i love it. >> she'll see a magazine with michelle obama and will start screaming, michelle, there's my michelle. >> reporter: if this keeps up, her police escort may have to use those handcuffs to contain her sister's michelle mania. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thanks for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. good evening. thanks for joining us. president trump addressed the country today from the white house. this is from president kennedy addressed the nation during the cuban missile crisis. and any time the president goes on television, the assumption is, it's important and urgent, and divorced from partisan politics. in 1962, remember, there really were soviet missiles in cuba. they really did carry nuclear warheads. they really were pointed at this country. it was a dire threat and urgent one. the question tonight is, does

what the president talked about today, the caravan in mexico and the asylum process rise to the level of a crisis that requires thousands of american troops to rush to the border? or does a fast-approaching election have more to do with what he said today than slow walking asylum seekers? how you answer that question may depend how you view the president's truthfulness. which is how we want to start with how the president views it. >> have you always -- >> i do try. i do try, too. you say things about me that are necessarily correct. i do try, and i always want to tell the truth when i can. i tell the truth. sometimes it turns out to be where something happens there's a change. but i always like to be truthful. >> that is the president of the united states telling abc news that he tells the truth when he can, which raises the obvious question when can he not tell the truth? for most presidents, the answer is very, very rarely, usually safeguard some greater secret which might compromise national

security. for this president, what day is it? here's winking at a conspiracy theory when there's no evidence it's true. >> i wouldn't be surprised. [ inaudible ] i don't know who. a lot of people say yes. saz lot of people say yes. that is one of the president's favorite stock phrases. the other form is, a lot of people are talking about it. the people who are saying yes are pushing a conspiracy theory, and this is the conspiracy theory that an anti-semitic gunman latched on to before murdering 11 people in pittsburgh, a gunman obsessed about people invade thing country. and this is a president who said today is averaging 8.3 false or misleading claims a day. more than 5,000 so far. so consider that as you consider this. >> some people call it an invasion. it's like an invasion.

they have violently overrun the mexican border. you saw that two days ago. these are tough people in many cases. a lot of young men. strong men. a lot of men that maybe we don't want in our country. >> that's part of the president's address today, at which we were told to expect new policy on asylum seekers. instead, the president promised to issue an executive order next week, and when asked for what it would contain, he said, it's going to be talking about everything, which is kind of what the president did today. here he is talking about the number of undocumented immigrants in this country. >> and the overall number could be 10 million people, could be 12 million people, could be 20 million people. the recordkeeping from past administrations has not exactly been very good. >> well, keeping them honest, the record keepers at his own administration put the number at approximately 12 million. then again, maybe the president knows something that his own

department of homeland security does not. after all, here's what he told jonathan carl. >> you have caravans coming up that look a lot larger than is being reported. i'm pretty good at estimating crowd size and they look a lot bigger. >> he's pretty good at estimating crowd size. of all the claims for this president to make, do we need to get into the whole crowd size thing with this president ? i mean, do we? just google trump inauguration crowd size, and leave it there. we only have enough time and there's a lot more to get to. like his claim that only 3% of asylum seekers show up for their court hearings. according to the most recent numbers, 75% of do. so claiming only 3% of asylum seekers show up is completely not true. i mean, it could be funny if it

was just some pundit making stuff up. but this is the president making stuff up. the president also said construction of his new border wall is under way. as we've shown you time and time again, it is not. they're repairing existing fencing. he said his policy of separating parents and children was a continuation of the obama administration policy. that is misleading. it was done on rare occasions during the obama and george w. bush administrations, absolutely. the trump administration made it widespread and claimed months in advance it would be a deterrent. in short, the president uttered a string of untruths today from the white house. now, some you might consider minor or see what the president once called truthful hyperbole, but he's talking about sending as many as 15,000 active duty troops to the border and permitting them to use deadly force if they throw a rock or a stone. i haven't heard any military commander or anyone with military experience back up the notion that someone throwing a

rock at well disciplined troops should be shot. to believe that is a good and necessary strategy is to believe the president when he calls this an invasion, or that middle easterners are part of the caravan. only in the next breath, he said he had no proof of that. don't take my word for it, take it from him. >> have you always been truthful? >> i do try. i think you try, too. you say things about me that are not necessarily correct. i do try. and i always want to tell the truth when i can, i tell the truth. sometimes it turns out to be something happens and there's a change. i always like to be truthful. >> joining us now is author, retired army lieutenant colonel ralph peters.

thank you for joining us. i'm just wondering jo ining ove went through your mind when you heard the president's remarks from the roosevelt room today? >> it's really difficult for me. i want to take the president of the united states seriously, but he manages to be an embarrassing fool, and insidious menace. he's the antithesis of the america that i and my military comrades meant to defend, if necessary, with our lives. he's an un-american american president. >> un-american american president? >> i think so, anderson. what bothers me most about president trump is his absolutely repulsive, repugnant attacks on america, and they are attacks on america, when he constantly criticizes our system of government, de facto

criticizing the constitution. when i hear, whether it's today in the rose garden or at other times, i want to stand up and say no! no! we don't need you to make america great again. and to be marfair, we didn't ne obama to apologize for america. this country is great right now. it's imperfect because humans are imperfect. but we live in a golden age. the average american has incredible privileges, and we've become an ungrateful nation, a nation pointing fingers at each other. a nation divide often over trivialities. we're forgetting that we're all americans. and so that divisiveness, and i'm all for a strong political arguments, but that bothers me the most. again, we live in a golden age that we cling to often petty grievances. we have to remember how lucky we are to be here. those people watching from

central america, whatever you think of them, and there are many ways to look at that problem, they are not coming here because this is such an awful country. they're coming here because despite trump, despite all, despite propaganda over the years, this country is still the dream, the global dream, and trump has president advocates responsibility to lead that dream, to lead the dreamers. >> when he talks about -- you served in the military for a long time. when he talks about telling troops to shoot people who are throwing rocks at them, i mean, just from a military strategy, i don't know of any military commander that would say that is what u.s. military policy is, and that's the code of conduct the u.s. military conducts itself with. it also, you know, has ripple

effects that you can't even -- you shoot into a crowd of people, things happen. >> our active duty troops aren't going to do that. commanders aren't going to order them to do that. the president, who in my mind is a draft dodger, the president of the united states is a draft dodger, playing with our troops. this idea of sending 15,000 troops to the southern border right now, it's for an election ploy. >> you have no doubt about that? >> no! >> because they're not manning the border wall with guns. they will be in support positions just as national guard troops are in support positions. >> right. we don't even have support positions for them. there's no plan to use 15,000 or 10,000 or even 5,000 troops. from purely partisan political purposes, trump is ripping these soldiers, airmen, marines, sailors, he's ripping them away from their training, which is vital, and to show you how much trump loves his troops, he's

ripping them away from their families when the holidays are coming. soldiers are used to that, they understand their duty and they're glad and proud to do their duty. but when they are manipulated for partisan political purposes, it literally is disgraceful. >> especially soldiers who have served -- marines who served multiple tours of duty. the military -- >> they've been away from home a lot. >> for the lifetime that many people were in the military, this has been an extraordinary number of deployments. >> the military can provide some assets to border security, aerial reconnaissance, transportation, logistics. but we're already doing that. so this is a stunt. >> the other thing he said yesterday, which didn't get a lot of attention, but he said -- he was threatening cutting off aid to el salvador, some of these countries where people are coming from. if you want to prevent -- i

mean, look, international aid is a topic ripe for discussion and criticism. but if you are trying to stop people from leaving these places, pretty much everybody i talked to that works on this issue says we need to be doing more to keep people in place, to make situations better and give more opportunities for people so they're not leaving honduras or el salvador. it's actually cheaper than waiting on this end. >> what we're seeing in central america now, the violence is that the long-term after effects of all the arms that have gone in there from both sides during the cold war. it was a very violent place then and now. this subject of immigration, for me it's very fraught, because i truly believe that both sides are failures, and failing the human beings involved. on the right, they will not -- the far right, the hard right, will not admit that we need

immigrants, that we thrive on impanti immigra immigrants. we need them to pick crops. that's the lifeblood that keeps the country going. those on the left need to accept the fact that we have a right to son sovereign borders and we have a right to select who comes here. we should generous to the selection and open to legitimate asylum claims. i really feel if people on both sides wanted to solve this, with intelligent, humane compromises, we could do it. but i fear it's become such a powerful electoral issue for both parties, we're not going to see movement. real human beings, whether they're migrants or native born americans are caught in the middle of this and it's a national disgrace. >> and just the notion -- do you see the people coming as invaders? is that a term that should be

used? >> well, if they come marching up with guns and tanks and aurp -- airplanes, that's invaders. we have been invaded by the russians in the 2016 election. it's a new kind of invasion. the president doesn't have a problem with that. in those columns coming north, i'm sure there are people we don't want to have here, sure. but there are other people we may want here, and when you look at it theoretically, coldly, it looks one way. but when you meet real human beings, the people who are coming to this country every day, from all parts, you just had a conversation with one before we went on the air today from somalia. these are human beings, and let us do the american thing, and judge them not as groups but as individuals. that's what our immigration system should do, look at them as individual human beings and not as an invasion, nor can we

open our borders completely. it's just impossible to support it. what i think both sides lack is the necessary integrity and commitment to solve this solvable problem. >> it is incredible we're at a time when what you're saying, which is a moderate, you know, balanced position, is a position that you don't hear very much being voiced by anybody in washington. i mean, people have gone to their corners and are seeing things through a very particular lens. >> i think to be honest, i've been around washington a while now, it started with newt gingrich, and it's gone downhill from there. you're not attracti ining the quality people into government we once did. so many people i meet, legislators on down, are inferior to those of previous generations. now, again, there are many

exceptions. look at the scandals. they cannot even speak in complete sentences. thank god we have some military veterans coming in, because they're adding a new does of realism. when it comes to presidents, if we can be honest and nonpartisan, we haven't had a fully qualified satatesman for over 25 years. we're electing personalities. we heard somebody today, we want to elect somebody we can have a beer with. no, you want somebody that can be the leader of the free world and influence for the good and the entire world and who can save our country from foreign threats and domestic threats, and what are we getting? immediate ymediocrity from both. >> thank you so much. coming up next, jorge ramos and our political and legal team on what this means. and later, one of the president's staunchest reporters

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the president painted the image of an invading army. today, he said it at the white house, and even suggested that troops, u.s. forces might be required to fire on people if they were throwing rocks or stones. times like this we turn to jorge ramos. and i spoke to him just before airtime. jorge, the president continue thing narrative, painting the caravan as an invasion, people as invaders. the fact is, it's not an invasion, not even at the border, it's a thousand miles away from the border. yet the people keeps peddling this lie. >> yes, and it's simply a lie. it is not an invasion. i spent two days with the caravan last week, and i didn't see criminals or rapists or terrorists. what i saw, and i don't want to be overly dramatic, i saw kids.

like this one. or even this one. i saw a 4-month-old boy, and they are part of people who are fleeing extreme poverty, who are fleeing violence, who are fleeing gangs, and their only opportunity is the united states, and i am concerned that we're going to have a stronger military presence with mexico than in iraq and syria. and the most powerful army in history is going to be used simply because of political purposes. >> certainly, any crowd of thousands of people, there must be people with criminal records or who have committed crimes in the past. and certainly immigration is a legitimate issue. a lot of voters say it is what they cared about most. what i don't understand is why the president has to use misinformation to try to achieve

some sort of immigration reform other than he's used this strategy before and it's worked for him, and it's five days from the midterm. >> and it is possible that we might find gang members among the 7,000 members of the caravan, it is possible. i don't know exactly who they are. but it is very simple. most of these refugees, because they're not even immigrants, want to apply for political asylum right at the port of entry. and once they're there, we can check their backgrounds. that's very simple. now, also, i've heard the president saying there's a lot of money passing hands. i didn't see any of that. i didn't see any proof of financing by george soros. as a matter of fact, what i saw is people so poor they don't even have $1 to buy a bottle of water. so they're in mexico, the president is presenting to the american people is a complete lie.

i didn't see any of that, anderson, absolutely any of that. >> the president seems to be painting this image that u.s. troops are going to be manning the borders with, you know, with rifles and bayonets out and stopping people from crossing over. every military expert i talked to points out that the u.s. military would only be used in support roles, just like the national guard has been in the past. they're not actually supposed to have any interaction with anybody, with any migrant. i'm wondering when you hear the president saying that if migrants throw rocks or stones at troops, that he's telling them they should shoot back. that's against every rule of engagement the military has. i don't know any commander that would order his troops to do that. >> and it's a humanitarian crisis. again, i want to emphasize the fact that what i saw were kids. i saw mothers with children, i

saw many families and many young men and women who are escaping gangs. they don't want to be members of gangs. and those are the people that conform, not one, but at this point three caravans. we are really dealing with a humanitarian crisis. >> the other thing the president has talked about is cuttings off aid to el salvador or countries where many of these people are coming from. that's in stark contrast to -- people i stalked to who work, you know, on the border, who work in -- who have dedicated their lives to this issue working on the front lines. many of whom say what the u.s. should be doing is working in those forward positions, in those countries, trying to better conditions, so that people aren't coming, that that's probably the most effective way long-term to stop thousands of people from coming. >> exactly. if you want to prevent more immigrants, more refugees coming from honduras, and guatemala,

the worst thing to do is cut foreign aid. somewhat's going to happen? we're talking about people who make $1 or $2 or $3 a day, anderson. so if you add the fact that there's a lot of violence and in the case of honduras, many people argued that is not even a democracy because the president got elected against the constitution, then you have a case that the worst you can do is cut that aid. what they need is help from the united states. they don't need an army, and in the case of the caravans, we're talking about people who were so desperate they lost everything, and that's why they're risking everything. >> jorge ramos, thank you very much. >> thank you, anderson. let's get some other perspective on the politics from all of this as well as the legalities. joining me now is my panel. gloria, to hear the president,

it sounded like there were going to be specifics, but it was just this very kind of rambling, all-inchew sa all-inclusive -- >> it was. and you have to ask the question, why convene a policy address for a policy that hasn't changed. i think maybe there was a trick played on us. we all expected that there was going to be some new policy here, and there really wasn't. it was an opportunity for the president to continue, on prompter, what he's being doing on the campaign trail, which is to rally the base. that's what it was. >> isn't that really the idea behind all of what we've been hearing lately from the president? >> 100%. that's what it is. he's following the instincts that he believes, and in many ways rightly so, launched him, you know, almost three years ago, however long it was ago. he understands the base of his party instinctively, probably better than anyone.

but he's not a candidate anymore, he's the president of the united states. and yes, he's in complete campaign mode. we all understand that, because the election is only five days away. but it's a completely different thing when you are on an escalator in trump tower or at a rally frankly, paid for by your campaign and in the roosevelt room. maybe he did have, and our understanding was the goal was to have a policy announcement. it wasn't ready for various reasons. >> so don't do it. >> you've been in that situation one or 25 times. >> he often uses executive orders to draw attention to an issue. >> but he didn't issue it. >> the asylum laws right now, ten years ago, there was 5,000 asylum cases. this year, we're expecting over 100,000 at the southern border. the reality is, we have people, human traffickers who know and tell people, go across, get arrested, and claim asylum. what the administration is going

to try to do is say, we'll continue to grant asylum if you come through the port of entree -- >> but they're not saying that. if you're fleeing gang violence, that's no longer criteria that are valid, right? >> that is true, anderson, but keeping that in mind, there will be people who will be prepared for asylum if they come through a port of entry. >> but there's a huge backlog. >> the number right now is 2,000 per week being granted. basically, as they come into the united states, it is a multiple year process to get litigated. the administration has asked for more judges. the president is going to try to draw contrasts, because he thinks -- >> but he didn't have a plan. he announced today -- >> isn't that just a scam? if he doesn't have a plan, he's using the white house for politics. >> we call it democracy, the way

it used to work. president obama used his executive powers to excess and the republicans hated it. president trump criticized it for years. now he says i'm going to do it, too. this is where it is a sham. number one, he broke the fact check machines today. he said so many things that just were not true. easily proven to be exaggerations, falsehoods, and lies. it's a shame a president feels he has to do that. actually, he's in a strong position of border security. people want border security. democrats want border security. he had a deal a year or so ago with the democrats that they would give him his wall if he would do daca. he could demand the congress come back into session. he could demand the congress or could have over the last two years, minus two months, vote. he's the president. he controls the president. the truth is, the republicans don't want to take some of these

things on. but the president could make it happen if he wanted to be president. >> to john's point, the president, especially early on, had a really good story to tell about immigration. there was a tremendous drop on illegal apprehensions, which is how they measure the illegal immigration, largely based on the president using the power of the bully pulpit. and yet they didn't do that. >> well, they didn't, but also, anderson, that's changed. the numbers have changed. he's tried to draw contrast. we do need 60 votes in the senate to pass these laws. but we as conservatives hated obama administration using executive order again and again and again as a way to go around the process. i think that's a very fair criticism. >> i remember it being called the imperial presidency. >> here's what's happening on the executive orders. it's separate from just this current issue. this is a pattern throughout the administration, which is that he issues an executive order, and

we'll see in this case if he does issue an executive order on this or the birthright issue, on some immigration issue as he's been previewing the last few days. he put out an executive order, first without it actually being determined to be legal. so they bypassed the office of legal council and justice department. it doesn't go through the proper coordination, and a document gets issued. many scholars can say, it will be overturned or it's invalid or he's trying to use an executive order to overturn an act of congress. he can maybe chip away, but he can't actually get rid of the asylum provisions through an executive order. >> if he does issue an order, it causes a whole lot of chaos in the meantime, because it can take hours or days for the legal challenges to be launched. during that time period, when the legal challenge is taking place against that executive order that is lousily drafted,

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as we noted, the president's asylum speech at the white house this afternoon and his campaign rallies are about one tactic, stoking up his base with concerns of immigration, the invasion, so-called, from the south border. john king went over to the wall and tried to put the strategy into a different context. there were some complaints from some moderate house republicans as the president's escalation, but the white house believes it's strategy that's working, at least for the senate races.

are there numbers to back that up? we don't have audio. i thought i just went deaf, but so we'll go back to john as soon as we restore that. i want to play something that the president said at the white house about the caravan. i want to ask kirsten about how women in the united states are fearful about this, focusing on the men in the caravan. let's listen. >> women don't want them in our country. women want security. men don't want them in our country, but the women don't want them. women want security. >> what do you make of that? >> well, the first thing i thought of is him talking about mexicans being rapists, and it was sort of -- that's the only thing i can think of. what would women be afraid of that men wouldn't necessarily be afraid of? it's just another one of his --

you can't even call them dog whistles. the claims that he's making are an attempt to do this racial demagoguery to gin up his base. if you're his base, you should be offended by this. if this is what he thinks it takes to get you to come out and vote about these people who are just trying to get to a better life, when the president could be talking about the economy. why doesn't that turn out voters? why is this what turns out his vote sners >> i want to go back to john. john, i'm not sure if you were able to hear me, some moderate house republicans complained about the president's immigration escalation, the white house certainly believes it's a strategy that works. are there numbers that back that up? >> a lot of those moderates live where there are a lot of suburban women and latino voters, but he's focussing on statewide senate races. in arizona, now this is the

entire electorate, 28% of the electorate says immigration is the most important issue. that's up just a bit. the more the president talks about it, the more it comes up. democrats only think -- 13% of democrats think it's a big issue, but nearly 4 in 10 republicans. again, this is rising in recent weeks as the president talks am it. he's motivating republicans by talking about this issue. nevada, again, immigration, the entire electorate, 26% say it's most important. you see health care and the economy there. it's up. in september, it was 18, now 26. the president talks about it. it rises as an issue, especially among republicans. nearly 4 in 10 republicans say immigration is issue number one. democrats think it's health care. democrats using health care to motivate voters. that was nevada. you saw arizona. tennessee, immigration has moved up a little bit from september to now, but it's jumped up to nearly 30% now, 3 in 10.

marsha blackburn, the candidate moving this election. the president was just there last night. this is two weeks ago. this is now -- you might say 15 to 18. not a big deal. among republicans, 28%, a huge jump, a huge jump in just two weeks of republicans say immigration is issue number one, in a state where you have a contested senate race, contested governor's race. the president is being effective. it is now competing with the economy as issue number one for republicans. so yes, cynical, fact free in many cases, but it works to motivate republicans. >> can you put the races into context of who controls the senate after the midterms? >> think about the races i just talked about. right now, we have republicans favored in 49, democrats in 45. so for democrats to get up the steepest of steep hills, somehow not only take the house and the senate, if nothing else changed, if they held mt., republicans took away north dakota, the

republicans hold texas, the democrats would have to sweep the toss-up states. i just showed you in florida, tennessee, arizona, and nevada, immigration is helping to motivate republicans, all of those are dead heat toss-ups. does that mean republicans will win them all? no, but they don't have to. if they can pick off missouri or indiana, hold tennessee, win something else, the democrats cannot, cannot get to a majority. immigration is helping the president in his immediate challenge which is to keep the senate red. >> john, if you can, have your team of producers carry you back, as you like to travel around the office being carried. i don't know if the audience knew that. gloria -- i don't know why i said that. it makes no sense. >> i have to go get john. [ laughter ] >> but i mean, in poll after poll, voters do point to immigration as a priority. >> there is a difference between democrats and republicans. 88% of democrats overall believe

health care is the number one issue. republicans believe not by quite that high a margin, that immigration is a top issue. and the play here, as john was saying, is for the senate. this is what the president is doing, because it doesn't help moderate republicans or republicans running in suburban districts, to just go back to like your partying like it's 2016. it doesn't help them. what they want to talk about is the stuff mark short worked on when he was at the white house. they want to talk about tax reform and the economy. they want to make people feel good about the way the country is going, and instead, they have the president catering to red state republicans, and they're going to lose their seats. >> and it's also short term, looking at it in the short term, because the map is laid out the way it is, that the turf is in red states. it wasn't that long ago, it feels like 600 years ago, but

only six years ago, you remember that republicans, at their rnc after mitt romney did so poorly with hispanic voters in 2012, republicans had this autopsy, and the whole mission of the republican party was to reach out to hispanic voters. >> no one has mentioned that autopsy in so long. >> it was only six years. that's not that long ago. the point is, the demographics of this country are changing. so it certainly is helpful for the republicans, politically short term. but long-term, it's a ditch. >> it's a ditch. and listen, you think of a tube of toothpaste. the president squeezed an electoral victory, hats off to him. most people didn't think it was possible. on election day at 4:00, they told him he was going to lose. he squeezed a white coalition out of the toothpaste tube. he thinks he can do it in 2020. maybe. you don't need to be a political analyst. if you can't win the urban areas

or african-americans, you're losing college educated women in the suburbs, there aren't enough white people to keep a national party alive. can he get through one more presidential election? if you get through a crisis, maybe. for two years, maybe. just do the math. it's going to be impossible. >> you started a whole campaign to reach out to him. >> we started an organization called believe our initiative, focused on winning over hispanic votes. i do think that you're right as to what the demographics are changing and what republicans are needing to do. many polls of hispanics, jobs is the number one issue, emkati ed their children. but they feel if racist are talking talk ing -- republicans are talking to them in a racist way, it turns them away. i think this is an issue that

splits republicans and democrats apart. >> i think it splits republicans, doesn't it? the birthright citizenship for example. splits republicans. so the president's dividing his own party. >> i want to thank everybody. more on the midterms coming up. congressman steve king is in a heated election. sometimes a day at the ballpark is more than just a day at the ballpark. [stadium announcer] all military members stand and be recognized. no matter where or when you served, t-mobile stands ready to serve you. the most highly recommended bed in america just got better. tempur-pedic is now more rejuvenating, more pressure-relieving than ever before. experience the superior sleep of tempur-pedic and save up to $500 on select adjustable mattress sets. visit tempurpedic.com to find your exclusive retailer today.

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here's what happened. >> there was a shooting in pittsburgh that tragically left 11 people dead. and the terrorist who committed this crime, he was quoted as saying, they bring invaders that kill our people. i can't sit back and watch our people get slaughtered. you, steve king, have been quoted as saying we can't restore our civilization with other people. you and the shooter both share an ideology that is -- >> no, do not associate me with that shooter. i knew you were an ambusher when you walked in the room, but there's no basis of that, and you get no question and you get no answer. no, you're done! we don't play these games here in iowa. no, you're done. you crossed the line. it's not tolerable to accuse me to be associated with a guy that shot 11 people in pittsburgh. i am a person who has stood with israel from the beginning, and the length of that nation is the length of my life. i've been with them all along and i'm not listening to another

word from you. >> as you just heard, he accused the man of being an ambusher. what's not disputed is the congressman has a history of making controversial remarks. the question now, is will it hurt him with iowa voters. more from our sara sidner. >> reporter: in iowa's fourth district, filled with small towns and fields of corn, congressman steve king's words echoing far and wide. >> i don't think he belongs in a white supremist meeting. that's just, hey, listen, that's wrong. >> he's calling a spade a spade, which he has the guts to do. >> reporter: they're self-described centrists. king, now serving his eighth term in congress, got 61% of the vote, following years of racially charged rhetoric. about former president barack obama. >> this president would not be president today if any of the

other races were so racially motivated and the balance that >> reporter: comparing immigrants to dogs. >> we got the pick of every civilization on the planet. >> reporter: and making this claim about immigrants crossing the u.s./mexico border. >> for every that's a valedictorian, there's another out there that weigh 130 pounds and they have calves the size of cantaloupes because they're carrying marijuana across the border. >> he retweeted a message from an avowed nazi sympathizer saying it was unintentional. enter j.d. schulten. a former minor league baseball player turned first time political candidate. he's on his fourth trip across the district. we catch up with him in

pocahontas, iowa. >> is pocahontas a democratic district? >> no. >> republicans outweigh democrats by 2 to 1. this resident flagged him down on the road. >> i love it. i love it. how are you? >> i am so excited. >> still, schulten is under no illusions winning this district will be easy. >> he keeps getting re-elected. doesn't that signify that's what people want? >> it's not necessarily that his opponent is calling him out on these things. people can see it on facebook and his twitter. and i think that's what's catching up to him. and people are disgusted with that. >> it's time for mr. king to be retired and sent back to the farm. >> reporter: pierce street coffee works is split down the middle. republicans on one side, democrats on the other. >> what is it that you know about king that you like?

>> i honestly don't know a lot about king. i really don't. so i can't tell you. i couldn't be fair there. >> any thoughts on who you might vote for? >> well, i'm a very strong republican right now. and to be fair, i just believe that we're going the right way. >> reporter: as for that conservative couple we first met. scholten gave it his best shot. >> why should i vote for you? >> health care costs are going out of control. >> reporter: then hopped back on the bus, headed for the next town. sara sidner, cnn, sioux city, iowa. >> one of many races we're going to be following closely on tuesday. we're going to check in with chris for cuomo prime time. >> we're going to go deep on what the obvious last ditch effort is by the president of the united states. it's not about security, it's about fear and loojing. we're going to talk about how it's working, why it will work

and why it work. we have a prominent republican that may run against the president in his own party. we also have a military expert, a veteran on to talk about the realities of what all those troops will mean, and what happens in terms of engagement. >> a lot different than what the president is saying. that's seven minutes for now. the finalists for cnn hero of the year, the ten finalists just ahead, we'll tell you who they are, and what they've done to be nominated and how can you pick the hero of the year.

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ten amazing people, go to cnn heroes.com to pick the one you should be named cnn hero of the year when i host with kelly ripa, december 9th right here on cnn. i want to hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. >> i am chris cuomo, and welcome to prime time. this is a very big night for the president of the united states. he is all in on fear and loathing. we're going to be invaded he says. women fear for their safety, he says. he must take the law into his own hands and change the asylum rules and allow the military to fire on the unarmed. here are the facts. there is no invasion. nothing he just said there has any basis in reality, except there is an emergency going on, that explainings all the trumped up talk. it's five days before the