making america great again. so happy anniversary, god bless you, and god bless the united states of america. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] melissa: that was president trump, the national federation of independent businesses. i melissa francis in today for harris faulkner and this is outnumbered over time. a short time ago, he slammed democrats as the controversy over his zero-tolerance immigration policy. listen. as a result of democrat support of in our federal laws, most illegal immigrant families and minors from central america central america will arrive unlawfully at the border cannot be detained together or removed together, only released. these are crippling loopholes that cause family separations
the russia investigation. are hillary clinton and anthony weiner the reasons why the fbi s number two, andrew mccabe, stepped down unexpectedly? throughout the hour we ll be fact checking president trump s first state of the union chief. politifact executive director joins me, our first topic, small business. listen to what the president said. small business confidence is at an all-time high. all right. what s the truth? well, the parking lot gets this one right, stephanie. we ll get into some mistakes later on. this is from the national federation of independent businesses, it s the highest since 2004. one caveat, the number in december dipped compared to november. he left it out. but he gets a true here. we ll have more to say about later fact checks in the show. he gets it true and it is true, he s one heck of a salesman. we ll have much more fact checking coming up on msnbc. stay with us. we have a lot to cover today. s . sup!
establishment category with a 97% american conservative voting record how did that happen? it s amazing. i think we have been successful in fund raising but most of our money has come not only from the state of georgia but small donors. we feel good about that. also have an a plus with nra, 100% with national rights for life. 100% with national federation of independent businesses, national journal says we have the most conservative record of anyone in the race. it s, you know how it is, i don t endorse liberals, jack. yes. well you did not in this case we ve been fighting like dickens throughout the state taking every hand we can we do feel good about it. we re going to watch the race closely the runoff is in july we re going to follow that closely. congressman, good to see you.
with rhetoric. and it is so divorced from reality that you wonder, well, i m not going the play psychiatrist here. i ll just say that it is it s a problem. let s get some reaction from where it really hits home, the national federation of independent businesses, which issued a statement shortly after this decision was made today, quoting now, it probably matters little to people in washington that the failure to get the small business exchanges online adds yet another onerous paperwork requirement for the job creators. the continued delays add to uncertainty and contribute to decision of many owners to take early renewals of their small group plans. i think that s right. the problem here is that given all the negative publicity, all the negativity that s surrounding not only the website failure, but the problems with the cancellations and the inability of the administration to put forward people who have benefitted from the changes in the plan, because people have been unable to
but they imagine it s fixable with rhetoric. and it is so divorced from reality that you wonder, well, i m not going the play psychiatrist here. i ll just say that it is it s a problem. let s get some reaction from where it really hits home, the national federation of independent businesses, which issued a statement shortly after this decision was made today, quoting now, it probably matters little to people in washington that the failure to get the small business exchanges online adds yet another onerous paperwork requirement for the job creators. the continued delays add to uncertainty and contribute to decision of many owners to take early renewals of their small group plans. i think that s right. the problem here is that given all the negative publicity, all the negativity that s surrounding not only the website failure, but the problems with the cancellations and the inability of the administration to put forward people who have benefitted from the changes in the plan, becau