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With in 2017 where someone has been accused by a number of women, at least one 14-year-old, that someone says america was great during slavery, wants to get rid of the amendments after the 10th amendment, that were actually considering in america having this person serve as a united states senator? >> the world is shocked. im shocked. and maybe we shouldnt be because we elected donald trump president after the statements hes made both about women, african-americans, muslims. we as america need t...

Part of the legal team representing two iraqi men who were blocked from entering the united states on saturday. one of those men, hamid darweesh, is seen right there. representative meeks and becca hiller, thanks for joining me. diplomats are soon going to be release this memo condemning this travel ban. >> again, youre hear from more and more americans and individuals that we have put in place to make sure we have diplomacy around the world, they know what works, what doesnt work. theyre asking...

The hip and without understanding theres real consequences to his actions. >> representative chu, do you share much of what representative meeks has said here? and what do you believe should be the right response, if any, coming from congress to the way that donald trump has engaged so far not taking office officially, being president-elect? what do you think? >> i certainly agree with congress member meeks. donald trump has been shooting from the hip, and i wonder if he really thought through w...

Reunification. we cant overlook grating tsai on her leadership. its not something acknowledgeed by beijing and considered an affront. whether trump knew the ramifications of the phone call still are unclear, but if it signals a major shift in u.s. policy, then it will also bring a major rift in u.s./china relations between trumps presidency even gets started. richard? >> janice, thank you. from beijing with that report for us. i now want to bring in two ranking members here from congress. we h...

With european allies, dealing with individuals and even in central and south america. it is very dangerous, you know. playing around with russia, and then whats going to happen with turkey and syria? its a delicate balance that you have to work with. you just cant shoot at the hip and then go tweeting, and then someone say something you tweet back, and that is not the way the president of the united states conducts diplomacy and not the way that we are going to keep the trust of our allies. >> r...

Who may not have felt that they had been reached out to by the democrats. >> and we look at that very issue that you bring up here, representative chu. it is something that is resonating, right? over this last year about, our voices being heard. representative meeks, as we look at leadership not only in the house for democrat, and by the way, representative pelosi still knows how to get a vote. does she not? plus or minus two or three. but to get over the dnc. thats also for you and representati...

Policy experience will in deed be held to be true. that he wasnt really ready to deal with these foreign matters. and it leads me to wonder how he is going to be able to negotiate the delicate areas that he needs to as president. >> congressman meeks, as we look at the way hes dealt, at least with this latest interaction with taiwan, one of his tweets was saying, they called me. is that okay? and if this is the way that he proceeds with dealing with foreign powers, is this the way were going to ...

Historic gain for asian-americans. we went from 13 members of congress that are asian-pacific islander to 18 members, that are asian-pacific islander, and in the senate, there was a very historic gain of four women of color. >> all right. thank you both. congresswoman judy chu of california and also chair of comfortpac and thank you, also, freptive gregory meeks, also head of cbc and the its parqupa. breaking news out of california. look at some pictures here of that burnt out warehouse where ...

Bring in gregory meeks who joins me in the studio here. thank you very much for being here, representative meeks. and i understand another angle is that the police are investigating this as being attributable to this gunmans reaction to the michael brown/eric garner situations. is it fair to connect the dots here? or is that -- is that assuming too much? >> yeah, i think its not fair. clearly the brown family, the gardner family and everybody that was demonstrating, most individuals all have sai...

>> okay. representative meeks, well focus stateside here. the house is back in session next monday. the democrats will try to push for the senates unemployment bill and the republicans say were not going to vote on this bill until it includes some job creation measures. so how do you see this playing out? >> i see it playing out the republicans are playing games. every day, more and more americans, democrats, republicans, independents, are suffering because we have not extended unemployment insu...