all right. rehema, listen up. guess what. not supposed to share an opinion. i love that story! coming up. whiplash. president trump initially backing down from his demand that congress approve funding for that border wall this week. just this morning the president reassuring americans his position has not changed. but how long is he willing to wait for the dough? [fbi agent] you re a brave man, mr. stevens. your testimony will save lives. mr. stevens? this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you must become invisible. [hero] i ll take my chances.
of americans say economic issues like job, taxes and trade are most important to them. 56% say they re satisfied with the state of the u.s. economy. as the 100-day mark approaches, just 46% of americans disapprove of the president s handling of the economy. nbc s rehema ellis joins me with more on this. you spoke to some community college students about jobs and the economy under this administration. what did you learn? well, let me tell you. i am standing here surrounded by dials and connectors as part of a manufacturing technology class. people here are feeling pretty good about jobs and the economy. in part because they all have jobs and they re in this class preparing themselves for even better jobs. at this community college in indianapolis, students are put ag spark in their future. i feel good about the job market from my position. reporter: with good reason. the indiana unemployment rate is at a 16-year low of 3.9%, below
which you can t really campaign on. that s commander in chief. i think that s going to be one of the areas where people may have concerns about him and were sort of his shoot from the hip style on twitter, you know, could not only be at issue with countries around the world but also with reassuring americans. sara, reassuring americans and reassuring i remember leaders are two different things. when donald trump, the president-elect, is looking at the way to manage messaging, is he taking what may have worked before but does not work when you re sitting in the white house, the it s okay to question dominant theories but do that behind closed doors and work through that there, don t do it on twitter? well, we ll see, but here s what we do know. china has been a rising adversary now in the post cold war era for decades, and not much has been done to curtail that. and so for the foreign policy we ve seen over the last decade
few colleagues that feel the same way he did. john did not vote for it either. they understand when you say repeal and replace, which is what the president-elect talked about during the campaign, it sound like a great campaign slogan. and even a campaign promise. but when it comes time to governing it s very difficult to do. this is a very complicated law that has to be done in a thoughtful way if you want to fix it. now, i am one of those people, i was not in washington when it passed, i support health care for all. we tear greatest nation in the world and people should be able to go to the doctor. the criticism before you heard, the way it was introduced to congress last time came out of a committee with nancy pelosi and then you got this big, large document and you had to vote for it and then figure out what you didn t like. this is what americans are saying across the country of that process and the outcome of it. i would share some from the quinnipiac poll and discussing it with
hillary clinton for the last couple of years, will this question about legitimacy, about russia, and the reports that have come out and the information that is alleged to have been out there so far, will that be that same issue that will dog donald trump in this first year, first two years? i certainly hope not. i m incredibly disappointed with representative lewis. he s a hero to so many americans, and to come out and say that and not realize that this is about the peaceful transfer of power, it s about our american system, it s not about one man who i m sure he didn t vote for, and that s okay. but to not say that about inauguration and about a president-elect was incredibly disappointing and i hope that americans do come together and acknowledge that this is our president. i understand that there are concerns about russia s actions, rightly so. but there is no evidence and everyone seems to agree on this, no evidence that the election itself was tampered with.