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Which the president called for when hes saying things like that? >> i think were about to announce a bipartisan deal. will the democrats live up to the commitments of the border security. >> the immigration discussion is happening and theres a lot of pieces in play on that. we talked through some of the sticking points that democrats and republicans have. you talked about the importance of border security and everybody says they want to protect dreamers. that is part of the white house proposal ...

Talked about black history month, and the fact that jewish community centers were being destroyed. and i was moved by that, and i was proud to see the president stick up. and within months you had nazis marching in the united states attacking black people and jewish people, and he couldnt defend it. so you have people who tried to give him a chance who dont know what to do. i dont think they should walk out. im proud of the ones who are going. im proud of the ones who arent going. we dont know w...

Investigation. clearly, the president, from his perspective, doesnt want to, quote, dignify that by even discussing that in an important forum like tonight. >> he wants to unify the nation. did he make clear to you and the other anchors there how he would accomplish that goal? >> now were getting into areas that are off the record. just as we honor those off-the-record commitments during earlier luncheons with presidents and other senior administration officials, i dont necessarily want to get i...

Against iran for its non-nuclear violations, for its ballistic missile tests, for its support of terrorism, for its human rights violations. here i think the president is in a strong position to get international support to say that we will not allow that type of conduct to go unchallenged. >> and its been misreported by a lot of people, most recently prime minister netanyahu yesterday on cnn claiming there were military sites where iran could hide nuclear materials and would be off limits for i...

The only way anything passes with daca it has to unify both sides. if you look at the policies he put out last week, it tells me he actually did find a unifying road here with daca and its just a shame you have the democratic leadership specifically schumer that doesnt even want to engage any more. he made some commitments about a border wall, the president came back made some commitment about increasing the number of daca kids. schumer walks way. its sad to people of daca that had this high exp...

Things he did not do in terms of funding. it doesnt have anything to do with skin color. jack kemp was somebody who cared about our community. and he was not black. if you look at the people that are in this cabinet, just because they are black doesnt mean they dont have the capacity to give solid advice to the president as it relates to our community is absolutely false. >> i see it differently and ill tell you why. i think skin color can sometimes be a proxy for a certain set of experiences. m...

A press conference today about the launch of a new oceans initiative to clean up the oceans in line with the paris agreement and thats being spearheaded by norway and i have to put it to the norwegian prime minister interesting initiative but how can you launch something like this when we just havent seen the commitments from the u.s. take a listen to what she said bearing in mind that the united states voted against a un resolution on plastic waste last year how much then of a blow is that to y...

A press conference today about the launch of a new oceans initiative to clean up the oceans in line with the paris agreement and thats being spearheaded by norway and i have to put it to the norwegian prime minister interesting initiative but how can you launch something like this when we just havent seen the commitments from the u.s. take a listen to what she said bearing in mind that the united states voted against a un resolution on plastic waste last year how much then of a blow is that to y...

>> that last clip was from the presidential transition when trump touted a deal with carrier corporation to keep 1100 jobs in indiana. at the time, my next guest was the president of the union representing the carrier workers. so has president trump lived up to his promises to working americans? for more im joined by chuck jones, former president of the united steel work serious local 1999 out in indianapolis. mr. jones, tell us the whole story. whats it been like? whats happened, whats been the...

In short, its totally unacceptable to the president and should be declared dead on arrival. >> one of the deals architects republican lindsey graham responded, the white house "better start telling us what youre for rather than what youre against." >> security secretary kirstin nielsen told spus without commitments it was impossible to negotiate with her. tonight the president heads to davos. not on vacation but on global business, attending the world economic forum. gary cohn, director of nat...