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For this nation. but therein, again, i think is an opportunity. in the inaugural speech, president trump talked about, he had a line wherein he said, if you open your heart to patriotism, there will be no room for prejudice. i viewed the women who marched yesterday as patriots. these are patriots who feel overlooked, disenfranchised, disrespected, but therein lies a great opportunity. donald trump has surrounded himself with some amazing women, by way of example, his daughter ivanka trump and al...

Fragile communities and other african-american communities things of that nature. there are 4,000 other jobs. >> can you do that? i cant walk in your shoes, right? i didnt grow up african-american, you cant walk in a latinos shoes, you didnt grow up latino, so at what point do we need to be more representative of the country? >> i believe that donald trump is not a woman, or hispanic, and represents all of us. you, poppy, have a passion. i believe that his cabinet will do that especially at hud....

He says theyre taking a very narrow way of looking at it. he said the number one thing that americans should focus on is he hiring the best and brightest? people that are committed to enacting real change? when you say that is he hiring the best and brightest, does it also send a message that there are not minorities among the best and brightest? >> no, i mean, when you are in hr, you get the people presented to you and hope that theyre the best and brightest within the pool that youre given. >>...

>> the bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when gods people live together in unity. we must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. when america is united, america is totally unstoppable. [applause] bill: this as a new fox poll that came out prior to the swearing-in, a third of americans describe the national mood as were all in this together, nearly twice as many feel like it is everyone for themselves. shannon: talk about it with a former...

>> who are you to qualify ben carson? what do you know about his background? >> i think hes a wonderful surgeon. >> do you know about the businesses hes done and community development in detroit -- >> what is his housing experience other than he lived in a house once? betsy -- >> i said in that hearing -- i sat in that hearing, she knows what it is. >> bring guns to schools to kill grizzly bears -- >> okay. >> that is not true, she used an analogy. >> i do not accept i was one qualified hispanic...

>> i think hes a wonderful surgeon. >> do you know about the businesses hes done and community development in detroit -- >> what is his housing experience other than he lived in a house once? be th betsy -- >> i said in that hearing -- >> bring guns to schools to kill grizzly bears -- >> okay. >> i do not accept i was one qualified hispanic. none of us want anything on there. we want qualified people -- >> but any corporation is made better -- a newsroom is made better when you have diversity of...

Who knows who were going to have. i suspect well have a whole bunch of mixed up presidents at some point that nobody really knows what to call them. >> the last question was asked by christy parsons, who has probably been covering barack obama longer than anyone else in that room. she first covered barack obama when he was a member of the state legislature in illinois. in illinois, she did that for the chicago tribune. >> i wonder now how you and the first lady are talking to your daughters abou...

Some of the hispanic groups and sean spicer saying we got 5,000 other staff positions to fill out so this will be a diverse administration but, obviously, the cabinet choices are the top ranking positions here within an administration so that is drawing a lot of scrutiny, particularly given all of president-elects trumps hard line stances on immigration. we are going to hear from sean spicer today. he is going to hold his first on-camera briefing an hour and a half from now so expect him to get ...

Office, fox news finds his approval rating at 42%, down a bit from december but up from just after the election. 66% now saying they are optimistic about the economy, a huge bump since january of last year. as he prepares to sign his first executive orders, they poll finds the publics desire to appeal obamacare at a new low. 23% of voters favor a complete repeal, down from 32% 18 months ago. 34% want to change at least parts of it. while trump was winging his way to washington, his incoming pres...

With 56 million of hispanic people in the u.s., its like adding offense to the injury to say that there was nobody bright enough for the president -- >> thats not what i said. he has tremendous respect. again, you have to look at the totality of diversity that exists within in cabinet. there are so many ways to express this in terms of gender, background, race, ideology. he continues to put together an amazingly diverse cabinet. if youre looking specifically at hispanic, as we move forward, we h...