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With him when he is right, and we will oppose him when he is wrong, and hold him to some of the words he used to get elected. like saying he wouldn't cut social security and medicare and medicaid and that he was a different kind of politician. we'll see. hopefully he will work on infrastructure with him. the democrats will work with president trump if he is serious about increasing jobs and protecting social security. >> so there are some areas of agreement. infrastructure, as you point out, building new roads, bridges, airports. that's an area where democrats and the trump administration clea...

Support sessions after meeting with him on wednesday. he joins me now. senator sherrod brown of ohio. welcome to "politicsnation" again, senator. >> good to be back. thanks, reverend sharpton. >> now, senator brown, you met with the attorney general nominee sessions. first of all, what was your impressions? and tell us a little about the meeting. >> yeah, i met with senator sessions on wednesday. he asked to meet with me. i've worked with him on a couple of trade issues, a set of issues i actually agree with him on -- opposition to trans-pacific partnership, renegotiating initiation of the nor...

Flowing here and talk more importantly -- >> even on christmas eve. >> more importantly, about the substance of what he is saying. ben, let's go to you. does that clarify things? does that change the context of what he said? >> i think it definitely changes the context of what he said and that's probably the reason why he put this tweet out there is to make it clear he was taken out of context. i also think what you're seeing from donald trump is something very clear. he is not going to play games. he's going to protect and defend america and that's what got him to the white house and he's goi...

Establishment republicans. >> it is the pit in the cherry for the business community in particular, which is obviously a pillar of the republican coalition on many different fronts. this is shaping up to be the most friendly pro corporate administration since ronald reagan in terms of appointees and the big tax cut he's promising, the rolling back of federal regulations. we mentioned climate, consumer protection on finance, dodd frank. a lot of different ways he's going to give the business community what it wants. the price is a very different posture on trade issues. both the occasional call...

President. he tweets about it, and says, did china ask us if it was okay to devalue their occurrence, making it hard for our companies to compete. heavily tax our products going into their country? the u.s. doesn't tax them or build a massive military complex in the middle of the south china sea. i don't think so, what are the implications here? >> this is either spontaneous commentary from donald trump. or it is the president-elect signaling a substantive shift in the primary superpower relationship of our time. and sticking out, you know, a very firm position on difficult issues here, south ...