undecided. so the other question, is there a break from those independent voters who don t have their minds made up yet. thank you, steve. you cleared a lot up for me. steve kornacki. still ahead, president trump continues to pedal conspiracy theories about billionaire democratic donors, two who were targeted by a domestic terrorist. one of them, tom steyer, joins me next. i m ray and i quit smoking with chantix. i tried to quit smoking for years on my own. i couldn t do it. i needed help. for me, chantix worked. it did.
over their faces. one of those bombs was addressed to billionaire democratic donor tom stire who joins me now. we re glad you re okay, thanks for being here. i want to talk about the bomb in a second, but president trump, in response to this horrific shooting at this pittsburgh sin gon synagogue issued a sweeping condemnation of violence. are you satisfied with how she s responded to this tragedy? well, i think his response to the tragedy is was appropriate, but there s something much bigger than that going on here, which is the atmosphere that he s created and that the republican party has created in terms of political violence. i think if you look across the political scene, what you see is routine, systematic lawlessness. an attempt to break small d
democratic norms in pursuit of victory at all costs. we see it in voter suppression. we see it in extreme gerrymandering. we see it in the violent political rhetoric that people have been alluding to all morning. but more than that, we see it in a president who has been breaking the law as a candidate, as a business person, and as a president. so a republican would argue you say that, but there was a shooting of republican members of congress last year by a it seemed a bernie sanders supporter. what appeared to be toxic substances have been sent to donald trump, jr. and his family, senator susan collins, that it s not just republican lawlessness here. what would you response to that be? i would say there has been bad behavior on both sides. but you can t find prominent democrats, elected officials, who refuse to condemn it.
equivalent of what s going on. i will say this, because we continue to see these things left and right, let s see it through the lens of humanity. this is all about how strong of a democrat are you or how strong of a republican are you, when it should be about how strong of a person are you to stand up for humanity. preach. that s what this is about. bigotry has become a partisan issue. it s crazy. i will say in my travels, too, i ve seen this kind of stuff at the hands of democrats. there s a candidate right now who is running in california, where we know two democrats can go head to head, where images of monkeys are coming out against her at the hands of supporters of her opponent, who is a democrat. so nobody has a premium on whether they can be racist or bigoted. but what we do have to do is
targets, democratic donor tom stire, and the president s former communications director, anthony scaramucci. consumed by violence, a week of horrible hate-fueled attacks as the country approaches a critical election. can the nation s political leaders help us heal? hello, i m jake tapper in washington with the state of our union is utterly devastated. 11 innocent people brutally murdered saturday when an anti-semitic gunman opened fire inside a pittsburgh synagogue, turning a place of worship and hope into a crime scene of death and destruction. the gunman armed with an assault weapon and at least three hand guns stormed the sanctuary shouting anti-semitic slurs. two police officers and two s.w.a.t. officers were wounded in the confrontation. one fbi official calls it, quote, the most horrific crime scene he s ever seen. today the alleged gunman is in