Ohio Voters on Trump Presidency.
CAMEROTA: So how are voters feeling about President Trump's first month in office? Well, we wanted to head to the heartland to find out. I sat down with some passionate Trump supporters, as well as some of his critics, in Columbus, Ohio, at the Ladies' Gallery inside the Ohio Statehouse. Our discussion centered or foreign policy, Russia and if there's any chance of uniting this divided country.</s>CAMEROTA: Are you comfortable with the idea that some of Mr. Trump's top advisers would be dealing with the Russians during the campaign and before he was installed in the presidency?</s>DENNIS MCKIRAHAN, RETIRED SALESPERSON: Well, it's the old rule that 80 percent of the things you worry about never happen. We probably get overexcited about a lot of these things and probably it's nothing most of the time. I mean look at our history. It's been that way. It's not the only thing that's ever happened that was skeptical.</s>CAMEROTA: So not a big deal to you?</s>MCKIRAHAN: Not a big deal to me.</s>CAMEROTA: Any of you?</s>MCKIRAHAN: Here's the big deal.</s>KRIS MCCURRY, MORTGAGE BANKER: I think you've got to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.</s>SARA MARIE BRENNER, FMR. DELAWARE COUNTY CHAIRMAN FOR TRUMP CAMPAIGN: Exactly.</s>MCKIRAHAN: The big deal that we don't all agree --</s>MCCURRY: I mean keep them under the radar. They're supposed to be talking to these people.</s>BRENNER: Exactly.</s>MCCURRY: The fact that he was talking --</s>CHRISTIAN TAMTE, SMALL BUSINESS OWNER: Do any one of you remember Gorbachev and the shoe and I will destroy you from the inside? Is that lost or is that because it's not our generation that we don't remember that?</s>MCKIRAHAN: Well, no, I remember that.</s>CAMEROTA: What do you mean by that?</s>TAMTE: Russia told us they were going to destroy us from the inside.</s>MCKIRAHAN: Right. Yes.</s>TAMTE: They are a snake.</s>BRENNER: Oh, sure. Well, we don't disagree on that.</s>TAMTE: They are. We know this and -- and so keep your friends close and your enemies closer, we've been doing that, I think, over the years and we haven't -- I could -- I could see how you would want to go ahead and increase communications with them, but that is a slow, careful process, not, let's get in bed with Russia. I don't want to be buddy-buddy with the bad guy.</s>BRENNER: I don't think we are.</s>TAMTE: I think we absolutely --</s>MCKIRAHAN: But that's opinion -- that's opinion when you --</s>BRENNER: No, I don't think it's buddy-buddy at all. I think --</s>TAMTE: No.</s>MCKIRAHAN: All right, I don't think we're --</s>BRENNER: I think what it comes down to is -- is, you've got to look at Trump from a business person. And if I'm sitting down, I'm doing a business deal with you. If we hate each other, we're going to get nowhere, right.</s>TAMTE: I understand this --</s>BRENNER: But if we can at least converse --</s>TAMTE: Yes.</s>BRENNER: Then we have a chance of getting somewhere.</s>TAMTE: So do we converse in those back rooms where no one can see anything?</s>MCKIRAHAN: Sometimes you do.</s>BRENNER: Sometimes you have to.</s>TAMTE: I'm sorry, no.</s>CAMEROTA: Do you guys ever play a game with yourself called, what if Hillary Clinton did it? And do you ever do sort of a mind trick where you think --</s>MCKIRAHAN: I do it all the time on both sides, yes.</s>CAMEROTA: OK. So -- so, yes, I think that it's an interesting game. And so when you say, what if Hillary Clinton's national security adviser before she was installed in the White House, if she had won, had had repeated calls with the Russians and her top advisors had had repeated calls with the Russian and then went on a Sunday show and misled her vice president and lied about it, then what?</s>MCKIRAHAN: I would call for an investigation. That's not a problem.</s>CAMEROTA: But why --</s>MCKIRAHAN: And that's what they're doing.</s>CAMEROTA: But why do you seem to be more calm about it on the Trump side?</s>MCKIRAHAN: I'm calm on either side of that one.</s>CAMEROTA: But are you calling for an investigation with Mr. Trump as well?</s>MCKIRAHAN: Sure. I don't have a problem with it.</s>CAMEROTA: OK. If Huma Abedin were in this same situation, you would say, people have back room conversations. What's the big deal?</s>MCCURRY: No.</s>MCKIRAHAN: No, I would say room -- there's room for being a skeptic.</s>MCCURRY: I think investigations --</s>MCCURRY: Have an investigation. I'm more of a facts person. We're just speculating that it would happen. I did hear that he -- they have transcripts of his calls, so there's not any funky, you know, stuff that they don't know about going on. But once the facts come out, you know, that's what we run with.</s>I -- CAMEROTA: That's -- and if there was something where he was saying, oh, we'll ease sanctions when we get in, then would you be disappointed and would you think differently?</s>MCCURRY: Yes. I mean I'm all for doing the right thing. I mean -- I mean</s>I -- REV. DR. MARY REAMAN, PASTOR, TREE OF LIFE COMMUNITY: But what is the right thing?</s>MCCURRY: That's good.</s>MCKIRAHAN: Only God know for sure.</s>MCCURRY: If he's -- if there's foul play, then good, he should --</s>BRENNER: Something, though, that --</s>MCCURRY: He already resigned. You know, it -- I agree with that, that</s>TAMTE: This is the whole thing with Trump. I want to do the right thing. Silence. There's nothing after that. You all -- we all want to do the right thing and you got behind the guy that yelled the loudest and made the best show. And the thing is, there's nothing to -- he didn't say anything while he was running. He's not saying anything now. And you don't know what that right -- you can't even tell -- please, I really -- and I don't mean this as an attack. I really am -- I'm like to sit back and be calm and really listen.</s>BRENNER: But at the end of the day it seems like when -- when someone on the right does something wrong, there's an automatic assumption that they're wrong and that there was evil motive there. And if you -- if you look at the -- at the course of the last 10, 20 years, it's gotten even worse.</s>CAMEROTA: Do you guys ever play that mental game?</s>TAMTE: Yes.</s>CAMEROTA: Of what if Barack Obama did this, what if Hillary Clinton did this? What if Hillary Clinton's national security adviser had conversations with the Russian ambassador before Hillary Clinton -- wouldn't you say she's making an overture to a foreign dignitary, big whoop?</s>TAMTE: I would be very upset. I would be --</s>CAMEROTA: Oh, you would?</s>TAMTE: In fact, I was not even happy with all the things that Obama did. I was not all like, woo-hoo, Obama for everything. I would be livid with Hillary Clinton if I found out that she did something too. I try very hard to look at things from all sides.</s>RAEMAN: This is what I think is part of the issue. I don't know that I'm right and you don't either. And we have to say --</s>MCKIRAHAN: We only know what we know. We only know --</s>RAEMAN: We have to begin to say to each other, I don't know. I believe x, y, z, but I don't know and I want to have the humility enough to listen. If we keep saying, I'm right and you're wrong, or, you have to be wrong for me to be right, which is not true, we can both be right, and we can both be wrong. Until we overcome that, until we can say with humility, I don't know how to address these issues and I'm not going to come at it in a partisan way but I'm going to use my mind and my heart equally and have compassion and empathy for the human being and the planet, nothing changes.</s>CAMEROTA: How are you left feeling? I mean when you see the division, even in this civil setting, and when you see the division in the country, what -- what do -- what do you think is going to happen over the next four years?</s>MICHAEL MILISITS, VOTED FOR HILLARY CLINTON: Honestly, I'm cautiously optimistic because, you know, he did say that he was going to unite America, and it appears to me that the majority of America has united against his agenda and is now starting to mobilize in a way that we have never seen before.</s>CAMEROTA: But then where does it leave these guys? Like, in other words, if you're marching all the time against President Trump, then what about the 44 percent of the country that thinks that he's doing a great job? What do we -- what do you do about these guys?</s>MILISITS: That's the question I've been asking everyone that I come in contact with.</s>MCKIRAHAN: See -- I see -- I see --</s>MILISITS: That's the million dollar question, really, I mean that's --</s>MCKIRAHAN: Yes.</s>BRENNER: Yes.</s>MILISITS: That -- that, you know, and that's -- that's why we need to have this dialogue.</s>CAMEROTA: What do you -- how do you feel? Do you feel that there's any -- do you feel like trying to find common ground --</s>MCCURRY: Yes,</s>I -- CAMEROTA: Or do you feel like giving up with the other side --</s>MCCURRY: No.</s>CAMEROTA: Because you don't have a lot of common ground with them?</s>MCCURRY: I personally am -- have tons of friends of all walks of life. We get along. I think there's just too big of an anti-Trump bandwagon going on right now. And, I mean, we -- we have to give him a little bit of a chance here. It's gone a little crazy.</s>CAMEROTA: And, Christian, what do you think in terms of the division? Is this just what we live with now?</s>TAMTE: He ran on make America great again. One, I've always thought America was great before. I think we're still great and I think we're just getting better. And the world is now seeing what America really is. And that is, that when we see something that isn't lined up with what we believe, then we have the right to stand up, the world will see. The world will see.</s>CAMEROTA: All right, so we asked for your thoughts on this discussion. And I want to share two somewhat representative tweets of what you sent in. Henrick writes, "come on, Alisyn Camerota, there are a lot of people sore about the progressive agenda, meaning the global village, it's falling down and that's it." Braxton tweets, "if Hillary had even remotely done any of these, Trump would be holding lock her up rallies. The hypocrisy is incomprehensible." We thank you very much for weighing in and for watching. I'll see you tomorrow. CNN "Newsroom" with Poppy Harlow picks up after this very quick break.