nature of the man who was about to go into the white house. it wasn t a mystery he was a racist. it wasn t a mystery that he was ill-informed and he was a race baiter but a lot of this burst into the open in a much rawer way now and i think it will reside with the electorate in a different way. donna was just saying how imperative it is for democrats to speak to this. it s also really imperative for the gop. it s still amazing to me at this point we re now a week beyond trump s flame-throwing at elijah cummings and city of baltimore, not a single member of the gop and washington or governor s house, maybe except maryland, has come out and said and that was give cal and squishy. has come out and said simply, this is wrong. we re a country that tolerates racial and ethnic and religious diversity and we celebrate it and this is the worst of who we are. the biggest example is mark meadows. elijah cummings went to back for
they don t show it could be the end of the road. plus, trump s pick to lead the intelligence agency. the president this morning son defense. but let s stak start with the stakes because they couldn t be higher heading into the second round of debates in detroit tonight. some be eliminated. the top to progressives are preparing for a face-off this season. all this as president trump is flame throwing trying to push democrats to adopt his agenda, and he did it again just a short time ago. pointing out the tremendous corruption that s taken place in baltimore and other democratic-run cities. the white house and myself and letters and emails and have received more phone calls than i think on any other subject of people from baltimore and other city corruptly run by democrats thanking me for getting
and italy. kelly anne, my own ethnicity is not relevant to the question i m asking. no, no, it is, because you re asking about he said originally. reporter: the battle turned to the house floor. every single member of this institution, democratic and republican, should join us in condemning the president s racist tweets. reporter: every democrat, but just four republicans, voted to condemn the president s comments. some of the president s democratic rivals say all this furor is just what he wants. this president purposely, i believe, distracts and attempts to distract by flame-throwing. reporter: today, mary bruce asked speaker pelosi about that. are you concerned that the president is goading you? with all due respect, let s not waste our time on that. we re not having him set our agenda. we re setting our own agenda. trump 2020! reporter: here in greenville, among the throngs waiting for trump, nearly everyone is backing his claim that it s not about race at all
how do you not fall into his trap where he controls the narrative with a tweet like this? i ve said it many times. this president purposely distracts and attempts to distract by flame throwing. because the reality of it is is he s done nothing to help working families in america. he passed a tax bill benefitting the top 1% and the biggest corporations of our country. he has conducted trade policy by tweet in a way that farmers are looking at bankruptcy and auto workers are looking for the potential for their jobs to be gone by the end of the year. the american consumer is paying $1.4 billion more a month in everything from shampoo to washing machines because of his so-called trade policy which i call the trump trade tax. and he has not done anything to build up the infrastructure of our country. and all that comes with that in terms of improving and elevating the condition of working