this is not the first time they ve sparred. ironically in 2017, the two met. according to cummings recollect election, he informed president that his neighborhood about black neighborhoods is often offensive and he told cummings he had never been told that before. thank you. joining me to discuss, cnn political analyst april ryan and paul begala. good morning to both of you. good morning. april, let me start with you, for obvious reasons. you are from baltimore. you know yes, i am. you know the district. you know it s west baltimore and more than west baltimore. when you saw the president s tweets, what did you think, what did you feel? okay. victor, first of all, thank you for being you and letting your humanity show yesterday. i cried with you. i am a product, a proud product
cummings. mayor young had this to say. we re not going to ignore anyone degrading baltimore city and it s elected leadership. no one. i won t consider it fueling the fire. i look at it as defending baltimore city, the city where i live. cnn s sarah westwood with the very latest. good morning to you. what is the president saying about this this morning? reporter: good morning, christi and vick stotor. into last night the president doubling down on cummings and baltimore, suburban, rural, affluent areas in cummings district. nonetheless, president trump going after baltimore for its rankings in unspecified categories and claiming, quote, baltimore is very dangerous. last night writing, elijah
mia love, and welcome all of you. good to see you. i want to start with race in the race because racial politics already playing a huge role in the campaign. we ve seen conflict between the democratic candidates already. more on that in just a moment. but also president trump is very obviously trying to stir the pot. this weekend he s gone after congressman elijah cummings and the city he represents, baltimore. it s front page news for the baltimore sun today. and this morning, the president also attacked house speaker nancy pelosi who he says was recently called racist by those who her own party. that s a quote from the president. divisive? you better believe it, and clearly it s early campaign strategy for president trump, although mick mulvaney insists the attacks on cummings are not about race.
bernard young. listen to this. we re not going to ignore anyone degrading baltimore city and its elected leadership. no one. i won t consider it fueling the fire. i look at it as defending baltimore city, the city where i live. cnn s sarah westwood is following the latest. anything this morning from the white house? reporter: good morning, christi. as you mentioned, president trump was doubling down yesterday and throughout the night on that vicious attack on elij elijah cummings that from was fox & friends that aired yesterday and they seemed to be focusing on cummings because of cummings grilling at a border security hearing the week before. nonetheless, president trump is drawing fire from all corners of the democratic party for his tweets, what has been pursued as
way. john i mean. when you said joe. i got the name wrong. i love you to death don. you re one of the first people who took the trump campaign seriously when nobody else did in national media. that s why i come on your show and have respect for you. what donald trump said in the press conference was not racist at all. simply said if you can help me solve this problem. nobody said it was racist. saying it s tone deaf and insensitive. that s huh opened the conversation with. i opened with the fact he lied on cummings, had a terrible week. and delineated everything. what i said was, don t ask a 20 year senior journalist, legitimate journalist to set up a freaking meeting with the