racial protests that have been sparked on college campuses all across the country-- amanda: wichita state university leaders are hosting a forum -- to address issues of campus diversity. kake's lily wu is live at wichita state university with why leaders felt it was the right time to bring students and faculty together. " "this is the beginning of a real dialogue. it's just something we've been trying to figure out how to get on the table." wichita state university president john bardo hosting a forum on diversity after recent events both on the local and national level. john bardo wsu president "national events that are going on gave us that opening to put it on the table. so what we're going to do now is to sift through everything we've been told. we're going to work through it as an executive teams." it was standing room only after 250 students, faculty, and community members dozens of them spoke out about issues of diversity on campus. joseph shepard wsu student body president "i hope this is because he's truly being genuine about the concern of the under represented marginalized students on thi

we're live as you can see from wichita state university, wichita, kansas. 2015. we're starting the iowa caucuses. we'll be deciding the next president of the united states. still with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. the host stan stein who surprised us. former rnc chairman michael steele. historian jon meacham and willie geist with us from new york and joining us from managing editor of bloomberg mark halperin. what a big group. new polls showing ben carson surging against donald trump at 29%. carson leads trump by six points. trump's 23% is more than double the third place finisher marco rubio. ted cruz is in fourth and jeb bush's support is unchanged at 8%. none of the other ten candidates is above the low single digits. they're all tied at 3%. but when asked to as what the best chance in the general election, donald trump is still the leader. 32% to carson's 25%. this as the new weekly tracking poll from the morning consult shows trump leading carson by ten points. >> that's a massive lead in this poll, a lot different than the nbc poll. but,

. >>> wichita state university holding an open forum on race relations. students called for more minorities in leadership positions. >> students who are minority are margin alized we want to be on campus where we can relate to the people in positions of power. >> we have to find ways of making people feel more welcome and part of the institution. >> time to bring in chief correspondent for political review and eric guster. either the top people have resigned or professors. how do you see this playing out. is this a new trend now. are we going to do something that's good on college campuses or not? >> this seems to be the trend at the moment. i got to tell you, what these students really need to understand is that there is a process and everything is not going to be perfect throughout your life. the wichita state campus, for example, they had the forum, the open forum where people had discussions. they talked about the issues and came up with plans and plan on following up. then you have what happened at the university of missouri. it was mob rule and chao