Martin Luther King III held a private meeting with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday,The son of Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. told reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower after the meeting that he and Trump spoke mostly about the importance of voting rights. “We did have a very constructive meeting,” King said to reporters in the MSNBC video above. The meeting, held on Martin Luther King Day, followed Trump’s highly publicized comments about Rep. John Lewis over the weekend. Martin Luther King III avoided answering reporter questions about the controversy, stating only that “a lot of things get said on both sides.”Instead, King focused on discussing the need for voting reform. “[Trump] said that he is going to represent all Americans,” King added.

Source: Huffington Post January 17, 2017 17:35 UTC