Attacking Cummings News Today

Good issue and also on congressman cummings. there was real concern in the white house about attacking cummings who is well respected on capitol hill. painting an entire american city as being, you know, crime infested and hell holes. but no one there challenged him and the president afterwards when he want win to the senior staff meeting he asked how he thought those tweets played on television. he did not ask for their permission to do it again or whether he thought they were a good idea. hes ...

Democrats, great receptivity buried >> a new quinnipiac poll finds a slight majority of voters believe the president is racist. 51%. the 45% say he is not. the numbers split pretty evenly across party lines yes and no. i asked the president today if he was concerned that the strategy of attacking cummings was causing divisions in the nation. >> theres no strategy. i have no strategy. there is zero strategy. all it is is on pointing out facts. the most unsafe city in the country in our country is...

Part of a larger strategy. cnn white house reporter sarah westwood is live in williamsburg, virginia. so, sarah, no strategy here? it did seem that the president has calculated attacking the squad, attacking cummings are politically beneficial to him. but youre saying inside the white house theres some opposition? >> reporter: thats right, jim. aides are drawing a distinction between those attacks on those four freshman democrats known as the squad and congressman elijah cummings. aides, several...