Born free, and President Trump is threatening a constitutional crisis over birth right citizenship, and taking the hardest line yet on immigration a week before midterm elections. We are the only person in the world that a perp comes in, and has a baby and that baby is a citizen for 85 years. It is ridiculous. And with seven days to go, obama and joe biden trying to take back those voters who turned to trump. This is not your fathers Republican Party, man. These are a bunch of different dudes. You have a different Republican Party in the United States congress that knows better. They know better than to give this guy the cover they are giving him. A different bunch of dudes. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell where President Trump is stirring up controversy ahead of the midterms on wo two fronts. His response to the pittsburgh massacre, and his hot cracktown on immigration. The president is flying to pittsburgh despite concerns for the mayor and victims families to give them time t
he was in a penitentiary in florida. within the past 24 hours, he was moved to this prison. so he had just gotten to this prison, this maximum security facility, in west virginia, where this morning he was found dead. now, what the circumstances of his death are, i don t know. the certainly appears to be suspicious. whether it was an accident, whether it was natural causes or whether he s murdered, andrea, we ll probably know in the coming hours. pete williams, thank you so much. fascinating story, that. and coming up, a new mission. a surge of veterans running for office.
and what he calls quote , unquoe fake news. and sarah sanders holding a press briefing yesterday defend ing the president s response and saying, look, he was forceful in coming out, and playing the initial role of consoler in chief. but he is also someone who is not going to hold the punches when it comes to coming under attack, and punching back. i have been speaking to a number of white house official, andrea who have told me behind the scenes, yes, he is taking all of this seriously, and that is why he wants to visit pittsburgh. he does want to be the consoler in chief at the same time, and i am told based on the conversations here, that look, he is a week out of the midterms and when he is on the campaign trail, he pivots quickly back into campaign mode. he tells the base essentially what he thinks that he wants to hear to fire them up to get them to the polls, and that is why you are hearing the fiery rhetoric from the president when he is behind the podium at these event, andrea.
progression of the funerals to allow the families and the community to grieve without the specter of politics. that is the backdrop. and we expect him in the next three the or four hours, andrea. and kristen welker, you have been tlaking all of this, and the debate within the white house itself, at a time in the past couple of days as the president is reflecting on the c crisis, aband how different the response was to the pittsburgh massacre was and recent presidents throughout history have done. that is right, andrea. this has been several days of the mixed messaging from this the president and the white house. he did come out in his first remarks and condemn the anti-semitism, and condemn this vile attack, and then a short time later, he e was on the campaign trail over the weekend taking aim at the political rivals, and we saw it on display when president trump lashed out at the range of rivals to what he calls the enemy of the people
divisiveness. and before i go, i have to say happy birthday and we have the governor s cup winner wine. oh, the wine. and the barboursville wine. and tell alan that you have some great virginia wine coming to celebrate the birthday. thank you very much. and save me, please, joe in wiscons wisconsin. mike? yeah, andrea. sorry, i am laughing along with your conversation with terry mcauliff, and what we have heard from him is similar to joe biden on the stage behind me at the university of wisconsin madison, and he talked about with me a crowd of college students his own time om com coming of age i civil rights movement, and he said i am sick and tired the of being sake and tirick and tired