Comings in his majority black district which includes much of baltimore city. Democrats including Elijah Cummings say they care about how migrants are being treated at the border but what about the families in people in their own district . Living conditions at the border are better than most areas in his district. The city lined with abandoned buildings and trash on the streets. And right on cue the man that you are apparently paying to golf and watch television all day like an angry retiree did his version of yelling at the tv. Tweeting an hour after that segment aired and calling comings, a, quote, brutal bully and attacking his district as quote infested and infested mess. If fested being a word trump has repeatedly used to describe black and brown people and where they live. Two weeks ago trump attacked four minority leaders saying they should go back to their home countries despite all four being u. S. Citizens which technically he described his own government as a complete and total catastrophe. And lets not forget his attack on june lewis which read almost as the exact same on the attack on comings only in this case he didnt misspell his name. He wrote on twitter responding i go home and fight for my neighbors. It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the executive branch, but it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents. Social media erupted while former baltimore resident Victor Blackwell on cnn offered what was the mustsee take down of trumps latest eruption of racism. Infested. Thats usually reserved for references to rodents and insects, but weve seen the president invoke infestation to criticize lawmakers before. The president says about Congress Cummings district that no human would want to live there, you know who did mr. President , i did. From the day i was brought home from the hospital to the day i left for college, there are challenges no doubt, but people are proud of their community. Joining me now is the director of Public Policy for leaders of a beautiful struggle in baltimore. Thank you very much for coming down or coming up actually. The baltimore son excoriated trump along with everybody else. While we would not sink to namecalling in the trumpian manner we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the white house, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the guy who cysted there are good people among neo nazis hes not fooling most americans into believing hes slightly competent in his post or he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one. When you heard this tweet what is your response . When a society is structured on racism and White Supremacy theres certain images of representations made most available to main stream america and Popular Culture and those ideas that black folks are inherently criminal and pathological and intellectually inferior. And so the president s tweets are a manifestation and example of the way in that notion of black inferiority, is seared into the black american consciousness, and the reason thats important is the tweet is using that as something as a lube knt for mass incarceration which has impacted communities like baltimore, and there was an intentional effort to criminalize black people as part of a political strategy. Trumps tweet is an example of using that language to rally up a base that has internalized this notion of the perceived gains of the Civil Rights Movement is something that would take away from a lot of poor White Working Class voters that unfortunately have been tripped by the machinery and collective white consciousness of society, tricked into supporting a president thats advancing something against their interests. President obama has been very quiet most of the time. He is a dignified man so he doesnt jump in with trump. He retweeted a piece that had been written by some more former members of his administration. We are africanamericans, we are patriots and we refuse to sit idly by. When president obama was in the white house donald trump called him stupid, said the country was garbage. So under president obamas leeldership in his mind this country was garbage. He thought this country was garbage until he was president. He thought john lewis district is garbage. He thinks the district in baltimore is garbage. And the supposed countries these four american women come from, supposedly garbage, Elijah Cummingss district, garbage. Theres a theme. And thats why its important to talk about it because i would argue there are lots of folks even folks believe some of these notions of our communities being infestations or believe in them being crime infested. Which is why certain people dont want black or brown people to move near them because they think anywhere black people live is a terrible community. The video trump is now tweeting out, at least some of that video came from a black woman. A black woman republican who apparently lives in Baltimore County named kimberley claysic who on her Facebook Page previewed Elijah Cummings better be ready because im coming for him tomorrow on fox, that kind of a post. What does it mean that a black woman from the community, from the Baltimore Area would joan in essentially and help to provoke an attack on a fellow black man of great dignity Elijah Cummings and on the community . Shes going through and shooting video of her own community . Right, what that shows is the way in which people cash in and traffic on the suffering of black people for their own personal political gain. And one of my biggest frustrations particularly with conservatives who talk about, you know, how quoteunquote terrible our communities are, you very rarely hear them in a nonnews event environment talk about lifting up the people that are doing work to address violence and the other problems in our communities. There are people baltimore ceasefire, these are organizations on the ground that are doing the work to address a lot of these issues and you dont hear people actually lift up folks doing the work. So people like liz claysic are not connected to the communities from which its a very voyeuristic kind of National Geographic approach to looking at our community. So shes doing that and it reproduces the notion of black pa pathology because youre showing what many people would say are the worst parts of the districts instead of putting into context the policies that have created the conditions the people are in. I was here for the up risings in baltimore after freddy gray was killed by police, and you could see the scars that the city of baltimore still has and west baltimore. Of course you can. This country by the way has poverty all over it. And i hate to break it to donald trump and republicans, theres a whole lot of poverty in red america. Okay, it is not just in a blue state like baltimore. Theres a lot of poverty in white there are white poor communities. There are White Communities losing their hospitals because he wont let them have medicaid. So republicans need to look in their own back yards first of all. Thats my own editorial comment. But when i saw those challenges there trump is now punishing those poor people by saying hes going to cut them off of food stamps, taking away their benefits. Its ironic does he care about it . Because hes hurting these people. And part of what fuels some of these notions is that the conditions, the overrepresentation of black folks in poverty and homelessness to them serves as proof of their notions of black inferiority. Its important to understand the larger structure dynamics so the reframe of it should be black folks have been able to survive and in some cases thrive in those conditions, and show the intellectual acuity and resiliency of black people that should be modeled. Some of the greatest, you know, tal. In this country have come out of baltimore. Baltimore is a great city. Thurgood marshal was from baltimore. Let me add to this conversation. Joining me by phone is long time resident and filmmaker john waters. Whos also author of the book mr. Knowitall give me your reaction to donald trump disparaging your home city . I was amazed when the story broke msnbc didnt call me, the New York Times didnt call me, art news called me. That was a new leader in Fast Breaking headlines. You know, i wrote a statement that basically said to him give me the rats and roaches of baltimore any day over the lies and racism of your washington, mr. Trump. Come on over to that neighborhood and see you have the nerve to say it in person. And i lived in that neighborhood in a predominantly africanamerican neighborhood in mr. Cummings district which for 17 years i made hair spray when i lived there. And, you know, i never had to slightest bit of trouble. I never had any trouble. People were lovely to me. And rats and roaches, you know, baltimore, we work with what we got and we make it better. I use that in hairspray. Rickey lake kicked off her shoe when she was doing a love scene, she wore roaches on her dress. We inspire artists and baltimore still has a bohemia and thats very important too. So the Arts Community is one of the things that just it lives in Donald Trumps head that he cant get your community, he cant get artist, he cant get hollywood, he cant get the love he wants and craves from your community. I wonder now if hes just being savage, you know, like people like yourself. Hes already so angry that he cant get you to come to the white house . The thing is, though, i dont think he cares what i say but the problem is i dont know how hes going to get votes from this. The other people that may be starting to crumble, this is going tomake them not vote for him. So i dont even think its smart politically. Only 53 is the africanamerican percentage of his district. It also has wealthy people, black and white in his community. So i dont think trump even did his homework. Let me give you the final word on this. Donald trump could he doesnt listen to anybody. He just watches tv and live tweets tv like an angry person. Hes just an angry man tweeting at the tv, but if he did listen to you, what would you say to him . I would say to him and i would say to this country we really have to deal in the way in which notions of black inferiority and white superiority impacted our country as such he would see this as something that would be politically advantageous. I hope we dont over emphasize the bigotry part of it. Its really important for us to understand we live in a society where that kind of statement has political assailants and has had disastrous impacts on the lives of people. And we need to as a society attack the way in which racism and White Supremacy make these kinds of things political ammunition. And i would say the President Trump is not the president of it United States. Hes not done one thing to help black poor people, help white poor people. All youre doing is taking money out of the mouths of literally poor children and locking migrant kids up in cages. Instead of tweeting maybe you should do your job, mr. President , im just saying. Theres a lot you could do if you had any desire to do so. Thank you both very much. And coming up, Donald Trumps tweet rage spiral comes just one day after democrats launch an impeachment investigation. Coincidence or not . Well talk impeachment inquiry next. Not well talk impeachment inquiry next Liberty Mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. I wish i could shake your hand. Granted. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Woman 1 this. Woman 2 . This. Man 1 . This is my body of proof. Man 2 proof of less joint pain. Woman 3 . And clearer skin. Man 3 proof that i can fight psoriatic arthritis. Woman 4 . With humira. Woman 5 humira targets and blocks a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. 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Harvard law professor lawrence tribe in an interview with me on saturday cleared up some of the confusion after jerry nadler announced the democrats are pursuing an in facto impeachment inquiry against trump. It seems that whatever they want to call it now the impeachment process has begun. Even as polls show little change in public support for impeachment after muellers testimony. Joining me now is democratic congresswoman val demings of florida who got a chance to question Robert Mueller this week. And congresswoman thank you for being here. You are on the Judiciary Committee so you had a chance to also question Robert Mueller as to the kbequestion of impeachme. The polls show that did want necessari necessarily move people to a different direction. 26 say theyre less likely. 46 said it made no difference. Either way, here is what your chairman said after that testimony is this is on friday. Among other things we will consider obviously are whether to recommend articles of impeachment. We may not do that, we may do that, but thats a conclusion at the end of the process. In your view, are we now in an impeachment inquiry . Well, good morning, joy. Its good to be with you and i think the chairman said it correctly. I think the constitution professor said it correctly as well, and i would ask you to consider this as any other criminal investigation. You may have a confession, you may have sworn testimony, but if you were doing a Murder Investigation you would want the murder weapon as well. And what we need are the supporting documentation of those documents, financial records, everything that will support what we already know tat the president on multiple times obstructed justice, conspired basically with a foreign power to undermine the 2016 election, lied about it and tried to convince others to lie about it. So, yes, we are in on impeachment investigation. And i know you are a great Law Enforcement professional so you know exactly what it takes to build a case. I want to play a little bit of your questioning of Robert Mueller because one of the potential reasons for impeachment would be obstruction of justice. Listen. In fact, there were many questions you asked the president hat he simply didnt answer, isnt that correct . True. And there were many answers that contradicted other evidence you gathered during investigation, isnt that correct, director mueller . Yes. Isnt it fair to say the president s written answers were not only inadequate and complete but his answers showed he wasnt always being truthful . There i would say generally. First of all editorially i would say it is striking that director mueller gave the democrats very straightforward yes or no answers to your questions. Maybe because you guys asked questions and you guys werent screaming at hill, but he seemed to give you guys a lot. That sounded to me like enough to at least start looking at an article of impeachment on obstruction. What do you think . I couldnt agree with you more. I mean we all know director muellers history. A decorated veteran, served as the fbi director for two terms. Hes a middle of the road kind of guy and i think he did a good job during the two years with the interference that he had to endure. We certainly know that attorney general barr certainly did not help but really contradicted the conclusions in the special counsels report. I believe that, you know, i was pleased with the hearing. He did exactly what we needed him to do. And we did get even a little more than we expected to get. Yeah, i was actually surprised because i thought it would simply be him reciting a report and didnt think much would some of it. But i certainly thought you guys would get a lot of out of him. My last question to you on the question of impeachment, in your district when youre talking to your constiff wnts is impeachment something that you get the sense your constituents want you to do in florida . You know, joy, from the very beginning when the report first came out i said there was enough in the report to begin an impeachment process. Every time i make those statements either in the district or in washington, d. C. I receive numerous multiple phone calls, tweets, texts and other forms of communications from constituents. Its always incl