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elijah cummings is doing what he has to do. on government and oversight. richard neal is doing what he has to do on ways and means. so the investigation to get the evidence that's necessary so that you can prosecute a case is continuing and moving on right now. >> you think it hurts you if you cannot deliver on this and is that why it's being done in more of a circumspect approach. >> yeah, i think that what you do, i'm a former prosecutor. i've seen cases where individuals were quick to indict, did not do all of their research, homework, investigations first and then the individual got off as a result of it. >> you're going to lose the case anyway. unlike in a courtroom, this is just votes, congressman, and with all due respect, and i mean that, we've been saying that a lot these days, nobody ever means it when they say it, it's like that's just the warm-up. i'm about to hit you. that's not the case here. the house looks for the facts and the senate tries the case. you're going to lose in the senate. it doesn't matter what you put in front of them. that c
elijah cummings is doing what he has to do. on government and oversight. richard neal is doing what he has to do on ways and means. so the investigation to get the evidence that's necessary so that you can prosecute a case is continuing and moving on right now. >> you think it hurts you if you cannot deliver on this and is that why it's being done in more of a circumspect approach. >> yeah, i think that what you do, i'm a former prosecutor. i've seen cases where individuals were...
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and he puts elijah cummings in danger and he puts john lewis in danger. my hero, an american iconic hero john lupoo lewis and hype the women. in 1983 when we elected our first mayor, they called it beirut on the lake. why? because his republican opponent said "vote to me before it's too late." >> it's like they're coming. >> they're old, we've stood up to them in the past. we are going to stand up to them today -- >> except this is what this underscores. we can say it's old but it's not. it's rightle he here, it's righ, it's very present. >> thank you for the -- >> let me just say this. these expressions, we've heard them before. america has risen in the past and has been triumphant. we will be triumphant again and that is what this president must understand. thank you for the clarification if i wasn't clear. thank you. >> i knew what you meant by i just, you know, so mame people d a little reminding. >> what is really sinister about this is frankly the president has testify sided -- decided to take this approach for political expediency. we know he lives
and he puts elijah cummings in danger and he puts john lewis in danger. my hero, an american iconic hero john lupoo lewis and hype the women. in 1983 when we elected our first mayor, they called it beirut on the lake. why? because his republican opponent said "vote to me before it's too late." >> it's like they're coming. >> they're old, we've stood up to them in the past. we are going to stand up to them today -- >> except this is what this underscores. we can say...
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cummings' home over the weekend tweeting "really bad news, the baltimore house of elijah cummings was robbed, too bad." . the president said that wasn't meant to be a wise guy tweet, his words. you're from bamt more, so is he. you know him well. you're friends. what did you think when you heard what the president tweeted today? >> wolf, this has been going on now for five or six days. what the president has done is so outrageous for the president of the united states. he should be the president for all america, including the people of baltimore. he was trying to distract from the legitimate work that congressman cummings is doing in oversight to protect against the abuses of the president and then he made an attack on baltimore, appealing to some of the worst instincts in this country. that should have no place in elijah cummings has done an outstanding job representing the people of baltimore. to make fun of someone trying to get into his home -- you know that the president does things that disappoints us all the time but we always need to speak out. this is just wrong and should hav
cummings' home over the weekend tweeting "really bad news, the baltimore house of elijah cummings was robbed, too bad." . the president said that wasn't meant to be a wise guy tweet, his words. you're from bamt more, so is he. you know him well. you're friends. what did you think when you heard what the president tweeted today? >> wolf, this has been going on now for five or six days. what the president has done is so outrageous for the president of the united states. he should...
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she is just now weighing in after the president had been targeting elijah cummings over the last week. >> yeah, good afternoon, pamela. so i think that this is the ambassador trying to sort of split the difference. she wants to chastise the president, but she doesn't want to look like she's attacking him and that's why she used that sort of halfway joking language with the emoji. and it makes sense from a certain perspective. she's a former governor of a deep red state. she might want to run for president one day as a republican. she'll need the president's hard core supporters if she ever wants to mount that kind of campaign. the problem, though, is that that's not really leadership. we've been going at thisthree o with the president's tweets about the four members of the squad, the four women of color congresswomen. then on to the president's series of tweets about baltimore and congressman cummings. so to wade in is a little too little and a little too late. >> so what do you think just big picture about the president tweeting about this? his home was broken into, he was apparently
she is just now weighing in after the president had been targeting elijah cummings over the last week. >> yeah, good afternoon, pamela. so i think that this is the ambassador trying to sort of split the difference. she wants to chastise the president, but she doesn't want to look like she's attacking him and that's why she used that sort of halfway joking language with the emoji. and it makes sense from a certain perspective. she's a former governor of a deep red state. she might want to...
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i hope i gave you enough you can work with. >> you see there congressman elijah cummings of maryland, seventh detective there, responding to the week and a half that it has been particularly for him, starting more than a week ago the president of the united states tweeting out criticism of congressman cummings, calling his district, i'm quoting now, the worst run and most dangerous nip where in the united states, no human being would want to live there, insulting a host of people, not just the congressmen but then so many coming out in defense from actress jada pinket to our own victor blackwell, talking about how hurtful seeing those comments from a president of the united states about congressman cummings and how those comments impact individuals from baltimore and beyond. the congressman coming out today at a grand opening of a play area in his respond to how so much support has come his way. and ofhim. you know congressman cummings had commitment remains strong to his district and to all americans. i'm joined now gutierrez and former governor candidate andrew gillham. thanks for b
i hope i gave you enough you can work with. >> you see there congressman elijah cummings of maryland, seventh detective there, responding to the week and a half that it has been particularly for him, starting more than a week ago the president of the united states tweeting out criticism of congressman cummings, calling his district, i'm quoting now, the worst run and most dangerous nip where in the united states, no human being would want to live there, insulting a host of people, not...
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cummings stuff and the tweets and comments especially when elijah cummings's home was broken into. it bothered anthony and talked about how he treated me, how the president tweeted me and he's concerned on this two-year anniversary of charlottesville at the same time anthony is coming out saying this but anthony is also taking -- getting death threats because of this and this is -- this is what people are not reporting but he told me today via email he's getting death threats because he came out against the president. he feels in his heart this has to stop and he doesn't feel the president should be re-elected. >> you make an important point, jeffrey toobin, that despite the rhetoric the approval among his base really hasn't changed. >> yeah, because what we never fail -- we never come to grips with is that all of this hostility to immigrants, all of his racism maybe that is what people like about him. maybe it is not something they just put aside. maybe the fact that donald trump disparages immigrants the way he always talks about people of color and disparaging ways, the way he g
cummings stuff and the tweets and comments especially when elijah cummings's home was broken into. it bothered anthony and talked about how he treated me, how the president tweeted me and he's concerned on this two-year anniversary of charlottesville at the same time anthony is coming out saying this but anthony is also taking -- getting death threats because of this and this is -- this is what people are not reporting but he told me today via email he's getting death threats because he came...
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obviously headed up by elijah cummings. >> this is bigger than what the president said about chairman cummings or baltimore. there's no denying that racism runs deep in this country. that ugly hateful words and thoughts can surface even when we don't expect them. there is newly revealed shocking tape of ronald reagan, the former president, in 1971 in a conversation with richard nixon. he was governor at the time. using the word "monkeys" to describe black african delegates to the u.n. who had voted in a way he didn't write. reagan's daughter, patty davis, wrote an op-ed for "the washington post" about her shock that her father who taught her racism was so evil would say something so ugly. she went on to say this. "that wound will stay with me forever. i believe if my father heard that years after the fact, he would have asked to forgiveness. that's not who i am. he would have sought to make amends for the pain his words caused." and make no mistake, words like that do indeed cause pain. whether those words come from a former president or the country president. >>> we are learning toni
obviously headed up by elijah cummings. >> this is bigger than what the president said about chairman cummings or baltimore. there's no denying that racism runs deep in this country. that ugly hateful words and thoughts can surface even when we don't expect them. there is newly revealed shocking tape of ronald reagan, the former president, in 1971 in a conversation with richard nixon. he was governor at the time. using the word "monkeys" to describe black african delegates to...
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congressman elijah cummings says he scared off an intruder who tried to break into his baltimore home. let me read you part of the statement. cummings said his security team went off saturday morning and he yelled at the person trying to get into his home. that scared the person away before they were able to access the residence. of course elijah cummings, a long time serving congress member, head of the house oversite committee. he then called the police. i should note this happened before president trump spent days attacking cummings and his baltimore district. after news of the break-in this morning, the president wrote really bad news, the baltimore house of elijah cummings was robbed. too bad, exclamation mark. >> i don't know that that tweet was dripping with sincerity. to another story we're following, joe biden says he's surprised at all the criticism president seemed to agree. have a debate last night and i also watched the night before. that was long, long television. and the democrats spent more time attacking barack obama than they did attacking me practically. >> joining
congressman elijah cummings says he scared off an intruder who tried to break into his baltimore home. let me read you part of the statement. cummings said his security team went off saturday morning and he yelled at the person trying to get into his home. that scared the person away before they were able to access the residence. of course elijah cummings, a long time serving congress member, head of the house oversite committee. he then called the police. i should note this happened before...
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she called him out for the tweet about the break in at elijah cummings home. she wrotes in unnecessary. when the president said i heard his home is robbed too bad. splamgs point kellyanne conway slammed back at the tweet saying this is unnecessary. what do you make she did. >> i'm glad she did that. sthes a national profile republican leader with discussion future will be in terms of her continuing in her political life and continuing to move upwards. the fact remains that i think hopefully, hopeful we're reaching a tipping point. congressman hurd was a good congressman and worked hard and tried to work across the aisle with democrats. we worked together on pieces of legislation that affected his district and other parts of texas. >> yes. >> the fact is ichk we reached the tipping point, the bigotry, racism attacked on cummings all associatewood that, at some point the republicans have to understand that they are marginalizing themselves politically in this nation as this nation changes and marginalizing themselves to a non-existent party. >> congressman you s
she called him out for the tweet about the break in at elijah cummings home. she wrotes in unnecessary. when the president said i heard his home is robbed too bad. splamgs point kellyanne conway slammed back at the tweet saying this is unnecessary. what do you make she did. >> i'm glad she did that. sthes a national profile republican leader with discussion future will be in terms of her continuing in her political life and continuing to move upwards. the fact remains that i think...
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he said with elijah cummings, what's happening in baltimore, and he even said what happened to me, and he has been feeling this way for a while. but i'm going to say this, he's paying a price now. just like i have, he is getting death threats. but there's a moral moment right now. and for real he's saying the president should not be re-elected. he is absolutely right. >> he gets no points for this because -- >> i'm not giving him points but i'm saying his moral compass is now pointing right. >> listen, this is where he thinks he's going to get something out of it. it is the same thing that your girl did. i'm not going to bring her up in this hour. you cannot after you have the benefit of working in the white house and acting like you have the inside track and then turn all of a sudden like you didn't know exactly who this guy was, i'm not giving you credit for -- i don't give a flying you know what that he's now ready to say after people received death threats you don't deserve -- >> he received death threats after he said it. >> first of all, death threats, all of us can agree that is
he said with elijah cummings, what's happening in baltimore, and he even said what happened to me, and he has been feeling this way for a while. but i'm going to say this, he's paying a price now. just like i have, he is getting death threats. but there's a moral moment right now. and for real he's saying the president should not be re-elected. he is absolutely right. >> he gets no points for this because -- >> i'm not giving him points but i'm saying his moral compass is now...
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the baltimore house of elijah cummings was robbed. other attacks on the congressman and city he represents the message would read different they than many today. i would seem as taunting, thuggish and if anything should happen to it. when the president was asked about it today, here is how he explained it. >> the tweet itself was just really a repeat of what i heard over the news. i know his house was robbed and i thought that was too bad. that was really just -- that was really not meant as a wise guy tweet. his house was robbed and it came over the news at a certain moment last night and i had just -- >> he's suggesting there is no other way to see it than him showing compassion and sympathy for the congressman. this tweet came after a dozen others calling the congressman corrupt, inept and a bully saying no human being would want to live in the parts of baltimore he represents and came after preetrepeated attacks on congressmen of color. do you think president trump was wishing the congressman well, the man he poured hate on for da
the baltimore house of elijah cummings was robbed. other attacks on the congressman and city he represents the message would read different they than many today. i would seem as taunting, thuggish and if anything should happen to it. when the president was asked about it today, here is how he explained it. >> the tweet itself was just really a repeat of what i heard over the news. i know his house was robbed and i thought that was too bad. that was really just -- that was really not meant...
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elijah cummings is doing what he has to do on government oversight, the richard neil on ways and means. the investigation to get the evidence necessary so that you can prosecute a case is continuing and moving on right now. >> so that was congressman gregory meeks of new york. that will likely take months. they're right now in this august recess. when do they need to decide? congresswoman jackie spears said september. if they're not going to do it, stop talking they might being dg it. >> jerry nadler says we can do it anytime in 2020, though the politics seem fairly impractical. i have heard a consensus time frame from the iowa caucus when presidential politics are going to be dominate the landscape, that's the outer edge of when democrats might consider going down that road. >> right before the start of the august recess, house judiciary announced this new lawsuit to get the grand jury materials and the chairman, chairman nadler said that this in effect is the start of the impeachment inquiry without using that term and too much is put on it. has that lawsuit served to pacify or satis
elijah cummings is doing what he has to do on government oversight, the richard neil on ways and means. the investigation to get the evidence necessary so that you can prosecute a case is continuing and moving on right now. >> so that was congressman gregory meeks of new york. that will likely take months. they're right now in this august recess. when do they need to decide? congresswoman jackie spears said september. if they're not going to do it, stop talking they might being dg it....
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if you're saying stuff like this or tweeting stuff about elijah cummings it's not sense kal. if you say i need to do that because people are against me in the media, it's nonsensical. you won the presidency. you've got a great hand and you've got create policies going on around the country. >> as a supporter of the president, when you see the language that he uses in this document written by the killer, how does it make you feel, anthony? >> well, again, you know -- forget about the killer for a second. just look at the language itself. you can't attach the killer to the president. that is totally in my opinion not fair. but if you look at the language itself and if you're sitting around with him putting a speech together or thinking about a campaign idea or a campaign policy, you got to say, hey, you're the president now. you're not running for office. i mean, you're the president of everybody. this sort of stuff is going to turn off a lot of people and it's going to strike fear in people. >> it's going to -- it's going to and -- >> john, let me finish. you're making the poi
if you're saying stuff like this or tweeting stuff about elijah cummings it's not sense kal. if you say i need to do that because people are against me in the media, it's nonsensical. you won the presidency. you've got a great hand and you've got create policies going on around the country. >> as a supporter of the president, when you see the language that he uses in this document written by the killer, how does it make you feel, anthony? >> well, again, you know -- forget about the...
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it is a clear reference to the broadsides he has launched against baltimore and congressman elijah cummings. so let's get the big picture. mark mckinnon is here. joe trippi as well. good to see you, gentlemen. thank you so much. joe, let's talk about you. tonight joe biden is tweeting this. let's talk to you, not about you. joe biden is tweeting this. i was surprised at all of the attacks on barack obama's error we passed obamacare and saved our economy from the brink of disaster. he was a great president. we don't say that enough. what is the strategy in democrats attacking his legacy? >> doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. joe biden is leading among african-americans, well over 50% of their votes right now in all the polls. a largely because he was barack obama's vice president. and barack obama's popularity is bar none in the democrat party. so to force, to actually force joe biden defending barack obama doesn't seem like a really smart strategy to me. >> but joe, let me ask you this. how do they attack joe biden's record without attacking? because he was a part of the obama adminis
it is a clear reference to the broadsides he has launched against baltimore and congressman elijah cummings. so let's get the big picture. mark mckinnon is here. joe trippi as well. good to see you, gentlemen. thank you so much. joe, let's talk about you. tonight joe biden is tweeting this. let's talk to you, not about you. joe biden is tweeting this. i was surprised at all of the attacks on barack obama's error we passed obamacare and saved our economy from the brink of disaster. he was a...
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a week later he put a target on elijah cummings, and he has had a target on the latino community from day one. we saw what happened as a result of this, and this idea that he's going to go down there and unify in some way is ludicrous. he lit the tiki torches, he can't roast marshmallows on the ashes right now. this is not completely his fault, but he's definitely inciting violence. when i talk about being terrified, when i talk about the fact that we are bullied and dehumanized every single day with this racist rhetoric, people thought i was being hyperbolic, there are 22 people dead because of racist, the president of the united states dehumanizing latinos, saying they were invading this country, and he took it into his own hands, to protect it, to follow the marching orders given to him by donald trump, so for trump to go there and throw paper towels over the graves of these people. he went to this club and he frolicked at a wedding. he profited as those people still lay on the walmart floor, their families not knowing if they were gone forever. why. why would he go down there and
a week later he put a target on elijah cummings, and he has had a target on the latino community from day one. we saw what happened as a result of this, and this idea that he's going to go down there and unify in some way is ludicrous. he lit the tiki torches, he can't roast marshmallows on the ashes right now. this is not completely his fault, but he's definitely inciting violence. when i talk about being terrified, when i talk about the fact that we are bullied and dehumanized every single...
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you've seen this letter from elijah cummings to the department of homeland security and secretary kevin mca lean than complaining that they're refusing to allow members from the house oversight committee to engage in the second round of visits to several detention facilities. in the first round he's documented what's seen as extremely troubling conditions. what do you make of this? >> i make of it that the administration doesn't want congress, a, to perform its over sight function, which is a part of congress's oversight function, and they don't want people to see what presumably would be still substandard conditions at some of these facilities if the facilities were running perfectly, i can't imagine they wouldn't want democratic members or democratic staff to come to the facilities. look, we have a situation here, wolf, we've been talking about this for months, where this shouldn't be hard. it's a hard thing to decide, immigration policy. it's not hard to decide that kids should have clean scheetz, toothpaste, books, soccer balls, bathrooms, showers, everything that they need, and ted
you've seen this letter from elijah cummings to the department of homeland security and secretary kevin mca lean than complaining that they're refusing to allow members from the house oversight committee to engage in the second round of visits to several detention facilities. in the first round he's documented what's seen as extremely troubling conditions. what do you make of this? >> i make of it that the administration doesn't want congress, a, to perform its over sight function, which...
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elijah cummings and the majority black district which includes baltimore. calling it a disgusting infested mess. tweeting quote no human being would want to live there. and those are just the most recent slurs from a man who told me this. >> are you racist? >> i'm the least racist person that you have ever met. i am the least racist person. >> are you bigoted? >> i don't think so. no. >> islam phobic? >> no. >> the "washington post" reporting that the president is infuriated over being called a racist. maybe he's not listening to his words. maybe he's just forgetting his own policies. this is a president who new immigration policy is so restrictive against even legal immigrants that his own grandfather who immigrated from germany unable to speak english with few skills and little money would probably not have gotten in. we quoted the atlantic before. the skrcruelty is the point. he'll be here later on. how else can you describe an immigration policy that seems designed to target people who need government assistance like medicaid and food stamps making it s
elijah cummings and the majority black district which includes baltimore. calling it a disgusting infested mess. tweeting quote no human being would want to live there. and those are just the most recent slurs from a man who told me this. >> are you racist? >> i'm the least racist person that you have ever met. i am the least racist person. >> are you bigoted? >> i don't think so. no. >> islam phobic? >> no. >> the "washington post" reporting...
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elijah cummings gets a tweet attacked by president trump. we've seen newsrooms coming up with euphamisms of whether it's a racist tweet storm. it was a racist tweet storm but a lot of journalists are uncomfortable to say so. >> it's amazing the number of euphasm mis we can come up with. racially tinged, racially infused, racial essence, to describe what is clearly a racist rhetoric. part of it comes from a discomfort of many white journalists who call out things that they don't feel we should say so directly. and also it comes from having a lack of historical context themselves in order to describe. if you study the history of race in this country, you know this is old language, not something new, that he's recalling the worst rhetoric that black and brown people have faced in this country for a long time. >> let's get into what is really uncomfortable here. in this racist essay that appears to be published by the el paso attacker, he uses words like invasion, his ppanic invasion. wesley, we know who else has been using those words for years
elijah cummings gets a tweet attacked by president trump. we've seen newsrooms coming up with euphamisms of whether it's a racist tweet storm. it was a racist tweet storm but a lot of journalists are uncomfortable to say so. >> it's amazing the number of euphasm mis we can come up with. racially tinged, racially infused, racial essence, to describe what is clearly a racist rhetoric. part of it comes from a discomfort of many white journalists who call out things that they don't feel we...
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>> reporter: we know that house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings sent this letter to dhs basically arguing that congressional staffers were blocked from visiting 11 facilities trying to look at the conditions within those facilities. and in the letter cummings writes, quote, the department's last-minute denial of access to cbp facilities and unwarranted restrictions at i.c.e. facilities are unacceptable and impair the committee's ability to conduct its oversight responsibilities in an effective manner. the committee requests that the department provide meaningful access to all facilities identified by committee staff. and they are saying that this came after committee staff visited some facilities last week and found some troubling conditions. i want to just read to you a few of those conditions that they found. they said that children were not given age-appropriate food in some conditions, they also said there was a lack of diapers for parents and that children were placed in cold rooms without adequate clothing on. and there was one more observation that one staffer wro
>> reporter: we know that house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings sent this letter to dhs basically arguing that congressional staffers were blocked from visiting 11 facilities trying to look at the conditions within those facilities. and in the letter cummings writes, quote, the department's last-minute denial of access to cbp facilities and unwarranted restrictions at i.c.e. facilities are unacceptable and impair the committee's ability to conduct its oversight...
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cummings. they're people of color. do you think people of color in this country are feeling less safe today? >> well, we are definitely feeling less safe. we've seen it ever since charlottesville how this administration have handled the reality of domestic terrorism. and let's make no mistake about what's taking place. this is domestic terrorism, the same type of terrorism that african-americans have seen throughout the civil rights movement and past the civil rights movement. it is a scenario where the federal government under this administration have not valued the lives of citizens of this country, african-americans and latinos. and they have dehumanized individuals who are seeking asylum in this country. it is not anything that we should stand idly by and say it is okay or excuse the way of saying it is these few individuals because they have mental illness. if there is any mental illness, it is coming from the white house because this president refuse to see any one who's image is differen
cummings. they're people of color. do you think people of color in this country are feeling less safe today? >> well, we are definitely feeling less safe. we've seen it ever since charlottesville how this administration have handled the reality of domestic terrorism. and let's make no mistake about what's taking place. this is domestic terrorism, the same type of terrorism that african-americans have seen throughout the civil rights movement and past the civil rights movement. it is a...
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a criminal tried to break into the home of democratic congressman elijah cummings. it happened just before 4:00 a.m. this past saturday. the congressman chased the intruder away pie yelling. the president adding his sarcastic two cents this morning. quote, really bad news. too bad. that from the president. he of course has repeatedly attacked cummings starting last saturday after the attempted robbery calling baltimore infested with little pushback from republicans. this morning one trump former cap net official rolling her eyes. nikki haley retweeting with this reaction, this is so un necessary. the president has repeatedly attacked baltimore the past week including calling it infested. last night he blamed democrats for inner city problems. >> no one has paid a higher price for the far left's destructive agenda than americans living in our nation's inner cities. it's been one party control and look at them. we can name one after another, but i won't do that. because i don't want to be controversial. we want no controversy. >> this is so unnecessary from nikki hale
a criminal tried to break into the home of democratic congressman elijah cummings. it happened just before 4:00 a.m. this past saturday. the congressman chased the intruder away pie yelling. the president adding his sarcastic two cents this morning. quote, really bad news. too bad. that from the president. he of course has repeatedly attacked cummings starting last saturday after the attempted robbery calling baltimore infested with little pushback from republicans. this morning one trump...
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his rant about elijah cummings across the border, i thought from vindictiveness to outright cruelty. and i think he's shown less control in the last four, six weeks, even than he had before. so that's another thing that could happen is the voters sort of sober second judgment of the community could say at some point over time, because six months is a long time in politics, enough is enough, and i think the appropriate judgment of the american people is going to trend increasingly in that direction as we get closer and closer to february of 2020. >> mark sanford, former governor of south carolina is considering jumping into the primary race. they s he says if he loses to donald trump, he would vote for president trump in a general election against a democrat. will you vote for the president against a democrat in the general election? >> you know, i'm a big admirer of governor sanford. i like him a lot, but that's a major difference. mark has said that he would vote for trump against any democrat. i have said, and i mean it, that i would never support donald trump for president of the
his rant about elijah cummings across the border, i thought from vindictiveness to outright cruelty. and i think he's shown less control in the last four, six weeks, even than he had before. so that's another thing that could happen is the voters sort of sober second judgment of the community could say at some point over time, because six months is a long time in politics, enough is enough, and i think the appropriate judgment of the american people is going to trend increasingly in that...
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let's think about september 9th when congress goes back in session, i can see elijah cummings head of government oversight and reform. this goes back into conflicts of interest. then let's talk about taxpayer dollars. this will be the world converging at his place in florida. think about this. taxpayer dollars will be used to supply secret service. when you have this movement you have to construct barriers. it is costly. then at a time when there's issues of heightened security, national security, this is not only going to cost us but the president is going to make money off of this at his facility that you have said. >> one update on where we are, we have live pictures of a porking lunch from g7. it's tape playback, we have video of it, the working lunch. we're told as of a few moments ago president trump isn't inside, nor has there been an actual meal served. >> macron is hosting it. i suppose everyone was suspec d suspected -- expected to be at this working meeting. >> he may show up any second, may be there already. how would you assess the reception he's received over the last fe
let's think about september 9th when congress goes back in session, i can see elijah cummings head of government oversight and reform. this goes back into conflicts of interest. then let's talk about taxpayer dollars. this will be the world converging at his place in florida. think about this. taxpayer dollars will be used to supply secret service. when you have this movement you have to construct barriers. it is costly. then at a time when there's issues of heightened security, national...
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cummings the democrat from maryland saying this is so unnecessary when trump seemed to be making fun of the fact someone broke into his home. the idea of him replacing mike pence who's been a loyal foot soldier with trump for replacing nikki haley seems absurd. >> i'm just thinking if his focus is on winning purely -- >> if he has a problem with women, he can do background checks because a lot of suburban women and republicans support those. >>> still to come this hour in the week since two mass shootings dozens of arrests have been made. the suspects all accused of making new threats of gun violence. what's behind the apparent uptick in such threats? all this as police in california stopped a planned attack on a hotel. >>> plus president trump says that isis prisoners captured by the u.s. will not go to guantanamo bay saying he may have no choice but to release them inside european countries. does he mean that? >>> and massive fires raging inside the amazon rain forest, burning at a record rate. it has enormous consequences for the planet. we're going to be live in brazil coming up.
cummings the democrat from maryland saying this is so unnecessary when trump seemed to be making fun of the fact someone broke into his home. the idea of him replacing mike pence who's been a loyal foot soldier with trump for replacing nikki haley seems absurd. >> i'm just thinking if his focus is on winning purely -- >> if he has a problem with women, he can do background checks because a lot of suburban women and republicans support those. >>> still to come this hour in...
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this base play he made with the nativist rhetoric and on elijah cummings and the four congresswomen, he sees bad economic news coming and bad political news coming, and he's a demoralized guy. >> i don't see that at all. he hates being there. >> he does not like these kinds of things. >> you give him too much credit. he hates being at these meetings. he doesn't like the dynamics going on there. he sees the entire array of those folks by and large with the exception of boris johnson -- >> he hates being in the white house, he hates being in meetings. what does he like? >> what you're seeing is a president engaged in a battle that presidents for generations have said they will fight and none of them have. and he's going out -- >> talking about china. >> taking on china and doing it in a way that some people can quibble as to whether he's doing it the right way or the wrong way, but he's doing it. no one else has done it before. you saw today -- >> total nonsense. just a few -- >> the ttp that was done would have done more damage to china than any single thing trump has done. the establ
this base play he made with the nativist rhetoric and on elijah cummings and the four congresswomen, he sees bad economic news coming and bad political news coming, and he's a demoralized guy. >> i don't see that at all. he hates being there. >> he does not like these kinds of things. >> you give him too much credit. he hates being at these meetings. he doesn't like the dynamics going on there. he sees the entire array of those folks by and large with the exception of boris...
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some say he was just returning fire from elijah cummings but other people said they found those attacks against baltimore, no human being would want to live there, rode enter and rat-infested, racist. not even racially tinged, racist. what do you say? >> he's wrong for so many reasons. the fact that you say he returned fire -- >> that's what his sporters said. i didn't say it. >> congressman cummings is doing his job. the president should do his, which is to represent all of america. i wouldn't be made if someone from pittsburgh -- you know, we hate the steelers. >> hate the ravens. >> he's from pittsburgh. >> so you get it, right? i wouldn't be mad if someone from pittsburgh said it or -- during football season or someone from boston said it. but when you're the president, you're supposed to be the president of all of the -- what you consider the great parts and the gritty parts, too. imagine if something that happened in dayton happened in baltimore, no one would want to see the president step foot there. his role is to unite us, like it or not. you take that role, you're supposed to
some say he was just returning fire from elijah cummings but other people said they found those attacks against baltimore, no human being would want to live there, rode enter and rat-infested, racist. not even racially tinged, racist. what do you say? >> he's wrong for so many reasons. the fact that you say he returned fire -- >> that's what his sporters said. i didn't say it. >> congressman cummings is doing his job. the president should do his, which is to represent all of...
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this is a president who went on a twitter tirade against another member of congress, elijah cummings, and his majority black district, which includes much of baltimore, calling it, quote, a disgusting rat and rodent-infested mess, going on to tweet, quote, no human being would want to live there. and those are just the most recent slurs from the man who told me this. >> are you racist? >> i am the least racist person that you have ever met. i am the least racist person. >> are you bigoted in any way? >> i don't think so, no. i don't think so. >> islamaphobic? >> i'm a person -- no, not at all. >> "the washington post" reporting that the president is infuriated over being called a racist. maybe he's just not listening to his own words. maybe he's just forgetting his own policies. this is a president whose new immigration policy is so restrictive against even legal immigrants that his own grandfather, who emigrated from germany, unable to speak english, with few skills and little money, would probably not have gotten in. we've quoted the atlantic's adam serwer before. the cruelty is the
this is a president who went on a twitter tirade against another member of congress, elijah cummings, and his majority black district, which includes much of baltimore, calling it, quote, a disgusting rat and rodent-infested mess, going on to tweet, quote, no human being would want to live there. and those are just the most recent slurs from the man who told me this. >> are you racist? >> i am the least racist person that you have ever met. i am the least racist person. >> are...
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whether it is the squad, or elijah cummings, i get this is policy indifferent but again it doesn't feel like a coincidence. >> there has been certainly a lot of the focus on race and the president recently. just going back to the stunning racist comments with him telling the four lawmakers to go back to -- for u.s. citizen congresswomen to go back to where they came from and then to the comments involving baltimore. the president as we've seen constantly is -- and the campaign is driving on that base focused strategy to the expense of trying to kind of broaden his base and this is going to be a tactic that we'll continue to see. >> stick around. we have more to talk about. president trump just went after a former member of his own white house. what set him off. >>> then a nuclear accident in russia raising new questions about a possible seriesus threat to the u.s. stay with us. [ music: "i am" by club yoko plays ] ♪ boom goes the dynamite, ♪ feels like i'm taking flight. ♪ [sfx: poof] [sfx: squeaking eraser sound effect.] ♪ i am who i wanna be ♪ ♪ who i wanna be ♪ who i wa
whether it is the squad, or elijah cummings, i get this is policy indifferent but again it doesn't feel like a coincidence. >> there has been certainly a lot of the focus on race and the president recently. just going back to the stunning racist comments with him telling the four lawmakers to go back to -- for u.s. citizen congresswomen to go back to where they came from and then to the comments involving baltimore. the president as we've seen constantly is -- and the campaign is driving...
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cummings in baltimore and then gloating about the robbery of representative cummings house so i think his speech was prefunktory. president obama public notice was good and i didn't vote for him but this is a presidential statement. we won't get that kind of presidential leadership for this president which makes it important for others to act or step forward and speak. i do think there is a case for congress coming back. maybe the senate won't pass the gun control proposals but i don't think it is enough for nancy pelosi to say the senate should come back, but the house could come back and both do a little bit of attempted governing at this moment when the country needs to see responsible behavior from elected officials. >> i will say there is hr 8 sitting on mcconnell's desk. >> we'll talk about that later on in the show. hold your horses. >> and president obama's comments were very good and very appropriate but i think he stroke a tone that some democratic candidates didn't. when you hear beto o'rourke or cory booker going after the press and -- the president and saying he's racist
cummings in baltimore and then gloating about the robbery of representative cummings house so i think his speech was prefunktory. president obama public notice was good and i didn't vote for him but this is a presidential statement. we won't get that kind of presidential leadership for this president which makes it important for others to act or step forward and speak. i do think there is a case for congress coming back. maybe the senate won't pass the gun control proposals but i don't think it...
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cummings, the attacks on baltimore, now we see some very aggressive steps when it comes to even trying to dissuade legal immigration. how do you view all of that? >> i think that to be conservative is to have trust in institutions. they are about balancing power in the political system. i think to be conservative is to have a measure of conservatism in the way that you approach others. a humbleness of heart. it doesn't mean you have to be meek. but it does mean you don't pretend to be the bully in the local school yard and what i'm hearing from folks here on the coast of south carolina where i come from is a level of weariness with the -- the bullying until the school yard routine. and you saw it in frankly in my congressional election for the first time in 50 years the seat went democrat. and much of it was based on soccer moms and young millennials saying this is inconsistent with the message my parents gave me over the years or with the message i've been trying to givepy kids. so i think something afoot both on the financial front and on the tone and tenure front. >> mark sanford fr
cummings, the attacks on baltimore, now we see some very aggressive steps when it comes to even trying to dissuade legal immigration. how do you view all of that? >> i think that to be conservative is to have trust in institutions. they are about balancing power in the political system. i think to be conservative is to have a measure of conservatism in the way that you approach others. a humbleness of heart. it doesn't mean you have to be meek. but it does mean you don't pretend to be the...
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i know it is a democratic city and you're in a spat with elijah cummings, but -- that's sick. >> yeah. but this is what he does. this is -- he doesn't -- he clearly doesn't view cities that didn't vote for him as being part of his responsibility. that he feels comfortable denigrating this city and you went through the -- the children that have been murdered and -- >> it is amess obviously. >> he's the president of the united states and if he -- if he's recognizing that we have a major city that has major problems and baltimore has major problems, i don't think anyone would deny that, then come up with an idea for how to help them instead of attacking them an denigrating them. >> it has to hurt the effort of people like you david to appeal to not just african-americans but to people who see cities as part of america. >> look, so i think it is completely fair for the paparaz -- for the president to point out policy differences. lets a pick out some cities. new york, chicago, cities that are run by democrats and run by democrats for millions of years basically and say, look, and pick out
i know it is a democratic city and you're in a spat with elijah cummings, but -- that's sick. >> yeah. but this is what he does. this is -- he doesn't -- he clearly doesn't view cities that didn't vote for him as being part of his responsibility. that he feels comfortable denigrating this city and you went through the -- the children that have been murdered and -- >> it is amess obviously. >> he's the president of the united states and if he -- if he's recognizing that we have...
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the attacks on baltimore and elijah cummings and women of color compared and contrasted to what he does not say to any white male because he's the president, not of america but of his base and his base is increasingly white men who wear red hats. he has to be the president of all americans and he said a lot of people in charlottesville are very fine people. i haven't forgotten that. i keep the receipts. >> we got to leave it there. appreciate it. thank you. >>> coming up, trump palace, trump soho, trump greenland? he's interested in purchasing the sparsely populated island to our way north. the question is, is he serious? also, how much would greenland actually cost if it were available? >>> plus, we'll show you more from stephen colbert and his thoughts on the presidential candidates. >> i was going to talk about democratic presidential candidates but after this. >> i would vote for any of them. the doctor's office might mejust for a shot.o but why go back there when you can stay home with neulasta® onpro? strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. in a key study neulastaÂ
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cummings, they understand that kind of -- that is not appealing to those middle class voters they want. but of course as it was in 2016, the question is that is your strategy for the election, what is it once you're in the white house and governing and weaver seen it play out with donald trump who made the argument, i'm not hillary clinton and put me in the white house and now he relies on his himself and voters will have that question if someone does defeat donald trump and if it is joe biden people still want to know what will happen to their 401(k) or their health care and what they will do with that. that is a short-lived promise for voters who still care who is president in -- in however many years if it is not donald trump. >> and the other thing fascinating in this poll is we saw kamala harris dip 12 points between june and this most recent polling in august after the last debate. warren and sanders stayed steady. it shows how soft her support is. it is diffused and nowhere. there wasn't one candidate that went up so much because of kamala harris. you've seen that little bit wit
cummings, they understand that kind of -- that is not appealing to those middle class voters they want. but of course as it was in 2016, the question is that is your strategy for the election, what is it once you're in the white house and governing and weaver seen it play out with donald trump who made the argument, i'm not hillary clinton and put me in the white house and now he relies on his himself and voters will have that question if someone does defeat donald trump and if it is joe biden...
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secretary castro, after the president's racist tweets attacking baltimore and elijah cummings, the mayor of baltimore said to the president, help us. send the resources that we need to rebuild america. so, what would you do for baltimore and other cities that need help? >> first of all, the president is a racist. that was one more example of it. whether it's baltimore or cities like detroit, they have tremendously rich in history and culture and also in possibility. here's what i would do if i'm president. i would invest in tremendous opportunity. universal pre-k for everyone. and make education available to everyone, through division and job training and certification programs. i would follow up on the work i did at hud. we passed a sweeping rule to desegregate our communities in the united states. this trump administration set that back. i would put that back in order. i would invest in housing that is affordable. folks know the rent is going through roof. we need to make sure that you don't have to get out of west baltimore or inner city detroit or the west side of san antonio or anyw
secretary castro, after the president's racist tweets attacking baltimore and elijah cummings, the mayor of baltimore said to the president, help us. send the resources that we need to rebuild america. so, what would you do for baltimore and other cities that need help? >> first of all, the president is a racist. that was one more example of it. whether it's baltimore or cities like detroit, they have tremendously rich in history and culture and also in possibility. here's what i would do...
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the weekend, saying bad news, elijah cummings's home was robbed, too bad. that elicited a response from nikki haley who said it was completely unnecessary and president trump defended himself saying that it was not meant to be in his words, a wise guy tweet about cummings that he had just read the news and was simply commenting on social media. meanwhile, also on twitter today, president trump weighed in on the case of rapper asap rocky. he's personally gotten involved in this case, wolf. calling the swedish prime minister to ask for rocky to be released. that case is now -- now over and pending a verdict and he's back to the united states. and he said asap rocky released from prison and on the way home to the united states from sweden. it was a rocky week. get home asap. >> as we noted, 118 house democrats are now on record as favoring the inquiry and that i a simple majority but a majority nonetheless. let's go to lauren follow up on capitol hill. what is the latest up there? >> well, wolf that 118 number very significant because it represents more than h
the weekend, saying bad news, elijah cummings's home was robbed, too bad. that elicited a response from nikki haley who said it was completely unnecessary and president trump defended himself saying that it was not meant to be in his words, a wise guy tweet about cummings that he had just read the news and was simply commenting on social media. meanwhile, also on twitter today, president trump weighed in on the case of rapper asap rocky. he's personally gotten involved in this case, wolf....