announcer: ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the best-selling author of "brown is the new white," steve phillips. [applause] steve: good morning. audience: good morning. steve: i'm delighted to be here. this is my first bioneers conference, so i'm honored to be with youou here. [cheering and applause] and i'm particularly delighted to be able to introduce the keynote speaker vien truong. her bio and all of her accomplishments are online, and you can read that, and they're part of the program, so i won't

announcer: ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the best-selling author of "brown is the new white," steve phillips. [applause] steve: good morning. audience: good morning. steve: i'm delighted to be here. this is my first bioneers conference, so i'm honored to be with youou here. [cheering and applause] and i'm particularly delighted to be able to introduce the keynote speaker vien truong. her bio and all of her accomplishments are online, and you can read that, and they're part of the program, so i won't

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phillip rucker as walls. >> thank you. >> coming up the in the wake of historic low poll yum yum numbers for president trump, steve kornacki at the big board to wonk us through the numbers. >>> as you perhaps woke up to a new round of polling is just out, showing the president's job approval hovering around 40%. some less. here to help us break down the new numbers is our national politico correspondent steve kornacki at the big board steve. >> brian it may abdifferent way of looking at the poll numbers everybody has seen the headlines. these are the four out in the last day or two. as you said hovering around 40%. if i didn't tell you who the president was i just say a first year president these are the numbers in the middle of the first summer we'd say naes a disaster. as you can say historically that's what what it looks like at this point donald trump lowest numbers of any of the modern predecessors by a far. this is terrible terrain to be in if you're a president except is in really what we should be comparing donald trump to? here is what i mean. one year ago tonight july 17th, 2016 when dwas candidate donald trump,

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phillips. matt: josh green has had a front row seat to trump's evolution from reality tv star into presidential candidate into president. to toll that in a series of interviews with steve political strategist. it goes back to the roots of the bannon-trump relationship and reminds us even though it was not that long ago about trump was this multicultural pop icon 10-12 years ago as the apprentice was getting all kinds of great ratings. it was popular among minority voters and how he kind of burned that to the ground and embraced this birther movement, this nativist populism that bannon has pushed them towards. carol: i watched "the apprentice." it was a diverse group of contestants. young and old, black and white, celebrity and noncelebrity, "celebrity." i forgot he really did appeal to minorities. how popular was he because of "the apprentice" among minority groups? matt: the show was seen as this multicultural phenomenon that took everybody by surprise. it debuted in 2004 as nbc "friends" franchise was going away. and say the thursday night primetime slot and came out with a bang. corporate america loved it largely because of how well it through minority audiences. he

steve bannon is probably an army of one when it comes to a tax increase even on wealthiest americans, shep. >> shepard: john, stay with us. let's go to amber phillips from "the washington post" who is live as well. did anybody gets a heads-up on this? did anybody see this come something. >> nope. we were running around going oh, my gosh! this is a total shock. like everyone has been saying, this is a total power move by general kelly saying i'm the boss, no one else. and just a couple days ago, we weren't sure in the white house chain of command who was the boss. and this suggests to me the president has given his new chief of staff leverage to do whatever he wants. the president, seems like he feels like the six months in, just hasn't been working for him. he's like bring in a new staff. we tried scaramucci. fine, if you want to fire him, fine. just get us back on track is the message i'm hearing today from the white house. >> shepard: they are looking for order. there's no question about it. the one thing that people who have covered the white house for years around years, a real difference here is this open-door policy that the president has had

phillips curve going on here. because commodity prices are so low, because gasoline and heating oil prices are so low, that's why workers aren't demanding higher wages just a thought steve? >> i don't know where rick's been living the last ten years, i guess, chicago but almost certainly the fed would do it again. they feel like they would stabilize bond markets -- >> oh, sure, they would. >> -- in a crisis, they feel like they stabilized growth, brought down the unemployment rate >> at 1.6% no productivity. >> they stabilized inflation >> not only that, rick >> and balance sheets taller than the empire state building >> guys, don't talk over each other. it's like a word salad one at a time. steve, go. >> i thought i had the floor the fed feels like they had accomplished their goals with quantitative easing. not only that, with europe followed the fed in 2015 japan in 2013. europe followed in 2015. it is part of the arsenal now. and plus, there's an advantage they have here when you buy securities in a crisis, you have a big effect. when you sell them not in a crisis, there's a lesser effect. jamie dimon may be right there may be a lot of uncertainty right now over this