Theyre not coming into our country. What the president said there on the south lawn, the fact that he said it on a way to a Campaign Appearance in florida is no accident. Both the Migrant Caravan and Citizenship Question are hot button issues for his base. With just six days to Midterm Election, hes chosen to make them the twin pillars of his Closing Argument to voters, which of course hes entitled to do. Hes even entitled to push hot buttons and hes even entitled i suppose to make stuff up. Keeping them hop honest, thats what hes doing. What he cant do is escape scrutiny over what hes doing. Today, each as he raised the specter of a Foreign Invasion to the kind of level requiring more than a divisions worth of military firepower, funerals were being held in pittsburgh for three of the 11 Jewish Americans slaughtered by a gunman who was driven by antisemitism and hate and anger over those very same migrants the president has been focusing on. Joyce fienberg was buried, her funeral toda
To tell. The one polling place gets moved literally out of town. Yeah. I mean, in kansas on average, a polling place serves about 1,200 voters. In dodge city, its one polling place for 13,000 voters, and they took it out of town. Its like in trying to get the local officials there, the clerk whos made these decisions is a republican clerk whos been in close communication with the republican secretary of state whos running for governor. Trying to get answers is a saga. Cant wait. Tomorrow night . Yeah. Thank you, rachel. The president went to pittsburgh today you with the on invitation and with no one waiting to welcome him when he arrived at the airport. Usually when air force one lands anywhere in this country, the local mayor, no matter what the mayors party is, is there to greet the president. The governor is usually there, the United States senators, local members of congress often fly on air force one with the president. None of that happened today. No one in american politics, re
Is enshrined in the constitution with just a stroke of the pen. Before we go any further, we should point out he cannot. More on that in a second. He also said he may order as many as 15,000 active duty troops to the border with mexico. Thats 1,000 more than are deployed in afghanistan. The reason, he says, is the threat from a group of poor Central American migrants, now about 1,000 miles away and coming on foot to seek asylum. Its a dangerous group of people. Theyre not coming into our country. What the president said there on the south lawn, the fact that he said it on a way to a Campaign Appearance in florida is no accident. Both the Migrant Caravan and Citizenship Question are hot button issues for his base. With just six days to Midterm Election, hes chosen to make them the twin pillars of his Closing Argument to voters, which of course hes entitled to do. Hes even entitled to push hot buttons and hes even entitled i suppose to make stuff up. Keeping them honest, thats what hes d
Tomorrow night . Yeah. Thank you, rachel. The president went to pittsburgh today you with the on invitation and with no one waiting to welcome him when he arrived at the airport. Usually when air force one lands anywhere in this country, the local mayor, no matter what the mayors party is, is there to greet the president. The governor is usually there, the United States senators, local members of congress often fly on air force one with the president. None of that happened today. No one in american politics, republican or democrat, wanted to have anything to do with the president s uninvited, largely unwelcome trip to pittsburgh. Republican speaker of the house refused the invitation, so did the leader of the United States senate and the Democratic Leaders of the senate and house of representatives. Pennsylvanias republican senator refused to accompany the president to pittsburgh. And pennsylvanias democratic senator refused to join the president in pittsburgh and was not invited to jo
He kicked off his eightstate rally with election day just six days away. We have chief correspondent and special appearance today by john king. Welcome to you, sir. And here to discuss more on the breaking news this afternoon, cara scannel. President trump is blaming don meghan for the moral probe. So tell me what he said. In this final encounter between don meghan, he was focused on this cloud over the presidency. Meghan didnt appoint Robert Mueller but he did cooperate with his investigation. He met with him multiple times, answering questions about muellers desire to fire Robert Mueller himself, to want to pressure Jeff Sessions to recuse himself. So this kind of is part of this big tumultuous relationship that has continued between these men despite meghan getting two Supreme Court justices on the bench for trump. A weird way to end this relationship with mueller fixated on the investigation while hes having his final goodbye chat with meghan. John, you heard her sort of explanatio