All federal resources that are available. the last time donald trump went to el paso, the mayor called donald trump s comments untrue. last nightmare margo said this. i will continue to challenge any harmful and inaccurate statements made about el paso. we will not allow anyone to portrayal el paso in a manner that is not consistent with our history and values. tonight on this network, congresswoman escobar told chris hayes that even people suffering from their wounds in the hospital in el paso that she s been visiting have made the effort to tell her that they do not want donald trump to come to el paso. this community is full of hope and resilience and beauty, but the other thing that i heard, chris, totally unsolicited from victims still in the hospital as they d grab my arm and tell me, tell him
And go see, fast & furious presents, hobbs & shaw. now playing. in an essay for the guardian entielted we must call the el paso shooting what it is, trump inspired terrorism, professor david schanzer writes while trump does not overtly call for his supporters to use violence to further his agenda, his
It s staggering to imagine how much more violence this president may motivate if he continues down this deeply disturbing path. joining our discussion now is professor david schanzer. he is the director of duke university s center on terrorism and homeland security. professor, establish for us what you see as the link between donald trump s rhetoric, donald trump s hate speech, and what happened in el paso. you know, lawrence, the way terrorism works, there are a lot of angry people. there are a lot of id logically motivated people out there, but it takes the a piling on of grievance, an grievance. in order to take somebody who is angry and politicized and have them mobilized and cross that threshold to violence. i think that s what we ve seen in the last couple months with this beating the drum on this whole issue of invasion, but also the comments about the four
Year later she joined us here on this program as a member of congress. today, representative veronica escobar tweeted her reaction to. s announced visit to el paso tomorrow. the white house invited me to join donald trump during his visit to el paso. my response was clear. i requested a phone call with him today in order to share what i have now heard from many constituents, including some who are victims of saturday s attack. i was told that donald trump is too busy to have that conversation. i declined the invitation because i refuse to be an accessory to his visit. i refuse to join without a dialogue about the pain his racist and hateful words and actions have caused our community and country. tomorrow i will again be spending time with fellow el pasoans who are dealing with the pain and horror left in the wake of this act of domestic
Chaired by elijah cummings is pursuing. basically making the justice department donald trump s law firm. weighing in in a way to support the president s position that is not in the interest of the department of justice or the american people for that matter, but is in the interest of the person of donald trump. what are we going to do to confront that? i think the reality is if the litigation takes too long, that is if they are able to legally string this out too long, we will have to make a judgement about whether to go forward with articles of impeachment even in the absence of being able to bring these witnesses in and obtain these documents because the obstruction of congress itself will have risen to that level. so that s a decision we may have to make this fall. we are already thinking, frankly, of the post-watergate reforms that will come out of this watergate and i think one of them is going to have to be expedited court process when it comes to oversight so that no future pres