Mission specialist. President trump fixated on the fallout from his rally in North Carolina this week, in particular the disturbing moment when the crowd broke out in a loud and clear chant aimed at an elected member of the u. S. Congress. [ audience chants send her back ] that chant of send her back referring to minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar, one of four House Democrats whom the president has made a point to single out recently as those who should, quote, go back to the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. The president first suggested that he barely heard the chants at the rally and that he quickly moved on, neither of which is true. Then he told reporters he was not happy with the chants and disagreed with the crowd. But then today he takes another direction, tweeting, as you can see i did nothing to lead people on nor was i particularly happy with their chant, just a very big and patriotic crowd. They loved the usa. So thats the new position of the president , at least today. People who chant about kicking a democratic congresswoman out of the country are patriotic and who love the usa. One of those four women of color in congress targeted by the president s racist tweets and comments is new York Democratic alexandria ocasiocortez. And she held a town hall on immigration in queens today. Someone asked her if she believed the president when he said he did not egg that crowd on. Do you think he led them on . He said this morning he did not lead them on. He absolutely did. He absolutely did. He said, oh, i stopped it immediately. Roll the tape. He didnt. He kind of presided over the situation. He relished it. He took it in. Cnns Polo Sandoval is here with us now. Polo, you were there inside that town hall today. I know ocaciocortez said this white house rhetoric about immigration is not about immigration at all. Immigration was front and center at this town hall. Im just back from queens, as you mentioned. She certainly received a warm welcome, that had to do with the tweets from President Trump that targeted her and three other of her democratic colleagues. She was calling for the impeachment of President Trump, calling for the abolishment of i. C. E. And the department of Homeland Security altogether. We also heard from alexandria ocasiocortez a form of looking ahead, especially as she is expected to meet with Democratic House leader nancy pelosi. She addressed what is certainly no big secret here, some tensions between established democrats and perhaps some of the more progressive lawmakers here. I asked ocaciocortez myself what she expects to bring to the table at this expected meeting with the most powerful democratic on the hill. Here is what she said. The progressive caucus is one of the largest caucuses in the Democratic Party. Its just overall to have an openended conversation to see what we can do to come together on strategy. Certainly immigration is part of that conversation. And that has really been a source of a lot of the tension between some of the progressives among democrats and more established democrats, ana. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this meeting thats scheduled in the coming days between ocaciocortez and the speaker of the house, because it is certainly no big secret that her no vote certainly led to a bit of tension between her fellow democrats. When asked today what she would like to see, she said she would like to see a clean spending bill that focuses really on the humanitarian aspects of whats happening on the southern border and not necessarily some of the other Border Security provisions that republicans would like to see in this legislation. So again, what were seeing here from some of these progressives like alexandria ocasiocortez and the socalled squad, theyre digging their heels in on any legislation, any bill that comes their way, they want to focus on the humanitarian aspects of things. Polo sandoval, thank you. Our next guest is a cnn comment and a republican strategist. Conservative radio host hugh hewitt notes, send her back is a nativist chant and electoral suicide. Theres more than 400,000 naturalized residents in pennsylvania, with 200,000 more in michigan. Ive said this from the very beginning, we do not need send her back to be the new lock her up, its completely wrong. If we want to make this about policy and politics, which it is, then say vote her out, vote her out of office, lets have a debate on the policies where we disagree, because they are big and they are stark and they are important. And lets look at those issues as opposed to what were getting sidetracked with. The president has mentioned this repeatedly, and this is where we need to put the focus, on the differences between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party which the four congresswomen are now really leading the Democratic Party. We need to have conversations on where they are far to the left on socialism, on green new deal, on medicare for all, on free college tuition. Lets have a conversation about those policies. Those four women arent necessarily leading the Democratic Party although the president would like to make them out to be leaders of the Democratic Party. They do have influence, though, and i wonder if democrats are paying attention to possible traction trump may be getting with his criticism of the squad even though hes misquoting them and spreading obviously racist tropes. Could he be firing up his base and at the same time planting some doubts with perhaps moderate democrats to make this a Winning Strategy . Donald trump has done a very effective job of conflating two different things. We have understanding racism and understanding what the different forms of racism are, and hes conflating that with a 270 Electoral College vote strategy. The combination of the two is bringing out some very ugly things in the united states. Unfortunately its not just up to democrats, registered democrats or event candidates to solve that problem. That is a day to day, in our own communities, how do we deal with the people saying send her back to average citizens on the street who are contributing members of society. Michelle obama became famous for particular moment in which she said when they go low, we go high. Is that tone going to prevail . Certainly the democratic primary candidates are offering a variety of positive visions for america. But theyre not really being met with much on the republican side of the aisle. You only had four republicans who voted to condemn Donald Trumps tweet. So that unfortunately is setting it up where democrats are now the party of rational, reasonable, american ideology and a variety throughout the spectrum of american ideology, and the republicans in office right now are the nativists, turning out to be the racist party. Before you respond, alice, there is a break between nancy pelosi and the squad. We have seen all the back and forth between those two in public prior to the president s racist tweets. We now now aoc is set to meet with nancy pelosi in the next week. How do you see thats going . Because pelosi has tended to you play the influence of these four congresswomen. Does she need to be careful here . Pelosi was the original progressive. I worked for her back in the day when she first became leader. Im a millenial. I understand the gap theyre trying to bridge right now. Pelosi was one of the first people to come out for gay rights. Shes always identified as a progressive when it comes to social justice issues. What shes trying to wrangle now, is you have the squad calling for impeachment. Only 90 people in her coalition have come out for it. Thats still 200 and something votes that have to come together from districts that are purple, not entirely blue yet. Thats a matter of strategy. I appreciate that aoc said theyre going to work on that together. Its probably better that this is coming out now rather than in the general election. Alice, i want to look at a tweet from this morning. The president quoted a woman named Katie Hawkins who proposed a Campaign Slogan for him, dont love it, leave it. Katie hawkins is a right wing commentator who said the synagogues rabbi was to blame for the synagogue massacre in pittsburgh because of what she called his support for mass migration. Shes called for final solution for muslims in the uk. Alice, as the president continues to say these people are antisemitic and he talks about israel being part of the conversation, how can he expect to be taken seriously on claims of defending against antisemitism if hes quoting this kind of person who has rhetoric like this . Thats actually a great question, because when he is talking about the four congresswomen and their antisemitic, some antiamerican immigration policy statements, hes factually accurate on that. I can go down the list. But between the four of them, they have made comments to the effect of americans who support israel are all about the benjamins. They have said that israel, the people of israel hypnotize americans. They have said that our detention camps are like concentration camps. They have said brown and black people supportive of our immigration policies are a cog in the system. Those kind of comments are what the president is talking about. Why muddy the water with other things that arent true . Some of those that you listed are things that they have said. Some of them have apologized for some of those things. But the president keeps throwing additional things in there that arent true and that are even more extreme. So i just want to make that clear for our viewers, so they werent confused, alice. But finish your thought. Youre right, it would be helpful if we would stay on using the factual statements that they have used when were having this conversation, because there is plenty to choose from here. We cannot continue to talk about what the president has said and what people talk about what he has said without mentioning the origin of this and where this comes from. And i think we can all take a page out of Ronald Reagans play book, thou shalt not speak ill of another republican. Same thing with the democrats. Lets lower the temperatures and have a better tone. I agree certainly with what nayeera said about michelle obama, when they go low, we go high. I think both sides should do that. It used to be even on the conservative side of the aisle, and particularly among our veterans and military folks, they would say, i disagree with what youre saying but i will fight for your right to say it. A patriotic chant used to be usa. It was not send her back. This nativist tone that donald trump it picked up, from other parts of the world like the brexit folks, like the folks in germany who are trying to overturn liberal democracy. Ladies, thank you very much. President trump is coming to the defense of a rapper detained in sweden. Why hes promising to guarantee bail and why his request has hit a sour note with swedens Prime Minister. Plus this. A messaging scandal igniting protests in puerto rico. Thousands hit the streets including a president ial candidate. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Of savings and service. Whoa. Travis in it made it. Its amazing. Oh is that traviss app . Its pretty cool, isnt it . Theres two of them. 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I certainly dont know asap rocky. But i can tell you that he has tremendous support from the Africanamerican Community in this country. Reporter asaps more than 10 million instagram followers have not heard from him for nearly three weeks now. The Grammy Nominated artist is in custody stockholm on suspicion of assault in connection with a brawl on june 30th. This edited video posted by tmz appears to show asap in a confrontation in june. Additional videos uploaded on asaps instagram tell a different story. These boys keep following me. We dont want no problems with them. Look at them, they keep following me. Reporter asap telling his fans these men kept following him and harassing him and his entourage, even alleging they threw headphones at his bodyguard. The Stockholm District Court decided friday that asap rocky should stay in custody until july 25th as the prosecutor continues to investigate, claiming that he is a flight risk. The rappers lawyer says the courts decision was expected but unfair, according to a report from reuters. The lawyer says his client, quote, believes he was assaulted and has acted in selfdefense. President trump tweeting saturday that he called swedens Prime Minister and told him that asap, quote, was not a flight risk and offered to personally vouch for his bail. Despite the scandinavian country not having a bail system. Its earned the president praise from some celebrities. Kim kardashian thanking trump for helping asap and his commitment to justice reform. Singer Justin Bieber tweeting to the president , i appreciate you trying to help him but while youre at it, can you also let those kids out of cages . A reference to the migrant crisis along the u. S. Mexico border. As for how swedens leader is responding, a spokesman of the Prime Minister acknowledged he spoke to President Trump. He characterized it as a friendly and respectful 20minute phone call on saturday, but telling the president that his government neither can nor will try to influence the judicial process with respect to asap rockys case. Both sides say they will likely talk further on the matter in coming days. David culver, cnn, london. I want to talk about the legal challenges of this case with a civil rights attorney and a cnn legal analyst. President trump is intervening, telling the leader of a foreign country he would vouch for the rappers bail. What are the biggest obstacles here, including that sweden doesnt have bail . Thats correct, ana, they dont have a bail system. Also the Prime Minister has made it very clear that he doesnt have the ability or the authority to intervene in this matter, that the Law Enforcement process in sweden has to play itself out, and barring, you know, some extraordinary circumstances, asap rocky appears to be going to be detained in sweden until july 25th as the swedish judicial process has made clear. What impact if any will the video have, of asap throwing someone to the ground in this case . His attorney claims he was simply defending himself, that these men had been following him and his entourage and that they were the initial aggressors and he was simply acting out of selfdefense. Presumably hell have the opportunity to present that to Law Enforcement in sweden. Its not clear if that will have an impact because from what were hearing, this investigation is ongoing and no determination has been made by Law Enforcement in sweden. Are you surprised that the president is getting involved in this . Im surprised, and i wish the president would get involved in matters that concern the