help people do better. i don t think workers are going to get more than an open door from alex acosta. alex acosta served on the national labor relations board under president george w. bush and he s been through three senate confirmation hearings, which i think the president pointed out there. is it going to be a smooth confirmation? he s going to get confirmed, but there are going to be a lot of questions about his tenure at the justice department. there were allegations of illegal political hiring there. there will be questions about his experience of the u.s. attorney in miami and some of the cases. there was one particular case about a really egregious sexual abuse of minors. he was alleged to have intervened in voter suppression efforts in ohio, on the wrong side. so there ll be some questions for him. but it s reasonable to assume that he doesn t have some of the really troubling, personal challenges that president trump s first labor secretary pick, andy puzder had, so my e
cob fi confirmed. let s talk about his tenure at the justice department. while he was at the department of justice, a government report said that acosta did not sufficiently supervise a subordinate who engaged in politicized hiring. what does that say about his judgment and how he has exercised it as the secretary of labor? that s a the fair question. the labor secretary is the ceo of a 17,000-person, $13.5 billion corporation. it s a huge enterprise. so managerial skil, supervisory skill is part of the job. and so that s a legitimate question to ask dean acosta. is he going to do a good job making sure the labor department achieves its mission? that s a fair question. i want to ask you about how acosta s nomination would affect the fight for 15 that we saw gain a lot of steam under
done, but in 30 days, he s done more than the 8 years of the last administration, as far as i m concerned. reporter: you guys come out to a lot of campaign events? first one ever. first one. reporter: what about you, sir? last one was ross perot. did you vote for him? i was too young. you were probably not even born yet. did you vote for mr. trump? absolutely. i voted for obama last year, i was democrat last year and changed over last year along with a bunch of my friends. can t take this anymore. this country is headed way in the wrong direction. it s got to change. jobs. with a strong america, strong american economy, jobs are the key. reporter: thank you so much, donald trump supporters want to hear from the president directly, and as we saw on the campaign, that is what donald trump likes to do. he likes to bring the message to his supporters directly, he s done it on twitter, backing news media.
standing ovations. it wasn t a rapturous welcome. and that was partly because although there was a lot of sweet talk, a lot of talk about the importance of alliances, particularly between the united states and europe, at the same time, jacob, the message was still there. you need to spend more on defense. you need to spend more on defense, you need to spend more on defense, otherwise you re undermining the alliance. that is not a message that goes down fantastically well amongst european leaders. that s right, keir. and one can only wonder what president trump would say if he were in the same room with the same leaders and how different it would be ultimately from what the vice president had to say. keir, i know you caught up with the vice president. i wanted to play a bit of your exchange regarding his role and speaking on behalf of the president. watch this. are you and the president sending the same message, sir? yes, exactly the same message. exactly the same message? str
that we ve been talking to people about over the last couple of days is whether or not if they have families that are undocumented and if they have families that become in the crosshairs of i.c.e., whether or not they will actually seek sanctuary in a church. so far, seeing what happened to thee rayos family in phoenix and seeing what happened to the woman in denver has really kind of set the tone for people, as they decide what they will do, if this swings towards their family. so a lot of people we ve talked to are already making contingency plans and are here undocumented as to what they may do if i.c.e. comes after them. gadi, any response from mayor garcetti, eric garcetti out there in l.a. to these protester who is demand that he call los angeles explicitly a sanctuary city? reporter: well, yeah, so, it s interesting, he s been very careful with his words. he has said that los angeles is a city of sanctuary, but he s also said oh, excuse me. he s also said that los angeles