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today really encapsulated that. he really did elevate himself, as john said, to the level of the president. but i also like the speech that cory booker gave today. and let s remember where he was, too. tell people where he was. he was at mother emmanuel ame church, the site of that horrific killing. and one of two sitting african-american democrats who is the former mayor of newark. and, again, i don t want to get too political either, but i cover these guys and he is someone who has been looking for a moment and he s someone who has talked about needing to bring people together. you really heard all of those desperate themes come together in a powerful way that i think shouldn t get lost in the conversation. you know, it s interesting, marie, theresa, is the fact that i throw beto in here too. beto, booker, and biden all believed their candidacy was about trump. right? that was the reason they were going in. they were going to represent the moral, provide the moral clarity, beto
well, i do agree, but i think we have toned it down. we ve been getting hit left and right from everybody. i think my rhetoric, it brings people together. welcome back. that was president trump responding to a couple of questions about his rhetoric this morning before he left for dayton and el paso. here s our panel for today. juana summers, theresa kumar, howard feinman, and john podhoritz. nice to see you. thank you. maria, let me start with you. you heard a fellow el paso native there, and he said he didn t want to see the president there. this is one of those occasions where it feels like actually,
there is not an american in our country that is not complicit in the trade of undocumented labor. there is not one, whether it is someone who cleans you re home and you re not paying them. let s be very clear, and this idea that we can all of a sudden sweep under the rug and we don t want to give them access, we don t want to give enfranchisement, that actually creates a second-class citizen. we ve already lived that. it s unacceptable. this whole thing about, and it s like they re making they re punishing these folks who are working, and the people not getting punished here are the ones that are probably not undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion into our ss. and how many do you think are getting paid a living wage? and that s more than the president has paid in taxes. this is one we can keep going. i ve already run over. everybody is sticking around. juana, maria, theresa, john.
admit that he may have had a little bit to do with this tragedy. someone had to physically get in a car from dallas. it s not like dallas doesn t have brown neighborhoods. instead they decided to get in a car and drive ten hours to one of the safest cities in the country that s 85% hispanic to send a clear message to all of us that none of us are safe. john, none of this with the president today is surprising. it was just sort of he s going to undermine whatever he s doing today. the question was how and when. turned out to be in his twitter feed in between traveling, never mind at the beginning. as we were saying he never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, right? he swings at every pitch, whatever you want to say. he sees everything this way. you know, i know it s like we know this is a predictable behavior, but at what point does it become just intolerable for some on the right? i don t think it will ever become intolerable for people on the right unless he loses the e