united states. he is all in on fear and loathing. martha: president trump ig up his anti-immigration rhetoric and using the white house podium to stoke fears and rally republican voters. stoking fear, anxiety, he is riling up red voters in the state of america. martha: president trump heading back in another blame point. you are creating violence by your questions. and a lot of the reporters are creating violence by not writing the truth. the fake news is creating violence. martha: here now at the polls, howie kurtz. what do you make of the president pointing fingers, what do you think about all that? he had a washington post pol poll, and roughly half the
stake. that is why i m so heartened by the early vote that s out there. i m heartened to see young people showing up. i m heartened to see sporadic voters showing up. i m heartened to see that in georgia we already have twice as many african americans who voted early. true. than in 2014. but we have more work to do, no doubt about it. i see the numbers. i see why there is cause for optimism frankly on the gop side as well. there is a lot of robust turnout. can t compare to 2016. when you look at 2014 midterms to mid terms, both sides are turning out more than in the past. but my question is this. did you guys hand trump the stick that he s beating you with when it comes to immigration? you don t really go at him about these things. i mean, this ad just came out. but i don t hear your candidates and your leaders going toe to toe with trump about his fear and loathing. and by doing that, are you risking letting people believe his side of it about where you guys are when it comes to
many african americans who voted early. true. than in 2014. but we have more work to do, no doubt about it. i see the numbers. i see why there is cause for optimism frankly on the gop side as well. there is a lot of robust turnout. can t compare to 2016. when you look at 2014 midterms to mid terms, both sides are turning out more than in the past. but my question is this. did you guys hand trump the stick that he s beating you with when it comes to immigration? you don t really go at him about these things. i mean, this ad just came out. but i don t hear your candidates and your leaders going toe to toe with trump about his fear and loathing. and by doing that, are you risking letting people believe his side of it about where you guys are when it comes to immigration? no, we have never been shy about the fact that we are a nation of immigrants. we support dreamers. and we support immigration reform. i was proud to work under barack obama when we passed bipartisan immigration re
constitution all by himself, that s how smart he is. the media who questions him, they are the real enemy of the people. and that phrase is from stalin and hitler. they both used it. why bring that term or the term nationalist back if you don t want to get hit for their history? is all the gop on board with this? let s bring in republican congressman adam kinsinger of illino illinois. not an easy conversation. thanks for having me. fear and loathing. that s what i call it because that s what it is. you defended this country. you were a hero in the service of the military. and now you are being told as one of the members of the party there is a bunch of barbarians headed towards our gates, they re murderers, drug dealers, coming to break through and do arm to as many as they can. that s what the president wants you to believe. do you believe that about the caravan?
smile, that s what i remember. and he held our hands without rubber gloves and he hugged us and he spent time with us. and he s just he s a brilliant and compassionate doctor. the world s going to be the world s at a loss, i think. it also makes me so sad just to hear you point out that he would hold your hand without a rubber glove and to think of all those young men and others who didn t have their hands held without a rubber glove or a medical professional without a mask on because of the fear and the stigma. michael, thank you very much for being with us and telling us about dr. rabinowitz. thank you. thank you for helping us honor him. and we honor him and all the 11 who were killed here. there s many ways to help the pittsburgh community. the jewish federation of greater pittsburgh is accepting donations for the shooting victims at the tree of life