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Too, including damage at this historic jewish cemetery in missouri, a synagogue in chicago earlier this month, and swastikas painted on this car in boca raton, florida, last week. while all this has been unfolding across the country, the president has remained silent. >> since the election campaign and even after your victory, weve seen a sharp rise in anti-semitic incident across the united states. >> reporter: given two opportunities last week alone to denounce the rise in hate, he deflected b...

>> plus the fall of an equal opportunity offender. milo yiannopoulos resigns as an editor at breitbart news. and you you know youve gone too far when youre too much for breitbart. but why was a man who spouted so much hate ever a darling of conservatives in the first place? thats a good question. and well answer that for you this evening. get right to cnn correspondent mr. jeff zeleny with the breaking news of the evening. the newest thing that we have. lets talk about the president now, signali...

Trumps vocabulary when on the campaign trail, in his inaugural and forward are words like democracy, liberty, justice. you know, the things that often are seen as the american president setting a certain moral tone, setting a certain aspirational idealism. so this is part of that. this is a kind of statement of moral leadership. and nobody is saying, you know, youre an anti-semite. the question is can you raise the dialogue, condemn evil and celebrate virtue? >> and stop taking it personally as ...

Is whats so hard to tell about trump. ultimately, is he going to pursue fairly moderate policies? look at governor brewer, shes defending him, hes just enforcing the law, hes not even changing anything. with a certain amount of bravado and a certain amount of appealing to his base. im getting tough, im getting tough. but guess what? the dreamers stay. guess what? im just enforcing the law a little more. or is he as van suggested fundamentally changing our attitude toward immigrants, legal and il...

Money. >> theres another cost. can i -- don, you know, i live in a district with a republican congresswoman, barbara comstock. she didnt campaign on spending $20 billion on building a wall. >> right. >> i think people are overestimating how easily the congress is going to go along with everything donald trump says, on this issue and other issues. theyre going along with him for now. theyre confirming his cabinet nominees. its a very strong tradition of deferring to cabinet picks by a president o...

Reminiscent of the nazis. more than 100 headstones toppled over or damage. this morning hillary clinton tweeted directly to the president "jcc threats, cemetery desecration and online attacks are so troubling and need to be stopped. everyone should speak out starting with potus." president trump was asked last week about the rise of incidents and chose not to condemn them. first at a press conference with benjamin netanyahu and then again on thursday when he browbeat a sympathetic jewish reporte...

And this is something that immigration hard-liners will actually be raising questions against this administration on because they believe that they are breaking the law too, regardless of their age, don. >> and you asked sean spicer, jeff, about how much authority the presidents new national security adviser, lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster, will have. what did he have to say about that? >> well, don, that is the other big thing going on here as they begin the second month of this white house. ...

But in the meantime, we have illegal immigration coming across our borders. >> okay. i want to get bill kristol. bills been sitting here patiently, governor. im sorry. go ahead. >> it doesnt deal with anyone coming across the borders. it may deters some people from coming because i think theyll be deported more quickly. so in that respect insofar as so much of trumps campaign rhetoric was about the wall, so far no wall. secondly, i would say the main republican objection to what president obama ...

Along. but there are lots of immigration experts who say you know what, by adding this huge police force here, youre giving people broad authority to detain, arrest and deport that they never had before. >> how different is it, though, gloria, before i get to the other folks, than the previous administrations deportation ols? they called president obama the deporter in chief. >> right. because he deported 2 million people. but what president obama did was he said that illegal immigrants convicte...

Of arkansas at the end of a rambling answer in a question to investigating russian interference in the election. >> you guys just want to investigate everybody. [ audience reacts ] . >> how about benghazi? >> you guys spent a lot of money on benghazi. waste a little on trump. >> joining me now, the "washington post" political correspondent covering town halls across the country. youve been to multiple town halls in a day, ive been tracking your travels. you also covered a lot of these in 2009 an...