Good morning and welcome to politics nation. Coming to you today from las vegas. The Trump Presidency will reach its 100day mark later this week. And for every big promise this white house has been unable to accomplish in its first three months, its efforts to reback yea years roll back years of civil injustice have been gang busters. For that, you can thank Jeff Sessions, attorney general, who has taken cues from President Trumps doomladen assessment to the country has been either dismantling mostly obama era initiatives, or ratcheting up the trump era attacks on everything from Police Reform to the rights of illegal immigrants. Hes come down on consent dec e decrees despite proof that they help Police Departments engage with distrustful communities. Hes pledged to ramp up arrests on illegal immigrants. Despite immigration arrests already being at a high. And hes pledged to return to the harsh sentencing laws that have defined the war on drugs despite Violent Crime being at a historical low. As ive said in recent weeks, and will continue to say, the Sessions Justice Department is using the ideological cover that propelled donald trump to the white house to turn back the clock on social justice. Joining me now is a visiting scholar at colombia university, and a reverend of middle collegiate church, and the Senior National correspondent for mtv news. He wrote a story this week titled systemmatic racism, still a thing. In this, the 21st century, such advances that we had hoped for. Some we saw under president obama. Some we didnt. Youre saying systematic racism is still a thing in your piece. Expound on that. If im watching in middle america, im saying what is he talking about . Why do they keep complaining . Well, i think we need to explain that where racism is. Its everywhere. It can be found in your paycheck. It can be found in the water in flint, michigan. Racism can be used to elect president s. The point is we need to understand it lives in our voting systems, in our everyday lives. What we need to do is help people understand exactly how it affects them and that people are not crying wolf every day when they complain about the system working against them through identitybased disparity. When you do the measures, paycheck to paycheck, and where people get tainted water, or water with high led poisoning, or health disparities. If you deal with the dispar thety by numbers, were not talking now about ideology or philosophy or tactics, by the data, there is that is where race is a real factor in american life. But you and many theologians and scholars, some of whom are joining me this week at a convention, youre saying that what makes people comfortable about this is almost a spiritual and cultural acceptance . Yeah. I think thats important to keep in mind that were talking about white supremacist ideology. Were not just talking about instances of racial discrimination. And White Supremacists ideology as jamile said, it perm nateate everything. It calls for the subordination of people of color to the power of the white powers that be. Its insidious. The last vestiges of defactor, White Supremacy really not dismantled in this country until 1968. It continues in a strong way. By the way, donald trump, though he has no Core Principles of the selfishness, he is calling up every white supremacist chip that he can. Every dog whistle chip he can. But reverend dr. Smith, when you hear this kind of White Supremacy that is being addressed by professor hendricks and jamile, why are so many whites who really are not bigots or racists or biassed, why are they comfortable with not confronting it or dealing with it, and how do you wake them up . I think a lot of people we talk about now we awoke, but how do we get the public woke that is comfortable with this disparity and this kind of feeling that its all right that you have a Privileged Group in the country, and, therefore, others are disenfranchised or treated less than equal which is against what they claim the country was about from the beginning. Thats a really great question. Dr. Lewis here, yeah, i serve a multiracial church in manhattan. Were clear that america has forgotten what it means to be christian. We say we follow jesus into the world to heal it. But id like to think jesus can be too white and too empired for us to understand. The jesus that is created by the white Church Blesses man test destiny, believes that might should win. Believes that because, quote, folks are chosen, that they have more money, more assets, more wealth, better education. But brother yeshuwa came to life as a religious minority, a brownskinned palestinian man who understood he needed to resist. I think the wakeup call for all of us is remembering who we follow in the ministry. To remember the one who said the first should be first and the last should be first. The one who enfranchised those disenfranchised. I think if lab by yeshua was working hed say put black and brown young people and women and the disenfranchised in the center of american life. Thats what faith calls us to do. Thats fascinating. Professor, back to you, and then jamile. What shes saying is were really not honoring or worshipping, those of us that profess to be christian, the jesus in terms of what jesus preached and represented even though we call ourselves christian, when we asllow inequality. How does this relate to Jeff Sessions . How do you relate that to Jeff Sessions and whats going on at the white house, and as i open up the immigration laws. What does this have to do with each other . I think to the point to what i call the ideological christianity, faith in this country is refracted through the interests, through white supremacist east interests, and that is why people can call themselves christians on one hand and care nothing about poor folks. Jesus talked about poor them more than anything else. They talk about christians and not talk about poor folks. They can support discriminatory laws because they sacrelizes their every action. They can justify every action through this lens of this ideological christianity, which as we know, is not christianity at all. It is really just politics. It is just just us, not justice, the its just us. But what makes it supremacy . If i am saying that Jeff Sessions is rolling back civil rights, and i am saying that, and social justice, and i am saying that, and im showed the clip about what he said this week about immigration, and consent decree, im trying to connect the dots for people that are viewers that dont understand, that are not activis activists, not scholars. How is that leading to a racist or supremist outcome, if it does . First of all, you have to understand that Jeff Sessions is working, i think faster than anybody else in the Trump Administration to roll back civil rights and to actually exacerbate systemic racism throughout america. You look at the withdrawal of federal opposition to voter i. D. Laws. Discriminatory voter i. D. Laws. You look at his call for these have been found to be discriminatory . Yes. He said hes going to not fight them in court. This is proven discrimination. Im trying to have our viewers understand this is not just rhetoric from civil rights activis activists. Were going with things hes announcing as we go down this week. Hes like a cancer. Im sorry. I want to jump in there. I think what were seeing is the continuation of what is an american problem which is that racism, White Supremacy, its a cancer that ravages the politics. The its an ethical, moral, ethical call to revolutionary love for us to have the ability to analyze, to see, to not forget. Its like this cancer. It wont die. Civil rights act, it wont die. Voters right act, it wont die. The the election of president obama, it wont die. And these white people, Jeff Sessions, trump, this administration, will use everything in their power to keep black, brown immigrant marginal people out of the margins, because its in their self interest to do so. We have to leave it there. I think theres a lot of white people that will fight to keep it going if we can explain in clear language and mobilize in a strategic way why and what this really means. Thats why we wanted to have this discussion. Because i dont think that every american really understands that were not just talking Party Politics here. Were talking about peoples rights. Were talking about immigrants. Were talking about women that are treated differently, and we cant have a nation like that. Thank you to you all. Coming up, were just six days away from President Trumps 100th day in office, but now he says its not an important milestone. How does trump compare to other president s . Stay with us. This is politics nation on msnbc. Poor mouth breather. Allergies . Stuffy nose . Cant sleep . Take that. A breathe right nasal strip instantly opens your nose up to 38 more than allergy medicine alone. Shut your mouth and say goodnight, mouthbreathers. Breathe right. Youre not taking these. Hey, hey, hey youre not taking those. Whoa, whoa youre not taking that. Come with me. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Mom, im taking the subaru. Dont be late. Even when were not there to keep them safe, our Subaru Outback will be. vo love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Well see what happens. No particular rush, but well see what happens. But health care is coming along well. Government is coming along really well. A lot of good thing are happening. Thank you, folks. Welcome back to politics nation. Before he took office, donald trump set out a, quote, contract with the american voter. That included another quote. 100day action plan. Those were his words. Well, here we are at day 94 to help us sort through the failures and the accomplishments of the first 100 days is yamy sh, alsenda. I talked a lot about the social justice civil rights angle which clearly i and a lot of the show gears toward. But in the broad american agenda which that is part of, give me your assessment of the first 100 days. Hes failed to bring about the repeal and replace of obama care. Couldnt even get it to the floor. Weve not seen any Real Movement in tax reform. Weve seen him drop the mother of all bombs. Weve seen the air strike in syria. It seems like there is a lot of failure domestically, movement otherwise. How do you assess this first 100 days then all of a sudden he says does it matter, even though he had a 100day plan of action. I look at two things. Both how the beltway and how what democrats and republicans view the administration. And also how regular people who have been out when ive been out reporting look at him. When i talk to Trump Supporters and people who are even not Trump Supporters, in some ways hes followed through in big promises. He tried to implement the muslim ban and crack down on the way the department of justice is run in terms of policing. His stance on immigration and the idea he has a plan or is following through with the idea of building a wall. That scurtailing of civil right people think hes doing, supporters saying they want to see more crackdowns on immigrati immigration, they feel like hes moving toward the promise. And then in the beltway, the idea hes saying he might be able to get health care threw and work on tax reform. The republicans seem frustrated. They understand were marching toward a big goal and they have nothing to show for it in terms of bills and what theyve done to change the country. Because you have a president thats been signing executive orders left and right and has been getting coverage of those executive orders, it seems as though outside of the beltway, its seen as though hes made some big changes. In reality both his party and democrats understand the executive orders havent had much of an impact. Theres a lot of cosmetics. At the end of the day, what happens when hes moving on the immigration question, when hes moving on the Police Question in terms of stopping Police Reform, and then people in mining communities still dont have their jobs and others that hes promised that it is they that are taking out jobs. Thats why we have to go after the imimmigrants, and theyre n there, and in some cases they find automation has taken their job. In other cases he has nothing to do with the pariah hes made out of those that are here illegally. Were hearing some of the people that were in some of the areas strongly in support of donald trump saying i dont know now. Im not feeling any change. And the promise that we saw in the first 100 days of other president s is just not there if you look at the poll numbers. You dont really see the kind of public enthusiasm for donald trump that you saw in the first 100 days of a lot of the recent president s. Well, as you know, President Trump has historically low Approval Ratings if you ask america as a whole. With his base, the poll numbers show his base is sticking with him. Going to ohio and strongholds that voted for him because they wanted to see economic change and make America Great to them means they want to see less immigrants coming into their country and they want to see some of their steel jobs come back. Those people are still excited about donald trump. I interviewed someone with federal money used to repair their home. And that money would be taken away. I asked them what do you think that the president is taking away things that helped you. They said if it needs not having my bathroom repaired but having less mexicans in the country, i pick that. There are people excited about him doing these things. People in the borderline states are interested in immigration in a way that doesnt affect their daily lives. I have to leave it there. Thank you very much. I guess i thank you. Not a balanced picture. Well see in terms of where it goes. It seems like america is still very much divided with one side really supporting him and the other side frightened and angry, but thank you for your reporting which has been excellent. Up next, i was one of many of his targets, but now fox news bill oreilly will have the to take his racial hatred to a different platform. My very personal take on this story when we come back. announcer vo when you have type 2 diabetes theres a moment of truth. And now with victoza® a better moment of proof. Victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar better than the leading branded pill, which didnt get me to my goal. Lowers my a1c better than the leading branded injectable. The one i used to take. jim victoza® lowers blood sugar in three ways. And while it isnt for weight loss, victoza® may help you lose some weight. 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I wont expound on the details of the allegations against mr. Oreill oreilly, for the millions of dollars fox news paid out to silence his accusers. Im here with a different and admittedly personal take on the oreilly ouster. For 21 very long years at fox news, mr. Oreilly demonized almost every group that wasnt made up of straight White Christian conservative men. It was his bread and butter. Many of them are ill educated and have tattoos on their foreheads, and how are you i hate to be generalized about it, but its true. The white establishment is now the minority. And the voters, many of them, feel that the Economic System is stacked against them, and they want stuff. I didnt hear a word she said. I was looking at the james brown wig. Coming up, power taken away from the white establishment. They want a change in the way america is run. Slaves that were there were well fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government. Thats right. He said all of that, and with fighting words like that, is it any surprise that mr. Oreilly made a special target of