One democrat is opposing the waiver. Donald trump kicked off what his Transition Team is calling a thank you tour of the states that helped propel him in victory in last months election. And during those remarks, he repeatedly vowed to unify the country after the bitterly devisive campaign which leads us for todays question can donald trump bring the country together . Republicans can call 2027488001. Democrats can call 2027488000. D ints can call 2027488002. And independents can call 2027488002. You can also reach us on facebook and twitter. And more about president elect Donald Trumps remarks yesterday in cincinnati at a rally, the first hes held since his election from politico. It states in his first public rally since winning the presidency, donald trump casually announced a pick to outline an ambitious unifying vision for the next four years before veering off script in his distracters faces. During a free wheeling speech in cincinnati on thursday night, that was a prototrump harkened back to his rough and tumble campaign style, he encouraged chance of lock her up by invoking Hillary Clintons name which incited boos of john kasich, mocked independent candidate as a nobody and attacked the nasty dishonest press. But president elect donald trump also made a point of giving a unified message particularly on the portions of the speech where he read from a teleprompter and stated on script. Lets take a look at what he said what success will mean. President elect donald trump 2016, we must enlist the effort of all americans. For too long, washington has tried to put us in boxes. They separate us by race, by age, by income, by geography, by place of birth. We spend too much time focusing on what divides us. Now is the time to embrace the one thing that truly United States us. You know what that is . America. America. [applause] because when americas unified, nothings beyond our reach. Youre going to see. Were going to have a country that was never so great, you watch in so many different ways. You hear a lot of talk about how were becoming a globalized world. But the relationships people value in this country are local. Family, cities, states, countries, theyre local. Will compete in the world. We want to compete in the world. But were going to compete in the world where its a twoway road, not a oneway road. [applause] president elect donald trump the advantages are going to come back to our country and they have not for many, many years. Host eric is calling from white plains, maryland from our independent line. Eric, do you think that president elect donald trump can unify the country . Caller good morning, america, first, and thank you for taking my call. Yes, of course, i believe he can unify the country. And he has already started. Actions speak louder than any kind of words. Mr. Donald trump gets 1,000 jobs in indiana. This is the kind of message, this is the kind of action we need. Cnn and most of the liberal media are really keeping fanning the flame of hatred but i believe with his action, he will unify this country. Host eric, did you support mr. Trump in the election . Caller sure, i am black, africanamerican, and i voted for him. So i supported him 100 . Thats it. Host ok. Karen is calling in from youngstown, ohio, on our democratic line. Karen, do you believe that donald trump can unify the country . Caller no. Hes a liar. Hes an evil person. You just look at his apolicies that hes making. Hes showing his entire cabinet with people from wall street. Its the opposite of what he says he is. Hes not a man of the people. Hes a man of the ultra rich. And thats who hes going to help. And i really have a problem with the media showing this clip of him repeatedly everywhere on your local stations to your national stations. You just see this clip of him with his rhetoric. You dont see the thousands of people who are protesting him everywhere he goes. And i have a problem with this line because during the election when i called this line, my calls were not answered and republicans got and socalled independents. That man who spoke before me was not an independent. That man was planted there. Host ok, karen, we take the calls as they come in and sometimes, we do have a lot of calls waiting. Is there anything that president elect donald trump can say or do now that you think will help bring the country together after the election . Do you think its possible . Caller no. The man cannot change who and hat he is. And the medias job is to not show who mess and not be a accomplice and just continually show his propaganda clips and take calls from his trolls. You are not doing your jobs. Host ok. A little more on president elect trumps pick, the head, the pentagon from u. S. A. Today says james mattis, a retired four star general achieved mythic status within the marine corps as an aggressive combat commander, an innovative strategists whose speeches and writings define the warrior ethos. Donald trumps decision to name mattis to head the Defense Department is a strong signal that the president elect is looking for a wartime leader at the pentagon and not someone to just manage budget. At a rally thursday night in cincinnati, trump noted that mattis has been chosen for the post during the Campaign Trump said he would overhaul the u. S. Strategy and he said the current plan isnt working and suggested military leads had been coulded by the obama administration. Next, we have patrick calling from Oklahoma City in our republican line. Good morning, patrick. Caller good morning. Host do you think that the president electoral can bring the country together . Caller i think he can. I think hes the best chance he had since ronald reagan. Host why is that . Caller because hes a christian. Hes going to giant the country. Hes going to bring the country together again. Es got democrats on his side. m a nickel submariner and donald trump is going to restore the navy. And i have a patent that donald trump is using to give us go ahead and ask your question. Host there are a lot of people who are still the election is fairly new. There are a lot of sporers of secretary clinton who are worried about donald trump as a leader. What would you like to see him say to bring easy to people on board and get them to give him a hance . Caller i like him to be open and truthful and speak his mind ike he does. Host marcus calling in from arkansas, our independent line. Deporning. Good morning. Caller im a viewer for years and finally got through and i appreciate that. Every man deserves one chance to accomplish what he says he can do. The biggest problem i have is his statement of we are going to drain the swatch. If youre swamp. If youre going to drain the swamp, then his political appointments in the noncompetitive Civil Service should not be entitled nor eligible for federal pension. The example being the lady who ran health and Human Services who was allowed to retire five years and one day with 100,000 pension for life. Thats not draining the swamp. If hes going to drain the swamp, his political appointments every words for supporting everyone whos supporting him should not be eligible for the federal pension system. Host were talking about uniting the country today which was a big theme in president elect trumps speech last night. Do you think he can be a uniter as president . Caller i dont know as much as hes going to be a uniter because the people who oppose him to this day are not getting equal time. We are news media is basically turning around and praising him to the high he was. Heavens. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] folks are working 60 hours a week if they have a job. Im retired. So im allowed to have some more hours to get information. I dont just listen to one. I listen to them all, ok . Some people putting forth on his platform. Some people are not. But at the same time, the average individual is only getting 20 minutes of news a day. And the 20 minutes they get is the channel they tune to. Host ok. Lets take a look at a little more about of what president elect said during his remark in cincinnati about an Inclusive Society. President elect donald trump were going to seek a truly Inclusive Society where we support each other, love each other and look out for each other and that means that people coming into our country have to be people that have the potential to love us, not to us. [applause] president elect donald trump we condemn bigotry and prejudice in all of its flaws. We denounce all of the hatred and we forcefully reject the language of exclusion and separation. Were going to come together. We have no choice. We have to and its better. Its better. Host bob is calling from closer, wisconsin. Boben our republican line. Bob, do you believe the president elect that the country will come together . Caller yes, i do. And the first thing, americans need to realize theres all the lies and propaganda that the democrats put out there against mr. Trump, our president. We in wisconsin are going to i find that a waste of time. The democrats laughed at mr. Trump when he said now the democrats are saying that these liberals so were having a recount. Hes our president because we wanted him to be and we are looking for an opportunity to grow. Hell grow us. And the first thing is we got to know were all americans. Im really tired of africanamericans, mexicanamerican, german americans, when youre born here, this is my im a veteran. And im very proud of america. He will put people in place and after you get rid of all the lies. I believe in mr. Trump. Thank you. Host ok. And one senator who had vowed to come out against general mattis in his goal to be the head of the Defense Department is senator kirsten jill brand of new york. According to the hill, she came out against Donald Trumps gillibrand is the first lawmaker to oppose waving to the prohixon on host thats according to the hill. A little more about that waver that is required for former military officials to take a cabinet post according to the associated press. A civilian control of the military is ingrained in American History and was set in stone in the u. S. Constitution which decrees that the President Shall be the commanderinchief. U. S. Military can wage combat without a formal declaration of war. The principle of civilian control of military is anchored in a belief of balance of power, it sets the u. S. And other democracies apart from countries where military choose to overturn the government. Back to our discussion of whether donald trump can bring this the country together after a bit per election season. Jody is calling from rockville, maryland, on our independent line. What do you think, jody . Can the president elect bring the country together . Caller i question whether or not he could bring the country together. At this point in time, all he has done is continue to give credibility to White Supremacists, to segregationists and he is one of the best out there of going on twitter and letting people know how he feels. Well every single day, he needs to go out there and tweet that this is unacceptable and making America Great again. We cant have americans saying horrible things about other americans based on color, race, reed either this si, religion. I mean, will from a lot of people out there are that afraid of the people that hes stirring up, that hes giving power to, that people that hes putting nto the cabinet. Host is there anything he can say now . If he had that message, do you think he can change your mind . Caller what i think he needs to say is strongly, that these type of people that are saying these segregational types of comment, these White Supremacists that they are actually not part of the trump movement. He does not he disclaims them. He does not want their support. He just you know, he doesnt want them part of making America Great because they will make america worse. So if he will come out and say this fraction is not who i want supporting me. This is not the fraction that will be part of making America Great, yes, then i think we should give him a chance. But now he has supreme power to make those comments and hes not, you know . And thats what a lot of this rioting is about. People are afraid. Theyre afraid of the people who have done, not everybody who has done is a White Supremacists and theres a group of them that are out there and their hatred is boiling and boiling and he is not putting a top on that pot and he needs to close that pot. Host ok. A call from our republican line. What do you think, keith . Can president elect trump bring the country together . Caller he certainly can. The last caller is a little bit on the paranoid side. I live here in adamsville, indiana, and we dont have that racially motivated stuff going on here. We all get along. We dont have all them problems that everybodys got since. We read through the lines. Trumps going to be a great president. Everybody needs to give him a chance. And stop picking him apart. Let him do his job. And also, i still believe that bill clinton should be going to jail for getting on that airplane. I want to make a point about that because even if the , they still got to go to court and see the judge. Host there are still a lot of people who have doubts. What do you think the president to ay or do to bring calm so much their fears and to bring some more on youity to the country . Caller they should have a designated holiday for all the ethnic people to get together like a picnic there or something and show that we all can get along together. I mean, we have to get along together. Host ok. The president elect started the day yesterday in your home state of indiana at a carrier furnace plant where he announced more than 1,100 jobs will remain in the United States. And he talked about the consequences of businesses that theyll face if they leave the United States. Lets take a look. President elect donald trump and i said to some of the folks. I said companies are not going to leave the eyes anymore without consequence. Not going to happen. Its not going to happen. Ill tell you right now. Were losing our were losing so much. Were going to be lowering our business tax from 35 hopefully down to 15 which would take to the highest tax nation in the world to one of the lower tax, not the lowest yet. The other thing were doing is regulations. He regulations if i said you might say its i thought taxes would be number one, regulations would be up there someplace. Believe me, these great leaders of industry and even the small business, people, which is being crushed if they had their choice between lower taxes and a major massive cutting of regulations. They would take the regulations. I dont know how you peel about that, greg. But i just noticed that i wrote down because i heard it since about six years ago, 260 new federal regulations have passed. 53 of which affect this plant. 53 new regulations, massively expensive and probably none of them amount to anything in terms of safety or the things that you would have regulations for. Host Donald Trumps appearance yesterday drew some praise from people who praised his actions for saving those jobs, helping to save those jobs. But some democrats had a different view. Senator Bernie Sanders wrote an oped piece in the Washington Post where he said that donald trump showed corporations just how to beat him. Senator sanders said in essence, united technologies, which is carrier eagles parent company, took trump hostage and won. And that should send a shock wave of fear through all workers the country. Dorothy is calling in from arkansas on our democrat line. What do you think, dorothy . Caller i think trump will bring this country together. It will be back like the hoover days when people were just early starving to death. Host why do you think, dorothy . If he continues this message of unity that he talked yesterday, why do you think that wont work . Caller he can call it unity all he wants but hes out for donald trump and thats all. Host all right. Nick is calling in from sarasota, florida, on our independent line. Do you think the president elect can help bring the country together . Caller i absolutely do if the people will cooperate just like a couple of your last callers. In my opinion, the last three generations of college professors, High School Teachers and textbook publishers have left out everything about being an american. And so thats why donalds leadership is going to get this turned around. This is a capitalist country, not communist. But you wouldnt know it but the School Teachers and the stuff they put out there. One teacher in college were saying a week before the election, whats the first things Hillary Clinton should do when she goes into is . Thats pretty prum, but its how they think. Kd host randy is calling from the republican line. Caller i believe trump will bring the country together. Im a middleaged black man and i voted for barack obama. You know, i wanted to be part of history, the first black africanamerican president but instead under his administration, i just seen lot of diversity. I mean, were looking at the backlash of obama doing. Now, again, back to trump now, if you look at his cabinet, he have a pretty much diverse cabinet. He got three females on his cabinet so far and he had one africanamerican person, dr. Carson benson. But if you look at trump, he came into hes selected to be president but look what he did in indiana. He is saving these familys jobs. And families jobs. This is a major step in bringing communities. Host some people remain skeptical about the president elect. Is there something you think he can say or do or should say and do to convince people that he is the president for everyone . Caller yes. Well basically, you know, hes reaching out to the black churches. Hes reaching out to hispanic communities. Hes getting votes on hispanic communities. Nobody thought he would do as well in the black community but by him reaching out to the black pastor scott and a few others,