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United states. thats something folks here are engaging with. the president talking to reporters on the tarmac on saturday, bringing up the death penalty, bringing up the prospect of having armed guards in churches and synagogues. without exception, everyone here is not enthuse i cant teiastic. >> were going to talk a little bit more about the presidents rhetoric coming up. thanks, david. so the synagogue rampage is putting a spotlight on the uptick of anti-semitic incidents in america. there w...

♪ welcome back, everyone. im amiyman mohyeldin. the suspect who opened fire in a pittsburgh synagogue on saturday leaving 11 people dead is due to appear in court later today to be formally charged. 46-year-old robert bowers remains hospitalized after being hurt during a shootout with police on saturday. the department of justice has announced it will charge bowers with 29 federal counts. attorney general jeff sessions has said the charges could lead to the death penalty. joining me now live...

News conference earlier this morning and the wind was blowing and the rain -- and i was soaking wet. thats what i ended up with today. and i said, at least you know its mine. i said maybe i should cancel this arrangement because i have a bad hair day. >> joining me now live from pittsburgh, my colleague david ger. bring us up to speed on how the community in pittsburgh is waking up this morning and how its been for the past couple of hours. >> reporter: the mayor of the city described what happe...

Heard thank yous from puerto ricans and cracking a bit of an awkward joke. >> now, i hate to tell you puerto rico, but youve thrown our budget a little out of whack because weve spent a lot of money on puerto rico and thats fine, weve saved a lot of lives. >> joining me tonight to discuss this cnn political analyst david ger began, maria cardona, and scott jennings. david, i know you were extremely putoff by the presidents comments today. your thoughts. >> well, don, i do think you have to give ...

This? >> yeah. republican strategist anna navarro and senior commentator as well joins us added to the panel. i want to go to puerto rican, maria, what did you think of -- what did you think a puerto rican american, what did you think of president trumps trip? did he do anything to clean up the fallout from the weekend? you know he attacked the mayor of san juan. >> yeah. >> accuse something puerto ricans of wanting everything done for them and then call some of his critics politically motivated...

American people trust the white house more than they trust the media, and so he gave them what they wanted to hear. all of this campaign rhetoric that people have been talking about is exactly why he got to the white house and he reminded them of why he got there and he reminded them what hes been doing without the filter of what he considers the biased media against him. >> david ger began, youve seen a lot of presidents out there on the trail, a lot of presidents out there after their first 10...

Surpassed since the truman administration. this includes 13 regulations of intrusive regulations, the most ever signed in our history. in keeping our promise to our veterans ive signed legislation to extend veterans choice and david, the head of the veterans administration is here with us tonight. its been an incredible job. and weve increased by 42% the approval for veterans using the choice program. ive also created an office of accountability at the va, our message to federal workers is

That would imply clugs or at least them trying to use david nunes to get this information out. david, donald trump himself, two weeks ago on fox news, we remember this and this conversation. the night he promised there would be interesting information come out which now it turns out is coming out. heres how he put it. >> wiretap covers a lot of different things. i think youre going to find some very interesting items coming to the fore front over the next two weeks. >> you think thats deeply con...

Investigation? does that immunity what he says there, he is now protected in the fbi investigation? >> need a great question, david. its come up in the past. grants of immunity by congress have really interfered with prosecutions in the past. oliver norths prosecution was destroyed by grant of immunity that interfered with the investigation. normally you will see a close cooperation by the fbi and house and senate committees to make sure -- >> paul, to be clear, the "wall street journal" is repo...

That at least the senate intelligence committee wants to put at very, very sharp line here, very clear that they are going to be doing their investigation up on capitol hill, not at the white house. >> on their turf. >> exactly right. >> lets go to the former cia director, former clinton white house aide and david ger again. david let me start with you. you were part of this team for the campaign, for the transition. this report today possibly extremely damning. if chairman nunes got his informa...