white to define americans. these are divisive terms. s job into the 21st century. europeans, stop masquerading as white people. prof. jordan: i am sorry, what is your question? not a know that you are race. prof. jordan: i know that i am a race. >> with makes you a race? prof. jordan: when i was growing up in virginia, my parents sat down and gave me the talk about being a negro in white society. >> did god make you a race or part of a family that became a tribe? race is an artificial concept designed by intellectuals back in europe, and divided mankind into race. prof. jordan: race is not official -- not an artificial concept when you have the ku klux klan come to your house and spray paint it with red paint. >> again, those who did that -- do you follow what i am saying? prof. jordan: no i don't. >> they are told they are superior by the white. prof. jordan: you are right when we say we need to get past that. i hope that we do. i hope i will live to see it. but i have to see that race is itartificial concept, but exists, we have to deal with the fact that we have race. are you familiar with the discussions about t

white people that they can't testify? prof. moon: yes. this starts really in the u.s. south with free slaves not being able to testify against white people and it is just an expansion of that practice. --s is a political cartoon tai. [indiscernible] prof. moon: this is before eugenics becomes popular, but that has a long history in the century. this is a political cartoon. this is torch gorham -- george republican in the state of california who is promoting racial equality. this cartoon is a satire. he is holding the weight of non-white people on his shoulder as he is trying to promote the ballot box, which uncle sam has put his hand over and he is wagging his finger at him. youris more tied to eugenics,, who is -- eugenics comment, who is this? right, it is charles darwin with an upright monkey. who wanticuling people to racial equality, saying that in the future, monkeys will be voting, as well. most of what we have been talking about in terms of the anti-immigrant or anti-chinese immigrant movement has been in california in the 1850's and 1860's. that is going to change and become a national phenomenon around and 70. are both ghosts -- cultural and economic reasons for why that is ha

white house leaks. >> exactly. s despite the disdain for the news media. people waiting to call their favorite reporter. e houses have this kind of drama and confrontation and tension about whose views hold the most sway. you go back to the bush 43 white house. the tension between rumsfeld and chaney. and condoleezza rice's white house was abilile to assert its. you know, that tension was very much in play. that was dangerous ultimately because it undermined the interagencies. it undermined the information flow that led to poor decision making at times. here, family is going to win. here it is interesting because trump apparently likes everybody to play off each other. he has different people with different impulses. bannon helped him appeal to the fringe populous conservatism. around which he would like to define the republican party. kushner keeps him in control and he trusts him and he helps manage the unpredictability. this tension will go on. it is playing out publicly. in the end, i think family wins, but in the end, i think trump wants to keep this balance. unpredict able balance. i think he likes

sometimes it's all about the veuvment but there is one place just steps from the white house that has a lot of people talking. fox5's general a lee shows us a special connection that we all have to it with this very special tour. >>reporter: pennsylvania avenue is a building you the taxpayer actually own. wait until you ' it. follow me. we're in the lob yif the trump international hotel which is leasing the building that was once the old post office here in the washington, d.c., but the real national treasure is actually upstairs and you don't need a room here to see it. a entrance reserved forth public is where you start your journey your first steps place you in the year 1899. jaim levy is a member of the historical society of washington, d.c. pennsylvania avenue is designed with a specific purpose. it was meant to be the primary avenue to connect the capital with the white house. so it was symbolic. the whole design of washington is about linking the branches of government. in 1899 the post office was the glue that held the nation together. in that era, before we had electronic communications, before we had good

when i first are giving lectures like this in the 1970's and 1980's, when i would introduce myself as a southerner the white people in the audience would gasp. i am. my father's family is from north carolina and my mother was from smithfield, virginia. i am a southerner. they are good and bad things about the south. i am always mindful of that. as far as coming up with an answer to this problem of competing cultural interests, i am speaking only for myself. not for my hosts, not for my wife, not for charlottesville. just myself. i am opposed to removing confederate statues. it is tricky financial. it costs a lot of money to move the statute. that money can be better served in these tax starved times. to --k if we are going it's better to erect new monuments to tear down old ones. i not in favor of doing that because removing monuments strikes me as something that is done against tyrants overseas, like saddam hussein and adolph hitler. i say leave them alone. the eligible that really pay that much attention to them are pigeons. [laughter] i don't need to be flippant but that is how i feel. [applause] said slavery w

white neighborhood. how do we, i would would ask, people who are against reparations. how would you equalize the situation without reparations?s. that's the question i'm asking people who are against reparations. if they can give me a reason that make sense, that will solve the problem, i would be all ears, as all people who are for reparations would be thank you for your question. very briefly, the the same question can be applied to native americans. the question is what about reparations? i think it would be extraordinarily difficult, especially for two reasons, one is first of all, it's extremely difficult to document exactly who they were. unlike african slavery, african slaves had to cross an ocean and you had these records listing everybody who was there and that's why we have such great sources to investigate the numbers.as in the case of native americans, we have vague references to slaving grades, locationallo investigations but there's a lot that we don't know. that would be problem numberer one. problem number two and moree fundamental is that native american slavery is something that everybody engaged in. includin

i was in the service back in the 1970's and looked across a fence looking into east germany and along that fence there was little white crosses were people crossed and that reminds them all other stuff. the wall paint going to stop the people. people are still going to come across and we're going to end up for that wall. i don't think it's right. host: leading up to the president's first 100 days, a poll released by the wall street journal and nbc news about perceptions and pulling of donald trump. saying more than half of americans disapprove of the job mr. trump is doing compared to 40% who approve -- this is a weaker showing them the general nbc news poll in late february when disapprove i await approval by four points. the story accompanying the poll adding that 35% of poll respondents said he was off to a good or great start compared with 54% said the same of mr. obama eight years ago. nearly two thirds of americans, some 64%, said trump was off to a poor or fair star. some 44% said mr. trump have been less effective than prior new present. janet, in michigan. caller: i'm going to reiterate student loan debt issues. i'm a student --

people as you saw at the white house today. and there's tons of people out there for 139th easter egg hunt. >> that gives us perspective how big it sual tradition live music, obstacle course us and story telling. ronnie mccray capturing sites and sounds from the south lawn. >> welcome to the 13 easter egg roll. >> this is first time that my husband and i hosting this wonderful tradition. >> it's pretty amazing being on the lawn of the white ho house. >> i hope you have a great time with many activities. >> this will be a great day for families and kids here not just in the local area but throughout the country. >> i've seen those kids and they're highlyly, highlyly that i can tell you. >> it's a great day. >> i got a sticker. >> we decorated cookies and did the easter reg roll and easter egg hunt. >> beautiful memory. beautiful memory for them. >> thank you nor joining us on behalf of the president and beautiful fun and days ahead 6 us and happy easter. >> i think you could put the politics owe side for a se second. it's about the kids. they were having a good time and that's what malters sign day like this. >> i was glad see we ha

honors white supremacist group from 1800's, city officials are getting death threats for people who wantonuments to stay up. the other three statutes will be taken down in the next few days. heather: president trump's star on hollywood walk of fame vandalized again, blank trump with a black marker, so far no comment from the lapd. the damage pails from the first time, cost $30,000 to repair that. clayton: violent protestors in france after historic presidential election rock it is country. voters rejecting mainstream candidate in favor of two total outsiders, far right marine la pen and emmanuel macron. la pen supported tighter border control and talking leafing the eu and macron supports staying in the eu. >> for those who have been with me since april, i want to say a few words, in one year, we have changed the face of french politics. >> it is time to free the french people from arrogant elite who want to dictate behavior because, yes, i am the candidate of the people. clayton: the two will go head to head in a presidential runoff which will happen on may seventh. heather: well, now b

need a politics where removeication doesn't like people and become what inple called negro removal the 1960's, but sets up communities were black, whitelatino kids go to school together, families are actually neighbors, and we can see each other as human beings. the reason why black likes do not matter in the united states now or historically is because de-humanization, institutions, politics, and fellow citizens are all culpable in, and until we admit that and have policy transformation based on that, we will not move forward. neil joseph, university of texas professor and a contributor to the new republic whyauthor of the story, lack lives matters still matters. thank you for joining us today. coming up next, we go back to your calls about what are your environmental concerns. calllicans can 202-748-8001, democrats independents and 202-748-8002. we will be right back. ♪ announcer: this weekend, book tv is live from the 22nd los angeles times festival of books. our coverage starts today at 1:30 p.m. eastern. at 3:00 p.m., a look at the republican party with you hewitt, corey fields, and peggy grand. and, author of the mother of all q

people like cecil sharp, s of appalachia. when those outsider views are absorbed by residents of the region, how they contributed to southern whites and appalachians sovereign himself. -- saw themselves. the depictions, both negative and positive, of how the region and its people do have an effect on how people within the region start to self identify. in the 1970's and 1980's, you see an upsurge in enthusiasm in the supposed celtic roots of appalachian culture. to this end, the celtic south paradigm popularized by historians in the 1970's emerged in tandem with an upsurge with -- with an upsurge in public interest in scottish and irish roots of appalachian culture. with the differences between the north and south on the eve of the civil war mcdonald argued , that the nomadic culture and clannish family structure of early scottish and northern irish immigrants to the south allowed for the development of a distinct southern white culture. the herder cultures of north britain and ireland emerged out of the violence and uncertainty that characterized the internal british frontiers. what i mean by that, i am talking about the border b

s 100% loyalty from everybody. the luminosity of white skin on the people who work in this white house blinds them to many, many things and that's a good point. it has not been a particularly diverse place generally in the early days here. and it does -- we see it all the time in every institution whether it's the media, whether it's politics. it does matter who is in the room. michelle goldberg, david k. johnston, appreciate it. >>> that's "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us. a lot going on in the news. tonight there's a bunch of developing stories. we're waiting right now on news out of kansas where counting is under way in what appears to be an unexpectedly close congressional election. i say this is an unexpectedly close race because this is a deep red district in deep red kansas. this is a district that donald trump won by nearly 30 points in november. this is the sort of race that should be called immediately when polls close. this is something where it shouldn't be hard at all for the republican party to hold onto this seat. this is a seat

s. there was a power base here in wilmington for whites and people of color. after two and a half days of bombardment, ground forces attacked. they overwhelmed the confederate outgunned,ome outmanned, exhausted. turned theirces gun sights upriver to capture wilmington, and that is when fort anderson came into play. commandermental and withdreworts them to fort anderson. a division of troops sent from the petersburg lines to make sure wilmington remained in confederate hands. it had to be safeguarded. if wilmington fell, he could not maintain his army, so you have troops here, directly across the cape fear river, but general grant wants to capture not just fort fisher and close the harbor. he needs to capture wilmington. why? at the time that the federal's were being defeated at fort 1864, the federal's had an important victory 300 miles to the south. sherman's army captured savannah. after capturing, occupying come and destroying atlantic, general sherman marched his 60,000 man savannah ontured december 21. he presented the city to president lincoln as a chris

people of asian ancestry. that is tied to the 1790's naturalization act. that only allowed free, white persons to become naturalized u.s. citizens. two years later, the california supreme court also deals with this particular issue in terms of chinese immigrants and their role in american society in people versus hall. george w. hall, his first name is george, sometimes i forget and call him john but it is george. he had killed a chinese immigrant. there were four witnesses to the event, three of whom were chinese immigrants and one was white. they all testified against hall and he was found guilty of murder. he appealed to the supreme court california and set a person of chinese ancestry should not be able to testify against a white person. in california as elsewhere during the antebellum period, african-americans and native americans cannot testify against white people. the california supreme court agrees with hall and says yes, chinese immigrants are also not white, and therefore they too cannot testify against a white person. you see these types of rules all through the american so

white box no bigger than a fruit stand. over the years more than 8000 people have visited it. wusa9's janice park has the story behind that stop on new hampshire avenue. >> reporter: on the lonely stretch of new hampshire avenue. >> oh, yeah, constantly it was just stopped a second ago. they stop as they go by. >> i called it like an adultery house. >> curious. >> reporter: as cars and trucks zoomed by, thousands over the years have stopped by this tiny church of purple with thoughts and prayers. >> the only pray stop on new hampshire avenue. you don't see a lot of prayer stops. >> reporter: take one step de christian music. it was built 17 years ago by a man named dennis, a described alcoholic and charolette, he had -- cheater, he lost everything. he parade and says he never would drink again and turned the fruit stand into a prayer stop. today people from all over the country pray and leave messages in the notebook and this little box is so much meaning. >> as a believer god will find you anywhere so this is a great day. god found him 17 years ago and where he was and god gave him t

many of which had had -- changed rapidly from white to black in the late 1960's, 1970's. and full of wonderful people who were proud of their communities, proud of the steps they had taken to try to move into the middle class, but were also worried about their futures because in some cases their kids weren't doing as ell as they had. in some cases these communities had been badly neglected for a very long time. the distribution of city services were unequal. schools were underfunded. there was a lack of opportunity. and for three years i tried to do something about it. i am the first to acknowledge that i did not set the world on fire. nor did i transform these communities in any significant way, although we did some good things. but it did change me. this community gave me a lot more than i was able to give in return. because this community taught , when ordinary people working together, can do extraordinary things. this community taught me that everybody has a story to tell. that is important. is experience taught me that beneath the surface differences of people that there were common hopes and co

metropolitan actors in the atlantic world, a white racial grammar emerged conspicuously in the 16 80's in reference to one group, indentured servants. they are the only people described this way. especially those transported to the new world. the transported convicts grew sharply in the 16 80's, which drew importation of african slaves. in contrast to christian servants the term formally used servantsbe them, white possessed uncertain loyalties. a deputy governor of barbados characteristically described the nature possibly -- we have been obliged to discharge our higher surgeons -- hire servants, since curved our negros and white servants. the striking distinction is not between negroes and whites servants, but unfree labor is a nd those who are unraced. didgrammar of white skin at articulate privileges, potentially dangerous subject for colonial authorities. one of the most persistent rumors for barbadian leaders was an alliance between indentured servant and african slaves. many of the indentured servants irishman. typically expressed with racial rather than religious signifiers. authoritiesbadian called upon all masters "to keep good watch upon negroes f

s, most people don't have a modern firearm. you will see these mass murders going on during reconstruction, and usually they are led by former confederate soldiers, former confederate elites attacking whites who became republicans, for african-americans. bill: you think mob violence was unique to the united states? prof. roth: absolutely not. when i gave my talk to the historical society yesterday about this, i said, every single one of us knows that through history, mass murder has been a group activity. it is not something a lone individual could do. what is different today is not ass violenceed m has gone from the world. we can see it in all kinds of genocidal activity around the world, but what we do see now in the united states and much of the world is a single individual, or small group of individuals, who have the capacity to kill a large number of people in a very short time. this depends very much on technology. you need to be able to concentrate force. bill: and we are talking the day after a shooter at fort lauderdale or killed numbers -- fort lauderdale airport killed numbers of people. prof. roth: that's right. and what you will see -- it is not just semi-automatic weapons, t

we haven't seen people over decades and decades make decisions that historically are at odds with where they were thought to be. john kennedy nominated byron white to the court. by the 70's and 80's, white was part of the conservative, were -- more republican block. in recent years, we have seen several republicans drift towards the center. anthony kennedy was a ronald reagan appointee. john roberts come up who has infuriated -- john roberts, who has infuriated democrats, who was ducking and dodging through -- allfirmation hearings of a sudden, when it came to obamacare rulings, john roberts cited with barack obama and the democrats on those rulings. point get to a historically now, where every justice sees their vote process turn into a 59-49 world -- maybe that skews their worldview themselves as to what their role and duty is. host: richard is on the phone on the democrat line. richard, go ahead. caller: i think the democrats should go ahead and do their filibuster. the republicans should go ahead and do their "nuclear option." is --all, the situation if this of -- if they control the supreme court, the house, the senate, the presidency, fascists -- we will have a fas

s strike that killed more than 70 people. syria denies any involvement. during a news conference at the white house, president trump pointed the specifically at the has add regime. >> it crossed a lot of lines for when you kill innocent babies, little chemical gas that is so lethal that people what gas it was, tht crosses many, manyes. >> at an emergency united nations meeting the us signalled it may if the un fails to act but did not provide organization says there is evidence nerve gas was used in that attack. >> a big shake up in the white houseident trump has removed his chief strategist, there he is, steve security council, gave bno nsc, m democrats and republicans who say he was notll security h. master. >> the shuttered trump tajo rock under new beginning under the leadership and owner internatio. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> guitar and music, there the company unveiled its $375 million plan for the casino. comple with some rock-and-roll. plans to reopen the casino by next summer, for the struggling atlantic city economy. this is the promise of thousands of jobs on the inside they'll have 2,00 rock wi

s a problem we have to finally solve. people have put blindfolds on for decades. and now it's time to solve the problem. >> the white house says the entire senate will be briefed on the north korean threat tomorrow. on monday, the trump administration said the president discussed the quote, urgent security challenge with german chancellor angela merkel. on sunday night, mr. trump also spoke with japanese prime minister shinzo abe and chinese president xi jinping. chinese media say xi told president trump he hoped all parties would exercise restraint. >>> now north korea's detention of another american citizen is adding a dmu point of friction between the u.s. and north korea. adrianna diaz has the latest from beijing. >> reporter: tony kim's detention was confirmed by the university where he taught. while the circumstances around his detention are unclear, it complicated an increasingly tense relationship between the u.s. and north korea at a time when both sides are open to military action. with the uss carl vinson heading to the korean peninsula, north korea continues the show of defiance. a statement from the pyo

people as well. >> host: michael eric dyson's most recent book "tears we cannot stop" a sermon to white america. his book last year, president obama, april 4, 1968, martin luther king, jr.'s death and how it changed america came out in 2008. the next call for him is tammy in kingston, north carolina. hi, sammy. >> caller: how are you doing? when senator, republican senator made a statement that-- to make president obama secede his last eight years, to me that was tantamount to during the civil war, it set a tone for the declaration of succession from the union. the people today kind of like that, the republican party in general is that for the last eight years of president obama's term they did everything to-- and you just imagine if we worked together how better the country would have been at today. >> yes, no, i think that's an extraordinarily important point. there's been a kind of internal succession among certain far right groups, seceding from america, not literally, not necessarily politically, in terms of organization, but politically, in terms of belief and ideals, the spectrum of ideas and the entire spectra of ideology suspects that the far right wants to seced

people who aren't white. if you are only going to say it was economic anxiety that led people to vote for trump than he should've gotten black voters and latino voters. clearly black voters are try sset, economic anxiety for all the midwestern city, i didn't see a lot of voters going to gary working for them. we have a distinct idea of who the working class are, particularly the working class we need to be concerned about. it can't just be economic anxiety or he should've gotten the working class black vote which he didn't. he also won for white voters across all income levels and i think the median income was 65 or 70000. these are not poor and working-class. i think we should throw that in there. the other thing i reported and what i talked about it because someone once voted for a black man does not mean that person has no racial animosity or anxiety. we tend to talk about race and racism in a very complex on nuanced way. either you are in the clan or you love the rainbow of everyone. that is just not how it works. most people are falling somewhere in between and they can be tipped. when people are voting in 2008, we are coming off eight years of the bush presidency. you of the

white house press secretary sean spicer has apologised for remarks that suggested hitler did not use chemical weapons against his own people. it was said his words were inappropriate and in sensitive. this video is trending. icho ‘s elizabeth and her husband prince philip on their visit to as do outside of london. they we re to as do outside of london. they were given the chance to feed the elephants and it was clear that donna the elephant loves bananas. you are up—to—date. stay with us. more from me later. at first, hardtalk. when it comes to seeking justice for some of the wrongs committed by american forces, the record hasn't always been that good. my guest today flew into the middle of the my lai massacre in vietnam in 1968 and stopped the wholesale slaughter of vietnamese civilians. it was more than 30 years before anybody even bothered to say thank you. has the us military now learned the lessons it should have done from vietnam? hugh thompson, a very warm welcome to the programme. thank you very much. when you hear allegations of brutality by us troops in iraq, failure to respect the geneva conventions, what goes through your mind? bad leadership. the past and my situation goes through it and wondering, h

s. grant's administration confirms lincoln's remark that americans are the almost chosen people. grant was running a race against time. not only in regard to whitesoutherners who had been displaced from power, but also the flash flood of his cronies whom he trusted. yet, grant did yoeman service to lincoln's dream in suggesting that justice in an open society would eventually become more likely in the long term. thank you all very much. [ applause ] >> judge, thank you for that. >> thank you. >> question, do you know how active or passive, if any a role, rutherford about. >> -- b. hayes took in that bargain. >> i don't think much. i think his political operatives really handled all of the machinations and shenanigans to get him the office. i think he had a deft hand, like lincoln's own chicanery in politics, you would have third parties do your bidding, and i think that was the case here. >> the head of the history department of youngstown state always made the statement that john wilks booth d'lid lincoln favor by shooting him. >> as lovers of lincoln and respectful of his statesmanship, i have to think that lincoln had so much more political s

s about dd they look into any of this. >> this is a pattern with this white house sort of distancing people from the campaign.paul manafort. i think at some point they referred to michael flynn as sort of like a volunteer. and so at this point it is. this is obama's fault. this is obama's guy. in many ways i think it works for the base. if you see some of those polls in terms of what they believe in terms of whether or not obama tapped trump's phones. many of them believe that. i do think this is, again, on the one hand it's distancing. another hand it's sort of fodder for the base. blame obama. >> it's sean spicer to be the spokesman for the trump base or the spokesman for the president of the united states and a gate way of information for the american people? >> i give him points for creativity. the spin has been impressive. michael flynn not only had he been fired by the obama administration, but he was perso persona nongr grata. i don't think you could have expected any presidential nominee to have brought on board. this is why you vet people. we've seen the trump administration take a cavalier attitude

people should be misled here. we have a chart here that supports your view on e.m.'s. in white, e.m. bonds. blue, yields.e downtrend. high-yield, perhaps spread is getting set to go wide. >> i don't think so. i think the widening in high-yield spreads is an anomaly. history shows us that you go back into the late 1990's or you before thee period financial crisis, high-yield spread actually got significantly tighter than they are today. i think the recent selloff in high-yield is the buying opportunity. we will see that spreaco down. the real question for me longer-term, as an investor, is the amount of debt that is getting a committed in emerging markets. as a remarkable, that is a crisis for another day. until then, things that continue to go up in price are bull market and we should take it vantage of the bull market. really appreciate you coming on. everybody should go and read the profile of scott. it is out now. fascinating conversation. coming up, what you need to know for tomorrow's trading day. this is bloomberg. ♪ julie: don't miss this. j.p. morgan come out wells fargo, -- j.p. morgan, wells ma

white house press secretary sean spicer has apologised for remarks that suggested hitler did not use chemical weapons against his own people. it was said his words were inappropriate and in sensitive. this video is trending. icho ‘sre given the chance to feed the elephants and it was clear that donna the elephant loves bananas. you are up—to—date. stay with us. more from me later. at first, hardtalk.

white house will also be closely monitoring the syrian president, basharal—assad,'s closely monitoring the syrian president, bashar al—assad,'s denial of any involvement in last week's chemical attack in syria. more than 80 peoplepted a us airstrike a government airbase in response. afp we re government airbase in response. afp were told by bashar al—assad that the claims that his regime carried out the attack were 100% fabrication. we don't know worth a dead at all? who committed the act, if there was an attack? what mattered... you have no information at all, nothing at all. so you are saying it is a fabrication? definitely, 100% for us it is a fabrication. we don't have chemicals, and no one has information or evidence. police in pakistan say university student has been murdered on campus bya group student has been murdered on campus by a group of elite students, who accused him of less than me. they reportedly said that he posted material online that was offensive to muslims. heavy rain and strong winds are continuing to pound parts of new zealand's north island, after one of the worst storms in decades made landfall. more than 8000 homes are still without power. there are warnings that gusts of up to 140 k

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white house correspondents' dinner is going on in washington. s samantha bee has been skewering the president and attacking and in talking to other attendees, peopleho live in the late night political kind of world, that's really the goal here tonight, too. they are here to kind of laugh at president trump and make levity of the situation but also a celebration of journalism. >> let me ask you, ali, are you getting that same kind of dripping sarcasm from the other people that you're talking to? >> reporter: yeah, but it's not a dripping sarcasm. the people were serious about talking about the state of political affairs. they feel it's a very important time for truth telling, for fact checking, things that are our organization and other media organizations have really focused on always in the age of trump but in the administrations prior to that. this is shining a new light on the need for media organizations for that and a lot of attendees were funny. that's their line of work. there is serious respect here that this is a need for journalism and we're here to celebrate that as well. >> thank you, ali vitali. >> thanks. >> joining me is amy pointer

white house. >> and sean spicer, at the center of controversy. he apologized yesterday, and a lot of people noted this was a robu apology. this is the to apologize. s it enough to save his job in. >> i'm told that spicer is fine. the way he is close to reince p priebus. there is no active move. the president focusing on manning the bend. >>. >> you and i have been talking to staffers are at the white house and they are expressing their frustration that they have to deal with this that they keep asking about it. it is your sense this is becoming a real distraction for the white house? >> as much as everything is a white house. if it is not just talking about making america great again. there has been a combative posture and this is one of them. the idea being this is what you might here from the administration as a process issue, not a substance issue. the point i think has been made by folks that you and i have talked to, kristen, is that process at some point does relate to policy who is up or who is down. that could have an impact from the policies that the president could put forward. and in the recent wall street journal piece, coming ul serkle

. >> so, heidi -- >> heidi, obviously a lot of people talking about the infighting inside the white house. and 'shether the president follows steve bannon's vision or jared/ivanka and deanna. >> this is something that's really bothering me now which is that all of the analysis if bannon is kicked out, he was a bad tactician or reince was a bad tactician. no. where is the populism? where's the populism that trump ran on. it's not just the execution of travel ban or the health care ban and what they're made of, what they represent. where's the infrastructure plan? guys, i'm up on the hill all the time. i talk to senior senate leadership on the democratic side saying they're making it so easy for us to wholesale oppose because they did nothing to try to reach out to democrats and do the big shovel ready infrastructure plan. >> not only that, they tried to pass a health care plan and would be very easy to campaign against saying, you know what? taking away $800 billion of your health care benefits and giving them to the richest americans in tax cuts. >> that will do well. >> you can put it on the bum

s indepth story... he's a man who is accused of taking innocent lives and creating chaos across fresno. matt mendes, reporting:"did you kill three white men and shoot at four peopley?" voice of kori muhammad / prefonted beeper graphic:"um, yeah." on saturday, muhammad spoke with cbs47 by phone from the downtown fresno jail, where he admitted to killing a total of four people and spoke about his hatred of white men.voice of kori muhammad, murder suspect:"someone has to fight for them. someone has to fight for all the people who died at the hands of racist white men." police said, kori muhammad terrorized fresno beginning a week ago thursday at motel 6. muhammad claimed his first killing happened after security guard carl williams disrespected him and his friend.voice of kori muhammad, murder suspect:"the security guard was arguing with her, being very disrespectful, so i shot him."matt mendes, reporting:"you shot the security guard?" voice of kori muhammad, murder suspect:"yes, sir."from there, muhammad said he hid from officers on top of a neighboring business. voice of kori muhammad, murder suspect:"i scaled the wall, got on top of the roof, stayed there until i

people have been whooped. torn apart, family sold to the highest bidder. every time i see the white man, i was to be carried away. when i was about this high, i s two sisters sold on the chain gang, never to be seen no more. slaves went through bad times. rise early in the morning until dark, where they can see. all the way until dark, can't see. 30 some years i've toiled in the swamp, in the fields, i hauled timber in the woods with the loggers. loggers are slaves, but they get to move abound a bit. when the loggers speak in my ear, i listen. you learn more when you open up your head rather than open up your mouth. >> [applause] >> they spoke about the underground railroad. they said there was a safe house here. and the people will help you on the road to freedom. that, i picked it up here, because i always had freedom on my mind. i pray all the time. chained him, made him christian. all the while, they would say look at me, and they stood there. this is what they would take, like newsprint. i was to be sold on the chain gang with two of my brothers. taken out so he won't do anymore questions. days later i heard the master was dead. we were fo

s direct participation. >> the white house backing that up from washington. >> if you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb in to innocent people, you will see a response from this president. >> i thing it is clear that we see no further role for the assad regime longer term. >> the russians have dug in over the past few days, supporting bashar al assad, calling the u.s. an aggressor. >> i think secretary tillerson's message to russia in the end is going to be this is not the obama. >> the open opposition to the russians may have caught them off guard. this meeting with the minister is going to happen tomorrow. however, secretary of state rex tillerson will be in moscow in about two hours. the greeting at the airport should be an inas to how the rest of the trip will go. reporting live in washington, edward lawrence. back to you. >> a lot of eyes will being. thank you. >> thank you, edward. >> right now, you were mentioning a lot of people talking about this. out growing after a paying customer was wrank yanked from a flight because he refused to give up his seat. >> united dealing with a pr disaster. >> absolute disaster. seem

white house saying he has started calling a lot of them. he has reached out to newt gingrich, chris christie. people who haven't been in the fold recently. putting aside some of the s now it's time to get to work. one of these advisors told me this is vintage trump. he suffers a blow, picks himself up eventually. there is some gnashing, anger. and then he read tools.th he did it three times in the w campaign. >> bill: what does the white house staff have to do with the failure of the new obamacare? >> reince priebus and others told him he had the votes to pass it. >> bill: are you sure? >> i've been told by several people close to the president. >> bill: reince priebus also told him, along with speaker ryan that this is going to pass? nobody likes bad information. >> i've been told over the next couple weeks, we should expect more changes. how quickly and how high up, we don't know. i don't wantr to speculate but these advisors are saying there's a lot of chatter among the white house staff and the advisors outside the white house that he's ready to bring in a second wave of people. >> bill: already? wouldn't that make him look weak? changes staff so quickly? >> he

white house would clearly say they are winning the narrative. they have people such as the tens of thousands of people in harrisburg that are following the president. i think the president would sore be him than ever before. the pres artfully, will say our subscriptions are up, readership is up. look at the feedback, the viewers and readers are saying keep it up, the first amendment is more important than ever. it's a draw. it's unfortunate we are having this conversation. we need a shared set of facts. the reality is we need unvarnished truth with elected officials. >> the last thing, crystal, should have been a reset moment. you have been here many times, it's truce night where everybody comes together in one space and folks make jokes and take sholts at each other. it reminds people that we are all here in one effort, one room together and we can get along. it really remains an us against them strategy. >> i think that's exactly right, thomas. last night was, in ways, a perfect distillation of the problems and divide in the country. the speech that president trump gave last night in pennsylvania, it was a speech for part of the country. it was not a speech to all of america.

s in our country and i live in that reality. a lot of white liberals don't live in that reality so with the election, people were surprised because you were not paying attention. what adjectives would you use to describe hillary clinton? the problem is i'm forced to acknowledge that i'm sexy because i am a male at a i want to steer clear of that. i think she would've been a great candidate, i think she's professional, business savvy, untrustworthy. i don't think that's sexist. i think that's legit. a bit untrustworthy, successful, a product of the times, and appointed trendsetter. as for trump, he says smart come in sensationalized -- smart, , arrogant,ist dishonest. people get a certain feeling when he speaks and they like that. they can't tell you why they voted for him based on what issues, but they like the feeling that they get. it's not feasible, it's not applicable, but it can get you elected. why do you think trump one? trump won? he says he is restoring the narrative of the country was built on what just white supremacy. i think he won because of sexism, to be fair but trump is the perfect president because look at what

movies like "curley" in the 1940's because it showed while whithe and black children in school -- white and black children in school today -- together. he prevented people from memphis from seeing mange celebrities -- major celebrities in our local movie theaters. he was a racist. benfordizing became a word. artistic words that were wrong and congress must be ever mindful of the slippery slope of censorship. thirdly, and perhaps most important, this painting raises serious questions about public policy. congress should be debating questions of public policy, not banning expressions of them. the events that took place in ferguson, missouri, which are well expressed by this painting, were a wake-up call to many in our nation about police use of deadly force. and injustices in our inner cities and turmoil rising in our inner cities. sobering questions about the fairness for criminal justice system and about race were raised. and painting such as this, that reflects those issues, is most appropriate for display in the hallway where these paintings and artworks are shown, because it is representative of a major slice of america in that year. that, more than