you re saying that the crowd wanted to send them back, plural, as to all four of them. send hr back. send her back, okay. that particular part of the script was about ihlan omar, send hr back was referring to ihlan omar. i wanted to be clear there. regardless, it is sending back a u.s. citizen and elected member of congress. a remarkable and sobering moment. just a short time ago senator lindsay graham spoke with manu raju about the president s comments. i don t have any animosity toward anyone who disagrees with me. the point is, they re all american citizens entitled to their voice. and when they do provacative things, they re going to be met with provocation. so this is a two-way street, not a one-way street. i m trying to fix the broken
a very good thursday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. and i m poppy harlow. at any moment you re going to hear from kevin mack a leanen. he is facing lawmakers on a very important meeting on capitol hill. he s expected to be grilled over overcrowding at detention centers and separated families. i should note he did allow cameras in this week to see the facilities and talk to some of those detained. but first president trump s 2020 strategy becoming more and more clear. if you missed it, that was quite a rally last night in north carolina. it sounded a lot like the president s 2016 lock her up chants. omar has a history of launching vicious, anti-semit
promises on sharing private information. this is a russia company. thank you for covering it. thanks to all of you for joining us. i m poppy harlow. i m jim sciutto. at this hour can kate bolduan starts right now. i m kate bolduan. thank you so much for joining me. if there was any doubt what direction president trump wants to make his reelection campaign, last night he made it crystal clear. division. us versus them. racism. and i don t say that slightly. continuing his almost singular focus on four democratic congresswomen of color last night at a rally in north carolina. his rhetoric met by this chant from the audience. omar has a history of launching vicious anti-semitic. they were chanting send her
anti-semitic that s a crowd of americans chanting send her back to a somali-born u.s. citizen and elected congresswoman. ihlan omar, one of the four progressive women the president has been zeroing in on more and more as he builds out his 2020 campaign strategy. just moments ago, what has been somewhat of a rarity, adam kinsinger is speaking out in fairly clear terms against the chants against omar, saying i deeply disagree with the extreme left and has been disgusted by their tone. i woke up today equally disgusted, chants like send hr back are ugly, wrong, and would send chills down the spines of our founding fathers. this ugliness must end or we risk our great union. these are not small words from a submitting congressman. abby phillip is at the white house. i imagine the white house is not
candidate barack obama was muslim and john mccain said no, he is not. he s a good man. he also compared that situation to this one. was it appropriate for people at that rally last night to be chanting send her back to omar and the president to be presiding over that? let me be clear. my beef is with policy, not personality. all of these congresswomen won their election. they re american citizens. this is their home as much as mine and i believe their policies will change america for the worse and that s the debate for me. how much has this changed? john mccain when he went up to that woman famously at the rally and said that barack obama is not a muslim. how much has this party changed i m proud of john. my policy differences with president obama were real, but i never doubted that he loved the country. president trump would never do that. he took a different tack. he s fighting back. but i don t remember anybody treating president john mccain