30,000 tenants. one tenant claiming that paying their rent in full did not prevent them from receiving notices under threat of eviction. randi kaye, baltimore, maryland. >> i want to hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> thank you, anderson. i'm chris cuomo, welcome to "prime time." we're revving up for the first cnn debate in 2020 and we have one of the top five in the polls with us tonight, mayor pete buttigieg on debate eve. how does he see this moment in our country? how can he beat this president and make this president better? new numbers from the polls, quinnipiac spelling trouble for him and the rest who are trying to take down joe biden. how will they all step it up on that beautiful stage we were just showing you tomorrow night?

is the plan to step on one or more of their opponents. and we have new information on the latest mass shooting in california. kids, a young man stoned, what happened. what do you say? let's get after it. this president has a particular venom, that's the quote, for people of color, al sharpton. the most blistering response comes from "the baltimore sun"s editorial board. we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the oval office he's still not fulling most americans that he's slightly competent in his

current post. better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one. i have never heard anything like that from an editorial board. "the baltimore sun" is a long and storied publication. what does it mean? where are we? what is to be done about it? let's hear from one of the people who wants to lead us as president. we spoke a short time ago with pete buttigieg here in detroit. appreciate you being here. >> thanks for having me on. >> big night. big moment in the country also. so the debates will be tomorrow and wednesday. but we are living something right now. this editorial from "the baltimore sun," i've never seen language like that from an editorial board about any major politician, let alone a sitting president. how do you see where we are right now? >> it's a consequence of the president attacking his political critics by attacking an american city. you got a newspaper standing up for their city. baltimore is a proud city.

we're all proud of your cities. and the president is continuing to go down this road of being the divider in chief. >> do you see it that way, as -- in terms of anything right now, two sides, people will say, isn't he right? isn't baltimore one of the ten toughest places to live -- >> he's talking like he's the president of the united states. baltimore is in the united states. he's the president for the people of baltimore and he's talking about it like it's somebody else's problem. the question should be, if baltimore faces challenges, which it does, as every major american city does, what is he doing to help? what we see is a president who's response is to attack fellow americans whether it's members of congress who will be critical of him or an entire city full of americans just because that city is partly represented by a member of congress who's critical of him. and he continues down this path of dividing americans which is exactly why america is becoming weaker as a country under this

president each passing day. >> you believe that america is weaker because of this president? >> of course. >> how? >> first of all, our reputation is collapsing around the world. but also our confidence in our own country is collapsing and the president needs to be able to bring people together. even when we're divided out of disagreement over a policy, the president is supposed to stand -- the presidency is supposed to stand as a symbol of something that we all have in common. yet this president, has taken every single opportunity to turn us against one another. this is why -- there's a lot of talk over exactly how far the extent of russian interference went. we spend far too little time talking about why. why did an adversary of the united states calculate that the best way to undermine our country was to get a guy like this elected. it was because they knew that america would become weaker and more divided under his presidency. >> do you believe he's using

words specifically saying infested so often when dealing with things that have a racial component. do you think that is intentional? >> there's no question. look at the pattern. this is a kind of terminology that he reserves for places and situations where there are a lot of minorities involved. we can debate over how strategic it is, how intentional it is, but hon its face, it is racist. >> you articulate the message well. you see the problem. when we look at the polls that came out today from quinnipiac, you struggle with african-americans, literally, defined almost at 0%. why? >> african-american voters are tired of having been lied to by politicians. when you are new on the scene, when you haven't been known for years or decades, you got a lot of extra work to do in order to val validate what you have to say. i'm going to do it this time by explaining what i propose to do.

the most comprehensive plan in the 2020 -- >> the douglas plan. >> it is about tackling racism in every aspect of life everything from making sure we invest in minority entrepreneurship to investing in dealing with health inequities. it's looking at employment, housing, it's looking at economic empowerment as well as criminal justice and democracy. it's the work of reaching out to voters where they are and recognizing that the black vote is not monolithic. in order to deserve to win, i need to reach out to lots of different groups of voters and that's exactly what we're doing to do. >> what is your understanding of the experience at home with the african-american community and why there's a difference in support and why there has been criticism of your reaction in moments of crisis? >> it's a journey. and it's a difficult one. look, any urban mayor of a

diverse city has to confront some of the most searing and difficult challenges that cities and communities face. as somebody who is responsible for a community that is 25% black and is responsible for a police department, that means that the wall of mistrust between law enforcement and communities of color and black residents in particular is one that i've got to try to bring people together around and it's never going to be perfect. but, we've made progress and we're making more progress now. we're living right now in the wake of an officer-involved shooting. eric logan, a black man, killed by a white officer. i requested and we now have an independent prosecutor to review what happened. we're not waiting for the information to come back to take steps together as a community. we're going to come together and review the body camera policy. we're working together --

>> it's got to be on all the time. we see this problem again and again and again. i've been following this for a decade. i know the arguments on both sides. it's the only remedy. it's better for the police, the community, everybody has a camera. >> that's one of the things that sounds good until you're taking evidence from a child or entering a sexual assault scene and you're creating footage that has to be handed over to anybody who asks for it. >> i think that you can oversophisticate it. >> it will automatically turn it on any time a gun is removed from a holster. we'll -- >> the more transparency at the end of the day, it works. i know there are -- >> anybody who says there's a simple answer is wrong. >> transparency is the simple answer. how you get transparency. >> that's for sure. and i don't think a city our size in the midwest has done it the way we have. but we started publishing incident-level data so people

knew how many times there was a use of force. there's no question that -- >> that's the key. people feel that there's something going on they're not being told and that hurts the perception of officers when it's unwarranted and the confidence in the community. so one more step on this. obviously, white politicians find a way to connect with african-american communities. i thought you would get some respect when you said i couldn't get it done having more black cops. i tried. >> we have. i've been speaking to black audiences, a lot of people tell me i was candid -- >> people never usually shoulder any blame. what is the lesson you've learned to this point in the campaign? >> when it comes to reaching -- >> your appeal and why you're not getting more traction. >> again, you have to have serious plans and quantity of time. it took me years of work in south bend of people understanding where my heart was and where my work was going to be for my black support to go up

as it did between my first election and the second in the primary. it's going to be my job to communicate what we're going to do about gaps in education, what we're going to do to make sure that black entrepreneurs have a chance to thrive. how we're going to go about by reducing incarceration in this country by 50%. i'm looking forward to the opportunity to continue talking about that. >> he's right, he doesn't have a lot of time in this campaign. he also doesn't have a lot of time to develop his record, right? and that's something that will play out on the stage. and you can't look at the african-american voting group as a monolith. they tend to favor moderate policies. how will we connect tomorrow night? our special predebate coverage

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wrestling with rwhere h wrestling with this. here's what he told us a short time ago. >> everybody who gives an appraisal of your performance, you check all of the obvious boxes of being smart, articulate, you have an interesting background, you're young. this is going to be an identity politics elections. i'm not saying it should be. i'm saying it will be. how do you community cate to pee that i can take president trump on toe to toe. >> i'm not scared of this president. this is a guy who's working season 7 of celebrity "the apprentice." the gift of this president is to

take any energy that goes his way and turn it into a kind of food that he grows off of and gets bigger. that's the code that we got to crack. and i think the way to do it is to name and confront everything that he does wrong and to go back and talk about the impact we will have on voters' lives. that's what gives the voters a different stake in this election and unifies voters who have been divided by white identity politics. >> but this is how he won. and the arthrittrick is, you ha political correctness and perfect candor. that's what he's playing to. this talk of his, you've been traveling this country, you know the disaffection is real, the pain is real and there's a lot of white americans who feel forgotten. they see him as a proxy, a white

proxy. >> he's playing them for suckers. the message that he's telling to these americans is, yeah, you're not making enough money, yeah, your housing is becoming unaffordable and your job may be automated away in ten years, but your big problem is political correctness. a lot of people voted last time because they had been so let down by people on both sides of the political spectrum that they decided to vote to burn the house done. this isn't to excuse the racism or misogyny or xenophobia. i think what we got to say to these voters is, okay, you voted to burn the house down. now the house is on fire. but he has not done one thing to make your life better. if you think your problem is brown people when your job is about to get automated away and

you don't have the retirement saved away -- >> you'll say i gave you the best economy ever and i'm finally speaking the truth. >> yeah, under obama, unemployment goes from 10 to 5. and he -- it's like the rooster in the morning. there's the fact that while gdp is going up, life expectancy is going down. 90% of americans have not seen their incomes budge more than the slightest amount the entire time i have been alive. this president has done nothing. he and his ally are killing the minimum wage bill that was passed out of the house. they're killing every serious effort -- >> they say the minimum wage winds up reducing wage roles because people are going to lose their jobs. >> they say that as if it's a

theoretical question. as if we didn't have decades of data showing that it's not true. reagan conservativism is just like communism. sounds good in theory, but we tried it, and it failed. >> tomorrow night there's a chance you're going to have to show that you can take a punch. we heard that beto o'rourke and others see you as a target. it's interesting to see how biden recovered since that last set of numbers. you are in that same place, 5% to 7%. you got there quickly and surprisingly to people. you stayed there. now you're a target. how are you going to take a punch tomorrow night? someone starts talking about your age and inexperience? >> i'm going to talk about why i'm the best person to be the nominee and the president and folks can poke holes. it's what they do. it's part of what a debate is for. i welcome it. and this is an opportunity for many americans, many who have not been following the blow by

blow or the process the way like you and i have, to take that measure and what they're going to see is a different message and a different messenger. i'm not like the others and i think that's going to come across tomorrow night. >> do you have vulnerability digging into your past. >> i never worked on anything i didn't believe in in my private sector career. i figured out that my heart was in public service. after two or three years in business, i decided to commit myself to public service. it was a pay cut, it was a life change, but it's a good one. and my military service and my public service has really shaped me and it shapes the heart that i bring to this presidential campaign. >> i always say to people when they come on the show in your position, one, i rarely get to say this, thank you for your service to the country, and, two, i wish you good luck because everybody is going to agree that we need better in terms of your dialogue and relationship with politics and the people than we're getting

right now. >> now is our chance. >> good luck to you tomorrow night. appreciate it. >> pleasure. all right. i mean what i said. thanks again to mayor pete buttigieg. critics say racist rhetoric helped this president win in 2016. is that true? if so, how? and will it work this time? one of the biggest names in his base is rushing to his defense, word play included, rush limbaugh, reaction from our "prime time" primary experts, live from detroit. next. this is nice.

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disgusting rat and rodent-infested mess. those are the words of this president talking about a city just miles away from the white house, baltimore. and i didn't take along for conservatives like rush limbaugh to praise this president for his comments. take a listen. >> detroit, flint, los angeles, san francisco, massive homeless problems. wherever you find this decay, you're going to find democrats having run the operation, the

democrats take every one of these minority groups' votes for granted and it's about time somebody pushed back against the real human misery. >> i'm going to be honest, i see that as a distraction. i could give you numbers all night about how many of the best places to live are run by democrats. i think it's a distraction. it's important for you to see what the defense is for the president. dave, the argument basically is -- and thanks to each and all of you for being here. this is just the truth. baltimore has a lot of problems. it does have these infestations, that's all he means. do you expect that? >> listen, i think what happened is the president got in here with representative cummings, he took a punch and the president punched back and it got devolved from there. we're in detroit, michigan. the president is losing a big opportunity here, and i said

this to him before, tweet out about how great things are in michigan. unemployment is down, jobs up, 120,000 new jobs in the state of michigan. 30,000 manufacturing jobs. real wage growth at the bottom end of the rung here, increasing, economic opportunities abounding in michigan under this president and he's losing the opportunity to speak about that because he's stuck on this. >> you were pointing out an interesting metric. people who approve of the economy, good number, people who approve of him, why is it upside down, saying that things are good in michigan doesn't cover up for what people see as code. >> it sounds like he's the president of michigan but then there are some great members of congress doing some amazing work here. they have detroit in their districts. it's interesting that he's the president of an area that's

doing well, but he's not the president of an area that's not doing well. i wasn't finished. i think the other thing we have to acknowledge here is to your point again, yes, congressman cummings is honorable. and this president has to figure out a way to conflict with folks on policy and not personally to the point where it makes them susceptible to death threats and antagonizing attacks. >> listen, death threats and attacks, entire trump family, myself, anyone who supports the president -- >> i've been susceptible -- you can clap all you want to. the reality of it -- >> nobody has the market cornered in terms of bad behavior. we're all feeling it. i'm just saying, he's had a hard time. i've had a hard time. there's a lot of reach there in terms of people who are having a

hard time. what i'm saying is, the idea of this is what we're living right now, and i believe the president believes it works for him. is this good for me to light elijah cummings about how lousy it is in baltimore. >> i think it's all with malice afore thought. i don't think the elijah cummings battle is a battle he seeks. i think a confrontation with al sharpton he welcomes. i pay attention closely to some data that's being drawn from swing voters, people who went from obama to donald trump or romney to hillary clinton, people who really hang in the balance. there's a mentality of those folks of send them back, meaning those who are there illegally, not a citizen who's a member of congress.

a lot of this bleeds together. and my point is this, we can't make the mistake that many of us, yours truly made in 2016 which was to think every time he said something beyond the pale, you thought, he's done. john mccain, he's done, mexico sending us rapists, he's done. time and again he disproved all of that conventional wisdom. >> why is it different this time? >> this is why i hope it's different. when you consider the fact that people haven't had enough, that doesn't make me afraid of donald trump. it makes me afraid of people who i share spaces with in restaurants, people who i share work spaces with. the fact that there's a quinnipiac poll that says that 45% of white americans approve of this president even right now based on results that came out today is troubling to me. i'm wondering what will it take for people to stand up for righteousness. this is not a side bar issue. this is not a distracting issue

for someone who's a black american in this country. it's my primary issue. >> it's not an issue that he's been chased with. with joe biden, this was brought up by other opponents who said, you got to explain this. this president is taking this fight, he's like, i'm happy to talk about this all day. remember when he said i'll give you my health care plan after the election. this is his plan. let's talk about who we are and who we're not. >> listen, again, i advocate talking about what he's done, right? arguing come pletpletely on the record. he's got a great message to take to the african-american community. he is not doing that -- >> except for bringing back the death penalty. >> the federal death penalty is completely different than the state's death penalty -- >> you want to kill people or you don't. it's disproportionate. >> i'm not going to argue in favor of the death penalty. i think the president has a strong record to stand on.

when you're winning, use the facts. when you're losing, you resort to these types of things. the president is losing right now, losing arguments he should be winning every day, day in and day out. >> tomorrow is the test, right? we're going to see if somebody can put together a pitch of here's the message, and i'm the right messenger. let's take a break and talk about what we're anticipating on this stage, who's got the best plus side, who's got to worry about what happens. let's go through all of it, all right? also, some good news for the former vp on this debate eve. have you seen the latest poll numbers? he took a beating in that first debate, but he bounced back. why? let's go through these latest numbers. who came up and who didn't? let's figure it out next. here's your buick sir. actually, that's my buick. how are we gonna fit in your mom's buick? easy. i like that new buick. me too.

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joe biden actually expanding his lead even after the first debate. if you look at the field, right here as we're on the eve of the cnn debate in detroit, he's up nearly 20 points in the latest poll. what happened? let's bring back our team. i'm surprised by this. >> i have an answer. i have the answer. so he's 22 a month ago. he's 35 now. nothing has transpired in the last 30 days.

you cannot name an event where you can say, what a shining moment that was for joe biden, what explains it is the behavior of the president that we've been discussing. the more he acts like he's been acting, the more democrats say, we have got to beat him. if you go to the internals of the survey, 51% of democrats say he's the one with the strongest shot. >> in the commercial i was saying, i don't know what this is. he's not running targeted ads in a place that would explain this. >> i think it's that and also a name recognition piece. part of the listen people think joe biden can beat donald trump is because he spent the last eight years in the white house with president obama. he also has a tremendous amount of support from at least older african-americans which i think is a huge support base for him. right now i think this is mostly a name recognition piece. nobody else knows who anybody

else is. especially the folks who are not paying attention to this race. >> how big is tomorrow night for biden? >> i think it's huge. biden has to show up and deliver. he has to show what his policy prescriptions are, how he stands out, how he's different. he's normally been the guy who can go to middle america, he needs to demonstrate that he can still do that. i think he has to look like he is -- i'm not saying this because he's older, a senior statesman who has a way of bridging this gap that exists under the big tent party. >> what are you looking for? >> i think they're both correct here. i think angela is partly right in he's the person that anybody knows. there's a lot of that going on. what i think is troublesome was bob mueller's performance a few weeks -- two weeks ago and to

angela's point, they're the same age. vice president -- >> seems like two weeks. it was last week. >> he's lost a step. >> you think mueller having people in part critique his performance is going to wind up being revisited. >> trump is old too. >> mick jagger turned 76 and performed in washington. 76 and there's 76. >> if i was joe biden i would break out that trans am. he's got to look a little more crisp, appealing to folks. >> here's one thing i would like to see from joe biden too. it's frustrated me that he has felt like he doesn't have to appeal to african-americans who have been the most loyal voting block in the democratic party. he said i'm going to have an agenda for all americans.

every other candidate has a black agenda. >> he's the only one who's had the legacy of service that you can connect to policies. that's one of the problems with being a senator, the reason they struggle sometimes at the presidential level, it's hard for them to put their name on signature achievements. >> there's going to be a lot of action in the center of the stage. keep your eyes on the fringes. this is go big or go home. they are looking at kamala harris as the playbook as to how you stay alive. >> do they go at biden or harris? >> i think they go on biding. the new yorkers are the ones i have my eyes on, kirsten gillibrand and bill deblasio. i meant it as a compliment. >> i had mayor pete buttigieg on, i think he's going to get some heat. people have what he wants. he popped out of that main

bubble. we have reporting that maybe it's going to be beto o'rourke. that's why i asked him about the baker mackenzie stuff. we need to see how these people take a punch. you could have a great answer, i could know the answer, but if you don't deliver it well, you lose. >> the biggest fear is being ignored. if you lose, if you don't come out with some media, 20 folks on the stage, it's hard to breakthrough. the worst possible thing you could be is ignored. >> that's true. it would be nice to see somebody have a moment that is positive. >> also authentic. >> i know they're all going to be mad at me. i'm not saying that they're not putting their best foot forward. i think someone who says something that gal vinizing. that's the easiest way. >> that happens every great debate, by the way. >> yeah, but in reverse. >> that's not true.

>> it would be nice if somebody surprises you tomorrow night where you're like, you know what, that's a reason for people to believe. >> the format is tough, a 60-second response. i think those moments get easier when we get into the fall. >> you're so reasonable. thank you very much. it's always interesting to see what we expect because then when it happens, often, we are all taken by surprise. so let's look at what the president is saying. he is disgusted by the conditions in baltimore. that's what it's about for him. okay, then why didn't he take on his own son-in-law. why would he do that? i'll give you the facts and then we'll figure out the feelings with d. lemon, next. behr, ranked #1 in customer satisfaction with interior paints. great paint, new low price. starting at $24.98. exclusively at the home depot.

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for more than 200 code violations county wide. for what? mice, mold, lack of plumbing, maggots, all the while profiting from lower-income tenants. at least $90 million a year according to "the washington post." why didn't he bring that up? let's bring in d. lemon. your take. and first of all, seriously, i'm very happy for you tomorrow night. do the people proud. >> thank you. i think we will. thank you. i appreciate it. listen, if you want words of advice you could say to this president, number one, people who live in glass towers shouldn't throw bricks, you know you live in new york city, you don't know where you're going to see those things. >> it's true. >> and i think, you know, he should clean up his own house, meaning, within his family before he says things like that. it is obvious that he was trying to insult, right, elijah

cummings, but i think it's obvious that he was trying to bring up certain things to make people think, infestation, vermin, rats -- >> no human would want to live there. >> it's very insulting. i have to give a shout out to our colleague, victor black wwe. it was very personal for him and emotional. and i think that was important because it's very personal and emotional for people who live there and if you have family members on there. good on you, victor blackwell for doing what you did. >> there's a pattern of watching the president pick fights that he should not pick and avoid fights that he should not pick up. >> but then there are -- rarely does he suffer consequences from his base. but also rarely does he suffer consequences from people who may be independent, right, or may be

democrats who voted for barack obama and voted for clinton or whatever, because they are allowing him to get away with that -- with horrible language. and, again, just imagine someone speaking about your family member that way. it has been made on this network and others and all sorts of media, that there are poor elements of almost every single city -- every place in the country. >> correct me if i'm wrong, nine out of ten of the hardest places to be in this country are run by republicans. i think the democrats have done you wrong, african-americans should leave you, what that is is insulting to what's happened to the federal level that local politicians have not been able to defeat. >> when you say, a lot of people agree with me, that doesn't make it right. >> a lot more people disagree with him about this stuff than agree.

>> there are really good things about elijah cummings's district. african-americans very high when it comes to income, education, and that's something to be proud of. when you look at all of the in maryland and baltimore. >> they have a long way go. >> everybody has a long way to go. skid row is not l.a. is not beverly hills, right? if you look at the places that are hurting in new york city. it's not trump tower or fifth avenue. every place has issues. many people have been calling in racist. some of the black pastors visited the white house today. we'll have one on that defends him and says it's not racist. >> that i want to watch. >> don's dream for us to do a show together. they elevated his seat. artificially. >> remember when the president says that he doesn't see white

nationalism as rising threat. it wasn't that long ago. this is pattern we have to point it out. i'll tell you something about cummings that i learned fist hand. that's closing next. "what do we want for dinner?" "burger! i want a sugar cookie! i want a bucket of chicken! i want....." "it's the easiest, because it's the cheesiest" kraft. for the win win. background checks on guns.e that we should have but congress won't act because the nra and gun manufacturers

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if you want to talk about the shooting in gilroy california this is the pick which you shall to see. 6 year-old steven. this is the picture to see. 13 year-old. they were shot dead along with trevor in his 20s. all three stolen from their loved ones by hate. a dozen others were injured. the murder legally bought the rifle. of course in nevada. took it into california where it's illegal to buy the same weapon. that's a problem kwaent seem to fox. he cut a hole in the fence to sidestep detecters. i want to talk about why he did

this. he posted two instagram messages right before the attack. that's called a present sense imimpression in the law. it's not a maybe. that was on his mind right before he killed these people. the book he suggested is a white supremacist book from the 1800s. don't dismiss what this murderer believed. there are more like him. we have to stop hiding from that fact. just ask trumps fbi director christopher wray. >> i will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we have investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacy. it includes other things as well. >> number of hate crimes up.

white supremacist groups up. racist rallies up. number of propaganda up. too many are saying we don't know this guy was a real racist or white supremacist. that rational is extended protection to the president for not addressing what seems clear about why this happened. i'm not blaming the president. but what you ignore you empower. why strain to defend people in charlottesville and down play what happened in new zealand and why. he says the killer was wicked but what explains his not mentioning what the murder was about. fear of being wrong? please. what other president would stop where he did. condemn the motivation. condemn who people who think that way as un-american. we're more powerful than they and root them out and punish

them for acts on the worst of ideas about the rest of us. no problem calling baltimore infested. no human wants to live there. no problem stoking that feelings again. look at what the paper said. i have never seen anything like it. they call the president of the united states a rat. that is the an mouse he is engendering. this cannot be us. continuing that fight with a congressman. elijah cummings who returns home to baltimore every night. this is about people. cummings walked me through the streets of baltimore during riots. i saw a level of respect for that man and connection to his community that is rare in politics. know that. this president picks the wrong fights for the wrong reasons. it's not enough to say he's the

least racest. okay? he's supposed to be antiracist. not just the least racist. words must carry the weight of resolve to elevate who we are. and promise action against those who try to divide us and worse. he doesn't do it. he picks the wrong fights and runs from the wrong ones. if you support him you must as well. even when someone else writes the correct words on a teleprompter he struggles. and ad libs. he says something to distort the right message. why? i don't see how he wins empowering a minority in the way that is galvanizing the majority. i know there are few one term presidents especially with a good economy and no massive threat abroad. this is not a normal time. this is not a normal president. know this about the debate

tomorrow night the man or woman that shows this country they can be strong by building us up and bringing us together will find a country desperate to go along. thank you for watching tonight. the eve of a big occasion. "cnn tonight" with one of the stars of tomorrow night. starts now. >> he em boldens bigots. but bigots em bolden him as well. not all supporters are bigots. but people out there who don't stand up to this president. and so what category does that put you in? when it is obvious beyond a doubt. that what he is promoting is bigot ri. use the word racist if you want. for me it's bigotry. it's about blacks. the brown me menace and antisemitism. he em boldens t