accomplishments than feeling concerns of avenue rage america feeling concerns and showing he s adapting them, not just pushing through his legislative program. to your point, jeff, there is a lot of disappointment in the polling and when you look where he is in the nbc news poll and latino voters, black voters down by double digits. when he said i understand your pain, i think what your sources are saying is he needs to say that r more often but the white house seems to think to your point, jeff, biden isn t getting enough credit for what he s done and to be fair, he did a lot in that first six months in office the first year infrastructure covid relief but here is what voters have to say in the new york times focus group that was very revealing. these are voters that voted for obama, voted for trump. some of them said they would consider voting for biden again but overwhelmingly despondent.
for me it s important to talk to these groups and these communities who are feeling concerns and anxiety over the statistics and over the numbers and over the rhetoric and over the freedom that some people same to feel at this point in time to just express hate. you know, it s look what we do in the department is defend the first amendment as well. we defended the people s right to say things no matter how hateful they are at times. you always have to wonder, why is it so important to some people to express themselves in the most vit tree olic and negative terms possible? i ll leave that for people to consider for themselves. ana, how do you think trump is going to take that advice? is it something he s actually going to focus on? i have no idea, boris, i m not a trump whisperer and can t quite i can t quite decipher what he s going to do. i hope he doesn t though because
for me, it s important to talk to these groups and these communities who are feeling concerns, who are feeling anxiety over the statistics, over the numbers, over the rhetoric, over the freedom that some people seem to feel at this point in time to express hate. you know, obviously what we do in the department is defend the first amendment as well. you know, we defended the deaf people s right to say things no matter how hateful they are at times. but you have always got to wonder, why is it so important to some people to express themselves in the most visit ree yolic and negative terms possible? i ll leave that for people to consider for themselves. we re sitting in a room with portraits of your predecessors. yes. what do you want your legacy to be? i would like, and again you can never pick your legacy, people are going to look at the body of work and things will stand out. but i would hope that the legacy