Not come himself to pittsburgh today on the first day of the first funerals. City leaders had asked him to please wait until the city has buried its dead, at least. If for no other reason than the resources necessary to protect these funerals, having to be diverted to instead protect the president. They were not telling him he is never welcome in pittsburgh. They were just asking him to please at least put it off maybe until next week. Preserve Public Safety resources in pittsburgh so that the funerals can be protected in case any sort of, you know, copycat attacker decides to come out and attack the funerals, after the suspect in this case has killed these people in the synagogue in the first place. The president rejected all of those requests and showed up in pittsburgh today anyway, and that, of course, is a huge Public Safety ordeal for any place a president of the United States shows up in any circumstances. Today in pittsburgh, because of the president s trip, they cleared out whole areas of the city where he visited today. A staff writer for the pittsburgh tribunereview, dan speicher today, shot this video of people who were held about a block away from the tree of life synagogue, which of course is where the massacre happened on saturday in the citys Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Check this out. What theyre singing there in the street outside about a block away from the tree of life synagogue while the president was visiting today, obviously its a hebrew song. I do not speak hebrew, but a rough translation of what theyre saying is my strength balanced with the song of god will be my salvation. The alleged killer from the synagogue shootings left online a trail, basically, documents what appears to have been his thinking before he committed these killings. He apparently was convinced, for some reason, that the United States was being invaded, invaded by immigrants and refugees and asylum seekers. What he said online before he apparently committed all of these murders is that he needed to kill jews because Jewish Charities that help refugees, jews in general, were bringing these invaders into this country, bringing on this invasion of the United States. Those were apparently his last words online before these killings. Hias, which is the hebrew immigrant aid society, hias likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I cant sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics. Im going in. Thats apparently the last thing he said online before he went in and killed 11 people. The massacre was on saturday. Last night, monday night, the president went on fox news to proclaim that there is an invasion going on, that our country is being invaded. Thats called an invasion of our country. The president said that on fox news last night. He tweeted it as well. This is an invasion of our country. This is after the massacre. This of course is part of the president s big push, his weeks long push to try to make the central issue of the election this year. Republican voters fear about a group of Central American migrants who are about a thousand miles from the u. S. Border. The guy who carried out the synagogue murders in pittsburgh had ranted online about the same Migrant Caravan that the president and conservative media have been stoking all this excitement about. Now, i dont know if the suspect in the pittsburgh massacre has tv access in jail, but since he allegedly committed the worst attack against the American Jewish community in the history of this country, saying he had to do it to stop this invasion of our country that the jews were facilitating, well, since hes been in jail, he probably likes what hes been seeing on tv, if he does have access to tv. The president held a political rally just a few hours after the massacre that same night. The music star Pharrell Williams now says he may sue the president for playing the song happy at that rally, which the president did, which was just a few hours after the massacre. Since the killings, the president has continued to echo the online claims by the suspected murderer about our country being invaded. Hes insisting on saying that at every public appearance now after the suspect in this case said online before he went and killed all of those people, that it was to stop the invasion. The president has been insisting on calling it that since. The National Republican party has also decided since the massacre to keep running an ad that depicts a Democratic Congressional candidate as being secretly controlled by george soros, jewish billionaire who fox news and President Trump have turned into a bogeyman for almost everything, but in particular, they are now regularly, all day long blaming him, blaming soros, soros, for somehow secretly orchestrating that supposed caravan invasion. Nothing about george soros getting a pipe bomb in the mail last week from someone that appears to have been a trump superfan. Nothing about that has apparently caused any sort of pause, any slowdown in the attacks on george soros, not only from the conservative media, but from the Republican Party nationally, which is still running that antisoros ad, even after the pipe bombs. Also, since the massacre in the synagogue, the president has announced the deployment of thousands of active duty u. S. Troops to the u. S. Border to stop what he is continually calling that invasion there. Theres no invasion on the u. S. Border. And sending as many troops to the border as are currently in iraq wont change that. But it turns out when you call it an invasion, when you try to rally everybody about a fear of an invasion, it turns out lots of people across the country have different ideas about what might be a good way to stop that invasion. I mean, what could be too extreme, if the country is, in fact, being invaded by shoeless moms and kids who are 1,000 miles away . The Fox News Channel has now recently started claiming that these invaders are bringing disease, that they specifically have smallpox. Theyre coming here to kill us all with smallpox and stuff. We have these individuals coming from all over the world that have some of the most extreme medical care in the world. And theyre coming in with diseases such as smallpox and leprosy and tb that are going to infect our people in the United States. Smallpox was eradicated from the face of the earth in what, 1980 . But you know, hey, you got to do what you got to do. Fox, its interest egg, did realize after their broadcast those claims on the air that the caravan was bringing smallpox and leprosy and tb. They did realize after they broadcasted those claims on the air that they might have a little bit of a problem with what was asserted there, so they did go back to clean it up, sort of assure their audience, i know what you just heard here, but actually, who knows . Earlier in this hour, one of our guests said some of the people in the caravan may have diseases like leprosy and tb. Well, we want to say we have no way of independently confirming this, and we wanted to clarify that point for you. Now saturdays shooting at the tree of life synagogue now, segue, saturdays shooting at the tree of life synagogue. Did we mention the guy who apparently did that thought he had to kill as many jews as possible to stop them from orchestrating this invasion . And when we say the invasion will also bring leprosy, tb and smallfox, forget that we said smallpox, we wont even correct for that, that was embarrassing. Its not really on the earth anymore. But leprosy and tb, you know, we dont know for sure. Havent confirmed that, but were just putting it out there. Just want to clarify. That was yesterday on Fox News Channel. So, the president was not deterred by requests from jewish leaders and city leaders in pittsburgh asking him to please stay away from what is basically the smoldering wreckage in that city today. He went in there anyway. But to the extent that the invasion at the border idea was the big idea from President Trump for the midterm election, a diseaseridden Foreign Invasion secretly organized by a jew, to the extent that is the get out the vote program for the elections this year, for republican candidates this year, courtesy of the white house and conservative media. And it is. The president is happy to admit that is what he wants the election to be about. To the extent thats the game plan, it does maybe make the focus wobble just a little bit when those things they are trying to build their Election Campaign around, those things that they are making up and stoking and trying to scare voters with, those things are actually also linked to a serial pipe Bombing Campaign and a true blue massacre of mostly elderly jews on u. S. Soil. That does wobble the lens a little bit, right . It might make it a little bit of a harder sell for the election, maybe. Depending on how much more they think the country can bear. And so, in this last week before the election, we are starting to see, i think, some new gambits now, some new attempted closing arguments, since the ones theyre really counting on are starting to feel a little nauseating. In terms of new stuff, you are going to love the thing they just tried to cook up about Robert Mueller. Weve got that story coming up in just a moment. It will literally make you laugh out loud. Absolutely amazing. But there remains this cant boil it down fact that people are going to vote for a new congress one week from today. And no matter what story line is being invented or hyped or perverted by the white house, ahead of those elections next week, there remains this cant boil it down truth that if the Republican Party, if President Trumps Republican Party loses enough seats in either the house or in the senate to actually lose control of either of those chambers, if that happens, if enough democratic members of congress win to flip control of either the house or the senate to the democratic party, that will change the country in a specific way. What that will mean is that the actions of the Trump White House and the Trump Administration will finally be, you know, overseen. Right . Remember congressional oversight . It will be overseen. It will be scrutinized. If need be, they will be investigated by congressional committees that are no longer just there to help the president do stuff and to attack his detractors and his enemies. In every dark moment in american democracy, and we are in a dark moment right now, the vote is the way out. Right . Thats the it sounds simple. It sounds reductive. But that is the bargain that you make as a Democratic Society. Democracy can be a frustrating system. It can be very inefficient. Lots of problems can arise in democratic societies. But in a democracy, the solution to all of our problems, no matter how dark things get, is always to vote in a way that will change things always. Electing to be a Democratic Society means we agree that we will use this one tool as a country to make things better when they need to be made better. And it is frustrating, but thats what democracy is. Right . Its a selfgoverning philosophy. It tells us thats the one tool you get to fix things, so its the one tool you use. And if you decide to give up on that tool and pursue things through other means, other more direct means, youre doing a lot of things, but youre not participating in the democratic way of life that we have chosen as a country. And so with next weeks election, if the vote shows that the country has elected to go in a very different direction than the way we are going right now, its not like that will make us a fundamentally different country. It wont be a spiritual change. We will still be the people who we are today. But if we make that change as a country a week from tonight, it will have a practical effect. If there is behavior by this white house and by this administration that you think might reasonably be checked or corrected, or if need be reined in by another branch of government, that is what could happen, depending on next weeks vote and how it goes. That is the chance thats afforded by this election. Thats the chance afforded to you when you go to vote for who you think should represent your Congressional District and who you think should be your senator, thats the choice you get to make. A lot of theres a lot of lofty rhetoric, right, when you get to be one week around the elect, especially at time when things are going in ways that are so scary in this country. But get practical about this. Whats the one thing you can change . You can change whether or not the administration has a check or doesnt. By how you vote for your member of congress. Heres just one very specific example, just from todays headlines. Just today a trump cabinet secretary was referred to the u. S. Justice department for criminal investigation. Its ryan zinke, the trumpappointed head of the interior department. He made headlines recently for trying awkwardly to fire the independent Inspector General who had opened multiple simultaneous investigations into him based on various claims of corruption. Zinke sort of hilariously failed in his effort to fire that independent Inspector General who was investigating him, and now tonight the Washington Post is first to report that one of her investigations into ryan zinke has resulted in a referral of him to the Justice Department for criminal investigation. Now we dont know which of her investigations has led to this. We dont know what the specific claims are that have led to this Justice Department referral. A senior white house official items the Washington Post tonight, quote, the white house understands that the investigation is looking into whether the secretary used his office to help himself. Its vague, but it doesnt seem good. But if a cabinet secretary has now been referred to the Justice Department for criminal investigation for using his Public Office to enrich himself, thats like what congress was made for, right . I mean, getting all head up about that and figuring that out and getting to the bottom of it and exposing it and getting justice for that, being able to assure the American People that that kind of corruption is not happening, that anybody who is corrupt in that way will be found out, caught, held accountable, and expelled from Public Office. Thats kind of why we have a congress. I mean, they make laws, but they also do this. This is the oversight role of congress. This is what theyre built for. Well, this congress, though, controlled by the republicans, if you have been waiting to hear a peep out of them, a peep of concern, even about just this one thing involving ryan zinke, which has apparently resulted in a criminal referral as of today, you have not heard any of those peeps because there have been none. Because the republicans are in control of congress. And while they are in control of congress, theyre not going to do anything about any of this stuff. But today, three Democratic Senators, Richard Blumenthal of connecticut, Elizabeth Warren of massachusetts and ron wyden of oregon, they wrote to secretary zinke telling him, quote, to immediately cease any efforts to use the office of the secretary of the interior for personal gain. The senators also directed him to, quote, fully reimburse the public for your private use of public resources. And when Democratic Senators are in a minority, a letter like that will absolutely be ignored. But if they were in the majority, ryan zinke might actually have to do those things, doubletime. Thats in the senate. Heres raul grijalva, democrat of arizona. Hes the leading democrat on the house Natural Resources committee. He tells the post today, quote, if democrats are given the opportunity to hold a congressional majority next year, secretary zinke will be called to testify in february, meaning right after theyre sworn in, on why his conduct in office merited referral to the Justice Department, whether that referral was related to the recent attempted firing of his Inspector General and his many other failings and scandals. Which, needless to say, is not happening if the democrats dont take control of the house next week. We are one week out. Are the democrats going to take control of the house . We can sort of maybe almost tell from here. Thats next. Stay with us. When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, thats amore. When the world seems. Applebees new neighborhood pastas. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. We really pride ourselvesglass, on making it easy applebees new neighborhood pastas. To get your windshield fixed. With safelite, you can see exactly when well be there. Saving you time for what you love most. Kids whoa kids vo safelite repair, safelite replace Olay Regenerist wipes out the competition; hydrating better than 100, 200 even 400 creams. With our b3 complex, Beautiful Skin doesnt have to cost a fortune. Olay. Its a week from