crowd it was moved outdoors where reed was met with angry protests. i tell you where my positions are. i do not try to dance around the positions based on our positions after we do the study and advance where we are. i do not support taxpayer paying of abortions. and i am pro life. congressman reed is hosting a number of town halls today, including one in fillmore, new york, where msnbc s beth fewy joins us live. beth, there have been a number of these kinds of events for members of congress in the last couple of weeks. do you think the congressman was surprised by what he saw today? reporter: stephanie, good afternoon from beautiful fillmore in the western part of the state. this is wrapping up a long day for congressman reed. one of four down halls, the one that you referenced this morning extremely raucous.
he came out and met with his constituents when so many other republican lawmakers are apparently deciding to skip it. tom read says he was not bothered by the protest and enjoys engaging in conversations. here s the question, was it conversation? did it remain civil? it s good for the democracy if we can talk together but was he shouted over. reporter: i wouldn t say he was shouted over. he asked the crowd what they wanted to talk about, who here wants to talk about health care, social? medicare. he reached out and said let s talk about what was on your mind. several people were polite. others less so, shouting and expressing concern. there were chants, trump taxes, and what about russia, thing like. that it was a spirited crowd boo the congressman seemed to take it in stride. beth, thank you very much, there is a lot of passion out there. a deadly storm, one of the
delivered a plea of how to think of them in the future, and trump is mixing those two things, and saying the cast insulted pence and that s not true. beth, let me move to this. will this be business as usual as, you know, the country club as the president-elect is meeting with romney to try and fill out these cabinet members. we were talking about my knew shaw. the fact that romney is on the list and he will go and meet with trump in a place where a whole bunch of reporters are staking out, it s significant. we know there s no love lost between these two men and they are public in their distain for one another and that was during the campaign and now it s time for governing, and he feels maybe mitt romney feels this is
fill here? is it to deploy his own credibility on the world stage on behalf of trump and different ideas he might not agree with, or is it to help shape the policies of a trump administration? it s always unclear in the early days. beth, are these, i guess political apoints going to be political scores or are they going to be rewarding loyalist? what is this telling you? we are seeing a few, rewarding of loyalist and political scores. he put mike flynn in and he is a huge loyalist, and so trump rewarded him with a very important position. on mike pompeo, he was a very important player in the benghazi scenario, and we know trump said at the campaign, he said lock her up, and it doesn t look like they will lock up hillary
looking at the facebook stats. first day after the announcement, 10.1 million interactions by 4.7 million people, the announcement viewed as i said some 4 million times here. the digital imprint is so large again to then be on the scooby doo van now going across the country. what s really interesting is even though her opponents on the republican side are going to portray her as old news yesterday s news tired, done that, been there, obviously, people are very interested in her campaign. there s a lot of attention being paid, but a lot of interest. people are really talking about it. let me bring in robert zimmerman, democratic strategist. picking up on what beth had to say, five questions that hillary clinton will face. i m going to dpif you a quick chance to answer some of them since you ve been behind her campaign. will clinton start to stand for something? well, answering the first question, obviously, her career is defined by the courage she has shown, whether it was leade