doing great in early voting and then this bomb stuff happened. and, you know, we got distracted. he is trying to bring the ball back into his court, and he s going back relying on an old playbook. this worked for him in 2016. painting americans against each other. divide and conquer. them versus us. the invading army of brown people versus those of us here already. probably not me or you, but you don t know. you re in a swing district. you live in northern virginia. congresswoman come stock is a vulnerable house republican. how do you think all of this play by president trump is impacting the race? i don t know this particular thing no, the immigration, media, everything. i think it reminds some swing voters of why they dislike donald trump. it s all about division, not rising to what i think many people in my district think is more traditional tasks of the presidency and role of the
heaven s sake, so if bringing the people together is not his goal. the fact the president went after folks that received bombs and he dismissed it as bomb stuff and gave a lot of room for people describing it as a false flag indication, what we expect as a president to do what bill clinton did after oklahoma city and what barack obama after charleston, and that is that the role of comforter in chief and part of being commander-in-chief, and this president is not interested in that. his attempt
what did obama do? he invited them for a beer at the white house. there is no single magic cure for this. but i can t tell you it s sufficient, but i know what is necessary. that is for the president of the united states to show empathy and be someone who demonstrates moral compassion, moral conversation, moral engagement by what he does and says. not to say, let s just get this bomb stuff out of the way so i can go back and keep the country focused on the fact that there s a caravan of refugees headed our way, and there are middle eastern types among them. that was a cold, flat-out lie, absent any evidence to the contrary. what trump is doing is exactly the opposite, and we cannot run away from that. of course he didn t order these shootings. but he s responsible for failing to create the kind of countercontext to this, and he s responsible for inspiring people
here. the president tweeted again putting bomb in kwoelgs, down-playing what he called this bomb stuff and worrying about what he called the gop s mid-term chances. those are the actions of a fox talking head, not a president. so i included charlotte. when i reflected on my coverage of the 2016 election i regretted i had never been to a trump rally. i thought i should have experienced it for myself. well, as you know he s had lots of rallies this month, so i had booked this before the mail bombs. walking into the arena a big screen tells you the sign-up for the real news by signing up for twitter and facebook. but by talking to the rally goers i could tell many of them were already signed up. they knew the lyrics to his songs and sometimes they sang along. this is video i shot from inside
president of the united states. and when you had a policeman confront a black professor in boston, the obama presidency, what did obama do? he invited him for beer at the white house. there is no single magic cure for this, fareed. but one thing i can t tell you what s fish but what is necessary, and that is for the president of to show empathy and be someone who demonstrates moral compassion, moral conversation, moral engagement by what he does and what he says, not to say let s just get this bomb stuff out of the way, so i can actually go back and keep the country focused on the fact there s a caravan of refugees from honduras headed our way and there are middle eastern times among them. that was a keecold flat out lie absent any evidence to the contrary. and what trump is doing is exactly the opposite. and we cannot run away from that. of course he didn t order these shootings, of course he s not