melissa: those words coming after 2020 democrats unleashed on the president over the weekend, blooming has rhetoric for the el paso shooting the 20 people killed in a hateful, racist, murderous rage, in part inspired by this president. there s no question that white nationalism is condoned of the highest levels of our government. it s the tone. it s stopping the mean tweets and the hate tweets. i don t think this guy s going to stop doing that. i think the way you stop that is by winning in 2020. melissa: the white house responding to these allegations, saying democrats should instead focus on solutions. here is acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney. i don t think it s fair to try and leave us at the feet of the president. i don t think it settle sit there and say that he doesn t think white nationalism is better for the nation. these are sick people. you cannot be a white supremacist and be normal in the head. these are sick people. you know it, i know it, the
agend agenda. mr. kahn, thank you for coming back to the program. thank you. i will read some responses throughout the course of the program. smerconish, your caller steven shouldn t surprise you, america s well-kept secret is getting eyes and ear itself on it. hey, palm, i want to expose the sentiments of stevens out there. steven might not be acting on a murderous rage. i would imply he was, i am saying the same sentiments that are running through his mind are the types that were acted on by that gunman in new zealand and politically speaking, we need to assess the political dynamics that s giving rise to politicians all around the globe based on those sentiments. i want to know what you think, go to my smerconish.com. does white nationalism pose a threat to liberal democracy? up ahead, while donald trump
that suite in the mandalay bay. he had scopes and tripods in his home near here, there were additional 19 guns, thousands of rounds of ammunition, more rifles. still though no one knows why. reporter: when the swat team broke down the door on the 32nd floor, stephen paddock was already dead of a self-inflicted one shot wound. leaving investigators to piece together why a 64-year-old retired accountant would gun down a crowd attending the route music festival wenchts checked all the data bases and we had no knowledge of this individual. he checked in on the 28th but it wasn t until sunday night he broke the windows in his hotel room to begin his murderous
this history. he served our country in the navy and fought in iraq and joined the police force, kicked out of the police force because they say he filed a false complaint against a fellow officer brutality, not well-founded and how does he turn from a ticked off fired cop into mass killer? i don t think that s i don t think that that is beyond the scope of our understanding at all. look, we know that rage, violence, animosity, anger, murderous rage can be turned either to, let s call it uses of society, police and battle, or if the flame is touched to the fire of narcissism, we can see that person explode. we see it in other episodes before. this is someone who throughout his life, megyn, from childhood has shown that when his self was insulted, when he felt he was insulted in high
good evening upon. i m ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett tonight. out in front, campaign is kicking into high gear. candidates are criss-crossing the state, trying to pick up last-minute support for the first contest in the race for the gop nomination. let s go straight to the political correspondt. jim acosta is on the ground in iowa. good to see you. lots of campaign events and everybody is back in the game. a recent poll shows 12% of voters in iowa, still undecided. you spoke with the iowa gop chair about the race. what did he have to say? reporter: ali, basically he said this is a caucus race in iowa that he has never seen before. basically, this is the most unsettled field of candidates that a lot of republican operatives have seen in the state in a long time. if you look at the polling you have three candidates at the top right now. mitt romney, newt gingrich and ron paul, and below them is a medium tier, the other three candidates campaigning in the state, rick