i am a product, a proud product of baltimore city. born inside a hospital just blocks from where the preakness is run. >> i was born there, too. >> yes, more connection, victor. i lived in northeast baltimore and northwest baltimore growing up. attended school at morgan state university at baltimore university. i'm still in the baltimore area. i as a child used to frequent the area where that was -- that standoff with police and community on north and penn after the freddie gray death. you know, i know baltimore from the top to the bottom, from the upper income to the low income. baltimore is a community. it's a community of communities. it's a city that, yes, is made up of survivors. it's pockets of poverty, pockets of wealth, but people, what i don't understand like detroit, baltimore is like detroit, flint, we need help. after beth steele left there was a massive blight in baltimore. detroit is on the upswing but there's a problem, too, because these auto manufacturers are having problems with the president's tariffs. this is a city

it is a crime in baltimore city -- i don't like to be in baltimore city.you look at the news today, just in the shootings, we have definite issues -- i don't think it is about racism. i think we have a problem where we are not getting our jobs done and when we are held accountable for that, people get very upset when they are being held accountable for what you have been hired to do. aboutan interesting story the idea of racism. president trump and elijah cummings from hans nichols with the atlantic, a former reporter for the wall street journal and he shares a story about the two men, elijah cummings and president trump sitting down to talk about lowering prescription drug prices in the spring of 2017. the conversation took an unexpected term and they fell into a candid give-and-take about race. during the 2016 campaign, president trump planted -- painted black neighborhoods as health caves in which there was no way out. sitting together in the oval office that day, cummings was blunt and told the conch -- the president his words were insulting. trump did

it's exciting to live in baltimore and it's exciting to see our city grow. i am proud to be a baltimorean and i'm proud to represent baltimore in the united states senate. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator for maryland. mr. van hollen: i want to thank my colleague, senator cardin, for talking about some of the highlights of baltimore city, the storied history of baltimore city, a history of much good but also a lot of challenges that i recounted earlier. and it doesn't do baltimore city or any city in this country any good when the person in the highest office in this country launches these nasty, personal, racial diatribes. now, i know the president had a history of these kind of comments before he came to the oval office. but now that he's in the oval office, all of us have an obligation and responsibility to speak out. when he fouls the office in that way. now, the president really wants to help cities like baltimore, he can do some of the things that senator cardin talked about on a bipartisan basis in the app

baltimore is a once great american city in obvious declin decline. "the new york times" augmented this in march, this long piece focused on time down the crime titled, "the tragedy of baltimore." are they racist too? the baltimore sun, the city is on track five years in a row 300 homicides. scene 11 homicides in the past week and 39 homicides in the past 30 days. the filth in the city -- that's off the charts. 2018 documentary noted that baltimore had been fighting a generations long rodent issue. is pbs racist? three months ago, the baltimore sun railed against the city's perpetual trash problem. racist. here it is the city's former mayor catherine pugh last december. >> we just take believe you can smell the rats, you can smell the dead animals. >> laura: glad her sense of smell was working. but like her predecessors, she had no common sense. became the second baltimore mayor to resign and scandal in less than a decade. another barometer is drug deaths. over the last year, we started going down the right direction. it will be your deaths were in at

baltimore is a once great american city in obvious decline. "the new york times" documented this back in march. and this really long piece focused on crime titled, "the tragedy of baltimore." so, are they racist too? and according to the baltimore sun, the city is on track for five years in a row with more than 300 homicide. it's seem 11 homicides in the past week. and 39 homicides in the past 30 days. the filth in the city is off of the chart. a 2018 pbs documentary noted that baltimore had been fighting a generations-long rodent issue. is pbs racist? the baltimore sun railed against the city's perpetual trash problem. racist. here's the city's former mayor katherine pew last december. >> what the hell, we can just take all of this down. you can smell -- oh, my god, you can smell the dead animals. >> that was in september. her sense of smell was working. but like her predecessors, she had no common sense. she became the second baltimore mayor to resign in scandal in less than a decade. now another barometer is drug deaths. nationally over the

baltimore than in chicago. yeah, that's chicago. in 2018, the city's murder rate was higher than in any, and it's been higher than in the country of honduras. what? they are fleeing to seek asylum at the u.s. border. this year, baltimore's murder rate is on the rise had. between the first half of 2019, a 16% increase in murders. 28% increase in nonfatal shootings. there is a mass exodus going on, and i can't blame people for this. including a 20,000 drop since 2010. "new york times," even "the new york times" calling it the tragedy of baltimore. now, who can blame people for leaving just like they are leaving in droves as a mass exodus out of these highly regulated high tax states like this one. i'm stuck in, because of work makes me stay here. new york or new jersey or california or illinois. without a doubt, we are now witnessing a human crisis. we've got to do better. the people in those detention centers that broke the law, didn't respect our borders, or sovereignty, they are living better than the people of baltimore and other big liberal cities.

baltimore. and a lot of cities like baltimore.he last thing any poor, desperate community needs is even more poor, desperate people. if not on attacking anybody, it's a fact. go to lewiston, maine, if you don't believe it. illegal immigration drives down wages for low skilled workers natures to nationwide. they suck up education and health care dollars. democrats do not care about this. why? because illegal immigrants are reliable votes for them. they are a pathway to power and for democrats, that is worth sacrificing a city or two or ten, or a whole country. seth baron is associated editor enjoins us tonight. another lecture on racism from people, seth, who clearly care very deeply about baltimore and what's happening there. do think any of the people lecturing us about baltimore have been to baltimore or know anything about baltimore or would live in baltimore in a million years? >> have probably been through it -- it's the sort of place you travel through quickly. think that -- i don't think that the various worthies who have b

that's not the case in the city of baltimore. ficials can't even clean up piles of garbage and, no outrage from the squad and no outrage from congressman cummings. the struggling cities of baltimore totally ignored by those who claim to have a monopoly of compassion. on the poorest among us, on every democratic group, it here with more, as the person to shop that footage, kimberly clay sick. i know you've taken a lot of heat. i don't see this as hyperbole. there are 17,000 homes we have been able to discover and i will go through some of the statistics in a minute that are empty in baltimore. is it as bad as your showing us? >> actually, and i'm so glad you showed my video from this morning and the fact that nobody has come to pick up the trash or even evaluate and try to find out how they're going to pick up the trash, but it's actually worse than you saw my video. i'm so glad today some reporters from the baltimore side was down there to document and for anybody on city council or for a rub coming or anyone to say that i've done

it's losing its impact as they normalize it. >> baltimore is corrupt, but it's not like it's the most of corrupt city. south dakota and wyoming are considers more corrupt. >> they may not be the most of corrupt. it reminded me of my boy hood in new york in newark, new jersey. baltimore is in terrible shape. >> i want to ask the governor. is the president playing politics? he could be lashing out against other corrupt cities. but elijah cummings is the chairman of the oversight committee. it's aggressive questioning. a non-politician president playing politics here? >> i don't think he's playing politics. this is his m.o. when republicans were his oh points, it was low energy jeb and little marco and it was in their face. it doesn't matter what your color is or where you come from. when you take on this president, his m.o. is to hit back hard. >> to make elijah cummings is head of the oversight committee and targeting him politically. isn't this retribution? >> whoa! it's a response from a president who doesn't indulge in usual hypocrisies. he doesn't indulge in call me a racist. he never will. like h

city. tell us what baltimore really looks like. >> baltimore is a vibrant city. baltimore is home to some of the world's renowned institutions, john hopkins, shock trauma. we have all of our cultural events right here in baltimore. we are a city with problems like any other city but we have moved them forward. we're moving them forward without legally a lot of assistance from the federal government. hud, they're cutting programs that are hurting poor people all over this country. not just in baltimore. but in the entire country. we need for the president to send federal help to baltimore for programs to uplift people instead of tearing people down. those attacks and tweets i've never in my entire life ever heard of any president tweeting and doing these things to divide us instead of bringing us all together. like i said earlier, our allies are even shaken by some of the things this president is doing and has done. >> you're right, mayor. it has never been done before. so maybe this is an opportunity for people across this country to unite. mayor, thank you so muc

his district covers parts of baltimore and he is a former city councilman there. the white house sits less than 50 miles from the baltimore office. if president trump came to the district, what would he see? >> well, i mean, i think it's really interesting, again, president not knowing anything he is talking about, the seventh district constituents -- constitutes more than just the part of west baltimore he is trying to reference. it's one of the wealthest areas in the country. and most educated areas of the country in certain parts. and congressman cummings has done an amazing job. if president trump ever decided to step foot in any part of west baltimore he would see hard working americans who wake up every single day, who try to prepare kids to become the best americans, who go to work, who own small businesses, who are the bedrock of what we see in communities all throughout this country. and for him to try to disparj and insul overwhelmingly majority part of the state of maryland and city of baltimore is completely unacceptable. and that's why i think you saw

baltimore sun. some of the global effects we've seen in some of these american cities, the same in baltimore. is was a proud city. manufacturing was there. it had been gutted by a lot of things that donald trump likes to talk about, right? tariffs and trade and working class. >> you know, we lose all these episodes because they come so rapidly. this is the same exact attack he launched at john lewis. the same language, same attack, same lack of truth because both those districts have median incomes above the national average. >> briefly, one other things about this, john and alisyn, what we forget here is that cities are where a lot of progress is made in the country. that's where the innovation is. that's where you have people, mayors, well connected with their communities, and take on the cities in general where so many people of color live. it just compiles not just the racism but misunderstanding of what's going on in this country. the hope of a lot of people is in our city. >> but the base of trump's voters is not. polarizing twr rural and urban is central to his theory. >> it's it, but i

baltimore. nancy pelosi defended elijah cummings in the city of baltimore. of course, we know that she grew up in baltimore. her brother was the mayor of baltimore. she has a winery in napa. she's not interested in going back to baltimore. it's easier to give other people lectures about all tomorrow. democrats feel that way. they've given up. instead of trying to fix baltimore's problem, they have decided to import a new population of people, many of them illegal aliens. >> my only concern is for the people who are already here. doesn't make a a school better when people move in who don't speak english? it doesn't improve the education? is it fair to the taxpayers? every thought about that question marks >> i think our greatest asset is our diversity. >> that doesn't mean anything. i asked you a sincere question. does that dominic and improve a school when a lot of people move who don't speak english? does a school get better? >> absolutely. >> yeah, schools get a lot better. it actually turns out that the schools haven't gotten better at all. immigration ha

he specifically mentioned baltimore. the city of baltimore is one of the great american cities. it has one of the greatest medical facilities, johns hopkins, the best known in the world. >> for cummings' district. >> it has a great baseball team. it's a wonderful city. that district is 59% african-american. it also -- the median income is $11,000 higher than the rest of the country. it's a very educated district. everything he tried to say about the african-americans who live there is false. what donald trump should know about rat infested places is he inherited half a billion dollars from his father who made his living as a slumlord of rat infested places. what does donald trump try to do to help people who don't -- can't afford public housing? nothing. he is a hypocrite, as usual. >> how do republicans continue to defend this sort of divisive language? >> i have given up on that. there's no republican party anymore. it's not recognizable. it's a trump party. i don't know if the republican party will revive itself or come back. the current party, i don't want anything to do wit

baltimore's unemployment rate is the third highest of any major city in america. the poverty rate in baltimore ah, chopping 22%. household median income is $11,000 less than the national average. but the most dire issue in baltimore is violent crime. look at this. 2017. bammore named the most dangerous city in america. that year, more people murdered in baltimore than ever before. if you look at it on a per capita basis, there were more than twice as many shootings in baltimore than in chicago. yeah. that chicago. 2018, the city's murder rate was higher than in the country of honduras. what? that's where citizens are fleeing to cecocele at the u.s. border. and this year, baltimore's murder rate is on the rise again. through the first half of 2019, a 16% increase in murders. 20% increase in nonfatal shootings. it's no surprise that baltimore has seen a huge decrease in population. there's a mass exodus going on and i can can't blame people for this. losing nearly 300,000 people in just a couple of decades, including a 20000-drop since 2010. even "the new york times"

president donald trump caused yet another controversy at the weekend by calling the city of baltimore a rotten rodent infested best's critics say the president's remarks were directed at a black politician from the city alija cummings who had slammed the federal government's treatment of migrants some have described trump's comments as racist he ws all over sol it has been to baltimore on the east coast us to assess the situation and hear what citizens are saying about their hometown. the city of baltimore faces many problems and one has been there for many years west baltimore which is prone to crime and violence and with the streets are indicate. one of the last homicides happened just here a few days ago and with more than 300 people murdered last year there is no doubt that baltimore is one of the most violent cities in north america but does this make it a rap and rodent infested mess as president trump says. a series of inflammatory tweets from the y. tells its baltimore slate as problem president trump calling the city of very dangerous and filthy place worst in the usa and say

baltimore. the president called conditions in your city inhuman. onse and the people of baltimore? >> baltimore city, just like all the other post industrialized cities around this country, be it buffalo, cleveland, detroit, has definitely seen its best and worst of times. unfortunately we have a leered in the white house who has done nothing but continue to push rhetoric, nothing but exacerbate conditions of our city and has used hateful speech to really divide our country. what really concerns me, now more than ever, is we're no longer talking about the person who is opening the white house as is he racist. we understand and know exactly what he is through the types of communication he's put out, the type of statements. just two weeks ago he's telling black and brown women of congress to potentially go back to where they are from. this is definitely out of the doctrine of white nationalism. we're in scary times right now in america. >> you're calling the president racist here? >> i mean, i think no longer is this like a dog whistle. he's glaring s

i look at it as defending baltimore city, the city where i live. >> cnn's sarah westwood is following the latest. anything this morning from the white house? >> reporter: good morning, christi. as you mentioned, president trump was doubling down yesterday and throughout the night on that vicious attack on elij elijah cummings that from was "fox & friends" that aired yesterday and they seemed to be focusing on cummings because of cummings' grilling at a border security hearing the week before. nonetheless, president trump is drawing fire from all corners of the democratic party for his tweets, what has been pursued as a racist attack on baltimore, referring to it as crime-infested. here is what the baltimore mayor had to say on twitter in defense of congressman cummings. he said, it's completely unacceptable for the political leader of our country to denigrate a vibrant city like baltimore and to viciously attack congressman cummings, a patriot and hero. congressman cummings writing, mr. president, i go home to my district daily. each day i wake up and i go home to fight for my neighbo

the city of baltimore has received $2.3 billion in federal assistance. oesn't seem to do much, though. where does on money go? one answer might be corruption. two of the city's mayors and the passing decades have had to resign following corruption scandals. robert stokes has seen a lot of this. he's in baltimore for the councilman and he's happy to join us tonight. thanks for coming on. so, this is not an attack on baltimore. i live near baltimore. i've always felt sorry for baltimore. but you have to kind of wonder what did happen to the $2.3 billion the fed's in baltimore of the last ten years question margus hunt evident when you drive through. >> stick a wall, maxing out hero talk about what happened to the money, food and do what. i'm here to talk about how hard baltimore city residents take care of these neighborhoods, clean outcome of those kinds of things, and talk about 400 years of structural racism, not just in baltimore, all over the country, for black people. pursuant okay. that's okay. that's an interesting topic but it doesn't quite get to

baltimore has been very badly .ishandled for many years it is a corrupt city. there's no question about it. all you have to do is look at the facts. the government has been pumping billions of dollars to no avail. baltimore is an example of what corrupt government leads to. billions of dollars have been given and i feel so far -- feel so far -- feel sorry for the people baltimore. if they asked me we will get involved. we are already involved in the standpoint that over many years billions and billions of dollars have been given to baltimore. there's a lot of corrupt government or i think that representative coming's should take his oversight committees are doing oversight on baltimore. >> on the fed come up what should be rate cut the? >> the talks are moving very well with china. china always breaks the new deal at the end or seems to boot -- seems to. they devalue their currency and they are pumping money into the system to be able to pay for it. a lot of companies are moving out of china. the united states dates -- is doing phenomenally well. we are giving s

i look at it as defending baltimore city, the city where i live. >> president trump as we have seen before, digging in, tweeting this out on saturday evening, the president writing, quote, elijah cummings spends all his time hurting innocent people through oversight. he does nothing for his very poor, very dangerous and badly-run district. he #blacks for trump. it appears he will need help courting the african-american vote. he got 8% from the african-american community during the 2016 election. boris sanchez, china, at the white house. >> many democrats are furious over mr. trump's remarks and are pushing back hard on television and social media. congressman cummings tweeted off this, i go home to my district daily. each day i wake up and go and fight for my neighbors. it is my constitutional duty to gone duct oversight of the executive branch but my moral duty to fight for my constituents, and this reaction also from nick mosby, speaking earlier with anna cabrera. >> if president trump ever decides to step foot in any part of woes baltimore he will see hard-working americans who wake up

baltimore tonight. he's not backing down from calling the city from a disgusting rat and rodent-infested mess. he's calling out the politicians, too. president trump: pointing out the tremendous corruption that has taken place in baltimore and other democratic-run cities. just look at the past mayors of baltimore. i have received more phone calls than i think on any other subject from people from baltimore and the other cities thanking me for getting involved. those people are living in hell in baltimore. one fox reporter found out today firsthand. take a look at this. a that actually ran through her live shot in baltimore as she was covering the whole story about the president's comments in baltimore. so there you go. joining me, former white house press secretary sean spicer. how's that for timing? >> good tv. trish: the president is going why very few republicans have gone before. to call out the elephant in the room, so to speak. the democrat policies in so many of these poor communities have failed, really, really failed this population. >> yeah. you mentioned before and the president poin

i will be defending baltimore city, the city where i true out. >> the president tweeting this out. elijah cummins trying to spend for people for oversight. take a look. and he hash tags it blacks for trump 2020. he will be some help courting the african-american vote. he got 8% during the 2016 electi election. >>> many democrats are furious remarks, trying to push back hard on think vision and social media. thankman summons wrote this one. every day i travel to my morning. it is my moral duty, he says, to swat for nine politicians. >> if president trump decided too step not in any west-baltimore, he would see hardworking americans, who wake up anywhere best and try to go to work and own small businesses, who are the bedrock of what we see in country. for him to disparage and assault. the city of boston is unacceptable. le. >> nancy provided baltimore as a champion in civil rights. democratic senator and presidential candidate, elizabeth warren, went even further. >> jmp, is a racist who makes ever more outdangerous, racist remarks. to be attacked by a president? it is beyond insult

t dn he blamedecade of trouble in baltimore city on congressman elijah cummings. >>> this morning, we getting new reaction from faly members whose loved ones depend on the 9/11 gencompensation funding. president trump signed the law yesterday through 2092 essentially making it public. t> it's hard to imagine that it's over, tha this fight is over, because every time you get together like this, it just brings the emotions back. it never goes away but it brings back 100-fold. >> more than 400,000 people have applied for the fund and it covers illnesses for being at the world trade center site and the pentagon and shanksville, pennsylvania, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. >>> david or tease is confirming on instagram he has been released from the hospital with a trio of photo showing some pretty good gookingb here. former red sox slugger said, being at home is quote, priceless but he ded, too bad i can't crush food yet. more than a dozen people have ed been arrestn connection with the june 9th shooting that police say was a case of misten identity. >> i hope he gets a big meal soon eno

phone calls have received more phone calls than i think on any other subject of people from baltimore and other cities corruptly run by democrats thanking me for getting involved. those people are living in hell in baltimore. they are largely african-american. you have a large african-american population and they really appreciate what i'm doing, and they have let me know it. they really appreciate it. by the way, the numbers just came out. unemployment for african-americans is the lowst it's been, the best numbers meaning in the history of our country. the lowest in the history of our country. but people have called from baltimore thanking me so much. because all that money that's been spent over 20 years has been stolen and wasted by people like elijah cummings. >> in audib >>. >> i have a fantastic relationship with your president. he's here as you know. they say the trump of brazil. that's a compliment. by the way he's doing a great job. it's a tough job. but i think your president is doing a great job. he's a wonderful man with a wonderful family. we're going to work on a free trade agreement wit

days ago and with more than 300 people murdered last year there's no doubt that baltimore is one of the most violent cities in north america but does this make it a rat and rodent infested mess as president trump says. a series of inflammatory tweets from the y. tells its baltimore sleep problem president trump calling the city of very dangerous and filthy place worst in the usa and says no human being would want to live there president trump statements are wrong. represent a political attack and a lack of understanding regarding the dynamics of baltimore the dynamics of crime a city with a black population of more than 60 percent some feel insulted by the president's rhetoric but others say there is some truth to what he says he's right about some part as well like others like if you haven't been here you can't really say anything about it especially if you're not helping the city he's right about what he then it may be the way that it but that's the thing that i get is i think people who are insulted are absolutely justified in being insulted because he has no idea what he's talking about but that's the

president all trump cause yet another controversy at the weekend by calling the city of baltimore a rotten rodent infested mess critics say he launched the attack because of black politician from the city illogic cummings and slammed trump's policy on migrants at the border some have described trump's comments as races to use all over solitaire has been to the city to hear what some of the residents feel about this latest focus on their hometown. the city of baltimore faces many problems and one has been there for many years west baltimore which is prone to crime and violence and where the streets are indicate. one of the last homicides happened just here a few days ago and with more than 300 people murdered last year there's no doubt that baltimore is one of the most violent cities in north america but does this make it a rat and rodent infested mess president trump says a series of inflammatory tweets from the wide tells is baltimore slee this problem president trump calling the city of very dangerous and filthy place worst in the us a and says no human being would want to live there pre

in a set of vicious new tweets, the president unleashed a tirade against the city of baltimore callingy, disgusting and rat-infested. that has many seeing a dangerous pattern. we will get to that too. those stories are just some of the reasons democrats

baltimore now is a meds and eds city. ing medical, john hopkins, education is right up there with it. beyond that, what's left in the baltimore has some real issues. when it comes to job training, a lot of major corporations are not wanting to come to baltimore. why? because they feel some people are not trainable. where does that lead? it leads to the president of the united states coming in with a plan an urban renewal plan and issue job creation plan. he likes to talk about the black unemployment rate is so low. well, come to baltimore and fix it there. target baltimore. target flint. target philadelphia, target a lot of these urban areas instead of holding your nose up and looking down at them. the issue is, it's in the news now. mr. president, what are you going to do to really be president and show that you are the leader, to help people? power means service. when are you going to serve baltimore. >> david, i only have 30 seconds left. you live in cummings district. the president is not watching this conversation oop

baltimore. it's being received as bigoted, race-based, if not surprising as the president attacks another member of congress in a storied american city of former baltimore mayor will be here with us. >>> plus, our director of national intelligence is out and the president's man to replace dan coats is a guy who seemed to be auditioning for the job at the mueller hearing. the audition seems to have been successful. >>> and the movement in the democratic 2020 race as another debate week is upon us as the "the 11th hour" gets under way on a monday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 921 of the trump administration. the president has now attacked the city of baltimore and he begins another week embroiled in a new controversy involving race. after his relentless attacks over this weekend on maryland democratic congressman elijah cummings, a 23-year veteran of the house, son of former sharecroppers, cummings represents a majority black district that includes baltimore and a large scrounge area. he's chairman of the powerful oversight committee that is conducting several investigations into th

also coming up a the rats and roaches infested nests that's what president trump called the city of baltimore at the weekend outraging many of its residents well he's doubling down railing against the city once again calling it corrupt and badly mishandled we're in baltimore to find out what it's really like plus remembering the boy who died when he was pushed under a train in frankfurt germany authorities say the man suspected of the crime will be examined for mental health problems. think when we didn't catch enough fish or squid to get we will be eaten by the captain devoting a full or we will be eaten a lot i'm still traumatized by it don't know what firms are seafarers the slaves we speak to the indonesian men forced to work and of the falling conditions on chinese fishing boats off the coast of east africa. thank you so much for your company everyone the u.s. has formally called on germany france and britain to help provide security for shipping in the strait of hormuz the strait is a strategic route for about a 5th of the world's oil relations between tehran and the west have deteriora

people of baltimore came to the defense of cummings and the city. >> the president is really not beingthe man he is supposed to be. the things he said about ltimore back to the rats and everything, if he feels that concerned about it, why don't he do anything about it? >> theweekend tweets from the president comes as congressman iy investigations into the trump administration. cummings say quote. >>> tomorrow, president ump will visit williamsburg, virginia. because the president will be there, several democrats will boycott that in a statement, the democratic leader of the virginia legislature said, quote, ther cunt president does not represent the values we would celebrate. jamestown was the first representative democracy in america. democratic9zé lieutenant gover justin fairfax said he will attend tuesday's ceremony. >>> they have proven their soccer skills so, tonight, two world cup champions will take a crack at baseball. ros laveller and anoth player will be there to throw the ceremonial pitch at the nats game. they will meet with national players and tour the park as well. some

president trump doubled down on his attack against maryland's in elijah cumm and the city of baltimore. he tarlgtd cummings who chairs the house oversightseeries in a series of racially charged city rodent infested. couuplesot said it is his constitutional duty to conduct oversight and moral duty toht fig for his constituents. >> three young peoade are de following a mass shooting at a fotival in northern california. police say a 19-year-old gunman started shooting at random in a crowd at the gilroy garlic festivalsesterday. he killed in a shootout with police thee investigators ar looking into reports that the suspect had an accomplice but almost 24 hours later they have still not confirmed that. >> back here at home montgomery county is busting drivers over and over for illegally passing buses. data presented to a council committee today showed a dramatic increase of number of citations from school bus stopn sig cameras. in the 2016-'17 school16,000y drivers. the followingea rat nu3th3,000 during the school year that juse finished, poli issued more than 54,000 citations. police are s

answer also coming up a wraps and rodent infested mess that's what president trump called the city of baltimore over the weekend outraging many of its residents now he's doubling down drilling against the city once again calling it corrupts and badly mishandled and remembering the boy who died when he was pushed under a train in frankfurt germany authorities say the man suspected of the crime will be examined for mental health problems. thank you so much for your company everyone the u.s. has formally called on germany france and britain to help provide security for shipping in the strait of hormuz while the strait is a strategic route for about a 5th of the world's oil of relations we do you know tehran and the west have deteriorated after the u.s. last year cooled out of a landmark deal designed to limit iran's nuclear program well a sri since series of tit for tat tang. her seizures has ramped up but tensions right there you see behind me in the strait of hormuz germy says that it favors a multinational approach to protecting shipping we've got lots to unpack for you let's get you the perspe

mental health problems and that a rant and infested mess that's what president truong called the city of baltimore over the weekend not reaching many of his residents now he's doubling down railing against the city calling it corrupt and badly mishandled. fibrin coffee it's good to have you with us who will help patrol the sea still night the united states has formally called on germany france and britain to help provide security for shipping in the strait of hormuz now the street is a strategic route for about 5th a 5th of the world's oil and you see it's a very narrow passage their relations between tehran and the west have deteriorated ever since the u.s. last year pulled out of that landmark deal which was designed to limit iran's nuclear. program a recent series of tit for tat tanker seizures has only ramped up tensions further and germany's official line remains that it favors a multinational approach to protecting shipping there we have coverage tonight from here in germany and from washington d.c. for more we want to go to our correspondent here in berlin kate brady she's at our parliament

none of us would have our children in that position. >> sandra: the city of baltimore is no doubt hurting, economically and otherwise. in 2017 the city had the highest homicide rate of the nation's 50 largest cities in the poverty rate was about 22%, ten points higher than the national average. in just moments, juan williams and sean spicer on the political fallout of all of this. but first, lynn patton is a regional administrator from the department of housing and urban development who previously worked for the current family for several years and she joins me now live in studio. good evening to you. >> hey, sandor, how are you? right to be here. >> sandra: we saw the attacks on "the squad" by the president. now democrats say that this race is all about racism in this president. what is the strategy on the part of the president with these new attacks on elijah cummings in the city of baltimore? >> look, i want to begin by saying i mean no disrespect to elijah cummings. the man is a civil rights icon, but president trump in the last 48 hours is got more people to pay attention to the inhu

this time it's about the great city of baltimore. a city of hundreds of thousands of americans that trump says no human being would want to live in whose constituents trump is supposed to represent just as much as congressman elijah cummings. but lest you think this is some highly developed strategy, some evil genius attempt to control the conversation, it is worth just considering the far more likely explanation, which is simply that the president is a raging racist and this is just how he sees the world. this week i spoke to someone who just happened quite randomly to have a conversation with trump way back in december 2015 when he was the improbable front-runner in that large gop field. in this conversation then candidate trump actually endorsed the idea of stricter gun control in a city like chicago because, here's a quote according to the person i spoke with, we have to stop those animals there from killing each other. animals. that's who this president is and he just keeps trying to tell us. joining me now, prorepublica reporter

baltimore city leaders and the governor of maryland have come o cummings' defense in this issue. and all of these comments along with much more on this week's testimony from former special ue counsel roberter coming up later this morning on "meet the press." moderator chuctodd will join us in a few minutes here in studio to talk about what the testimony means for congress and the white house moving forward. "meet the press" starts at 10:30, not too long from now, right here at "news4 today." >>> now to a tragic story in new york city. a father is charged with the twins f his 1-year-old after they were left in a car on a hot summer day. police say juan rodr uez left his kids inside the car while he went to work in the bronx on frida b the little and girl had been in the back seat for nearly eight hours. atdriguez told authorities he didn't realize whad happened until he arrived to his car after his shift. rodriguez has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and other charges. he isur due back in coon thursday. >>> we are working to identify the names of two people killed in a car cras

president donald trump is defending his criticism of the city of baltimore the congressman that represents in the lives of cummings his latest tweet now attacking civil rights leader reverend al sharpton in the city of baltimore as well as bernie sanders a democratic presidential candidate who the president claims has also criticized baltimore in the past the question becomes why is the president doing this now well it's no secret that democrats have been criticizing donald trump since day one of his presidency alija cummings the congressman is share of a very powerful committee investigating the president as at times been participating in discussions about potential impeachment it appears the president is swinging back as part of a political strategy in order to try and win the 2020 alexion he already knows that cities like baltimore other cities he's criticized in the past like chicago are typically liberal strongholds they do not for the most part like donald trump they do not support his platform so he has in terms of political strategy donald trump has nothing to lose and everything t

earlier this month one p son died in baltimore city and one in and arundel county becausee f thheat. if you don't have acn your home, most have open recreation centers and libraries when the temperatures top 90 degrees. you can find more about cooling centersn maryland, virginia and d.c. by opening thebc washington app. search heat wave. >>> a thi a residentt the greenspring retirement community in springfield has died. 63 residents have become sick with an upper wretrespiratory illness. 19 employees have also reported symptoms. the entire community is working th cdc which has not yet determined whether thoths are related to the illness. >>> a look at some of the evidence prosecutors use to put james fields behind bars for life. earlier this week, the self-avowed white supremacist was sentenced for ramming his car into a crowd in charlottesville in20 7. prosecutors showed a judge this video thacounterprotesters record. in thatpa ramge he killed 32-year-old heather >>heyer. h, my god. the car just drove through them. >> the stateolice captured a bird's-eye view of the rampage fromabov