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Have any of you seen down on streets that it seems as though we have become the silent minority and not the majority? >> what do you mean by that? >> how much have we been listened to really? >> who's the we when you say this? >> us people. >> who people? >> the people who need the medicare, the people who need the social security, who needs the help with the education. >> we got a lot of reaction to our town hall in kenosha, wisconsin, last night, people got a chance to express and hear views that don't often get aired in public. figuring out what it means the country that elected barack obam...

Shareholder in xco. you have harold hamm who was being named as the energy secretary before rick perry was named, he's the ceo of continental. you have rick perry who's clearly a, you know, a texas governor. >> right. >> an oil state. you have pruitt who is going into the epa. he's from oklahoma. that's an oil state. >> right. >> in many ways you look at this and you have a number of oil guys who are going to be running the government in trump's cabinet. you have a number of bankers, you got three guys from goldman sachs who are coming in. >> right. >> and you've got three or four generals. to...

You have rick perry who's clearly a, you know, a texas governor. >> right. >> an oil state. you have pruitt who is going into the epa. he's from oklahoma. that's an oil state. >> right. >> in many ways you look at this and you have a number of oil guys who are going to be running the government in trump's cabinet. you have a number of bankers, you got three guys from goldman sachs who are coming in. >> right. >> and you've got three or four generals. to me that's a tremendous -- >> you have generals, bankers and oil. when we talk about oil, it's important i think folks when they think about ti...

In public. figuring out what it means the country that elected barack obama twice, just voted for donald trump to succeed him. that's a question ta-nehisi coates tries to answer. "my president was black: history of the first african-american white house and what came next." coates sat for several extended interviews with the president and in the piece he examines obama's legacy in light of the surprise outcome of the 2016 election. and considers how so many people in so many counties around the country could have voted for obama, many twice and turned around and voted for his polar opposite. i...