Im jake tapper. And we begin with breaking news. In minutes we expect President Trump to arrive in el paso, texas. He will make his second visit today to an American Community devastated after two men committed horrific acts of carnage and violence, murdering 31 people in two Mass Shootings speaker pelo shootings 13 hours apart. Today he visited a hospital that treated multiple victims where nine people were killed. Protesters greeted the president there in dayton and more protesters are awaiting the president s arrival in el paso, where the accused domestic terrorist echoed some of the language used by the president when talking about latino immigrants. Particularly the notion that migrants and refugees coming here constitute an invasion. Our team of reporters is spread out across the city of el paso. We start with cnns boris sanchez. And the president is still in the air after visiting the victims in dayton but that is not stopping him from tweeting . Reporter yeah, that is right, jake. The president taking aim at some political rivals. Apparently as focused on them as he is on offering condolences to victims in dayton and el paso. As he was in air force one he tweeted at joe biden giving a speech denouncing racism and asking the president to tone down his rhetoric. Here is what he wrote about joe biden, writing, watching Sleepy Joe Biden making a speech so boring the lame stream media will die and the ratings and clicks with this guy. The president going on to suggest that if joe biden is elected president in 2020, at least china will be happy. The president notably not tweeting about gun control legislation. Something that leaders in ohio suggested the president should pursue. President trump today visiting the two cities ravaged by gun violence this week. First stop, dayton where he went directly to a hospital still treating the victims. Welcoming him there, protesters there lining the streets and demanding action on gun control and inside trump met with First Responders and Law Enforcement and victims. Local leaders who briefly spoke with trump on the tarmac later talked about pushing the president to act. I think he heard me. I dont know if he will take action. Do i think that were going to see another mass shooting tomorrow or friday . Probably. Because washington will not move. Reporter before departing, the White House Trump endorsed an idea to prevent Mass Shootings hes wavered on before, universal background checks. There is a great appetite and i mean a very strong appetite for background checks. I think both republicans and democrats are getting close to a bill on doing something with background checks. Reporter one of the republicans, pennsylvania senator pat toomey who just reintroduced a bipartisan bill that includes background checks. He told jake yesterday he talked several times with trump this week about it. Did the president say that if your legislation passes the senate that hell sign it . No, he didnt say that. And i didnt ask him that. I think hes still asking questions about the substance and how we get there. Reporter similarly in february when the house passed a bill expanding background checks common sense background check legislation. Reporter the white house vowed to veto it. And again last year after a massacre at a high school in parkland, florida, trump expressing support for background checks. Background checks are going to be very strong. Reporter only to change his mind after meeting with leaders of the National Rifle association. This time around sources tell cnn the white house has been in conversation with top nra officials this week after dayton and el paso. Though it is unclear if the president has spoken to them himself. And, jake, as the president was leaving the white house he was again asked about his rhetoric and he said he believes that his rhetoric United People and those criticisming him using language similar to white supremacist, he said they were just trying to score political points. Ive spoken to several people here in el paso who do not believe the president will be effective in trying to console anyone here. They suggested hes coming here to perform a photo op for political points, jake. Boris sanchez in el paso. Thanks so much. I want to go to cnns nick valencia next to the protests. Youve been in the ground in el paso for nearly seven weeks covering the border situation and now this tragedy. How are the people of el paso doing . Reporter theyre hurt. Theyre angry. Theyre sad. They dont want us to lose sight, jake, that this was what they call a blatantly racist attack. An attack on people sum simply because of their ethnicity and the color of their skin and last name and who their Family Members are. They dont want us to lose sight of that and say President Trump and the rhetoric he used against the Latino Community in this country for the last two years from the office of the president , it is contributed to this and it contributed they say to what happened here over the weekend. It was earlier that i spoke to four lifelong el pasoans, people who called this home since the day they were born. I asked them directly, do they want President Trump to visit here today. This is what they told me. I think that this community is hurting. I dont think hes done anything to help that. I dont, no. I dont know how hes going to help. Its not the right time. Reporter they say while President Trump did not create here or hate or racism, he used it to divide this country and he bears some responsibility for what happened here over the weekend. I want to be clear, none of the el pasoans over the last weeks and today were excited about the president coming here. We did read a report earlier from a Family Member of one of the victims who said that they want President Trump to come here just to be able to look in his eyes and see if hes genuine or not. Jake. Nick valencia in el paso. Thank you so much. I want to talk with our experts here. And i want to start with the president just now tweeting saying, quote, just left dayton, ohio, it was a warm and wonderful visit and then i saw failed candidate Sherrod Brown and he never ran for president and mayor whaley misrepresent what happened in the hospital. It bore no resemblance of what took place with the incredible peek i was so luck cy lucky to meet and spent time with. They were acknowledged of not acknowledging that the victims were happy to have the president visit even though senator brown said the president was well received at the hospital. Take a listen. He was comforting and he did the right things and melania did the right things. It is his job in part to comfort people. Im glad he did it in that in those hospital rooms and the people at the hospital were terrific and people showed when the president of the United States came, they showed respect for the office and a number of them said to me, theyre not great admirers of him privately but they clearly showed respect for the office because the president of the United States is in town. Do you have any idea what the president is talking about . I didnt see the press conference, it is all based on the transcript that i saw and coy take a guess on a couple of things that brown said that privately some people were not happy with the president and they said that to him. Privately people had said that. Correct. And im just quoting him and also said that i think in another portion of the press conference talked about the rhetoric as racist and divisive and and i i suspect that is what the president is responding to. It doesnt sound as mr. Brown misrepresented anything and the White House Social Media director released a tweet saying the president was greeted like a rock star, quote unquote by the people at the hospital. It is not just the president there was a total absence of leadership at the federal level publicly this weekend after the shootings and it was really striking and striking in comparison to how weve seen president s behave at moments of a National Crisis which this was and to turn this yet again into something about donald trump as opposed to the victims he was there to see is in keeping with the theme that it is going to upset a number of people. So apparently Sherrod Brown said privately people expressed misgivings about the president being there. Im guessing that is what that is about. Right. But that is the only thing that makes any sense. But sherrod bound did say that the president was comforting and he did the right things, melania did the right things, im glad he did it. It is not an assault on the president and here you have his president on the way from one griefstricken town to another attacking Sherrod Brown in a tweet. Exactly. And hes also attacking joe biden in tweets. With the former Vice President giving a critical speech of the president and the president s rhetoric today, just about an hour or so ago. So this is what weve seen constantly time and time again with how the president behaves on twitter, on social media and what he does in public. My colleagues described it kind of very apply this week when he said it was teleprompter trump versus twitter trump and you see that dichotomy. You had critical comments overnight toward beto orourke who is channeling so much of the grief in the home town of el paso where the president is supposed to land shortly and attacking the attacking beto orourke for the criticisms that hes had. But yet as far as weve seen and again a lot of the press traveling with him is not getting a lot of access to him so this is kind of secondhand, but he is in public seeming to do the things that a president should do. It is just this two very different personalities and tones that were seeing from the president throughout the day. My gosh, the grotesque things said by the president by the president ial candidates, joe biden and beto orourke calling him a white nationalist, attributing this violence to the president and in some cases linking it to him personally, somehow it is okay, it seems, that democrats can take these pot shots, including senator brown who said initially he wasnt going to meet with the president and frankly that even that body language that you just r just ran on the clip, well the president was comforting and so forth. It was a qualification to it. I think this was a double standard here. I think the president who set a right tone and i think his statement was eloquent on monday. On monday and what other president s have said and visiting dayton and el paso is consisten with what other president s had done. He he not done that i would be curious what the media reaction is. But people can attack the president and the expectation is the president will not defend himself or be able to respond to their attacks. I think the right tone has been set by mayor margo of el paso who has repeatedly, despite requests by the media to comment on this from a political standpoint said this is about grieving and healing and i think the president of the United States has done his level best to do so . So one other thing, jamal, i want to get your reaction, one of the reasons were hearing from people in el paso who have misgivings about President Trump coming and i agree with your notion, if he didnt come he would get for that too, but one of the reasons is in february when he went to el paso he was critical and raised the specter of this quote unquote invasion. Take a listen to a brief snippet of that. We are cutting loose dangerous criminals into our country. Murderers. Killings. Murders. So that is something that is very much on the minds of citizens of el paso, many of them are telling our reporters. Jake, im sitting here in this conversation and im being tugged in my head in two different directions. One part of me feels the solemnity of this moment and the families going through this incredibly grave experience and i cant imagine what it must feel like for them. But then you have this president who is doing these he acts like an infant, such a toddler. And to quote cory booker a little bit, standing up against White Supremacy should be the floor, not the ceiling. That is not our aspiration for the president. We sort of wrestled through Big Questions of where america tands an who gets to participate in White Supremacy 40, 50 years ago and now here we are again dealing with this. 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El paso chooses to restore our faith in humanitarian in one another and in this country. That was 2020 president ial candidate democrat beto orourke. The former congressman from el paso. He just finished speaking at that protest in el paso, texas, moments ago, talking about the strength of his community as we wait for President Trump to land in the city and presumably meet with survivors of the carnage from over the weekend. We have more breaking news now. A cnn exclusive revealing an inside look at the Trump Administration and its commitment to combatting White Supremacy and struggles about that. Multiple current and former senior Trump Officials and others close to the administration tell me that for more than a year white house officials rebuffed their colleagues at the department of Homeland Security who were trying to include domestic terror threats such as those from White Supremacists as a greater priority. One spelled out in the National Counterterrorism strategy issued last year. Homeland security battled the white house for more than a year to focus more on domestic terrorism but the white house wanted to focus only on the jihadist threat and while serious ignored the reality that racial supremacist violence was rising fast at home. They had major ideology blinders on. The counterterrorism issued last fall and a source involved