contributor and white house correspondent for the pbs news hour charlie sykes, msnbc contributor and author of how the right lost its mind and eric mcpike, from the media group of america. the headlines today used the word racist more times today than we ve probably ever seen across this country, if you don t mind me mentioning your haitian descent and what you may be thinking about these statements as well as putting on your other hat as a reporter. the outrage continues, this is essentially day three of people sitting back and thinking about what the president said. it was very hurtful for haitian americans, not just people of haitian ancestry, but also haitian officials. the haiti ambassador told me specifically that the haitian government summoned u.s. officials to come before them and say, what is going on, what did the president mean by this? and today i got i letter from a
the democrat, the lieutenant governor, this attorney, justin fairfax who is exciting a lot of democrats could win it. could be a split state office slate there at the top in virginia. neil: we ll watch closely. fast-moving times. eric mcpike, thanks. what will happen for you and your money? we re covering this at 8:00 p.m. tonight. as long as it takes, including president of the united states speaking from asia on north korea. a lot happening concurrently. nobody gets better the intersection of wall street with your money and politics. we think that it matters to you. we all pay taxes more than get involved in the markets. we marry both. we will cover both. we ll be there as late as it takes because water told that pizza will be on the company. all right. plenty of pleasant tries back and forth in japan and south korea. china is a crucial player here. what is the president getting out of china in those talks?
steve cortes joins me and eric mcpike. let s do tax reforms. amen. trish: how do you the republicans sell it? you know we ll have jessica explain that. but you know what the montra is. they re going to say it s just for the wealthy, it s just for corporations. right. trish: how do the republicans get in front of that right now? right. one nice advantage that we have is the truth. the tax reforms as proposed, that s not true. as a matter of fact, some wealthy people, particularly in high tax states and cities, they may see their taxes go up. to answer the question, should this be the focus, yes, absolutely amen this should be our focus. this is the crux of the trump movement. the magnum opus of the president presidentsy will be faster economic growth, this is why trump was elected and why we won this election. the chief obstacles of
he s figuring out how to go after congress and really get members on his side. so i think we re seeing a big change come from the white house and frankly from the press the last month. neil: i d agree with that. so maybe it goes the other way. thanks, eric mcpike. to erin s point here, is there a difference between the first 50 days of this presidency and the last 50 days? we re on that after this.
for primetime? well, that is not entirely for me to say, as i am not a voter in these primaries. what i would say, voters really like his personality. they say he s authentic, that he s has the right temperament to be president. that s separate from donald trump. but a lot of the same voters come to trump events that come to carson events. a lot of people say ben carson is nicer and that s why they choose him over donald trump. but for both candidates, it s really about an outsider and personality sort of thing, why they like these two candidates better than anyone else. eric mcpike, angela rye and john theory, thank you very much. we ll be following this in the next 24 hours. thanks again. coming up, a terrifying scene in utah as a wall of water sweeps away several cars. at least eight people are dead and five more missing. plus, the officer who was fatally shot in kentucky late sunday night, turns out that he was trying to help the driver