donald trump in 2016, but declining to say whether he will be the gop nominee in 2020. tomorrow the president heads to phoenix for the latest campaign style rally. the mayor of phoenix has made repeated pleas for the president to stay away for now postpone the event including op-ed in the the washington post in which he writes quote america is hurting, and because trump has doused racial tensions with gasoline. with his planned visit to phoenix on tuesday, i fear the president may be looking to light a match. powerful words. phil rucker, michael crowley, kimberly atkins remain here with us. so phillip, put this all together. our conversation tomorrow night will obviously be markedly different. as i was saying to kim, this tonight s message was almost designed to last what 23, 24 hours. or even a couple hours if the president decides to tweet later tonight. but look he is going to phoenix arizona. i ve been to some rallies and
with voters. i hope what the president does tomorrow in phoenix is he dives into tax reform and starts talking about the economy. this is the time when the administration needs to make that pivot and start setting up september. september is a very pivotal month for the administration. need to talk about taxes and the economy now. you know he s going to talk about probably border security, immigration, and i m sure that is the central reason he s going. i m not sure taxes is the central reason. at least the background we re getting. for sure it will come up. this is a great opportunity to start talking about the divide, going back to the forgotten men and women of this country. this is the, again, this is the time when it s quieter. you can have longer conversations when things aren t so condensed and not just the sound bites. that he would be start to start talking about it now. i know you ve been wanting to talk about afghanistan in the last segment you were on. for years, donal
america, if you re going to speak about charlottesville and race, you speak about that. it should not be muddled with a speech about war. i think there s a time and place for everything. there s a time to die. there s a time to be born. if they re going to talk about race, we need to sit down and have a talk about race. if you re going to talk about the longest running war in the nation, let s have a clear conversation about that. i think there was some good things in that speech about what we re going to do in afghanistan. and i think there s other things. if you re going to do it, do it. ohio governor john kasich who is far from a president trump supporter had this to say about his rally. watch this. you re going to go to phoenix, and make a speech, fine. he has free speech just like the rest of us have. when you go, try to use that as
done before they can work on the tax care bill, as he slipped up twice. the time is overdue for medicare for all. it s going to help create problemjobs. it s doable. but it doesn t have to be done right away. senator tommy baldwin has come up with legislation to lower the age to 25. it ensures health care for everybody, which is something every american deserves. his family, they benefit from the best health care available in the united states. don t the rest of the american people deserve the same thing? thank you for your time, sir, i appreciate it. thank you. appreciate the invitation. i want to turn to president trump s rally in phoenix tomorrow. the mayor says now is not the time for that. i want you to listen to what he told cnn s jim sciutto tonight. this is not the time for a
whipsawed a little bit. can we take a minute to consider the fact that not very long ago, we were considering the prospect of preemptive nuclear strikes in north korea and then we went to charlottesville and then the attack in barcelona and then troops in afghanistan and now he s going to arizona where things will be hot. tensions are very high. not only is he walking into a hot situation, there s just a lot going on right now that i think the public is struggling to absorb. and it has the capacity to come out in unexpected and potentially dangerous ways. uh-huh. what do you think? what do you think of the timing, jason? look, this is summer. this is when members of congress and senators are doing town halls and get togethers. this is the opportunity to have these longer form conversations with voters. i hope what the president does tomorrow in phoenix is he dives into tax reform and starts talking about the economy. this is the time when the administration needs to make