paso six months ago here is that lie. that was some crowd. thank you. we had twice the number outside and then you had this crazy beto. beto had 400 people in a parking lot. they said his crowd was wonderful. the laughing first lady and the laughing president. laughing about the trump lies. what we said back then was that the el paso police department estimated that beto o rourke s crowds between 10,000 and 15,000 people and everyone in that room yesterday knows that. they know that it was not 400 people. but most importantly, no one in that room except donald trump and the third mrs. trump care about that crowd now. no one cares about that this week. no one cared about that in that hospital yesterday except donald trump and that is because donald
high. so the president goes and visits, and one, does not allow reporters in with him. two, in el paso, those victims still being treated would not meet with the president. three, when the president does go to the el paso medical center where they were being treated, listen to what he seemed to focus on and then i want to get your reaction. look at this group of people. can you believe this? i was here three months ago, we made a speech and what was the name of the arena? the coliseum. that was some crowd. and we had twice the number outside. and then you had this crazy beto. beto had like 400 people in a parking lot. alex, even members of the white house staff are saying this morning to my colleagues that this visit to el paso did not go well. no, it didn t. and the role the president has played over the last couple of days has been one of essentially abandoning the tone of unity and
wished they didn t send out. look. we had twice the number outside and then you had this crazy beto. beto had like 400 people. so anyway, also important to say to make clear they did not send that video out. nonetheless, it s the type of video that causes problems and not just for trump but also for the office of the presidency and how things like this have been handled in the past, jim. and that video he went on longer than that in fact talking about his crowd size. let s discuss now. i m joining now by julie pace, and lizza collins. the forces are aligned like this. you ve got the american public even republican support measures such as universal background checks. you certainly have democrats. you even have some republicans
going to move around with great authority and power, but he doesn t view himself with self-empathy or humanity because this is not his frame of reference. everything is a move that he s going to make. and frank, then biden gave that scathing rebuke of trump yesterday, saying that he embraces a political strategy. he called it of hate, racism and division. how did trump respond on his way to el paso? not taking issue with the racism charge or how biden says he fans the flames of white supremacy, he s focused on name-calling and ratings. look what he said. watching sleeping joe. he talked about crazy beto that doesn t have any ratings either. if you don t have ratings, you re not worth anything. it doesn t matter. i mean, this has given democrats a moment to define how their party and how these candidates are different from him and they re all finding different language and it s an important moment in the democratic campaign and i think biden said
people scoring points and nothing would happen. there has to be a bipartisan discussion here of what we can agree on. if we do it prematurely, it will just be another frustrating experience for all of us and for the public. the top democrats in congress, house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer each spoke to the president thursday. they urged him to push for a bill already passed by the house. president trump proving once again that size matters a lot to him. during his visit to an el paso hospital on wednesday, the president praised the medical staff for their response to the massacre. then he quickly pivoted to a familiar refrain that was caught on a cell phone. watch. we were here three months ago. what was the name of the arena. the coliseum. that was packed, right? that was some crowd. we had twice the number outside and then you had this crazy