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For erin burnett. Outfront, unwelcome . The president making a controversial visit to pittsburgh after the deadliest attack on jews in american history, the president was greeted by hundreds of protesters singing this land is your land. Protesters with signs saying the president s not welcome until he stops what they perceive to be his assault on immigrations and refugees. Until he fully denounces White Nationalism to their satisfaction. The protests on one level are not surprising. Pittsburgh is after all a very capital d democratic city and one week before the Midterm Elections tensions are running high. On the other hand, this is not a normal time and President Trump is not a typical president. Over the past several years even many conservative republicans have expressed concerns about the president s incendiary rhetoric to say the least. President trumps trip also comes as several pennsylvania officials and Community Leaders urged him not to go, not at this time. The mayor of pittsburgh, the governor of pennsylvania, Allegheny County executive all saying they would not meet with the president on this trip. Many victims families also saying they would not meet with the president. As the president and first lady arrived along with Jared Kushner, ivanka trump and treasury secretariry Steve Mnuchin there were no elected officials, democrats or republican, on the tarmac to greet them. Instead the president was greeted by a member of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard and his wife, an unusual sight to say the least. Congressional leaders including republicans declined to accompany the president , mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, Chuck Schumer, nancy pelosi, even the states republican senator pat toomey all declining for various reasons. This all come, of course, as the first funerals are being held today for the victim, those laid to rest today include Brothers David and Cecil Rosenthal and dr. Jerry rabinowitz. President trump and his ento entourage just left the city. The white house was expecting resistance but did the number of protesters surprise them . Reporter it seemed to because those protesters, you could hear them from where im standing right now right outside the tree of life synagogue and when President Trump and the First Lady Melania Trump first arrived here, they went inside with the rabbi and we were standing out here with some of the president s senior staff including his chief of staff john kelly, the press secretary sarah sanders, several other members of the administration as well and you couldnt see the protesters from where we are because, of course, the secret service has a lot of this blocked off for his arrival but could hear them pretty clearly from where we were standing and we saw several officials look down the road, try to see where they were coming from, where the protesters were, because that was just shortly after they had landed here in pittsburgh. But that was all President Trump was inside. They lit a candle for each of the 11 victims from saturdays shooting while they were in there with Melania Trump and the rabbi and came out here to this memorial that has the community has created outside of the synagogue and laid stones on each of the stars of david, one for each person who was shot, each bearing their name, of course, surrounded by flowers and balloons, the members of this community brought here since that shooting on saturday to pay their own respects and then the president went to upmc presbyterian. Jake, thats the hospital where a lot of people who were shot here on saturday were treated as well. Thats where they were taken. Just a tenminute drive from the synagogue and the president was there for more than 80 minutes just now not only meeting with the medical staff who treated those people who had been shot but meeting with those Police Officers who ran into the synagogue when everyone else was trying to get out including one, jake, who the white house says is still in intensive care so the president was there for 80 minutes or so and will likely get a readout of what was going on while he was in the hospital there today. Cameras in there but he has now left and has gone and on his way back to washington, jake. All right, indicatethanks so. Miguel marquez is with some of the protesters. What have you heard from them . Why do they not want the president there . Do they not see the president as having good intentions trying to comfort them . Reporter they see the president as a divisive character in all of this. Many people coming up to me and saying that, but for the president , this horrific, you know, killing of jews would not have happened. You cannot walk around this neighborhood without finding people who are just in tears everywhere and today that sort of it manifests itself in a protest. Thousands of people turned out. I want to show you what is happening. This is the last number. Its a small number of people who have taken over forbes street here right near murray, a few blocks from the synagogue. They are singing, they are grieving. This is their neighborhood. Its sort of a direct action. Theres been a lot of Police Activity as well. Police have tried to clear the streets and there are several Police Officers, several dozen Police Officers in this area here. It is not clear whether they are going to clear the street or just allow them to sing, to grieve and to have their moment here, but were certainly watching it. It has been a remarkable day to see, we did not expect a protest and then we heard there might be one and there was 20 people and before long there were thousands in the streets here singing, chanting, praying and hoping that this community, this town can get beyond this and hoping that the political rhetoric takes a different path at this point. Jake. Miguel, it sounds as though from their singing this land is your land and the like, it sounds as though its a peaceful and not an angry protest. Is that obviously different there would be individuals and different individuals reacting but am i getting the right impression . Reporter there is some anger. It is the vast majority is peaceful. It is prayers. A lot of jewish traditions where they took black pieces of paper or ribbons and held it up and tore it in half to show that they are not whole. Very, very powerful moments where they were walking along and by the fire station that was closest to the synagogue and the police station, applauding the firefighters and the Police Officers, hugging them and thanking them, but there is also anger. There was at least one arrest. People sort of pushing in on the barricades as the president was leaving. There are a lot of signs that are very disrespectful of the president and of his office and it is a mix of emotions, but that deep well of sadness, that emotion, it was a little concerning about where what direction it would take today but it clearly people in this neighborhood, they love their neighborhood. They want to get beyond this, and they hope this will help heal this neighborhood, jake. All right, painting a complicated picture. Miguel marquez in pittsburgh. Thanks so much. Outside is rich fitzgerald. He declined to meet with President Trump today. Thanks so much for joining us. What did you make of the president s trip to pittsburgh from his point of view . He was he went in with the best intentions. Do you think he struck the right tone . Well, i havent seen a lot of the coverage of when the president was here, but my understanding is it was not a rally type of event. It was more of a solemn remembrance and respectful the stone putting the stones on the memorials at the synagogue which was appropriate. But i also, you know, knowing this is a pretty politically volatile time, just coming now, you know, when emotions are so raw, when were burying our dead, when were grieving and trying to comfort the families could really turn out to be something, Something Different than what we really need here in this community right now. Its not just the timing, right . Lets be honest. Pittsburgh is a very democratic city. Youre a democrat. A lot of the officials who refused to meet with President Trump are democrats. This is about President Trump personally. Thats why you didnt want to meet with him, no . No, thats not the case at all. Just wasnt the right time and i think you probably saw that other elected officials, democrats and republicans, that the Republican Leaders from the senate and the house refused to come here as well. That the republican elected officials here did not meet as well. I think they had a sense. We were all together saturday and sunday. Democrats and republicans who were in town, even those that didnt live here came, our republican speaker of the house was here, and it was its about being respectful and having a tone that is allowing the families to be first. The attention should be on the families and on those 11 those 11 victims and their families and the community and this is a community that does come together. It is also a politically active community. I will certainly acknowledge that. It is probably the most politically active community in western pennsylvania. But that doesnt necessarily mean that we want our politics to be out in front at a time like this. I dont mean in a political way, but weve heard from a lot of the protesters and some of the people who are part of the community who dont like President Trumps tone, dont like his rhett hick, in some cases they hold him in some ways responsible for the hate crime, the acts of violence that have occurred. Isnt that part of it, as well . I mean, president obama, he went to aurora, colorado, i think two or three days after the horror there, he went to sandy hook discussion a couple of days after the horror there. Its not that unusual. What i mean, i dont mean its because President Trump is republican. It seems like its about him, what the people are objecting to but youre saying thats not the case at all. Well, i cant speak to what happened the elected officials in colorado or in sandy hook or in other places, but what i can tell you is, again, i think it was the timing and i think the mayor and i and the governor all have said, you know, we were hoping maybe a week or two, you know, allow a little bit of a time for, again, for the families to bury their dead, to sit shiva, to have the appropriate time of healing and then certainly come in to town and lets meet with the family, again, if the families want to do that even a week or two from now. But it was just the timing that i thought was maybe not the right not the right way to go. So, again, from all sides, from right and left, theres a lot of anger, theres a lot of vitriol right now on all sides, and, again, we didnt want a carnival political sideshow right now when it is about the families and about a community, a special community that we love very much and it was nothing more than that. Well, tell me how the community is doing. How are people coping . Obviously the Family Members of the 11 individuals killed and those wounded will, you know, it will take months or years or they will never be made whole. How are other people in pittsburgh and Squirrel Hill doing . Well, people, you know, and i live in this neighborhood. About 100 yards is the synagogue this way and 100 yards that way is my home and as i saw my neighbors Walking Around on the sidewalk the last couple of days up and down the street theyre in shock. They have numb looks on their face, and i think thats emblematic of whats happening throughout Squirrel Hill. Its very much a community of families. Mul Multigenerational Families of multidifferent faiths and people are comforting each other. I just came from a Zionist Organization of america. Their annual dinner just happened to be tonight and there were a lot of people that showed up because they just want to connect with people. They dont want to be sitting by themselves. They want to be with others and having that social contact. And its kind of what this neighborhood has really been about all along and i think we just want to be there for each other. All right. Well, thank you so much for being with us tonight. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Outfront next, a trump ally under increased scrutiny over his White Nationalist rhetoric. Is his own party abandoning him . Plus breaking news. Robert muellers team interviewing steve bannon again . What does mueller want from trumps former strategist. Kellyanne conways husband george out with a new oped calling the president s proposal to end birthright citizenship through an executive order unconstitutional. Stay with us. Announcer Erin Burnett Outfront brought to you by the girl in the spiders web. With my hepatitis c, i felt i couldnt be at my best for my family. In only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured and left those doubts behind. I faced reminders of my hep c every day. 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Outfront we have former senator from the great commonwealth of pennsylvania, Rick Santorum and from the pittsburgh Area National Affairs Correspondent for the area joan walsh and senator santorum, what did you make of the fact that so few, if any, of the citys leaders were there or the states commonwealths leaders were there to greet the president or be part of his visit . Obviously the rabbi was there, rabbi jeffrey myers, but the mayor, Allegheny County executive werent there. I was disappointed. When the president would come into my state whether bill clinton or george bush when i was in office, you show up if youre invited because hes the president. And i may not agree with him. May not like him personally even but hes the president and hes there to express the condolences of the nation as the president to this to the people would suffered through this horrible tragedy and, you know, we talk about the divisiveness and then yet when you have an opportunity as local and state officials to not be divisive, to actually step up and say, you know, this is the president , i dont like his politics, i dont even like him or what he says but hes here to honor these people and im going to be the bigger person here. And, you hear this all the time. Trump needs to be the bigger person. Well, it comes back at you if youre the governor of pennsylvania or and, look, i have good relationships with rich the Allegheny County executive. Hes a good man and lives in that neighborhood and i know tensions are running high. It could have been an opportunity for rich to step up and do something that may not be politically smart and do something and, you know, show that we can be bigger than this. That we can forgive and we can move forward and i think they missed an opportunity. Joan, let me bring you in. President trump insisted he was going to visit pittsburgh to honor the victims. He went to the synagogue. He put stones on the not real graves but the faux graves of the 11 victims. Isnt santorum right . This was an opportunity i get why people are mad at President Trump and i get why people in the community are angry but wasnt this potentially a moment for healing that not President Trump but other people missed . I dont think so. Jake, i really dont. He was asked not to come now. He was never asked not to come. And i would point out that senator pat toomey who was a republican, he was not there today to meet the president. Mitch mcconnell and paul ryan were invited along. They did not go either. I think they had the sense to realize this was a day of mourning when the dead needed to be the focus, that this neighborhood is grieving, that it is challenge there are security challenges. Barack obama waited several days and all of the cases of mass murders until he would not take away from the emergency response, the police response, the police are grieving and i think, you know, jeff zeleny reported that the reason the white house was giving for why it had to happen today is that the president s schedule is chockfull of Campaign Rallies before the midterms for the next week so if thats not the definition of political posturing, i dont know what is. David, earlier today on my 4 00 show i asked paul begala who worked in the bill Clinton White house about when bill clinton went to oklahoma after the Oklahoma City bombing. Oklahoma, you might not be surprised to hear, not a hotbed of proclinton sentiment. He said that they waited for the governor, governor keating at the time, to invite president clinton, that it really had to do with the state bringing him in and obviously and for whatever the reason and you certainly would go threw a list of all the things President Trump has done to get Governor Wolf made. For whatever reason that invitation didnt come. You can have a conversation about the timing and joan pointed out the reporting about a Campaign Schedule and maybe if that was not the case, the president would have waited more for local officials to be on board. Its a lot of sound and fury signifying not much today because at the end of the day, jake, what pennsylvanians and what the count sees is the image of the president and first lady paying condolence, putting those stones on those makeshift temporary graves, on behalf of a mournful nation. That is a really important image and i think that the white house accomplished that today and, yes, i know that we can chat about an awkward arrival or not the protocol of who is normally there but at the end of the day, imagine the reverse if the president did not make a visit at all and how that would be treated if we didnt have that moment of the president doing that, so there may have been less politically charged way to deal with this and timing on this but i think at the end of the day the right image of the president is the one that was projected to the countr tonight. Joan, so when President Trump arrived. He arrived with ivanka trump who has converted to judaism, her husband Jared Kushner who is one of the president s senior advisers, also treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin was there, the israeli ambassador to the United States ron dermer met by rabbi jeffrey myers, the rabbi of tree of life synagogue. That image and what we saw of the president today, you know, i understand what youre saying that the scheduling maybe thats crass, that he had Campaign Events he couldnt tear himself away from. The white house official said they couldnt have him go to pittsburgh and the same day and also go to a Campaign Event and the midterms are on tuesday. But that image is a lot of americans might see that and say thats the president doing what president s do and trying to heal and trying to be a comforter and did so this a lowkey way. You didnt take that from it. I did not. It cannot erase the years of awful rhetoric. If anyone took comfort from that, if any Family Member did, god bless them. I would never take it away from them. I saw a lot of people in that neighborhood who were not comforted. I saw people who were depicted as protesters who were saying the mourners they were singing hebrew songs of grief and mouring and saw people not comforted but i certainly if one person in the country was comforted, if one family was comforted, i understand that and thats their right. I was not comforted. What did you think of the fact that the president brought, david chalian, ivanka and Jared Kushner, the highest ranking jews in the administration. Totally appropriate and among the images you saw Jared Kushner sort of rubbing the back of the rabbi as they were walking in. I mean, there was there was a connection there obviously based in their faith. Obviously being so closely related to the president and his senior advisers, it seemed like a nobrainer of a kind of a move that you would want to bring and jared and ivanka im sure wanted to express their condolences. I want to ask you about another subject. If i can, senator santorum, which is republican congressman steve king who i think you served with him in the house, did you not . Hes been under a lot of scrutiny for his rhetoric about george soros. Hes retweeted some questionable characters and endorsed a woman with a very questionable past for toronto mayor. The republican chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee steve stiers of ohio tweeted today, congressman steve kings recent actions are completely inappropriate. We must stand up against White Supremacy and hate in all forms and strongly condemn this behavior. I have to say, one week before a Midterm Election where at least one poll indicated that steve king has something of a competitive race, i was kind of surprised to see that. Were you . Yes and no. I think that republicans need to be very direct and when it comes to these types of comments that may give the impression that the Republican Party somehow, you know, has some quarter for White Supremacists which we do not. And so anybody that seems to give that quarter needs to be called out and im glad that they did it. Look, i dont believe steve king is a white supremacist nor supports it but if he does things that are out of bounds, he needs to be called out on it. Steve bannon interviewed again by Robert Muellers team. What the special counsel appears to be focusing on tonight, plus, is it the trump defense, a man convicted in a plot to kill somalimuslim refugees is now blaming the president s rhetoric for the attack . Well explain. Ycle bell sound explore more with a guaranteed 4pm checkout at over 1,000 fine hotels and resorts. Its another way weve got your back. The Platinum Card from american express. Dont live life without it. Youve i like working. Areer. 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Shimon, what else do we know about this latest meeting between bannon and muellers team. This is the third time were told bannon has met with the special counsel. Significant in the sense that we know theres this ongoing probe of roger stone and whether or not he had any knowledge ahead of the release of those emails and so were told that this was the focus of some of the questioning by the mueller team of whether or not roger stone had some knowledge in advance, you know, keep in mind that bannon both worked on the campaign and also obviously worked at the white house so the thing here that the special counsel were told has been trying to figure out whether or not roger stone if he was communicating with wikileaks and had knowledge, did he tell anyone ahead of time about this and that could be perhaps why the special counsel and investigators were talking to bannon. We dont know significant also we should say is that bannon has not testified before the grand jury so just a meeting with the special counsel with their investigators and well see. Theres always a chance that bannon could be brought back to go before a grand jury or for whatever other reason. Stick around. I want to bring in Harry Sandick from the Southern District of new york and khan wu, a former lawyer for former Trump Campaign aide rick gates who is now cooperating with the mueller probe. Harry, let me start with you. What do you make of the fact that bannon has been interviewed again . Its the third time. Although never in front of the grand jury . Sure, i think what it means is that as this investigation is progressing, muellers team is hearing things from other witnesses about lets say roger stone and steve bannon and so in order to make sure that youre getting all the details right, it makes sense to go back, see the witness again, bring in bannon to meet with the investigators another time, a third time, however many times you need to find out what actually happened and to hear the account from as many different witnesses as possible and so i think what must have happened here is that some witness made reference to their being communications with bannon and then muellers team said, lets get bannon back in and hear what happened. Khan, it was two months ago that roger stone sent out a fundraising email where he wrote, im next on the crooked special prosecutors hit list because i have advised donald trump for the past 39 years. Discounting that crazy claim that hes crooked, that mueller is crooked and, you hear this latest reporting. Does it sound like stones right that he might be next on the list . Yeah, i think rogers instincts are right on that count. And whats the crime . Whats the potential crime . The crime for him would be part of the collusion notion which is that he might be the interface with the russians collusion is not a crime so conspiraciry. Conspiraciry to interfere with the election and i think the problem for him these sorts of investigations are musical chairs. You dont want to be the last person standing when music stops. They are working their way in to him. If that doesnt mean indictment it means he is the focus and hes going last and so thats something to be worried about. Shimon, he has interviewed a lot of Close Associates including jerome corsi and former trump aide sam nunberg. To the best of your knowledge muellers team has not interviewed stone. No, in fact, stone has told us as much, that theyve not interviewed him. Shan will know that could spell trouble for him. Hes not been interviewed and could indicate he is a target. Look, its clear he is a target in the investigation. They keep bringing people in one after another. This whole host of characters that you just named that they keep bringing in before the grand jury. Some people have been in there more than once. Obviously steve bannon but in particular to the roger stone issue there are some witnesses who have been brought back. Theyve left and come back and been asked for more documents so in the end it does seem like theres something going on. We dont obviously know much about what goes on in terms of the special counsels investigation. But this is the one thing we keep hearing about. Roger stone. Roger stone and interestingly enough while roger stone doesnt think hes in any kind of trouble hes certainly fundraising off it and asked for money to help his defense so well see. Look, were getting close, it seems. Maybe perhaps after the election well see some activity. We certainly expect that. But, you know, it just still keeps going, roger stone, roger stone. And harry, he has a history of comments knowing he knew something was coming. Said it will soon be poe guess its time in the barrel. I have total confidence wikileaks and my hero Julian Assange will educate the American People soon and said to a Republican Group in august 2016, take a listen. I actually have communicated with assange. I believe that the next pertains to the Clinton Foundation but theres no telling what the october surprise may be. Im sure this is all information that the special counsel has at the quick and ready as well. Yeah, absolutely. And so this is really what mueller is trying to figure out. Was there any basis for what stone said in august and he said it on many occasions about his contacts with assange and if so, would that make him the missing link between the Trump Campaign and wikileaks . Or, was he as he is saying now, just puffing, exaggerating his influence, raising money, getting people excited but he was making it all up . So, to answer that question, mueller needs to talk to other witnesses to look at emails and any documents in order to figure out whether stones comments in the summer were accurate and has a significant back story or whether he was just making it up and his comments today denying any real connection to wikileaks are the accurate comment. Shan, just to reiterate that point, stone denies any wrongdoing and denies any advance knowledge of the content or time frame for the wikileaks release. Lets take a listen. Let me say it yet again, i had no advance notice of the source or the content or the actual release date of the devastating material that wikileaks published. Can he square that with his previous comments . I think its hard for him because of the timing of so much of this. I mean, have you that rather important date where the access tape comes out on trump. Its almost as if wikileaks is responding to that. When you put that in conjunction with his perhaps puffery, his bragging about what he knew, you have to look very carefully at that timing and maybe its just a spin and maybe his spin has some truth to it. Well see what mueller has, if anything. Thanks one and out. A man convicted of a plot to kill muslims now says President Trumps rhetoric is at least partly to blame and hes not the only one using trumps words as a defense of their actions and President Trump claims he can end birthright citizenship through an executive order. 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The defendants conspired to detonate a bomb at an apartment complex in garden city, kansas, where muslim immigrants from somalia live and worship. Reporter a recording reported by the Washington Post has the Trump Supporters saying the fing cockroaches this this country have to go. They are the threat in the country now. He was convicted but his attorneys want the court to go easy at sentencing because they say stein was pushed over the edge and he directly cited explosive and at times false claims by donald trump. They caught 50 radical islamic terrorists. They took a pig and then they took a second pig and they cut the pig open. Reporter the court cannot ignore the circumstances of one of the most rhetorically moldbreaking violent awful hateful and contentious president ial elections in modern history driven in large measure by the rhetorical china shop bull who is i now pronounce you chuck and larry now our president. They may recognize his inflammatory words. But at the end of the day everyone is responsible for their own conduct, right . Youve heard a million time, right, by your parents if someone else jumps offer the bridge, does that mean you do . Reporter trump denies spurring violence, asked about his fan accused of sending bombs to Top Democrats and cnn he was insane a long time before you look at his medical records. He was insane for a long time. Reporter still a man charged with assaulting a protester at a rally said trump urged him to do so. The courts have now said, no, it wasnt trumps fault. But the president criticized lowlevel criminals being offered deals to testify against bigger players and now his remarks are coming up in courtrooms cited by defense attorneys. Its called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal. Reporter federal prosecutors say a man recently groped a woman on an airplane and even in that case he tried to argue, trump said it was okay. They let you do it. You can do anything. Whatever you want. Grab them by the [ bleep ]. Again, legal analysts say, this precedent set by a president will probably not get anybody off the hook but they add we probably have not seen the last of the donald trump made me do it defense. We so it hasnt worked yet. It hasnt worked and it probably wont but that wont keep them from trying . This news just in, Kellyanne Conways husband coauthored a new column in the Washington Post saying the president s plan to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. George conway a noted and respected conservative attorney in washington writes, quote, such a move would be unconstitutional and would certainly be challenged and the challengers would undoubtedly win. Our constitution is a bipartisan document designed to endure for ages. Its words have meaning that cannot be washed away. President trump is trying to rally his base a week before election day with this legal questionable promise of getting rit of birthright citizenship and says he will sign an executive order and that will be enough to end the right of citizenship for anyone born in the United States including the children of noncitizens including the children of undocumented immigrants. Out front first lady melanias immigration lawyer michael wi wildes. Youre a democrat and former mayor and current mayoral candidate. What do you say to the president s promise to end birthright citizenship with an executive order. Two corrects. Its englewood city, not Englewood Cliffs and i represent mrs. Trump on immigration matters but helped her parents more recently. And im here as an individual lawyer not in any official capacity of the first lady. Look, do i feel it meets muster . Absolutely not. This is again a political pingpong thats going to be bandied about. An executive order, jake, cannot be put forward unless the constitution at authority is vested in the president here in article 1, section 8, its with congress. Did congress ever cede authority . Absolutely not. Supreme court held a hallmark case in 1898 after the 14th amendment had been ratified 30 years before that, again, those hallmark amendments 13, 14 and 15 dealing with the dred scott and the evolution of the reconstruction area, amendment 14 itself stating specifically that persons born in the United States are american citizens, again, articles in the constitution referring to it as well and finally, the Supreme Court then coming up with a decision at the time two parents who were subject to chinese exclusion act had a child born in the United States and it was well settled by the Supreme Court. And if that wasnt enough, go to 1952, the Walter Mccarron act, 18 u. S. Code, section 1401, a child born in the United States is an american citizen. Okay. So you dont buy it but let me ask you this what if the president did sign this executive order if it exists and not a mechanism to motivate his base and did sign it, it was challenged in court and then it worked its way up to the u. S. Supreme court. Is it not possible that it could be upheld and these immigration laws and the 14th amendment to the constitution would remain but not applied to the children of those would were in the country illegally . So, first of all, its dead on arrival in a District Federal Court its not going to an Appeals Court and not getting to the Supreme Court. Thats just plain fact. But lets pull the lens back if we can on the territory here. A child who comes to the United States or is born in the United States and my father who is an immigration lawyer had a hallmark case where a child was bore on an american flagged airplane. When the plane landed the mother had immigration issue, the child was an american citizen but you understand fundamentally when the case hits the court system, it is not going anywhere and there are mechanisms and protections to protect the using or bootstrapping yourself in an unsafe way. Look, the dialogue has deter yalted to tremendously. The notion of an anchor baby and the fear that the president is instilling is just not factual. I have not seen in my 30 years of practice a woman coming in pregnant so that 21 years later, yes, jake, 21 years later a parent can then be sponsored by a child but only if that parent entered legally and overstayed so we have legal mechanisms and shouldnt be playing to fears and this is just another political effort unfortunately where immigration is a pingpong and, again, we have foreign students that are looking to on board into the workforce and competing against them. Were distracting the most vulnerable and scores of people watching this, clients coming to immigration lawyers throughout the nation are living in fear every time Something Like this happens. Do not fear, this wont heres the argument that mike pence made today in support of President Trump. We cherish the language of the 14th amendment. But the Supreme Court of the United States has never ruled on whether or not the languae of the 14th amendment subject to the jurisdiction thereof applies specifically to people who are in the country illegally. Is he wrong . Yes. 1898 they ruled in u. S. Versus ark that hallmark case where the difference of two people and we want to understand that most European Countries have a blood line of citizenship and a very charming jay in america that we have a combination. There is some you can inherit and there is somewhere you have to earn it by having boots on the ground and it can actually speier a aspire to be president of the United States. That little caveat, read the 14th amendment itself. All persons born are naturalized in the United States are citizens. The notion of them being subject to something else, its in the context of the civil rights that were being accorded post slavery and so forth. Michael, thank you so much for your time. We always appreciate it. Our race of the day. Tonight were going to take you to missouri where a democrat is trying to hold on to her seat by running away from the likes of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Will it work . Stay with us. My love has come along, applebees new neighborhood pastas. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Applebees new neighborhood pastas. Checkout is at 4pm. Plenty of time to enjoy your ride. bicycle bell sound bicycle bell sound bicycle bell sound explore more with a guaranteed 4pm checkout at over 1,000 fine hotels and resorts. Its another way weve got your back. The Platinum Card from american express. Dont live life without it. Opportunlike here. 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Reporter democrat Claire Mccaskill rolling deep in rural conservative missouri in search of every possible vote to send her back to the senate. I mean were realists about this. Its not that anybody believes im going to be able to win jasper county. But you know what we can do . We can win a few more votes. I have news for you, its close. Reporter in many ways, its a political mees a miracle she represents this red state that President Trump p won by 20 points. She won in 2006 and again in 2012 after todd aiken talked of legitimate rape. Health care is on the ballot. Reporter like Many Democrats in tough races, she tries to stay focused on health care and preserving obamacares protections for preexisting conditions. Her gop opponent josh holly says he supports them too but hes part of a lawsuit that could strike down the protections. Hes casting the race as a clear choice. We dont like the washington establishment. We think that there needs to be a shakeup in both parties. And, you know, voters were very adamant about that. This campaign is really about. That. Reporter hawley is a staunch trump supporter. Elected attorney general just two years ago. The blouunt mccaskill launches e liners at her 38yearold Ivy League Educated challenger. Im going to try not to hold his youth and inexperience him. Im a missou educated lawyer and i can keep up. Reporter shes running on experience yet running from the left wing of her own party. It may irritate some of you in this room that im proud that im a moderate. There may be people in this room that think i am not liberal enough to carry the banner of this party. Reporter you Vice President radio ad out saying that youre not one of those crazy democrats. And she is not one of the crazy democrats. She works right in the middle and finds compromise. Reporter what does that mean . The crazy democrats are the people who are getting in the face of elected officials in restaurants and screaming at them. The crazy democrats is whoever put a swastika on one of josh hawleys signs in rural missouri. That is the kind of stuff im talking about. The extreme stuff. Nancy pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the radical left from passing the social agenda. Reporter tying her to liberal leaders is the centerpiece of hawleys campaign, seizing on the votes of both of President Trumps Supreme Court nominees. That was a big deal . Very big deal. Reporter that could make the difference . I do. Very big deal. Reporter in what way . I think voters were so appalled by what they saw and the smear campaign. She did say how she would vote before the hearing and all that. She wass honest saying she ws voting against him. Reporter she says she voted no because kavanaugh supported Unlimited Campaign cash. I would be a big hypocrite if i voted for him because of dark money. Reporter shes making an effort to connect with trump voters she needs to win in other ways like on immigration. The impression hes giving missouri missourians that the democrats are in favor of our border being overrun. I am not. I support the president 100 . Doing what he needs to do to secure the border. Reporter rallying supporters to get out the vote the democrat reminds them shes beaten missouris odds before. And because of all of you and youre commitment, theyre going to say that Claire Mccaskill, shes done it again. Reporter dana bash, cnn, kansas city, missouri. Thank you for joining us. Ac 360 starts right now. Good evening once again today. We have seen a remarkable outpouring here in Squirrel Hill and across the city of pittsburgh. Outpouring of kindness and compassion and people supporting one another. At times literally so. Outside tree of life synagogue, people linked arms today. They sang songs of faith and healing and did what they could to fill up the space where otherwise only pain would dwell. And that space is vast. The pain is still fresh tonight. And fierce and is felt by