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i think there is a lot of fear. people are feared and taird terrified of the ideas of deportation, that families will be broken apart. we have to recognize this issue is complex. there are things outside of hey if you didn t get here legally you need to be hit out. people are already part of the fabric of the american culture. they are already part of the economic makeup of america. we can t just say hey we are shutting the door on your face. and i think the asian american and pacific islander community will be greatly affected by the policies coming out of this white house. four commissioners left. if and when they were to resign tell me when you believe that will happen? if they were to resign this is a historic ends to for this community. the four commissioners who stayed on have work they want to complete and they think they can do it through the white house. all 20 of us are tight knit, we ....
There were two other spin-offs. people could get the betty white who is now 95 was on the mtm show all those years. and what a cast that was. anybody who s worked in television who knew that so well. everybody like the newsman, the phony anchor. the writer who didn t want to be there. lou, lou grant, what a show he had spun off. it was amazing. her career was amazing. she was indelible. she was part of the fabric of the american culture. we ll never see her life again. all right. larry king, we appreciate you taking a few minutes to help us remember mary tyler moore. any time. happy to do it, thanks. i appreciate that. and yes, as larry king said, in the 70s, you could talk about watching those episodes live and the whole country would standstill for some of them. and of course, for another ....
So, we re getting just the barest ideas of what she would be like as first lady. quickly, as an historian, what are you most looking forward to tomorrow at this inauguration? well, it will be interesting to see if any of these new customs, which we what s so wonderful about our culture, the american culture is, things happen and then they become part of the tradition. lady bird johnson was the first to hold a bible. suddenly that s a tradition. chelsea clinton, the first to come up to the podium during the swearing-in, now that s a tradition. carl, thank you so much for your time, sir. wish we had more of it. we ll be talking to you a fair amount coming up. that s going to do it for this hour of msnbc live. i ll see you tomorrow from washington, d.c. meanwhile, katy tur picking things up. good to see you. always great to see you in person, especially here on a lovely day in washington. the rain stopped. it s nice. thank you for sticking around ....
Is this is the exact thing that khalid shaikh mohammed predicted. in early 2005 years after his last harsh interrogation, he and i were talking about what he saw as upcoming trend in terror attacks. and he had become fascinated by the amount of damage that was done along with mohammed, around the beltway, shooting people out of the trunks of cars. for him, what surprised him, is how much paralysis was involved, and how few deathets. few deaths from his perspective, right? and what he said is that our civil liberties and openness and willingness to be spresponsive other people s cultures were gift from his god. that they were weaknesses and flaws that they had that had put into his god, allah, had put into the american culture so we could be defeated. he said the easiest way to do that, in spite of the fact al ....
That, that nearly 6 in 10, 58% of americans who believe that the american culture has changed for the worst since the 1950s as agree that white men are losing influence. talk just a little bit about that. another number that goes along with that, 60% of white working class americans also say that america s best days are behind us. there is a real sense of pessimism, anxiety, i think disillusionment among this group. what we ve seen i think with the decline of kind of the christian right that played an organizing principle in gop politic and even the decline to some extent of the tea party brand, what we re seeing is donald trump stepping in as really catalyst to animate really the most disaffected portion of white working class voters. one caveat to make sure i get in here, donald trump s favorability among white working class voters as a whole is only about 40%. that s about the number that he gets among white working class ....