mask on because of the fear and stigma. michael, thank you very much for being with us and talking about dr. rabinowitz. thank you. >> thank you for helping us honor him. >> and we honor him and all the 11 who were killed here. there's many ways to help the pittsburgh community. the web site and other organizations are on cnn.com/impact. it's been an honor for us to be here, a sad privilege and a painful one, but we feel honored to have been able to bear witness over the last two days here. i want to go back to chris. "cuomo primetime" starts right now. >> thank you, sananderson, to y and your team for the coverage. >> fear and loathing. that's the theme for the midterms. focus on the monsters making

their way here and others like them. damn that media that discloses o our lies about the same and double down on the harshness against both. then they tell us the president is trying every way he can to unify the country. come on. send the military to the border now and make the situation seem urgent when it will be at least a month before the strongest of the migrants could make the trek to our border. and birthright citizenship gone. president trump thinks he can defy the constitution. we have a member of congress tonight who says it must stop here. and just days after the worst massacre of jews in history, a candida

candidate's closing argument that some say is anti-semitic. is it? we'll get into it. >> the president laid stones and flowers and went to see victims in the hospital. but the protests were because of everything that he had said before today. those word are being felt, especially in pittsburgh, especially after that massacre. the demonstrators included some of the victims from this past week's shooting, united against what they say is the president's hateful rhetoric and stoking of fear. the thing is, the president's not hiding his intentions. he wants his base to be motivated to vote, and he sees scaring you about migrants and fighting with the media, that's the way to do it. invade invaders, meet them with the military. trump can change what's in the

constitution all by himself, that's how smart he is. the media who questions him, they are the real enemy of the people. and that phrase is from stalin and hitler. they both used it. why bring that term or the term nationalist back if you don't want to get hit for their history? is all the gop on board with this? let's bring in republican congressman adam kinsinger of illino illinois. not an easy conversation. >> thanks for having me. >> fear and loathing. that's what i call it because that's what it is. you defended this country. you were a hero in the service of the military. and now you are being told as one of the members of the party there is a bunch of barbarians headed towards our gates, they're murderers, drug dealers, coming to break through and do arm to as many as they can. that's what the president wants you to believe. do you believe that about the caravan?

>> no. i don't like the caravan. i want the caravan to not come here and take advantage of our asylum laws and i want the border to be secure, but one of my big concerns in all of this, you know, look, you mentioned my military service. i got into politics becauseitic i want to win. i got into politics to maybe a difference. winning i think helps me make a difference but where my big concern right now is where the country is. on one side, our side blames only the democrats, the democrats blame only the republicans. i think maybe only god knows who is really more at fault in all of this. everybody, including the president, including members of congress, including people just when you're on facebook and twitter, we need to take deep breaths and we need to realize that we're not going to be this country that is united on everything, but we can be a country that respects each other again, that takes moments like a shooting in a synagogue and ponders that. what does that mean for us? what does that mean for our

country? why is this happening? >> but you know why, congressman. there's no question that the partisanship is toxic. that's the easy part of the analysand al -- analysis. this negativity works with his base. may not be the same people who voted for you but the people who voted for him and your party now giving him well over 80% approval, it works with them the problem is it's based on at best bad information and in the main lies. we know from his own intelligence he knows that migrant caravan isn't showing up here any day. the strongest people as fit and strong as you wouldn't be here for another month. he knows it can be broken down as being in the main, murderers and drug dealers.

he knows that's not true. but that's what he's selling. isn't it incumbent upon those of you in the party who know it's not true to stay stop it? top staying they're monsters. they're more mothers than monsters. you don't say it. why don't any of you say that? >> i think i'm on here doing it. again, this is the problem is you can't just -- yes, i've said it. the president needs to tone down his rhetoric but the caravan is an issue we're concerned about. they may not be here tomorrow, but this caravan if they continue to get nice bus rides and walk and everything, they're going to make it here and then there's going to be a decision that has to be made at the border. do you process these requests with a court date in the future or don't you? now, you can disagree with the language being used in this and i disagree with a lot of the language used in this but it's a

reality. >> what's the reality, congressman? what's the reality? >> the reality is they're on the way. there's a second caravan coming. it's not even just the caravan. there's lawyers that go down to advise he's people on how to make an asylum claim into the united states even if they don't have a credible fear of harm. the reality isn't asylum liaws. they should be declaring asylum in mexico and staying there. >> a big bunch of them just took asylum in mexico, but i have to tell you, if you're going to make a go of it, why would you stop in mexico? life there is very hard. >> because that's not what the law is. because the law says asylum isn't about going to the place you've always wanted to live or going to the nicest place with all the best skykyscrapers, it' about going where is safe.

we're on your show talking about how to fix the tone here, but what ends up happening is every time i get in this discussion, fingers are pointed only on one side. i will say the president significantly needs to tone down his rhetoric. i want him to be a comforter in chief after things like pipe bombs or sent or after a shooting in the synagogue. at the same token, if all we do is say it's only the republicans that are responsible or the republicans say it's only these people responsible, the temperature escalates. no one is going to say you got angry enough and i gave up and you're correct. it just raises the temperature in the country. i want it to stop. we can go negative in politics. we always have from the beginning of time, but it doesn't have to be personal. >> 100%. it's one of the mottos of the show. you may like the testing, you may not like it. you're never going to leave my show saying that was a cheap

shop. i would never do that. however, it's not the way the president thinks. you cannot ignore that the tone starts at the top. we've never dealt with anything like this. there's a reason there's 90% negative about the president, it's what he says. a guy he hand picked and said this is the guy you should make the senator. the guy has cottoned to these confederacy loving people and president trump knew that when he said this is my guy and now he's putting out an ad describing these migrants in the ugliest terms. another guy right after the massacre puts out a mailer describing or depicting his opponent as jewish guy holding a

handful of money. the guy is jewish he's running against, right after the massacre. what is that about, congressman? >> i don't know. i can't -- again, i think you want me to come on and speak on behalf of the president and speak on behalf of everything that's said. i can't do that. i came in to politics to make a difference. i'm pointing out that all of it, we just have to move on and that includes the president. i love the president's policies. i like the policies of the administration, but the tone, we need him to be a comforter in chief in certain things -- >> but somebody's telling him different, congressman. i don't want you to speak for trump. if i thought you were speaking for trump, i wouldn't have had you on. >> i'm trying to make an effort, too. >> but somebody is giving him a different message than you're giving him. somebody is telling him you will

win, keep fighting with the media, the base loves it, keep scaring about the migrants, you will win. you actually had a lower third on fox news, which let's be fair, they're not exactly attacking your party or this president on any kind of regular basis that says democrats are talking about health care and the economy, republicans renew culture war ahead of midterms. that was the lower third on fox of all places. that's how obvious it is? how is it good for your party? >> again, i don't know if it's good for the pear. i don't kn -- party. i don't know what it's going to do on tuesday. i don't think anyone can prognosticate. i think it's legitimate to be concerned about it. you may not like the rhetoric behind it. i've said i don't like some of the rhetoric behind it. but bringing up immigration in the midterms -- >> if i said i think you should

call yourself a nationalist and use enemy of the people, it seems to work well for people. i know stalin and hitler used it, but it worked well. would you do anything of those things? >> no, i wouldn't. i believe in america, i believe in america first but i'm not nationalist. i believe we have a role in the world and that role is to be an example to billions of people who are desperate for a taste of what we have that we take for granted. i don't think the media's an enemy of the people. do i think the media has bias? absolutely. but we can still win even with a biased media. to call them an enemy of the people when we're fighting in places against isis and things like that and we have to deal with the russians and the chinese, i don't like that tone either. but at the same time, i'm not here to defend the president of the united states and i know you're not asking me to do that. what i'm here to say is we all -- maybe after tuesday, maybe after the next presidential election, but we all have got to think about what's happening here.

everybody's to blame. i'm to blarj tme, the presidento blame. every time you post something divisive on facebook, we all have a share of it. we all need to settle down and say have massive -- the thing i loved about john mccain, he was a pretty serious partisan. he also never lost respect for you. he may not talk to you for three days after an argument but you ended up being his biggest friend. >> sometimes silence is a comfort. have you reached out to the leadership, scalise, ryan and say what are you guys doing, i can't get anything done here? >> yeah, we've all talked about it. we're in the middle of an election. the other thing is this, you can't every time the president

says something, i can't make a tweet on it, i'm not going to come on tv and talk about it every single time. the president is who he is. he's very different than we've ever seen before. all can i do, all paul ryan and steve scalise, we just have to live by what we want our country and our politics to look like. i may fall short, i may continue to fall short in the future, but my hope is to say i made a positive impact, no matter how big or little that is. >> if you speak out about what you know is wrong, that's going to be the best barometer about whether you're doing your job. congressman, thank you for coming on. >> okay, see you. >> there is no invasion at the border. there is a credibility crisis and it's all around us. but we're not going to let it float around at fact, not here,

not on this watch. we have the truth about the caravan, and trump's claim that his lawyers say he can change the constitution all by himself. facts first next. >> announcer: "cuomo primetime" brought to you by "the girl in the spider's web" in theaters november 9th.

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and i like that. i guess i am pretty smart. don't let that go to your head, gary. what's in your wallet? facts first. the president wants you to believe we're about to be invade invad invaded. no more terrorists. it proved to be too foolish of an idea and he's taken that out. the problem is it's all untrue. these migrants are about a month away if you're really healthy and walking fast all the time. so you're going to have attrition. even if they ran a marathon every day, they wouldn't be here by december. but that's not what the president is really worried about, all right. this is -- people voting.

and that's a whole lot closer, that's a week away today. the initial monsters in our midst attack had big holes blown in it by us in the media because trump was grossly exaggerating. when i say he knows they're not coming, i say that because he knows they're not coming. his own intelligence clearly tells him they expect a small percentage of the people in the caravan will ever make it to this country. so the monster madness needed some fluffing up and that's where another offer you can't refuse came from. >> some legal scholars believe you can get rid of the citizenship without changing the constitution. >> with an executive order. >> right. have you thought about that? >> yes. it was always told to me you need a constitutional amendment. guess what? you don't. >> this is the latest of trump's barrage b.s. tax cut for the middle class, congress isn't even in session.

then you have all the tries to get rid of preexisting conditions. then no, no, no, we're going to keep that and keep the protections for you. and then he's going to lie and now the idea of changing a signature right in the constitution all by himself. but can he do it? should he do it? let's deal with the can, all right? here was the vice president trying to sell this. >> we all cherish the language of the 14th amendment but the supreme court of the united states has never ruled on whether or not the language of the 14th amendment subject to the jurisdiction thereof applies specifically to people who are in the country illegally. >> now, that's an end run, all right? he's not being intellectually honest. they never tested this because if you google the 14th amendment, click on any

description about this citizenship clause. they put it in an amendment because they wanted to keep it safe from congress and by scotus. the one time it was reviewed by scotus, "all persons born and naturalized." then the court case said if you're born here, that's it, that's the end of the analysis. so he's intellectually dishonest. even the d.o.j.'s actual arguments back up the fact that trump can't do this. maybe that's why on the eve of halloween the ghost of paul ryan finally came out of hiding and said this -- >> well, you obviously cannot do that. you cannot end birthright citizenship with a court order. >> trump will argue liberal judges are out to get him and they'll argue anchor baby tourism, as a place to come have a baby to automatically get

citizenship for that baby. now, trump should know something about this. the "daily beast" reports that this is a place to come and have babies. there is a law, back in the cowboy days, let's round up the posse. that's what this was about, the ability to enlist and conscript citize citizens. what happens if there's violence? that's where the should comes in. and even they -- even then, rather, trump may believe if people are angry about the migrants, he still win, no matter what happens. does that sound far fetched? remember when they were torn

from the families, he wanted it. said it was right. then there was outrage. he pretended to fix it and it was all a lie. he eventually said he liked the message of taking kids from their parents and the harshness and what that said to others to keep them away. that's why the dhs has separation high on their priority list. he likes the harshness. he said it will bring wins next tuesday. a week from today we'll know if the president made the right bet. find me a president who has ever overturned an amendment by executive order. it's a bold declaration. let's bring in cuomo's court and see if we can get to the bottom of this one. and zero minimums to open an account. at fidelity, those zeros really add up. ♪ maybe i'll win, saved by zero ♪ at fidelity, those zeros really add up. take your razor, yup. up and down, never side to side, shaquem, you got it? come on stay focused.

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we've got norm eisen and mark smith. thanks for being here. >> if we look at this on non-traditional litigation, you would go first. give me a quick take on why you think a president can do this. we'll deal with should later. >> sure. bear in mind that no one is suggesting that president trump can amend the 14th amendment by himself, but the president of the united states has a seat at the constitutional table. the president, members of congress, the supreme court all swear an oath to uphold the u.s. constitution, and i think what the president is doing here is essentially saying we are going to start the legal process with this executive order he says he's going to sign and that legal process we know is going to go to the courts and eve eventually chris, it will go to the u.s. supreme court and while the president by himself cannot change the meaning of the constitution, certainly we know the supreme court can change the meaning of the constitution as

to how it's applied because the supreme court sprangly dofrankl all the time. i think the president is doing two things. one, politically he's reminding people of his viewing on immigration. and then there's the legal strategy part to say, look, this is going to take years, let's start the ball rolling now. why wait? >> we know it's not going to take years. if he tries by executive order to change the protection in the 14th amendment, he's going to have a short legal battle, unless what you're suggesting is that he's starting the process of changing the constitution. that's not what he says, though. but, norm, even on the basis of that, this is the beginning of a long legal process and i'm going to start it by executive order. would that pass muster? >> chris, thanks for having me back on "cuomo's court." as somebody who has advised a president on executive orders, i can tell you this is a complete stunt. the 14th amendment is clear. this is one thing and one thing alone and i give mark credit for

acknowledging it, it's a political ploy and it's desecrati desecration, chris. it's when we're still mourning these people who are dead in part because of what? in part because of president trump demagoguing the caravan. shameful. it is an insult to the office of the president of the united states and a ridiculous legal argument that doesn't bear water. >> do you think the acting counsel -- >> chris, i think that historically -- >> hold on a second. t i i want to give context to this. the president said his lawyers said he can do this. i think we should have the lawyers here. i want to hear that somebody told him by executive order you can stop birthright citizenship.

nobody worried about their license would ever give that advice. so how does this work out for the president legally? >> let's take two ideas that at one point were viewed as crazy in a sense and then became the law of land. first of all, if you suggested 200 years ago we would have a constitutional right to gay marriage recognized by the supreme court, i think people would say that's not possible. and now we have it. likewise, 100-plus years ago, we had separate but equal that said african-americans and whites can be separated in public accommodations. and then many, many decades it took before we have brown versus board of education. so there's a lot of precedent of time starting the ball rolling and what would be on a don quixote effort to change the law and that ultimately gives rise to a successful supreme court outcome that changes not the constitution but the interpretation of the constitution. >> the problem is though -- >> donald trump is kicking off

the football at the start of a football game. >> that's not what he said. he said he could kick the football, run down the other end, catch it and run it back for a touchdown. that's what he said. unfortunately someone like you have to own that, although you wouldn't have stated the proposition that way. however, there's a fundamental difference, norm, between those examples and the ones we have here. those were about evolving and having more inclusion put into the constitution. this is about congress already deciding to expand and make more inclusive the protections of the 14th amendment as a reaction to dread scott and this would be undoing the inclusion, it would be shrinking the situation. do we have constitutional precedent for that? >> no, chris. >> less rights. >> your honor, it's contrary to the whole trend of the constitution. why are we talking about gay marriage and dread scott and separate but equal instead of

the 14th amendment? because president trump doesn't have a leg to stand on. it is so reprehensible for our president, our chief law enforcement officer charged by the constitution to take care that it be enforced to use that as a red flag to feed the base, to whip up hate in a week when his hatred has already caused so much pain, suffering, risk, pipe bombs and 11 deaths, chris. you're so right to put it in that contest when you introduced this segment. that's what we need to be talking about. this is one of the most profound betrayals of a constitutional duty that we've ever seen, and that's why mark, to his credit, who is attempting to defend this has to pivot off of the plain language, the congresional intent and the longstanding case law of the 14th amendment and talk about gay marriage and separate but equal. come on! >> the 14th amendment is hardly

clear. remember, the 14th amendment was one of the three constitutional amendments that were ratified immediately following the civil war in the 19th century. i think we can all agree that at the time of the years after the civil war which ended slavery, i don't think, you know, concerns about illegal immigration from latin america and what happens to their children was really being discussed. >> although they tested it -- they tested it -- hold on. we have to go and let's do it this way. first of all, mark, you had a tough go tonight because the president put you in a box. whether he should do it is a much more fertile, legal and political discussion really. we'll have that one with you as well. but it was tested in an immigrant context. that was the case about chinese immigration and the supreme court ruled very clearly in a single line, if you're born here, it triggers the protections of the 14th amendment. whether he should do it, whether we should want to do it and go through and change the constitution, separate conversation and you're welcome back to have that one.

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protesters, prayer, politics were all on display in pittsburgh. the president went to extend his condolences to the loved ones of those lost in the synagogue massacre. it was a brief departure from an all-in campaign of fear and loathing, focusing on migrants as marauders. the question is, will it work? let's address it with van jones and david. go ahead, david. >> of course it works. we have to acknowledge there's a problem on our southern border. you're going to either acknowledge we are a country that plays by the rules and has a system of legal immigration and is secure border or we're not. so, look, i don't think that there's a band of marauders coming on the southern border, but i do believe we need to have secure borders. this president like other presidents -- you have point out president trump isn't the first

president to send u.s. troops to the border to secure the borders, president bush did it, '41, '43, and for the same reasons, to help enforce the border and stop illegal immigration across the border. i don't think this is the end of the world coming here but it really does make a statement are you for open borders or against open borders? are you for legal immigration or are you for open borders? >> van. >> all the republicans tonight keep talking about the southern border, the southern border. the majority of people who are here unlawfully did not come from the southern border, they flew in on airplanes and overstayed their visas. if all they were concerned about was literally just people being here unlawfully, the conversation would be different. this isn't about unlawful immigration. it's about who these people are

and where they are coming from and that is unfortunate. we are talking about now, by the way, putting 5,000 troops -- we're going to have more troops on our border to stop this little caravan than i think we have in iraq. it's a massive overreaction, and it's not chartered to the problem of undocumented people. it's undocumented people of a certain color from a certain part of the world. that's what i think is very disturbing. we can't get away from this bigger picture now. in brazil, they just elected somebody who is an enemy of democracy playing on these internal tensions and divisions. turkey, hungary, all around the world liberal democracies -- i don't mean liberal like democratic, i mean liberal like not fascist democracies are starting to turn on their own people, they're starting to move in a negative direction. >> it does feel familiar. that's why i jump on the enemy

of the people stuff and the nationalism stuff. i don't know why trump's bringing that stuff back when we know the history of it. >> chris, listen, the president needs to acknowledge the enemy is not the enemy of the people and the media needs to acknowledge the president is not the enemy of the people. there have been thousands of troops on the southern border before. it's not an historical abnormality. to your point earlier, there are folks coming through because they're fleeing horrific conditions in their own country. we need to as a nation and as a world examine why are those people leaving? why are they fleeing these oppressive regimes? >> we know what happened in the 80s. >> what are we going to do to fix it? >> trump said he wants to stop their funding to cause the same conditions. >> so when they get to mexico and they're offered asylum, why don't they stay? why do they come to the united

states? >> you just had a thousand stay in mexico. >> why is it a better place to be? there's every reason you can think of. >> because there's more economic opportunity -- >> that's right. and people are hiring here. in a way that president trump won't crack down on. that would go a long way to stop the flow also. >> you're a smart guy and a lawyer. what is one of the key elements for proving asylum? you. >> have to show a real fear upon return. >> when you get to mexico and you escaped the fear of mexico and guatemala, what happens? >> because this is a better place to be. the law doesn't say you have to go to the next available place. >> go ahead to van. >> van, this is an extension of the argument i want you to comment on. look at what he's saying with the 14th amendment. this is like the perfect trump play, okay? legal lich ly he said he knows can't do it. he said some lawyers told mhim e

could. bring out the lawyers. nobody worried about their license would do it. you're saying that you don't want a type of people here. >> no, no, no, chris, that's wrong. it's illegal immigration. that's what we're talking about. >> it's in the 14th amendment to the constitution. van, make your point. >> i'll say a couple things. first of all, the 14th amendment of the constitution is really, really precious because the point of this thing and we haven't talked about it is to say that there was an idea that if you were african-american, you weren't a citizen. >> right. >> the whole point was to say we don't care who you are, we don't care what color you are, what your previous status was, if you were born here, you belong here, we want you. that's the point of it. >> then it was tested with the chinese american. >> exactly. >> and the case was that he can't be a citizen, his parents are chinese. the court decided quickly and in one line validated that the 14th

amendment holds and trump is now saying it doesn't. >> hold on a second. now you have people saying hold on a second, we got people who came here illegally, they came here unlawfully, they're taking advantage, we don't want those people. what they're not taking responsibility for is that's been going on for 400 years. the pilgrims didn't have a passport either. we've had people coming here for generations. and what we've always said is we don't care -- if someone you got here, if our laws didn't keep you out, if you are born here, though, you have rights. to go back and say now -- obviously he can't do it, he's lying. a lawyer would be disbarred for malpractice. you want to unwind this because of the southern border, not ball game people are coming here on airplanes. they're not sending troops to the airport. they're sending them to the southern border. that's very disturbing because it's about a racial, ethnic

agenda sneaking into the republican party and it's wrong. >> we have to hold it there. >> van, we're going to disagree on that. >> that's okay. we're here to disagree but we do it the right way. van jones, david urban. ahead, more breaking news. kanye news. is trump's number one fan now trumping off the trump train? developments next. ♪ when the world seems... ♪ applebee's new neighborhood pastas. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood.

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the oval office sitdown, kanye west says he needs distance from politics. good choice. in a pair of tweets he denies designing a t-shirt line urging black people to abandon the democratic party. they call it blexit. if he was used, it wouldn't be the first time he was used for political gain. right move for kanye d. lemon? >> i don't want to beat up on kanye anymore. he's dealing with some issues. it seems to me from these tweets he is probably dealing with them, which is a good thing. which is what most people said, this is the point, at this time in his life without the knowledge of history and perhaps reading a little bit more, that he should not be talking about and addressing the issues that he was addressing because he

wasn't helping on the issue, especially when it came to certain amendments, right? now we're talking about the 14th amendment today but that's another story. so you mentioned candace. he's talking about the hat, the blexit, black exit from the democratic party or whatever, i introduced candice to the person who made the logo. "i never wanted any association with blexit, i had nothing to do with it," he reports. i'm looking at his tweets. he's saying he's going to back away from politics. okay, good. focus on creativity. all i say is good for you. i hope you mean it. i just wonder what the trump folks are going to say now, how they're going to spin this. >> my guess, nothing. and if they do have to say anything, because look, i think it looked like what it was. it looked like he was trotting somebody out, the timing of it want great, the media of all

over it, shame on us as far as i'm concerned, and he didn't seem well. and it seemed exploitive. so i think they say nothing. if they have to say something, they'll say the enemy of the people >> you're a smart man. listen, my eyes are now wide open and i now realize i've been used to spread messages i don't believe in. that's pretty big. >> yeah. it would be nice if he was saying whose messages. >> whose message. >> and who was doing it. we'll take progress where we find it. d. lemon. >> we're going to talk about the president's visit today to pennsylvania and whether it was appropriate or not on this particular day and the reception or lack thereof he got. >> provocative. thank you, my friend. see you in a second. so we had some republicans on the show here the last couple days. we got to figure out a way to get better from where we are. they'll admit some things they

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help me understand. why are trump folk fighting the idea that their campaign message for the midterms is fear and loathing? it's the truth. identify enemies threatening to create more carnage as trump put it in his inaugural speech. then demonize, like with the migrants. create a farce that they are an invading force filled with dealers and murderers. whip up as much xenophobia and conflict as he can. democrats are evil. media is the enemy of the people. and, again, that is a phrase propagated by stalin, used by hitler. the president says he's a nationalist. again, we know where this comes from, and it's painful, especially to the ears of those

who fled and fought the nazis like the 11 jewish people massacred this past weekend. trump was there in pittsburgh today. he did the right thing. he showed respect. but he was shown some disrespect precisely for this kind of talk. and apparently he is okay with all of it. it's so obviously true, this midterm hate campaign, that even state tv had this banner. look at it. i did not make this up. democrats emphasize health care and the economy. gop ramps up culture wars for the midterms. you can't make it up. it's so obvious that even they say it. i call it fear and loathing because it is. now, the full title of the book that i'm borrowing that phrase from is the famous hunter s. thompson, "fear and loathing in las vegas: a savage journey to the heart of the american dream." and that part may apply just as much. we are on a savage journey, and

it is a battle for the heart of the american dream or, more directly, will the dream have any heart anymore? will there be new colossus. will there be lady with the lamp? is the statue of liberty going to be painted gold and called the last line of defense? and will the torch become an ar-15 because it's all about demonizing and keeping people out and force? illegal entrants and legal. more norway, less ways like the ones that his wife, the president's wife and in-laws used. imagine how they feel with that talk. and the most objectionable part may be why he's doing this. the president is doing this not out of some deep, profound conviction. it's because he thinks it sells. it's all about the sell. that's why he hated the bombings, not because of what it said about his rhetoric or the risks to the people they were sent to. he never even reached out to the former presidents who were

targeted. his m.o. is spreading. that's more proof. trump's choice for u.s. senator in virginia is a guy we tested here on this show and exposed him as someone who is way too close to people who are way too bigoted. and he fought it kind of and then put out this ad. >> they allow criminal illegal aliens to assault our daughters, murder our sons, and deal drugs. the democratic party of today is an unhinged angry mob of thugs, and tim kaine tells them to fight in the streets and get in people's faces. if tim kaine wins and the democrats take control of the senate, it will get worse, much worse. i'm cory stewart, republican for senate. >> somebody's face says thug, it's got to be tim kaine. obviously i'm kidding, but that's the nature of it. it's so brazen. it's so obvious. and then there's another ad. i almost didn't show you this one because it gets my trump up, and i think we should be turning down the hostility.

but you need to know what is being done out there in the name of democracy. so after the synagogue massacre, after it, this ad from republican ed chair ra mutt, who is running for state senate in connecticut, shows a mailbox, depicts his jewish opponent, daet state rep matthew lesser holding a fist full of money. look at his face. look at the expression on his face. this is what trump is encouraging. this is how he is molding the gop in his image, and that party seems to be sitting by, scared, or joining in. this is a far cry from where that party ever was, and they're basically daring republicans who don't believe in all this jingoism and hateful talk to vote for someone else or not at all. and trump is betting they will not. one week from today, we will see if he made the right bet. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight with don lemon" starts right now. >> and that's why he knew, his

administration knows, his handlers knew that he needed those pictures today down in pittsburgh, because otherwise he'd have to miss a campaign rally or attend both of them on the same day, which was not good optics. but today was a photo opp. not to say the president shouldn't go, shouldn't show up. he's supposed to be the consoler in chief. >> mm-hmm. >> but many people there said, hey, not right now. and if i lost someone, if i'm in grief and you called me, chris, and you say, hey, don, you're my boy. i love you. can i come see you? and i say, hey, chris, not right now. the family is dealing with some issues. give us a minute here, and i'll let you know when you come over. what would you say? >> i would be kind of hurt that you saw me as something that would be a force for negativity in a time of loss. >> you know what i'm saying. >> i'm slow to blame a president or any elected leader for doing the right thing. those people deserve the respect of the president of the united states. >> no,