A majority of Americans say they disapprove of Donald Trump’s second term – with even some Republicans hitting the president.

In the days before protests erupted in Los Angeles, the Trump administration stepped up its efforts to detain migrants — taking into custody those who arrived for routine check-ins while also conducting workplace raids that have sent waves of fear across Southern California and beyond.

A new NBC News poll shows President Trump’s approval numbers are sinking, even with portions of his base and on issues that brought him to the Oval Office. Republican strategist Susan Del Percio, Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro join Alex Witt to discuss the latest findings.

Trump’s efforts to constrain immigration during his first term played out in a similar fashion; by 2019, the unemployment rate had dropped to 3.5%, its lowest level since 1969, with earnings up 3.5% from 2018. Meanwhile, economic growth slowed to 2.3%, down from 2.9% the year prior, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The president claimed, without giving evidence, that the protesters were “paid” agitators, that the Los Angeles police asked for the National Guard, and that swaths of the city were under gang control.

For Bass, a high-profile Democrat who has avoided public conflicts with other elected officials, the days of tiptoeing around Trump are over. The tumultuous events of the past week have also given her an opportunity for a reset after the Palisades fire.

A new Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll of voters (mostly in Massachusetts but also including New Hampshire and Rhode Island) found a 53%-41% majority opposing the Trump administration's drive to deport immigrants here illegally.

Anger with Trump leads thousands to march for ‘No Kings’ as cops descend on marches - Demonstrations spanned 2,000 cities and small towns in defiance of Trump’s military parade