Mr. President, I need to find out from you, you said something as it relates to inner
cities.
That was one of your platforms during your campaign now you're fixing the inner cities.
What will be that fix and your urban agenda as well as your HBCU executive order that's
coming out this afternoon.
See, it wasn't bad, was it?
That was very professional and very good.
We'll be announcing the order in a little while and I'd rather let the order speak for
itself but it'll be something I think that will be very good for everybody concerned
but we'll talk to you about that after we do the announcement.
As far as the inner cities, as you know, I was very strong on the inner cities during
the campaign.
I think it's probably what got me a much higher percentage of the African American vote than
a lot of people thought I was going to get.
We did much higher than people thought I was going to get and I was honored by that including
the Hispanic vote which was also much higher and by the way if I might add including the
women's vote which was much higher than people thought I was going to get.
So we are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education,
having to do with crime, we're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.
You know, it takes a long time.
It's taken a hundred years and more for some of these places to evolve.
We have Hispanic American people that are in the inner cities and they're living in
hell.
I mean, you look at the numbers in Chicago.
There are two Chicago's as you know.
There's one Chicago that's credible, luxurious and all and safe.
There's another Chicago that's worse than almost any of the places in the Middle East
that we talk about and that you talk about every night on the newscasts.
So we're going to do a lot of work on the inner cities.
I have great people lined up to help with the inner cities.
When you say the inner cities, are you going to include the CBC Mr. President in your conversations
with your urban agenda, your inner city agenda, as well as the Congressional Black Caucus
and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus?
I would.
I'd tell you what.
Do you want to set up the meeting?
Do you want to set up the meeting?
No, no, no.
Are they friends of yours?
I'm just a reporter.
Set up the meeting.
I know some of them, but I'm sure they'll want to.
Let's go.
Set up a meeting.
I would love to meet with the Black Caucus.
I think it's great.
The Congressional Black Caucus.
I think it's great.
I actually thought I had a meeting with Congressman Cummings and he was all excited and then he
said, oh, I can't move, it might be bad for me politically, I can't have that meeting.
I was all set to have the meeting.
You know, we called him and called him and he was all set.
I spoke to him on the phone.
Very nice guy.
I hear he wanted that meeting with you as well.
He wanted it, but we called, called, called, called.
They can't make a meeting with him.
Every day I walk in, I said, I would like to meet with him because I do want to solve
the problem.
But he probably was told by Schumer or somebody like that, some other lightweight.
He was probably told, he was probably told, don't meet with Trump.
It's bad politics and that's part of the problem.
