company as well before i was involved with the it just to campaign i was invited by a man called rob roy who's a he was involved in the campaign chef it was a much much greater exodus. trees being cut down from the city but i was asked to go and sort of visualize in the trees give them personalities and i did these portraits of a selection of them and we organized a great big paint out day for hundreds of people who took part so that campaign one of 2 years and they've stopped that they're not going to cut the trees down to more no they're not saying it's the direct result of that but all of these small contributions that the community plays a part in very actively proactively is what contributes a war of attrition you have to grind the whole process done and i think with a lot of these campaigns they have to have to be seen to be serious i think a lot of people they have got to convince that there's no no i'm sticking around i'm not here just for the day you know i think that with campaigns at this particular what we were doing we focused very specifically on small areas of the landscap

we've heard that with roy moore, these are old allegations, with rob porter, his staff secretary, oh, these are old allegations. i mean, donald trump's reflex is always to feel defensive and protective to the accused man. >> and he will probably point to the fact that epstein pleaded not guilty to this as a denial. we have seen the president defend those who deny it. today it's hard to get an answer out of the white house since there are no longer white house briefings and the white house has deferred questions about this today. i think this is something they will have to address because this is his labor secretary, and jeremy is exactly right, the labor secretary is the person in charge of investigating the same and protecting against the same sorts of crimes we are seeing now. we are talking about this is not a victimless crime. this is a horrible crime of trafficking of children, and the fact that this is connected to this white house, i think in any other administration the secretary acosta would no longer have a job already but they will have the very difficult task of defending

rob portman of ohio also called the president's racist tweets wrong. senator lisa murkowski tweeted that the comments were, quote, spiteful and the number five in the party, roy blunt, said, quote, there is plenty to say about how destructive house democrats' policies would be for our economy, our health care system and our security. i think that's where the focus should be. but check out the dodge from his fellow senators. from tennessee and alabama. >> we saw the president's tweets this weekend. >> actually -- >> he said these progressive congresswomen should go back to their countries. i'm wondering what your reaction is to that. >> i'm working as hard as i can on producing health care. i'm not giving a daily commentary on the president. >> these are racist tweets. do you have any concerns about it? >> the president said these minority congresswomen should go back to their countries. do you have a response? >> i haven't read that, but i'll check it out. >> haven't read it. all right. let me turn now to democrat in california congressman pete aguilar. congressman, thank you for coming on the show. and bottom line, what is your response to the president's co