TASK DEFINITION: Given a sentence and an entity, the task is to select the authors sentiment towards the enity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the sentence expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the sentence expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the sentence expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity DACA Trump ? "The base had a pretty strong reaction yesterday and that may have been it  but still  he  said good things about DACA too " Dick Durbin  the number-two Democrat in the Senate  tells Rolling Stone. "It's still an active negotiation  and I have a positive feeling towards it. We're not there yet."

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity David Letterman ?  And sometimes Letterman goes too far. In June  he apologized to Sarah Palin for a joke about her daughter getting "knocked up" by Yankees star Alex Rodriguez. After hesitating for several days  Letterman said: "I told a joke that was beyond flawed  and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception."

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Matt Lauer ? It was left to  Lauer 's shaken "Today" colleagues  Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb  to break the news to viewers at the top of Wednesday morning's show.

SOLUTION:
Neutral