the russia investigation. are hillary clinton and anthony weiner the reasons why the fbi s number two, andrew mccabe, stepped down unexpectedly? throughout the hour we ll be fact checking president trump s first state of the union chief. politifact executive director joins me, our first topic, small business. listen to what the president said. small business confidence is at an all-time high. all right. what s the truth? well, the parking lot gets this one right, stephanie. we ll get into some mistakes later on. this is from the national federation of independent businesses, it s the highest since 2004. one caveat, the number in december dipped compared to november. he left it out. but he gets a true here. we ll have more to say about later fact checks in the show. he gets it true and it is true, he s one heck of a salesman. we ll have much more fact checking coming up on msnbc. stay with us. we have a lot to cover today. s . sup!
keep the factory open and save jobs headed for mexico. they re not going to leave this country. and the workers are going to keep their jobs. these companies aren t going to be leaving anymore. they aren t going to be taking people s hearts out. i know one man who didn t believe him. since then more than 500 carrier jobs have gone to the company s plant in mexico where workers make about three bucks an hour, according to union officials. in a washington post editorial, the former union leader who represented these workers writes, we feel betrayed. trump continues to lie about his commitment to saving jobs at carrier or anywhere else and workers are taking note. that man joins me now, chuck jones, former president of the local 1999. chuck, the president took aim at you specifically a year ago. you ve lived through this year, you ve seen what happened at carrier and other companies. what s your reaction to what the president promised last night? well, i think, like anything els
steph, immigration reform. last night he made his case for why he thinks his plan is the right one. it would give a pathway to citizenship for dreamers. it would also require more funding for his border wall and border security, despite his noted bipartisanship last night, steph, there s no indication that democrats and republicans are any closer to actually reaching a deal when it comes to immigration reform. and of course they re up against some very tough deadlines. the first one being in march. but next week, the government runs out of money. so lawmakers and the president have to deal with that first. the thinking is president trump is going to stay here in washington. he s going to try to work with lawmakers, reach across the aisle to try to get these deals done. he is planning to send some of his top officials out on the road to sell that message that we heard last night, steph. all right, kristen. you need to rest up. so i ll bring my panel had. steve schmidt, republican
disturbing. i think bakari is right on the money though that this is not a surprise. interesting to contrast last night s teleprompter trump performance versus tonight which is, of course, the real trump. just as it was in the unglued impromptu press conference at trump tower. i just find this extremely disturbing. are you questioning his fitness? yes, i do. i really question his ability to be, his fitness to be in this office and i also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it. maybe he is looking for a way out. i do wonder, as well about the
talk about this. marie says the key is the pre-existing conditions. i disagree. i think the key is affordable health care for more people. they are related. you can t have health insurance if you have the pre-existing conditions. if you can fall off the roof until the ambulance to swing by the insurance agency on the way to the hospital, that s not insurance. it seems to me the problem with the bill is that it preserves all the governmental-ization of health care but without restoring private health care. we have neither a public or private system. the real trump was the kind the campaign trail who said well, single payer seems to work well enough in scotland and canada. and it does for most people. i would be in favor of leaving obamacare in place as a government health care system