and blacks succeeding in this country. brian: what did your parents and what do you say to people say there is iniquities in society. you know, we started as slaves in this country, brought here against our will, and people are angry about that. and we see it playing out on a daily basis. why don t have you that anger? well, it s important that we know our history. but it s also important that we work together to figure out how we can move ahead. one of the things i have tried to do in my life and a surgeon general is show everyone how we benefit from addressing iniquity and how everyone can benefit from a more prosperous country. i m so excited about the opportunity to be a part of this administration as surgeon general. can i shine a light on. so issues and share. so stories i faced. brian: wow. and you are and you did. thanks so much for bringing it out yesterday great speech speaking from the heart and thanks for joining us this morning, doctor. brian, chocolate actually is goo
and of course the president will is expected to address the members of congress who are at that retreat if the schedule gets back on track. that is set for tomorrow if that in fact goes forward as planned. so it is a different way of rolling out of the state of the union but the economic message is what the white house is still trying to shine a light on. kelly o donnell at the white house. one of the biggest issues in the president s speech was immigration. he sited terror attacks as a reason to end the visa lottery program. this vital reform is necessary, not just for our economy, but for our security and for the future of america. in recent weeks two terrorist attacks in new york were made possible by the visa lottery and chain migration. in the age of terrorism, these programs present risks. we can just no longer afford.
republicans and republicans in congress who have concerns about how the executive order may be related to travel restrictions was handled, how it has played out over the last few days and there are concerns. that s something democrats can shine a light on. john mccain has raised questions and one of the people out front asking the trump administration to do this better. here s a sense of what john mccain s view is. bad news is that obviously this process in these conclusions were not vetted. there are so many questions that for example it didn t filter down to our customs people, who can come in, who can t. i think the effect will probably in some areas give isis more propaganda. another issue that you mentioned as the democrats have power to try to slow down the confirmation of president trump s picks for his cabinet.
so he showed an ability to cross lines that hadn t been crossed before. but in terms of presidential race it was really when he won the iowa caucuses that i felt that this was going to go. i saw glimpses of the possibility earlier. certainly his speech at the convention in 2004 was a harbinger of something. but it was really when he won the iowa caucuses in the state that was 98% white that it that that looked to me like the country was was ready. after he takes this long, as he calls it, very nice vacation, with his better half, what do you think is the single most important thing to him to accomplish in his post-presidency? and for whom? you know, he addressed that poppy at the end of the podcast and he said that he saw his role now as trying to lift up, shine
have no such obls as that. my obligation is very different. it is to continue to shine a light on who this man actually is, and not let that get lost in the fog of the moment, not let that get lost in the fog of tweeting, not let it get lost in the mass acceptance and normalization of this man. it will never be normal to me, i will never say it is okay. he has never apologized for any of the horrendous things he has said and done and he still does not do that. when he makes a mistake, like when he got the number wrong on how many jobs would be saved at carrier, instead of just being magnanimous and saying i got it wrong, it is a good deal anyway, thank you for pointing that out, he attacks that man personally. that is a character flaw to me that i will not be able to get over. yeah. i have got to go. thank you very much. i appreciate it. when we come back, fighting hate speech. when a neonazi comes to town do