and jonathan capehart is back with us, also an msnbc contributor.u aware of any reporting from the white house today indicating that anyone considered canceling the rally in pennsylvania? >> no, in fact, the president said because there were people lining up and waiting for him at this rally he felt he had to go do this. when really in fact the president loves rallies because this is place he can feel safe, this is place where people can shout his name. and he's not always saying that much news. in fact, fox news which has covered the president's rallies live, said they'd rather have regular programming and come back to the news, which they didn't. also to tell people he won the womens vote, which in fact he did not. he won the white women vote. >> he's lying. he said people were lining up 24 hours in advance. there were no people doing that. let's take a look at the senate race in pennsylvania, the race donald trump decided to go to tonight to campaign. and we saw the democrat bob casey at 50% in pennsylvania. and the republican lou barletta who pr

. >> joining me now jennifer ruren and jonathan capehart. jonathan is also host of wnyc radio's national political collin show, america on the line. welcome to both of you. jennifer, i've been talking about this all day and i don't even know where to start at this point other than to say words do matter, and the job of journalists, and we'll just start there where he attacked journalists -- the job of journalists are to be critical, to speak truth to power, to call out inaccuracies and falsehoods and lies and to bear witness. and if result of that work is negative, that's something politicians have to suck up and accept. >> that's right. listen, i think we need to avoid any kind of false equivalence here. it's not simply the political environment is bad, and it's certainly not it case that both sides are responsible. there is only one party here who has called for physical violence either in rallies or cheered at congressmen who body slammed a reporter. there is only one party making zenophobia and bigotry down the stretch, one party, one can

and jonathan capehart is back with us. and maya, so the in the president's cabinet. of those unique trumpian moments. >> it is a unique trumpian moment. really interesting in the context of this conversation about whether or not he would be firing rod rosenstein or asking -- rosenstein or asking for his resignation because of course rod rosenstein would be the next in line if he were simply filling the vacancy, waiting for an opportunity to have the advice and consent of the senate. so to go to sessions' chief of staff, who by the way is not next in line but of course we know he would probably i'm guessing love to fire rod rosenstein, and it's the guy that sessions brings in, so it's a slap in sessions' face in every way imaginable. but the reality here is he's not looking for an attorney general to be the highest law enforcement officer of the land. he's looking for the attorney general who will be loyal to donald trump, not the nation. and that's really the story here. >> and jonathan, matthew whitaker, jeff sessions' chief of staff, a month before he becomes jeff

so there is some hope there that it sticks. >> and jonathan capehart, the president yesterday, doingthing that was a little bit risky politically, because he went to erie, pennsylvania, for a fund-raiser and rally at the time when the hurricane, hurricane michael was tearing into panama city, florida, through the panhandle. he said in a tweet, couldn't let these great people down. they have been lined up since last night, and see you in pennsylvania. showing a picture that is actually a picture taken by his nemesis jim acosta the of , c n lined out there, and our crusade no lineup of people to be there, and he made a decision for the fund-raiser or the politics of pennsylvania that he was not going to be cancelling that political event. >> this is the president tweeting are from the alternative universe. there is no way that the president was going to cancel that event. >> really? >> and showing that the president is not responding well to hurricanes? >> well, he is showing time and time again that he is not like other presidents, and he does not act like other presidents and he does

me now from moveon.org, and also a democratic pollster and host of pod strange days and also jonathan capehartriend, here is mayor gillum talking about this idea of running attack ads during a storm. take a listen. >> we can't recall a time where candidates for statewide office have not pulled down negative ads during hurricane season. you have a whole region of our state where folks are fleeing for their lives, anticipating what is a life threatening event impacting this state. i would encourage my opponent to subside with the politics. >> have you ever seen anything like what is being done to andrew gillum right now? >> in a word, no. let me state what is happening. this is reprehensible. the republicans playing the race card because they have no other cards to play. remember, they have been in total control of the florida state government for over 20 years, so they can't defend themselves on the issues, so they have traded the dog whistles for bull horns and they are using now openly racial tropes to undermine andrew gillum. it started the moment they said we couldn't monkey this up, now th