Is an idea we can make it whatever we want. And that is not demonizing people. It's a dog whistle and it needs to stop all right. Well, on that note of hope, john hope bryant. Thank you very much for being with me tonight have a great weekend, john. And to all of you as well thanks for joining us. Ac360 starts now press conference filled with falsehoods, the former president defends his ties to a true racist conspiracy peddler as the ohio city, they're both pushing antiimmigrant conspiracies about his hit with bomb threats and local schools also tonight, vice president harris campaigning and parts of battleground, pennsylvania, the wind deep red last time, and the reception that she got there today, senator john fetterman joins us live and later dr. Sanjay gupta and what a star nfl quarterback, just 26yearsold, is now facing after his third diagnose concussion of his career good evening. Thanks for joining us for a second straight day elementary school students in springfield, ohio were forced to evacuate their classrooms after another day of threats made against schools. And yesterday, city buildings. After a week of falsehoods, some of them inflammatory about, some of them are just flat out racist about the city made by donald trump is running mate and there are supporters, including by the former president today, who was offered multiple opportunities to try to tap, tamp down the tension, correct. The falsehoods, and disavow a particularly toxic follower and traveling companion of his. It can came amid a press conference. He gave this afternoon at his golf course near los angeles in it, he claimed he won the debate. Our polling and some of his fellow republicans certainly disagree. So does his support robert f. Kennedy, who said he lost on national tv. He also made fun of moderator david muir, again, is that he would win and solidly blue california if votes there would be counted. Honestly, they have been counted. Honestly, we should point out he repeated a false claim. The california was diverting water into the ocean he accused kamala harris of lying about having worked in mcdonald's in 1983 repeatedly mispronounced her name. In other words, he said things which while they'd be outlandish, i've spoken by virtually any other candidate for any office ever were no pun intended par for the course and what sometimes obscure his other words that inflame and incite and can lead to dark places such as his turning a legitimate line of criticism over the pullout from afghanistan and the bombing that killed 13 american service members into this they're sons and daughter, just as though kamala shot them with a pistol in our hand or his hand they were killed by biden and kamala and if that weren't explicit enough, he's also implicating the president and vice president in the attempt on his life. Saying in tuesday's debate, i probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me which at least suggests he understands the impact that words can have. Yet, even after springfield schools were evacuated for a second time today, he said this bring field ohio 20,000 illegal haitian migrants have descended upon a town of 58,000 people destroying their way of life. They've destroyed it players, some people don't like to talk about it because eva, the town doesn't like to talk about it because it sounds so bad for the town they live there there proud. They loved the town for years. It was a great place, safe nice now they have 20,000 and actually heard today is 32,000. The new number keeping them honest in springfield, the haitians in springfield or not, as he says, illegal by enlarge, they live their lawfully complete with social security numbers and work permits under a federal program now, instead of admitting the ad, the foreign president and his running mate have latched onto a rightwing internet meme about the haitian community. There in springfield. They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats. You'll see people until it let me just say this is the people on television cleared my dog was taken used for food, i don't know which or the full spate of animals that are being consumed there in springfield, we've heard reports from a number of constituents on the ground that they have had pets abducted by some of the immigrants. They're springfield, ohio that you've been reading about 20,000 illegal haitian immigrants have descended upon the town of 58,000 people destroying their entire way of life. This was a beautiful community and now it's horrible and illegal. Haitians and he came in illegal haitian migrants taking over a beautiful place. Can you imagine you have this small little community all of a sudden you have 20,000 illegals in your community. Nobody knows where they come from. But as you heard a moment ago today, without any evidence, he jack that number up to 32,000. So he heard he said and also today he vowed to deport them all. But he got the country wrong we will do large deportations from springfield, ohio large deportations. We're going to get these people out what bringing it back to venezuela? so it's easy to let the comic opera aspect of him confusing the country's he scorns it again, obscures the central fact that what he's saying is inflammatory and false with regard to haitians legal status in springfield and the racist slur on their dietary habits springfield area law enforcement this week went through 11 months of calls, received, a non non according to them concern pets being in that's the real news along with school evacuations today and yesterday, not the rumors and the fall says that he and his supporters are spreading. Here's what conspiracy peddled. Laura loomer post on x today, quoting now, elon musk's post video you have haitian woman confirming haitians do in fact eid cats and do animal sacrifice and voodoo. This comes as the media is lying and saying donald trump lied about kamala harris's haitian invaders eating people's pets in ohio. It's real and it's happening now, loomer, you'll recall recently posted a racist tweet about vice president. The vice president's indian heritage she's been traveling with the former president recently on his plane to the dismay of other republicans accompanying him to 9/11 ceremonies, despite having posted a video claiming the attacks were an inside job in her words, he was asked about her today say to your republican colleagues? are your allies who are concerned about your close relationship with laura loomer well, i don't know what they would say. Laura has been a supporter of mine just like a lot of people are supporters and she's been a supporter of mine she speaks very positively of the campaign. I'm not sure why you asked that question, but laura is a supporter i don't control laura. Laura has to say what you want. Your allies are concern. Well, i don't know. I may look i can't tell you, laura what to do. Laura is a supporter. I have a lot of supporters but i'm so i don't know what exactly you're referring to. Loomer was traveling with you on your plate? a lot of people due to very big plane. She made racist remarks about your opponent. She also espoused conspiracy theories about 9:11 do you disavow those remarks? we'll have to see what the remarks are. You telling me for the first time what her remarks are as you saw from that tweet of hers today, her remarks on that subject or his remarks and despite being a big plane, as he said, space on it, is at a premium. Even more so after his security detail was beefed up, she's on the plane and by his side because he wants her there. But in a social media post late today, he signaled a possible change and you can make of it what you will quoting now, laura loomer doesn't work for the campaign. She's a private citizen, longtime supporter, or disagree with the statements she made. But like the the many millions of people who support me, she's tired of watching the radical left marxists and fascists violently attack and smear me even to the point of doing anything to stop their political opponent, me so a lot to get to joining us, cnn political commentator scott jennings and ashley allison politicos, meridith mcgraw and michael eric dyson, distinguished professor at vanderbilt university and coauthor of the new book represent the unfinished fight for the vote. Michael, why do you think this conspiracy theory about haitian migrant population in springfield continues to be so pushed by rightwing media circles and by the president, and former president well, in a word, it's part of the big attack resy, the rule rain in tyranny of collection of bigoted figures. And by big, i mean as howard thurman said, a big it as a person who makes an idol of his or her commitments of fetish of their own particular beliefs. And this man has come consistently denounced others. If you remember he called hadiya a shithole country. This is an extension of the same attempt to both smear vice president kamala harris by refusing to call her by her rightful name. That is a racist trope that has been deployed by many on the right is not a i innocent mistake because if you mispronounce your name and your corrected and you continue to mispronounce her name. It's the extension of calling black people. What you will call them regardless of what their names are. But when you look even beyond that, this notion that black people are consuming dogs and cats there because they are haitian and then miss miss naming the country that he will deport them to this is all a discombobulated bubble of bigotry that continues to operate within donald trump's imagination. And unfortunately, many on the right wing, other conservatives have not called them on it, which means therefore it's, they're complicit as in his bigotry and an extension of his poison, his worldview. Scott, i mean, the former president did had the opportunity to walk back his comments about this, this what he's saying about haitians and springfield, it was asked about the bomb threats that have closed schools in the area. It chose not to address something that is actually happening there and affecting the lives of school kids. There do you wish he would walk this back i wish he would stick to the facts of what's happening about immigration in this country. It is a legitimate debate to have about what's happening in communities where you have influx of immigration, whether it's legal or illegal, and whether that's the kind of immigration system that we need. I think that's a conversation that country is interested in having. And i think it gets diluted. And frankly lost the macro issues get lost when we get wrapped up in these when these other sidebar issues or these other issues that maybe aren't aren't grounded in reality. So yeah, i look, i i think immigration and the economy are the two issues on which he can and might win the election. And the immigration issues we have in places all over the country, whether it's ohio or new york city or anywhere else? are bad enough that you don't have to, you don't have to dabble and things that are not true. Actually, i mean, it's clear he believes there's a benefit in as scott says, dabbling in these things which are not true. I mean, these are i mean, racist tropes that he's dabbling with. Yeah and they're quite dangerous. I was speaking to a reporter today that was just back from springfield, ohio and it was an african american reporter and she said she'd been called the n word while they're his words have power and we have seen before when he inflames his base to either attack black people in buffalo or at a grocery store, or whether it is a walmart in el paso he is a leader, whether you like it or not, he is the leader of the republican party and we can have a conversation about immigration. We can talk about it is the issue it's an issue that's been plaguing our country for 30 years because leaders have not on both sides of the party. Quite honestly, have yet to find a common ground and when there was a chance for once after decades of not doing anything, this leader, donald trump, instead of letting the party solve the problem or take a step forward, he stopped it. And then months later, he was that's two inflame his base say that black immigrants, not just any black immigrants, are eating their pets, which is akin to how people have looked at black people as less than human haitian people. Laura loomer is tweet about lukoo. These are tropes that he is doing to get people excited to come out and vote for him but i make a call to all of us. We can be better than this. We can have policy conversations and we can do them on debate stages. But i don't think we can do them in the right way when donald trump is there because he had an opportunity to do it. And instead of sticking to the facts and talking about what he would do for america, he took that opportunity to push more lies and disinformation, a about black people and black immigrants in this dangerous. And it's reckless and he needs to be stopped by all people, republicans and democrats well, meredith, how are elected republicans reacting to the foreign president continuing to push this? attack for the trump campaign, they see immigration as a winning issue for republicans across the board. They see that trump is up in the polls with immigration. And this falsehood came about because it was pushed initially by senator j. D. Vance of ohio and then was repeated again on the debate stage. Republicans are going to keep talking about immigration up until november, but what we're seeing in this is that there are realworld consequences for the false heads that are being spread about the city in ohio. We heard the mayor of springfield say that they need help there they don't need hate. And when you see elementary schools get evacuated, the city hall, get evacuated for bomb threats and citizens have concerns about their safety, safety because of their threats, it goes beyond the debate about immigration as everybody else in this panel said, and goes to being realworld consequences for the people that are living in this town. Michael, it's because the harris campaign has kind of brushed off most of the foreign president's attacks as part of his normal playbook i'm wondering how you see that. I mean, is there anything in today's statement that they would want to respond to or for them is it better to not get involved in i mean, is that what they want? is that what the trump campaign wants yeah, exactly. They're trying to bait the harris campaign in besides other nefarious intentions. And i think she's absolutely right. Do not step down to the level of your opponent at this point. And i think that she is wise to do so. The campaign will not allow donald trump to set the terms of it. But i wish one other republicans are describing what is going on as brother scott just so eloquently that is untrue, but it's also racist and it's important to say it's racist, not just untrue, because untrue as a kind of neutral description of an objective calculation about what's right and what's wrong. It's also morally heinous that a president, a former president of the united states of america, would continue you too race beit his opponent because she bested him in a debate, the black girl beat the white boy, and now he is upset beyond the telling, and he's incapable of controlling himself. And as a result of that, he's trying to make the nation pay, but kamala harris is absolutely right to continue to