what i speak of. 18% at the one-year mark, 18% of african-american now support him and the approval ratings, just today don t believe me usa today and our publication say that s at 38%. that s exactly you can t ignore the language that s out there. we see a tweet where the president refers to a woman as a dog. i don t approve of that. i was a writer for one of the main presidential debates, where there was the female question. my record is very clear on where i stand with women s issues. my grandfather was hispanic. here s the problem, this is what republicans i like jen, but this is what republicans want want to do. they want to reject the ugly part of trumpism, but don t want
world. associated press records that omarosa has a stash of documentation supporting the claims in her tell-all book. joining mess are joel payne and former spokesperson for the california republican party jen kerns. she s not going away anytime soon. is the president worried? and maybe do voters even care about what she s saying? i don t think voters care anything for this. this is fodder for folks like jen and myself and probably in d.c. this is what the president has brought to politics, this type of three-ring circus to politics. this is almost like the all of the tactics that the president has really per effected being used against him. using tapes, using hyperbole, the misspeaking about nixon and talking about trump, all of
election interference in our elections. let me go back to you, jen. you talked about staff meetings to the staff meetings the different staffs of the russian president and the u.s. president. but we saw even a senior official of the trump administration was caught off guard when our andrea mitchell informed him in aspen that the president had invited putin to the white house. so how are we supposed to depend or have any kind of trust in what the staff discussed when the staff doesn t even know the president of the united states had invited the president of russia to the white house? well, it is possible that not every staff member in the white house who was not working on that project directly did not know especially if he was out of town or on vacation. but look, what peter ought to know is what rod rosenstein said last friday with the indictments of the 12 new russians was that
indicted and where this is going to lead. this is the opening salvo. just wanted to add that piece. thank you both for being with me this morning. thank you. peter emerson and jen kerns. coming up, will brett kavanaugh s confirmation to the supreme court spell doom for civil rights? naacp president derrick johnson will tackle that question when we come back. this is politicsnation on msnbc.
liability, that s what s mattering. all right. well, it keeps going and it keeps going. for the record, michael cohen and i did not discuss the tapes. in fact, they came out about an hour or so after our breakfast, but thank you nbc s danny cevallos. now back to the very interesting week to say the least. we had with our russian counterpart, foes, enemies, joining me now peter emerson who worked or the three democratic administrations and jen kerns a former spokeswoman for the california republican party. jen, let me go to you first. the president goes, stands shoulder to shoulder with vladimir putin, says that he has no reason to believe that russia interfered with the united states elections in 2016.