congresswoman escobar, you said that president trump put a target on the back of your community and that knhe needs t peel it off. how do you feel about the visit? did he take any steps in your opinion to do that. i ve been spending all of my time with el paso families, and so i don t know what occurred. i don t know if he used this as an opportunity to tell the american public that the words that he has used to describe immigrants and to describe hispanics and all minorities, that those words are wrong and he should never have done that, never said them and that he takes them back. so those are the words that i think a lot of americans want to hear. they are the words that i know a lot of el pasoens want to hear. there was a petition that was circulated within 24 hours, 21,000 el paso people signed on asking him to stay away. health care workers circulated a petition asking him to stay
paso 100 percent and praised the city for its strength and response. we met with numerous people. we met with, also, the doctors and nurses, the medical staff. they have done an incredible job, both places just incredible. and the enthusiasm, the love, the respect and also the let s see if we get something done. but trump s visit did spark some protests and demonstrations throughout the day and night. some el pasoens feel the president s rhetoric violence like they saw at the walmart. 2020 candidate beto o rourke didn t think trump should have visited and said simply that it was too soon. for the community at large to have been so regularly attacked and vilified and demonized by this president, for him to have created the conditions that made an attack like
we are supposed to agree he a racist and sexist and complicit with mass murder? do people understand that not everybody agrees with that and maybe it s not at all true? mischaracterization only motivates the supporters of the president to fight harder on his behalf? brian: i m glad he is not backing off. for $200,000 you can attend that fundraiser too. ainsley: $100,000 you get a picture with the president. $250,000 you get to sit at the round table and have a discussion with him. pete: probably raise a lot of money. and maybe soulcycle will get a whole new demographic of customers now. trump maybe a bunch of deplorables will descend on soulcycle and there you go. brian: what s the difference between soulcycle and spinning, do we know? pete: spinning with attitude.
this possible and ultimately likely, it s very insulting to us that he was here. now, as the memorial behind us continues to grow, the first of what will be many funerals will begin today. the mayor here in town dean margo telling us he is trying to get through 22 funerals right now and sees that as the only way that this community can only begin to think about the healing process. back to you. ainsley: thank you, jeff. brian: thank you jeff. four minutes now after the hour. it didn t take long. the president on the ground i think he did the absolute right thing going and the same day. protests were not a surprise. went to two areas in which the president didn t dominate but was successful in the state of ohio. but i think showing up in the way he was received by hospital workers. by law enforcement shows a home run. but it didn t stop democrats for using the opportunity to insult the president. here are some of those
many people as he could. we had a chance to thank the doctors and the surgeons and the nurses and the cleaning staff. the nurses told us as they wheeled these victims into the trauma bay blood everywhere, they wheeled one patient out, that cleaning staff would come in like a nascar pit crew and clean that bay down so it was clean for the next patient to come in so they could save somebody else s life. every single one of them in that hospital, and they did the same thing at university medical center. doing all that they could for their fellow el pasoens, for their fellow human beings and they saved their lives. and one of those surgeons, dr. smith said, this is one of those moments that either destroys your faith in humanity or restores your faith in humanity. el paso chooses to restore our