education, the economy, and social justice issues. you know what, after the democratic primary they were met with people fought and died for your right to vote. you need get on board with your democratic nominee or oh, yes these are definitely the issues are you will you not scared of donald trump? look where we are now. young people regardless of whether the democratic or republican party embraces them they are going to organize, strategize and they are going act. it is incumbent upon the democrats. i am a life long democratic. i am progressive it s incumbent on us to stand up and embrace the young people. to rebuild the party. we have to bring them to the table for meaningful engage men. you can t bring the young folks in after the decisions have been made. for everybody questioning who the leadership is today we need to bring the young people into the room and answer that question. alice, you are a republican woman who voted for donald trump but you wrestled inside your soul, am i
change. donald trump was so on message. stay with me. i want to bring in jenna watson, the public information officer for the oakland police department with me on the phone. are you there, officer? i am, yes, hello. thank you for joining us you are live on cnn. this is poppy harlow in new york. we are going to pull up live pictures that we are seeing out of oakland, california from earlier tonight, out of oakland, california. you see protesters who gathered. what can you tell us about the protests that took place this evening and what s going on right now? sure. thank you for asking. first all, one of the most important messages we wanted to send to our commune through media channels was that we were here full staffing, we have at love resources in place to facilitate a peaceful march. certainly uphold freedom of speech, have conversations, listen, be listened to, and be heard. that was most important message in a peaceful and safe
in this process, to her point, donald trump did say previously in the campaign, you know, proposed an allout ban on muslims coming into this country. although it has been altered over the 11 months since he said it he never fully walked it back and never offered clarity to the american public on exactly what hess policy would be. that fear among a young muslim journalist who you just heard from there is palpable to young muslims in this country. what do you think donald trump should say to them tonight? look, i think donald trump gave his speech as you mentioned. i think he gave conciliatory remarks. he is our president. over the course of the next couple of weeks he is going to lay out his policies, i presume he is going to talk about what he is going to do for the american people. i think that s important. in my mind, i don t think the people protesting are going to be responsive to whatever the
assess and talk about in order to, ai, avoid it from anning aga happening again, and to regain the trust. we ll see how president elect trump handles the immediate. he ll hold white house briefings in the press room. he will have a press corp. with him. access has been a challenge with him. what do you think? it may be like under a president trump? frankly, in the 24 hours that he has been the president elect, almost exactly 24 hours ago is when he was called the winner, the only thing he s tweeted is basically the forgotten men and women will no longer be forgotten. we re not seeing twitter trump anymore. we re not. i m very curious to see what happens at the white house later today. president obama and president elect trump meeting in the oval office. this is the first black
black president in part. and that s the part where the pain comes. alice, that s a moment that went viral. he said this is a white lash, and he says i respect who you supported and who won, but you have to realize what was said. you are someone who you were late to come over to the trump camp, right? you worked for ted cruz. he was late to come over. how did you reconcile the two? you wrote extensively about this that you were disgusted with some of the things donald trump said but you came on board. i still am disgusted with some of the things he said. there is no defense for a lot of the things he said. and i personally had to talk to rafael cruz about some of the things that donald trump said accusing him of killing jfk. i cannot begin to imagine exactly what van feels in that. when i saw that tape and when i saw him say that my heart broke because he is such a kind gentle