Keep people out. Well show you her not so veiled remarks when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris haste. Even by the standards of this election the last 24 hours have been nothing short of astounding. Theres a lot going on and were trying to keep our eyes on all of it. But first, for the First Time Since donald trump became the gops presumptive nominee and since onceskeptical Party Leaders finally fell in line behind him, the Republican Party now confronting blowback from perhaps the most openly bigoted statements to date by their newly minted standard bearer, so egregious even members of his own staff are sounding the alarms and talking off the record to reporters. For months donald trump has been publicly vilifying the federal judge overseeing one of the multiple pumut multiple lawsuits against Trump University. In the past week trump has accused judge Gonzalo Curiel of being hostile, calling him a hater, casually mentioning his ethnicity, incorrectly identifying the judge as being from mexico. Curiel was born and raised in indiana. Trump told the wall street journal the judges mexican heritage presents an absolute conflict in the case, to be more specific, im building a wall. Its an inherent conflict of interest. A logical conclusion of that statement that people of certain ethnicities and races of incapable of unbiased judgment because of their ethnicity or race is on its face, of course, racist. But in a truly jarring interview airing this afternoon trump stood by his assertion, calling on the judge to recuse himself. You can criticize every decision. What im saying is, if you invoke his race as a reason why he cant do his job i think thats the way hes doing it. I think thats why hes doing it. If you are saying he cant do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of racism . No, i dont think so at all. No . No. Hes proud of his heritage. I respect him for that. Youre saying he cant do his job because of it. Hes proud of his heritage, okay . Im building a wall. I think im going to do very well with his pan ins. But were building a wall. Hes a mexican. Were building a wall between here and mexico. Just to do reiterate as jake tapper did to his great credit repeat repeatedly, judge curiel was upon and raised in the u. S. Hispanics are on the the only Identity Group trump has trouble talking about. This exchange earlier today in a rally in redding, california. We had a case where we had an africanamerican guy who was a fan of mine. Great fan, great guy. I want to find out whats going on with him. Look at my africanamerican over here. Look at him. Trumps new comments about judge curiel come just over 24 hours since his soon to be general election opponent Hillary Clinton delivered a blistering attack on trumps temperament, lack of qualifications, and habit of attacking entire categories of people. It also matters when he makes fun of people with disabilities. Calls women pigs. Proposes banning an entire religion from our country or plays coy with White Supremacists. America stands up to countries that treat women like animals or people of different races, religions, or ethnicities as less human. What happens to the moral example we set for the world and for our own children if our president engages in bigotry . This also crucially comes just one day, in fact just a matter of hours, since the lone remaining holdout among top republicans, the most powerful republican in the country, House Speaker paul ryan, finally climbed on board the trump train. Trump is really and truly their guy now, leaving them no choice but to answer for his unanswerable statements. In a local radio interview today trump offered a fairly tepid combination of trumps remarks to the wall street journal. The comment about the judge the other day just was out of left field for my mind. Its reasoning i dont relate to. I completely disagree with the thinking behind that. And so he clearly says and does things i dont agree with. And ive had to speak up from time to time when that has occurred and ill continue to do that if its necessary. I hope its not. Similarly, Mitch Mcconnell displayed only mild disapproval, remarking hes unfamiliar with this particular judge. What i am willing to say is that donald trump is certainly a different kind of candidate. Is he wrong in attacking the mexican background, some generations back, of this highly regarded judge whos won cases against the drug cartel . Im unfamiliar with this particular judge but i did say the other day and ill say again today, i thought it was completely unfortunate, unnecessary, for our nominee to attack the governor of new mexico, susannah martinez. I think hes attacks dont serve the candidate very well at this point. We ought to be trying to unify, he ought to be trying to unify the party behind him. Behind the scenes, however, concerns about trumps racialized attack on a federal judge are mounting. This afternoon nbc news correspondent katy tur reported, trump aides not happy with trumps attack on judge curiel, these are the things that will defeat us. Congressman from texas who has endorsed donald trump, let me start with this, do you believe judge curiel, because he is of mexican heritage, should recuse himself or is incapable of being unbiased as a federal judge because of his ethnicity i . Look, chris. First off, no surprise, i agree with paul ryan, the remark was kind of out of left field. Let me just say, i know nothing about this lawsuit. Its a private matter. Sure, i got to wonder why it wasnt settled prior to the president ial campaign but apparently the principal in the lawsuit feels he has a good chance to win. So i think that needs to be litigated in the courts. Thats where it belongs. Sure, but it doesnt belong on television. Okay. Let me ask you this. I want to be straight on this. Regardless of the merits of the case, the argument that the candidate of your party, the man youve endorsed and you will vote for, is that due to the ethnicity of this specific judge, it renders him incapable of giving unbiased judgment. Do you agree with that principle . Look, i dont know enough about the case to really give you an answer on that. Im asking about the principle of a man having a heritage being well, lets you know. Lets stick to the issues at hand. It has been an odd week for bows candidates. I think well both agree on that. And for the people who want to write Donald Trumps political obituary, the highway is littered with the car kaz of people who have done that im asking a simple question about the federal judiciary, its role, and federal judges. The man youre going to vote for, the nominee from your party who you have endorsed, has said this man is incapable of doing his job as a federal judge because of his ethnic heritage. Do you agree with that . First off, i dont really think thats what mr. Trump said. But again, chris, i know nothing of the merits of the lawsuit. I know it is the merits of the lawsuit arent at issue. It is possible the judge has behaved terribly or the lawsuit is totally without merit. The question is whether it is whether it is true that he cannot render the judgment because of his ethnicity . It should be litigated in the courtroom, leave ate at that. You and i dont know enough about this congressman, i did not bring up this judge. I did not Start Talking about the judge nor did i. As i told you, i agree with paul ryan, this is out of left field. I dont think its one of the things that the Trump Campaign needs to be talking about right now. With due respect Hillary Clinton yesterday giving a major Foreign Policy speech, no one has called her about her 2002 vote for the authorization for use of military force in iraq. Did she review the classified documents before she made that vote . Based on those classified documents, why was that vote rendered . Then why was the policy pursued in 2011 to withdraw from iraq . Sure. None of this makes sense to me. Okay, congressman were talking about what a great Foreign Policy speech she gave, but honestly, its not something thats clear to me. Okay. On iraq, i would commend your attention to the 2008 primary in which that was litigated extensively, its been littled extensively here. Its not that people have ignored that. I am not raising the issue of this mexicanamerican judges ethnicity out of left field as paul ryan referred. In fact the man who runs your party, who is going to be your nominee, started raising it in february when he referred to the man as spanish. Hes repeatedly attacked a member of the federal judiciary, does that trouble you i have no familiar with this lawsuit. Does it trouble you . Theres a lot things that have troubled me over the past year but we are where we are. Donald trump has won the votes of the majority of the republicans and he will be the nominee following the cleveland convention. Its my intention to support him. You know, im all in for donald trump. Are you proud of the way hes conducted himself as the presumptive nominee . Look, theres a lot of things im not proud of this campaign on both sides the last 12 months are you proud of the way hes conducted himself . We are where we are. Look its a simple question. I want someone who can win. I believe mr. Trump can do that. But thats not an answer to the question. Are you proud of way hes conducted himself as the nominee for your party . Again, there are lots of things that have troubled me the last 12 months on both sides. About how this president ial campaign im going to take that as a no. Im not running for president , im not ever going to run for president. These are people who know a lot more about it than i do. Im a simple country doctor trying to do the lords work in the United States house of representatives. Thats what im doing. You are a humble and a good sport as always, congressman michael burgess, and i appreciate it. Thank you for coming on. Im joined by the former 10ty Campaign Manager for Carly Fiorina and strategist wilson who vocally opposes donald trump. You know this is going to be the next five months. Again, look. I just want to be clear. Were not raising this judge. No one in the media was talking about this judge or making him the center of this issue until donald trump made him the center of the issue. To me, rick, when you watch that interview with jake tapper, what is so evident is that he cannot help himself. He cant help himself. Listen, this is part of the Bigger Picture of donald trump is that he is not mentally fit to serve as president. The things that come out of his mouth, this is like political tourettes. Everything he thinks, he says. Thats not candor, thats lunacy. This is a guy who is letting out expressing this thing that turns on the id of a lot of his supporters, calling this guy a mexican, look at my africanamerican, like a pet. This is a guy who is unfit for duty. He is unfit to be president. Its obvious, its evident. It is painful to watch someone like the congressman just now try to defend the indefensible. It is painful to watch reince blink out the word torture in morse code when hes standing next to the guy. Theyre going to have to own every crazy word, every lunatic tweet, every racist statement out of this guys mouth for the next five months. They should be run for the hills but theyve been in such fear of trumps minions and trumps craziness and theyre afraid of being put on blast by donald trump that theyre behaving like the stockholm syndrome is real and these guys are all stuck with it. Sarah, the context here also, aside from the fact that he is essentially saying this persons incapable of doing their job because of of his heritage, because of his ethnicity, theres this i think somewhat troubling attack on the judiciary. This is a person who will be appointi ining judges. The Republican Party is currently holding a judicial seat on the Supreme Court open for this man to appoint while he goes about in public laying waste to a member of the federal judiciary. You know, a lot of republicans dont think Donald Trumps a republican, but they also believe that it was worth voting for him to save the Supreme Court. He put out that list of conservative judges that hed sort of cobbled together from heritage and the federalist society, it was a great list of judges. What i think troubles a lot of people in the last day is that it now looks like he cant possibly appoint people from that list because he doesnt actually believe that thats the role of the judiciary. Hes an authoritarian. And more to the point, though, this all plays into Hillary Clintons hand. He cant have a referendum on donald trump and win. It has to be a referendum on Hillary Clinton. This was a huge opportunity for republicans in this cycle. And republicans have blown it by nominating someone who is a liberal just like Hillary Clinton, corrupt just like Hillary Clinton, and shes going to make it a referendum on him and were going to lose that fight. Let me say, i know you like to say donald trump is a liberal, and we can get into a long definitional dispute. But i think whatever you want to call him, you can say hes not a republican, though hes the nominee of the Republican Party, i think its pretty clear hes not a liberal. Hes an authoritarian. Those are different things. He loves executive power. Stall him a statist if you want to. Rick, you nodded about this referendum question. To me, the dynamic that has become so Crystal Clear just locked in the last 24 hours between Hillary Clintons speech and today is Hillary Clinton and donald trump are going to be cooperating on one goal. Which is making this election a referendum on donald trump. Because donald trump wants it to be a referendum on donald trump because thats how he is built. And Hillary Clinton wants it to be a referendum on donald trump. And in that one enterprise the two of them are essentially cooperating. Well, thats true. Because Donald Trumps ego is the only defining characteristic of donald trump that you can always rely on. His views will change moment to moment. But his selfregard is the centerpiece of his entire being. He will walk into that trap over and over and over again by making it all about him. By making these things part of his personal drama that he wants to play out again and again. The question of the judges, interest reminds, trump puts this list out. Hes never heard of any of these guys before. He got somebody to put a list together, Jeff Sessions or someone. The fact of the matter is if the behavior hes exhibiting now, if he makes this the election all about him, were not going to have a chance for any possibility of a conservative justice because its going to be Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer running the confirmation process even if trump were to win. His constant bring it back to me problem is where trump is very different from every other candidate who becomes mindful at some point that you have to tell americans youre talking to them. Youre talking about them. Their concerns, their issues. Not just make it, build my golden statue ten feet higher. You see the problem with that also, the interview we just saw, which is Hillary Clinton did give a Foreign Policy speech that was a disaster. Her Foreign Policys always been a disaster. Every decision shes made has been wrong. Yet thats not what were talking about. He couldnt talk about that because he is stuck talking about donald trump. As a critic on the record avowed of numerous elements of the Foreign Policy, including yemen, the libya intervention and its aftermath, let me just interject to say, i disagree with that characterization, but continue. The point being that republicans who have endorsed donald trump, who are downballot as rick just said, have a problem. Because this is going to be a referendum on donald trump. So every time hillary offers huge opportunities, the ig report that came out showing that her email usage was egregious and a threat to our national security, her Foreign Policy speech which should have highlighted all of her missteps on Foreign Policy, were not talking about. Youre right. The point that is you would have to respond to that with some sort of substantive engagement on libya and its aftermath. Right . You would have to respond to substantive engagement on syria, substantive engagement on. Eu crisis, the nature of whether nato can hang together in the threat of 21st century threats, none of which is in the purview of the person youve nominated as the republican nominee. He doesnt represent republicans. Hes the republican nominee. Much more on the disturbing images outside the trump rally, a look at why this is becoming all too chillingly familiar. 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Donald trump started his personal vendetta against the federal judge presiding over just one of his civil fraud lawsuits involving Trump University in february, and has been hammering him ever since, including just a few hours ago. Hes a member of a society where, you know, very promexico, and thats fine. Its all fine something youre calling into question, his heritage. He should recuse himself part of what is so maddening about watching this unfold is that judge Gonzalo Curiel cannot defend himself against trumps attacks. Many people who know him are quick to point out curiels biography. Born in indiana, as Josh Marshall noted curiels father emigrated to the u. S. Before trumps mother. Not that that matters. But the brother of the judge told our Sister Network telemundo in an interview, when judge curiel was a federal prosecutor, he had to move and go into hiding under Government Protection after he received assassination threats from a Mexican Drug Cartel that he had been prosecuting. Luckily for him, he wasnt in a relationship, he wasnt married then as he is now. Hes happily married now with a young daughter. But we were still very concerned, very worried about him at the time that we heard about the death threats. Hes happily married now, young daughter. A fact that has not stopped the Republican Partys presumptive nominee from tweeting out the city that the judge lives in, just to let his millions of followers know. Greg vega, former u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of california, close friend of judge curiel, known him since ninth grade. Your reaction to watching this unfold . Its silly. Here you have a federal judge that was a career federal prosecutor, prosecuting some of the most notorious drug cartels. And then to have namecalling. Its just silly. I mean, here we are in 2016. I thought namecalling was way behind us. But apparently not. You yourself have practiced in the federal courts. And just independent of your relationship with judge curiel, have you ever seen anything quite like this, just in terms of a litigant in an active litigation spending so much time publicly trashing the judge overseeing their case . In all the years that ive practiced law in federal courts, i have not seen this. Is there any way for is there any recourse that the judge has . Do you think hes essentially trying to get him to recuse himself by insulting him enough . You know first off, im not a judge, so i dont know what, if any, avenues are available to a judge. But regardless, its not going to have any impact on judge curiel. What do you mean by that . Well, hes going to follow the rule of law. I mean, if you talk to lawyers in the community, criminal defense attorneys, prosecutors, civil attorneys, he has all the attributes that you want in a judge. Hes smart. Hes hardworking. Hes patient. Hes thoughtful. Thats exactly the type of person you want as a judge. It was striking to me that he was confirmed, he was appointed by president obama but confirmed on a voice vote, which is relatively rare insofar as a lot of the nominations by president obama to the federal judiciary have met with tremendous amounts of resistance or have been hotly contested votes. That speaks to the fact that there was pretty broadbased consensus support for his appointment. Well, sure. But not only that the other thing i think you have to keep in mind is that he came to the federal court from the state court. The San Diego Superior Court. And he was appointed to the San Diego Superior Court by a republican governor. Arnold schwarzenegger. Which tells you that both democrats and republicans think he is a highly qualified person to be a judge. All right, craig vega, thanks for your time, appreciate it. Youre welcome. Coming up, Hillary Clinton finds her stride in attacking donald trump. New polling shows her lead expanding to double digits nationwide. That story after this break. Padvil pm gives you the healingu at nsleep you need, it. Helping you fall asleep and stay asleep so your body can heal as you rest. Advil pm. For a healing nights sleep. Last night we saw disturbing images out of Donald Trumps rally in san jose, california, where some protesters gathered outside the event, assaulted Trump Supporters, those attacks become the contest of a Long Campaign that has featured many incidents of violence at trump rallies, much of it prior to this, by Trump Supporters against antitrump protesters. Either explicitly or tacitly from the podium by donald trump himself. Get him out. Get him out, troublemaker. Get him out of here. Like to punch him in the face, ill tell you. In the old days they didnt come back, i can tell you that. They were gone. They were taken out, they were gone. They realize that there are no consequences to protesting anymore. There used to be consequences. There are none anymore. So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you . Seriously. Okay . Just knock the hell i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees. Ahead, well show you one clip from last night that captures, i thought, the tensions running through Donald Trumps rallies. Ped our most revolutionary feature yet. A car that can see trouble and stop itself to avoid it. When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested front crash prevention nobody beat subaru models with eyesight. Not toyota. Not ford or any other brand. Subaru eyesight. An extra set of eyes, every time you drive. Im alex trebek. 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Polls over the past few weeks have shown a tight race between the two with trump appearing to have gotten a bump from locking up his partys president ial nomination, something clinton has yet to do. This week we may have seen a turning point as trump has flowered amid questions over his delayed donations to veterans groups, the suspect practices of Trump University which is being sued for fraud, now his racist attacks on a latino federal judge, clinton has turned herself into a vessel for antitrump sentiment. A blistering speech that prompted trump to claim clinton made up things that i said or believe but have no basis in fact. Clinton camp responded trump literally said all those things proving its case on a web page and in a video. It matters when he makes fun of people with disabilities. I dont remember calls women pigs. Shes a disgusting pig, right . Proposes banning an entire religion from our country. A total and complete shutdown of muslims. Or plays coy with White Supremacists. I dont know anything about White Supremacists so i dont know. Today clinton made clear she would not be easing up on trump any time soon. I didnt make any of that up. I mean, it would be hard to make up. And by the end of working on that speech, even i was saying, did he really say all of this . Well, indeed he did. And i believe, absolutely, that hes not only unprepared to be president , he is temperamentally unfit to be president. Joining me, liz plank action Senior Correspondent and producer at fox. It is interesting to see them arrive at the campaign on this temperamental technique. Competency is a bipartisan issue, its an issue both democrats and republicans and independents can agree with. And thats why i think it was such a strong, simple strategy to just say, he is not fit, he doesnt have the competency to be president. And underlining his weakness was a will to underline her strengths. The fact that any Foreign Policy of all things, Hillary Clinton is more apt than any other person who ran for president , including on the republican side. I think that theres it was interesting also in the last 24 hours for them i think the light has come on to make this a fundamentally a referendum about him. That all the ways in which people talk about her complicated relationship to her own political abilities, that the best way to sort of unburden her of that is to make the election about him in a weird way. Exactly. And i mean, it makes sense. And thats again a simple strategy. People internationally agree that donald trump they view donald trump as a clown. As a joke. Like you cannot have this guy be president. So she didnt talk about the wall, she didnt make it about identity. If she did talk about the wall its not the biggest takeaway from the speech. She didnt have to make it about these issues. Shes just like, this guy, really . Thats exactly right. This guy, really . Ive wondered, in the beginning it looked like they were running a campaign that was like, hes going to cut taxes for the rich. Or hes bad on these different policy angles. And really the strongest argument and the one they seem to be turning to is, no, obviously you cant elect this person as president. Shes not even giving legitimacy to some of those policies which i think is the right thing to do. Shes not falling into the trap other republicans have fallen into. The rubio schtick. Exactly. Im going to read his mean tweets. She called out his lack of control by showing control. She set the terms of her attack on him and shes been on the offensive and now we see it in his reaction, wait hes reacting is very defensive. Hes probably preparing an attack but i dont think hes able to have he hasnt had one thats eloquent so far. Someone pointed out to me today that i hadnt thought of, weve seen her, shes run two campaigns for president. Both of those have been in primaries. She lost one. Shes going to win this one almost certainly. Barring some huge change the next few days. And in both cases shes struggled in certain ways. Obviously shes defeated Bernie Sanders so far, shes won more votes. Shes done less well than a lot of the people thought she would. Shes attempting to distinguish himself from someone who is to the left of her or close to her substantively. She wasnt running against someone like him, with whom there is this massive gap. Exactly. I think that gap is helping her ultimately. Right . And its weird that in a week last week she was trying to just prove that she was the front runner and that she could be the democratic candidate to run against donald trump. And now its like, bernie who . So its very interesting for her to pivot and i think its a good pivot. One of her biggest issues is shes not trustworthy, that we cant trust her. But can we trust donald trump with the Nuclear Codes . That contrast is so huge. Thats exactly right. That is why, actually, it is such a weird thing because of all the stuff thats been written about her trying to become the first woman president , that in this weird way, this sort of intentional deflection ends up like aiding her in a way that i hadnt realized until yesterday when she gave a whole speech about him. Absolutely. I think the words obviously it was a wellprepared speech, a speech she delivered very well. And i think the choice of words was really interesting. Calling his policy positions rants. That hes thinskinned. Showing herself as dominant in the way almost, quoteunquote masculine, in having that upper hand compared to him. Something that again no other republican was able to do. Was able to pull off. Liz plank from vox and hello kitty also, thank you for your time. President obamas unexpected embrace of a central issue in the Bernie Sanders campaign. The first lady delivers a powerful and pointed commencement address today, thats right after the break. 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And not only do we need to strengthen its longterm heth, its time we finally made Social Security more generous and increased its benefits so that todays retirees and future generations get the dignified retirement that theyve earned. An attempt to reach a brand bargain with then House Speaker john boehner. Hillary clinton sent this tweet today. We can never let republicans cut or privatize Social Security, we should protect and expand it. Thanks, potus. Bernie sanders has applauded president obamas evolution on Social Security, a move that is not at all surprising since advocating for expansion of Social Security benefits is one of the sanders campaigns central themes. Adam green, cofounder of Progressive Change Campaign committee thats been working very hard to move this agenda, how did we get here . Is on two and a half years ago the Progressive Movement was marshaling rours on a Democratic White House that was intent on cutting a deal on Social Security. Mid 2013, a bunch of progressive leaders got in a side room. Democracy for america, move on, working families party, aflcio. We made a decision to pivot from defense to offense. We figured in a world where the spectrum of debate was cuts or nothing, the most we would ever get is nothing. We decided to look for expansion. And fast forward to today. We have 43 of 46 democratic sanders on the record for expansion, over half of house democrats, candidates campaigning on this, and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders saying no to cuts and yes to their own expand proposal realize sea change. Who are Senators Elizabeth Warren comes to mind, Bernie Sanders another, who adopted this and ran with it fairly early on. Yeah. Brian schotts from hawaii won a competitive primary campaigning on Social Security. Tom hearken who retired, from the first president ial state of iowa, showed what creative populism is all about as he won a bill to expand Social Security and others. The president making news saying absolutely. The first time he said that. What effect how much relationship do you think there is between the contested democratic primary and the president saying that this week . I think that he was doing it to get his legacy in order. History is going in a certain direction. He doesnt want to be on the wrong side of it. I do think its undeniable that Bernie Sanders has if not forced Hillary Clinton to change her position, certainly gotten her to increase the volume on positions like expanding Social Security, debtfree college, jailing wall street bankers. I think that will serve democrats in november up against a faux economic populist like donald trump. What do you say to people who say, this is essentially abstract and theoretical because no republicans ever going to vote for it . For expanding Social Security . If the spectrum of debate in the Democratic Party is Hillary Clintons limited expansion of benefits and Bernie Sanders extension for everybody, that is a sea change from democrats actually helping to cut. So the fact that cuts are off the table is by itself a big game changer. Now were in a great territory arguing about hypothetical positive benefits. And our hope is that the democratic platform endorses this, cements it into law. That will be very interesting to watch happen in philadelphia, what the position is of the party. Absolutely. Sea change. Thanks for joining us, appreciate it. Next, the moment from outside last nights trump rally that seemed to perfectly encapsulate the tension of this election. Fall in love with a new daily fiber. New mirafiber from the makers of miralax. Its the only fiber that supports regularity with dailycomfort fiber. So unlike others, mirafiber is less likely to cause unwanted gas. Love your fiber. New mirafiber. Im alex trebek. 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[ bleep ], [ bleep ] [ bleep ], [ bleep ] youre a piece of [ bleep ] [ bleep ] you see a man in a trump hat with other men pushing him, while female antitrump protesters surround him trying to intervene yelling no violence, other men taking him from behind and escorting him away from the folks trying to punch him. It was a really bad scene. And yet oddly becoming a familiar one at trumps rallies even if the violence in the past has generally gone in the other direction. Events have become cauldrons of hatred and reaction to that hatred. And speaks to the disturbing nature of what is being built around the trump candidacy, around his rallies in particular. John garfield, cohost of on the media. Watching those images last night, upset, watching people who have attended a political rally, who are walking to their cars, getting punched in the face, suckerpunched, egged. This is not acceptable. Means of political expression. No its clearly not an acceptable means of political expression. Its horrible. And of course its completely inevitable. Trump has been spewing all sorts of hate speech. This is the harvest of that. He has been divisive, polarizing, hateful. And people take that personally. And it was simply inevitable that in a campaign such as this, that people would behave badly. In previous cases, its been Trump Supporters. Incited by this guy. In this case, it was the perceived victims of his rhetoric. Well be seeing more of this, not less. With the tv cameras on it exacerbates an already bad situation. Heres what trump had to say. This has been in line with the way hes approached violence or calls for violence at his rallies with this sort of kind of wry wink and nod. He says, great evening in san jose, other than the thugs. My supporters are far tougher if they want to be. But fortunately they are not hostile. What do you think of that . Well, hes obviously a really macho guy, and so are his supporters, and hes quite a man. I really look up to him. You know what . I hope my kids do too. Because its all about who can beat up the other guy. What is your sense ive gotten the sense, obviously you host a fantastic show about the media, called on the media. Its a weekly show. You guys have been covering the way the media deal is with trump. It seems to me if we look back theres been a corner turned. Starting with that press conference on veterans the veterans donations through the jake tapper interview today about curiel, that the tenor of the coverage this week feels different to me. Yeah, i think there has been a corner turned. And im not sure what is the cause of that. Ive been yapping about how toothless the press has been through the whole duration of this trump phenomenon. And how we as an institution have been enablers. This week a few things happened. Cnn started on their chiron, their crawl, along with the graphics that you all put on your screens, to create the illusion of urgency, they started truth squadding their own chiron, which i thought was pretty great. Trump says soandso, in parentheses it says, not true, or Something Like that. Thats different behavior from the media. And adam liptack on the front page of the New York Times questioned whether this candidate has any respect for the separation of powers, our constitutional protections, and the rule of law. Which made me happy because in my view, watching the press deal with trump for the last eight or nine months, has been like watching u. N. Peacekeepers deal with the bosnian serbs. They have been so tangled up and paralyzed by the rules of engagement that they have let him get away with, well, with mayhem. I think the rules of engagement need to be changed, and maybe this week was evidence that there is a shift. I want to hone in on this. Theres two different critiques here. One is the raw quantity of attention. The other is the nature of that attention. One of the things people talk to me all the time, and im just Walking Around the city, taking my kids to school, buying a cup of coffee, they talk about why are you covering trump so much . Theres this idea the quantity of the attention is, a, unwarranted, b, is feeding the beast. I tend to think this is a story worthy of a tremendous amount of attention. It is in a literal sense essentially unprecedented that someone like this would be a major party nominee. Thats different from the way that its covered. Which of those two sure is different. Right. Which of those is the critique from you . The critique is that this man is an ongoing carnival of distractions. And there are certain things hes done and said over the past year that have been fundamentally disqualifying for public life. But every single day theres a new outbreak. Every single day the press turns its attention to the latest trumpruption. The problem is they have often very little to do with why the guy should never, ever, ever serve as the president of the United States. But the press cannot resist novelty. They cant resist the notion of advancing the story. But i think as ive said on your air, the story has not changed. The story is, there are a half dozen reasons why this guy is incapable of being the president of the United States. And hate speech that we started this conversation talking about is just one of them. His disrespect, contempt for basic constitutional guarantees, is another. And what i saw jake tapper go through today on cnn, it made my heart hurt. Because he was so tied up in knots. Wanting to confront the man, and yet the best he could do was use the sort of journalistic language that rendered him i believe relatively impotent. And it made me sad. Im going to respectfully disagree. I think youre right, within the confines of the genre, the restraints, he did an excellent job today. Mr. Garfield, thank you for joining us. Thank you for ruining another one of my friday nights. That is it for all in. The Rachel Maddow show begins right now. We have not begun to ruin friday nights. Theres a lot more rumination ahead. Thanks for staying with us for the next hour. Were not going to ruin your friday night. In fact, happy friday. In todays news, we learned that yesterday was not an awesome day for the highestranking republican in washington, d. C. To decide to