numerous occasions, i m the least racist person in the world. he s saying no democrats, you re racist. all of this started to reside with him and that is evidence of that. to quote you, the president had one job today. what was it? the president s job today was very simple. go to dayton, ohio, go to el paso, texas, meet with victims of the horrific shootings, meet with law enforcement, meet with the people who treated the victims and console the nation, and he did a little bit of that and then he spent the rest of the day insulting other people on twitter, insulting other people in comments to reporters. he had that one job and it was the one thing he could do to end the day with what surely the white house wanted when it had photo ops in dayton and el paso to be called presidential. this is day 930 i believe you
the white house twitter account, the traveling press core was not allowed to cover the president s hospital visit. tonight, white house press secretary stephanie tells nbc news that decision was to prevent reporters from covering the hospital visit made out of consideration for patients, families and staff. afterwar afterwards, the major of dayton an ohio democratic senator shared brown who met with the president told reporters what they told trump about gun legislation. if the president tells the congress pass an assault weapon ban, if the president says pass legislation for universal background checks, the republican congress and the senate will move on it and the house will undoubtedly move on it. we can do that. he was comforting and he did the right things and melania did the right things, people at the hospital were terrific and people showed when the president of the united states came, they showed respect for the office and a number of them said to me they are not greated a m
i mean, i think we re going through and i think eddie talked about this recently on this network. dramatic. very dramatically and very profoundly about how we go through this generationally and there is this continuing fight that goes on and we keep seeing it again and again and again and we re seeing it again and donald trump has brought it to the floor and we re confronting this deep division over race once again. and what i think is, what i think is so difficult about this is this president is something we have not seen in certainly in generations, which is a president of the united states who has seen racial division in this country and decided not to paper it over, not to try to heal it, but try to exploit it for his own political gain, for his own personal gain and at the risk of violence in the country. and that is something that is so
them but showed respect. i think the victims and first responders were grateful that the president of the united states came to dayton. not long after that senator brown and the mayor were attacked by both trump and a white house aid who were then on board air force one on the way to el paso. first there was this from white house aid quote, very sad to see ohio senator brown and dayton mayor lying and completely mischaracterizing what took place with the president s visit to miami valley hospital today. they were disgraceful politicians doing nothing but politicizing a mass shooting at every turn they can. the president was treated like a rock star inside the hospital. a few minutes later, the president followed with his own, i saw failed presidential candidate zero percent sheriff brown and mayor whaley, after i left el paso was a fraud and
have a president that is seeking to exploit it for political gain to exploit racial tension to speak in racist terms and that is so, so different. two journalists staying with us over the break. our conversation continues right after this. smart bed it can . with your sleep number setting. can it help keep me asleep? yes, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. save up to $600 on select sleep number 360 smart beds. only for a limited time.