if president trump ever decided to step foot in any part of west baltimore he would see hard working americans who wake up every single day, who try to prepare kids to become the best americans, who go to work, who own small businesses, who are

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this comes after he described cummings' west baltimore district as a disgusting rat and rodent-infereed mess. thedent was apparently reacting to the gnglling cummis gave last week to the acting homeland security director over tension of the t facilities ov barred. >>rd boer. >> what does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces? can't take a shower? come on, man. >> cummings responded to there psident's attacks by saying it is his constitutional duty to conduct overght of t executive branch. baltimore city leaders and the governor of maryland have come o cummings' defense in this issue. and all of these comments along with much more on this week's testimony from former special ue counsel roberter coming up later this morning on "meet the press." moderator chuctodd will join us in a few minutes here in studio to talk about what the testimony means for congress and the white house moving forward. "meet the press" starts at 10:30, not too long from now, right here at "news4 today." >>> now to a tragic story in new york city. a father is charged with the twins f his 1-year-old a

but as i said this morning, the people in maryland 7th, west baltimore, baltimore county, the childrenawn middle, they do the same things that the ranking republican on the house oversight in their communities do. the president speaks about people in this way, he dismisses them in the name of politics. there are people in maryland 7th who support president trump. there are republicans. there are people that voted for him there as well. when he dismisses them it is really disappointing. >> his words to me are dehumanizing. he is attempting to dehumanize immigrants and minorities and even american citizens that disagree with him. what effect does that have on communities. >> when you hear the word infestation, from the president, and he is talking about your neighborhood. your community. it is deflating. all right. it is deflating. president on the night of his election in 2016 said that i will be the president for everyone. he repeated that in the inaugural. but we have seen from the president, and he has been transparent about it that he prioritizes those that support him. well, all of

the city of baltimore faces many problems and one has been there for many years west baltimore which is prone to crime and violence and with the streets are indicate. one of the last homicides happened just here a few days ago and with more than 300 people murdered last year there is no doubt that baltimore is one of the most violent cities in north america but does this make it a rap and rodent infested mess as president trump says. a series of inflammatory tweets from the y. tells its baltimore slate as problem president trump calling the city of very dangerous and filthy place worst in the usa and says no human being would want to live there president trump statements are wrong. represent a political attack and a lack of understanding regarding the dynamics of baltimore the dynamics of crime a city with a black population of more than 60 percent some feel insulted by the president's rhetoric but others say there is some truth to what he says he's right about some part as well like others like if you haven't been here you can't really say anything about it especially if you're not

even if that does not improve the situation in west baltimore. brent: the united nations is using today to draw attention to human trafficking. almost half of trafficking victims are women. men account for 1/5. one fourth are girls. 7% are boys. more countries are reporting trafficking. trafficking is just one aspect of modern slavery. they often endure forced labor in the worst of conditions. >> a steady job with a good salary and a lucrative bonus. that is the promise that can't many indonesian men to leave their homes and had to see. what they get is this. footage released shows crewmembers sleeping onhe floor in the cargo hold looking malnourished and exhausted. one of them says he was tricked a recruiting agency, trafficked to somalia and forced to spend nine months above a chinese fishing boat. packing fish for 18 hours per day. >> when we did not catch in a fish or squid, we were beaten by the captain. we were beaten a lot. i am still traumatized by it. >> o on board, , the crew claimd they were given aa chance -- choice between going hung

comments about congressman elijah cummings's 7th congressional district, specifically that of west baltimore. the paper's editorial board wrote in part this, it is not hard to see what's going on here, the congressman has been a thorn in this president's side, and mr. trump sees attacking african-american members of congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of the white supremacists who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful people who don't to scream. we would tell the most dishonest man to occupy the oval office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women's prooif private parts, the useful idiot of vladimir putin, and the guy who insists there are good people among murderous neo-nazis, not fooling most americans that he's slightly confident, or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one. some pretty harsh words. >> they certainly weren't holding their punches. senior writer at roll call, neils, let's talk about the criticism the president is facing for his attack on congressman coupummin

take on cummings and his congressional district even if that doesn't improve the situation in west baltimore. are the sign of us some of the other stories making news around the world. in syria opposition activists say an overnight airstrike on a market in the town of has killed at least 4 people and injured 20 more position leaders have blamed the government for a series of deadly strikes over the past 3 days that have targeted the rebel held town. in sweden american rapper asap rocky has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault the artist was arrested in a month ago for allegedly brawling while on tour in stockholm while the case caught the attention of us president donald trump who tried to intervene with the swedish government. here in germany prosecutors in frankfurt have charged a man with one count of murder and 2 counts of attempted murder for allegedly pushing a boy under a train at the city's main station on monday other 30 say the accused who has not been named will also be examined by a psychiatrist the suspect had been living in switzerland but he fled from there after allegedly

take on cummings and his congressional district even if that doesn't improve the situation in west baltimore. where the united nations is using today to draw attention to human trafficking it is a global problem with more than 40000000 people thought to be trapped in some form of slavery almost half of trafficking victims are women as you see right there men account for about one 5th nearly a quarter are girls 7 percent are boys more countries are reporting trafficking up from 26 in 2009 look at this a big jump to 65 last year trafficking is just one aspect of modern slavery victims they often endure forced labor in the worst of conditions. a steady job with a good salary and a lucrative bonus that's the promise that tempts many indonesian men to leave their high end and help to feed but what they get is this that i don't know down to teach released by the indonesian seafarers movement chaske remembers sleeping on the floor in the cargo hold looking malnourished and exhausted. one of them has run matula. he says he was tricked by an indonesian recruiting agency traffic to somalia and forced

if president trump ever decided to step foot in any part of west baltimore he would see hard working americans who wake up every single day, who try to prepare kids to become the best americans, who go to work, who own small businesses, who are the bedrock of what we see in communities all throughout this country. and for him to try to disparj and insul overwhelmingly majority part of the state of maryland and city of baltimore is completely unacceptable. and that's why i think you saw many folks in baltimore city speak out against president trump earlier today. >> speaker pelosi calls the president's comments racist. what would you call them? >> racist. i mean, i think that since he has taken office either he has teetered the line of being racist or he has been racist. you look in the past two weeks, he told women of congress, colored women of congress to go back to where they are from if they didn't want to be here. he is constantly doubled down on policy that strips away family members in our immigrant population. and today to call out a major american city -- i mean the birthplac

this particular fox set, we'll show you was on "fox & friends," who went into west baltimore taking picturesditions, trash piled up on corners, there were examples of rats in the neighborhood. it's been known for parts of intercities in america, including baltimore, that are absolutely in a struggling condition that's been true for decades. fox decided to cherry-pick baltimore and one neighborhood because of elijah cummings, because the congressman has been challenging president trump, holding oversight hearings, challenging trump on the border crisis, challenging trump when it comes to the president's history. as a result, fox set up a segment attacking cummings. the president tweeted about it an hour later. now here we are. we're in one of these situations where actually bringing facts to the table doesn't necessarily solve the problem. but there were so many factual inaccuracies in the segment and the president's tweet storms. this district means so much to so many people. 700,000 people living in this district, rural, suburban areas. the president is only focusing on the neighborhoods in

you know it's west baltimore and more than west baltimore. when you saw the president's tweets, what did you think, what did you feel? >> okay. victor, first of all, thank you for being you and letting your humanity show yesterday. i cried with you. i am a product, a proud product of baltimore city. born inside a hospital just blocks from where the preakness is run. >> i was born there, too. >> yes, more connection, victor. i lived in northeast baltimore and northwest baltimore growing up. attended school at morgan state university at baltimore university. i'm still in the baltimore area. i as a child used to frequent the area where that was -- that standoff with police and community on north and penn after the freddie gray death. you know, i know baltimore from the top to the bottom, from the upper income to the low income. baltimore is a community. it's a community of communities. it's a city that, yes, is made up of survivors. it's pockets of poverty, pockets of wealth, but people, what i don't understand like detroit, baltimore is like de

president trump to single out elijah cummings, his district, by the way, is much larger than just west baltimoreal leadership. >> oh, absolutely, the local leadership is the problem. it is very much a problem but president trump is also pointed out the problems in san francisco and los angeles and the homelessness problem. these are systemic problems that are obvious to anybody whose been there. i've actually walked that district with elijah cummings. i have been there. it is horrific. it is difficult, but the president is pointing out the obvious. pete: he is. where does this debate go? what can elijah cummings do, positions could be change to effect conditions there. >> well i've got to tell you. i saw firsthand i was the chairman of the oversight committee, elijah was the ranking member, donald trump and his first 30 days of his presidency reached out to elijah cummings was working with him one on one and i even said i'm the chairman of the committee and republican and you're interacting more with elijah cummings than you are with me so the president feels like his hand was written bitten in

of course i would choose that over west baltimore any day. >> please give doing what you're doing goode will keep showing the american people. the people in baltimore are part of our american family. they deserve better. they deserve a lot better. they have not been served by these failed policies. joining us now is more, secretary ben carson. you know, dr. carson, this is every big liberal city in america. we are now chronically the same failed policies and we've got these idiots that are in detroit and they want to implement not only the same policy is about they want to implement it nationwide and worse. does that then become america? >> unfortunately, it has become to a large degree. you know, we have gone from i can do society to a what can you do for me society and this really does need to change. you know, a lot of this has been focused on the present president and his language. the only thing the president is guilty of is not being politically correct. and bringing attention to things that are supposed to be slipped under the rug. you probably know some people who, you know, ar

i'm calling out ben carson who spent the majority of his career in west baltimore, in baltimore.ouse. i know you lived in baltimore. as a member of his senior cabinet, where is ben? why is he not calling it? he's in charge of housing for the trump administration. where are you? why are you not defending baltimore? >> and as we go, i am going to say former maryland lieutenant governor michael steele said to you know who, your reprehensible comments are like water off a duck's back. it washes over them. it does not stick and it will not stain. we'll be right back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ sensitivity. and then i jump on the trampoline. ahh brain freeze! no, it's my teeth. your teeth hurt? sensitivity. i should do something about it. 80% of sensitivity starts at the gum line, so treat sensitivity at the source. new crest gum and sensitivity starts treating sensitivity immediately, at the gum line, for relief within days and wraps your teeth in sensitivity protection. ohh your teeth? no, it's brain freeze! crest. healthy, beautiful smiles for life. seventh

and his west baltimore district.first of the president's two-day attack came on saturday when the president claimed the maryland congressman's district is a quote disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. if he spent more time in baltimore, trump continued, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous and filthy place. in another tweet, the president wrote quote, why is so much money sent to the elijah cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the united states? no human being would want to live there. where is all the money going? how much is stolen? investigate this corrupt mess immediately. the president continued his attack yesterday, quote it's racist. elijah cummings would focus more of his energy on helping the good people of his district and baltimore itself perhaps progress could be made in fixing the mess that he has helped to create over many years of incompetent leadership. his radical oversight is a joke. in all, the president sent or shared 15 tweets attack

he also touted border facilitie run before calling cummings' west baltimore district a disgusting, rodent infested mess. the mayor is questioning his motives. >> he has a history of attacking minorities. he attacked the congresswomen, he's attacked elijah cummings, who else is he going to attack? >> last week cummings called trump a racist for telling four lawmakers to go back to their home countries. >>> still to come, ranking removed. cal is getting called out tonight. the reason behind the reprimand. >>> plus, a perfect day for the beach. . >>> david ortiz is out of the hospital. the form boston red sox slugger will continue rehab. he was shot in the dominican republic last month. police concluded ortiz wasn't even the intended target. he's undergone three surgeries because of that gunshot. police have arrested 14 people in the case and they're still looking for others. >>> a fall from grace for uc berkeley. economies a economics are stiacademics are in its alumni giving instead of only actualdonations. it's kind of a real small area there. berkeley is now listed as unranked. they'll b

this comes after i described cummings' west baltimore mstrict as a disgusting rat and rodent-infestedess. the president was apparently reacting to the grilling that cummings gave last week to acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan over conditions at detention facilities along the border. >> doing our level best -- >> what does that mean? what does that mean when a child issi tting their owns? fece can't take a shower. come on, man. >> cummings responded to the president's attacks by saying it is his constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the executive branch. baltimore city leaders meantime and the governor of governor came to cummin' defense as well. all of these comments along with much more will be a topic on this week's special councili hearng on "meet the press." we will talk about special counsel robert mueller's testimon moderator, chuck todd, will join us in studio before the show with what all this means forhe white house moving forward. "meet the press" starts at 10:30 right here after "news4 today." >>> we want to get to a tragic story developing in new york c

then fox brought in a guest named kimberly who went to impoverished parts of west baltimore and madeeos of ruined row homes. fox called her a republican strategist. be but there is no evidence she's ever been employed by campaign. she did run for a local position and lost last year. they call her a republican strategist. then she starred getting booked on tv again and again as a so-called strategist on the hill and fox and other shows. her linked in profile says she's a commentator "not under contract" which means she's going on for free. earlier this month she decided to take on cummings by making videos about baltimore's run down neighborhoods. here is where the president is getting his information. she was booked on fox again on saturday. the president was watching and lawyer later he tweeted. first listen to what she said on fox. >> there is a crisis at the border and also a crisis in baltimore. congressman cummings represents the most dangerous district in america. >> she went on to use words that trump would parrot basically exactly. watch. >> there's abandon row holes filled w

trump unleashing again a new series of attacks on democratic congressman elijah cummings and his west baltimore district. the president trashing the congressman on twitter claiming his district has the worst crime statistics in the nation but providing zero sources to back up this claim. that is in addition to the president's attacks that took place this weekend when he tweeted, the city of baltimore is a, quote, disgusting, rat-infested mess. if congressman cummings spent more time in baltimore maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous and filthy place. the president followed up by calling congressman cummings, who is black, a racist. the congressman responded with a series of tweets on saturday saying this. mr. president, i go home to my district daily. 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. just yesterday i held a hearing on the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs and the financial hardships that families across the nation and in b

and i strongly believe that i'm calling out ben carson, who spent the majority of his career in west baltimore. where is been? >> he's in charge of houston for the trump administration. >> bill: they were calling out this week and tonight, go ahead and reacts to that, sir. >> obviously i did have something to say about it. and we need to turn down the heat, turn down the volume here and start acting like adults. running around calling people names rather than discussing the real issues. this is not about donald trump and what he said. this is about the people of baltimore. this is about the children were going to failing schools who are exposed to lead, exposed to mold. this is about people living in inadequate houses. this is about trash piled up. this is about the people themselves and by evoking all of these names and acting like children, defocus the attention from where it should be. >> bill: i heard a number of the things you said earlier as we were watching on "america's newsroom" and one of the things you said is you wish the president would express himself, express his heart to people

a reporter went into west baltimore and videotaped some of the more troubled areas in the city where residents lacked certain basic sanitation, water facilities, trash collection, things of that nature, highlighting it. and that, of course, triggered the president just a few minutes later after that segment aired into tweeting about elijah cummings, his district, taking after the district as you reported, calling tait a rodent and rat-infested mess. as you report going back to his district every day, he says, and highlighting that the president had promised him that he would get on board with a legislation that cummings has sponsored to lower the cost of prescription drugs by doing something the president has supported in the past, allowing the government to negotiate directly with drug companies to lower those prices. elijah cummings said that would directly affect the lives of his constituents, improve the lives of his constituents by offering lower cost drugs. the president has backed away from that promise. but, again, a majority black district, elijah cummings, and incidentally

the attac individual personally.sp then he has aging things about his district in west baltimore whichany people in the u.s. consider to be raurst. laa: michael steele, the lieutenant governor of maryland and republican says the president has a particular venom for blacks and people or. is it deliberate? ron: michael steele is a good friend of mine and we have discussed this many times over the past two years. he believes thiss deliberate. don't know what is in the president's heart. i could never presume to know what is -- what is in his hearts. -- his heart. certainly for me, the optics of this look bad. rst he started off by insulting congressman john lewis, a civil rights icon. then we talk about the infamous sq color.r black women of and now mr. cummings. you start to say, is this a pattern? is there something more deliberate or is this coincidental? i do not believe in politics that anything is coincidental. laura: the president is trying to expand his base. what is the political risk rticularly in terms of independent voters? ron: i think the risk is a strong one. who wins elect

said no human being would want to live there. >> go look at the videos posted by some folks at west baltimoree are places that people would like to leave. and we could do better as americans. >> van, let me bring you in. >> first of all, the president is failing kindergarten at this point. a kindergartener taken out of classroom for talking to and about people for the way the president has talked about them. i don't think the republicans can get out of it this time. let's be fair. if the president said, all right, you don't like the border, clean up your back yard. that is fair. he went beyond that and said no human being would want to live in baltimore. that is so beyond the pail because it resonates in the idea you are sub-human if you live there. and i have to say, i'm so proud of victor blackwell on cnn for coming out and just speaking from the heart the way he did. millions have seen -- he speaks for me and black and white who don't want to see the president of the united states to stoop so low as to dehumanize a city. >> "the baltimore sun" is liberal and democratic and they had a scath

look in west baltimore.'s some pretty awful neighborhoods. >> he called them not human. >> no, he didn't. >> he said no human being would want to live there. >> go look at the videos that are posted by some folks in west baltimore. there are some places that people would like to leave and we can do better as americans. >> van, let me bring you on. >> first of all, the president is failing kindergarten. a kinder gardener would be taken out avenue a classroom for talking like this. i don't think that the republicans can get out of it this time. if all he said was -- just to be fair, if the president said you don't like the border, clean up your back yard, that would be fair. he went beyond that. he said no human being would want to live in baltimore. that is so beyond the pale, because it resonates in the idea you are sub human if you live there. and i've got to say, i'm so proud of victor blackwell on cnn for coming out and just speaking from the heart the way that he did. millions of people have seen he spea

. >> if president trump decided too step not in any west-baltimore, he would see hardworking americans, who wake up anywhere best and try to go to work and own small businesses, who are the bedrock of what we see in country. for him to disparage and assault. the city of boston is unacceptable. le. >> nancy provided baltimore as a champion in civil rights. democratic senator and presidential candidate, elizabeth warren, went even further. >> jmp, is a racist who makes ever more outdangerous, racist remarks. to be attacked by a president? it is beyond insults. >> he brings shame to himself and the office. >>> here's "the baltimore sun," swumming it up, better to be rats than have to heat them. >> for people thal grew up in baltimore, those people invested to use over and over again, seemingly reserved, only for people attacks the center. victor blackwell delivered the facts on his home down, again. >> reporter: this morning, the president attacked another member of congress on twitter. this time, it's elijah cummings. he wrote this -- summings convict is a disgusting, rat baltimored mess

tweet came after a fox news segment showing video of piles of trash and abandoned buildings in west baltimore. it also showed people saying that they believe that they are living in worse living conditions than the people on the border. tom? >> tara palmeri at the white house tonight. thank you. >>> now to the other major headline involving the white house. the supreme court ruling in a 5-4 decision that $2.5 billion in pentagon funds may be used to build the southern border wall. the president calling it a big victory. when does building begin and what legal challenges are standing in the way? abc's rachel scott is at the supreme court. >> reporter: in president trump's fight to build a wall along the u.s./mexico border, a victory. the supreme court clearing a path for the administration to reallocate $2.5 billion in defense funds for wall construction, money that was previously frozen by a lower court. 5-4 the court's conservative majority ruled those funds may be used even as court challenges continue. that money ear marked for projects that would include replacing more than 100 miles of b

there's a part of baltimore that seems as if it's been forgotten. >> absolutely. large swaths of west and northwest baltimore are in terrible shape and have been more fiercfor years. we had a terrible resurgence of violence. the homicide rate has gone up. above 300 for the last four or five years. there's been a sense of unraveling here. corruption has had some -- some huge police corruption. real failures of leadership. the city is very open about what's going on and how rough things have been. what's so disheartening about the president's attack for people here in town is that he is using those tough conditions to stoke racial divide, score points instead of saying things are rough there, what can we do to help? there's been no expression of help. instead it's just using the city to score some kind of points for the campaign apparently. >> thank you. good talking to you. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> straight ahead, donald trump signs the 9/11 victim compensation fund into law guaranteeing lifelong aid to first responders. one of the leadi ining proponen said she wasn't invited.

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vacant buildings, lining many streets in the west and east parts of baltimore. nearly 17,000 abandoned structures in the city limits. the city's educational system. let's look at the records. it's also in a state ruins. look at the last year for which we have dated. 2017. investigation. zero. pay attention. zero students in five baltimore high schools and one mid will school were proficient -- one middle school were proficient in math and english. there wasn't one student proficient. and total, 13 high school students has zero students proficient in math. just like nancy pelosi needs to focus on, let's see, the needles all over the streets. people urinating, the feces in the streets in her home districts. looks like the representatives that are elect friday baltimore need to focus on their disin grating districts. let's open your eyes. baltimore's unemployment rate is the third highest of any major city in america. the poverty rate in baltimore ah, chopping 22%. household median income is $11,000 less than the national average. but the most dire issue in baltimo

caller: i have lived in oklahoma but i was adult life, born and raised in west baltimore.y grandmother's house is five minutes walking distance from where the stuff happened with freddie gray a couple of years ago off of north avenue. -- born in 1956, 1974.there at age 17 in my recollection of my time growing up there is great. got fond memories, great memories of the baltimore colts, and like i say, just a good overall association and fond recollections of my time there. , since leaving there in the last 20 years, i'm sad to say that the city has gone down horribly. horribly. most of the people, might p or group, like i said, age 60 or so , they left if they could, if they could afford to. moved out to the counties. but of course most of us do have family and friends that are still there. emphasis on the democrats, there is a democratic mayor, democratic congressman. larry hogan is the second term republican governor. does he bear any responsible the question mark caller: i don't want -- responsibility question mark caller: i don't -- responsibility? caller: i don't want

bernie sanders toured a neighborhood in baltimore in 2015, west baltimore and pronounced it similar tohird world country. he said the conditions were. finally, president trump said new hampshire was a drug-infested done. nobody called him racist then. only one he criticizes someone who is black is he called a racist. if he criticizes a white person, not a problem. >> sean: i know this, governor, disproportionately end obama years, the people who were hurt the most were minority americans. the people that are disproportionally positively impacted by d deregulation. >> what the president said was indisputably true. larry mentioned bernie sanders come in. that's only one of the things. you've got the mayor of baltimore that you talked about earlier, who clearly said that we've got rats everywhere. so i guess, we either have one or two things. either bernie sanders, the mayor who is african-american are of all a bunch of racists, or donald trump is in. you can't have it both ways. the dressing down he did of the homeland security chief, he was talking about, it's your responsibility for th

tirade sparked by a report on fox and friends showing video of abandoned buildings and trash in west baltimore. the president began his tweets callings cummings a brutal bully and saying his district is far force than the situation at the border. >> what does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces. >> reporter: referring to a meet this week during a hearing over the way migrants were handled at the border. the president referring to his district as a rat and rodent infested mess and saying if the congressman spent more time there, he could help clean up the area. the disdain between between betn nothing new. >> do you believe donald trump is a racist? >> yes, no doubt about it. that response is the congressman reacting in the wake of president trump's attack on a group of four democratic minority makers known as the squad. >>> coming up on this week, 2020 presidential candidate and new york city mayor will discuss the latest on his campaign. you can watch the full interview on this week at 8:00 right here on abc 7. >>> may have to pay afterinign . her campaign accepted donations

the weekend a lot of time looking at stents and getting some video from residents saying go to west baltimore. it is not in good shape furniturely when it is crime, trash, rat problems. and the president pointing out that if you're going to come after me if you're going to get in the mud and -- inpiewn my administration you better look in backyard as well and that's exactly what he's done over a series of tweets but guys reaction a bit predict frbl the left. : the president is a racist just watch. the president is racist. this is i don't beyond racism this is work of a serious sociopathic demagogue. he has a hate agenda and not a policy agenda. >> call it out for what it is racism there's a pattern here this guy is the big identity politician that he engages in what is known as priming. since then there have been a number of news articles that have pointed out wait a minute, people have criticized baltimore in the past, and it was not regarded as racist for it since -- here is bernie sanders, bernie sanders in elijah cummings district back in 2015 walk through it. yep, he said this about that

this comes after he described cummings' west baltimore district as, quote, agu dising rat and rodent infested mess the president was reacting to the grilgs cummings gave last week to acting homeland security cretary over conditions at detention facilities on the border. cummings responded by saying it is his constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the executive branch. >>> and the editorial board at the baltimore sun is not holding back in its response. inurglariesry op-ed the paper said mr. trump sees attacking african-american members of congress as good politics. it ended with this one, better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one, end quote. >> those comments and much more on this we's testimony from former special counsel robert mueller is coming up later this morning on "meet the press." c moderatorck todd will join us before the show to talk about what the testimony means for se gress and the white h moving forward. "meet the press" starts at 10:30 right after news4 today. >>> time right now is including a boy, areve recoring after being shot in th

trump in the last 48 hours of got more people to pay attention to the inhumane conditions of west baltimore than any politician in the last 2 decades. absolutely it was his goal. we have come to a position in society where politics is gone so far left that you can't even criticize a nonwhite politician for failures in their community without being called racist. >> listen to these numbers was according to the latest numbers from the baltimore police department homicides of spiked 18% since last year. here we go. allies on detroit ahead of the second round of the democratic debate. tonight's group of 2020 hopefuls features two leading progressives versus a group of four moderate candidates. griff jenkins joins us with the latest on tonight's do or die debate and this is just round 2 of 2. >> that's right, ready to roll in motor city and the question of the night may be how far left will play go? bernie sanders and elizabeth for an will be joined by mayor pete, tim ryan, amy klobuchar, john delaney and steve bullock. likely a list chance for the lesser-known to the front runners downplay how

hour after there was a fox news segment on their pro-trump talk show talking about conditions in west baltimores with severe poverty and troubling conditions. the segment focused on that part of cumming's district. it's very clear the president saw that and tweeted as a detective result parts of maryland, i'm from maryland, i lived near his district. rural years, so there were factual mistakes to the president's attack and then there were the moral, ethical issues when he tries to target an african-american conman and describes the man's district as crime infested. the word infested has deeply disturbing connotations in history. there he reacts with racist tweets and it's unfortunately more of the same. >> yeah, there's a pattern. he often uses the word infested when talking about latino people, mexicans, talking about black people. that pattern is there. there have been a lot of tweets who have come whether it be from pelosi as well as on the campaign trail, baltimore has become home to my team and it's disgraceful the president has chosen to start this morning disparaging this great american

. >> the exchange prompted a trump supporter to shoot this video in west baltimore, part of cummings'istrict, minutes after the video aired on fox. mr. trump launched his attack. represent cummings has been a bul bully. if he spent more time in baltimore, maybe he can help clean up this dangerous and filthy place. his district is majority black is leading several house investigations into the trump administration. mr. president, i go home to my district and i go and fight for my neighbors. it is my duty to conduct oversight over the executive branch. >> nancy pelosi labels trump's attack racist. while democratic hopefuls returned fire. >> this is racial priming that this president loves to do and it is wrong for this country. >> reporter: the president thinks this is working for him. he's tweeting again this morning, a tweet this morning, someone please explain to nancy pelosi who was called racist by those of her own party that there is nothing wrong bringing out the obvious fact that congressman elijah cummings have done a poor job for the city of baltimore. >> the president is cont

she says this, i taught in west baltimore. i adore my kids, parents, and grandparents. they all want the same thing i want for my kids, the chance for their which i shall to have safe, happy and productive lives. let's think about the language we use, who it hurts. and this from baltimore's mayor, it's completely unacceptable for the political leader of our country to denigrate a city like baltimore. meantime, house democrats are suing now to get grand jury information from the mueller report as an impeachment effort intensifies. two american teens on vacation in rome are accused of killing this police officer in a botched drug deal. we're there next. cake in the conference room! showing 'em you're ready to be your own boss. that's the beauty of your smile. bring out the best in it with crest 3d white. crest removes 95% of surface stains... in just three days. be right back. with moderate to severe crohn's disease, i was there, just not always where i needed to be. is she alright? i hope so. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira is for people who still

friends with republican strategist showing video of abandoned buildings and trash on the streets of west baltimore which the democratic lawmaker represents. within an hour the president began tweets calling cummings a brutal bully, claiming he disrespected border patrol agents and saying that his district is far worse and more dangerous than the situation at the border. >> what does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces? >> reporter: that tweet referring to an emotional incounter earlier this month from cummings who chairs the oversight committee. during the way high grants were handled at the border. today apartments tweet also referring to cummings' district as a rat and rodent infested mess. saying if the congressman spent more time there he could help clean up the area. cummings responding, mr. president, i go home to my district daily. each morning i wake up and i fight for my neighbors. the disdain between these two men -- >> do you believe trump is a racist? >> he is, no doubt about it. >> reporter: that response with george stephanopoulous is the congressman reacting in the

you have a lot of them that migrated to west baltimore, saying, this is a distressed community. there is a conservative urban allegation. the president isn't advancing it, nearly tweeting his wrath. >> is there any way if there is a republican or conservative out there concerned where the president is going, is there any way to get through to him or is the only way that comes back to them through him, hey, i won in 2016 and everybody said i would lose and making every mistake in the world? >> there is. collective action problem. elected officials in federal government come together, critical majority, a mass, come out and say we disagree with the president. we don't agree with what he says here, hurting our social fabric and it does force the president to back off. when there's just one individual or two, they get the universe of a tweet and it comes down around their shoulders. >> remember the khan family in 2016 and those individual episodes, go back in time it seems like donald trump's political world was collapsing playing out. you had a bunch in the 2016 campaign. his polls