be checking in on the electoral college votes in the congress. - i'm doug hirsch. you may already know that goodrx can help you save up to 80% on your prescriptions. unfortunately, many americans can't get to a doctor right now. the good news is that for many health issues, you can see a doctor online. it's easy. just go to goodrx.com, and with a few clicks, you'll be treated by a licensed medical professional, all from the comfort of your own home. visits are confidential and affordable. need a prescription? your doctor can send it to your pharmacy or have it mailed to you. get the healthcare you deserve at goodrx.com. this is "balance of power ." proceedings have begun in the house chamber with the house and the senate present for the accounting and certification of the electoral college votes. to take us through what is going on, we welcome our chief washington correspondent. >> it has begun. if you are watching on television, you are seeing pictures of vice preside

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frank luntz is with us now, pollster. talking to this group. >> saying it's tough is an understatement. i reached the point that i don't want to do this anymore. that you can talk about unity and what joe biden said today in his inauguration address is very powerful. the young poet laureate, she was beautiful in her words, in her poetry. but this is not how the average american feels. you'll see in some of these clips, in fact you won't even see how bad it got. brett, i couldn't control them. they started yelling at each other. it would take me two minutes to say to them stop, to put my hand up to the camera like i did there, for them to get control of themselves. they don't want to hear it. they don't want to listen. they want you to hear what you have to say. i don't want to step over their words. let's play a couple more segments. i want to alert you and your viewers. it's awful. >> bret: it's rough. okay. don't give up, frank. we're with you here. this is a sound bite about the riots on capitol hill two weeks ago. >>

republican pollster frank luntz was at the capitol during the unrest. hejoins us now.really shocking, especially when we heard gunfire at some moments. what did you make of what you witnessed? it was an interesting challenge for me, i doa interesting challenge for me, i do a lot of work on fox news, and none of those people, even though i had a mask on this whole time, a number of people recognised me. and there were more than a few who wished i was not there and considered me a traitor because myjob is to tell it like it is. donald trump lost the election, he did not win it in a landslide. he continues to embarrass himself and embarrass the country, and someone and embarrass the country, and someone has to say this. so they wanted me nowhere near there. fortunately because i was wearing a mask, most people just ignored me, as they were ignoring each other, each person. i was surprised at the size, because the sides were so harsh and so ugly. and this is an example of what the million woman march had done the day after donald trump was inaugurated in 2017, and i was cr

we talked about the framing wars and frank luntz, for example, republicans have been more impactful on messaging. let's note very often when one side has a problem in politics, they think it's their message. it's not the dog food, it's the advertising. it's the dog food. if -- don't mistake the finger-pointing at the moon for the moon. white privilege sounds like language and they can explain it all they want but there is a lot of meaning behind that. the meaning is that your life is a privilege even though you are barely making ends meet. it's no accident that the opioid crisis -- it is no accident that the average working white man had the same income as at the rise of donald trump. that is a staggering fact. america, the tide stopped lifting all votes and what do americans get? they got credit cards. this is all happening in the 70's. these concerns about the wealth gap, they decimated blue-collar america. those factory towns withered for decades and who cares? the opioid crisis happened and who cares? who was fighting our wars? it was poor blacks, poor whites, poor hispanics. peopl

. >> when we return we've got frank luntz on georgia senate race what we can expect from the results>>> good morning future ticking lower and decision day georgia votes in two runoff elections to determine control of the u.s. senate and maybe joe biden's entire economic agenda and about face by the new york stock exchange now it won't delist three chinese telecom giants days after it is said it would. all the details as the final hour of "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ he's leaving ♪ leaving on that midnight train to energy ♪ ♪ leaving on the midnight train ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ said he's going back. >> that's one that can be played at the top of the show good morning and welcome to "squawk box" here an cnbc. watching these equity futures. saw yesterday up like 150 in the morning and then nothing but down we were up for most of this session partly maybe up 15, maybe 60, 50 around there and all of a sudden we were down about 70 or 80 its gotten back to about up changed but still a little in the red. lot going on obviously down in georgia. major part of it i don't know how you can necessarily tr

i sent you a text message the other night, nicolle, i know you'll remember of these frank luntz numbers he put out, this poll of trump voters. 78%, this is post coup attempt, 78% agree with trump's claims that the election was stolen. 61% said they, quote, will never again trust the results of our american elections. 64% agreed that, quote, the traditional american way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it. and when he asked these trump voters who was most responsible for what happened wednesday night, their list was antifa at 21%, democrats at 17%, and then trump supporters at 12%, news media at 11 and donald trump at 11. those are super discouraging numbers to put it mildly, right? this is the scope of the problem. it's tens of millions of republicans who have bought trump's big lie. and this is why i say it's not even trump and it's not just the congressmen. it's just this is a giant political/cultural divide in the country, and there are a lot of people on the right side, and i'm not saying there is no political violates on the left, but right now

>> i will say i think there is a message in framing, frank luntz, the messaging, let's also note that very often when one side has a problem in politics they think it is their message. the advertising is off. i will just -- if i could just jump in, don't mistake the finger-pointing at the moon for the moon, white privilege sounds like just language and they can explain it all they want but there's a lot of meaning behind that and the meaning is that your life is a privilege even though you're making ends meat. it is no accident the opioid crisis crafts on deindustrialization and no accident the average white male in america, average white man as the same income at the rise of donald trump, that is staggering facts. the tide stopped lifting all boats and what did americans get? they got credit cards. this is all happening in the 70s and these concerns about the wealth gap and so on decimated blue-collar america and those factory jobs withered for decades and who cares? the opioid crisis happened and who cares? who was fighting awards, poor blacks, poor whites, hispanics. the people who

joining us to walk us through all of this is frank luntz, he is the political strategist and pollster who we spoke to yesterday as well. and frank, a lot of the pre-decisions that you ma-- predictions are coming true. you said you thought we'd know maybe by today and as you predicted, the democrats having a bit of an edge here. how do you think the rest of this will play >> i think the way we talked about yesterday, that the democrats are going to take advantage of the disappointments of the republican party that donald trump lost the election, that the frustration that moderates and centrists have with trump not accepting his defeat and the feeling that it is time it move on time to move forward this is very costly loss for the gop. i think in the end that other senate seat will go democratic and what plays out today is that republicans yell and scream on the floor of the house with the senate just beside them and they yell and scream about the election results and the pin says you guys are sore losers. i don't understand -- now, there are some times when you put the constitution fir

brian: frank luntz did informal poll about trump voters.laims of it's a fraud and it's been stolen, how do you feel about the president? 90% still with the president. i think mitch mcconnell and jim jordan who gets it and others should realize you may not like the president. but his supporters do. if republicans want to see a brighter day maybe they could understand that there is a lot of great people supporting the president that are still in his corner. you might not believe it if you don't get out of washington. but they are still standing there many of which never thought about going to washington, d.c. let alone storming the capitol. steve: the real fallout the immediate fallout aside from some in the republican caucus causing for liz cheney to get booted from leadership and she said yesterday that's not going to happen. the real fallout is the fact that after that house vote last week on the day of the riots, so many republicans voted not to allow the certification of the electoral college vote. and then a bunch of fortune 500 compani

elite in media, to attempt to erase donald trump and his supporters yet, if you look at polling, frank luntzrters would vote for him again today, knowing what they know today. this is still a movement with serious strength who looks at the accusations being leveled against them as part of what the left wants to do to cancel them. my 10-year-old son looked at me, dad, you can't take the president of the united states off of twitter. how can you rationalize that? 10-year-olds understand that. leftists obsessed with power, they don't care. stuart: how did it happen that in america we allow a couple of multibillionaires to dictate what you and i are allowed to see and hear? how on earth did we get to a situation like this? >> it's a wonderful place, actually, for democrats on capitol hill to be. they can outsource their authoritarianism to corporations. they say, nothing we can do here. i'm sorry. there is a reason why president trump tried, tied section 230 to the ndaa. a lot of people didn't like that. he has been rebuilding our military. they said why would he do that? he understood the centr

joining us right now is frank luntz, of course he's a political pollster and strategist, and frank was with us just 24 hours ago, just over 24 hours ago, and warned us that the party could be facing the toughest few days of its history. frank, that was before any of this chaos really played out in washington, d.c., what do you think now? >> well, in talking to the average trump voter, i have been attending these rallies since the election and i was attending trump rallies before the election to try to understand the anger and the frustration that they have in the country, in the elites and what happened at the capitol is predictable, but it is not at all defensible and i don't understand what took the president so long to tell these people to get out of the capitol and to stop acting the way that they were the ramifications are significant. there are people on the hill who changed their votes last night on the electoral college because they were so angry and so embarrassed about what was happening in their own building. we have never seen a situation where americans are attacking their

now by a former advisor to president clinton, laura schwartz, and veteran republican pollster, frank luntzoining us. in so many ways this inauguration is very different. we have already seen this morning a huge amount of security out and about. frank, let's take a deep breath and look back at donald trump and legacy, what will you remember? i will remember the fact that i am not there. and it was only a few hours ago when i was invited to be “p hours ago when i was invited to be up on the stage, on the upper level, but seeing washington completely shut down, and turned into a police state, i decided i needed to get as far away from there as possible so i am now speaking to you from florida. i have been to every inauguration since 1981 and i will always remember the decision not to be in washington because of the events of january six and what has happened over the past two months.- january six and what has happened over the past two months. laura, you have also been _ over the past two months. laura, you have also been to _ over the past two months. laura, you have also been to many _ over