From the midterms and the perception of the president s character is now on the balance because of the events. You can debate the roles leading up to the mail bombs or massacre of views. One carried out by an erratic protrump supporter and the other feld by a protrump Conspiracy Theory and i immigrants, though he was antitrump. What you cant debate is the role the president can play after the tragedies and what the notion hopes is healing after the violent acts, the president hopes to frank slit a tone of puth lix. Case in point, seven days to the midterms, it appears hes ready do whatever it takes to stoke a fear of immigrants to fire up his base. The nearest caravan of 3,500 migrants and refugees, apparently many kids, is 900 miles from the border and traveling by foot. But the president is warning of an invasion containing quote criminals and middle easterners, end quote. Hes activate 5d,000 troops to the border and 0 is now looking, he claims to draw up an executive order that he says would end birthright citizenship, which is something enshrined in the constitution and im guessing an executive order doesnt quite overcome that. But, look, this latest proposal to unilaterally invoke citizen birthright citizenship may not seem serious but his sentiment is the same as his sentiment and attacks on the press which he continues to escalate after a number of highprofile people were targeted by pipe bombs. He wants the referendum to be on him via immigration but it looks like it will be a referendum on him via this nations character. Right now were struggling mightily to see if this trumpfueled environment is who we are or not. And ultimately, the president doesnt get to make that decision. You do, the voter. As we keep an eye on pittsburgh, tom winter has the latest on the investigation. Wefr have multiple investigations were looking into. The pittsburgh gunman, the pipe bomb mailer and also a brandnew investigation which tom has information on. Tom, let me start with the shooter in pittsburgh. Are we learning any more from him . Is he out of the hospital . What do we know about Robert Bowers today . Sure, chuck, so he is out of the hospital. He did appear in court in a wheelchair. So we know that he would not be in serious or critical condition. Obviously, he was able to be out of the hospital and appear in court. What is new today is the atf has come out and said theyve concluded their opponent of the investigation, chuck, and they say that weapons that were found both at the synagogue and also at his home, which means he had more weapons than what he was able to bring with him to the synagogue, there he had an assaulttype rifle as well as three glock handguns found on his person, one on his waist band, one in his ankle area and one on his hand or near his body when he was taken into custody. They say they concluded their component of the investigation and all of the guns they had tied to him were purchased legally and he any sort of appropriate license or permit for. So from that standpoint, thats what we know about the guns. Thats what we know that is new today, chuck. With respect to the let me pause you there a minute, tom. I want to inform viewers what theyre seeing right now. The president and first lady, theyre laying stones from the white house in respect of the victims of the massacre. This is right outside the synagogue right now and theyre laying White Flowers and stones from the white house there. If the president does say something, we will, of course, bring you those remarks. It is our understanding it is unlikely we will hear the president speak in any public setting during his time in pittsburgh. But obviously, we will be keeping an eye on that. Tom, i didnt mean to interrupt you, but i wanted people to know exactly what they were seeing in the split screen in that moment. Lets go to mr. Sayoc and the pipe bomber. We know he had not been talking over the weekend. Any progress there . Not much new today. Based on the reporting of my colleague ez and myself, not much new as far as the investigation into those bombs. One thing that is interesting, chuck, were now in kind of the second longest period weve had here with no other devices have been discovered and as far as working days, we didnt hear any more that were discovered over the past weekend. Now that the mail is back up and running, we have not had any additional packages found since yesterday morning when a package addressed to cnn in atlanta was discovered there. This is a bit of good news here if this is in fact the end of the devices that have been sent around as my colleagues jonathan and Pete Williams reported late last week, sayoc was not telling investigators if in fact he sent any more packages. If we are in a lull or if we are in fact in the conclusion, thats a bit of good news. I suspect, chuck, based on people i talked to, it will be a few more weeks before we get an indictment. When we get that indictment, im sure we will get more details. Before i let you go, you have had a busy time in the Investigative Unit. Theres an odd story involving Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating all things having to do with russia and 2016 election, but its some sort of conspiracy to target Robert Mueller. Fill us in, please. Sure, chuck. The biggest news out of all of this and the only thing i can tell you with any certainty, today we have a very rare, only second i can recall, Public Statement from Robert Muellers office and on the record with peter carr, his spokesperson attached. He said essentially we became aware through press inquiries that somebody out there was saying they were offered money in return for saying that Robert Mueller sexually assaulted them or was involved in them with some sort of sexual harassment. Apparently there were emails that were sent around, chuck, to i anumber of reporters. Nobodys been able to find out if any of this is true and at this point, chuck, it just appears its more misinformation on the internet but the special counsels office is responding and taking it seriously. And its being turned over to the fbi for investigation. Thats correct. Thats what made it some sort of a serious thing. Tom winter, busy day in the Investigative Unit on multiple fronts. I appreciate you coming on. Im enjoyed byp to thes panel, host of msnbc live with katy tur and frequent sub for me on this show, and john is an msnbc contributor and editor of commentary magazine. John, this is this is an awkward moment i think for the Pittsburgh Jewish Community because this is a weird moment. Not everybody wanted the president there. He kind of knows it so hes keeping a subdued schedule. Hes keeping a subdued special but the rabbi of the tree of life synagogue is the person who is showing him around, which is with protesters chasing him down the street, by the way. It should be said the first letter that came out and said hes not welcome was a far Left Organization called bed of arc. Its not a Heartfelt Community letter. It was a political act. And he clearly is trying to do something that will not remarkably inflame any situation. By not speaking . On a day in which there have been funerals. There was a funeral this morning for this incredibly noble doctor who was shot, and then the two developmentally disabled brothers, the rosenthals. So its a very incredibly emotional moment for the Jewish Community in pittsburgh, for jews in america and worldwide and for americans. He seems to be conducting himself with quiet dignity at this moment. Its a tough situation for the president. I think if he didnt go, he would be accused of not having enough empathy for the victims. What i heard from those that i interviewed, not just the people that might have signed on to this petition or this open letter not have him come to pittsburgh, which i think is over like 75,000 signatures right now, is there would have been a better time for him to come. It would have been better for him to come after the families had their fine earls, had a chance to sit shivia when he wouldnt be so disruptive for their mourning process. Not that he wasnt welcomed at all, but that it would have been better for him to do it with a little with a little less urgency. Let me read the Sarah Sanders statement today, responding to the fact i guess he did invite congressional leaders to go with him and they all declined. Heres what she puts, beth the president and first lady are coming to pittsburgh to show their respect, honor the lives lost and offer prayers and condolences. The horrific tragedy in pittsburgh is not a political event and out of respect the president extended a bipartisan request to leadership to travel with him to president. Understandably, the members had prior commitments or wanted to show respect in a private way. Did not take a shot. We can say, yes, hes conducting himself with quiet dignity. Hes perhaps doing a very good gesture by being here at this moment to grieve with this community. But lets keep in mind, hes going to florida tomorrow. Hes going to start on this very big Campaign Trip from now until next tuesday, about ten different rallies. Florida, where hes called the democratic nominee a thief. Do we think hes going to go back on the campaign trail and not talk about immigration, not talk about those folks on the caravan vanding the country, a piece of language that has been sort of picked up by White Supremacists including, we believe this alleged shooter . Its all part of the dichotomy of donald trump. He can try to do the right thing but he will resort back to where he always is. Thats what makes it always so hard and complicated and so such a political event no matter what he does, because of the way that he talks about his political opponents, the way that he talks about migrants, the way that he talks about anybody who disagrees with him, this culture thats been created since he started running for president , there are understandably a lot of people in the country who look to him and say, this sort of thing was inevitable once you start to campaign. Lets be realistic, he only knows one speed. Maybe we have to stop asking to find out if he has a second speed. Lets assume he doesnt have a second speed. So the speed hes having here, which is just simply to be quiet and silent, thats the other speed, right . Right. But there are two things, one of which we will know, he is an instinctual political player. We will know what he thinks of what kind of tone he needs to strike tomorrow when he strikes that tone. In other words, if this day affects him, he has greats. There are times he tell reporters to beat up protests and sometimes otherwise. I dont know how much gradations there are. Respectly, when he goes to the rallies, especially, its his safe space. Its his happy place. Its his energy. He asks the crowd, do you want me to tone it down . He knows full well their response will be a resounding, cheering no, dont tone it down. So he feels emboldened to go on the same political attacks as hes always done. Absolutely. But what we dont know is what hes seeing and what hes feeling. We dont know what numbers hes seeing inside the white house. Theres a sense politically that things something thats altered in the trajectory in the race beginning with the pipe bombs that republicans were on the offensive or were sort of charging and reversing democratic gains and it just doesnt feel that way right now anymore. The pipe bombs distracting from the republican momentum . And democrats are telling us now they have definitely seen a shift. Its noticeable. Its noticeable in their polling. Theyre feeling a lot more optimistic. Its a week which in trump time can be a year. Other things can happen but theres no doubt that hes feeling that shift. And hes going to have to respond to it. So we think when you look at today and look at the birthright saying we will go after birthright citizenship and doubling down on the military at the board, all of that, it looks like hes just reverting back to this is the thing im just going to beat up for a week. He feels like hes closing its interesting because it feels like hes closing as if this were a primary campaign. He would go to birthright citizenship if this were South Carolina for republican primaries. And what people seem to forget is actually quiet trump was the closing message of 2016. Do you remember . Because the quiet trump was offset by the very loud investigation of comey into hillary clinton. Gave her the rope to hang herself and he smartly somehow knew to step back and let that play out. I have always given that credit to kelly ann, talking him into just leave the twitter alone, trust me. So he thinks that he can convert the mainstream Fake News Media into hillary in the closing days. Were the target. Enemy of the people, you know, and whatever anybody says thats mean about him in relation to pittsburgh or in relation to the pipe bomb fake news or whatever. Yeah. Its a bank shot, right . Actually, you can vote against hillary if you voted for him. The media are not on the ballot. The media are not on the ballot even though hes trying to say a vote for this republican is a vote for donald trump. And hes telling people privately he doesnt hes not going to be responsible for any of them losing. Thats what donald trump knows in politics. He knows that the farther he goes to the right, the more hardline he is on any given issue, the better it worked for him in 2016. There was no extreme. Everybody would say you got to pull back, you got to moderate. The less he did that, the better he did in the polling. He obviously won. Whats the most extreme thing he can do on immigration . Oh, he can say hes going to just by the stroke of a pen overturn a constitutional amendment when in reality, he cant do that. But another thing, chuck, weve done a lot of tea leaf glancing at his schedule of trips, hes really going to hardcore trump places. Hes not going to swing areas at all. Not going to swing areas at all. Fm myers is oddly the only place and cleveland on friday and thats where the close much gubernatorial race. Instead what hes doing with the swing areas is tweeting out endorsements and hes tweeted out about two dozen since last night to all of the republicans on suburban areas. He said strong on military and strong on crime. Basically the same template on one of them. Thats as close as he can get because he cannot go to those places. Probably not stupid because you figure the conservative voters in the swing districts do follow his twitter feeds and because they are tweets, minimizes the coverage he might get. I think he knows what his base wants. What we dont know is how large of a role his base will play in the election on tuesday. We dont know if theyre 40 of the electorates or 50 or 27 of the electorate. What about i dont want to project this on you, but what about the conservatives that held their nose and voted trump the last time because the alternative was hillary clinton, what do they do this time . Because trump is still president the day after the election too. Is this an easier vote to punish the president if you want to punish him on behaver . I dont think the punishment is hold your nose republicans. The question is whether they would come out. I think this week what happened starting with the pipe bombs and what happened on saturday, this is a very depressing week, depressing, sad week. And its one thing to say, i got to go to the polls to punish trump. Thats what i want to do. Thats what i wanted to do from 2017. But i better all things consider go to the polls because the democrats, maybe theyre a little too liberal and stuff like that. He may just like you know what, im sitting this one out. Thats interesting. Its also not just a hose your nose for donald trump election because hes not on the ballot. Those who held their nose and voted for donald trump are saying i am not holding my nose because i like what my local representative, dave brad is doing for me or x republican is doing for me, depending on where they are. They can separate donald trump from the lawmaker if they choose to. Its interesting, beth, Brett Kavanaugh focused i think that republican voter on the importance of electing republicans. I think in that moment thats when we saw red states get redder. Does this sort of suddenly say to the same voters, we need a little bipartisan too . I dont know. Its probably it probably resets some of the close races where democrats incumbents are running in red states as senators. Thats probably made things a little more difficult for them. Lets face it, that was a month ago and tempers cooled a bit around that particular issue and now theyre being sort of revved up against on all of the horror we are seeing over the last week. That has certainly sue planted that emotion around kavanaugh. So it will, one, kind of cancel the other out would be what i would be looking at at this point. Republicans as a whole have very complicated views on immigration. Thats what people dont understand. The Republican Base really dislikes and a lot have learned they dont like Legal Immigration either, but thats not the entirety of the Republican Party. And the idea that the whole Republican Party, the suburban republicans, people like that were going to come home on an antiimmigration message, thats not right. That doesnt the polls dont capture that. 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