Yiannopoulos, it was canceled. Tell us the latest. What happened . Reporter he was supposed to speak about an hour from now but two hours ago saw a group start to assemble. Planned protest, goal to make it difficult for him to speak, effectively now they have shut it down. What youre looking at here, give you good look at expanse of the crowd, its still a sizeable crowd. They are cheering trying to and theyre chanting shut it down, shut it down. This has filled up this part of the university square. Everywhere i look is packed with people. Police have made announcement saying you need to get out of here to try to clear this area. But you can see for yourself, it is its almost a Festive Party at this point. A lot of people in the front have their faces covered. Earlier we saw them trying to pick up some of the barricades. There were a lot they were picking up and throwing into the building. Walk you this way. This is the building where Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak. And these are some of the barricades over here. This is what is left of the first floor windows of the student union. Theyve been completely smashed through. Were not seeing too many of the protesters run through this building. But you can see all through the first floor there are smashed windows. There were rocks that were thrown. Incendiary dwiesz of some sort, looked like firecrackers and torches thrown at building and at police. Walk you back this way to see the crowd. Also set fire to this light. A light that had gasoline in it. And you can see whats left of it. Does look like the crowd is beginning to move. Im not exactly sure why oh, looks like impromptu march of some sort. If they walk out of here could be good news for the police. Trying to disperse the crowd. As we look at pictures, tell our viewers, could be that this crowd is so big considering what is happening now in politics with the white house. Speaker is editor at brietbart news, a website thats big proponent of the socalled altright movement and steve bannon is at white house, kids there at university that probably considered liberal. Most of the people on campus im sure upset by that. Tell you what yiannopoulos posted on facebook. I have been evacuated from the Berkeley Campus after violent leftwing protesters tore down barricades and breached the ground floor of the building. Team and i safe but event canceled. Let you know more when the facts become clear. We know the left is terrified of free speech and will literally anything to shut it down. Now the protests becoming violent as youre reporting. He also planned appearance at uc davis and canceled at last minute. Spoke monday at cal polyin san louie obispo with a crowd of supporters and police monitored that crowd and soldout event, chapter for College Republicans sponsored the event and not the university but not without controversy. Reporter certainly not. University of washington when he spoke a couple of weeks ago was a shooting between a trump supporter and someone who was against trump. That was what the argument was about and led to shooting, man sent to the hospital in critical condition. Its certainly about national politicians. T politics. This is as much about donald trump, white house and steve bannon as about this individual. You mentioned he was tweeting about free speech. That is something that is this is the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s, you hear from people here want to hear diverse opinions but dont appreciate about Milo Yiannopoulos is hes an internet troll. Makes fun of overweight people. Picks on lez bans, uses language extremely offensive to a lot of people and to the student groups ive talked to, they feel they need to protect marginalized groups. So this wasnt exactly what they wanted but lot of the students wanted to stop him from speaking by any means. I want you to stand by and well monitor the pictures out of uc berkeley. Speech canceled because of the violent protests broken out across the campus. Keep an eye on that. Other breaking news, what may be a huge fumble by the Trump Administration, contentious phone call between the president and australian president malcolm turnbull. One of our closest allys. President trump hanging up halfway through the call. You have new reporting on the call between the president and Prime Minister of stroilz that went shower. Sour. Reporter hostile, ended abruptly. A combination. Trump was badgering the australian Prime Minister, complaining about a deal about america agreement to take refugees in australian camp and also used call to brag about Electoral College win and call attention to success in november and when the australian Prime Minister tried to move on to syria he ended the call. Told him he talked to other leaders today including Vladimir Putin and this was the worst call of the day. This disagreement over refugees, tell me about this. Reporter agreement that Obama Administration had reached to help australia deal with refugee crisis. Holding ref ja holding refugees in detention sites off the australian coast. Huge issue and Obama Administration agreed to take half of them in a deal brokered by the united nations. Trump didnt like being forced to abide by that when hes trying to call attention to executive order he placed to place restrictions on ref jazz from muslim countries. To compare to Vladimir Putin call, this is one of our closest allys. Reporter thats remarkable. Hard to think of american ally more steadfast and reliable than australia. Had issues with other countries but been there with the United States throughout war in iraq, afghanistan, intelligencewise and counterterrorism. So to have a blowup in the first call as commander in chief is significant. Thank you very much. Bring in White House Correspondent sara murray. What are you hearing . A lot of things similar to what greg just said. Tense call between donald trump and australian Prime Minister after a long day of dipping toe into diplomacy. Fifth call and may have been fatigued but curt, ended call abruptly and took issue with agreement about refugees settled under the Obama Administration. Don the thing to look at is not what ally he was having the call with, but the fact how hes approaching important diplomatic calls. One Government Official described the interactions hes having with foreign leaders as naive. Theres a level of concern around these not just with australian Prime Minister but other diplomatic calls. And the mexican president. What are you learning . Add to the list of other abnormal calls. Talking to enrique pena nieto, it was after canceled a meeting together. But told donald trump offered u. S. Assistance in battling the drug cartels there and says mexico needs to deal with bad hombres, words were used to seeing in twitter but not in diplomatic phone calls between heads of state. And news about what Michael Flynn said about iran. Fill us in. Perhaps one of the most weighty things that came out of the white house, Trump Administration saying putting iran on notice. Its drawing at least a red line in verbiage but not really backing it up with anything. Saying that irans Ballistic Missile launch was highly provocative, potentially destabilizing toward the region and in a deliberative process about essentially what to do about it. Have not guaranteed action as result but also not taking military action off the table. I think what they said to you is outside of the Nuclear Agreement they made clear this is outside of the u. S. Nuclear agreement with iran. The donald Trump Administration wants to make clear that america is still willing to take potential punitive steps. Remains to be seen if its tough language to convince iran to change of its own accord or be action, economic sanctions or military to back it up. White house would not respond to questions about that. Asking senior officials about it earlier. Thanks. To sara martin in australia. Asked about this call. Lets listen. Ive seen that report and im not going to comment on the conversation other than to say that in the course of the conversation as know and was confirmed by the president s official spokesman in the white house, the president assured me that he would continue with honor the agreement we entered into with the Obama Administration with respect to refugee resettlement. Was President Trump upset about parts of the conversation . Thanks for your inquiry but not going to comment on these reports out of the United States about the conversation. But australian public will be interested in your relationship with most important partner. Did he hang up earlier than you expected . Im not going to comment on these reports of a conversation. Australians know me very well. I always stand up for australia in every forum. Youre in australia, what is the reaction . Its been a fairly extraordinary story and reaction here has been one of shock and disbelie disbelief, not onl the fact that the details have been leaked to the press in the u. S. Which is extraordinary in itself, but of course the details of the conversation and fact there does seem to be hostile exchange between the two leaders. All comes in context of australia wanting to make sure this deal with the Obama Administration sticks. Prime minister has sought to be as diplomatic as he can be since the conversation basically refusing to comment on the United States executive order on immigration, taking a diplomatic line there because of course as were learning today, sounds as though this agreement to take refugees from the offshore Detention Centers is hanging by a thread. I think everyone has been astounded at details leaked and also the sense of chaos and confusion it seems to suggest, particularly given weve had mixed reports whether the deal is on or off or back on again. Its been a day of confusion and disbelief. I can imagine. Peoples reaction to President Trump reportedly saying this was worst call he had worse than Vladimir Putins call. I think again people are quite shocked although a lot of reports about the president and Vladimir Putin reportedly having quite a Good Relationship at least from afar. But look, it is shocking australia and United States are very firm allies, i think australia has been alongside the United States in every military battle since world war ii, we have u. S. Marines based in northern australia, certainly see ourselves as one of the United Statess most dependable allies and its extraordinary that first call between the two leaders ended as it did. Sounds farcical and also raising concerns here about the temperament of the new u. S. President and i dont think australia is alone on that one. Thank you very much. Introduce the panel to talk about this. Mark preston. Nia henderson as well. Kirsten powers, david gergen. Put them up and greg miller from the Washington Post as well. Talk to them after we come right back. As after a dvt blood clot,ital i sure had a lot to think about. What about the people i care about . Including this little girl. And what if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . So i asked my doctor. And he recommended eliquis. Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. Yes, eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots. Eliquis also had significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. Both made me turn around my thinking. Dont stop eliquis unless your doctor tells you to. 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Right now, get the works a Synthetic Blend Oil change, tire rotation, Brake Inspection and more for 29. 95 or less. Very busy night. Breaking news, angry phone call between President Trump and one of the four closest allies, Prime Minister malcolm turnbull. Heres the panel to discuss. Mark preston, david gergen. Kirsten powers and david madden and thank you for sitting through the breaking news. This call reportedly between the president and australian Prime Minister only 25 minutes. Supposed to go longer and at one point the president apparently said this was the worst phone call, even worse than the russian president , what do you think of this is this. Are they playing some sort of game in the white house . How many countries can they alienate in 100 days . List is in double digits now. Three quick things about it. One, never had a president in my memory who has bullied our friends in this way, especially heads of government. Second thing rips the face off the fiction that the white house put out about this being a constructive call and everything like this. Normally in this situation if it was tough you say candid conversation, use code words so people know a little bit but dont come out and paper it over. Third thing, astonishing, what is going on inside this government that so many people are bringing out documents and leaking things, calling out things. I think youve had experience with that. Yes i have. And not on the political team, its interesting to witness. To sit where we do and witness this going on. Extraordinary. Kevin with that said, hes cozier with adversary like putin than a close ally like australia . What is happening . I think weve been doing this since the campaign, doing it in the transition and i suspect in the entire presidency. Keep expect donald trump to adhere to some level of convention and protocols and he just doesnt. I think those that are expecting him to change are going to be disappointed. Hes just not going to change. But that is what is problematic. If you look at criticism from many republicans over the last eight years in how president obama conducted foreign policy, one of the central criticisms is he was tougher on allies like israel than on our enemies. Now were alienating one of our closest allies just over a phone call. Havent gotten into substantive policies. I understand a bit of policy during the call but just the on it has caused consternation. Thats a problem. Greg miller is back with us but kirsten, the question to you. Washington post is reporting about what the australian Prime Minister tried to confirm that the u. S. Honor its pledge to take in ref jazz. Called it worst deal ever and accused him of seeking to export the next boston bombers. Whats your reaction . He has this idea that u. S. Has been pushed around by other countries. For some reason the people he thinks have pushed us around are our closest friends and allies and has more hostility towards them, australia or mexico, than to someone like Vladimir Putin in russia who clearly is antiamerican. I mean yet he has all this seemingly stored up anger and chip on his shoulder hes going to right the world by retaliating against people that havent done anything to us. Im really confused about where this world view comes from. Nia, were used to hearing this blunt style but are you surprised hes using it with foreign leaders . Not really. Think kevin is right. Idea somehow hes going to change in office and suddenly become diplomatic in presentation and engagement with other World Leaders, i dont think its going to happen. White house said end of long day and tired and fatigue is setting in. Guess what, thats the job. You have to deal with that. Its 24 hour job essentially as president. Dont get time off. With situation like that, maybe that is context but its certainly not excuse for this. And seems also that President Trump just is creating problems that dont need to be there. Right . This is all him shooting himself in the foot. And we also know this is a president thats not one going to be reading briefing books and studying the different relationships that the u. S. Has with different countries. So i think that is problematic, also were seeing leaks out of this white house, out of all sorts of sectors. Greg is obviously in intelligence, covers the agencies. We know this is the white house that initially went in questioning the intelligence agencies and obviously tried to make good with that first visit that he made to the cia but in some ways that ruffled feathers as well. I think ultimately these leaks make donald trump look like hes in over his head and some make him look like a bit of a buffoon. And he doesnt know whats going on. Supposed to be in charge and doesnt i dont know if its true but reports that steve bannon is the puppetmaster. You said it. I didnt want to you were doing this. For people not looking at screen but just listening. Yeah. But why would he be bragging about electoral win to foreign leaders . We dont actually have reporting on that but trusting greg on it. Its something with historic precedent because hes done it several times before including with nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer when they came down to white house to have discussion about legislation and he went off. You got to wonder if he goes back to that all the time because makes him feel good and justifies whatever actions hes going to take. Its what he knows. How hes going to act. Makes him powerful. To the point of the world view, why need enemies if you alienate all allies, makes so sense whatsoever. And dont want to put greg on the spot but do you believe in the reporting . 100 . To that point, our reporters, jake tapper and jim acosta and kevin and sarah at white house are corroborated everything except the electoral. Given the tenor, i believe that was said. Come back to bite you. Talked about going after the bureaucracy ftd civil side effects. They bit back with the story. Partly where this comes. From and nations bite back. Cant conduct yourself in the world this way. Cant normalize this. This is total departure from the way this is done. Get more information from the panel and the reporting after this. Dont go anywhere. Big break news stories to tell you about. First out of california. Speech by controversial brietbart editor at uc berkeley cancelled in the wake of protests that turned violent. Kyung, has this turned into a celebration . What is going on . Reporter i dont know. People are dancing now. They have brought out music and they appear to be celebrating. What they are celebrating is that the brietbart speaker Milo Yiannopoul yiannopoulos was not able to speechl speak. Scheduled to speak at 8 00 hang on. Berkeley police are making announcement. Can we listen . Reporter for the crowd to disperse. Disperse which means break up this assembly. You may be arrested or subject 0 other Police Action including the use of force. Reporter its a little difficult to hear. We can hear them over the microphones. Easier for us. Got to disperse or be arrested. Prohibits remaining and Unlawful Assembly. As we listen to officer saying, giving the code and law about Unlawful Assembly and break it up or go to jail. Youre on the campus. Its the birthplace of free speech. Youre on the plaza where it began. Does this campus have a history with this sort of thing . With yiannopoulos . Reporter this is as far as we know, his first visit here to this campus. Reason why youre seeing so many people talk about free speech is youre absolutely right, in the 1960s this was the site of the Free Speech Movement, what gave right to free speech where students wanted right to assembly and have a political voice. But in the 1960s largely Peaceful Assembly asking for a more liberal attitude inside the classroom and the ability to assemble here in this very plaza. What were seeing today is something very different. May be look at party but what were looking at throughout the last couple of hours is pretty violent protests. Some of them picking up barricades and smashing through first floor of the student assembly. Have you walk over here. Set fire to this light and its gone now but a second ago was a hat, make America Great hat set on fire here. So this is very much about politics, a different approach though than what we saw in the 1960s don. Thank you kyung. Well get back to you. Get back to the panel and talk about that phone call with the australian Prime Minister and mexican president as well but discuss the issue of free speech. As you heard kyung lah say earlier, talking about the current president and white house and steve bannon, this protest against Milo Yiannopoulos became a protest against the administration and having a person from brietbart in the inner circle. Thats right. Universities, especially east and west coast are debating right now how do we present the student with more conservative speakers because the east and west coast have few professors from the right. But when you do that, have a dilemma that someone will incite a riot or bring protesters. Went through it with harvard and Kellyanne Conway and clinton campaign. Exploded on campus. Its difficult for universities to sort out. This is berkeley and lot of people look at it, there it is. Berkeley all over again. Weve been here before. Is that not yiannopoulos saying the left is trying to limit free speech or stop it. Is it their First Amendment right to protest this person . Its rather rich for him to talk about how hes being shut down by the left when his editor, his owner mr. Bannon called for the press to shut its mouth. Certain amount of hypocrisy there. Im not fan of milos, put that out there. But he does have a right to speak. And the only type of speech that isnt protected is if he did anything to incite violence. Anything short of that is protected. This is a Public University so they are acting as government in this case, what happened today is called hecklers veto, the government, uc berkeley acting as government,shots down a speech because of fear of violent protest tiply. Peaceful is fine. This is infringement on free speech rights. People dont like to hear that, thats true. If you dont like what he has to say, i dont, dont go listen to him. Nobody require goad to the speech. If hes invited to come on campus, he can. People dont like it, rebut his ideas. Liberal value. This is the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement and this is not how you respond to speech you dont like. Best thing that happened to milo, now getting more attention. It is the protesters rights to protest. There are codes cant assemble in certain ways. But not their right to attack police officers, violence, throwing barricades through but as milo does have right to speak as well. Greg miller. Australian Prime Minister and phone call with the president of the United States. This is over 1250 refugees, president calling it worst deal ever, accused australian Prime Minister of seeking to export the next boston bombers. Didnt go over well in australia and with allies or playing well here in the United States. Yeah. This is a remarkable call for many reasons. Weve seen trump aims a lot of bluster at countries like mexico, which he used as a foil during the campaign but australia has been one of americas staunchest allies for more than a decade. With u. S. In iraq and afghanistan, to accuse ally of trying to offload potential terrorists, obviously not go over well with the government and Prime Minister. How did the phone call end . I think the australian Prime Minister tried to move on to other things clugt war in syria. Trump didnt want any part of that. Demured, worked his way off the phone and hung up. President won because vowed to shake things up. That good or bad . Its happening now. This is good for the supporters. What they voted for, wanted to see. Didnt want business as usual in washington so episodes like this highlight what they wanted. Question is what happens Going Forward . Thats the big question. I said before, trump seems to be creating problems that dont didnt necessarily exist before. And i think the question is how is he going to react when bad things happen on his watch. He cant create enemy in the way he seems to want to do with mexico and australia. I think so far so good in terms of his supporters, but in terms of maintaining some of these relationships that america has with different countries, not so great. Ive got to go. Dont go far panel. Never know what could happen. When we come back, is this all a sign of things to come and how worried are allies across the world . Ask one of the countrys top conservatives. burke at farmers, weve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a truckcicle. [second man] how you doing . [ice cracking] [second man] ah,ah, ah. Oh no [first man] saves us some drilling. [burke] and we covered it, february fourteenth, twentyfifteen. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum see me. See me. Dont stare at me. See me. See me. 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Turn back to breaking news tonight. Contentio contentious phone call between president dp donald trump and australian Prime Minister. Appreciate you coming on. Start with the new reporting about the president s phone call with the australian Prime Minister. What is your reaction to that . I think we have president don that likes to speak his mind, whether its someone on cnn or a world leader, hes going to tell you what he thinks. I was not privy to the call. Theres different press reports. White house saying its not as bad as some of the other press reports. I think the president is a blunt talker and people like that. Shaking things up in the United States. Also havent really Left Campaign mode. Donald trump ran a confrontational campaign, confronted establishment and republican establishment and he won. He sees that as successful game book. Now hes in governing mode and i think he and his team havent fully shifted into the idea that you need to be a little more collaborative and more consensus building. But i think it will come. Doing a lot at the same time but i think he will build bridges and has a history of doing that. Growing pains for lack of a better term. According to the Washington Post, he informed Prime Minister turnbull that he had spoken to four other World Leaders that day including russian president Vladimir Putin and quote this was the worst call so far. Australia is important ally, if this reporting is indeed true, why approach this call that way . Maybe even with allies had disagreements. When miss thatcher had a phone call with reagan after grenada, she was screaming and yelling and he yelling at her. Not a nice call, invaded commonwealth country without informing her. They were close friends. Not unusual. Really a shame this was leaked. Doesnt help or lay the groundwork for a better relationship. Think the Administration Needs to focus more on consensus building. Big game for donald trump is he wants to pass legitlation and needs democrats to do it. I give him a for effort and reform and shaking up washington, i think theyve fallen short on building a populist publicly supported consensus to force both the republicans and democrats to pass his legislation. I would be worried not going to pass tax reform, Obamacare Repeal and other stuff down the road. Because they havent built that consensus . You need the democrats to sign off. I thought initially Chuck Schumer because of his relationship with trump would be working with him. Hes a deal guy like donald is, but theres so much ill will now coming out. Last saturday donald trump hit a home run, he signed legislation banning lobbyists from dealing with the government for a period of five years. Seismic in implications. Nobody has done this. Stepped on his own message. Anybody talking about it . Exactly. With the executive order on muslims. And not order you want to hang your hat on. Not a ban, temporary suspension, from countries we give few cevis too anyway, could have done it administratively. They missed big opportunity. Talk about messaging then. Cnn sources are telling us the president is angry with the way his aides handled the executive order, at certain points called it a ban. But to avoid this type of thing, Reince Priebus is going to take more control is that the right move . We have the First Citizen president in the history of the country. Hes not a political insider. I think the public will give him more latitude. Brought in a lot of new people to the white house. Reince has no experience, steve bannon hasnt served in the government. Its learning curve. I can hear the other side get this question in and then you can finish. People who disagree saying youre making excuses for someone or administration who is not quite ready yet. When obama took power i said publicly i wanted him to succeed, willing to give him benefit of the doubt. Conservative but believe in the country and want president to succeed no matter what party hes from. I think the American People are willing to do that but i also think hes open to criticism. Weve criticized him in the past and supported on many issues but i generally think the press has been overly critical. Amount of outrage they have, he pointed out all the jobs weve been losing all over the country. Nothing happened in the past eight years with obama. No outrage over that but donald does something on a ban with terrorist countries, countries with huge terrorist problems and huge outrage and accuse him of being a racist. Anybody that knows the man knows hes not racist and outrageous that the press stoop to that level. You said ban too, just so you know. Thanks christopher, i appreciate it. Pleasure to have you. Same here. Well be right back. To a few places. 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Photo op with black staff and supporters to commemorate black History Month. Instead of first acknowledging the importance of the moment, sharing his thoughts on how many black votes he needed in the next election then turned criticism to the media. Last month celebrated life of Martin Luther king, incredible example is unique in history. Read about him when someone said i took the statue out of my office and turned out that was fake news. Soo simone, is this some people compared it the cia speech, standing in front of wall honoring fallen heroes. Time and place for everything. Was this the time and place for this . No donald trump has no decorum and he and his Vice President mike pence are ignorant to the history of what today is and entire month im disgusted don. Wow. Paris you were in the room. Singled you out. Paris has done amazing job in very hostile cnn community. All by himself. Seven people and paris. Ill take paris over the seven but i dont watch cnn so dont get to see you as much. Dont like watching fake news. Did you feel the comments appropriate for the occasion . Comments about me . Yes. I thought so, mother thought they were appropriate. In all seriousness i was there for entire listening session that the president had marking the first day of black History Month. His comments in totality on and off camera not only appropriate but substantive, positive and i was truly impressed by the fact that the president singled out the issue of historically black colleges and universities and wanting to get to the bottom of their plight under the past administration and make positive solutions to make them more solvent and do whatever he can do in his administration to really support them fully. Also talked about chicago, School Choice and using full range of the administration to make America Great again for africanamericans, people in other fragile communities and entire country. Very positive. Why does donald trump always associate black people with chicago . Just wondering. Educate you right now. It was brought up in the meeting about chicago and talk about a meeting that was going to happen with members in the community. And he said if that doesnt work, and which i hope it z i want you to know im going to send in the feds because this is not going to happen under my watch. Very concerned about the violence in chicago but not totality of the meeting or listening session, just one portion brought up. How long was the media in the room . The cameras . I think for a maximum of three to five minutes at max. So then for the total hour we were there with him. So during the portion we got to see, and the country got to see, he chose to use that time to bash the media, get things wrong about American History, and michael after what was wrong about American History . Were going to get to that. After he met with kanye west, remember he said george bush doesnt care about black people. You wrote in the Washington Post, it may be that mr. Trumps views reveal something as devastating as not caring about black people. Not knowing us. Frederick douglass is an example of someone who has done an amazing job and being recognized more and more i notice. Harriet tubman, rosa parks and millions more black americans who made america what it is today. Would have invited Frederick Douglass here but died in 1895, not clear from the comments and got criticism from that. Does he sound like kid who hasnt done his homework michael . A kid. Absolutely. As professor at georgetown and i wrote in the new york times. Never seen a president so blatantly unmolested by enlightenment. Not concerned with the facts, the sophisticated determination of the facts and understanding history in context. If he were to be serious about the history. Martin luther king and Frederick Douglass said what to the negros 4th of july, Martin Luther king said sorry it conclude that most americans were unconscious racists and Harriet Tubman who freed slaves. If he would have to be critical of his administration. Lack of curiosity and knowledge and ability to relate what happened in history to what is going on now bespeaks gross ignorance about africanamerican culture and doesnt bode well for President Trump addressing these issues through Public Policy or using bully pulpit to illuminate the crises. Came up in the White House Briefing too. Sean spicer. Today he made the comment about Frederick Douglass recognized more and more, do you have any idea what specifically he was referring to . I think he wants to highlight the contributions he has made. Through a lot of the actions and statements hes going to make, contributions of Frederick Douglass will become more and more. Im not seriously sure i understand what he meant by that. This is why we need black History Month. Started as negro history week and carter g. Woodson started this because he believed that black history needed to be taught as part of history in the schools. So that our kids understood history and then as it grew, white progressives became more and more interested and we all know under gerald ford black History Month finally nationally recognized as month. We need that because the White House Press secretary doesnt know it, the president of the United States doesnt know black history. Only person actually in the room to know the totality of what was said, what the president was referring to was africanAmerican History museum recently put on the mall