that as well. look. in a stunning election upset, president trump did what no republican candidate has done for decades, he flipped michigan from blue to red, helping him win the 2016 election. i think president trump has done a very good job. in the face of tremendous opposition. reporter: those are the voters that helped president trump flip michigan. we met them here days after president trump took office. we came back nearly a year later, to find out how they think he s done. an a for effort. b-plus. b for accomplishment. i say c-plus. i give him an a. an a ? yes. bill owns lilyann cabinets, an hour and a half drive southwest of detroit. decker is very happy with what he says the president has done for his business. we re growing 25 to 30%. so you say president trump
i was under the assumption that this tape recording system was still deep, dark secret over at the white house. that secret was well kept. when you stop and think, rosemary woods, his secretary, never knew about the tapes. henry kissinger, as close as henry was, never knew about the tapes. john ehrlichman never knew about the tapes. two people told me about it before it became public. i called bradley at home at 9:00 on saturday night i believe and said nixon taped himself. what should we do? ben, said, i wouldn t bust one on it. it s kind of a b-plus story. okay. the boss says b-plus. i won t work on it. i took sunday off and monday they called butterfield. i remember, ben came by and knocked on my desk and said, okay, it s better than a b-plus. from then on, it s a fight for the tapes. because they answer the questions. am i telling the truth?
and i want to see these things done and we are not unified in how to go about it. the president says there s great unity, and we don t understand how much unity there is, and he s getting standing ovation, he says. i am sure that happened. you know what? he s right we are unified on the issues and the things we believe in in general, but we are not yet unified on how to get from point a to point b. governing is about getting things done, touchdowns in the end zones, and we are not done that yet. it s five years now from hurricane sandy, and the president s response to hurricanes, how do you grade it? b plus. here s why. in texas, you see the difference between the condition of the states or territories when the storm hit. in texas, you had pretty solid
that this tape recording system was still deep, dark secret over at the white house. that secret was well kept. when you stop and think, rosemary woods, his secretary, never knew about the tapes. henry kissinger, as close as henry was, never knew about the tapes. john ehrlichman never knew about the tapes. two people told me about it before it became public. i called bradley at home at 9:00 on saturday night i believe and said nixon taped himself. what should we do? ben, said, i wouldn t bust one on it. it s kind of a b-plus story. okay. the boss says b-plus. i won t work on it. i took sunday off and monday they called butterfield. i remember, ben came by and knocked on my desk and said, okay, it s better than a b-plus. from then on, it s a fight for the tapes. am i telling the truth? is the president telling the truth. what else happened? the prosecutors immediately subpoenaed the tapes. the senate subpoenas them.
with the positive again, i think from an optics standpoint, i give this i give the trump white house a b-plus, a-minus. in terms of the substance we don t know. but in terms of the optics i have to give the white house a solid b-plus for this. i think they did a pretty good job. all right. we ll take a very quick break. but up next, more dangerous clashes as protesters and police face off near the g20 summit. nbc s keir simmons is right in the middle of it all. he joins us when we come back. there s nothing more important to me than my vacation.