cummings has done nothing but milk baltimore dry. the public is getting wise to the bad job he is doing, e quote. he described cummings' district as a disgusting rat and rodentte infes mess. he was reacting toinhe grillg cummings gave to the homeland security. >> doing our level best. >> what does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces? can't take a shower? come on, man. >> cummings responded to thepr ident's att ks by saying it is his constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the executive ranch. baltimore city leaders and the governor of marylan came to cummings' defense as well. >>> and those comments alon with much more on this week's testimony from special counsel robert mueller thming up later morning on me"meet the press." moderator chuck todd will join aboutore the show to talk the testimony and what it means for congress and the white house moving forward. "meet the press" starts at 10:30 right here after news4 today. >>> a devastating story in new york city. a father is charged with the death of his 1-year-o

the president attacks one of his influential critics, representative elijah cummings, saying cummings is a brutal bully. this is possibly in response to cummings jabbing the president's homeland security chief. you fe >> you feel like you're doing a great job, right? >> i feel like we're doing our level best. >> what does that mean? what does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces? can't take shower? come on, man. >> despite the president's attacks on cummings, he says cummings' district which includes part of baltimore and its suburbs is worse than the u.s. border. he said the border is clean and well-run. he said if he spent more time with baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this filthy place. baltimore does have the second highest murder rate in the country with 309 homicides last year. cummings has half of baltimore with a chunk of the city itself. cummings said, each day i go and fight for my neighbors. critics say this is another example of the president choosing a congress member to attack. >> representative ilhan omar, representative rashida tlaib, representa

cummings district is a disgusted rat and rodent infected mass. maybe he could help clean up his dangerous filthy place." the tweets were condemned as being racist by many people, including house speaker nancy pelosi. speaking to chris wallace yesterday, the acting white house chief of staff mikel mick mulvaney insisting the president's tweets had nothing to do about race. >> mr. cummings saying that children were sleeping or sitting in their own feces, it's not right, not accurate. mr. cummings has not been to the border in recent memory, not during this administration. when the president hears lies like that, he is going to fight back and that's what he saw. >> the president taking aim at nancy pelosi tweeting "speaking of failing badly, it has anyone seen what happened in nancy pelosi's district? it's not recognizable lately. something must be done before it's too late. the damage should stop wasting time on the witch hunt hopes and start focusing on our country. the president met a little while ago with a group of 20 inner-city pastors, includ

as you know, cummings has been in charge i will say this. i think representative cummings should take his oversight committee and do some oversight on baltimore. he'd find out some things. >> on the fed, what should the rate cut be? >> the talks are moving very well with klein as they were with china, but china often makes a new deal at the end, or seems to. we're taking in billions and billions from china in terms of tariffs. our people are not paying for it. china reduced their currency, devalued their currency and pumping money into the system in order to pay for it. they had the worst year in 27 years, a terrible year because of the tariffs. a lot of companies moving out of china. united states taking in tens of billions of dollars from china. we're giving some money to our farm e farmers who have been targeted by china. the farmers like me. i love the farmers. i will say farmers are grateful. the most they have spent on agriculture products is $16 million. when they pulled out, i took a small part of the money china is paying us and gav

i know congressman cummings has been there for a long time. he's had a very iran hand on it. all you have to do is look at facts. the government has pumped in billions and billions of dollars to no avail. to absolutely no avail. baltimore is an example of what corrupt government leads to. billions of dollars have been given. and i feel so sorry for the people of baltimore. and if they ask me, we will get involved. but we're already involved from the standpoint that over many years, billions and billions of dollars have been given to baltimore. it's been missing. it's been stolen which a lot of corrupt government. -- s you know, cummings now, i will say this, i think that representative cummings should take his oversight committee and start doing oversight on baltimore. he'd find out some real things. >> what should the rate cut be? >> the talks are moving very well with china. but they were often with china, but china always makes a new deal at the end or seems to. we're taking in billions and billions of dollars from china in the form of tariffs. our people are not paying fo

, cummings's district is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. if he spent more time in baltimore maybe he could clean up this dangerous and filthy place. >> the president of the united states to be the president of our entire country bringing us together. >> the editorial board of the baltimore sun newspaper title an op-ed, quote, better to have a few rats than to be one. in the eyes of washington have been on republican freedom caucus chairman mark meadows because he has a close relationship with the president and chairman cummings. in a statement of fox news meadows said i know both men well, neither man is a racist period. both love america. i think we put aside partisanship we could find bipartisan solutions that will benefit not only chairman cummings district but the country as a whole. meanwhile the director of national intelligence dan coats is on his way out, texas congressman john ratcliff faces a confirmation fight to replace him. dan coats was known to butt heads with his boss, publicly contradicting him multiple times, john ratcliff

our detention facilities as a nation are not living up to standards congressman cummings, charmen cummings, it's his job to chaenge the administration what they are and are not doing and it's that office of inspector general report, those are the facts of the case. >> woodruff: why aren't there more pitures, more videf these facilities? >> well, this administration, to a large degree the previous administration, the obama administration did open the facilities eventually. this administration is holding close what's happening in its facilities. you see reports of children being moved froy m facilo facility, being lost. you know, the lack of transparency leads to a lot of questions in vots' minds as toics okay, what is going on uallyagain, who is act solving this problem. >> what about conditions right now. here we are e end of theonth of july. much of this testimony came about a month, month and a half ago. have things gotten better, has it changed? >> because of two factors, we're starting to see numbers plateau of individuals crossing the border to apply for asylum.f the firstor is nearly

our detention facilities as a nation are not living up to standards congressman cummings, charmen cummings, it's his job to chaenge the administration what they are and are not doing and it's that office of inspector general report, those are the facts of the case. >> woodruff: why aren't there more pitures, more videf these facilities? >> well, this administration, to a large degree the previous admistration, the oba administration did open the facilities eventually. this administration is holding close what's happening in its facilities. you see reports of children being moved froy m facilo facility, being lost. you know, the lack of transparency leads to a lot of questions in vots' minds as toics okay, what is going on uallyagain, who is act solving this problem. >> what about conditions right now. here we are the end of the month of july.s much of this timony came about a month, month and a half ago. have things gotn better, has it changed? >> because of two factors, we're starting to see numbers plateau of individuals crossing the border to apply for asylum.f the firstor is nearly the

cummings recently subpoenaed trump's family. trump also went after reverend al sharpton for supporting cummings saying next reverend al will show up to complain and protest adding sharp ton is just a con man at work sharp ton fired back that he was if con man, he'd be nominating him for his cabinet. president trump used bernie sanders to defend himself against those accusations tweeting crazy bernie sanders recently equated the city of baltimore to a third world country. based on that statement, i assume bernie must now be labeled a racist. the chief of staff defended his boss saying he is not a racist, but this is the second time in recent weeks that the president used the word infested in connection with a pen of color. just recently the president said four minority congress women should go back to the crime infested countries where they came from. and this putting some of the president's allies in a tough spot namely congressman mark meadows who was close with both president trump and congress ma'am consumi man cummings. he s

elijiah cummings has failed badly. and with that, we bring in our talk radio panel, a new resident of the city of baltimore, robert patillo, good to see you. robert, first to you. and we've talked about this before, is elijiah cummings' constituents better served by hymn talking about the president's taxes or him using his bully pulpit and his political clout in congress to try to help his constituents who everyone agrees are in rough shapesome. >> let's understand that congress people can walk and chew gum at the same time. he can address the president, other issues and advocate for the people in your community. i think what we have to realize, president trump has done this previously. he talked about john lewis' district in 2017. it's not about what he says, but is he willing to step up and fix it. one of me minnesota to haves say -- mentors says if you identify a problem -- leland: the president says he has done something about it. there is the lowest african-american unemployment in history, wages are going up. >>

cummings is in charge. oversight. it's the richest state on per household basis, yet this have real poverty. president wants folks to know that look instead of dealing with those issues, mr. cummings is spending all of his time on this impeachment inquiry which is going no where. democrats have chance to actually focus wrong things that matter instead they'rety black . when it calls rat infested, no human being would live there, do you understand that that is offensive to the americans who do live there? >> i understand everything that donald trump says is offensive to some people. about two weeks ago he said things that were contract kate of aoc was accuse. then nancy pelosi of that same group of people she was defended by the media and folks on the left for not being racist. >> brennan: no human being would want to live there. this is being perceived at racist, do you understand why? >> i understand why. but that doesn't mean that it's racist. the president is pushing back against what he sees is wrong, how he's don

>> look, elijah cummings is the definition of a class act. part of why 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

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

elijah cummings was a huge supporter of it. it never got done. those are the things we need to be done -- investing in cities, getting private companies to invest, having more collaboration between business leaders and government leaders and investing. people like elijah cummings have been fighting the fight his whole career. >> the president is calling out -- at the time -- president obama to do something -- >> he's a hypocrite. he knows these cities won't vote for him and he doesn't care what he says about them. he doesn't care about the country. he cares about himself. he's a narcissist. all he cares about is himself. the job of the president is to unify the president, every day to get up and remind the american people we are all in this together and we have to support each other. he does none of that. all he does is attack people and try to divide the american people. he tries to tell the american people their enemy is their fellow american because they live in a city or have a different color of skin. it's shameful and should underscore for

. >>> and the president is doubling down on elijah cummings. republicans have stayed largely silent. >>> good morning. it's monday, july 29th. i'm ayman mohyeldin here with yasmin vossoughian. three people are dead and 15 others are injured after a shooting at one of the largest food festivals in the country. officers responded to reports of gunfire shortly before 6:00 p.m. yesterday at the gilroy garlic festival in northern california. gilroy police chief scot smithee said one suspect is among the fatalities and a second person may have been involved. >> there were reports of the shooting on the north side of the garlic festival area. officers were in that area and engaged the suspect in less than a minute. the suspect was shot and killed. they used some sort of a tool to cut through the fence to be able to gain access through the secure fence line. that's how they got into the festival area itself. we have one suspect we know that is down. we have some witnesses reporting that there may have been a second suspect, but we don't know if that su

cummings didn't have to -- >> sure didn't. >> at that point, when meadows was under attack, cummings didn't have to come to his defense. so -- >> do you remember, gene, do you remember what happened leading up to that moment where meadows was crying crocodile tears? >> i remember. >> do you remember that moment -- it was a pathetic display. and elijah cummings put his hand up and said, no, we're not using the word racist. i know this man, i have worked with him. he stood up for him in realtime. >> and that really ridiculous and again disgraceful sort of i know both men response is not the same thing as coming to the defense of someone who you claim as a friend, who showed he was a friend to you. a real friend to you. it's just -- it's just awful. it's amazing the whole -- michael steele was talking earlier about what he is seeing among republicans about trump. it is simply true that there is no republican party anymore. it is the trump party. you know, i have serious questions about whether donald trump can expand his base to the point where he could actually get re-elected. but i ha

cummings for saying things that are not true about the border. i think it's right for the president to raise the issue. if i had poverty in my district like they have in baltimore, if i had crime in my district like they have in chicago,omelessness like in san francisco, i i spend all of my time in washington, d.c. chasing down this mueller investigation, this bizarre impeachment crusade, i'd get fired. and i think the president is right to raise that and it has absolutely zero to do with race. >> reporter: to be fair, we have heard reports of squalid conditions at these detention facilities that fall in line with the descriptions that we've heard from congressman cummings. and also if you look at the president's tweets at no point does he even refer to cummings descriptioning of these migrant centers. he's repeatedly bashing the congressman about his own district and going further and essentially smearing the city of baltimore. the white house yet again trying to polish what president trump said in his tweets yesterday. >> and it's not just cumm

also tonight, the president's feud with congressman cummings. with the city of baltimore under attack, we take you there for a reality check. a father's anguish as he's charged in the accidental deaths of his one-year-old twins left in a hot car. it happens more often than you think. tonight tips for parents to prevent tragedy. two american teens held in the murder of an italian police officer. why this photo is raising questions about the investigation. the fortnite frenzy that landed this 16-year-old a $3 million prize. and friends in need, how neighbors sprang to the aid of a farmer in distress. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell. >> o'donnell: good evening. this is our western edition. as we begin tonight, we're learning new details in the shooting rampage at a food festival in gilroy, california. we now know the names of the three people who were killed. the youngest, six-year-old stephen romero, shot while playing at a bounce house. 13-year-old keyla salazar, and trevor irby, who just graduated from college at 25. more tha

racist and stating plainly what most people already know that a larger cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district and of baltimore itself he also attacked the house speaker nancy pelosi the daughter of baltimore's former mayor on sunday the baltimore sun called the president quote the most dishonest man to ever occupy the oval office and said it's quote better to have a few rats and to be one the mayor also weighed in. we're not going to ignore anyone degrading almost and this is like in the kitchen no one even the house is a lonely black republican condemned trump's attack allies are cummings and chairman cummings is someone who i have worked with a closely on all kinds of legislation he is someone that cares passionately about his community and has been working tirelessly on his entire adult life on behalf of his his country and his community and he is someone that he can defend himself a senior white house official defended the president's attack on cummings i understand why but that doesn't mean that it's racist the president is pushing back against what he

cummings: thank you, mr. i don't have that information. >> why don't you get it. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr.jordan. >> thank you. mr. ekoske, let me come back. you're not only the administrator for t.s.a. you're the acting deputy secretary of d.h.s. yes. how long have you worked there? i have worked in dhs in that position since april 11th. how long have you worked total at dhs -- mr. pekoske: well i was in the coast guard for 33 years and in the t.s.a. for almost two. >> appreciate your service. to reiterate where we have been in this hearing, there's a crisis on the border, is that right? mr. pekoske: without a doubt. >> enough fentanyl seized to kill 150,000 americans. how many an pretions last month? -- one drug seizure to kill 57 million americans. how many apprehensions last month. mr. pekoske: 144,000. rep. jordan: for the year so far? mr. pekoske: this year, 667,315. that's way above any previous year, isn't it? yes, sir. rep. jordan: 60,000 kids in 40 days was also happening. so this is certainly

because he wants to distract from what elijah cummings is doing. it his day-to-day job on the oversight committee. the president is feeding talkin pointto his base so the worko in rsight having to do with the border and how the unaccompanied minors are being tret tre ed and this committee is looking into the security clearance issue and what was done wth jared kushner, ionnka trump, hose fronts. they had just put in a request for documents from them. so it's clear this is a person vendetta of sorts from the president. the fact ihe knows how the press and, frankly, our political system works. you drop a race thing in there and, boom, it explodes. and then he has accomplished what he is distracting from this. i think that's the dilemma. he also clearly believes, he ev either beli this is good for him politically because he believes his base likes this, or he believes it's good for him politically because it gets the democrats dtracted. but this is a clear pattern that he sees the ability to use race as a dividng line i this campaign. >> and seemingly

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racist and stating plainly what most people already know that a larger cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district and of baltimore itself he also attacked the house speaker nancy pelosi the daughter of baltimore's former mayor on sunday the baltimore sun called the president quote the most dishonest man to ever occupy the oval office and said it's quote better to have a few rats and to be one the mayor also weighed in. we're not going to ignore anyone degrading. and this is like in the kitchen no one even the house is allee black republican condemned trump's attack allies are cummings and chairman cummings is someone who i have worked with a closely on all kinds of legislation he is someone that cares passionately about his community and has been working tirelessly on his entire adult life on behalf of his his country and his community and he is someone that he can defend himself a senior white house official defended the president's attack on cummings i understand why but that doesn't mean that it's racist the president is pushing back against what he sees as w

taking aim at cummings and disparaging his predominantly black district. the president insists there's nothing racist about his comments. abc's tara palmieri has more. >> reporter: president trump defending himself against charges of racism after launching a twitter attack on the african-american chairman of the house oversight committee and his majority black district. tweeting, there is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know, that elijah cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district and of baltimore itself. after the president called cummings' district, maryland 7th, a disgusting rat and rodent-infested mess where no human being would want to live, dozens of democrats quickly fired back. >> well, the president as he usually is or often is, disgusting and racist. >> a racist president who attacks people because they are african-americans. >> reporter: the president has used the loaded word "infested" to describe minority members of congress. including earlier this month when he suggested that four congresswomen o

cummings is exactly right. i don't think it was an indictment of the city, having it was an indictment of the leadership in baltimore city. mr. cummings is always quick to belittlealtimore to the people of baltimore. the stop stitching video that amounted tode nothing, but cummings came to baltimore and castigated the ,oung people, went back to d.c. presenting legislation to tighten the tampering laws. when martin o'malley was locking .p 100,000 people per year but there was no probable cause for the arrest and they were only made two bolt -- bolster om alleys standing around the state and the country because he planned to run for president. mr. cummings could not come to baltimore to do something about that, though matter how much the people complained. now, children in baltimore are separated from their parents every day. when somebody goes to jail or when they go to the more. mr. cummings has not been to baltimore to deal with the problem of crime and homicide , butt to castigate people he's crying about imm

what he said is elijah cummings is racist, racist elijah cummings, i'm asking you madame chairwoman and you are the 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 peop

he invited cummings and cummings didn't come, he doesn't recognize president as legitimate president, so it's not just this one incident, it's just a composite of several incidents that come into play. >> they certainly don't like each other. let's look at numbers of baltimore, increase in homicides, 18% jump if we pull it up on the screen, they definitely have a gun violence problem, if you look at nonfatal shootings up, the president, joseph, calls a police nobody would want to live, rat infested, but there's certainly a problem with baltimore? >> he calls out to people which needs it most and you see it in chicago with the amount of shootings and people dead and you see it in new york city, you see it all over san francisco, you walk down the street in new york city, walk down canal streets and you see illegal venders and quality of life goes down big time and you need officers out there and as the president the main concern is the safety of the overall people of the country. >> steve, a lot of big city that is we talk about, new york, chicago, problems in a lot of the places, most

president trump's anger with cummings have been sitting for days after cummings grilled the homeland security over conditions of the southern border. >> you feel like you are doing a great job, right? >> we are doing our level best >> what does it mean when a child is sitting in their own feces and can't take a shower, come on man. >> the exchange prompted a trump supporter to shoot this video in west baltimore, part of cummings' district, 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 thi

"cummings district is a disgusting and rat and rodent infested mess. if he spent more time in baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous and filthy place. >> what the president said about baltimore is outrageous. the president of the united states should be president for our entire country bringing us together. >> the editorial board of the baltimore sun newspaper titled an op-ed "better to have a few rats into b-1. the eyes of washington have been on republican freedom caucus chairman mark meadows. why? because he has a close relationship with both the president and chairman cummings. in a statement to fox news, meadows said "i know both men well. neither man is a racist, period. both love america. i think if we put aside partisanship's with investigation we could find bipartisan solutions that will benefit not only chairman cummings district but the country as a whole. meanwhile tonight, director of national intelligence dan coats is on his way out. texas congressman, republican congressman john ratcliffe this is a confirmation fight

when he goes after elijah cummings he goes after a city. nobody is above the law, but at the same time we have to stay for example used on what people care about across america, health care, prescription drugs, fixing the roads and infrastructure. addressing bad trade deals. so, i think we've got chairmen that are continuing to follow the facts. they've got to continue to do that. but we also have to focus on issues that matter to working men and women. >> some say that the house leadership is being too cautious. do you agree with that? a lot of people have been making the case that a lot of crimes have been committed and that is grounds for impeachment. >> nobody is above the law. and that's clear. but i also want you to know, i went to ann arbor's farm market saturday morning and within a period of literally three minutes, three people up to me f the vendors and one woman tells me democrats are being tooty d timid and you need to get on. and a third person telling me to get off this impeachment. you need to be working for us. i turn to my

house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings. and as he did with four non-white congress women two weeks ago and many other non-white elected officials, ordinary scitizens before that he's trafficking a racist stair owe type and giving voice to some of the most shameful prejudices in our society. tomorrow night here in detroit the first ten of 20 democratic candidates will take the debate stage. all of whom say they want to restore civility to washington. we begin tonight with the question that follows from all of this presidential be

the president going after congressman elijah cummings writing that cummings' city ofs baltimore i a, quote, disgusting rat and rodent-id mess. we'll get into it with chuck todd and discuss this week's next round of democratic presidential debates. >>> plus, another sharkttack in florida. this one caught on camera. we'll check in to see how the victim, a professional surfer, is doing this >>morning. > and later a sunday sitdown with one of t stars in hollywood, jake gyllenhaal, on his latest stop on broadway. his current role in the billion dollar spider-man movie, and reflections onou the breaking r. weid like brokeback mountain i was like, what's going on? this is a level of focus and attention that hits a certain nerve that you are like this is bigger than me. >> a sunday sitdown withake gyllenhaal. plus, hair long isla smith and life lived later in the show. > rants against the city of baltimore and the drac congressman who represents it. the president back at it this morning. mike is at the white house for us with the latest. mike, good morning. >> r good rning to willie. preside

and cummings he's using the city of baltimore to continue hammering cummings for a lack of action and what the president says is focusing on the wrong thing. let's listen here. >> baltimore has been very badly mishandled for many years. as you know, congressman cummings has been there for a long time. he set a very iron hand on it. it's a corrupt city, there's no question about it. all you have to do is look at the facts. i will say this -- i think representative cummings should take his oversight committee and start doing oversight on baltimore. he would find out some real things. >> charges of racism are still dogging the president after earlier tweets. freedom caucus chairman mark meadows is a friend to both the president and elijah cummings. he released a statement yesterday saying, "i know both men well. every man is a racist, period. both of america. i think if you put aside partisanship of investigations we can find bipartisan solutions that will benefit not only determine cummings' district but the country as a whole." the president also claiming that people are thinking him f

icon, representative elijah cummings of maryland. representative 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

cummings. >> what elijah cummings should do is he should take his oversight committee, bring them down to baltimore, and invest all of -- and really study the billions and billions of dollars that's been stolen. it's been wasted. it's been stolen. >> reporter: so this is an historical event. i will keep my voice down. john meacham, at times a trump critic, is speaking about the founding of jamestown. the question and the challenge for trump, will he keep his remarks today on what we're celebrating here in 1619 or will the president go off on partisan attacks yet again? we will see here in a couple minutes when the president shows up and participates in this ceremony. hallie? >> nbc's hans nichols live in jamestown. hans, thank you. >>> it is also debate night in america. taking the stage tonight bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. not many fireworks on the campaign trail just yet. might that change tonight? nina turner. senator turner, thanks for coming back on the show. >> reporter: good to be with you, hallie. >> so let me start with sort of the news of the morning here and how you

cummings leads the committee investigating the president's political and financial tani's he's also criticized the president's immigration policy trump called cummings corrupt and quote a brutal bully there is nothing racist and stating plainly what most people already know that a lot of cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district and of baltimore itself he also attacked the house speaker nancy pelosi the daughter of baltimore's former mayor on sunday the baltimore sun called the president quote the most dishonest man to ever occupy the oval office and said it's quote better to have a few rats than to be one the mayor also weighed in. we're not going to ignore anyone degrading. no one even the houses only black republican condemned trumps attack allies or cummings and chairman cummings is someone who i have worked with a closely on all kinds of legislation he is someone that cares passionately about his community and has been working tirelessly his entire adult life on behalf of his country and his community and he is someone that he can defend himself a senior w

cummings leads the committee investigating the president's political and financial toddies he's also criticized the president's immigration policy trump called cummings corrupt and quote a brutal bully there is nothing racist and stating plainly what most people already know that a life of cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district and of baltimore itself. he also attacked the house speaker nancy pelosi the daughter of baltimore's former mayor on sunday the baltimore sun called the president quote the most dishonest man to ever occupy the oval office and said it's better to have a few rats and to be one the mayor also weighed in we're not going to ignore anyone degrading. no one even the house is only black republican condemned trump's attack allies are cummings and chairman cummings is someone who i have worked with closely on all kinds of legislation he is someone that cares passionately about his community and has been working tirelessly on his entire adult life on behalf of his country and his community and he is someone that he can defend himself a senior wh

and both men were emotional, almost teary when elijah cummings stuck up for him. yesterday, 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 equa

and congressman cummings has done an amazing job. 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 mem

continuing attacks against congressman elijah cummings. and now accusing democrats of playing the race card. >>> life or death decision. the man armed with a massive knife, walking into a police station. cops taken by surprise, drawing their guns. how officers took him down. >>> crash on the lake. the sea plane going down moments after takeoff. the pilot hitting a tree, spiraling into the water. boaters rushing in to the rescue. >>> the deadly nightclub collapse. the floor giving way beneath the crowd. american athletes among the injured. >>> surviving a shark attack. a surfer on a packed beach, about to jump on his board when a shark bites into his arm. tonight he tells us how he got away. >>> and the 8-year-old girl with the gold glove. the only girl on her baseball team getting some big league attention. >>> and good evening. thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. and we begin tonight with new developments in the international murder case. two american teenagers charged in connection with the murder of a police officer in

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

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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.

so this morning as the president is personally going after elijah cummings and elijah cummings who in february 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

reporter: elijah cummings is not the mayor of baltimore and -- >> elijah cummings, i'm not angry. i'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 rea

racist and stating plainly what most people already know that a lot of cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district and of baltimore itself he also attacked the house speaker nancy pelosi the daughter of baltimore's former mayor on sunday the baltimore sun called the president quote the most dishonest man to ever occupy the oval office and said it's quote better to have a few rats and to be one the mayor also weighed in. we're not going to ignore anyone degrading. and this is like in the no one even the house is only black republican condemned trump's attack allies are cummings and chairman cummings is someone who i have worked with closely on all kinds of legislation and he is someone that cares passionately about his community and has been working tirelessly on his entire adult life on behalf of his his country and his community and he is someone that he can defend himself a senior white house official defended the president's attack on cummings i understand why but that doesn't mean that it's racist the president is pushing back against what he sees as wrong it

district outraged at chairman cummings' questioning, he tweeted why is so much money sent to the elijah cummings district when it's considered 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.

the president says cummings is the racist. abc's kyra phillips at the white house. >> reporter: maryland's republican governor denouncing president trump for smearing a baltimore congressional district as a, quote, "disgusting rat and "no human being would want to live there." >> the comments are just outrageous and inappropriate. >> reporter: the president's comments were aimed at congressman elijah cummings, after the veteran lawmaker took the head of the department of homeland security to task over conditions in migrant detention centers. >> what does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces? can't take a shower? come on, man. what's that about? >> reporter: cummings is the fifth congressperson of color that the president has targeted this month alone. in one racist tweet, he suggested four congresswomen "go back" to the countries they came from, even though all of them are citizens, and three were born in the united states. he's also used the phrase "crime-infested" to describe the congressional district of civ

racist remarks by the president on social mediarg taing longtime maryland congressman elijah cummings and the city of baltimore. >> it's the second time in just over a week thatr mtrump has used divisive language while talking about minority lawmakers. >> the attacks drawing a rebuke from republican governor lay hogan. >> reporter: we have team coverage including reaction from cummings' district. let's begin with craig boswell who is at the whiteouse this evening. craig. >> doreen and priden trmpaginttacng ainorty n, member of coongresles and expang on a twitter tirade today. president trump expanding betacks on prominent black leaders that an over the weekend today calling reverend al sharpton a con man who hates whites and cops.rp shaon fired back. >> he's thin-skinned and not really matured that well, but he has a particular venom for blacks d people ofcolor. >> reporter: in a barrage of tweets, the president ed deracumocmimngs calling his bal disgust a disgusted and rat infested and rodent mess. >> he shouldn't speak about him like that. >> everything else is based on just his own