Divert catastrophe during the cold war. Now, however, we find ourselves without it. The dual attacks of this weekend raised the question whether we can address gun violence and the rising threat of White Nationalism. Trumps official response was a scripted speech he read monday from a teleprompter in the diplomatic room of the white house. Trump recited the kinds of words condemning White Supremacy the president should say in the wake of such a tragedy. But they are words he could neither credibly deliver or be taken to heart. That unifying message stood in stark contrast to more than two and a half years of namecalling, demonizing minorities and inflaming racial animus. Trumps speech came on monday after a visit to his golf club in new jersey, where he spent part of the weekend complaining to allies and club members of the golf resort about Media Coverage that seemed to blame him for the shootings. According to this report in the post, Senior Policy AdviserStephen Miller led the effort to draft the speech he gave on monday, and white house aides talked to trump about what he would say and how his tone should be president ial. But as he often does, the president spoke more candidly on twitter where he blamed the media and attacked president obama. Meanwhile, the president heads tomorrow to el paso and dayton. Im joined right now by yamiche alcindor, White House Correspondent for the pbs news hour. Jeh johnson politics editor of the root. Bret stephens an oped columnist at the New York Times. Thank you all for joining us. There is a jekyll and hyde aspect to this. But clearly, what is credible, yamiche, is trump on tweet. When he tweets out, what great word, tweet, at 6 30 in the morning when most people are still asleep. Thats trump. This guy reading a teleprompter, i love it, in the diplomatic room. In other words, the room where you have to be diplomatic. Your thoughts. Who is the real guy . Ill say this. The great Toni Morrison who died today said if you can only be tall if someone else is on their niece, you have a serious problem. There are people all ray aye cross this country people who think this president has a serious problem which is he wants to demonize other people. He wants to make immigrants as scapegoats. I just came back from dayton on the, ohio where people are pointing to his rhetoric not only is he creating divisions in our own community, his inaction in gun reform and in passing Gun Legislation, he is creating the societies and creating this atmosphere that is making us all unsafe. I think, yes, the president definitely changed his tone and condemned White Nationalism. But he said nothing of how his own words could have contributed to this unstable individual going and killing so many people in el paso. He could have said look, people think im talking to White Nationalists. Im not doing that. People think when i say immigrants are invading this country, you should then go out and shoot them. Im not doing that. He could have made it so much more personal, and he didnt do that. Part that of is he doesnt want to be tied to this thing. But its hard for him to be credible on this topic because the people i talked to all across this country just dont see him as a moral authority for all sorts of reasons, including the fact that he has added to this atmosphere. Well, jason, of course he never used the word i in that scripted remarks. He said guns kill people, not people. He did anything he could to relieve guns of any moral responsibility, obviously. And he didnt mention the fact that it was Latino Community that was targeted, that there was an ethnic piece, a racial piece. Never mentioned it. Because the president doesnt care. At his core he only cares about these things to the degree they reflect on him which is the real trump is . We all know who the real donald trump is. Thats the guy who gets in front of crowds. Why did he do this phonybaloney thing yesterday . Because he has people who advise him who said you have to at least pretend that you care how you do this job. He wasnt his typical funny, witty, engaging self. He looks like he is making a hostage video. Like head his fingers crossed. To keep himself motivated. At the end of the day, when you dont have any sort of moral authority at the top of a country, it makes it difficult for anyone else to act on the problems that are there. The republicans feel like theyre stymied because they dont have moral leadership from the president. The democrats have to waste time criticizing the president and then enacting their own policies. We dont have leadership right now in this country. Thats why some of these issues are so difficult to tackle. Let me go to Bret Stephens on this issue. Even bill clinton had some problems, to be honest about it. In Oklahoma City when he went down there and talked to the people, people believed it. On a lot of levels, bill clinton is a good guy. He may have problems but he is a good guy. On this issue about caring about the country, caring about how the government was attacked of the American People because it was the government of the American People, he was credible, morally credible, i thought. He was morally credible. I remember george w. Bush downtown in manhattan in the days after 9 11 or even going back to the Reagan Administration after the challenger disaster, the killing of our marines in beirut. President s in history have always been able to rise to the occasion and to unite the country beyond partisanship. Trump is uniquely unable to do so, because from the very beginning not just of his presidency, but of his candidacy, he has been demonizing multiple racial and ethnic groups. It began with the birtherism. It continued with the assault on latin american immigrants when he announced his candidacy in 2015. Ill never forget the way he characterized judge Gonzalo Curiel as unfit to be a judge simply for being mexicanamerican. His saumts on muslim americans. So all of this has a cumulative impact, which is why the statements that he read from the teleprompter the other day seemed so weightless, so insincere and so contrived, and why you can bet, just as he did after charlottesville, that pretty soon were going hear from the real donald trump communicating to his following to a base that doesnt entirely mind the assault, not the violent assault, but the rhetorical assault on latin american immigrants, on mexicanamerican citizens. I think he is going to circle around like other people have thought, but he is particularly good at it. Trump is attack former president obama now after obama yesterday called on americans to soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of those of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred. In response, President Trump tweeted a quote from Brian Kilmeade of fox news saying did george bush ever condemn president obama after sandy hook . President obama had 32 Mass Shootings during his reign. Not many people said obama is out of control. Mass shootings were happening before the president even thought about running. But lets talk about the idiocy of this thing. First of all he claims as an intellectually Higher Authority a commentator on fox. It doesnt embarrass him. He is not quoting rudyard kipling. Some character speaks better than he does, and he acknowledges in his words, and he hates obama. Hes never gotten over what obama said about him at that White House Correspondents dinner. He made fun of him because of the idiocy of what he was doing professionally. There. Are so many people that see President Trump grasping for the legacy of president obama and is still angry at the fact that he isnt beloved in the way he thinks president obama was and frankly in the way president obama was to a lot of people. Hes still grasping for this idea that he, even though he won the 2016 election, nobody was really there praising him or excited excited about him. A small point, but he won both popular majorities. We can go back to the first scandal of this presidency which he was trying to claim his inauguration was bigger than obamas. From the very beginning hes had this rhetorical thing does it bother him that obama is black, to be blunt . Weve watched this guy pattern, excuse me. Does that bother him . He kicked off his political career, his political life by saying obama wasnt born in this country. So i think there is of course a problem there with him personally with president obama. I dont know if its because he is black. Maybe jason can say that. Obviously. An odd question. He seems to be really bugged by this guy. For anybody to be more popular or more beloved than him. And he never really has been able to deal with the fact that one, that obama made fun of him. But that this black guy has gotten all the love, all the appreciation, even from the same new york elites that used to like donald trump. Guess who is moving to new york, by the way . Barack obama. Its going to drive him crazy. Exactly. Hell be in his own neighborhood. I guess he has a lot of money now, barack obama. Im not going to belittle the conversation. But it is kind of delightful. And by the way, i think it bothers him that obama has moral superiority to him. Completely. Im not knock it per se, because a lot of people do. I dont like it. But the fact is barack obama has been an upstanding husband, father, has done every single thing morally right it seems in terms of public life. It must bug him. Anyway, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is ignoring the call to call the senate in from vacation to vote on Gun Legislation which has already passed the house, passed both measures. While he is said to address the mass murders in a bipartisan way, that will be a first, his statement made no mention of any timeline to do so, and it didnt mention the word guns. Mcconnell is also facing criticism for his reelection campaigns attempt this weekend at a partisan joke. His campaign tweeted, there they are, tweeted out an image of several tombstones, there they are, including one bearing the name of his democratic opponent in next years election. Even while the news of the el paso attack was breaking. Bret stephens, bad at eternal judgment here to put tombstones out in whatever, some sort of email message to your followers right after a mass killing . Yeah. Same day. Obviously some pr flak should get fired. It was idiotic. But also the significant point is that its not just idiotic, its emblematic. You have a senate. You have a Republican Congress that has been absolutely unwilling to move on even the most basic steps for common sense gun control to prevent the fact that a shooter can kill nine people and injure many more in the space of the 30 seconds that it takes to stop him. And the Senate Majority leader is not prepared to lift a finger to even try to check that. Even the governor of ohio, former senator, governor dewine is prepared to act. But its extraordinary that the Republican Party has put up such a wall of opposition to Minimal Movement and that trump quite frankly hasnt had each had the political sense to understand that he could get he could make real headway and be a useful president for a change by getting behind some of the basic gun control laws that he himself suggest head might support, like bans on bump stocks after the parkland shootings. So this is mcconnell but you know why, bret. You studied ideology. He has to carry all the weight of the farthest right. He doesnt have enough angry white people to give away any of them. Right. Its all the way to the farrest reaches of fascism. He needs to reach them all to get his 46 or 47 so he can win the electoral college. Correct. And senator mcconnell is now facing a credible challenger in the senate. He is unpopular in kentucky, and he imagines that the only way he is going to win is with a base play that completely ignores the needs of the country so that he can have the support of the nra and other aspects of the gun lobby. The problem is that were living in a country in which thousands of people are being killed because theres insufficient gun regulation and in which the number of Mass Shootings just seems to be rising gee met try, if not exponentially. The president continues to propose solutions that ignore the essential reality of guns. How about mentioning guns in Mass Shootings . They play a role. For instance, the president yesterday blamed video games. We must stop the glorification of violence in our society. This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. Thats the president reading something that was thrown at him. Some people said he was sight reading it. He had never read it before. In addressing the Mass Shootings on his website, huckabee said the lack of thought and prayers is probably the single biggest factor in what is behind them. Thats about the shootings. And Foxs Sean Hannity proposed installing armed guards in every public building, in other words, that there arent enough guns out there, enough already. Lets watch him. Have i been calling for a long time. Every school, secure the perimeter of those schools. Equip them with retired police and military. They should be on every floor of every school. We could do that with stores. We can do that in malls. We can do that pretty much anywhere the public is. We can expand that out anywhere. Have one armed guard on every floor of every school, all over the mall, the perimeter, and inside. My god, he is aoc. Everybody works today. Thats a full appointment program. Every floor of every school of every Department Store . This is a job for everybody. This police state that sean hannity is calling for everybody to have. There are several problems with this. Number one youll have as many guards as teachers. Exactly. And theyre probably being paid better. So there are so many issues with this. I got to get back to huckabee. Your take on huckabee. Sodom and gomorrah causing our problems, i dont know. But where we talk about things, why does he come up with this stuff . One, obviously, because its part of who he is. His core thing is to put christianity and to put his religion at the forefront of things, and there are people that think more love, more christianity would help. But i should tell you i interviewed anthony reynolds, a man ten feet away from the shooter and the thing he said coming out of that is he shouldnt be able to have this gun that i saw him kill people with. When you talk to people who are now living through this, he said the thing that scared me more was the gun. Its the idea that someone can have ammunition with 100 rounds of ammunition and kill all these people. 24 seconds, 30 seconds and nine people are dead. Thats incredible. And i think that thats what most people want to be focused on, especially the people that ive been talking to who survived these Mass Shootings. Thank you so much. Take care. Toni morrison today. I know. I cried all day about this. Great heroes. A genius. Thank you, yamiche alcindor, thank you, jason johnson, and thank you, Bret Stephens. Coming up, two of the democrats running for president join me, south bend mayor Pete Buttigieg and tom steyer. Both coming here on hardball right now. 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