joining me is john braybender, republican strategist. president of the progressive policy group, demos. trip gabriel have covered the town hall events for the new york times. tripp, the hearings are held by members of the house, members of the senate, mostly republicans we re talking about. who is out in the crowd making the protest so loud and so effective so far? who are they? they re constituents in the districts of the congresspeople and the senators in the states. you just showed 2,000 people or so in arkansas. those were, you know locals. yep. they re not as we used to say in the 60s are the bad people, the outside agitators. they re not that. they re inside agitators. how do we know about the groups like indivisible, that group, i ve been reading their material. thought it was fascinating. just read this. maybe you should achnswer this, heather. if a small minority in the tea party could stop president obama then, we the majority can stop a petty tyrant named t
look at the tea party. the tea party was started out as a grassroots movement, i agree, but then it did get electoralized with a bunch of hard money. i don t think we re going to see that on the left. i don t think we re going too see to see tea party primaries in the same way. we ll see if some of the godfathers come along. anyway, thank you, john brabebd bender, heather mcgee. tripp. john, thank you for putting this perspective, a lot of help there. tonight at 10:00 p.m., join me along with brian williams and rachel maddow for a full two-ur special, we examine the first month of the trump presidency. this is going to be some unpacking job, what happened in 3 d 33 days. coming up, president trump said he inherited a mess from president obama. the economy he took over was on strong footing, don t you remember? there s optimism on wall street, the markets continue to climb to record highs. can mr. trump deliver on his campaign promise, to me, the only one that really, really matte
does not like to read much, so we are expecting it will be catered to him. senior sources on capitol hill, it seems like rex tillerson is going to be fine. fine doesn t mean the process is going to be pleasant or not bumpy. but he s an impressive guy. thank you, john braybender, april ryan. thanks for being with us.
last time they got to run with obama. what s the big upset? i think pennsylvania. the opposite of synopsis. the presidential briefings going back a couple years since we re hearing donald trump doesn t like them to get repetition every day. bill clinton was a voracious reader. he read his intelligence briefings. george w. bush had people come in and gave him the understanding of what was going on, and he also had an hour with them afterwards. and now president obama read as well as takes the briefings. so we understand donald trump does not like to read much, so we are expecting it will be catered to him. senior sources on capitol hill, it seems like rex tillerson is going to be fine. fine doesn t mean the process is going to be pleasant or not bumpy. but he s an impressive guy. thank you, john braybender, april ryan. thanks for being with us. don and i met because i m a
plan and vision. suppose you are muslim, what would you think? what would you think if you were a muslim and you heard that muslims can t come in. this was an un-american plan and unrepublican plan. that s essentially what we said. i m not being an apologist in that regard, but if we as log canon republicans are 56k9ing for a more inclusive party, it doesn t begin and end with gay community. well said, thank you for saying it. following the attacks in san bernardino and paris, many americans have security as a top priority. here s a woman this week in south carolina. there s too much going on in the world. i think we need to protect america first. reporter: do you feel that this is the main issue that you re focus odd when you re considering who to vote for president? yes, definitely. john, let s get to this thing. i m not going to put down the