congressman elijah cummings telling house republicans gathered there for their annual retreat that the president and the party are ready to work across the aisle with democrats including congressman cummings to improve the the lives of baltimore s residents. this comes on the heels of his boss s visit to the charmed city yesterday where trump was met with protesters and a 14 foot tall inflatable raft. baltimore residents made clear their anger at trump s comments back in july where he attacked congressman cummings and referred to their city as a, quote, disgusting rat and rodent infested mess. while those protests continued outside, donald trump rambled inside for 68 minutes. at one point just listing off names of people he had a meeting with recently. chuck grassley was there and jonie ernst and john thune and mike pounds and so many just a whole group of great people. mike pounce.
in a more productive way that will ultimately lead to a situation where afghanistan no longer needs to have american troops. i suspect that will be a long long time for now, but nonetheless, those negotiations between the taliban, the afghan government and the united states and also the surrounding countries, is essential, it must go forward. congressman john garamendi, thank you very much for taking the time this morning. thank you very much. later today, president trump heads to baltimore to speak at a retreat for house gop members. it s his first visit to that city since calling it, and i goat, disgust quote, disgusting rat infested mess. at the white house with more. not expecting the warmest welcome, maybe by everyone there. probably not, poppy, there s a lot of chatter on social media that there might be some protests and you re right, the quote about a rat and rodent infested mess in baltimore did
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any possible roadblock. so unfortunately it won t happen tomorrow, but if there s a dedicated effort for the first time in my lifetime there s a hope we might do something. and we ll be watching closely on that. thank you for your analysis. thank you, rosemary. well, president trump has taken fierce criticism for his attacks on the city of baltimore. last month he called parts of it a, quote, disgusting rat and rodent-infested mess. now, those comments were seen by many as racist given baltimore s large black population. as cnn s miguel marquez reports mr. trump appears to be less keen to target largely white communities struggling with poverty and drugs. reporter: kentucky s fifth congressional district ruggedly beautiful and deeply poor appalachia for decades has struggled with the boom and bust of coal. we ve had a mono economy in
would, quote, carve you up with a knife. more recently, he called american a major american senate city a disgusting rat-infected rodent mess. no human being he said would choose to live as though the vibrant diverse community around baltimore somehow was less than human. at a rally in florida when he asked the crowd how do we stop these people, meaning immigrants, someone yelled back shoot them. and he smiled. in north carolina he bashed in the chants of send her back echoing across the stadium. how far is it from trump saying this is an invasion to the shooter in el paso declaring, quote, this attack is a response to hispanic invasion of texas?