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>> you can also hear officers calling for a medical kit in this video if you watch a little more of it. you hear that? and you hear him moaning as well. the officers did find a gun on his him. scott mclain is in denver. scott, what is the family saying this morning? >> reporter: his family is focused on burying him today. his funeral is set for today. his father, though, doesn't want to make this into a race issue. he sees this as a larger issue with the justice system and how something like this could happen. listen. >> i have a lot of questions like how is it justifiable to shoot a man in hi...

And he spoke to them and made these visits which are completely appropriate and the right thing to do. i think this will be seen as overreaching by the american people. in short order these attacks on the president and this exaggeration that somehow his passion for policy issues regarding illegal immigration constitute racism or white supremacy. he is not a white supremacist. he denounced it. it is very clear that the president is committed to a point of view that democrats are now trying desperately to turn into a race issue. and i think that is extraordinarily unfortunate. >> so maggie, i do...

The president has a higher responsibility than the one he's executing today. the president more than anything , maria and you know this you've been covering it for a long time, the president is a cultural figure, more than anything. maria: yeah. >> and you set the cultural tone of the country. we're either going to go to the moon or tell people to go back to the country they came from, and those are two completely different examples of how to use your cultural position. maria: yeah, but you mentioned immigration and immigration is not a race issue, it's not a race situation. this is a national...

>> it's clear what he's doing. and unfortunately too many people are becoming desensitized because this is what he does and you forget what he did immediately beforehand. >> what do you say to the counter argument, look, elijah cummings said his community is drug-infested. the place is under it, and that you guys are confusing criticism of conditions that cummings and democrats in cities all over the country have allowed to persist and making it a race issue. >> this president talks about people, black and brown people in particular in a certain way. i could give you some white communities tha...

Robbed. too bad. he says it wasn't a wise guy tweet. he was just repeating what he heard. >> come on. this guy is a terrible, terrible human being and he's unfortunately the president of the united states. >> what do you think his intention was with the tweet? >> it's clearly that he was doing a wise guy tweet about elijah cummings. he was trying to perpetuate what he was saying previously. >> told you it was a bad place. >> it's clear what he's doing. and unfortunately too many people are becoming desensitized because this is what he does and you forget what he did immediately beforehand. >> ...