elijah cummings may not have gone. the inspector general for the department of homeland security has had. in his report, it was described the situation as a ticking time bomb as a party inspector has been there and said severe of over crowding and the smell of human wastes that overwhelms individuals. you heard mulvaney. the president is an equal opportunity at hitting back. if someone hits him, he hits back as well. here is a little bit more of what mulvaney has to say this morning. >> i understand that everything that donald trump says is offensive to some people. keep in mind about two weeks ago the president says things that's critical of aoc and a couple of days later, pelosi said something critical by the same group of people and she was defended by the group in the left. >> human beings would want to live there. >> this is being perceived as raci racist. do you understand why? >> the president is pushing back against and how he's done in the past and will continue to do in the future. >> the president not limiti

let me just say this about congressman cummings. donald trump is upset because congressman cummings is everything that donald trump is not. he is calm, he is smart. he is thoughtful. he actually works for his constituents. he's a good public servant. he is the example of the american dream, sons of a sharecropper who is now the chair of a very powerful committee. donald trump is threatened by congressman cummings. look, i know people say and folks are saying to us, we have to ignore the noise. we have to ignore the tweets. we can't give donald trump the conversation that he wants us to have about racism but we have to continue to fight racism. we cannot turn away, we cannot look back because what donald trump's racism is a toxic and dangerous brew. we have known donald trump has been a racist for a very long time. that is not surprising. but now he is in a position of power. where policies are coming out of that position of power. look, we know that white nationalists have been around for a long time. but donald trump is giving them

cummings responded to an attack by the president. here's what cummings is reacting to. this morning the president called him, quote, a brutal bully, shouting at men and women at border patrol. he then called his county a disgusting rodent and rat-infested mess. cummings said, mr. president, each day i go home to my district. 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. >> it just shows that trump will never have the kind of grace e cummings has. i have been texting privately with some of my republican colleagues on the other side, because at this point it is about the republican party. what do they stand for? are my republican colleagues going to stand up and say this is outrageous to attack in what, again, is another racist attack on a black chairman with a majority black district. >> nbc's hans nichols is at the white house. i have to tell you, hans, i heard it and last hour i was shocked to have to report it, but i have to as

you live in cummings district. the president is not watching this conversation oop he's only watching what he's seeing on fox. so nothing's going to change. >> well, brian, there you did a great job at the top of. >> tracking. >> he's golfing right now. he's not watching. he's golfing. the president's only hearing this distorted view on fox. >> he's watching. > he does sometimes watch cnn. he does. >> we're not going to correct him had. he's not going to change. he's so far down this road of evil, he's not going to change. we can change voters' minds for 2020. that's what we can do if we keep speaking forcefully and we talk about morality. journalists do not talk enough about morality because we think people will think we're biased. we need to keep talking about it because we have ans a northerly president and administration right now. >> david, april ryan, thank you so much. david's column is up on the baltimore sun's website. we'll slope you their editorial later this hour. media bunkers, are they getting thicker

cummings said this week was wrong. mr. cummings is spending all of his time on this impeachment inquiry, which is we all know is going nowhere. so it's the -- democrats actually have a chance to focus on things that matter. instead they're working on scandal. >> during the obama administration, house republicans spent roughly $7 million and held 33 hearings investigating the attack on the american consulate in benghazi. congressman mulvaney told his constituents there were times in our nation's history if our ambassador was killed, it was time to go to war. pumping it up. >> you and i both know there is no president, no presidential administration that has ever loved congressional oversight. they never love -- >> it's an audit. please audit me but they put up with it, you know, because that's the way the constitution works and those are the powers given to congress. so you put up with it and you provide the documents, you provide the witnesses and you get past it. so through kbrgritted teeth, th obama administration had pa

cummings has long been a thorn in the president's side. his oversight committee investigating president trump. but what really lit up the president was when he saw this exchange from july 18th between cummings and the acting dhs secretary over conditions of the border. >> you feel like you're doing a great job, right? is that what you're saying? >> 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 a shower? come on, man! what's that about! speak of the president's tweets were widely criticized as racist, including by house speaker nancy pelosi, of whom the president rode "so many please explain to nancy pelosi, who was recently called racist by those in her own party, that there is nothing wrong with bringing out the very obvious fact that congressman elijah cummings has done a very poor job for his district and the city of baltimore." the president also pointed out that in 2015 candidate bernie sanders was critical of baltimore. >> anyone who took the walk that w

trump is mad at elijah cummings. he wants to cause him discomfort and he wants to chief ly discomfort him. think about this. just a week ago, robert mueller himself said he gave up trying to interview the president because it wasn't worth the protracted legal fight. here is another one. for the past few months, donald trump has doubled down on his attacks on federal reserve chairman germ rojerome powell. here is what he said this morning. >> i would like to see a large cut, and i would like to see immediately the quantitative tightening stop. it shouldn't with stopped. i'm very disappointed in the fed. i think they acted too quickly by far, and i think i've been proven right. people said i was right. they were wrong. the fed is often wrong. the fed is often wrong. >> the federal reserve widely expected to announce a rate cut tomorrow, even as though trump will be the first to tell you the stock market is at record highs. unemployment is near record lows. it's hard not to see some correlation when the president has re

congressman elijah cummings not amused. we will get reaction to all of this from the panel when we come back. ♪ ve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. even a "three-ring fender bender." (clown 1) sorry about that... (clown 2) apologies. (clown 1) ...didn't mean it. (clown 3) whoops. (stilts) sorry! (clowns) we're sorry! (scary) hey, we're sorry! [man screams] [scary screams] (burke) quite the circus. but we covered it. at farmers, we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ you eat right... mostly. you make time... when you can. but sometimes life gets in the way, and that stubborn fat just won't go away. coolsculpting takes you further. a non-surgical treatment that targets, freezes, and eliminates treated fat cells, for good. discuss coolsculpting with your doctor. some common side-effects include temporary numbness, discomfort, and swelling. don't imagine results, see them. coolsculpting, take yourself further. (v...especiall

. >>> president trump once called elijah cummings a terrific guy. i wonder what's changed. "the lead" starts right now. >>> president trump launching a new round of attacks on maryland congressman elijah cummings and his baltimore district and hinting that the strategy may be part of his re-election campaign. >>> mice, mold and maggettes in baltimore area apartments, the president mentioned it but did he realize that many were in buildings that -- wait for it -- apartments owned by his son-in-law. >>> and now new details revealed about victims and two small children and the killer, including possible white supremacist influences. >>> welcome to a special edition of "the lead." we're live outside of the fox theater in zroidetroit with the politics and president trump digging in on exposing a common theme by attacking a lawmaker of color and this time going after democratic congressman elijah cummings and his district of baltimore. trump launching 16 tweets on saturday calling baltimore, quote, a disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess and saying of the majority african-amer

in regards to elijah cummings. he's going after him because cummings subpoenaed ivanka and jared and after his dhs secretary in a very aggressive way last week. i will say this. trump is trying to secure his bait. if you're talking about midwest voters, i would remind people that trump won michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania by less than 100,000 votes combined. he needs to secure that vote. that's, again, every president going into re-election is going to say where do i need to win? obama did this. try to secure your base moving into a re-election move. >> jo, let me insert something really quick about the seventh congressial district. the district has a income of $60,000 on par with the national average. they produce more college graduates nan the national average in the united states of america and have more african american graduates from college than the national average as well. he made an assumption that this was a bad district to live in. >> ned, i want to follow-up the point just made. david axelrod tweete

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

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

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 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

or elijah cummings is in a way an economic argument. the republican strategy across the board right now whether it's house republicans, senate republicans or president trump is, you know, painting democrats as radical socialists, if you will. and that, itself, is an economic argument. >> but baltimore is very much part of america and the baltimore sun reacting to this with a very strongly-written editorial. the headline is better to have a few rats than to be one. daniel, when people are reading this and then have this in context with what the president has tweeted what are they to think here? >> yeah. if you look at the demographics of elijah cummings' district, you have average income of 60,000 people -- people of $6,000. you have people who have a higher rate of college degrees and so this is not this rat-infested district that trump describes. he probably hasn't even been to the district. he wouldn't know. and so, i think the reality of what cummings represents clashes with what trump describes. and i think there is going to be a lo

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

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

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

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

>> we will look at the questions that set him off, plus racially charge uproar as president charges cummings. i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ ♪ >> little debate that mueller struggled in capitol hill. >> so the report did not conclude that he did not commit obstruction of justice. >> correct. >> did you exonerate the president? >> no. >> what he's doing is not on instructing justice, he's pursuing justice and the fact that you ran 2 years means that you perpetuated injustice. >> i take your question. >> your investigation -- >> it's not a witch hunt. >> president quickly unloaded on the man who spent 2 years investigating him. >> i think robert mueller did a horrible job both today and with respect to the investigation but in all fairness to robert mueller, he had nothing to work with. >> mr. mueller, said the other day, confirmed, confirmed that the president has obstructed justice. >> joining us to analyze the coverage emily, sarah fisher, media reporter for axios and capri cafaro, washington examiner contributor. emily, media consensus that robert mueller was awful witness

at chairman cummings' questioning, he tweeted why is so much money sent to the elijah cummings district when it's considered ed woshz -- the worst run and 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. if he spent more time in baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this place. he commutes and goes home daily. his district is home to 700,000 people, about 700,000 more than the president says would want to live there. it's racially diverse, majority african american home to the john hopkins medical center and according to the "the baltimore sun" one of the wealthiest in majority black districts in the country and has some extreme poverty and crime and baltimore does have long-standing problems. but if you listen to the president maryland seven is barely fit for human habitation an

i don't know fess i have i cannily about the cummings tweets. plan to get the president to dial them back to say they have been misinterpreted then he doubled down. the white house was trying to put a strategy around these tweets the president didn't want to follow it. as we've seen throughout this presidency, trump is there, basically in the residence frequently watching fox news, responding to fox news you almost can't over state how much his public commentary is driven by what he's seeing on fox and friends, tucker carlson, sean hannity show. his aides are just trying to reverse engineer from the tweets that they see, what did he mean, what is the strategy. when they trite to put strategy together for the second day the president ignores it. >> can i add, too. i think there is this popular thought, this strategy is super change the base. get baxcite i don't know if the proof the s is there for that. i looked at a poll, 87% approval ratings from the republicans. when romney was there, he was as at 87%. i don't know if there is any proof that t

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

the president says cummings is the racist. abc's kyra phillips at the white house. >> reporter: tonight, maryland's republican governor denouncing president trump for smearing a baltimore congressional district as a, quote, "disgusting rat rodent-infested messing," saying "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 used the phrase "crime-infested" to describe t

what is it about elijah cummings? what could it possibly be? leading off our discussion tonight is democratic congressman jerry nadler of new york. he is chairman of the house judiciary committee. mr. chairman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> let me just start with what we all saw the president do with elijah cummings this weekend in this tweet rant that went on and on. what is your interpretation of that? >> well, my interpretation is it's a racist and disgusting attack, and it was designed to whip up racist sentiment on which the president is hoping to base his reelection. >> you've been watching here in new york since you got in trouble with the justice department over racial discrimination in housing practices with his father. there is no surprise to you, i don't think, in any of this. does it look to you like this is the campaign, this is the trump presidential campaign? don't leave a single racist possible vote behind. >> it seems that is a very large part of the trump campaign. he's making no attempt to reach

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. if he spent more time in baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this place. he commutes and goes home daily. his district is home to 700,000 people, about 700,000 more than the president says would want to live there. it's racially diverse, majority african american home to the john hopkins medical center and according to the "the baltimore sun" one of the wealthiest in the country and has some extreme poverty and crime and baltimore does have long-standing problems. but if you listen to the president maryland seven is barely fit for human habitation and the president's attacks on women, the race is again at t

but the fact is, that elijah cummings and his colleagues have been to the border. when the president says i've been to the border. we all know your eyes and ears. who are you going to believe me or your lying eyes. we know from our reporting when we were talking to julia ainsley, their award winning reporting as well as many others. the facts are very clear from all of our interviews with pediatricians, with lawyers, advocates along the border. >> and from the ig, from the department of homeland security have detailed the conditions at the border. we do know that that those are facts. this was clearly a way to attack someone trump saw as a political enemy. we've seen time and time again when he attacks people of color, whether they're members of congress or other leaders or anybody who criticized him, he does it in a particular way using particular language, particularly phrasing. that is the reason we're here in day i don't know how many days we're into this still talking about this. >> into the third week. >> it could be the third. hard to keep track. >> the new

are you talking with respect to elijah cummings? >> as the president's racist meltdown continues -- >> there is no strategy. i have no strategy. there is zero strategy. >> tonight, the actual source of donald trump's rage at elijah cummings as democratic oversight uncovers the central con of the trump campaign. >> america first, folks. america first. >> then, "the washington post" called mitch mcconnell what? >> mitch mcconnell gets defensive a

also, elijah cummings and chair cummings is someone i work with closely on all kinds of legislation, he's someone who 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 -- he can defend himself. >> let's talk about the hearing now. robert mueller's testimony before your committee on wednesday. i want to show some of the closing comments between your chair and mr. mueller. >> know ingly accepting foreign assistance during a presidential campaign is an unethical thing to do -- >> and a crime. >> and a crime. >> yes and given certain circumstances. >> and we can agree it's also unpatriotic? >> true. >> and wrong? >> true. >> from your reading of the mueller report, do you believe the president and his associates acted unethically during the campaign? >> i think the mueller report identified a number of behavior that was unbecoming of an occupant of the white house. but one thing that robert mueller also said during the questioning by the ranking member of the judiciary that the investi

elijah cummings he has focused on a witch hunt. he has put no time into his own city. >> tucker: already come eric trump. by the way, congrats to you. i know of a b is moments away. any second, we'll hear the news. congratulations. directly ahead, rush limbaugh, he weighs in. also tonight, we've got late-breaking developments and news. hillary clinton does not want you to hear. treason that never, ever would happen to donald trump. we've got the evidence tonight. ♪ let's see, aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol extra strength. and last longer with fewer pills. so why am i still thinking about this? i'll take aleve. aleve. proven better on pain. lick fast like a cookie dough ninja. apply that same speed to the ford hurry up and save sales event. for the first time ever get 20% estimated savings on select ford models, plus earn complimentary maintenance through fordpass rewards. it all adds up. don't you love math? so get here asap because tasty deals and summer go fast. get in or lose out on 20% estimated savings on select

calling congressman cummings racist and a bully. it's also clear by now that this is how donald trump intends to run for a second term. whether you think this is intentional political strategy or just can't control himself, the racism, the xenophobia, the stoking of people's worst impulses, this is the trump 2020 campaign. not the economy or jobs or some normal political thing. it's just this. which means that even if we wish we could just ignore trump's provocations on a day like this, we cannot. and so we're going to talk more this hour about his vitreal. we'll be joined live by the reverend al sharpton who came to the defense of cummings and his city and earned his own attacks from the president for that today. and also by michael steel, the former lieutenant governor of maryland and former head of the republican national committee. the two of them came together to defend baltimore. but on a day like today when so much oxygen is being eaten up, understandably so, by what the president says, it's important to also pay attention to

calling congressman cummings racist and a bully. it's also clear by now that this is how donald trump intends to run for a second term. whether you think this is intentional political strategy or he just can't control himself, the racism, the xenophobia, the stoking of people's worst impulses, this is the trump 2020 campaign. not the economy or jobs or some normal political thing. it's just this. which means that even if we wish we could just ignore trump's provocations on a day like this, we cannot. and so we're going to talk more this hour about his vitriol. we'll be joined live by the reverend al sharpton who came to the defense of cummings and his city and earned his own attacks from the president for that today. and also by michael steele, the former lieutenant governor of maryland and former head of the republican national committee. the two of them came together to defend baltimore today. but on a day like today when so much oxygen is being eaten up, and understandably so, by what the president says, it's important to also pa

he's not happy that cummings is going after his daughter. he's not happy about the -- what the house oversight committee is doing. but i think -- i was really curious about your question to rich which i think was answered by your interview with rick scott just now when you said what is the breaking point for the republican party? i think we have seen there is no breaking point for the republican party. >> it's not this. >> well, certainly -- >> that we know. >> not on race. >> i'm going to pause it here. when we come back will the democratic candidate who's been making the case for impeachment, tom steyer joins me next. the c >>> some breaking news. director of national intelligence dan coats leaving his post in mid-august. the former indiana senator has passed attacks on the intelligence community. president trump tweeted john rad cliff will be nominated to replace coats. he criticized robert mueller during the house judiciary committee earlier this week. for more watch kcdc tonight at 7:00. night at 7:00 re to steal your car because, well,

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.

elijah cummings is in charge of it. he should park them in baltimore and find out what happened to the $15 billion. >> keep in mind that while baltimore is at the center of this feud it's not the cause, the cause is elijah cummings and his position as chairman of the oversight committee continuing to investigate the president and his family. an episode on july 18th in which he upgraded the secretary for what he said were conditions at the border which are in dispute. that made news the day it happened july 18th, but didn't register in the oval office until the president saw a replay of that videotape on saturday mornings ox end. listen here. >> elijah cummings -- a horrible thing the way he spoke to homeland security. these people are working hard. they are getting no support from the democrats. the democrats refused to fix the loophole. he refused to fix the asylum. those two things would make it 95% easier. >> number democrats today tend to the jamestown speech today and he thanked them for coming and said it was a lo

president trump doubling, tripling now on his attacks on elijah cummings. the democratic chairman of the oversight committee, the same committee investigating him. this weekend the president called the congressman's district a disgusting rat and a rodent infested mass where no human being would want to live. that in response to his criticism of conditions at the border facility. his district which includes baltimore is largely african-american, critics say the presidents comments are racist, flat out but he says his criticisms have nothing to do with race and calls the congressman a racist himself. john roberts from the white house. >> it's no secret the president has been irritated with them for some time over continued requests with information over tax returns, most recently the personal emails with his daughter ivanka trump, but what what really set off the president was this exchange on thursday between elijah cummings over conditions at the southern border. >> you feel like you're doing a great job? is that what you are saying? what does that mean? wh

respond to congressman cummings. he said president trump is racist. >> i have worked with president trump for two years and he's not a racist. he's a compassionate man whose policies have focused on the minority community. you look at the fact that the president has pushed and implementing the opportunity zones that helps low-income communities across the country, including baltimore. you look at the fact that the unemployment numbers for african-americans is at its lowest. for hispanics at its lowest. he's a results-oriented president who's focused on uplifting all americans, including blacks, hispanics. and i have to say, i have been with him in the room with all these -- with all these different communities and he does stay focused on ensuring that we're implementing the right policies for all americans. >> mercedes, we also saw him in that room in north carolina this week, 13 seconds in "send her back." you retweeted from ben shapiro, which said those chants are disgusting. it seems like you're at odds with the p

elijah cummings is in charge of it. ends he already takes his oversight committee and finds out what happens in the $15 billion. it >> sean: by the way, 1.8 billion in stimulus money from obama. and the conditions in baltimore, as we're showing again, have become worse and worse, your income, year out. democrats who have been in charge for decades, they continue to win wheel actions. why? they continued to get a paycheck and nothing ever gets better every day gets worse. we have a lot coming up in the course of this monologue in including, special hannity investigation into the democratic run city of detroit where democrats have been debating tonight. but first, we turned other breaking news from our investigation into the investigators, looks like the current fbi director, christopher wray, might be covering for his friends in the sewer and the swamp in d.c., according to reporting from the hills executive vice president. investigative reporter john solomon, director ray has blocked the fbi from responding to congressi

cummings saying that kids were sleeping in their own feces. and when the president hears lies like that, he's going fight back and that's what you isn't that true the tweet. chris: this goes back to what happened with the four members of the squad, nobody objects the president defending border policy but this seems, mick, the worst racial stereotyping, black congressman, majority-black district, no human being would want to live there, is he saying people that live in baltimore are not human beings? >> chris, help me with this, when the president attacks aoc plus 3, attacks the squad he gets accused of being a racist, when nancy pelosi does it a few days later, the left, not you in particular, make that clear come to nancy's defense, couldn't possibly be racist, she was simply attacking their ideas, the president is doing the same, the president is attacking mr. cummings for saying things that are not true about the border, i think it's right for the president to raise the issue, look, i was in congress for 6 years, if i had poverty in my dist

senator kamala harris was asked about donald trump's weekend of racist attacks on congressman elijah cummings. >> he is doing what he has done from the time he became a candidate, which he is trying to divide this country. he's trying to divide this country. he's trying to say it's us versus them. that is not reflective of a leader. and certainly not an american leader. but the american people are smarter than that. i believe in the american people. and we know that that's not reflective of who we are. we know that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us. >> to join our discussion now is nera tanden. she was a senior adviser to president obama. she is president and ceo for the center for american progress. and we have an msnbc john k park. nera, what's it like on the eve of a presidential debate when a poll comes out to reshape the standing of things? >> well, i actually think despite what the polls say, what was clear from the last debate is you have to go into the debates and really try to meet your campaign goals. which i think for most of these candidate

elijah cummings says the president's go back tweets are painful. the chairman of the oversight committee says the president's words bring back memories of being beaten as a teenager when trying to integrate a pool in his hometown of baltimore in 1962. >> i can still remember bleeding from my forehead when people were throwing bottles. these were adults throwing bottles and saying go home [ bleep ]. i would say to the president right now, mr. president, we want you to be a role model. we want somebody in that white house who our children can be proud of. who our children can emulate, who our children will look up to. and that is not the kind of example that you're setting, and i'm telling you, mr. president, you and we, our nation is better than that. >> and yet this morning another attack from the president who wrote, quote, i don't believe the four wonk women of color are capable of loving our country. coming to his defense, steven miller considered the master mind of some of the most controversial and racially insensitive policies emerging from t

cumming district -- his wording there from the president is a rat and rodent infested mess and if he spent more time in baltimore he could clean this up. "the baltimore sun" has

are you talking with respect to elijah cummings? i have no strategy. zero strategy. all it is i'm pointing out facts. >> elise jordan, that was the president. i guess he say coming back from jamestown yesterday. your reaction to that. strategy, no strategy? >> i think there's no room for debate any longer. the president himself clarified in his own words there's not a calculated political strategy behind his words. he is simply a racist plain and simple. we've seen that in his behavior from the 80s, from when he wanted to execute innocent young men and took out a large ad in new york city papers advocating for the execution of innocent black men. you see, you know, on to birtherism and his incendiary language throughout the 2016 campaign. it's downright racist policies now. so, no, i think that donald trump was actually telling the truth on a rare occasion and we should take him at his word that no, there's not a strategy, he's just racist. >> and, of course, we see the continuing silence, though -- you were in the white house, you understand the way the previous rep

it's worth remembering why cummings is the target. it has nothing to do with the people of baltimore. >> that's exactly right. and that's why i'm of two minds because as soon as it starts to get hot, the president falls back on what he knows is tried and true for him. and i think, chris, that's where we should be focussing. why does this appeal to so many americans? and i don't think that this is about economic anxiety. i think this is about racism in american society. when we called it out and talked about it in 2015 and 2016, you know, we were told that it was all about economic anxiety. there is a strong strain of racism in this country. it's not just struggling people. it's well-educated people. >> sure. >> those comments that he makes resonate and that's why we have to push back against them and we're going to continue to do that, but at the same time, the organization i lead fights on the ground in baltimore for, you know, economic mobility, for education, for constitutional policing and we're not going to stop that fight as wel

cummings, who is african american and represents parts of baltimore, a majority black city, chairs the house oversight committee and has been one of pe harshest voices against the president's bordicies and previous racist comments. one of the president's tweets used the word "infested," a word he has often used in previous critiques, usually aimed atop of color. yesterday's proclamations were deemed racist by citizens ofe baltimd beyond. today "the baltimore sun" newspaper's editial board said, "mr. trump sees attacking african american membersgof congress a politics, as it both warms the cockles of the e white supremacists who lm and causes so many of the thoughtful people who don't to scream." police in hong kong clashed with protesters again today as onviolence in the semi-automous chinese territory escalates. pro-democracy demonstrators blocked a road near chinese governmentuildings and threw eggs at police in riot gear who responded with tear gas. this was the second straight day that protesters gathered without first obtaining permission from the government. for nearly two months

>> cummings telling mcaleenan that the united states is the best country on earth and we can do better. >>> a charter bus of youth children catching fire. more on this in a moment. >>> and a medical emergency. a good samaritan. in los angeles, the officer in court today accused in one rain and his dna hit a match for a second sexual assault. more on that in a moment. >> and coffee and cancer. the new study in tonight. we have more news. stay tuned. this is also mia's pulse. that her doctor keeps in check, so she can find balance. this is mia's pulse, and now it's more stable than ever. this is what medicare from blue cross blue shield does for mia. and with over 80 years of healthcare expertise, imagine what we can do for you. this is the benefit of blue. (announcer) you can quit. for free help, call 1-800-quit now. i have heart disease, watch what i eat, take statins, but still struggle to lower my ldl bad cholesterol. which means a heart attack or stroke. could strike without warning, pulling me away from everything that matters most. (siren) because with high bad cholesterol, my ris

katie porter graduated magna cum laude and became a professor herself. like elizabeth warren it was from her position as a law school professor that she decided to run for office. if you were watching last night, you saw katie porter's crushing line of questioning to the trump administration's director of the consumer financial protection bureau who could not calculate the annual percentage rate of a predatory payday loan, that offers financially vulnerable people a small infusion of cash at astronomical interest rates. katie porter did it again in the hearing room. this time with the ceo of wells fargo, timothy sloane. >> in november of 2016, you said "i'm fully committed to taking the necessary steps to restore our customers' trust." you also said on a call "we have already made progress in restoring customers' trust and remain committed to being transparent with investors." your proxy statement to investors, you said "restoring your trust and the trust of all key stakeholders is our top priority. those statements to me are pretty vague. they sound lik

his comments about the city of baltimore and elijah cummings has struck a nerve. the president's series of tweets calling baltimore a, quote, disgusting rat and rodent-infested mess, was a call to action for many. it likely fore shadows how the president plans to run his re-election campaign on a strategy of racial division. the people of baltimore are striking back. they are speaking out along with other americans unwilling to stand for racism in any form. maryland's former republican governor urged people to make their leaders accountable. he had this message for president trump. >> mr. president, your reprehensible comments are like water off a duck's back when it comes to this community. it just washes over them. it doesn't stick to them. it does not stain them. so my ask to you, sir, is to join me, to join jimmy kemp, to join others in this community here in this space on this ground. let's walk this community, sir. let's talk to these folks face to face. you'll begin to realize and appreciate the hard work and the commitment that they have made. the resource