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, 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 join the president in pittsburgh. Pittsburghs democratic mayor said if the president is looking to come to pittsburgh, i would ask that he do not do so while were burger tying the dead. We dont have Public Safety we can take away from what is needed in order to do both. The president ignored the mayors plea not to come. The president didnt care that his security requirements would put further strain on the city that was also going to require massive security arrangements today for the four victims of that mass murder whose furnnera took place today. Dr. Jerry rabinowitz, the brothers, and daniel stein. His nephew, Steven Hallie told nbc news Peter Alexander today that he felt it was a stab in the back when donald trump said that the mass murder could have been completely prevented if the tree of life synagogue had just one armed guard somewhere on the premises. This is a case where they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him immediately. Donald trump should have just said, you know, our hearts and prayers go out for the people of pittsburgh and everybody involved and kept his mouth shut. You felt like he was blaming the community . Thats exactly what it felt like. Steven hallie said his family refused a condolence visit from the president today. Air force one was on the ground for over three hours in pittsburgh today. But the president spent only 13 minutes in the tree of life synagogue where they were welcomed by rabbi Jeffrey Meyers who didnt invited the president but had always said he would welcome the president to visit the synagogue if the president did decide to come to pittsburgh. Thousands of people filled the streets of the Squirrel Hill neighborhood making maneuvers challenging for the president ial motorcade. One of the organizers of the protest told buzzfeed hes fostered an administration of White Supremacy and he is not welcome in our time of mourning. The protest were filled with families joining together to say the president of the United States is part of the problem that they are now dealing with in what always was their peaceful neighborhood of Squirrel Hill. The president intensified the local resistance to his visit this morning when he made an inane public announcement in an interview saying falsely that he could end birth right citizenship in the United States by executive order. That is a lie. The right of every baby born in the United States to be a citizen of the United States is guaranteed in the constitution. It would take a constitutional amendment to change that. The republican speaker of the house instantly said the president s statement was false. Paul ryan said emphatically, quote, you obviously cannot do that. You cannot end birth right citizenship with an executive order. The president obviously made the statement as a campaign statement. That was campaigning today. The president knows its impossible to do this by executive order, but he wants to energize his most hardcore antiimmigrant supporters, some of whom might not think hes antiimmigrant enough in his first two years as president since donald trump has not built one foot of the wall that he promised them he would build. The mass murderer who went into the tree of life synagogue on saturday believed donald trump was not doing enough to stop immigration, and thats why, thats why he wanted to kill jews. Because he believed that the jews at the tree of life synagogue were supporting the arrival of immigrants who he believed were coming here to kill us, and that is what donald trump told that mass murderer was happening. Donald trump told him and all of us that murderers are coming across the southern border, rapists, gang members, animals he calls them, murdering gang members and middle eastern terrorists are coming to get us across the southern border. Donald trump has been pouring that message into the brain of that mass murderer for years now. And on saturday the mass murderers final social media post before he headed for the tree of life synagogue with his Assault Rifle and three handguns said this about the hebrew hebrew immigrant aid society. Hias likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. Screw your optics, im going in. And so he went in with his Assault Rifle. And so pittsburghs Jewish Community buried four today. They will bury seven more. In pittsburgh the hias said the president s lie this morning about ending birth right citizenship by executive order was exactly the kind of thing that the mass murderer must have been very, very happy to hear today. Back here in pittsburgh, the head of the Jewish Agency that protection refugees says the president s announcement is offensive and ignores that the governments hatred went beyond antisemitism. This murderer was trying to check more than one box. He checked the jew hate box and the refugee and immigrant hate box. Joining us from pittsburgh is tami heps. Thank you very much for joining us today. Im very, very sorry for you and your community have suffered this weekend and are going through this week. You were one of the people who signed an open letter to President Trump saying, President Trump, you are not welcome in pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism. What was your reaction today when the president decided to overrule the mayors idea that he not come until after the dead has been buried . I think we had known for some time that it was quite likely he was going to ignore all of that and come to our city. What came to a real shock is his announcement about ending birth right citizenship. It felt like a direct confrontation with what we said in the letter, the kinds of words and deeds we were looking for from President Trump to show that he was really committed to healing our nation and back tracking from the kind of hateful rhetoric that led to this murder in the first place. So we started the day feeling like we had no idea what the visit would bring, but it was clear that what we tried to say as a community was what we were looking for him for leadership was something that he wasnt willing to offer. How would you characteristicize the protests today from being in the middle of it . It felt to me very peripheral, very somber, very unified. We began with beaches, but much of it was like a funeral cortege. We talked through the streets of our neighborhood past houses, past as close as we could get to the tree of life synagogue, past our police precinct. We sang jewish songs of healing. When we stopped a block we, we performed a ritual where everybody ripped a piece of black ribbon, which is what mourners do, and we held it high in the air ed and a moment of silence and it really was peripheral. It was people from all different backgrounds, not just jewish people engaging in this traditional jewish mourning custom to show that we are coming together, that despite the divisive rhetoric were hearing elsewhere within the Squirrel Hill community, were coming together, we are supporting the families, we want to help heal the mourners as much as we can. If you could have had 60 seconds with the president today, what would you have told him . I think much of what i would have said is in that letter. We who signed the letter and more than 100,000 people who signed it online, we all believe that the kinds of hateful rhetoric hes using for political ends is what led to this act. This wasnt a man operating in isolation with evil in his heart. This was a man who heard what President Trump was saying and felt like it was up to him to act. What i would have said to President Trump is these are how these deeds happen. Youre not the first politician and you probably wont be the last, but you are the one who can listen and change course. You are the one who can stop in the middle and say im not going to keep using this language. It has led to the murders of the people not just in Squirrel Hill but in other communities and houses of worship where his divisive rhetoric has incited people to act on things that people werent acting on in this way prior to his presidency and his becoming a candidate. Tami, you see a direct link, causation possibly between the things the president says, especially the things the president says about people trying to cross your southern border, and is mass murderers decision to go in on saturday, as he put it . He said it himself. If you look at his last public statement, he himself drew the connection. You mean the shooter drew the connection, not the president . Right, yes. The murderer, he drew the connection. He reflecting all the lies that he heard in the previous week about migrant families in extra america, he was the one who said that he felt like hearing all of that that he had to do something about it. Even if that statement hadnt been there, im a student of history. I understand what it means when somebody in power uses the language of White Supremacy and the tactics of White Supremacy to rally a base. But the fact of the matter is, murderer put it right out there. I dont really even need to make the argument. Anybody can read that statement. Adding to our discussion now, adam server is joining us, Senior Editor for the atlantic and ruth marcus, columnist at the Washington Post and msnbc contributor. Ruth, i want to get your reaction to what you saw the president s trip to pittsburgh today. Well, i just felt so sad that were at the point where an american president visit to the site of a terrible tragedy itself creates controversy and discord, and that is because of what this president has done before this tragedy and actually as some of the interviews just earlier in the aftermath of the tragedy suggesting that it could have been averted by armed guards. Were used to seeing president s as consolers in chief, and the fact that something a community would welcome with a normal president , a regular president , all the president s weve had in history, itself became divisive just tells you about where we are with this president. And then further more, on the day of this trip and the day of these first set of just, you know, horrific, sosad funerals, to open it up, i began my day seeing the news about the president s plan on this executive order, which, of course, will never pass muster. But the president s plan on this executive order on birth right citizenship, which is, of course, antithetical to the jewish religion and the imperative, which is a both jewish and American Value to love the strarnnger among us an treat them as one of our own. Its what compelled this murderer. What a terrible way to start the day. Adam, in the atlantic you wrote the apparent spark for the worst antisemitic massacre in American History was inflamed by a u. S. President seeking to help his party win a midterm election. Adam, you were one of the first writers if not the first to put this clearly in this linkening between what we saw in the murderers social media posting where he said im going in because of what he believes is happening at the southern border which is what the president tells him. I wouldnt say i was the first one to put it together. The killer put it together. The killer put it right out there. He did everything but draw a map. Pivoting off something ruth just said, look, the vast majority of jews in america are liberal, and they understand from their history that when politics in a country organizes itself around a National Identity that demonizes socalled foreigners or actual foreigners, that eventually theyre going to come after us. Thats why you see people resisting in this way, why you see jews protest Angle American president coming to visit because they know ultimately that kind of politics is going to affect us even if it doesnt necessarily right now because the president is not doesnt personally display a lot of hostility towards jewish. He has jewish grandchildren, hes got a jewish soninlaw. No doubt if he could spare jews from the results of his nativism, he would, but he cant. By continuing to embrace this rhetoric and pushing the caravan as an issue in the way that he does, hes shown that hes indifferent for the Collateral Damage it causes. Tammy, im sure there are mixed feelings in the community in pittsburgh. Can you give us what youre feeling is about the opposition to the president coming today within the Jewish Community and the support of the president coming today . Look, for what we did today, obviously, we gathered together, thousands of people from our community who felt like President Trump was not welcome on that day in particular and not welcome until he understood our demands about what it would take to heal this country. We understand that there are people for whom it was healing to see president , and we tried your best and the remarks we made today to be respectful of that. Were a Diversity Community of people, and we try to craft something that would be healing even for people who might not have agreed with the message. Thats why we focused on our pain and our mourning and trying to find our collective strength bring ita back together. My hope is that we empowered the people who wanted to see this event happen and for the people who did not, we did not detract from their own healing. There were two layers of protest today, one that tammy was involved with there on the street, thousands of people, and the other by other politicians, paul ryan, Mitch Mcconnell, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, the republican senator from pennsylvania who was invited and refused to accompany the president to pittsburgh. He was boycotted by Public Officials and by politicians within his own party in this trip today. Well, i think theres obviously a political dynamic behind the scenes were not exactly privy to yet. But i would speculate that the president believes that his putting all his chips on nativism is going to help the republicans win the midterms and his fellow republicans in leadership do not think its working. And would prefer that he not do that. So theyre not going to endorse his attempt to have it both ways, to gin up the American People against a frightening foreign enemy, and then try to act as though the consequences of him doing that arent what they are. And today on this same day, republicans on the house side condemned one of their members, steve king, who is their most noted white supremacist, nationalist among them, thats happening at the same time donald trump is trying to push in steve kings direction, trying to echo steve king. Were going to have to take a break here. Thank you for starting our discussion tonight. Coming up, republican congressman steve king, as i just said, the one of the most notorious members of the house of representatives. Hes been repeatedly condemned by democrats for nativist and nationalist comments. Now he is finally being condemned by his own party, and he is on the verge of possibly losing his reelection bid. 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