cummings: let me say -- >> mr. chairman? rep. cummings: yes? >> at the appropriate time, i'd like to move to strike the last word. rep. cummings: yes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. so i'm sitting here thinking about this and the opposition that has cropped up on the other side of the aisle. like i do when i had one of my children who comes to me and complains to me, but mom, what i did wasn't as bad as what she did. and i say to them, you broke a rule. there are consequences to breaking rules and when i am exploring what those consequences might need to be, i need to know what you did and it has nothing to do with what someone else may or may not have done in our family. but consequences are going to result after i have an opportunity as their mom to take a look closely at whether they broke a rule. what our colleagues on the other side of the aisle seem to be suggesting is that -- but mr. chairman, what some other person did is worse than what we think the white house employees working there now might have done. so, since it's not as bad as we t

elijah cummings may not have gone. the inspector general for the department of homeland security has had. in his report, it was described the situation as a ticking time bomb as a party inspector has been there and said severe of over crowding and the smell of human wastes that overwhelms individuals. you heard mulvaney. the president is an equal opportunity at hitting back. if someone hits him, he hits back as well. here is a little bit more of what mulvaney has to say this morning. >> i understand that everything that donald trump says is offensive to some people. keep in mind about two weeks ago the president says things that's critical of aoc and a couple of days later, pelosi said something critical by the same group of people and she was defended by the group in the left. >> human beings would want to live there. >> this is being perceived as raci racist. do you understand why? >> the president is pushing back against and how he's done in the past and will continue to do in the future. >> the president not limiti

in his cummings. congressman cummings spends a lot of time there. president trump and the chairman of the house oversight committee do have a complicated history. it was congressman cummings in 2017 when the president was first inaugurated who said he told the president his rhetoric can often be perceived as harmful, offensive to the african-american community. according to congressman cummings' telling of that story, he said president trump never told him that before. they have sparred occasionally throughout trump's presidency. this is a new level of viciousness we're seeing from the president towards congressman cummings. >> i want to clarify that. did you say the president never told him it was divisive? >> that was the first time in march of 2017 they first had in the oval office when trump was inaugurated. >> wanted a clarification. thank you very much. appreciate it. we'll have more on this in a few minutes. >>> we want to talk about the campaign trail and the better and cheaper health care rem

let me just say this about congressman cummings.ld trump is upset because congressman cummings is everything that donald trump is not. he is calm, he is smart. he is thoughtful. he actually works for his constituents. he's a good public servant. he is the example of the american dream, sons of a sharecropper who is now the chair of a very powerful committee. donald trump is threatened by congressman cummings. look, i know people say and folks are saying to us, we have to ignore the noise. we have to ignore the tweets. we can't give donald trump the conversation that he wants us to have about racism but we have to continue to fight racism. we cannot turn away, we cannot look back because what donald trump's racism is a toxic and dangerous brew. we have known donald trump has been a racist for a very long time. that is not surprising. but now he is in a position of power. where policies are coming out of that position of power. look, we know that white nationalists have been around for a long time. but donald trump is giving them comf

elijah cummings has been an extraordinary public servant. it is terrible to mock him by calling him king elijah and remarkable that every time trump talks about rat infested he's talking about a member -- either a city of color or a member of color. it's -- he's the president for baltimore and for maryland too. he should be bringing us together rather than attacking us and driving us apart. >> you know, it is really pretty significant because presumably a lot of political pundits suggest the president believes these kind of attacks on congressman elijah cummings will help him politically. do you think they will? >> i certainly hope not. he's racist but i really don't want to believe that america is racist. it certainly is a terrible long-term strategy. even if it would help somebody in one election, it divides our nation on the worst possible -- on the nation -- the matter of color alone. again, we need healers to lead us, not people who bring out the worst in each of us. >> let me get your thoughts on the republican colleague john ratcliff,

he has always been decent in speaking with chairman cummings, and chairman cummings as you pointed outs come to his defense. so president trump picked the wrong person in going after elijah cummings. elijah cummings, the son of a share cropper, is seen as a moral voice. an even jim jordan and mark meadows, the president's closest allies, speak with respect of this chairman. so it was just the wrong target. that's why i think it's going to backfire. >> i believe we had you on the day this was playing out but there was that vote in the house a week or so ago now on impeachment. there was that resolution, the impeachment resolution, al green from texas put forward that basically said he wanted to impeach the president on the grounds of his racial rhetoric, his conduct on racial issues, the way he speaks about them. you voted against that that day. i think 95 democrats did vote for it. does this make you change your mind at all? >> new york cio, it doesn't, be think the case for impeachment has to be based on mueller's report, it has to be based on obstruction, on systematic misconduct, no

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cummings: all five? mr. jordan: i will just add, the secretary himself came and testified under oath for six hours. i figured that's the best way to get information from the department is talk to the secretary himself who was there for over six hours answering every single member's questions. mr. cummings: with all due respect, if i might, the secretary camescreaming and hollering, he did not want to come, and when he came -- i'm not knocking this, but it happened, he took about four bathroom breaks, each one of them was 30 or 40 minutes, 25 minutes, 30 minutes, take that time off. i just wanted to be clear. i am not knocking him. we get older. [laughter] i'm old myself. [laughter] mr. cole: well, i understand that more than i care to. [laughter] mr. cole: i remember to my age, not yours, mr. chairman. mr. jordan, did the president assert executive privilege over documents pursuant to subpoena on april 2? has that been the basis for contempt resolution? did the federal judge uphold? mr. jordan: yeah, exactly

in regards to elijah cummings.going after him because cummings subpoenaed ivanka and jared and after his dhs secretary in a very aggressive way last week. i will say this. trump is trying to secure his bait. if you're talking about midwest voters, i would remind people that trump won michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania by less than 100,000 votes combined. he needs to secure that vote. that's, again, every president going into re-election is going to say where do i need to win? obama did this. try to secure your base moving into a re-election move. >> jo, let me insert something really quick about the seventh congressial district. the district has a income of $60,000 on par with the national average. they produce more college graduates nan the national average in the united states of america and have more african american graduates from college than the national average as well. he made an assumption that this was a bad district to live in. >> ned, i want to follow-up the point just made. david axelrod tweeted that

cummings -- chairman cummings isn't going after the president personally, he's just doing his constitutional duty. >> the other news, congressman, we're following of course is the president's decision to dominate republican congressman republican john radcliffe to serve as director of national intelligence. double he's qualified? >> well, let me be very fair here. i know john radcliffe. we actually did a bill together that the president signed. my view is he ought to have the opportunity to make his case, but there's serious questions he needs to answer. one, is he going to be an independent voice? two, what is his background in intelligence? three, is he going to be able to stand up to this president and talk compellingly about russian interference? i believe he should have the opportunity to make his case. >> on fox news this sunday radcliffe said it's going to be really difficult for anyone to rely on the findings of the mueller report. do you have think he can be confirmed if he doesn't believe the findings of the mueller report, that the findings are legitimate. >> i think he has to at

with his attacks on cummings. it crossed over. but he insinuated he needed to be investigated for some kind of graft, it was so beyond anything he's done before. i think you'll hear them talk about nancy pelosi's district to change the subject and say we talk about white liberals' districts, too. but i think generally speaking, having people that he can call racist, he's called members of the squad and congressman cummings racist. picking fights about immigrations and things when he can get to that topic, he seems so be more and more comfortable with that. as an overt tactic. he shoots from the hip. he's not a strategizer, but i think people around him are trying to make lemonade with lemons, and certainly he saw many, many thousands of people chanting at him, send her back, and he thinks this is great. >> how will this go over in the diverse state of nevada? >> a.b. used the word overt to describe what trump is doing. he's being more overt and perhaps more venomous with this strategy. which has been used by republican candidates,

the president called cummings a racist. now the white house is trying to spin the president's attacks. mick mulvaney suggested that the president often does offend people with this language, they are not based on race. the president was trying to fact check cummings on his descriptions of conditions at these border facilities. >> the president is attacking mr. cummings for things that are not right at the border. i was in congress for years. if i had homelessness in my district like they do in san francisco and i spent all of my time in washington, d.c., and chasing down this mueller investigation, i'd get fired. >> two important points here, dave and christine. first, related to congressman cummings description of these border facilities, they line up with what we've heard from numerous outlets, that conditions at these facilities are horrendous. secondly, if you look at the president's tweets, he doesn't fact check cummings or dispute his descriptions. mick mulvaney with a bit much spin. the president's tweets were inaccu

speaks more about the president's weakness than congressman cummings. i count him as a friend and mentor. my father was close to him as well and he deserves better. it pains me as a person who is a public servant to watch what is happening in the white house. as a public servant, you're supposed to ask yourself is this making us better, is this making my community better, my city better, my state better, my country better. if it's not, you shouldn't be doing it, period. >> juana, you were sitting in the studio in new york no more than five feet from my left and we got into a conversation. at commercial you said you lived in baltimore. i reacted the way most people in your life react. i said great town. i still insist most people would react that way. please do us the favor of telling us, shadow the piece you've written for the associated press in words, tell us about the 7th congressional district, congress cummings' district. >> absolutely. my colleagues and i spent our day traveling the entirety of this district. one of the things that often gets lost

cummings: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. comer: i yield one minute to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. meadows. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. meadows: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i want to make a point that in this body, now on two consecutive days, we've broken the rules of congress to expedite things. in this particular contempt resolution, i want to make sure hat the record reflects that we broke rule 2-f, it was brought to the attention of the chairman, and here we are again going and violating the rules of the house, not the rules the minority put in place, but the rules the majority put in place, and we gave the chairman the chance to perfect this procedural problem and, yet, they continued on to hold this contempt violation. so i can tell you, they may vote today to hold them in contempt, but it's a violation of congress' very rules itself that should have been remedied and with that, i ask that the

cummings said this week was wrong. mr.ing all of his time on this impeachment inquiry, which is we all know is going nowhere. so it's the -- democrats actually have a chance to focus on things that matter. instead they're working on scandal. >> during the obama administration, house republicans spent roughly $7 million and held 33 hearings investigating the attack on the american consulate in benghazi. congressman mulvaney told his constituents there were times in our nation's history if our ambassador was killed, it was time to go to war. pumping it up. >> you and i both know there is no president, no presidential administration that has ever loved congressional oversight. they never love -- >> it's an audit. please audit me but they put up with it, you know, because that's the way the constitution works and those are the powers given to congress. so you put up with it and you provide the documents, you provide the witnesses and you get past it. so through kbrgritted teeth, th obama administration had patience with the wh

you live in cummings district. president is not watching this conversation oop he's only watching what he's seeing on fox. so nothing's going to change. >> well, brian, there you did a great job at the top of. >> tracking. >> he's golfing right now. he's not watching. he's golfing. the president's only hearing this distorted view on fox. >> he's watching. > he does sometimes watch cnn. he does. >> we're not going to correct him had. he's not going to change. he's so far down this road of evil, he's not going to change. we can change voters' minds for 2020. that's what we can do if we keep speaking forcefully and we talk about morality. journalists do not talk enough about morality because we think people will think we're biased. we need to keep talking about it because we have ans a northerly president and administration right now. >> david, april ryan, thank you so much. david's column is up on the baltimore sun's website. we'll slope you their editorial later this hour. media bunkers, are they getting thicker? we

cummings: your mic. ms. gluck: the case we're discussing in this hearing, one of the things i would emphasize is that the case in texas is not a policy referendum. it's not a case about the benefits or the affordable care act. it's a case about a settled legal principle. the administration doesn't get to decide whether to defend the law based on it likes the policy in the law or not. that's your job, congress' job is to pass the policies. the administration's decision not to defend is only defensible in the very limited circumstance in which there is a real unsettled legal question. as i said in my testimony, what is striking about this case is that there is a dramatic legal consensus across both sides of the aisle that the principle at issue here, the legal principle, semblet, is settled and -- searchibility is settled, and there is no place to defend the law. i would also note, we heard a lot of statistics about the benefits of the affordable care act including dropping insurance rate by 46%. including get

cummings responded to an attack by the president. here's what cummings is reacting to.he president called him, quote, a brutal bully, shouting at men and women at border patrol. he then called his county a disgusting rodent and rat-infested mess. cummings said, mr. president, each day i go home to my district. each morning i wake up and i go and fight for my neighbors. it is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the executive branch. but it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents. >> it just shows that trump will never have the kind of grace e cummings has. i have been texting privately with some of my republican colleagues on the other side, because at this point it is about the republican party. what do they stand for? are my republican colleagues going to stand up and say this is outrageous to attack in what, again, is another racist attack on a black chairman with a majority black district. >> nbc's hans nichols is at the white house. i have to tell you, hans, i heard it and last hour i was shocked to have to report it, but i have to ask you, what is

cummings has long been a thorn in the president's side.is oversight committee investigating president trump. but what really lit up the president was when he saw this exchange from july 18th between cummings and the acting dhs secretary over conditions of the border. >> you feel like you're doing a great job, right? is that what you're saying? >> we're doing our level best. >> what does that mean? what does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces, can't take a shower? come on, man! what's that about! speak of the president's tweets were widely criticized as racist, including by house speaker nancy pelosi, of whom the president rode "so many please explain to nancy pelosi, who was recently called racist by those in her own party, that there is nothing wrong with bringing out the very obvious fact that congressman elijah cummings has done a very poor job for his district and the city of baltimore." the president also pointed out that in 2015 candidate bernie sanders was critical of baltimore. >> anyone who took the walk that we

cummings saying that kids were sleeping in their own feces. and when the president hears lies like that, he's going fight back and that's what you isn't that true the tweet. chris: this goes back to what happened with the four members of the squad, nobody objects the president defending border policy but this seems, mick, the worst racial stereotyping, black congressman, majority-black district, no human being would want to live there, is he saying people that live in baltimore are not human beings? >> chris, help me with this, when the president attacks aoc plus 3, attacks the squad he gets accused of being a racist, when nancy pelosi does it a few days later, the left, not you in particular, make that clear come to nancy's defense, couldn't possibly be racist, she was simply attacking their ideas, the president is doing the same, the president is attacking mr. cummings for saying things that are not true about the border, i think it's right for the president to raise the issue, look, i was in congress for 6 years, if i had poverty in my dist

>> elijah cummings stood up for mark meadows.t calling you a racist, and i thought that we could clarify that. you are one of my best friends. i know that shocks a lot of people. >> and likewise. >> yeah. but you are, and i would -- and i could see and feel your pain. i feel it, and so -- and i don't think miss tlaib intended to cause you that. >> people should be really, you know, these are not -- these words, unless you have met a racist because they're really clear. >> yeah. >> they don't pretend to be something else. they're pretty clear about who they are. >> yeah. >> and when you meet them, and you see them and they do that thing that says, oh. i see you would like me to remove myself from the planet. you know what it means. so when people start an entire campaign with this group are racists and murderers and rapists, and this group is, you know, nasty. >> or they weren't born here. >> this is all, go back to your -- these are all very specific phrases that have been used for time and memoriam, to let you know that you're o

as you know, cummings has been in charge. i will say this -- i think representative cummings should take his oversight committee and start doing oversight on baltimore. he would find out some real things. i am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world. >> harris: as democrats are going after the president, some republicans are trying to avoid offending cummings were criticizing the president. house freedom caucus chair mark meadows said this. "i am friends with both men, president trump and chairman cummings. i know both men well. neither man is a racist, period. both love america. i think if we put aside partisanship with investigations we can find bipartisan solutions that will benefit not only chairman cummings' district but the country as a whole." meanwhile, one democratic congressman says he thinks this is a strategy on the president's part. watch. >> the president knows what he's doing. he, i think, has made a calculation that the way he wins is to divide this country and try and whip up support around his

elijah cummings. a known civil rights movements later someone who has championed the black rights what do you think is going to be the fallout from this from the back of population as i guess the political spectrum. well i mean the fallout has already taken place you know based on a number of incidents that you know donald trump has you know been a part of in terms of attacking you know women of color siding with whites apprentices and this particular case again you know this is delivered by the president because he's trying to create a case where ethnocentrism you know rise it's likely place where you have an end group where they end group loves and group and that they dislike that out group and he's trying to create a case where he sees that there's a browning of america america's becoming more brown black and brown people and he's trying to create us versus them and that's t. the fact he's trying to create it us versus them if he can try and you know create contagion where you move these moderate w

his relentless attacks on elijah cummings. i asked the president why he seems so angry at cummings. cummings isn't the mayor of baltimore. wasn't about the subpoenas he is issuing and he said he's not angry. he also called that poll you just showed fake news and linked his attacks on cummings to his hearing with the acting homeland security secretary just a couple of weeks ago. we're close now, kasie, to what the president had to say just moments ago on the south lawn. >> yeah, hallie, that's right. we'll watch the tape right now. here we go. >> so jamestown was amazing. i very much appreciate that the democrats were so respectful because it is what it is. it's a very important moment. 400 years. so i appreciate very much the democrats. we had great receptivity. i guess i saw you. you only covered the protester, the one protester. but jamestown, i thought, was fantastic and was treated really -- and i have to -- i obviously thank the republicans, but i also thank the democrats. we had one person. and other than that, it was really fantastic. >> [ inaudible ]. >> well, i know his son

doubles down by incredibly calling chairman cummings himself racist. by the way it's really rich for this president to be slamming baltimore calling it rat infested. since his son-in-law and his seen your adviser jared kushner family business owns thousands of baltimore apartments. apartments with a history of code violations. including rodent infestation. >> it's particularly ironic that the president is making comments when we know in 2017 that his son-in-law directly contributed to some of the neglect that the president reportedly is so concerned about today. >> i want you to listen. please listen to what one former tenant of a kushner property told us. about what it was like to live in one of the apartments. >> so what was it like to hear rats at night? >> it was crazy. i could hear them gnawing. you can't see them. i could hear it. it just made me crazy. >> despite the president's claim that baltimore is rat infested, house republicans are holding their annual retreat there in september. i wonder if he'll speak at that retreat like last year. that

trump is mad at elijah cummings. he wants to cause him discomfort and he wants to chief ly discomfort him. think about this. just a week ago, robert mueller himself said he gave up trying to interview the president because it wasn't worth the protracted legal fight. here is another one. for the past few months, donald trump has doubled down on his attacks on federal reserve chairman germ rojerome powell. here is what he said this morning. >> i would like to see a large cut, and i would like to see immediately the quantitative tightening stop. it shouldn't with stopped. i'm very disappointed in the fed. i think they acted too quickly by far, and i think i've been proven right. people said i was right. they were wrong. the fed is often wrong. the fed is often wrong. >> the federal reserve widely expected to announce a rate cut tomorrow, even as though trump will be the first to tell you the stock market is at record highs. unemployment is near record lows. it's hard not to see some correlation when the president has re

in one tweet calling cummings a racist. mic mu mick mulvaney was saying that often the president does offend people with his attacks, but they were not about race. the president was trying to fact check cummings on his descriptions of conditions at these border facilities. listen to more from mulvaney. >> the president is attacking mr. cummings for saying things that are not true about the border. i think it's right for the president to raise the issue. look, i was in congress for six years. if i had poverty in my district like they have in baltimore, if i had crime in my district like they have in chicago, if i have homelessness in my district like they have in san francisco and i spent all of my time in d.c. chasing down the mueller investigation, the impeachment crusade, i would get fired. i think the president is right to raise that and it has absolutely nothing to do with race. >> reporter: two important points. first, the border facilities, they line up with what we've heard from numerous outlets. the conditions are h

cummings: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. comer: i yield one minute to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. meadows. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. meadows: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i want to make a point that in this body, now on two consecutive days, we've broken the rules of congress to expedite things. in this particular contempt resolution, i want to make sure hat the record reflects that we broke rule 2-f, it was brought to the attention of the chairman, and here we are again going and violating the rules of the house, not the rules the minority put in place, but the rules the majority put in place, and we gave the chairman the chance to perfect this procedural problem and, yet, they continued on to hold this contempt violation. so i can tell you, they may vote today to hold them in contempt, but it's a violation of congress' very rules itself that should have been remedied and with that, i ask that the

or elijah cummings is in a way an economic argument.he republican strategy across the board right now whether it's house republicans, senate republicans or president trump is, you know, painting democrats as radical socialists, if you will. and that, itself, is an economic argument. >> but baltimore is very much part of america and the baltimore sun reacting to this with a very strongly-written editorial. the headline is better to have a few rats than to be one. daniel, when people are reading this and then have this in context with what the president has tweeted what are they to think here? >> yeah. if you look at the demographics of elijah cummings' district, you have average income of 60,000 people -- people of $6,000. you have people who have a higher rate of college degrees and so this is not this rat-infested district that trump describes. he probably hasn't even been to the district. he wouldn't know. and so, i think the reality of what cummings represents clashes with what trump describes. and i think there is going to be a long

it was literally an onslaught of elijah cummings this weekend.u see that? >> i think it's hurtful for all of us when we do see the type of response that happens on twitter. i know i have worked in baltimore. just seeing how the people there really worked to have change. incredible things are happening in baltimore. incredible things are happening across the country and in our cities. the areas where you see predominantly african-americans, we should not live in an environment where our leadership is attacking. we need a leader and a president who represents everyone and speaks on behalf of everyone. this is an important time in our country. we are asking everyone to make sure they vote and taking part as being active citizens so that we don't have a country where we have to worry about this type of rhetori rhetoric. >> what do you think, is this a one-off or will we hear more from the president as we get into the 2020 presidential election? >> the election is coming very soon. i think you'll continue to hear him but you'll hear from more members

and as you know cummings has been in charge. this, i think that representative cummings should take his oversight committee and start doing oversight on baltimore. so the talks are moving very well with china, but they were often with china but china always makes a new deal or it seems to. we're taking billions and billions of dollars from china in the form of tariffs. and they're pumping money into the system in order to pay for it. they had the worst year in 27 years. they've had a terrible year because of the tariffs, a lot of companies are moving out of china. you've never seen this before. the united states is doing phenomenally well in which they've given us ten of billions of dollars from china. we're giving some money to our farmers who have been really target by china to do a number of them. and because they like me, the farmers like me and i like the farmers. and i will say that the farmers are very greatple. the most they've ever spent on agricultural products is $16 billion. so when they pulled out i took just a smal

i talked to elijah cummings this morning. church praising god and moving forward because he's not going to stop. i just said, you know, be strong because i said that to him because i had been the butt of some of the president's ire. it's not right. he makes it personal when it comes to black politicians or black people. >> yeah. >> period, end of stf. >> people are at a loss of words trying to figure out what in the world. what's the motivation of the president to do this if not to simply divide. why is it, and not that you have to explain the president's actions here, but why is it, you know, the president would feel like this is political capital? because if it's not political capital, then what is the other motivation for a president of the united states to carry on in this matter, to use these words, to denigrate, insult, to provoke this kind of moment in america? >> when you talk to his campaign, they say this is all part of a coherent strategy that president trump is building a campaign based on division. that he is put

in cummings' district. nonetheless, president trump going after baltimore for its rankings in unspecified categories and claiming, quote, baltimore is very dangerous. last night writing, elijah cummings spends his time hurting those through his oversight. he does so through his poorly run district. he shared a clip purported to be of a delipidated backyard in baltimore. cummings has launched and made progress on investigations on the president's finance and private communications with senior aide. the oversight committee offered subpoenas of tweets and whatsup communications. last week cummings grilled dhs head macle mcleanen. so the president and cummings have a complicated past. this is not the first time they've sparred. ironically in 2017, the two met. according to cummings' recollect election, he informed president that his neighborhood about black neighborhoods is often offensive and he told cummings he had never been told that before. >> thank you. >> joining me to discuss, cnn political analyst apri

. >> president trump firing back at critics and doubling down of criticism of congressman of cummings and baltimore. >> and a major league tantrum. >> there it goes, the picture sent, ball past fences but not really in a good way, "fox & friends first" start right now. ♪ ♪ >> good monday morning to all of you, you're watching "fox & friends first" i'm todd piro. >> and i'm carley shimkus both for heather childers. >> people sent running for their life as gunman opens fire seemingly at random. [shots fired] >> 3 innocent people now dead, at least 15 others are hurt, the gunman killed by police. >> let's get right to claudia live from the scene in gilroy, california, on for second possible suspect is ramping up at this hour, claudia, good morning. >> it sure is, good morning, to you todd and carley, this community is reeling after the fatal shooting spree after turning day of fun and food to an evening of unimagine able horror, thousands of people were attending the last day of annual gilroy garlic festival when a man with a rifle opened fire, stop today reload and fired again and some

the president says about congressman cummings' district. that no human would want to live there, you know who did, mr. president? i did. there are challenges, no doubt. when people get up and go to work there, they care for their families there. they love their children. who pledge allegiance to the flag, just like people who live in districts of congress men who support you, sir. they are americans, too. >> sometimes it's not about right and left. sometimes it's just about right and wrong. so to reiterate victor's point, mr. president, these are americans too. >> well said. it will, we'll see if this issue shows up in the next debate. democrats are just days away from the second round, and we'll talk about how they will struggle to set themselves apart. that's coming up. >>> also, two americans are sitting in an italian jail. police say they stabbed a police officer there. we go live to rome for details about this case. let them move the way they were born to in new pampers cruisers 360 fit with its ultra stretchy waistband.. and adaptive

cummings said was wrong. truck cummings and border protection detention facilities during a recent congressional oversight hearing. >> a child sitting in their own feces. cannot take a shower. >> reporter: just last week, cummings committee authorized a subpoena for all work-related text and emails from the personal account of the president son-in-law, and daughter. nicole killian, cbs news, the white house. >>> we continue to follow the investigation into the deadly gilroy garlic festival shootings. new details about the weapon used in the rampage. >>> questions about how two teen order suspects from the bay area are being treated in italy as a stands accused of killing a police officer. >>> it is much cooler across the bay area thanks to the onshore flow. here is they live look at the treasure island camera. the clouds are still in the sky and we are watching the clouds started to break up. we will talk about how we are looking ahead for the rest of the work week. details on that are coming up. at at&t we b

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cummings is generally well liked by members of both parties. he's always had a good relationship, oddly enough, perhaps given the criticism over the weekend from mark meadows, who's a close ally of president trump, there could be complicated conversations that some of the president's allies have to have with him about cummings in particular, but i don't know if any of them will actually dare bring the topic up. >> let's talk about the other big news coming out of washington over the weekend. dan coats and president trump historically have had a rocky relationship. don coats will be leaving as director of national intelligence. walk us through how we got to this point. how is it that dan coats has had such a bad relationship. >> the clip you played of andrea mitchell speaking with director coats in aspen was perhaps the most obvious of all of them, but dni coats, former senator coats has been direct to the point in one of the accolades on the hill, particularly among senators from both parties for being a straight shooter on russia, on north kor

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calling baltimore rat infested or cummings a racist? >> calling elijah cummings a raci racist. i think it is all bad. >> just like every america that has a high pop relation of black people is in bad shape. it is not the people in baltimore. it is systematic racism's fault. it is oppression and the same thing that donald trump had been pushing before he was president of the united states of america. >> before that, could the president push, i am going to change it and i am going to make it better because he was not in office. this weekend he goes after cummings and he did not go after them and said here is my new plan to save baltimore. he pointed the finger and sat back in the oval office. you have been president, what did you do? >> absolutely. you are the president of the united states of america, do you think baltimore is a problem then go fix it. send some federal aides there. you want to make america great again, start with baltimore. ast it is an oppression. we let him distract it with the fact that it started with the kids at the border. donald trump don't give a damn o

that's why he went after elijah cummings. i don't think anybody disagrees that there is corruption in baltimore. donald trump is appointing a light on that. elijah cummings has been representing the district for 26 years. that is before "the wire" was on hbo. anybody who saw 5 minutes of "the wire," -- >> bill: speaking of wires, your microphone needs help. we are going to get it fixed. here is hannity from last night. the larger picture. here he is withdrawn. >> instead of focusing on the deteriorating living conditions, they say that they are just defending cummings with another round of identity politics. a fake moral outrage. and of course attacking the president, calling him a racist as many times as they can every second of every hour of every day because the mueller thing fell apart for them. >> bill: we interrupted you. >> this is the important thing. only in washington would somebody see the president attacking elijah cummings and say this is all about race. it's not about race. it is about the russian collusion reta

i know elijah cummings, i served with him for a decade. the fact is, elijah cummings, what he wants, he would get by working with the president and with jared. he's not getting it because what he wants to do was talk about impeaching the president rather than his number one agenda being something that the president and the first family want to do. >> capri: he needs to stop treating and stop working. >> kennedy: pushing president trump and s is a big staffing change. dan coats will step down and texas republican congressman john ratcliffe will be the new dni. the president saying that he is highly respected and will lead and inspire greatness for the country he loves. ratcliffe, a member of the house intel committee, has been a staunch defender of the president and top democrats are calling his appointment political motivated. senate minority leader schumer saying, "it's clear the representative ratcliffe was elected because he exhibited blind loyalty to president trum president trump. as senate republicans elevate such a partisan player t

in the midst of it all, calling cummings a bully. this week cummings led the house oversight committee vote to subpoena sensitive white house communications, this after cummings led the grilling of trump's acting homeland security head over conditions facing detained migrants on our southern border. but today's attack marked the latest insistence in which this president failed to do his homework and made racialized assumptions about a political opponent again, con flating black and brown, and calling maryland as a place where, quote, no human being wants to live there. joining me now, felipe rays, and susan del percio, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst. susan, let me go to you because i remember when republicans had a different point of view, but the same standards and values. for this president, to over and over and over again use racialized and demeaning and disgusting language, particularly when it comes to blacks and browns, here we go again. many felt that he escaped any real hit in the mueller testimony, though

cummings district is a disgusted rat and rodent infected mass. maybe he could help clean up his dangerous filthy place." the tweets were condemned as being racist by many people, including house speaker nancy pelosi. speaking to chris wallace yesterday, the acting white house chief of staff mikel mick mulvaney insisting the president's tweets had nothing to do about race. >> mr. cummings saying that children were sleeping or sitting in their own feces, it's not right, not accurate. mr. cummings has not been to the border in recent memory, not during this administration. when the president hears lies like that, he is going to fight back and that's what he saw. >> the president taking aim at nancy pelosi tweeting "speaking of failing badly, it has anyone seen what happened in nancy pelosi's district? it's not recognizable lately. something must be done before it's too late. the damage should stop wasting time on the witch hunt hopes and start focusing on our country. the president met a little while ago with a group of 20 inner-city pastors, includ