trump is going out there with this message just reeks of hypocrisy. this is a president who won an election, who campaigned using incredibly inflammatory rhetoric. this is a candidate who at his campaign rallies used to urge his supporters to beat up protesters who would come to his rallies to protest his messages. he s somebody who has consistently, each and every person on the list that was targeted today and endless others, has used inflammatory rhetoric against them. so it s interesting to have the president now saying that this is the moment for civility. indeed. our guests have agreed to stay with us. we re going to take a break and continue. and coming up, the president at a rally tonight calling for peace and harmony as we mentioned while taking another wide swing at the media. and later, important news. a big ruling in georgia today that could impact the already close governor s race.
obvious question is does the president bear some responsibility? obviously not for the bomb making or the recipients, but does he bear responsibility for the tone that allowed it? sure. sure, he does. it s part of the reason i never endorsed him and i ve never been personally critical of him but yeah, he does bear responsibility for the divisions. he has the biggest megaphones. but i think, brian, you and i have been observers and participants in this business for a long time. when we see hillary clinton say, and i said this not long ago in the media, that when she said when they go low we need to go low or eric holder, when you go low we need to go low, everybody needs to knock it off. but obviously the guy with the biggest megaphone is the one that really has to be careful. i m told that at his rally tonight he offered some conciliatory words. i m pleased to see that. i think it s important. we don t need to savage
awfully nice to have you here after again what i keep calling an unsettling day. i m going to read back to you what you tweeted today. he could cancel the rally, fly back to the white house and read a sober ten-minute speech from the oval office. he could at least for a moment behave as a president, not a rabble rouser. then our friend steve schmidt took it another step further. trump has stoked a cold civil war in this country. his rallies brim with menace. and he has labeled journalists as enemies of the people. that someone would seek to kill their political enemies is not aberrational but rather the inevitable consequence of trump s incitement. and when you think about it, this is the biggest attack in our history on former heads of government, on senior members of congress, on the news media, now being investigated by an fbi that s been diminished by the president. what do you make of today now
the urging of some of his advisers. but this is a president who cannot resist political combat. and he s betting that incendiary messages will really rally his base to turn out this fall and perhaps save the republican congressional majorities. mr. rucker, we heard commissioner bratton predict this would happen. it s already happened. i m going to read your own writing back to you. a number of trump supporters advanced the false flag theory on social media and talk radio, arguing that the potential explosive devices may have been sent by liberals with the intention of reversing the mob argument and painting democrats as victims of unruly conservatives. i want to show you a photooef a desantis rally said to be of the crowd in florida tonight. lower right, fake news, fake bombs. phil rucker, has this already gone around the world of politics? it s gotten on the air. rush limbaugh talked about this
for not showing enough of his rally crowds, complains that the cameras focus too much on him and don t show the people who are there enough. the president did not do that. at that moment what the president does, he typically has the entire stadium or arena of thousands of people who turn around, many of them, they boo the press, they jeer the press, they raise middle fingers, some people in the past have tried to spit at reporters, so he did not have the optics of that happening tonight. that said, during some of the preamble, you know, there were a number of speakers before the president arrived at that airport hangar. and there were moments earlier on where the press was booed. there was also one of the speakers talked about hillary clinton and you had one of those lock her up chants that trump s crowds often erupt into. so even though you didn t see those elements when trump was on stage, they still happened tonight at that rally. well, there you go. and robert costa, you never