isn t doing enough. that s what we re seeing right now reacting to the president s visit. ayman he s still on the ground in ohio before heading to el paso. it doesn t look like he s heading here. if he would be, there would be a much higher security presence here than there is right now. all these demonstrators seem to be very peaceful. earlier there was heated discussion between some of president trump s supporters and some of the demonstrators that have gathered. so far this seems to be a day to send a message to the president but also to remember the nine lives lost here. gabe, i know it s hard sometimes to quantify this from a street perspective. what is the size of the crowd of the pro trump supporters and what are they telling you about why they are there on the street? is it in support of his policies, his rhetoric? what exactly have they been telling you? reporter: certainly. if we can look over there where i was standing earlier, you see one of president trump s
of the whole country through the president and first lady, that he is there. will it change any opinions about the president politically? he says some of the critics who are not happy about his visit are those politically opposed to him to start with. he s going to go through these steps today to try to listen, to try to talk to people. will there be any real conversations? we ll have to say how that goes today. when you talk about the sort of protests that have materialized in dayton and el paso, that s the kind of thing where law enforcement has looked to keep the president s pathway separate from anything he might bible to see it but won t encounter protesters. that would be standard in any circumstance where the president, for security reasons, has to get in and out of places safely. he will clearly be aware of the mood on the ground. ayman. yamiche, not to sound a pessimist, but when you look at the list of places shot up as a
indicate hispanic heritage, o rourke, is now even more embarrassed by polling at 1% in the democratic primary should respect the victims and law enforcement and be quiet. what did the candidate have to say to you about that tweet? reporter: i asked him, ayman, why he wanted to respond to the president today when much of what i ve seen on the ground in el paso, not just over the course of today at a remembrance and memorial, but throughout my time covering immigration here has been so positive, so different from the way that the president characterizes life in this city, one of the safest cities in america. former congressman o rourke said essentially he feels like he s standing up for this city, standing up for a president who has used racist and hateful rhetoric about latinos throughout the course of his presidency, echoed by the shooter who killed 22 people at the walmart behind me. congressman o rourke is
checkered history with the citizens of el paso. we heard it from former congressman beto o rourke this morning, ayman. shaquille, when we think about what happened at emanuel ame church for the violent white supremacist killing spree and the response from president trump afterwards. talk about cory booker and the speech her made there today. reporter: senator booker was trying to connect the gun violence we see historically and currently to the rise of white supremacy. he took more of a solid term than what we heard from cory booker just this week. he said president trump was complicit in the attacks we saw in el paso. in the church he didn t take that same stance. he didn t mention president trump by name. he spoke to the higher ideas of connecting people and uniting