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Rhetoric coming out of universities that we are white supremacists, white privilege, toxic masculinity country. that is the ideology that governs our day-to-day in every institution. as you say, martha, there is not one word of encouragement for this madman who was hate filled, but he does not represent the american people. >> martha: i think demonstrates sort of the encouragement of that. he was speaking to a republican leader in el paso, and hispanic background man. just listen to this quick r...

The president, john, saying hes toned it down, that they are the ones just punching back. how do you think this is sitting with people, especially in the middle of a presidential election? >> i mean, people are always going to try points in a presidential election. this was a racist attack in texas. people were targeted by a white supremacist because they were hispanic. i think you can, whether you blame inflammatory rhetoric, i dont know. thats a difficult debate. from here on out, in terms of ...

American -- a major american city a disgusting rat-infected rodent mess. no human being, he said, would choose to live as though the vibrant diverse community around baltimore was less than human. at a rally in florida, when he asked the crowd, how do we stop these people? meaning immigrants. someone yelled back, "shoot them," and he smiled. in north carolina, he basked in the chants of "send her back" echoing across the stadium. how far is it from trump saying this is an invasion to the shooter...

Soul of america. we expect to see him in stark terms. how in moments that have tested the nation pat presidents have risen to the occasion and tried to unite america. ill read some of what we expect biden to say according to the prepared remarks drawing a link between the rhetoric of the shooter in el paso with the president. how far is it from trump saying this is an invasion to the shooter saying declaring his attack is a response to the hispanic invasion of texas. not far at all. in both clea...

Shootings, calling donald trump a white supremacist. i want to read you what joe biden is expected -- he is giving a big speech today. this is what he is expected to say, in part. how far is it from trumps saying that it is an invasion to the shooter in el paso to declaring his attack is a response to the hispanic invasion of texas? not far at all. in both clear language and in code this president has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation. is anyone talking about this problem in a ...

Very disappointing and we talked about that with the local party and we are still backing off, still trying to talk about healing, praying and helping the people who need help and the other people that are out of the city are just trying to play 2 peoples feelings instead of doing whats right for our city and state and country. >> you talked about how folks have turned out in an overwhelming way. i saw the lines of people standing in line to give blood and so many of the things you referred to. ...

Of their own that did this, that that feeling and the spirit of the el paso community wasnt shattered in this, that it was someone from the outside who came to inflict this kind of pain. but it has in the words of some of the people we talked to cast an eerie feeling over the city. did you feel protected here from racism? >> yeah because i know that we are a lot of hispanics here. we are always like a big community. >> reporter: you never had to face that? >> no. i mean, people here are very sup...

People. yesterday, as i was talking through this beautiful memorial, again, again, embracing families, hugging them and telling them its going to be okay and that were going to be okay, i had the mother of a middle school girl tell me that her daughter is afraid. i had a vietnam veteran, hispanic vietnam veteran tell me that the rhetoric makes him feel he is not american when he is american. i have had person after person after person now tell me stories how the presidents language has impacted ...

Manifesto that was allegedly authored by the gunman. echoing the anti-immigrant rhetoric used by president trump. for instance, referring to the hispanic invasion in texas. if we tried to recap all the statements that hes made about gra immigrants, we would run out of time. and what is being lost in this conversation is that these arent just political sound bites. these the words of the president of the united states. they have real consequences. what they do is they cause real fear in these imm...

Is it from trump saying this is an invasion to the shooter in el paso declaring his attack is a response to the hispanic invasion of texas? not far at all, biden will say. how far is it from the white supremacists and neonazis in charlottesville, trumps very fine people, chanting you will not replace us to the shooter at the tree of life synagogue saying jews were committing genocide to his people? not far at all. in both clear language and in code, this president has fanned the flames of white ...