elijah cummings chose to serve through challenging times. of when you were running away. you did from the draft board. but for elijah, that would have been easier. but he wouldn't do it. if you want to know what elijah cummings does for his district, he comforts people who are frightened of you. >> they say i'm scared and i have not -- i have never in my total of 37 years in public service ever heard a constituent say that they were scared of their leader. >> so you know what else elijah does, what elijah cummings does for his city? he makes it a fairer place at risk to his own physical safety. here's what he said a week ago when asked about your racist taunts against other racial minorities in congress. >> when i hear those things it takes me back like i said and i -- i can still remember bleeding from my forehead when people were throwing bottles -- and these were adults throwing bottles and saying go home, [ bleep ] and it just -- and again, he -- the president has to set the tone. he needs to be a role model. >> but it's impossible to even ask donald trump to be a role

the president is making pressure attacks against congressman elijah cummings and his baltimore district. what's the latest? >> reporter: that's right. the president continues to go after cummings and what he claims is his infested hometown. i just spoke to a senior white house official who said trump's use of the word infested has nothing to do with race and that the president's claim is factually accurate that baltimore does have a rat problem. even as the president's tweets stoke racial divide, his defenders vow he is not a racist. tonight president trump expanding his attacks against baltimore congressman elijah cummings to include activist al sharpton, tweeting cummings's district habs the worst crime statistics in all the nation adding "tired of listening to the same old bull." saturday the president peppered the oversight committee chair with tweets, calling his a district the worst in the u.s., claiming no one would want to live there and a rat-infested mess. cummings said he goes to his district every day and fights for his constituents. trump is going after democratic ac activi

tweeted that after watching fox news, and there was a report on fox news about baltimore, and elijah cummingsd we have to remember that representative cummings is the chairman of the house committee on oversight and reform. so it's the top investigative committee of the united states house of representatives. so i think it is very much whoopi like you're saying a distraction because he doesn't want congressman cummings to do his job of oversight. he wants elijah cummings to do something else, and i took specific umbrage to baltimore because guess what? i lived in baltimore. i met my husband in baltimore. my son was born in baltimore. i worked in baltimore. i met some of the finest people on the face of the earth in baltimore, and while there are challenges -- there are challenges in baltimore, but johns hopkins university is in baltimore, one of the finest medical institutions in the world. not just this country, but the world, and the suggestion that somehow it is just run into the ground -- i mean when you think about poverty, 9 out of the 10 poorest states in the country are red states. th

the president is calling oversight committee chairman elijah cummings king elijah and calling al sharpton a con man. >>> also tonight, the president plans to replace the director of national intelligence dan coats with republican congressman john ratcliff. and when he contradicted the president on russia, ratcliff attacked former special counsel robert mueller and even republican senators have given the pick a tepid response. i'll speak with congressman done buyer of the ways and means committee and our correspondents will have full coverage of the day's top stories. let's begin with our senior white house correspondent pamela brown. the president is going after an african-american congressman and his city. >> reporter: that is right, wolf. he's also now going after an african-american activist in addition to congressman elijah cummings. using the word "infested" to describe his home town, a word he used recently to describe the countries where he said four minority congresswomen should go back to but tonight as the president fuels racial division, the defenders vow he's not a racist. ton

elijah cummings' mother used to take a young elijah and his brothers and sisters, to integrate the swimmingbaltimore. you know, he believes in inclusion. he represents a district of black, white, jew, gentile, protestant and catholic and he's got people from all walks of life who respect him. i hear it from those in the jewish community, the white community, the black community. now what's happening is that this conservative hate machine is putting out black people to say that elijah should be doing this and doing that. yes, baltimore is hurting. but it's not just about elijah cummings. it's not just about the mayor. it's not just about the governor. it's about the president of the united states. and again, mr. president, where are you? what about urban renewal? it's not about these empowerment zones or whatever these zones are. it's about fixing the problem, not laughing at it. you're the president of black people, too. people who are hurting, and you're turning a blind eye. i'm sorry if this is getting personal. i grew up in that area. i know those people just like victor, just like so ma

being pretty transparent about what's behind it, and he doesn't like the line of questioning that elijah cummingsan of the house oversight committee, took when he grilled the house oversight committee on july 19. you saw chairman cummings exercising his oversight authority, and now you have the president saying cummings was screaming and shouting, accusing cummings of being a bully. it is the president making such a strong nexus between that july 18 hearing and what he is now accusing cummings of, which is to say conditions in his west baltimore district are worse than they are on the border. the president is also claiming vindication that that congressional tour down the border showed the conditions were challenging but they are actually in fairly good shape down there on the border. so you have the president once again using a slow weekend to pick a fight with a member of congress. this time he's being a little more forthright and transparent about why he's doing it. he doesn't like the oversight, and the president is giving an example or taste of what lawmakers can expect, and that is a big bl

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

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

i remember just watching elijah cummings and trey goudy go at it. he never said the words the president said. jason chafitz and elijah going at it but they never have done what the president did. people like mark mediciadows wh people like elijah helped and said he's my friend, you have to ask permission -- >> none of them -- >> you have to ask permission to stand up for your friend. i remember sitting down in the congressional black caucus, the only republican there feeling like, oh, my gosh, i'm by myself and being embraced by so many people. >> where are they? >> that besides all of the things we fought against each other on politics it had nothing to do with how we felt -- >> where are they now? >> they need to be standing up against donald trump on this. >> you mean -- >> republicans. where are the republicans on this? >> let's remind everyone. let's go back to the moment. we'll play the sound when mark meadows got emotional in a congressional hearing, the testimony when rashida talib criticized him for bringing in an african-american trump empl

this time the target maryland's elijah cummings, who as chair of the house oversight committee has beennstrumental in the onslaught of investigations targeting the president and his administration. the president is also whipping cummings' baltimore district with some harsh attacks. we have fox team coverage. doug mckelway is in baltimore with how this is playing in the congressman's home city. we start off with chief white house correspondent john roberts live on the north one. good evening, john. >> good evening to you. just days ago president trump was criticized for what were seen as racist weeds about the four congresswoman known as "the squad" ." today was deja vu all over again, even as the president presided over a rose garden ceremony to help people still suffering from the attacks of 9/11. >> our nation owes each of you a profound debt that no words or deeds will ever repay. >> president trump today honored 9/11 heroes signing a bill to permanently fund the 9/11 victims compensation fund, but be on the rose garden, the controversy over the president's attacks over congressman e

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

>> look, elijah cummings is the definition of a class act.hy i think people are so outraged is because he is such an extraordinary leader and a good human being. and listen, you can roll tape of elijah cummings doing heroic courageous stuff until the debates tomorrow. >> is there something different this time, though, because you said this is something republicans aren't going to be able to ignore this time. >> i'm just building it up to say mark meadows, he owes elijah cummin cummings an act of courage and class. elijah cummings made no friends in the democratic party sticking up for mark meadows. it's time for him to do the same thing. it says more about mark meadows' character than anything else. >> we'll wait and see. let's watch his twitter feed. congressman, donald trump thinks that works. look back, infested is a word that he has used often about other cities and often majority black cities. do you think the president is trying to change the subject with this or do you think that racial division really is just a plank of his political

what he said is elijah cummings is racist, racist elijah cummings, i'm asking you madame chairwoman andhe chair of a party that includes larry hogan, and mark meadows and lisa murkowski who have said elijah cummings is racist. >> i don't know elijah cummings. b what i will say growing up minutes from detroit, we have a lot of urban communities that have been misrepresented by democrats. we have a mayor in jail for corruption. we have a city under investigation right now for 200 million in federal funds that came for removing, baltimore, 17,000 vacant homes, a high murder rate. let's focus on the problems we have here at home, and the president is saying why aren't we focussing on the people in these districts, instead of the people at the border who have come in illegally that the democrats continue to talk about. we have problems here in detroit, and baltimore, all across this country, that we should all be working to solve, and he's pointing out elijah instead of focussing on russia investigations and how we give illegal immigrants health care, why don't we focus on the people in your

president slams baltimore and representative elijah cummings. the sweet yesterday morning, "representative elijah cummings has been a brutal bully, when actually has baltimore district is far ,angerous and more dangerous considering the worse in the usa, so sad that he has been able to do so little for the people in baltimore. statistically, baltimore ravens lasted almost every major category jury he has done nothing but milk baltimore.

trump is escalating his attack on congressman elijah cummings and the city of baltimore after a seriess called cummings district a rat-infested mess and now al sharpton said what is the president up to. >> the president picked an inexperienced loyalist congressman for the job of director of national intelligence to replace dan coats, the respected former republican senator who openly contradicted the president on russia and north korea. >>> killer's motive. police identify the gunman who they s

not backing down one bit in his feud with elijah cummings. at least in large part for what he says is the decline of baltimore, saying that the city has been beset by corruption. here's what the president said. >> he has had a very iron hand on her. it is a corrupt city. no question about it. all you have to do is look at the facts. billions and billions of dollars to no avail. to absolutely no avail. baltimore is an example of what corrupt government leads to. >> continued charges of racism regarding the tweets about the president set over the weekend about elijah cummings. mark meadows, the chairman of the conservative freedom caucus, a very good friend of both president trump and elijah cummings. he said this in a statement yesterday. "i am friends with both men, president trump and chairman cummings. i know both well. neither man is a racist, period. both men love america. we can find bipartisan solutions that will benefit not only chairman cummings district but the country as a whole." the president claimed today that he has been contacte

from some of the presidential candidates, obviously elizabeth warren, prince, has worked with elijah cummings on quite a few policy proposals over the last several years. 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

in another tweet, the president wrote this why is so much money sent to the elijah cummings district when it's considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the u.s. no human being would want to live there. where is all in money going? how much is stolen. investigate this corrupt mess immediately. >>> the president continued his attack yesterday. if racist elijah cummings would focus more energy on helping the good people in his district of baltimore itself, perhaps progress could be made in fixing the mess that he has helped to create over many years of incompetent leadership.

this time, the president taking aim at house oversight committee chair elijah cummings, who has initiatederal investigations into the trump administration. the president lashing out in a tweet storm saying cummings' district in baltimore is, quote, a disgusting, rat and rode enter-infested mess, adding no human being would want to live there. he took it one step further, calling cummings racist without any explanation. his respon a scathing response, it's better to have a few rats than to be one. and a new attack against reverend al sharpton this morning, calling sharpton a con man. he fired back during a news conference in baltimore. >> he attacks everybody. i know donald trump. he is not mature enough to take criticism. he can't help it. but he has a particular venom for blacks and people of color. elijah cummings' district is the most well educated and middle class aspiring district of blacks in this country, and he doesn't even know what he's talking about. >> eugene scott, jonathan capehart and charlie sykes, editor in chief of the the balwirt. the governor of maryland has come under

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

put out a statement that actually glossed over much of what trump said about his "best friend elijah cummingsth both men, president trump and chairman cummings. i know both manuel. neither is a racist. period. >> i think leaving aside the genuineness of representative meadows' feelings on this issue which i think are very real, he may some day want to run statewide in our home state of north carolina. where he's going to have to win votes in raleigh, in charlotte -- >> do you have any moral problem with this stuff? >> of course i have a moral problem with it. that's one of the reasons i find the president's actions and words to be indefensible. >> it seems to me -- it's a little too philosophical but of all people you'll get it. it seems to me the definition of a conservative as opposed to a right-winger or a reactionary is to try to hold society together. you get revolutions, heads chopped off. how do you hold society together if you make people hate each other? >> and this is -- >> well, you don't. and there is a certain amount of give and take that's necessary to hold a society together. a

and both men were emotional, almost teary when elijah cummings stuck up for him.mark meadows had the opportunity to return the favor, to stick up for the man who was his dear friend, he would have us believe, and he said this statement via rick santorum on our air, and i'll just read it, here's what mark meadows said. no one works harder for his district that elijah. no, elijah is not a racist. i am friends with both men, president trump and chairman cummings. i know them both well. he offered to go to baltimore with president trump to see what they could do to remediate some of the problems that they have there. that's just a different tone than what elijah cummings took. >> it speaks volumes about a couple of things, one, the difference between democrats and republicans right now, one, about the president's judgment. he just doesn't understand what well loved and iconic figures people like elijah cummings and john lewis are and their history. he'll take on any one at any time and it speaks volumes about the republican party. it's a pretty simple equation. these

speak out made a point of not criticizing the president. >> do you agree with the president that elijah cummings is racist? >> sure, i think. i don't think either congressman cummings or president trump are racist. i think that they disagree, but you can disagree with someone's ideas but not disagree with their color. >> here for our lead-off discussion on a monday night, donna edwards, former democratic member of congress from the state of maryland, a "washington post" columnist juana summers. robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post," moderate tore of washington week pbs, and stephanie rawlings blake. good evening and welcome to you all. mayor, i'd like to begin with you. let's not overgauzy this up. it is true, as you know better than most people on the planet today, the crisis they have dealt with from crime to drugs to public education to vacant buildings. however, it is bracing to look up at the television and see the headline that the president attacks baltimore. how has it been on your end on this day? >> the way i was raised, it's not what people call you to, i

he shouldn't tell elijah cummings he racist. that's unnecessary and what is so exhausting about this president. he had a great week last week. he should be relishing the victory that he had, and the fact that we've kind of gotten past the squad conversation. it's more kindling on the bonfire by calling elijah cummings a racist. he doesn't have ownership of elijah cummings' experiences. he has very different experiences that inform his personal politics. we all have the right of that, and it doesn't necessarily make you a racist because of what you have seen or where you've been. he will experience things through vastly different lens. about baltimore, i just want to say this -- often times, and i hope at some point he takes aim at the mayor of san francisco, because we have to tackle the amount of government that is happening in the cities are pressing people, allowing homeless people to live on the streets, jacking up taxes so people who have choices move out of those places, and that's why in elijah cummings' district, part of

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

>> 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

he sees elijah cummings, especially when elijah cummings went after his immigration policy, separatinghildren from parents at the border, he saying, hey wait a second, elijah cummings, why are you talking about what's going on at the border? you should be talking about baltimore. >> it's a counterpunch. >> juan: yeah. that's what it is. it has nothing to do with the problems. >> does the president want to fix baltimore? >> juan: no, it wanted. secondly, if you have a lot of people in baltimore who have been very clear that trump is not sincere in his attack on them, they don't see any effort from the president, but the president has never shown interest in dealing with this. big ticket items like the hopkins hospital. >> there's also a lot of people who are backing up what the president said, including one of the pastors. you have the president of baltimore in his district, being interviewed about the conditions, saying that he hasn't done anything for them. nothing has changed. but, to greg's point about solving this problem, for them to solve this problem, they would have to admit th

so this morning as the president is personally going after elijah cummings and elijah cummings who infebruary we remember publicly went to bat for mark meadows when there was an implication that mark mad does had done something racist, elijah cummings stood up for him unprompted. let's remind the people. >> mr. meadows, you know. of all the people on this committee i've said it and got in trouble for it, that you're one of my best friends. i know that shocks a lot of people. >> and likewise, mr. chairman. >> you are. and i would do -- and i could see and feel your pain. i feel it. and so -- and i don't think miss talib intended to cause you that. >> mark meadows has had some time this weekend to step out and say something similar about elijah cummings. >> and nothing. nothing. here's what i think every single republican who was elected and anybody in america has to think about. this president is attempting to divide urban and rural. this is terrible for america. joe and i were just talking about this. joe biden saying this is about the soul of america, this election will be. are we a

the president called elijah cummings a racist. remember, meadows and cummings are on the same committee and cummings had vouched for meadows very publicly. he said i'm 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 iwhole. i'm committed to working to that end with both of them. it is vouching for congressman cummings which is maybe more than you hear from some republicans here. i know folks are out of washington now. do you expect anything different from republicans now that the president seems intent on -- there was the go back to your countries comment. there was some thought among republicans that they had gotten to mike pence and maybe gotten trump to back off. now it looks like trump is intent on going down this road. there is going to be any pushback from republicans or any se

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 neighbors. it's my constitutional do you the to oversee the executive branch. one of the president's several attacks on cummings had attacked cummings of not spending enough time in his cummings. congressman cummings spends a lot of

he apparently was done with elijah cummings. you said you're going to baltimore and next thing we know, donald trump's on twitter. al's a conman, always looking for a score, just doing his thing. must have intimidated comcast/msnbc. hates whites and cops. >> donald trump has decided that he is going to run a blatantly racist campaign. he's counting on the american people to be that bigoted and he's trying to energize that base. because you've got to ask yourself, first of all, it is the typical playbook to call civil rights guys conmen. j. edgar hoover said that about mrt martin luther king. you don't belong in the field if you think you won't be called that. and you hate whites and cops, why did he call me to the white house several times since he's been president and come to my action network convention, which i released the photos, he's been there two, three times. he doesn't read that. he's playing on what he hopes is the racial ignorance of a lot of americans that he calls his base. i think he's racist because he's comforta

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

icon, representative elijah cummings of maryland.sentative confronted the president on a matter of policy and he received in return a personal attack. i called on the democrat line. consider ther i best candidate. thank you. host: the president continuing to tweet about elijah cummings this morning. several tweets this morning about it. brandon in maryland, republican. who do you trust? caller: i don't trust -- i do trust the government to an extent. i don't trust police or religious leaders. really should not trust religious leaders. they are just conmen trying to get your money. host: is there any political leader you do trust? well, it is hard to say. you really should not trust when itide of the aisle comes to congress leaders. pelosi and mcconnell have been there too long. they need to institute term limits. i heard the guy say he trusts bernie sanders. that is a terrible idea. realistically, i thought we could trust joe biden, but he is stepping little girls hairs. apparently he is a secret racist, which i find it hard to belie

reporter: elijah cummings is not the mayor of baltimore and -- >> elijah cummings, i'm not angry.'m just telling you the facts. i'm not angry at anybody. i'm just saying elijah cummings has been there for 26 years. he is really, by far the highest ranking politician. he has seen these mayors get thrown out, thrown out, thrown out. they're all friends of his. the corruption and graft in baltimore is probably greatest in our country. or one of them. wait. he is in charge of an oversight committee. all i'm saying take your oversight committee, go to baltimore. you will learn a lot. [reporters shouting questions] reporter: [inaudible]. >> say it? reporter: what will you do on the -- [inaudible] >> we have a very good relationship with poland. i have a very good relationship with most countries, that the news doesn't like talking about. i have a very good relationship with poland. we've been invited by the leadership of poland i look forward to it. i like the people. i gave a speech in poland i which i know you don't like to say, but it was considered to be a great speech and the reaso

the president stepping up its criticism of democratic congressman elijah cummings and for good measure, adding an al sharpton or over the battle over baltimore officially boils over. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto and mrs. "your world." the president said its elijah cummings and sharpton and democrats being racist after he dared to criticize conditions in baltimore. what does the former democratic presidential nominee joe lieberman think? first, john roberts the white house on how this is playing out. >> good afternoon, the president not happy with elijah cummings, chairman for congressional oversight committee committee in the house. cummings continues to dog the president, investigating his finances, recently asking for the personal emails of his daughter ivanka trump and his son-in-law jared kushner. what really got the president hopping over the weekend was when "fox & friends," a program on this network, played this video of cummings operating the acting dhs secretary kevin mcaleenan back on july 18 over conditions at the border. watch. >> you feel like you're doing a great j

clearly the president was attacking elijah cummings, and i think he was saying to elijah cummings pay more attention to your district, but then he went off on baltimore in a very insulting way that i think brought the city of baltimore's not only residents but supporters together to say hey, mr. president -- >> sandra: he would be the first one. how about bernie sanders back in 2015? what about the former democratic mayor of baltimore saying this? >> anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think there in a wealthy nation. you would think you're in a third world country. >> some of the same organizers now going back into these communities to try and clean up in the aftermath of a handful of criminals and thugs who tore up the place. >> we should just take all this [bleep] -- you can smell the rats. >> sandra: again, that last bit there was the former democratic mayor catherine pugh saying exactly that. why weren't those those words l than? >> they were. calling attention to try to resolve it, i think you get to your point, the president was responding t

well, this weekend the president called elijah cummings racist.et me remind people how cummings went to bat for mark meadows when the shoe was on the other foot. watch this. >> i think she said she was not calling you a racist. and i thought that we could clarify that. because, mr. meadows. you know -- and of all the people on this can committee, i've said it and got in trouble for it. that you're one of my best friends. i know that shocks a lot of people. >> and likewise, mr. chairman. >> you are. and i can see and feel your pain. i feel it. and so -- and i don't think miss tlib shouldn't have called you that. >> and now ticktock where is the defense of elijah cummings? >> the silence is deafening. we're talking about this one instance, but this is a pattern by this president, right? this is on the heels of the horrible racist attacks that he shot out at the four congresswomen of color. this is nothing new. communities have been feeling this from the moment he came down that escalator and called mexicans rapists and criminals. as a latina, ever s

just ask elijah cummings or constituents, the people of maryland's seventh congressional district outraged at chairman cummings' questioning, he tweeted why is so much money sent to the elijah cummings district when it's considered ed woshz -- the worst run and the most run and most dangerous anywhere in the united states? no human being would want to live there. where is that money going? how much is stolen? investigate this corrupt mess immediately. he continued as proven last week during a congressional tour, the border is clean, efficient and well run, just very crowded. his district is a rodent infested mess. if he spent more time in baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this place. he commutes and goes home daily. his district is home to 700,000 people, about 700,000 more than the president says would want to live there. it's racially diverse, majority african american home to the john hopkins medical center and according to the "the baltimore sun" one of the wealthiest in majority black districts in the country and has some extreme poverty and crime and baltimore does have long-st

representa elijah cummings is a brutal bully shouting about conditions at the southern border. mmings' district is a disgusting rat ande in baltimore maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous and filthy place. cu district is majority black, is leading one of several house committee investigations into the trump administration. he answered mr. trump with a conciliatory tone. mr. president, i go home to my district daily. each morning io and fight for my neighbors.s my constitutiona conduct overght of the executive br, but it is my moral duty to fightor my constituents. trump's attack racist. democratic presidential hopefuls returned fire. it's what this president loves do and is wrong for this country. >> rep and evidently the president thinks this is working out for him. he is tweeting early this morning. a tweet this morning, someone please explain to nancy pelosi, who is recently called racist by thos in her own party, 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

he, again, attacked elijah cummings, reverend al sharpton. the president often lashes out. he did that today. he said cummings is the racist, sharpton is the racist. i asked the president what he meant by that. he didn't engage. he also, hallie, described baltimore as a living hell for the people there. he then clarified and meant by the people living there, he meant most of the african-americans who live there. and he also i think was actually -- this is actually rather instructive. he said that his attacks, he was asked what he thinks about these attacks, does it help him politically. the president said yes. the public answer he gave is he believes he's really exposing the corruption in baltimore. but the private answer you get from advisers, and i know, hallie, you have had these conversations, too, is they think his love it or leave it approach to patriotism that he expressed two weekends ago over the four congress diagnosis women of color, they believe that that kind of approach helps the president with his base. it's been reflected in some polling among republicans tha

president fighting back of being illegitimate attacks on the border, you can see the questioning that elijah cummings did of kevin mcaleenan and mr. 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 pre

it's very simple and elijah cummings is in charge of it.ought to park them in baltimore and find out what happened to the $50 million come a lot of other money. we will see what happens with china. i think we will do very well with china. we are already doing very well with china. they have had the worst year they have 27 years we are having the best year we've ever had. the stock market hit a all-time high. we are doing the best we've ever done. all three indexes if you look at it, depending on what you want to call, all three are hitting brand-new highs. we are doing the best we've ever done as a country and i'm very happy about it. unemployment, the best numbers we have ever had. by the way, african-american unemployment is the lowest in history. criminal justice reform, obama couldn't do it. i got it done. he couldn't do it. he didn't even come close. they are very thankful. if you look at all of the opportunity zones, inner-city opportunity zones come almost all of them. african-americans. the african-american people don't listen, they

i am just saying elijah cummings has been there for 26 years.he corruption and the graph in baltimore is probably the greatest in our country or one of them. he's in charge of an oversight committee. all i'm saying is take your oversight committee and go to baltimore, you will learn a lot. >> we are seeing the president repeatedly push back on accusations much racism. he talked about opportunity zones and low unemployment for african-americans under his presidency. he spent a lot of time on twitter and talking about the efforts in china. he claims china wants an agreement and says they would do really well to reach it before november 2020 when he he he'll win and drive a much harder bargain. something he mentioned today, the reports last week about the slow down in the chinese economy and gdp. he's contrasting that with the u.s. economy and the soaring stock market. liz: to the second democrat debate starting in a couple hours. hillary vaughn is in detroit where the debate will be held. >> voters will get a chance to see the most of popular prog

i don't think elijah cummings is a bad person.hink he actually is working hard to try to help people and i certainly don't think president trump is a bad person. he's working very hard -- in fact ask him today would you be willing to work with elijah cummings to bring some relief to the people of baltimore and he said he would be happy to. in the meantime, going to continue with the programs like the opportunity zones which get people to take money and invest it into the areas that are distressed. if there are 149 of them. and governor hogan is doing a good job to help and capitalize on that. but also, unemployment is at a very low level. manufacturing is coming back. wages are going up. person reform. all these things are happening. these are not things that a person who was a racist would d do. and we allow ourselves to be distracted by these things. and i think what president trump was trying to say is that rather than spending your time talking about our brave border agents and investigating endlessly things that you can't fin

that the president in a moment of weakness of his character decides to impugn the character of elijah cummings 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. >> onejuana, you were sitting i 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 traveli

he went after elijah cummings. he would say because elijah cummings has been attacking him because he's been investigating him, the administration. >> harris: it's also his district. >> steve: but it's unlikely this will result in a positive outcome for anybody because of the way that the attack -- >> harris: that's interesting. could an argument be made -- i will double done with you -- good an argument be made for the people of baltimore? even dr. carson said today there are a lot of bright spots there. he said the agency has been concentrating on that area for very long time and that he sees hope there. but now we are talking resources pouring in, potentially. that actually would be a good thing. >> steve: if you live in baltimore and you want to fix the problems in it, of course there are major problems in the city. people have been writing about and talking about it and giving speeches about it, highlighting it for literally years. no one denies there are problems with the city. if you want to solve the proble

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we start this hour with prch president trump's attacks on elijah cummings. th congressional district rodent and rat infested and i'm quoting here, where no human being would want to live. he is saying that congressman cummings doesn't spend time in his district. in the middle of the attack, the congressman replied on twitter, i go home to my district daily. each morning, i wake up and i go and fight for my neighbors. it's my constitutional duty to provide oversight of the executive branch. but it's my moral duty to fight for my constituents. elijah cummings is investigating how signed security clearance are signed by the white house. how the administration has dealt with and continues to deal with saudi arabia and potential obstruction of justice. the president continued his tirade. someone explain to nancy pelosi, who was called racist by people in her own party, that it there's 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. a letter by former members