Both . This is a guy who is worse than a racist. Id like to see everybody reduce the rhetoric. You got to go fut than that and say mr. President , youre wrong. I disagree with the view that if you criticize somebody and they happen to be a different color skin that makes it a racial criticism. When you disagree with the president , suddenly youre a bad person. Extreme heat. When will the country get a break from dangerous temperatures . Plus muellers moment, what to expect when he testifies on capitol hill this week. New today, though, passionate reaction after a week in which the president has harkened on racially divisive attacks on four congresswomen of color. Elijah cummings says the president s go back tweets are painful. The chairman of the Oversight Committee says the president s words bring back memories of being beaten as a teenager when trying to integrate a pool in his hometown of baltimore in 1962. I can still remember bleeding from my forehead when people were throwing bottles. These were adults throwing bottles and saying go home [ bleep ]. I would say to the president right now, mr. President , we want you to be a role model. We want somebody in that white house who our children can be proud of. Who our children can emulate, who our children will look up to. And that is not the kind of example that youre setting, and im telling you, mr. President , you and we, our nation is better than that. And yet this morning another attack from the president who wrote, quote, i dont believe the four wonk women of color are capable of loving our country. Coming to his defense, Steven Miller considered the master mind of some of the most controversial and racially insensitive policies emerging from the trump administration. Anybody who is running for office right left or center always puts where they think America Needs to go and can do better, but theres a fundamental distinction between people who think that we need to lean into and strengthen americas core values, whether it be our constitutional values, the rule of law, the principles of western civilization or people think we need to turn america into venezuela. And part of the president s defense is attacking the four progressive congresswomen for controversial comments that other democrats have criticized. But adam schiff says there is no equivalence. Yes, we have a big and diverse caucus and the political views of the caucus is reflective of the country as they are of our caucus, but that is not equivalent to the racist rhetoric coming out of the white house. I fully expect our members are going to be very aggressive out there. We have strong disagreements with this president. But were focussed on those disagreements when it comes to providing good paying jobs to people. Issues like minimum wage, trying to save access to people while he wants to demonize four women of color. Meanwhile a new cbs new poll shows 87 of americans believe the country is somewhat or very divided i ai long racial lines with 13 saying its not divided along racial lines. Hans nichols is following the president in new jersey. A good sunday to you. You have new tweets from the president. Hes really digging in his heels on this fight. Whats the word from there . Well, its the president either likes the fight for his own sake or he doesnt think hes winning it and wants to recalibrate. This morning its new and slightly more aggressive. Hes basically calling the four lawmakers weak and insecure. We havent heard that before from him, but its more of the same. Its the president clearly enjoying this fight hes in. This is looking like were going to have week two of this. Remember, this all started last sunday. And lets take a look at the charge from the president. This is the tweet that started it off this morning. Here he is saying he thinks the lawmakers are weak and insecure and that i dont believe the four congresswomen are capable of loving our country. They should apologize to america and israel for the horrible hateful things theyve said. Theyre destroying the Democratic Party, but are weak and insecure people who can never destroy our great nation. We are going to have a long debate throughout the rest of the week on what the president s strategy is, his tactics, where the president wants to take the fight. Hes disputing that he almost stumbled into this strategy last week. From the Washington Post they talked to 26 aides and officials. They gave the indication that the president made this tweet on sunday last week not really knowing how offensive it would be. Now, this morning mercedes who is now with the campaign is defending the president. Look, i have worked with President Trump for two years. And he is not a racist. He is a compassionate man whose policies have focussed on the minority community. He is a results oriented president who is focussed on helping uplift all americans including blacks, including hispanics, and i have to say ive been with him in the room with all these different communities, and he does stay focussed on ensuring were implementing the right policies for all americans. Reporter thats the dynamic for the week going forward. Well see the white house on the defensive while the president himself goes on the offensive. And well be monitoring closely to see how the attacks from the president have changed whether or not its significant. Whether or not it appears to be tactical and the frequency of his attacks, because you saw the arc of that last week where it almost looked like the white house was through with this when the president went to the rally, and then you had that send her back chant at the rally. The president initially distanced himself and was critical of the lawmakers again, and it seems like his position now is somewhere close toing a n agnostics on that chant. I think it will be the focus for a long time given it might be in the campaign in terms of ideology. Were going to focus on it with our discussion. Joining me now jane newton small and charlie savage, msnbc contributor. Big welcome to you both. Charlie, its been about a week since the president s onriginal go back tweet. The president is digging in. Why does he want to keep this going . The question about trump or one of the questions about when it comes to this race stuff is does he himself, a racist, as the people around him insist hes not. Is it cynical going back to his birtherism that launched him into the political sphere . Does he see it as a place where theres Tremendous Energy that other people shy away from and that he can tap into and that at the end of the day theres more white people who vote in this country than people of color even now and that means he thinks its a Winning Strategy for him if he can polarize people along racial lines no matter what the cost to the country. What do you make of the defense coming out of the white house or the campaign as with merced mercedes schlapp. Theyre always trying to smooth over the president s comments, making them seem normal and this is okay. The fact is you talk to republicans on capitol hill, and behind closed doors or off the record, theyll express a lot of concern. Certainly you even saw Lindsey Graham that donald trump, President Trump this morning disavowed and said it was fake news saying this is actually worry somebecause it goes so far as to single people out as racist and to use racist language. And thats not theyre trying to sort of make this distinction that the idea that you can hate peoples ideas but not people themselves, and that they are the ones who are hating america. And he seems to really relish this idea that hes elevating these four women that he would rather run against them than joe biden who constantly beating him in polls and is more of a milk toast democrat. Hes trying to elevate the more extreme version of the Democratic Party or the much sort of left wing to the Democratic Party to run against them versus running against more moderates. But at the same time hes actually inciting democrats to unify and come together, and to drive democrats out to the polls because this is so outrageous. Right. When is the last time we talked about the pelosi versus the squad regarding impeachment and the like . Theyre unified on this. This Washington Post article. Charlie, what are your thoughts . Zblim struck by the lead of it. It talks about how aides to trump didnt think that he actually knew what he was doing when he put out the original go back to yeah. I mean tweets. That Kellyanne Conway had to explain to him why this was a problem. Well, i wonder, though, theres an ambiguity. Are they saying he didnt know it was racist and would provoke this kind of anger, or is it that he didnt know that it was tactically foolish, because it allowed as you were just saying, democrats who had had this wedge between the pelosi faction and the sort of more left wing to get past that and unify and that he didnt realize it was too far not because its bad to say things that are racist but it was bad to throw a life preserver to the democrats . The way its phrased it sounds more i wonder if its more the latter even if the aides are kind of selling it to the reporters as the former. All right. Got to turn right now to whats happening. The congressional hearing on wednesday with Robert Mueller. Jay, to you first. What do you think democrats hope to hear on wednesday . And is there any concern that the public has sort of moved on from the Mueller Report . Well, i think the problem with the Mueller Report has always been that if this had been one report that dropped, it would have been a huge bomb shell and it would have had an enormous impact. The fact that it leaked out over the period of years while he was doing these investigations, that there was so little of the report that we didnt know or very little of it that when it finally did come out, it was sort of like oh, well, its not that surprising and it didnt feel like it was a huge bomb shell. What they really want Robert Mueller to do is basically say that the president obstructed justice and he probably should be indicted or should be impeached but Robert Mueller is going to be hesitant to do that. Hes made it clear he doesnt want to weigh in personally and hes going to simply refer back to the report. The report should speak for itself. He doesnt want to talk about anything not in the report in terms of the underpinnings of all the information they collected. He really just wants to talk about what was actually written. I think its going to be difficult for democrats to pin him down and get him to sort of Say Something that moves the needle to such an extent where you get bob mueller calling for the president s impeachment. That would be their dream headline. I dont think its going to happen. Ive looked at law fare blog. Its brilliant. I suggest everybody on judiciary and intelligence read this blog. Because he has questions which in my mind would provoke pretty good answers. Lets listen to what some of the House Judiciary Committee chair jerry nadler had to say about this. We want the American People to hear directly from special counsel mueller what his investigation found. I think there is very substantial the report protects substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and we have to let mueller present the facts to the American People and see where we go from there. We hope it wont be one and done and were going to ask specific questions about look at page 344 paragraph 2, please read it. Does that describe objection of justice and did you find that the president did that, for example . Is this a pervasive fear, that indeed, as you said, the fear that it could end up being a dud . What would the implications of that be . Well, i guess a dud in whose eyes is the question to ask. For people who have read the report and written about it a lot, i think were not going to learn anything new. But as we saw when mueller made that brief statement in the camera a few weeks ago, just his saying to on television that he was not exonerating the president , had this explosive\impact. Some of which imply if ied by tv news because its video to go with the words. I do think it will be interesting if mueller is willing to play along. I agree hes not going to say trump should be indicted or impeached. If he will help go methodically through some of the episodes in which his own only sis shows that trumps actions seem to meet all three criteria for obstruction, and really work through that and pressuring don mcgahn to create false evidence about whether he had previously told him to have don mcgahn fired or trying to get Jeff Sessions to stop mule freller f investigating anything. How that might add up to obstruction but for the fact that a president cant be indicted, i dont think a lot of the public who has not read this report have thought about that or been confronted with that information yet. It could still be of Significant Impact even if to insiders its something weve already read. Its going to be a point on tv and should be. Good to see you both as always. Much of the United States remains under a heat wave. Millions of people seeking relief after days of temperatures above 90, and then add the humidity pushing real feel numbers into the low hundreds. Our meteorologist pulled the short straw. Youre outside in the streets of new york city. When is this going to end . Thats the big question. Reporter alex, im braving the elements as millions of other new yorkers are today here. Weve been out here since this morning at 7 00 a. M. , and the big difference this morning, temperatures were slightly cooler. But man, its still clammy if you put your hands together. Youre really noticing the humidity in the air. Taking a look right now. Official word from the National Weather service, new york city at 94 degrees. But humidity at 78. Thats that oppressive air. The feel like temperature, 110. Were at Madison Square park. On a normal day you know its packed here at shake shack, the line would be backed up, and very few people out here. And im actually really glad to see this with feel like temperatures, this is really unbearable heat. And that is really going to be continue uous here for the northeast and the midwest for the next 24 hours. Lets look at the advisories now. Its dramatically changed from yesterday where we were over 100 million. Today were down to 90 million. So sort of a better situation, and i do expect those to deteriorate in the next few hours. But this cold front is going to make it way through. Thats going to be the game changer here for the northeast, mid atlantic to the midwest as well. By tuesday afternoon, alex, we are going to finally see temperatures cut in half and the huge story . Dew points cut in half. Thats good news. You can see right now people are still trying to be out and about, trying to enjoy their weekend. We are not in the clear just yet. We havent had any reports of any closings from mta. People are just trying to hold on here. I can promise you a change alex is going to come here just hold on. I am so holding you to that. Let me tell you. And by the way, notice nobody sitting in the sun. Everybody is sitting in the shade in fact. Nobody. Not very long. Nobody. See you next hour. Get ac between now and then. If not russia, what about the racially divisive rhetoric . The new case being made for impeachment. Next. Impeachment. 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Hes doing damage to the american spirit. Its good youre saying that instead of letting it just pass which many gop congressmen refused to do. Lets listen to what Elijah Cummings had to say about the effect of this. No matter where i go, what im hearing over and over again is from my constituents, its please save our democracy. Please save our country. And you know Something Else they say, george . They say im scared. And i have not ive never in my total of 37 years in Public Service ever heard a constituent say they were scared of the