11 people killed in a mass shooti pittsburgh synago >> one of the worst i've seen. i've s crashes. >> the suspect, a man with a histor of anti-semitis and hostil towards refugees. >> this evil attack is an assaul on all of us. this just are mailed to trump critics. the president briefly attempts the ro healer. >> my highest duty as president to keep america safe. >> but minutes later -- >> the crisis on the border right now is the sole result of

democr laws and activists. >> are the incidents linked as part of our angry political enviro joinin me this morning, the mayor pits wu and jonathan greenb a campaign filled with rhetoric from missouri -- whole cam pan tactic >> to florida. >> i'm not calling this racist. i'm simply saying the believ he's a racist. to a for. zbll that is not spin. that i not exaggeration that's guests nine days before the election. house campaign chairman steve styler and ben ray louhan moing necess for analysis are kristebeinger, erick ericss amy walter, and joshua johnso host of one a on npr. welcom to sunday, it' "meet pr.

good sunday morning. as our colleague journalists wrote on twitter yesterday, the worst anti-semitic in u.s. history took day as largest attempted assass of u.s. leaders in histor it's a deeply unsettling assess that has the advant of being accurate. this after a week of violence and terror. on fri a florida man cezsar sayoc was arrested for sending 14 mail bombs to critics of presid trump. and as the mail bombing danger seemed have passed, we learne yesterday of the horror in pittsburgh where 11 people were shot and killed at the tree of life congregation a synago the city's heavily jewish squirrel hill neighb last night there were vigils around the city and country includ this one in pittsburgh

in remembrance of the victims. and our hyper partisan atmosp will inevitably debate was the mail bomber inspir by president trump who cast his political opponents as enemie of the people or was he just a loner filled with anger and political resentment? was the synagogue shooter a produc a toxic environment on the treats refuge and others or was this the hate filled mass murder we've seen too many times in this country before? we have both stories covered and we're going to look at the amped up political rhetoric that serves backdrop to this year's midterm elections. but le begin with my collea williams who has update for us on both stories. pete, good morning. >> good morning, chuck. well, bowers is now going to face - robert bowers, the allege shooter in pittsburgh is going counts now. been charged federa government and by the state. >> the feds took this over,

correc >> well, they both filed charge so i think it's not clear who -- where he's going to go on trial first. the federal government was very eager to step in and say this was a hate crime. as pennsylvans have said. there seems to be very little doubt of that. for three reasons, basically. one, his social media postings. months months of vileab semitic comments, second the fact he singled out a synagogue speaks for itself and thirdly, the police in pittsb say as he was being transp to the hospital, as he was being treated for his wounds he said "all jews must die because they are committing genoci against my people." >> did he -- who does he refer to as his people? in this case? >> who knows? i that's what he told the police as they were treating him on the way to the hospital. >> there was other than his wherea over the last year, there' much known about mr. bowers before that.

is the what profile are t draw up so far? >> you right f you contrast the two here, cesar sayoc accuse of the bombings of sendin out the package bombs, he had many run ins with the police over the years. he made a bomb threat over florid power and light at one point. bowers seems to have absolutely no contact with law enforcement. they said he was never on their radar before. he was a loner. neighb say he never got out much. he seemed to have -- his life seems to have been led online. i think one question is had he ever visited that synagogue before did he know the layout of it? becaus you know, ultimately it ends on third floo that's the shootout ended? >> did he purchase all his guns legall >> the no indication he bought illegally. one question about the weapons is this. many of the witnesses said they though there was automatic weapon fire. well, you have to assume that these don't spend a lot of time listening to

gunfir the police say it sound like automa weapons fire. a question is did he modify that semiau rifle, it's possib it's i do it or was using a bump stock? >> let's move to caesar sayoc. as of friday, he was not talkin is there any update on whether he is yet to cooperate with offici >> no. and in their ability to question him now is reduced. he's going to have the first court appearance on monday. they questioned him under an except to the miranda rule. it normally -- you have to advise rights before can yo them if you to use that trial against them. is a public except and that's what they used here. basica saying are there any more bombs? well, he refused to say whether he had anything to do with the ones that were already out there or whether there were any others still waiting to be discovered. it's been 36 hours now since

they fany. was going to say, a point they can't say -- i notice the postal service won't say defini yet at what point will they feel comfortable assumi it's out of the system. >> another week maybe. you know, they have been finding these closer and closer to the mail system the last ones were discov the mail system so they're all carefully looking for them. i think you have to assume that there aren't any more. this is the longest gap that we've yet had since any were discov >> on the late ones discovered were w it sort of made sense. that mig summin has got to be that. >> right. the last two, sent to senator the last two, sent to senator harris tim st >> pete williams, been a tough and busy week for you. thank very much. throug the day yesterday and in a members of the commun in pittsburgh were shocked and heart >> it is very unthinkable. very, unthinkable. this is our community whether you're jewish or not.

>> i just could not believe it. in light of the ot going on across the nation to see this right on my -- really right on my street to write was headin >> i hope this hel stop ignori it. we hav been ignoring the hate and gr numb to it. someth like this, it's so to i. >> joining me now is the mayor of pittsburgh. welcom to "meet the press." >> thank you, chuck. >> let me just start with what you -- information you share with us about what you learne about the incident and ? >> well, there's press confer that's scheduled this mornin where we will be releas the names of the victim the families were notified yester evening. as can you imagine, there is a lot of sorrow right now within the city. >> many synagogues have protec sadly, constantly

becaus threats are constant in the jewish community. someti low level, sometimes very serious. so sadly this isn't -- this isn't a shock and yet it is unexpe can you just share with how the commun sort of reacting, how particularl in the jewish commun there? well, in pittsbur hearts broken. right now we're trying to grappl with this horrendous crime, something that is one of the darkest day in our city's histor our city is small. all co are connected togeth understand an attack aga our jewish community i an attack against our entire city. we're here right now to help the victim families. that's the foremost part of what we need to do. the second part is to get to the folks who have been injured. our officers and others.

and be able to help them and their families as well. >> president trump said he spoken with you yesterday. how was that conversation? what can you share? >> it was cordial. we basically talked about the horrif tragedy i was able to share with him the details of just how bad it had been. and he basically said that any resour that would be necess would be given and right now there are federal offici from the fbi coming all to help pittsburgh. >> that's what he can do with the federal government. is there something - did you ask him, is there anything he person can do? is there something you'd like to see him do personally? >> there is. i belong to an organization a bipart organizatio called mayors against illegal guns. i don't think that the answer so this problem is solved by having

our synagogues, mosques and church filled with armed guards or our schools filled with armed guards. i think we're dealing with an irrati person who acted irrationally in tr laws around that is not the way that we should govern. we should try to stop irrational behavi from happening at the forefr and not try to create laws around irrational behavior to continue. >> before yesterday's incident, if i asked you if you had person seen or felt as if the tone had changed or hateful rhetor been on the rise in pittsburgh and you what would you hav said before yester events? >> no. it was another saturday october mornin like so many others in wester pennsylvania and it has foreeveve changed th

city. there wasn't a drum beat of anti-s any type of behavior that woul warran any reaction by public safety that something like this could have happened. >> the president says he wants to com to pittsburgh. would you like to see him attend a vigil event? >> that's really up to the famili themselves. you know, we're going to be workin together as we have. we've had good cooperation from the state and the governor and, you know, this is a conservativ synago so the funerals will be very quickl as soon as tomorrow. so that's really up to the famili and whether they would want the president to be here. >> mayor bill peduto, tough day to be mayor of pittsburgh. tough morning to come on much it's only going to get tougher as you continue to meet with these families. thanks for coming on and sharing with us, sir. >> sure. thank you. >> appreciate it.

joined now by jonathan greenb ceo and national direct anti-defamation league welcom to "meet the press." sorry thigese circum accord your organizatio this is likely the deadliest attack on the jewish community perhap in the history of the unitedstates. here's the president yesterday in indianapolis. >> this was an anti-semiti act. you wouldn't think this would be possib this day and age. but we just don't seem to learn from t past. >> it's that last sentence i'm curiou for you to react to. he said you wouldn't think this would be possible in this day andage. is he right? >> well, unfortunately, he's wrong i mean at the adl, we've been tracki anti-semitis for over 100 years. we look at anti-semiti incide n 2017, chuck, we saw a 57% surge of acts of

harass vandalism and violen directed at the jewish commun across the country. it was the single largest spike we have ever seen. and literally just last week we releas report because we also monitor anti-semitis on line and we've seen a marked uptick in anti-semiti harass of political figures and other individuals simply based on their faith. so we are living in a moment where anti-semitism is almost becomi normalized and that should shock and move all of us to act. >> well, you say it's normal there was a time in this country it was normalized. trust me, my mother reminds me of it bit in the '40s, '50s and '60s. it went away for a while. what is your explanation to the revise rerise this? >> i don't know that it ever went away. the adl worked to fight it then

and today we're seeing resurg i think there are a few factors. number one, we are seeing an enviro in which anti-s moved from the margin into the mainstream as politi candidates. and people in public life now litera repeat the rhetoric of white see pr supremacist and th think it's normal to talk about jewish conspiracies, manipu events or jewish financ controlling activi and that is awful. second not only is the politi environment contri this, social media is amplifying and accele it in shocking ways. and so silicon valley is part of the problem and needs to be part of thesolution sfwlchlt i he >> you talk about finance years. george soros, his religion is

always descri others' religion i disclo what do you say? the attacks on are appalling. and the continued invocation of classi anti-semiti themes. to see this way the man is mischa online is repuls i don't agree with every donati he makes. but i also don't agree with every donation sheldon adelson makes. you se it from the left and someti from the right. and it is all incredibly troubl i think whether you are, you know, an elected official bringi a holocaust to the governnt and say semiconduct smiths about the je religi >> i was going to ask you about louis and the

tolera that people still have for hi >> yea this is not an issue of left and right, it's about right and wrong. we should be able to speak truth to power whenever public speak out with stereo and scapegoats that we know as you were talking about before have been used for hundre thousands of years. not just to slander the jewish people but to wound them and kill them. so like you said at the top of the show, this was the single deadli attack on the american jewish community in our history. and it's incumbent upon us to stand up and to speak out and say we will in the accept this. not another minute. >> all right. what could the president do in a perfec world? >> well, you know, whether you're the president of the united or the president of a university or the president of your pta, i would expect leader to lead. we would hope and we should all demand that those in elected office won't just give platitude after the fact but they will

help ratchet back the rhetoric right now. and they will, you know, if the white supremacist are saying and celebrating what you're doing, that should be a problem for all of us. so i'd like to see him and other electe across the aisle stand up and shut it down now. jonath you. >> how big a role did president trump' rhetoric play in this week's it's a debate. the guests next. i heard gun s. i can' believe it. ♪ ignition sequence starts.

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11 people gunned down in a synago pittsburgh. the gunman reportedly yelling all jews must die as he opened fire. supporter of president tr arrest for allegedly sending ls of the president. earlie week a man fatally shot, two african-americans at a kentuc supermarket after failin to break into a black church to shoot people up accord one witness when anothe man approached him with a gun the gunman said don't shootme, i won't shoot you. the whites don't shoot whites. paneli here. joshua johnson, amy walter, nbc news white house correspondent kriste and erick ericss president last night pla for you the one sound bite he said about anti-semitism. he said that at the top of the remark and then he went right back into rally mode. amy walter, take a listen. >> how about the democrats?

ladiesgentlemen, speaker nancy pelosi for the next three years. you have the haters and the to hate. they a foolish and very stupid people i can't call her pocahantas anymor think will anyway. do you mind? >> this moment with president trump,p, he seems to be strugglg with it. or maybe not. >> this is the mode that he's been in since he was a candid politi never about nuance. it's a zero sum game when you are campaigning. it's u them. but when you become an elected offici and become president of the united states, the campai supposed to stop for a while and you go into the mode of unifying this i president who's never been interested in unifying. he has been interested in keepin engaged and enrage and he's done an amazing. but at any moment he believes that it's still the middle of the campaign.

the other thing i want to bring up just with all of this is, you know,look, our country has a long history of division. who is an american? who's not? it to me the time we're in right now what i feel like is no one is taking any responsibility for an of this. not the gun law -- it's not our fault. guns don't kill. people kill. right? it's not our fault. who posts on spoesoc media. blame someone else. it's not us, political leaders. people are doing these things withou -- they just have histor mental instability. it's no the about what we're saying them. no one at all is raising their hand to say, you no he what? we played role in this and we have to be able to fix it. it's always somebody else's fault. that is the world we liv it will never get better. thet this? i say there is only one presid do they accept this? >> they don't. the response within the white f offici is, look, everyone

bears responsibility. and when you put that question to squarely,look, he is the president. he has the loudest microphone. doesn' he bear the large effort respon they say, look, he has changeded some o his rhetoric. he has struck a unifying note. on friday he was asked if he's going to tone down the rhetoric, hesaid, no. he thinks he can actually tone it up. now that was prior to yester tragic shooting. but i think amy really hits the nail on the head which is that white officials say this. yes, he feels like he needs to have unifying notes at the same the mid terms and so he knows what he needs to say to fire up his base and a lot of that rhetor is divisive. >> david french said don't call this p crazy, referring to cesar sayoc. he's a angry obsessive and that matter not al listening ears are sober mindin thunder against th

opponents with ext and sometimes they take extreme action in response. this is david french putting some of the burden on the presid >> yeah. i think so. the problem i have with putting the burden on the president is how mu do you put on him? i thin a lot of people want to put a lot of the burden on him. it really does belong on the americ people as a whole. the president is the american commen section of the white house. and he is the president who does this. we're not going to change this presid what c change as a people if we're no going to change the president? amy is right. no one wants to change. the fact is this is larger than the president. societ is crumbling around us. politi is amplifying it. the president is amplifying it. there is something going on in society as a whole is transl politics. the pr is not the cause, auto he a symptom. >> he's the president. >> true. the president bears part of the respon significant part of the authority for the tone the country. but i will say i do have a fair amount of hope coming out of this. i know it seems very bleak.

i find a lot of hope in the younge people that montage you played she was an organizer on squirrel hill. she got on facebook and got people together to talk. i got a tweet from a guy in wiscon that says i combat the hate of the world by coaching high school debate. they learn to see both sides of an iss kushcur events relate to real life. a poll came out that said the younge you are, the better you statem opinion statem >> the older people. >> exactly. it's t generation that has grown up -- >> it's the babyboomers. blame >> not blaming them. i think it's the generations -- and i'm a generation removed -- who have grown up with the advent of social media who haven' been able to navigate it. our kids have watched our exampl now the question is whether we will b bee quegiving them a nat

that is connected but i come out of thi worried but also hopeful that there are people who are taking responsibility for this. look what happened after parkla look what is happening now after squirr hill. there is a generation ready to lead but the question is what will they be leading with? >> i'll tell you somebody that is not hopeful, charlie sykes. he wrote this, the result is famili and across the board refusa to engage in any meanin self examination or refusa 5:00 noacknow failur hatred violence and bottomless hatred so will this will get wofrse. the president is the arsonist i. this w get worse. do you buy it, amy? >> i would hope -- i want to stick to joshua -- i want to be on joshua. >> i do, too. >> but unfortunatel when i get asked that question all the time. what is going to break this fever? where do we go from here? histor breaks it is someth really devastating.

we brought together by events that are so overwhelmin and tragic whether it's a war, depres something like. i don't e case. for a unifying event that is so terrib but right now i don't see that one person is going to be able to rise up, heal all of the divisi and get us all on the same place. >> erick, you had to deal with conspi theories on your site. someti people get mad at you thinki you help traffic these conspi theories. there are others that are -- but whose job is it to get rid of this stuff? whose is it to educate americ to facts? >> i think we all have an obliga here. let me address conservativism a. last week you had people pushin, erick. >> we know the facts. yet there are still people pushinthis. i have to tell you, from my perspe when we know all of

facts the guy last week and still pushing the theory you're at war with the truth and if you'r conservative at wa truth, you're not really being conser >> rush limbaugh was quest the st van. >> acr the board we saw a bunch of conservatives doing. n. the question is do they contin the problem is in this situation we have a lot of people who no longer trust the media. they don't trust institutions they don't trust their neighbor. we have gone inward. unfort i think it's going to be an external threat that brings us together. there nothing left in this countr that unifies us as a whole. we all have our different media outlet media outlet they'r not our next door neighbanymore. >> the 11 people dying not the tippin point. that is sadly what you're saying >> a mass assassination attempt last year on republicans >> in terms of reaction to the pipebo you saw the president got ve frustrated, put the term bomb in quotes. sort of expressing frustration

that could this hurt turnout? and going to at which time eastern sayi going twitter and saying republ out. i was surprised at how much finger pointing there is on both sides. the president saying, look this is dem doing this. democr this is all the presidfault. your point, there constr discussion in the wake othat. will t be after this traged >> deflection instead of reflec when come back, nine days until the mid terms. we we knew where things were h about ut h but will this week's events kevin, meet your father. kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin trusted advice for life. kevin, how's your mom?

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republ at if they had a solid hold on at least contro the senate. democr remained particularl optimi taking back the house. but now it's possible the landsc may be shifting beneat our feet. and joining me now are the two men charged with getting members of their own party elected, the chairs of the house campaign commit republican stivers of ohio and ben ray-louhan of new mexico. they both agreed t togeth appreciate that. gentle back to "meet the pr >> great to be on. >> good morning. good with you. >> i want you both to react to a woman in pittsburgh reacting to yester tragic even take a >> we have to stop it. our leaders have to stop it. it takes leadership to stop this. and our leaders are not stopping it. it's too much. we're civilized society.

we have to stay civilized. >> congressman, this is a woman the violence and the anger over the last few days in the one what would you say to her about how would you respond to her saying we need leadership here. we need to tone this down. how would you respond to that woman? >> i agree with her. i think we all need to keep our dialog civil. and frankly, i've not been shy about showing world leadership. we are the only ma party commit cut off the candid for their behavior, a candid in new jersey seth grossm said bigoted things we cut him off. we're the only maj to that leadership. the democrat congressional campai committee continues to suppor leslie coburn and scott wallac who said anti-semitic things and i think we need to -- we all bear some responsibility. and we need to try to clean up

our act and try to more civili to our congress and frankl to our dialogue. >> before i let congressman to those charges that you through out there, let me ask you about the president. what role should he be playing here? has he proper role yet? >> you know, i sometimes disagr with the way the presid people. i thought after the pipebomb he initia set the right tone of unity and coming together. and i hope that he will contin >> you said initially. that sounds like y think continued. >> i said i hope he'll continue on that path. >> fair enough. congre you heard congre stivers there. he said you continue to ba people says have trafficked in hate speak. what say you? >> chu that's simply not true. but with the conce woman had in pittsburgh, look, another

sensel act of hate stricken anothe community and a place of worshi in the united states of americ the congress has a respon to act, to keep people its no zpoeto expect leader unite our country, to find a way to reach out to us to our greater good and make sure we rise above all of the accusa the hate and finger pointing. i'm certainly hopeful that we'll see that out of the leader of the world and that we'll see that out of each and every one us individuall as well as our colleagues. >> and i would like to say i'm proud of the way ben responded when steve was shot. we didn't blame bernie sanders. we all came together. i think we can all come together now. it may take us about nine days for that to happen. i think we can all come together now. >> i want to read to you someth >> it should start today though, steve. it should. i hope that the finger pointing will stop and we can come togeth i believe we need to come togeth ben. >> i have to tell you, i think

b dan balls is the perfect person. he writes the following, this i apocal all nothing view of the differ between winning and losing an election and holding power or not holding it. politi that it is time for th country to come togeth as you two just did, but on who's terms? i thin that is the issue. congre lujan, what does coming to democr congre lujan? >> it's making sure we're able to reach across the aisle and work on a bipartisan basis. crass ha democ been clear if we're fortunate t win back the house that we work immediately on lowering prescriptio drug prices for the american people. that we work on a bipartisan infras package to make invest ais kro tcr country and clean up washington, d.c. and improve and increase

r transp and disclosure. those are areas we can work togeth and reach across the aisle and find commonground. c mean to you? >> i think we need to come togeth not on any one's terms but on america's terms. we're americans first. i agree with ben that infras is something we all need and need to come togeth on. loweri prescriptio drug costs. i'm not sure why he didn't talk about lowering health care costs. need to come together on loweri health care costs. i think question do that. we need to listen to each other no matter who takes the majority and i think we're going to hold the majority. but no matter who takes the majori it will be a razor thin majority and hopefully tha togeth republicans and democr get things done. but i do worry about, you know, making sure that we do it in a way that we're focused on gettin things done, not on just abolis ice or doing the things that are on the extreme.

>> congressman stivers, i want runnin last week, one of the people targeted by the pipebomb assa assail anlt was george soros. here is an ad you're running agains a candidate there. take a listen. >> billionaire george soros bank rolls the resistance and he is employed by a libeoutfit in d.c. his campaign propped up by out of state super pacs. look who finances his employer. rad come george soros, the bigges banks a crooked lobbyist tied to pelosi. they fund his campaign. >> why do you target george soros? >> you know, our independent expend arm is independent. but that ad is factual. and it also has nothing to do

with calling for violence. that ad is a factual ad. >> congressman lujan, do you believ that attacking folks of big money, you do i guess with the coke brothers and things like that. are we inat verdict edve people in the cros of politi that don't need to be? >> i think we need to re-eva how people are being target kevin mccarthy pulled out a tweet is targeting george soros as well across the countr i think both committees should begin to look at how they operat into the future and what's going on ev rest o election cycle. we wor on a strategy talking about service, men and women that serve the united states in the military, cia officers, fbi agents people that committed

theirs keeping our countr safe. we're going to continue to run ads that are telling their positi stories and the candidates are con the am your ads in colorado an washin are called sleazy and person attacks. it happens on both sides. we both need to figure out how to things up. built it's that's a fact. >> ste we're running -- hold on, on that. ahead. >> steve, you've been running racist ads in new york, in cincin ohio, and out in califo you ca do something to pull those down. i think on all sides, people should monitor the more finger . make sure we look within oursel find the great ger there, chuck. >> i agree with yo let's both look within oursel >> all right. steve stivers and ben ray lujan, i fear you're right. it may be nine days before everyb is willing to sort of calm things down. let's hope there is a little more come am before the next

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back now with "end game." i spen traveling across the country ace battle sunbelt. we traveled to phoenix where arizon getting used to their new reality as a swing state. they don't like it right now. then to las vegas where you see the culinary union is hoping latino can help flip a u.s. senate seat there. tampa, environment cross the politica vide and to dallas where republicans may be the swing vote. here's just some of what i heard

from v four states >> i know that the supreme court nomina process was something that impacted my decision making >> education is important thing for now to focus on. >> you have fake news. becaus there is a lot of people that -- they don't cover the things have to be covered. >> wages don't increase along with the cost of living. >> i would say clean up the enviro take care of this red tide. fisher and it's destroying my hobby and life long pursuit. >> you been on the water -- >> my whole life. >> you've never seen a red tide like this? >> not like this. >> you've always been politi active? or this so more than others? >> this is more tha others. wh? >> two years ago i became a u.s. citize >> congratulations. >> tha >> i think it's time for me to know w candidates and where their are. >> you don't win in texas unless you're talking to brown and

black you're them at the door ste door and churches. >> i support president tru messag agenda and that's i cam with your vote, what is that messag things need to change. >> cut all the bs out of everyt >> drain that swamp. >> get it together. >> we are one that says it's time to put our politics aside, step up to the plate, pull up your pants and get to work and get this solved. >> well, there you go. here we go. the voters -- i will tell you this. look, i don't know, amy, what the 72 hours are going to impac the voters i talked to, they r optimi they w to vote. i think this is going to have an impact >> it's voting out of anger, not out of hope. which traditional in mid terms. they'r frustrated with the

party that's in power. what i find fascinating about this year was, you know, when we starte talking about this many months ago what battle for the house is going to look like, we said the real challenge for democr they have the struct problem. that b jergerrym and partis seats, there is not much room for them. younge voters, voters of color are not going to show up. now we are nine days from electi and republicans have a struct problem. it is suburban voters that were reliab republican. presid trump p is toxic with them. and now the real question is are those dropoff voters, especially latino voters and younger voters going to show up? that c turn a good night for democr a blowout for democr >> i'm curious what you think of the amped up rhetoric is popping up in debates. i want to play an exchange of missou senate and then an exchan between the two candid running for governor in florida. take a look at the heat from

both. take a listen. >> when you hear leaders of the democr party like hillary clinto saying that you can't be civil with people that you disagr with, when you have eric holder and other democrats saying that the new democratic party kicks people who they disagr zdisappointed that they embrac this. ronald reagan, i m disagr with him on a few things but he worked hard to unite country. you never would have heard him using some of the rhetoric that our president uses now. how am every single statement somebody makes? >> i'm not calling him a racist. i'm saying the racists believe he's a racist. >> well there you go. i find interesting there is the differ tones. so you have claire mccaskill invoki reagan but gillam feelin much more comfortable in a purple state going hard repub. >> and addressing the issue of race head on.

>> you never would have heard barack go back that way. >> no. it's very interesting and differ tactic. i think it's reflective of this moment right now. i've been on the campaign trail thisweek, chuck. i can tell you that people are fired up. and the president is going back to what he sees as the basics. what he talking about to fire up his voters? he's talking about the caravan. he's stoking fears over immigr again. we expect him to give a speak someti this week in which he's going to announce a crackdown on those migrants who are heading toward the u.s. he sees that as a way to get out the base. anger, fear. erick, is closing immigr way the presid should close? >> i think for a large segmen t of the republicans, yes. a large problem is the suburbs. people get upset when i tell them the house is going for the gop. the problem for the gop is the voters are not voting for them.

all of the battleground -- you >> think so. republ women are moving away from t they m vote democrat but they won't necessarily show up. the se safe for the gop. but the districts are republ are voting republ not now. >> the way, barack obama, somebo a fuse under him this weekend. let me play an excerpt of that from michigan. >> what we have not seen before in our public life and in my -- is politicians just blatantly, repeat baldly, shamelessly lying. joshua, what do you make the -- last week i said i was like where is the leader of the democr party? they don't -- obviously not in power. the de president is presid obama.

presid obama. he was has ta campai >> the reverend dr. barack obam how to treat one another. intere how this election has become more about civility. even the clips you played are about the tone of this country. it's k force. >> they're having a civil debate over civility. >> they were talki civili funny how that works. i think there is a real longing among some democrats for the days of barack obam when the politi a little more civil. he is the strongest campaigner they have. i'm still skeptical though if that is enough to drive people to the polls. >> i'm convinced there are people that just want the tone of both reagan and obama back. i'll leave it there. that's all for today. thanks for much whatting. we'll next week because if it' "meet the press. ♪

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