It's a crying shame. I mean, my heart breaks for this community. When you have these positions, when you have that kind of microphone in front of you, you really ought to understand at a very deep level how much your words have meaning. Especially when you have been and then seek to be again president of the united states of america. Vice president kamala harris responding today to the vicious lies being told by trump and vance about migrants, immigrants, i should say, in springfield, ohio, as vance shamelessly calls on democrats, democrats, to tone down their rhetoric. Also tonight, the latino vote, as the star who endorsed trump faces backlash, enthusiasm for harris is driving a surge in registrations among young latinos. Plus, former cnn anchor don lemon joins me tonight on the indictment of sean diddy combs. The insanity of elon musk, and don's new book about the crisis of faith in america, and in his own life. But we begin tonight with a visit to the upside down. Because it is only there that donald trump may be able to get away with attempting to lay the blame for the violent state of our politics at the feet of vice president kamala harris and the democrats. If merriamwebster was looking for a new example to define the term gaslighting, they should look no further than trump's claim that the latest apparent assassination attempt against him is a direct result of the, quote, highly inflammatory language from the other side. And following that claim in his next breath, he goes on to use that same inflammatory language against them, saying, quote, these are people that want to destroy our country. It is called the enemy from within. They are the real threat. It's as if trump believes we all have a collective case of amnesia from, well, his entire lifetime of using that rhetoric against anyone and everyone who looks at him the wrong way. As the new york times and peter baker writes, trump is at the heart of today's eruption of political violence. Reminding readers that he has long favored the language of violence in his political discourse, encouraging supporters to beat up hecklers, threatening to shoot looters, and undocumented migrants. Mocking a near fatal attack on the husband of the democratic house speaker, and suggesting that a general he deemed disloyal be executed. While trump's running mate jd vance really tried hard yesterday to make his new boss proud. By making the case against the other side. We thought, you know, we would provide the receipts to james david about just who needs to tone down the incitement based on his high standards. I do think we should take this opportunity to call for a reduction in the ridiculous and inflammatory political rhetoric coming from too many corners of our politics. If comrade kamala harris gets four more years, you will be living a fullblown banana republic ruled by an anarchy and a tyranny. It's the people that surround her, they're scum. They're scum. And they want to take down our country. They are absolute garbage. You know the big difference between conservatives and liberals, is that no one has tried to kill kamala harris in the last couple of months. A virginia man was arrested on friday and charged with threatening to kill vice president kamala harris. Federal authorities have charged a man from memphis with making death threats against president biden and vice president harris. We can debate one another, but we cannot tell the american people that one candidate is a fascist and if he's elected it is going to be the end of american democracy. A radical left marxist communist fascist. Comrade is the best because it says she's a marxist, communist, fascist person, which she is a fascist. You know, she's a threat to democracy. If he ever got elected she would change it, and it will be the end of our country. Hmm, yes, the sweet smell of receipts. But the height of jd vance's hypocrisy is his inability to take any responsibility for the pain and fear he has subjected his own constituents to. Lies about the town of springfield, ohio, and its haitian immigrant community that have had real and frightening consequences. Today, children, little kids, elementary schoolers, entered school under the watchful eye of ohio state troopers who are stationed across all 17 buildings of the springfield school district on the orders of ohio governor mike dewine. Dewine said monday that at least 33 bomb threats have been made in springfield since the lies about the city and haitian immigrants were pushed by trump and vance. Dewine said the threats have been investigated and found to be hoaxes. But that doesn't absolve the people who have amplified or in their own words, created these stories from what they have foisted upon this town. One haitian immigrant who has lived in springfield for five years told usa today that the community feels targeted, quote, you can see it's pure hatred. They hate us. Meanwhile, donald trump is threatening to visit springfield, ohio, soon. Today, springfield's mayor said a trump visit would put an extreme strain on the town's resources. We did not have threats seven days ago. We did not have these concerns seven days ago. We do today. We would like those on the national stage that can bring peace, that can tamper their words and speak truth, that's what springfield is asking. Joining me now is david jolly, former republican congressman and msnbc political analyst. And jason johnson, professor of politics and journalism at morgan state university and an msnbc political contributor. I'm going to start with david since you have the disadvantage of not being here with us in the studio. Donald trump is beyond all of that, and i didn't even include the fact that it is jd vance who called him maybe hitler, he said trump may be hitler, but that's not in the montage. Here's trump today, trying to blame what happened to him in palm beach, florida, on the radical left. Well, there's a lot of rhetoric going on. A lot of people think that the democrats when they talk about threat to democracy and all of this, and it seems that both of these people were radical lefts. Yeah, here's the problem, david. Thomas crooks, the butler, pennsylvania, shooter was a registered republican. Ryan wesley routh from florida voted for donald trump in 2016, and then said he came to regret it. These are both republicans. Your thoughts. Yeah, joy. This is a week where i think the media has to take responsibility for having some very hard conversations. We understand the sensitivities around the second apparent assassination attempt of donald trump. But they don't get to rewrite history or rewrite facts. And you notice both jd vance and donald trump use the word rhetoric, violent rhetoric. Rhetoric is language which lacks meaningful content. When he reaches for imagery for calling vice president harris communist or socialist or marxist or when jd vance says your side tried to kill our side, that's rhetoric because it's lacking any meaningful content. When the left says donald trump is a threat to democracy, he is factually. Donald trump incited violence on january 6th to try to overturn an election. We saw that and we heard his words. We saw the people trying to hang mike pence. We saw the storming of the capitol encouraged by donald trump. We heard the phone call to the georgia secretary of state where he tried to overturn the vote. He has been indicted criminally in federal court under the charge of conspiracy to defraud the united states. Conspiracy to defraud the u. S. Voters. Conspiracy to deny rights. Those are actual threats to the democracy. I realize the language sounds harsh, but this is where it's responsible and incumbent upon us this week to actually stay true to the facts. Nobody cares how jd vance wants to frame this. He is playing the role of patsy right now for donald trump. The only person who wants to hear another word from jd vance is jd vance. Because all he is doing is continuing to spread misinformation this week. Indeed, and jason, there is just also an additional fact, it's the right wing proud boys, oath keepers, who are posing the greatest threat to democrat. That's not me, that's the fbi. The antidefamation league has a report, murder and extremism in the u. S. All of the extremist related murders in 2023 were committed by right wing extremists. 88% of killings were tied to white supremacist ideologies. 94% of extremist murders involved a firearm, and it's neo nazis who initially started the rumors about haitians in ohio. Jd vance might want to look to the people he hangs around with, including blurbing a book called unhumans and being white nationalist curious for being the source of the problem. This is a campaign strategy. That's what makes it the most disgusting. The only reason we're hearing about this now is donald trump believes the only way he can win this election and jd vance who has no soul and no spine, i said he's the ted cruz of ohio. Nobody really likes him, and it's a desperate attempt to rouse up angry white people because that's the only way they can win. What i think everybody needs to understand, what i think vice president harris understands, what i think tim walz understands, what i think national security, fbi, and now the mayor of a small town in ohio understand is that these people spark terrorism. There's an entire town in america right now where 50 days from an election that is living in fear because of the words that come out of donald trump's mouth. There is no excuse for this. There's no explanation for it that can be dressed up. We shouldn't be shocked because this is a man who is incapable of any level of accountability. Remember, during the debate, he said the january 6th was nancy pelosi and the mayor's fault. It was nancy pelosi's fault that he galvanized hundreds of people to march upon the capitol and try to hang his vice president. So i'm not surprised by any of this. I think the campaign rhetoric is disgusting. I think it is intentional. The most important thing that all americans can do at this particular point, besides what some of the people in springfield are doing, supporting their local community, is recognizing this rhetoric for what it is and not repeating it, not respecting it in the people who are saying it, and not pretending this is part of some policy discussion. They didn't want to talk about policy. They want to talk about hate, and that's what we have to remember. Let me play vice president harris. This was her comments today about bringfield at the najb conference. There were children, elementary cool children, who it was it was school photo day, who are dressed up in their best, got all ready. Knew what they were going to wear the night before. And had to be evacuated. Children. Children. A whole community put in fear. It's a crying shame, literally. What's happening to those families, those children in that community. And spewing lies that are grounded in tropes, that are age old. David jolly, you have young kids. You know, the idea that little kids in springfield, ohio, can't go to school without armed guards surrounding them is jd vance's fault. And he represents them in the united states senate. There's an election coming up in which his name will be on the ballot, and he will be being asked to be elevated to the vice presidency of the united states after doing that to children in his own state. And they expect republicans, particularly white republicans, to vote for him and in the senate race against sherrod brown. Should we expect better of the voters in ohio that they will not do that? right now, trump is leading in that state. If they go along with it and vote for him, what does that say about the republican voter base? this is a horrific moment for this campaign and for the country. And it was incited by jd vance and laura loomer and donald trump and others. I think, i believe it was last week, you and i discussed the emerging willy horton narrative that donald trump and jd vance would lay down. Perhaps this is it, the 2024 version of the willy horton ad and they're going to scare white america to say in this case legal immigrants who are contributing to our community are somehow a threat and then it brings out the proud boys and brings out the bomb threats and so forth. I would also say, though, for jd vance and donald trump, they don't escape as being the only people culpable. This is a reflection of today's republican party. I can draw a direct thread, joy, and you and jason will remember this, the word of kd britt and her response to the state of the union, were essentially black and brown people are coming into your white communities and you should be scared. She gave this speech about how terrifying it is to be a white woman because black and brown people might come into your neighborhood. This is not just this campaign strategy, the ethos of today's republican party. Very quickly, let me play a haitian community health and support center worker on the threats. I was talking to my friend recently and said one of the haitian guys got punched on his eye, so that's one thing we have to work on. We have been receiving a lot of complaints. People come to us, especially at this moment because people are afraid, and as you can tell, like most of the parents that would not send their kids to school. It's really, really bad here for this period of time. Jason, it's a campaign strategy, but not one without victims. Of course, trump and jd vance are walking out of a room with bloody hands saying you will not believe what happened in there, it's crazy, while they're smearing blood all over the place. The most important thing, we have 50 days. They're going to try this again. We have to remember as americans that we are stronger together. We have to remember as americans that our communities are built of immigrants, the same thing happened to irish people 70 years ago, 80 years ago. This is the same problem and we can fight back at the ballot box rather than giving these people the space to pretend that what they're doing as anything to do with functional democracy. You know what i want to know what someone thinks about it, usha vance. Thank you both very much. Coming up, a new postdebate poll shows kamala harris has her biggest lead yet over donald trump. Polling well outside the margin of error. That and the latest on the campaign is next. Citi's industry leading global payments solutions help their clients move m