words of the kaddish, the jewish prayer of mourning. the last of the victims' funerals was held today. 97-year-old rose malinger, she was laid the rest. she was the oldest of the victims killed. her family says the synagogue was the center of her very active life. our sincerest condolences to her family and all of those grieving this week. "ac 360" starts now. good evening w four days until midterm elections the president of the united states is making a closing argument for his party. so is the former president of the united states, and in an appearance today in miami barack obama said something he and donald trump might agree on though for different reasons and perhaps for different ends. quote, the character of our country, he said, is on the ballot. so too is the character of the president and the parties he leads and the campaign he

chooses to run and the tone he chooses to set. and of course it is a choice. this president enjoys that luxury. today he got a batch of very good job numbers, continued low unemployment and rising wages. previous presidents would have considered that a midterm gift, a winning issue a president could make as his closing argument, something he would talk about endlessly and justifiably. but that is not what this president is doing. president trump mentioned the economy today but almost in passing. in fact he said, and i'm quoting, sometimes it is not as exciting to talk about the economy because we have a lot of things to talk about, unquote. by other i think so this, he means things that might square voters, he means talking about migrants and what he calls an invasion. >> at this moment large well organized care advance of migrants are marching towards our southern border. some people call it an invasion. it's like an invasion. >> the president, from if white house yesterday painting a band of migrants nearly 1,000 miles

from the closest us border crossing as a threat to security. ordering military to the border. unless granted special powers they will be used in only a support capacity. but the president doesn't mention that. he continues to portray this caravan of men, women, and children as a caravan overrun by dangerous criminals, possibly even isis members. >> these are tough people. these are not angels. these are not little i think a gels. these are tough people. and we are not letting them into our country. >> of course, in any large group of several thousand people there are going to be people with criminal records or people who you want want to invite into your home. but there is a process in place to determine who can be accepted for asylum and who cannot. this notion of invaders from the south which the president repeatedly identified is the

same thing an anti-semitic man shouted as he killed 1 is people in a synagogue a week ago. the pittsburgh gazette reads magnified and sankified be your name. pittsburgh's marry joins us shortly to talk about that. first we want to take a closer look at what is essentially the president's closing argument before the mid terms. an ad from his own campaign that the president promoted on twitter. earlier today in west virginia, the president defended the ad. >> then they gave me a hard time because i put it up on twitter. and they gave me a hard time. they said you shouldn't be doing that. that's not nice. and i say all i am doing is just telling the truth. what can i tell you. >> just telling the truth. keeping him honest, the ad which focuses on a true lee deranged mexican man a convicted cop

killer who entered the country illegally is not telling the truth. it claims democrats let him in and democrats let him stay. he first entered the country illegally during the clinton administration. that doesn't mean he was let in. he entered illegally and after he was caught he was jailed and deported after his served his sentence, deported by the clinton administration. saying democrats let him stay is not true. he came back in during president bush's administration. and he was also deported then. and the last time he came back in was during the obama administration, he killed two officers and is now on death row. he was arrested several times in maricopa county, arizona several times and jailed there by sheriff arpaio, a republican, not a democrat, released him

from jail at least once in 1998 according to the sacramento bee. here's what he told npr about it. >> i don't know how many times he was arrested and slipped through the cracks. it is my gut feeling it wasn't just two times he has been deported. >> the killer's time in the united states spanned three administrations, democratic and republicans. you could argue he should not have been able to repeatedly re-enter illegally. you can argue he should have been treated more harshly by the criminal justice system while here. but the ad flatly and exclusively blames democrats and linked this clearly deranged killer who is on death row with the people in the current caravan who are fleeing poverty and violence in central america. who else will the democrats let in. >> it is being called sickening. president trump calls it the truth. whether it is sickening or not

or designed to appeal to fears, that's a judgment call. ads married, so do words. joining us now from the 20 to campaign responsible for this ad is katrina peterson. thanks for being with us. >> thanks, anderson. >> this killer in this ad is an awful person. he was deported out of the u.s. in 19 of the 7 by bill clinton, then in 2001 and then by president george bush, right. >> you want to focus on this one individual who is an extreme version of what is possibility that can continue to happen under the current policies that we have due to the failures of previous administrations, republicans and democrats. that is kr. >> but the ad says democrats let him in and let him say. that is factually incorrect. >> the policies we considerly have, and as you mentioned it

started with clinton. the policies we currently have continue to allow this individual into this country even though it was illegally, and continued to do heinous crimes. he has been deported several times. >> you could equally blame republicans. >> it is absolutely three the fault of democrats. it is the fault of several people, republican and democrat in previous administrations. >> it doesn't say that. why doesn't your ad say that. >> because it is the democrats that refuse to come to the table when president trump was willing to go further than obama was to resolve some of these issues when it came to illegal immigration. >> you said it was republicans and democrats. >> in previous administrations. >> in the previous administrations why didn't your ad say that? >> the ad today is what we are talking about. we are not talking about what occurred. >> the ad says democrats allowed this psycho killer to come in and allowed him to say. and it is republicans and democrats using your logic. >> listen, anderson. >> i am listening.

>> it is the democrats today who tep to allow these types of individuals. >> that's not what you are saying in your ads. is i here what you are saying now. >> these are criminal aliens in the country, and democrats don't want to address the problem. >> you don't have to yell. >> they did not come to the table when president trump wanted to acknowledge and come to a conclusion. they are absolutely the reason. >> you just acknowledged your ad is false. >> the ad is absolutely directv correct. >> you can't blame democrats for this psycho kill which is what the ad is focused on. >> democrats are at fault for continuing to allow these types of individuals. >> these types. >> to come into the country, commit crimes and get deported and come back. >> you are focusing on this man. >> yes, we are talking about that right now. >> yes. and your ad says democrats let him in. democrats let him stay. that is not -- you can just as

easily say republicans let him in, republicans let him say. >> today. they want to aboll dish i.c.e. they have been on the record to abolish i.c.e. they didn't come to the table. >> you are changing the subject. you can't defend your ad so you have to yell other things. >> it is the reason why these types of issues occur. it is the democrats. do you deny. >> i fell like we are speaking past each other. >> do you deny president trump came to the table to talk about these issues to stop illegal aliens from coming into the country. >> do you want me to answer the question. >> what did you see. >> do you want me to answer the question? >> yes. >> i saw president trump sitting at a table with democrats and republicans and endorsing a number of democratic ideas which freaked out the republicans who freaked out and once they explained to him what that map he backed off. >> you are incorrect. ? i am asking you about this ad

and you are avoiding it. >> you are incorrect about the ad. >> how am i incorrect about the ad. >> president trump came to the table. >> i want to talk about the ad. >> we are talking about what you said. he came to the table. democrats refused. they walk away they didn't do anything. you admitted that president trump tried to compromise with the democrats and they failed. >> that's not what i said. >> and the ad is supportive of that same nature. >> of that same nature. you are using words which show you can back up your own ad. >> i am explaining it to you right now. i am not understanding what you don't understand. the president tried to resolve the problem and the democrats won't come to the table. >> let me just ask specifically as i have been trying to do. you said democrats allowed him in and democrats allowed him to stay. he was deported on under democrats, and he was also deported under republican. your ad could just as easily say republicans allowed him in, republicans allowed him to stay.

or you can say democratic and republican administrations allowed him and allowed him to stay. that wouldn't be accurate, because he fell through the cracks. but that's not what the ad says. it is misleading, yes? >> no. the ad is relevant for today's purposes. >> it doesn't make sense. relative for today's purposes doesn't make sense. >> their actions are allowing him to say. that is a fact. democrats will not come to table work with the president to resolve these issues. they wouldn't to abolish i.c.e. meaning the criminals are allowed to stay, not to menks the sanctuary cities where they are allowed to stay, that is relevant today, that is to say democrats are allowing then to stay. >> sometimes he is commitings crimes, sometimes he is in jail, sometimes he is not. sometimes he has been apprehended. there have been republicans in congress. all this time they have failed to come up with any kind of

comprehensive plan. you could argue that allowed this guy to stay in the country. that would be closer to the truth than your ad, which is just lying. and i don't understand why you have to lie all the time. >> it is not lying, anderson. because today, and i will say it again, democrats are the reason why these types of individuals come into the country. >> that's not what you are saying in the ad. >> they come into the country. they want to abolish i.c.e. which means we can't rid of these individuals to win with. this is one issue. we are not talking about kate stein steinle, the gill girl that was raped and thrown into the bushes by another individual who was catch and released. there are individuals who become victims because they failed to move forward. this president is trying the resolve the problem. >> okay. >> and democrats refuse to come to the table. >> you were asked here to speak specifically about the ad. you have done everything but to

speak about this particular person. >> actually i was asked here to speak about the midterm election. >> if that's what you belief. i was told you were here to speak about the ad. >> it is in writing. i am here to talk about the midterm elections. >> do you know the names of the police officers that this man killed? >> it is extremely important that americans understand that president trump. >> you created an ad about this psycho kill who are killed two police officers. are you aware --? >> it isn't about this killer. you want to talk about one pouring of the ad. you don't want to talk about the whole issue of the problems the illegal immigration in this country. this is why americans believe that fake news is real. >> glad we got to that. katrina pierson, thanks very much you are not addressing the ad at all. michael cohen the president's former attorney is telling van it sfar that candidate and citizen trump used racist language many times over

the years. michael cohen is now saying this, michael cohen, who was the president's staunchest defender, and denied that the president had a racist bone in his body is now doing a 180. viewers should keep that in mind, what he said in the past, and what he's saying now. talk about exactly what he is now saying to "vanity fair." >> what a difference a couple of months makes. nicolle in this "vanity fair" interview is unleashing on donald trump his former boss saying on numerous occasions in the years that he worked for donald trump in private conversations he heard donald trump using racist and chilling language. three examples i want to point to from this interview. the first is from 2016. michael cohen says the two men were discussing a trump rally, discussing the fact in a the audience members were mostly white. he says i told trump that the rally looked vanilla on television. trump responded that's because

black people are too stupid to vote for me. the second was after nelson mandela's death in 2013, michael cohen said that trump said name one country named by a black person that's not a shit hole, name one city. from the late 2000s, according to michael cohen, he says he traveled with mr. trump to chicago, traveling from the airport to the hotel and they drove through what looked like a rougher neighborhood according to michael cohen. and that trump said to cohen at that int point, only the blacks could live like this. obviously incendiary language. michael cohen said he personally heard donald trump using over the years. as for the question of why now, why is he speaking out to vanity fair and making these allegations? well, he says that he knows donald trump's private comments are actually worse than some of the things he says in public. and ahead of ne week, ahead of next tuesday's midterm elections he would like to make sure that

the american people are aware of the true character behind donald trump. and he clearly believes, anderson, that he's the person that knows donald trump better than anybody else. >> i am going to ask the question is -- it is up for viewers to make up their mind, if in fact these comments are true what does it say about michael cohen's character that he not only worked for donald trump after making comments like this but he is also publicly defending him. i want to play what he said during the campaign, emjay. >> no, no, no worries. you are right to point that out. it is important to point that out because during the campaign. of course we talked about this for a while now, that michael cohen, both in unofficial and official capacity did a lot of work for donald trump. during the campaign one thing he was involved in was minority

outreach. in that capacity he very strongly defended donald trump when it comes to this issue, just one example i would point to, he said i have lost count as to how many times the disgusting liberal mainstream media have attempted to label mr. donald trump as a racist, a xenophobe, and a bigot. clearly he is singing a different tune today. and this i think it is important to sort of put in the bigger france formation that we have seen michael cohen go through. we know he says he changed his party registration from republican to democrat. he says that he now wants to campaign against republicans and donald trump. and you will recall that when i caught up with michael cohen on the streets of manhattan just last month he basically said all americans need to get out and vote because otherwise we are going to see two or six more years this craziness. anderson. >> emjay lee, appreciate it. coming up next, the president's suggestion that troops could fire on migrants for throwing rocks. his claim he never said anything

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tonight's second ib stallment of keeping them honest. no matter what the video shows me saying, i did not say what the video shows me saying. it will almost be funny if it didn't involve the command under chief talking about troops he is sendsing to the border could or could not shoot at migrants if they were throwing rocks at them. here's what the president said yesterday. >> they want the throw rocks at our military? our military fights back. war going to consider it. i told them, consider ate rifle. when they throw rocks like they did at the mexico military and police, i say consider it a rifle. >> consider a rock a rifle. as you might imagine it caused

something of an uproar from civilians, military commanders, you name it. today when the president tried to walk back yesterday's remarks here's what he said about stone throwers today. >> they do that with us, they are going to be arrested. there is going to be problems. i didn't say shoot. i didn't say shoot. but they do that with us, they are going to be arrested for a long time. >> now, technically, no, he did not say the word shoot because he didn't need to. as you and we and his critics and supporters alike all heard the suggestion that troops should be able to fire on rock throwers, consider a rock a rifle he said. seems like the meaning is clear. then out on the south lawn after he appeared to be walking things back, he seemed to unwalk them when asked if the military could not fire on unforeign civilians. >> we are doing to see. i hop they won't. >> it would be kimical except it

involves real troops, migrants and real issues at our border. early whier this week soldiers in nigeria opened fire on unarmed religious protesters. 45 people were killed. military says the protesters threw stones can they fired in self-defense. today the nigerian army posted video of president trump's speech on its spirit feed saying we released it saying if president trump can say rocks is as good as a rifle who is amnesty international. joining us now, jack reed. i spoke to him earlier this even. senator i wonder what went through your mine when you heard the president earlier trying to walk back his suggestion that he should shoot back at migrants who throw rocks or treat rocks like guns? >> my initial reaction when i heard the president talking about using military forces to shoot at civilians who throw rocks it was completely illegal,

completely contrary to ethics and contrary to the directions he received to use proportional self-defense. walking it back today is admitting what the military officers told him, that he is not only preposterous but it is wrong. >> he walked it back denying he was implying they should shoot the people with rocks. now he is saying they will just arrest people. but the president's words matter, whether he walks them back or not. you heard nigeria's army, an organization that massacred innocent civilians and committed atrocities you had them today tweeting the president's words to justify killing dozens of protesters, some of whom threw rocks. >> you are absolutely right. words have consequences. and the president's either off the cuff or certainly uninformed -- it is very, very daunting and disturbing to have a president giving an address about his plans for the border

using effectively misinformation. in fact, suggesting he would condone american troops using weapons against civilians throwing rocks. and of course as you point out, anderson, the nigerian army picked that up as justification for doing exactly that. they shot new mexicoious civilians who were protesting. words have consequences. the president doesn't recognize that sometimes. or just doesn't care. and that is very, very disturbing. >> there are also real gee yo political threats obviously that the u.s. military needs to be focusing on, is focusing on. has the department of defense or this white house indicated to the senate armed services committee that this caravan is a direct national security threat to the united states. >> there has been no indication that this is a directed national security threat to the united states. we have to protect our borders. and that's the job of the customs and border patrol. in fact the troops that are

going down there and other presidents have used troops, are merely support. but we have to ask real questions about how much it will cost us and indeed what better use these troops can be deployed for. we have engineer units they are sending to border that could be used a tindall air force base to help relieve some of the destruction caused by the hurricane. that would help the readiness of the united states. it is unclear that these troops will be providing that kind of support to the military. again, this seems to be more of a political statement than a national security statement. and it is a political statement that the president is making just several days before the election. >> just lastly, in our letter to the president yesterday you requested a full accounting of the financial costs of the deployment. has the white house or the pentagon given any estimates on how much all of this is going to cost? because moving as many as is

a,000 troo a -- as 15,000 troops that's not cheap. >> it is not cheap at all. it is millions of dollars, certainly, in terms of moving the troops. and there is also the opportunity cost. they could be training. they could be getting ready for deployment. it is something we have to have an accounting for. and frankly, again, this seems to be less about national security, less about wise use of resources. and again, it's putting potentially american military forces in a position that they are not as well trained for. they are not law enforcement officers. in fact they can't be law enforcement officers. they should be focused on those missions that are central to their role in the world, which is defending us from combatant enemies of the united states. >> senator, appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. coming up tonight, a tale of two presidents on the campaign trail. one form and one current. we will hear from voters in florida about president obama's

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the president for the first time seems to be admitting the democrats may win control of the house in mid terms but says not to worry about it that he will quote just figure it out. both he and former president obama are on the campaign trail tonight in dueling events. president obama is in georgia tonight supporting stacey abrams. earlier he campaigned in miami for andrew gillum. president obama said america is at a cross reds in terms of the character of our country on the ballot. >> we have seen repeated attempts to divide us with rhetoric designed to make us angry and make us fearful. it is designed to exploit our

history of racial and ethnic and religious division that pits us against one another to make us believe that order will somehow be restored if it just weren't for those folks who don't look like we look or don't love like we love or pray like we do. >> randi kaye tonight spoke with voters at that event in miami. >> hello miami! >> reporter: former president barack obama, once again making his closing argument for a candidate. >> what can president obama do for andrew gillum? i mean he won florida twice. >> he can energize the young people, energize the disenfranchised of the voers, those people who think their votes don't matter. >> reporter: do you think it could pull over left leaning independents. >> 100%. even republicans that voted for trump in the past that maybe are not happy now.

>> i think he brings credibility. i think whoever he he says yes to is a credible candidate. >> reporter: still many here remember 2016, and obama's cross country blitz for hillary clinton in the final weeks of her campaign. his last rally for her bass in pennsylvania, when she went on the lose. >> i don't know that the united states is ready for a presidential white house. i think that's part of it. >> what is different now is we really know who donald trump is. i think anyone that comes out can make a difference now because i think a lot of us are really worried about our country. >> reporter: so worried that they are once again embracing barack obama's message of optimism. >> what about obama's signature idealism and his message of hope? is there a place for that in this ugly political climate right now? >> i believe so. even those who are upset if you

scrape away the top i laer i think everything wants peace. >> reporter: is it needed on the campaign trail. >> it is needed on the cane. we are the people for the people. that's what we need. not no rich man, poor man, but for the people. >> they promised to take on corruption. instead, they have racked up enough indictments to field a football team. >>reporter: while obama is breaking press didn't by criticizing a sitting president so soon after leaving office himself, some here want even more of it. >> challenge them, call them out. if something is lie, call it a lie. i think that obama has been doing that, which is great to see. >> reporter: for one voter here, this is really personal. will barack obama's presence in this race and here today influence your vote? >> i believe that it will. >> reporter: we picked her randomly out of the crowd. at the end of our interview when i finally asked her name it sounded strangely familiar. what'sor name? >> my name is francis gillum.

matter of fact, my son is running for governor. >> reporter: no! >> yes. >> reporter: why didn't you the me that to begin with? that is not true. that is hilarious. >> yes. >> reporter: now that changes everything. what is your hope for how president obama will high pressure your son? >> i know he is going the help him out a lot. andrew is doing well. mayor gillum is doing well on hisson own. but president obama is going to make it that much better. >> reporter: a proud mother, will it be enough? tuesday will tell. randi kaye, cnn, miami. >> right now, we have a panel. we were just take how -- why did she answer that yes, the presence of obama impacted her vote is this she's the candidate's mom. >> every little bit helps. >> i want to play something that the president said a few minutes

ago at a rally. play that. >> sometimes it is not as exciting. surprised that joe donnelly is holding a rally this weekend with barack h. obama. >> i am not sure exactly -- i mean, if the message of that, obviously, he is a per veyor of the birther conspiracy theory. >> i think that's it. whenever conservatives bring up bop obama's -- barack obama's middle name, you can't call them dog whistles, they are like screams. it is clear what he is doing. >> it is a study to see them on the campaign trial. and as randi kaye noted a former president, the last president, out on the campaign trail

criticizing directly the current president. >> that is rare. >> the current president has also broke protocol. >> exactly. the president's club form is gone and it doesn't exist anymore. >> it is like the president fight club. >> exactly. it is also just -- not just the difference between them. but the president, president trump, is closing on a message that isn't what everyone in his party would like him to be closing on right now. whereas president obama is out there galvanizing around the message that democrats almost in a unified fashion would like to head into tuesday being their message, president trump is closing so strong on his hardline immigration policies -- i spoke to a republican strategist yesterday who is running a lot of these house races, overseeing the strategy for it, i said is this how you would script the president's final message if you could? he said immigration would be a piece of what i would script but i would really like to hear more about the economy and more about did accomplishments of the last two years.

and that's not in there nearly enough. >> mark, couldn't you make the counter-argument, i am sure there are plenty of republicans david spoke to during the general election who said i don't like what the president is running on? it certainly worked for the president. >> it did. people fell like the tax cuts and the regulations he has done and they need smog to motivate them as part of a problem he will fix in the future. the left is energized. having bem on the trail is fine. how much more energized are they going to be, i don't know. independents and democrats are fed up with washington, d.c. how do you get those people out? that's a challenge for republicans. i am not sure that those particular voters have the same voters have the moat ragsvation to cam out and vote on straight line ticket. >> is president obama preach to the choir? >> this is a time for mobilization. he is trying to get every democrat out that typically in

midterm elections as john and david can tell you -- everybody here -- there is a drop-off, and the drop-off is most significant among minority voters, young people, with some voters with whom the president has a particularly strong relationship. i think that democrats want him in miami and atlanta. and i think he is going to chicago, and gary, indiana, for joe donnelly to mobilize the vote in those areas in elections that are going to be very close. >> but he was out there for hillary clinton a lot. it didn't seem to make a difference? >> yeah, but that's because hillary clinton has a unique problem as a candidate herself. people just did not like her. and you are not seeing the same dynamic this time around in the mid terms. what you saw a lot of people were like i just can't get with hillary clinton. so i am going tryout this donald trump guy. this time around, a lot of people, democrats, may like their incumbent senator or congressman. you don't have the same effect

that hillary clinton brought to it. so bringing a president obama out, who is popular with the constituencies that they need to come out and vote i think is not going to harm them. there wasn't much anyone could do for hillary clinton. she was an awful candidate. ran a terrible campaign and a lot of people did not personally like her. that dynamic is absent this time around which is probably why the president is using things like immigration as a foil, because he doesn't have the hillary clinton to point to as the oofl other side. he's using something else to demagoguan a issue like that to bring up the culture war and culture clashes which is what energizes the people that mark talked about that get come placent. >> it is only two years but we live in a different world. at the end of his term there were some democrats who weren't thrilled with president obama. he was campaigning in a presidential year essentially asking for a third term. now voters had two years of

trump. whether it is president obama or oprah or anybody we are going to have close races. the lawyers are going to be at work wednesday morning in a lot of close races around this country. i think you can get to get early vote, to get young people, latinos, typically drop out of elections in midterm years. anything you can do to mobilize them all hands on deck in both parties. the president's coalition is different now. the president narrowly carried the suburbs in 2016. he is tanked in the suburbs. history in the suburbs. that's why the democrats are poised to retake the house. what is he doing? smart, save what you can, the senate. he is going to the red states to try to save the senate races because the president is of no use to his party in a suburban house district anywhere. >> i think the advantage is picking up three or four seats in the senate. those confirmations the next few

years, it becomes a big deal for the administration to fill gerbil appointments as well as cabinet posts. >> why the democrats -- if we were in an election today, republicans think they would pick up one or three in the senate. you can't change the dynamics of the race right now but republicans today are more pessimistic than they were yesterday. in the npr maris poll the president is at 41. if he is there on election day then the senate gets more interesting. >> i have no doubt he has galvanized his base with the campaigning he has done. my question is is there any limit to it? is there a limit beyond which you end up getting diminishing returns by discouraging voters in some of the suburban areas in the statewide races in the suburbs of conditions as city and the suburbs of st. louis and the suburbs of indianapolis who are -- who become uncomfortable

because he's taken it just a notch too far? i don't know the answer to that question but i think he is really testing the limits. >> this is precisely what glen bulger the republican poster said, i have no doubt, a republican pollster, that we have livened our base from what it was in september. what i have a doubt about, what i have a question mark about is where are we with independents or some of those other folks that we need to bring on board in addition? >> they are mpg tanking them. they know that. also for women in those suburban districts. trump is down 20 points. you look at all the districts where trump won by a couple percentage points republicans are not polling well there. and you have 41 open republican seats, including in a lot of places in these suburban districts where women are going to make the difference. >> my point is in marginal statewided you could lose ground in suburban areas that cost you

state wise. >> why should anybody believe anything until election day. >> we should wait is we should count them. interesting things in the last couple of days increasingly people have early voted. you don't change your list late in the last few days. they are decided. that part is over. now it is about getting them to vote. >> tune in to the x files saturday at 7:00 p.m. david's guest will be arnold schwarzenegger. today was the last of the funerals for the victims of the pittsburgh synagogue shooting. a service today for the oldest victim, 97-year-old rose mallinger. i met her family earlier this week. they are extraordinary. before she was laid to rest the president lamented that the shooting stopped the momentum for the republicans. i will talk about that and about

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i grew up in the forests out in this area and honestly it's heartbreaking to see all these trees dying. what guides me is ensuring that the public is going to be safer and that these forests can be sustained and enjoyed by the community in the future. just days before the mid terms and days after pipe bombs were sent to democratic leaders and cnn. and days after man killed 11 jewish members of a synagogue president trump made it about himself.

he said it slowed political momentum. >> we had two maniacs stopped a momentum that was incredible. because for seven days nobody talked about the elections. it stopped a tremendous momentum. more importantly, we have to take care of our people. and we don't care about momentum when it comes to a disgrace like what just happened to our country. but it did nevertheless stop a certain momentum. and now the momentum is picking up. >> joining me now, the pittsburgh mayor. i want to talk to you about the funerals over the last few days. but i want to ask you about the comments by the president. sometimes for the president for all the misstatements of fact, the lies he tells, sometimes he is transparent in that thought process. in that sentence he is going on and on about how she is incidences, these murders, these killings, this massacre stopped the political momentum of then he said well we don't care about momentum, but then he then went

back to talk about the sadness of it stopping the momentum. >> yeah. there is really not much i can say about that. we basically stopped campaigns in southwestern pennsylvania saturday afternoon. the governor pulled his ads down. other candidates pulled their ads down or went back to their soft ads that they started their campaigns on. there is -- in pittsburgh, we put families first. we just had our last neighbor that we buried today. so momentum, not momentum -- when you have something as horrific as what we are experiencing right now, it is not a word in our vocabulary. >> let's talk about the important things, rose mallinger, 97 years old, married i believe for 50 years to her husband, 60 years going to the tree of life synagogue.

i remember her family telling me that she always tried to sit in the exact same seat. >> that's correct. >> they called called her budde. what a light she was. >> uh-huh. i had the -- i don't know to say a misfortune because being with the mallinger family is a blessing. >> yeah. >> but that afternoon, being with her son at the jewish community center when we were putting together grief counselling and trying to get families information from the fbi. i will never forget for the rest of my life him saying i can't get ahold of my mom. and then asking about those that were injured and whether or not we knew who they were and being to just give him the information of yes, we do. and the families have been notified. and him asking again about her, and finding out that she was 97, getting back to the site, asking the public safety director to

find out. and the public safety director's response to me is we are pretty much confirmed that we lost her. nobody should -- especially somebody who lived a life like hers and has been such a central figure to her family and everything else -- ever be taken off of this earth in that way. those are some of the memories that are still lingering in the minds of pittsburghers that make it hard to sleep at night and make it hard to concentrate. >> and roses daughter was shot. she's in the hospital. she has had several surgeries is going to have several surgeries. again, i was able to spend some time in that room with the entire extended family, the grandkids. >> isn't it amazing? >> oh, my gosh. >> they had to go out into the hallway, the family is so big. >> yeah. people flew in from all around. each of the grandkids told me they had a favorite meal that --

i don't think i have the right to call her bubbe, but they said that bubbe would make for us. it was one of the great privileges of my life to be invited in at a time like that and talk to people at their lowest point, but also to have them smile and laugh as they are telling stories about the extraordinary life that rose lived. thank you. >> and. >> sorry, go ahead. >> she was able to be at the funeral today. she is going back to the hospital. she is going to be okay. doctors say she should be out of the hospital next week. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i want to check in with chris to see what he is working on cuomo primetime. >> important to remember who was lost. i am going to do the same thing, seem thing, pick up on your momentum, what was lost and what should be remembered about these people that were lost. i am going to introduce team to

two parts of judaism, two formative principles that echo through that faith they should not be seen as a lack of momentum but a pivot toward momentum for the rest of us who remain. >> that's about four minutes from now. coming up, one more shoe drops, one more parcel turns up in the package bombing campaign that gripped the country. how much would you pay for something you don't want? nothing. is this a test? no. question two: do you like getting stuff you like for free? yes. this feels like a test. it's not, it's just why verizon lets everyone in your family get the unlimited plan they need without paying for stuff they don't. and why verizon gets you six months of free apple music. did i pass? not a test. but, yeah, you passed. yeah! (vo) the music you want, the unlimited plan you need, on the network you deserve. switch now and get $300 off our best phones. vo: costs are rising.e squeeze. it's hard to keep up. in washington, one party is calling the shots and the middle class isn't being heard.

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this is a story is that seemed like it would never end. one suspicious packaged addressed to arguments around the country. today the fbi confirmed the existence of yet one more. it resembles all the others sent

out. it was recovered last night in california addressed to democratic donortime steyer. he thanked laws enforcement and the u.s. postal service or their support in a statement today saying his organization would not be intimidated by the packages. i am going to hands it over to chris for cuomo primetime. >> muller has been circling around trump can have can't roger stone. but there is more. new eems and texts. i will give you the latest and we will test the man who questions point two. roger stone is here tonight. in just days, something big is going to happen in the elections. it is down to two voices, obama versus trump. we have a deep dive for you on how the two size up. and a republican is here tonight who refuses