release his taxes. joining us right now is one of the marchers, jerry style. thanks for being with us. tell us why you decided to come out here today? well, my daughter has been very active in the anti-trump resistance movement. went to the march in washington, the women s march, and she convinced me to start taking part in some of the local events. so i ve been with the movement in spirit, but this is the first actual march i ve attended. why did you decide to come out here at that? why was this issue important for you? well, the republicans and president trump are about to launch a tax reform program and yet we kno nothing abo his taxes. we don t knowhether those changes they want to make are going to put money in his pocket, his family s pocket, or whether they re going to help the average person. without his tax returns, we ll never know that. and that s the main concern that we ve heard out here today, sheinelle, is that presidential candidates, presidents are not required
and thank you, sheinelle. happy easter anticipatorily. it s good to be here. what do you make of all of this? well, i don t think the decision yesterday. i was on with brian williams last night on the 11th hour explaining the only good reason i can come up for making this decision is so president trump can publicly reverse it. there s no real reason for doing it because journalists will find out anyway and secret meetings can be held all over town. one was held at the willard hotel back in the middle of the cuban missile crisis. but i ll say this. they had two weeks of great news coming out of the white house, beginning with the confirmation hearings of justice gorsuch, then his confirmation, his actual breaking of the reid rule to break the filibuster. they had the response to the syrian use of sarin. they had the afghanistan use of the moab. great visit from president xi, great visit from the nato secretary general. just no reason to step on your
for the strength and energy to get back to doing. .what you love. ensure. always be you. happening at this hour across the country, dozens of marches protesting president trump s refusal to release his tax returns. you re looking at protests live in new york, chicago, atlanta and washington, d.c. in fact let s go to nbcest ali vitali in washington. ali, what s going on right now? reporter: sheinelle, i m sure you can see behind me we re right by the capitol. around me there s people that are gathering from the protests staged right at the steps of the capitol to protest donald trump not releasing his tax returns. if you can see on my right, we have people who are around me gathering with signs ready to march from here at the capitol down over to the trump hotel, which is just down the street. what a lot of these people have said to me and what a lot of their signs are also saying is they want him to release his tax
government doing the chemical attack. that has to change the way they respond. they have had legislative defeats trying to repeal health care and losing in the court battle over travel ban. so there are issues where they have had real setbacks and they have also had some positives. difficult to get the supreme court nomination through, but they did. this does breed some of the disagreement, some of the difficulty that can happen. so we do see these reports where there are stories of reince priebus being in some kind of trouble and yet we ve got other top advisers saying it s just the tensions that exist in a highly volatile environment. thank you, kelly. let s bring in congressman ted lieu, democrat of california. he s also a veteran of the u.s. air force. good afternoon to you. good afternoon, sheinelle. there are reports this morning that jets are already taking off again from the same airfield targeted by the u.s. on thursday. so if the base is still operational, then what w
xi here as a guest in the united states. what s kind of notable here is he says tremendous good will and friendship was formed, but only time will tell on trade. so that is sort of classically donald trump. a bit of a note of friendship in that personal diplomacy but holding out the issue of trade. something that was a signature issue for him as a candidate and certainly when it comes to china and the trade imbalance, this is an area where president trump feels that there needs to be a real resetting of the table internationally. so the china visit deemed a success, at least at the diplomatic level, with more work to do. i think that s the best way to describe it, sheinelle, is this went as well as can be expected given the set of issues between the two nations. there was a spirit of friendship that appeared to be real as you try to read the interaction between the two leaders but there is a lot more for them to