the horrific attack that left 11 dead. some have suggested that the president's own language contributed to this tragedy and even though the perpetrator hated his support for israel and apparently hated him. here to react, israeli minister of education along with joel rubin, president of the washington strategy group and former obama deputy assistant secretary of state. mr. minister, i would like to start with you. what would you like to say tonight to the president's critics? will get to some of the specifics in a moment, but a message to them about their concern about his language? >> first of all, i came over from israel to tell the folks in pittsburgh that we stand united. israel has always been under attacks and now we've seen the deadliest anti-semitic attack in america's history and we do stand united with our brothers and sisters. unfortunately, anti-semitism has

relentless validation of white nationalism and fascism in the american jewish community is now bleeding at the hands of israeli prime minister and many of us know it. those are tough words. not just directed at donald trump, but bibi netanyah netanyahu. >> those are terrible words, but they are on twitter. they are not in reality. i spent a couple of days in pittsburgh with the jewish community and all he received was warmth, desire for unity and i think the president is absolutely right as the leader of the united states to go there and visit. i'm sure he would have been criticized had he not decided to go. and i think it's time for unity and for all of us to stand together. that's what we're doing. >> laura: some of the language being tossed around about president trump i find to be not that helpful. this is a woman named julie on cnn just moments before i interviewed the president. let's watch. >> this president, one of the

were not going to let gang members -- >> laura: what about applying for asylum? >> president trump: if they are applying for a sign that we are hold them. >> laura: do we have the facilities? >> we are going to put ten cities. tense up all over the place. we are going to build structures and spent all of these of millions of dollars. we are going to have tense, they are going to be very nice and they are going to wait and if they don't get asylum they get out. very few people -- if you want to wait, they don't usually get asylum. >> laura: 80% rejected. >> president trump: the problem is they release them in and then they have the trial three years later and nobody shows up. unlike obama and unlike others we are going to take the people, were going to put them in and they're going to wait. and two things happen, when they find out that that happens you will have far fewer people come up and also, president obama separated children from parents. nobody talks about this. >> laura: until...

going to war, i think president obama would have gone to war. if he had had an extra year he would be in a war with north korea. he said it's by far his biggest problem. and i'm not knocking him. look at what we've done and yet when they talk about north korea say what's taken so long? 70 or so odd years and they say i left singapore where we had our meeting, where we really had a very good meeting and a good relationship, like four months ago. they say the new line is what's taking so long? >> laura: how does it help expand your base to call them the enemy of the people? how does it help america heal in times like this? >> president trump: before we finished, we done a great job with north korea. they said we can't get them on anything because the sanctions are wrong, there's no missiles, we got our hostages back. we have the remains coming back. everything. now the new line is -- >> laura: why are you expecting there going to be fair to you? they're never going to be fair to you.

of education responds.

and now my interview with president trump. >> laura: mr. president, thank you so much for being here today. we really appreciate it. i know you're heading to pittsburgh tomorrow and rabbi jeffrey meyers from the tree of life synagogue said last night the following. >> i want to address for the moment some of our political leaders who are here. ladies and gentlemen, it has to start with you as our leaders. my words are not intended as political fodder. stop the words of hate. >> laura: given his words, what do you think your role tomorrow will be and should be? >> president trump: i'm just going to pay my respects. i'm also going to the hospital to see the officers and some of the people that were so badly hurt. and i really look forward to going. i would have done it even sooner but i didn't want to disrupt any more than they already have disruption but i look forward to going to pittsburgh tomorrow. >> laura: who set over the weekend you might even tone of the rhetoric. the media...

maybe the president is not calling anti-semitism or ethnic rating enough and it continues. there are many examples that make people very concerned about how we're being treated right now here at home. >> laura: mr. minister, your response to that? the jewish community has been fairly -- more democratically aligned politically, but this is a tragedy that hits home for so many, including joel, so many out there, your final thoughts tonight? >> i think we all have to speak out whenever anyone talks anti-semitism, be at lewis park on, who just a few days ago compared jews to termites or david duke. >> agreed. >> i think president trump has been extremely supportive of the state of israel. moved to the embassy to jerusalem, has recognized jerusalem as our capital. a big friend of the jewish people. this is not a partisan issue. it's got to be bipartisan. the president and on the other

of education responds. >> i'm just going to pay my respects. i'm also going to the hospital to see the officers and some of the people that were so badly hurt. and i really look forward to going. i would have done it even sooner but i didn't want to disrupt any more than they already had disruption but i look forward to going to pittsburgh tomorrow. >> laura: that was president trump on what he hopes to accomplish with his visit to pittsburgh in the aftermath of the horrific attack that left 11 dead.

you are not standing up for them until you say -- [inaudible] >> laura: the idea then and now is to declare conservative toxic and tied into a property in hopes of just shutting them up or scaring them so they won't speak out. effective conservative political speech has to be stifled at all costs, particularly trump's. this is former president barack obama trying to accomplish just that over the weekend. >> there's nothing compassionate about ripping immigrant children from the arms of their mothers at the border and putting them in pens. saying it's wrong to spend all of your time from a position of power vilifying people, questioning their patriotism, calling them enemies of the people and then suddenly pretending that you're concerned about civility. come on! >> laura: you come on. if you were the president that expanded the family detention and separations out of concern that children were being traffic

the very idea that the president would condone or countenance a rabid anti-semite killing innocent people in prayer is absurd and its offensive. he has a jewish daughter, a jewish son-in-law and jewish grandchildren. he has been one of the most vociferous and strong supporters of israel that we've ever had. he relocated the american embassy to jerusalem in the face of incredible resistance despite the fact that all these other presidents promised to do so. in the president told me today at the white house he is undaunted by the liberal attacks and their outrageous implications. the left can go right ahead, go right on with their pathetic attempts to demonize this president in the last days of this midterm campaign, but it will not work. but it does reveal their desperation. his warning of an approaching horde of noncitizens, one organized by outside political

that children were being traffic in human trafficking. trump does the same thing, he's picked on mike depicted as some kind of monster? give me a break. msnbc's andrea mitchell tried to go even further attempting to play not only the president, but his supporters, for the horrific shooting in pittsburgh. that was until a congregate at the tree of life synagogue shut her down. >> is not just our political leaders, because we see thousands of people at rallies starting in 2016 and straight through to this weekend for chairing hateful speech. >> i really can't think of anything less helpful than to be politicizing this. this man hated jews, he actually hated trump as it happens. some people are trying to discourage donald trump from coming to pittsburgh. he should come. >> laura: the president is going to pittsburgh tomorrow with the first lady to pay his respects to the families of the tree of life synagogue and to comfort the grieving, which is only the right thing to do. the very idea...

let's watch. >> this president, one of the things that he really launched his presidential run on is talking about islamic radicalization in this president has radicalized so many more people than isis ever did. >> laura: she came out with kind of a half-hearted apology afterwards. your thoughts? >> first and foremost i think the minister for coming to pittsburgh. i'm a fourth-generation pittsburgh are. grew up in squirrel hill and that's my parents synagogue that got shot so it's very personal. for him to be there, it's positive. political debate is part of jewish life and it's also part clearly of the community's feelings. this tweet, the statement, it reflects a real raw emotion right now and i think american jews in particular are very concerned about the rhetoric about how jews are being described right now in the political environment and we feel that that is contributed to a culture of hate that may have

they had to retracted. but this is the kind of dishonesty that we have. >> laura: part two of my interview with the president is next. his reaction to former president obama hitting him on the midterm trail and so much more. stay there.

there's never been anything like what's happening. i went to illinois. a boeing 747, this massive hanger packed and they had to use a second hanger for the overflow. and always, look what happened for ted cruz comment doing great now. we left houston, he's now doing great. they don't even talk about that race and his opponent is not very good. >> laura: the bomber who sent a letter to cnn and democrats was a fan of yours. he also seems insane, completely insane. what do you say about that? you put bomb," they went crazy over that. would you like to kind of -- >> president trump: he was insane a long time before -- you look at his medical records, he was insane for a long time. bernie sanders had a fan who shot a very good friend of ours, steve scalise. and other people. he was a total maniac. nobody puts his name in the headline, bernie sanders, in the headline. >> laura: nancy pelosi said do not politicize this back at the

"the new york times" is saying the military being called up by you is an election year place. is it politics or is this real? >> president trump: when you look at that, thousands of people. somebody said on that when they built it down. i'm pretty good at figuring out how many people. thousands and thousands of people on the bridge when you look at that bridge loaded up with people, that's called an invasion of our country. this has nothing to do with elections and i've been saying this long before election,-saying this before i thought of running for office. we have to have strong borders. if we don't have strong borders we don't have a country. >> laura: democrats are worried about the latino vote suddenly. >> president trump: they should be. you know why? because the latinos, the hispanic americans have the best unemployment numbers and employment numbers in the history of our country. the african-americans have the best employment and unemployment numbers in the history of...

respond to some questions. >> laura: how's melania doing? >> president trump: she's doing fantastically. just got back from africa and she saw some things that were really eye-opening. tremendous poverty. were trying to help. >> laura: thank you, sir. thank you for your time. >> laura: a bit more of our interview on the last part of a show but next, in the aftermath of the deadly shooting at the tree of life synagogue, critics took aim at president trump's rhetoric. i had to, the israeli minister of education responds.

stand united with our brothers and sisters. unfortunately, anti-semitism has always existed. where there are jews there's always been anti-semitism and we need to speak up and i believe that's what the president is about to do. what he's done. he spoke up very loudly, very clearly saying he would fight anyone who is anti-semitic and that's what we would expect and we were very pleased to hear that. >> laura: what about the resistance? the resistance to the president's visit by not all, but some more progressive of jewish leaders in the country and in pittsburgh proper. they were even criticizing your decision to come to pittsburgh and i believe we have one of those -- this is a tweet by david simon, who is a jewish-american writer. he said go home. his interventions in u.s. politics aided in the election of donald trump and his raw and relentless validation of white nationalism and fascism in the

i do get along and i have made everything available. do you know why? because i have nothing to do with russia. hillary was a lousy candidate and i did a very good job. >> laura: are you going to do written questions, written answers? >> president trump: she didn't go to wisconsin, she didn't go to michigan enough. she didn't do what she had to do to win and it's just one of those things but we have nothing to do with russia and you

not politicize this back at the time. >> president trump: i was in the headline of "the washington post," my name associated with this crazy bomber. trump bomber or something, but i was in the headline when they got him. he didn't say bomber found, they talked about trump in the headline. they didn't do that with bernie sanders when he had -- they didn't do that with the democrats want other people came out. they didn't do that with president obama with the church, the horrible situation with the church. they didn't do that. they put my name in the headlines. when i say enemy of the people, i'm talking about the fake news, and it is fake. my thing is my people understan understand. a reporter for "the washington post" doesn't story -- an arena i was at was empty and he shows a picture, not a very good crowd, something to that effect and then it turned out that he took the picture five hours before the people started coming into the arena. the arena was packed and there were thousands...