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I want to bring back our panel to discuss what we just heard from the president as he made his case to try to reopen the government. simone, we were talking to you right before the president's remarks. this deal as we knew it at the time wasn't fair, even though dems would get temporary protections for dreamers and the president would get funding for a small portion of his wall. did anything you heard change your mind? >> it did not. the government is shut down, because donald trump went back on his original deal. the senate passed an appropriations deal that did include border security, it di...

Democrats even come to the table and have this conversation, we're not going to get anywhere. i think there's a lot of wiggle room with regard to the number. but if democrats don't say, okay, we'll take your dreamers and daca protections, and work from there, we're not going to get anywhere. right now, it's up to nancy pelosi, she needs to put aside her hatred for donald trump, and her new fear of the progressive wing and move the ball down the nield on this. >> i know simone, you want to get back in here. let me tell you what we have learned about what nancy pelosi and the democrats have plan...

Why is that so ludicrous? why can't we tell both sides, sit down and have the conversation, neither side should expect their opponent to give an unconditional surrender, they should both come to the table and have these conversations. we're expecting both sides to give up without compromising anything, we're not going to make any progress. >> thank you, i have to leave it there. simone, alice, mark and brian, good to have you all with us, and in just minutes, we have a democratic congresswoman who's going to respond live right here on the cnn newsroom. don't go anywhere. are very different. th...

Tens of thousands expected at the national civil rights museum in memphis on wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of dr. martin luther king jr. what exactly is the state of civil rights in america in the trump era? i want to bring in cnn political commentator simone standers and tara sethmyer, chris harris, executive director of unhyphenated america. thank you so much. i want to start with this, we've been talking about diversity in america and where we're going now. all of that. a picture of, get your reaction, the white house released this photo. spring 2018 white hous...

But i knew of more than a handful of black conservatives who were republicans and were interns at that point in time. >> different environment, though. >> it was different. >> the bush administration, which was a lot more welcoming for minorities. and had actually a real outreach program and there was a sense of that someone cared. donald trump is so off-putting to so many people. and george bush never said remotely close to the offensive things at all. he had too much class for that, first of all. they weren't bigots. so there wasn't that big of a -- that level of difficulty. it was other rea...