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[ cheers ] unity over division! we have to choose our allies over our enemies. we have to choose truth over lies. >> president trump back on the road tonight campaigning for republicans in wisconsin. >>> president trump touting a mystery tax cut for the middle class. with congress out of session, d.c. scrambled yesterday to make sense of what the president was promising. critics of the original gop tax law say it favors companies over families, and it balloons the federal deficit. they asked the top trade adviser, peter navarro, if another tax cut is necessary. >> he's targeting the middle class 10% which i think is a great idea. one of the beauties of the trump economy is the high levels of investment we're seeing from the tax cut and from the tariffs. investments coming on shore. what does that do? what that does is it increases our productivity, and when you get increased productivity, real wages go up. so we're seeing wage growth with that investment. and it's hitting on all cylinders. >> if the economy is so strong, and i think it is by every measure, and the president's talking about more tax cuts, do we run the risk of even worsening the deficit here? >> the best way to close a deficit is to add another point of growth. >> that's been the philosophy from day one, right. that right now it's about juicing growth. what does president trump think is the biggest risk to the economy? the federal reserve. in a "wall street journal" interview he said fed chair jerome powell is raising interest rates too quickly and he is unhappy because president obama had zero interest rates. he said powell, who he chose, looks happy while doing it. raising interest rates. >> he needs a boogieman, and even if it's the fed chairman heading into the midterms, that's what he's going to do. >> i don't think anybody wants the economy obama had when he came in. he had zero interest rates because the economy was off a cliff. >> no one wants to inherit that. >> that's why the interest rate were zero. >>> the candidates for the next governor of joe covered a range of topics during the hour-long debate last night sparring over criminal justice reform, education, medicaid, and voter suppression. democrat stacey abrams, republican brian kemp, and libertarian ted metz squaring off. abrams defending a 1992 georgia flag-burning protest when it still had the confederate symbol. cnn has more from atlanta. >> reporter: for the first time in this hotly contested race, georgia's candidates for governor faced off in a debate. and right out of the gate, democrat stacey abrams was asked about the news of the day. her admission that in 1992 she participated in a protest where the old georgia state flag was burned. >> 26 years ago as a college freshman, i along with many other georgians including the governor of georgia, were deeply disturbed by the racial "desperate housewives" -- racial divisiveness that was embedded in the state flag with that confederate symbol. i took an action of peaceful protest. >> the most controversial topic for republican brian kemp to address -- the allegations of voter suppression by stacey abrams in his capacity as secretary of state. >> we have more voters on the roll than when i took office. i created the process for overseas and military ballots to be delivered electronically. we have made it easier to vote and hard to cheat. and just because miss abrams files a false lawsuit or the new georgia project it doesn't mean it's right, and we defeated that in 2014. >> reporter: both campaigns entered the debate with similar strategies -- to continue down their polar opposite paths. both did that, energizing their bases in a state where few undecided voters remain. >> thank you very much. >>> the democratic nominee for governor of florida targeted by a blatantly racist robo call. andrew gillum mocked in a brutally offensive message delivered in black-faced dialect. the call also makes derogatory references to jews and slavery. listen. >> well, hello, there. i have negro andrew gillum, and i'm asking you to make me the governor of this here state of florida. my eastern opponent who call me the monkey is doing a lot of hollering about how expensive my plan for health care be -- >> vile. >> deplorabldeplorable. >> a right-wing extremist podcast, "the road to power," claiming responsibility for the message. gillum's complain blasted the call as deeply offensive. no response yet from the campaign of his republican opponent, ron disantis. >> gillum challenged on another front claiming he received stic tickets to a broadway show in 2016. new allegations cast doubt on gillum's explanation. his campaign says his brother was the source of the ticket. but the texts hint they may have come from someone else. text messages were handed over by a close friend gillum saw the show with, a friend who is also a lobbyist. gillum's campaign claims the crypt cryptic texts show he did not mislead the public. >>> president trump set to meet with u.s. officials returning from turkey and saudi arabia, they were there looking into the death of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. the "wall street journal" asked the president about the possible involvement of crown prince mohammad bin salman. trump said, well, the prince is running things over there. so if anybody were going to be, it would be him. the president delivering his harshest indictment so far of the saudis and khashoggi's horrific murder. >> they did the wrong thing in even thinking about the idea. they certainly did a bad job of execution and certainly did a bad job of talking about it or covering it up, if you'd like to say that. but i would say it was a total fiasco. from day one. >> secretary of state mike pompeo says the u.s. will revoke the visa as of all the saudis linked to the murder. he says the administration has, quote, identified at least some of the individuals responsible. so far it seems the fiasco has done little, though, to harm the crown 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>> they can do a lot. they're the military. they're the military. they can do a lot. >> the president doubling down while calling himself a nationalist while denying there are any racist overtones to the term. >> there's a concern that you are sending coded language or a dog whistle to some americans that what you really mean is that you're a white nationalist. >> i never heard that. i cannot imagine that. you mean i say -- i'm a nationalist. i never heard that theory about being a nationalist. we protect, and we get killed. we do the training, and they get killed. can't do it. >> the president's potential 2020 opponent, former vice president joe biden. honing in on this message -- >> this president's more like george ] no. and democrats have to choose hope over fear. 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