i was coming here to do the convention. and then i heard that jennifer holiday, i said wow, the next aretha franklin. i want to hear her. and then right behind that i got bam, you are going to have to stay over. why? because i want to go back home? they said because jennifer just, you know, stepped out. brian: pulled out. okay. what do you want to do? they said you can do it? i said yeah. steve: there you go. ainsley: any blow back? yes. steve: like what? well, i have been called a lot of names. i have been called i have been called worse names than i have ever been called. steve: just because you are at the trump event? yes. because i m hey, i got more attention now than i did when i was famous. [laughter] steve: tim, what about the backlash, we have heard performers have been approached and they start to
has pulled out after hearing from angry fans. the frenzy was beyond anything we could ever expect. reporter: this comes just two days after broadway superstar, jennifer holiday reversed her initial decision to sing on thursday. people kept saying did trump trick me? no. i wanted to sing for america and the people. i wanted my voice to be an instrument of healing and unity. and sam moore announced he would be stepping in. imploring americans to give trump a chance. disappointing that those who choose to honor america choose to honor the peaceful transfer of power. are being harassed and mistreated by the so-called tallerant left. reporter: a growing number of
jennifer lawrence. they will all be at my inauguration, courtesy of madame tussaud s. kayla, he said he doesn t care about celebrities at the inauguration. he cares about the people. do you really believe that? i do believe that. and look, don, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. and it s all what you see. because when i heard toby keith, and i was like, way better than beyonce and katy perry and all the various obama performers. toby keith is a-list for me and for the other deplorables out there. so it s good. [ laughter ] okay. i m not even going to go there. jennifer holiday now saying that she will not perform. she said it was she was going to do it, she thought she was going to do it for the people. and now because of her fans, her gay and lesbian fans, that she s not going to do it, that she was wrong. what do you think, mark? good for her. a lot of times people are just happy to be in the room. if the president invites them,
there s some appointments in his cabinet that haven t been made yet. these are things he should be paying attention to, instead of tweeting at 2:00 in the morning. if he was serious about building bridges, he would sit down and have conversations with the opposition if you willp there are debates about how effective president obama was. at least he knew how to perform the gesture of reaching across the aisle. we haven t seen that gesture yet in terms of mr. trump or a connection to the black community. in terms of meeting with african-americans who like him or who he likes, michael. you have to steve harvey, jennifer holiday getting a lot of backlash for going to trump tower, meeting with the
cabinet, in his government that he has not made yet. these are things he should be paying attention to, instead of tweeting at 2:00 in the morning. if he was serious about building bridges, he would sit down and have conversations with the opposition, if you will. you know, there are a lot of debates about how effective president obama was in terms of reaching across the aisle in that regard. at least he knew how to perform the gesture of reaching across the aisle. we haven t seen that gesture yet in terms of mr. trump or a connection to the black community. in terms of meeting with african-americans who like him or who he likes, michael. you have to steve harvey, jennifer holiday getting a lot of backlash for going to trump tower, meeting with the president considering performing at the inauguration. what do you say to african-americans that are