stories. one piece of advice you would give the president 40s next six months? stay focused. be a bull. keep on charging. don t stop. don t stop. we need as much help as we can to keep our businesses as strong and vibrant and our american economy. we ve got to keep our american economy. americans first, jobs first, and we have to be focused. reporter: in youngstown, ohio, msnbc. here in our studios, we have on our panel of 2016 voters. we ll find out what they think of the trump presidency six months in. barack obama when he was president found out about this in terms of if it were russia. found out about it in august. now the election was in november. that s a lot of time. he did thnothing about it.
obama just wanted to please people. good morning. mr. trump for president. she even campaigned for trump online. making videos. posting how i felt about him, the opinions. even though i made people upset. reporter: since taking office, trump has not returned to that county. it is time to put youngstown, ohio reporter: but in june he cited youngstown for a reason to withdraw from the paris climate deal. it came as a surprise for the youngstown mayor. there is no evidence him pulling out of it is going to e create any additional jobs in youngstown or our county. reporter: one of the city s thousands of abandoned homes, the mayor told me he hasn t seen much change here since inauguration day. what do you expect in the next six months of the trump presidency? i m not sure i expect much more than what we ve seen for
of integrity that his administration continues to show. then also people being purged from voter rolls. there is an entire attack on the rights for people to be able to vote in elections. so there s still work needing to be done there but as far as pinning it on one person or looking at the faults and reason why hillary lost, i think six months into this game with donald trump it is time to not have that conversation anymore. it is time to figure out what we re going to do in 2018 and how we re going to flip things during the mid-term election. i want to talk about what you think the democrats plan should be and what would get you sort of fired up and excited to vote for someone in 2018 so sort of flip the tables in the mid-te s mid-terms. then looking forward to 2020. we just saw our reporter in youngstown, ohio talking to people that used to be sort of obama country, now people who voted for president trump, still maintaining president trump. let s listen to then and we ll
really needed to go back to a more law and order sentiment another law and order type of administration. but i think long term it is really going to hurt his base and really hurt the people that need the help the most. thank you guys for joining me. we have a whole lot more to talk about. straight ahead, we ll take you to youngstown, ohio, once obama country, then went very strong for trump. how they see things after trump s first six months in office. i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. let s see,
reporter: at this dininger in youngsto youngstown, ohio now we are the laughingstock of the nation. reporter: six months into donald trump s presidency, locals remain as politically divided as they were on election day. he s doing what he s supposed to be doing. helping the country. the way that everything s getting trivialized in the news media, i don t think he is getting a fair shake. i feel like he s done nothing for us. reporter: back in 2012, 64% of this county backed president obama. but last year, nearly half of voters went for trump. he s not a politician. you know what i mean? he s more of a businessman. reporter: trump campaigned hard in this blue-collar region that never fully recovered from the collapse of the steel industry and population decline. i m going to bring your industry back. reporter: he resonated with voters like this woman who voted for obama in 2012.