town hall. we played a little of this, josh. now, the back to the story, this isn t necessarily the first issue, first crisis, the first problem that his police department has had over the course of 8 years he has been mayor. reporter: that s right. what you can sense in the room, this is the culmination of years of tensions, of anger, frustration by the community, precipated by the shooting last weekend. there s a lot more going on. we have community groups shouting about black on black crime, shouting at the local president of the naacp chapter, so while not all of this is about buttigieg, not all of it is about what happened last sunday, some is about other incidents you described have taken place during his tenure, such as demotion of the black police chief early in his tenure. fact of the matter is, whatever it is about, the optics of this are terrible for pete buttigieg.
do the investigation, how it has to follow the law, but it is not satisfying people here who have a very visceral reaction. they want action to be taken now. they re repeatedly interrupting him, shouting profanities at him, shouting profanities at the naacp chapter president, who is trying to keep things calm, trying to moderate the discussion. it is a reflection of the fact that buttigieg is struggling to figure out what to say to a community that s not satisfied by some of the policy responses that he has come up with to address the issues of race and policing. josh, the real question is what do folks think that are sitting in the seats behind you. when he was asked the question about do black lives matter, the criticism from the critics is he did not handle it in an understanding way, in a human way, and that he could have done
going back to the issue of daca and immigration, looking at citizenship as part of the census, these are topics he s watching very, very closely, josh, and he s sticking to it, whatever that acceptance rate is. ten seconds. there s a few court issues that have been important to trump. trade, immigration, really disliking the iran nuclear deal. he s surrounding himself with people now that he s firing tillerson and mysterious and hiring bolton. josh, you have that mat nettic power. shifting gears to the russia probe. reports that trump lawyer john dowd floated the idea of pardons for michael flynn and paul manafort who s been less forthcoming and wears two ankle monitoring braflg
anybody in washington, d.c., look, i go if your a supporter, that makes you happy. but if you care about the functioning of this government, it s not a good thing of the he s getting advice from people that he fired or had to separate his administration from. it appears that the only universal that we can find and who donald trump brings into his administration is he knows them personally or he likes stuff he does. you get fired from fox, you end up in the administration. he likes how you do his medical exams, you end up in the administration. that s what he does. but that s not necessarily the way to run a government and it makes it difficult for people who do care about career government organization to be able to do their jobs. i want to look at at least this poll. president trump s approval rating, maybe this practice is working for him. 42%. february, 35%. josh, despite all these match
lewandowski, and anthony scaramucci. joining me now, is jason johnson from the root, nancy cook, white house report at politico, josh lieberman, report for the associated press of t. nancy, starting with you. we re looking at the va secretary putting in question on meet the press how the very exit had happened, one has to ask, what will be next and who will be next? i know. it was kind of amazing last week that only one person got fired and that was a quiet week at the white house. i think what i m watching is according to my reporting, i think what will be interesting to see is how long general kelly lasts in the chief of staff job. it s a matter of finding someone else to actually fill the slot. and other thing to watch is all