Pres. Trump says he disavows 'Send her back' chants at his last rally

"I was not happy with it," he said of the chant, blaming it on the crowd. "I disagree with it." [View in browser]( [Image]( JULY 18, 2019 On Wednesday, a fired-up crowd shouted its approval of President Donald Trump’s attacks on Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and three of her colleagues Wednesday by chanting “Send her back!” President Trump, emboldened by the House’s sound rejection of an effort to impeach him over racist commentary about the lawmakers just hours earlier, prompted the chant at his re-election rally in Greenville, North Carolina, by resuming his [rhetorical assault]( on Omar and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass. By Thursday, with some Republicans worried that he might hurt their chances of retaking the House, [Trump appeared to let up on the gas](. "I was not happy with it," he said of the chant, blaming it on the crowd. "I disagree with it." As [Jonathan Allen on NBCNews.com:](ttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/send-her-back-chant-blew-cover-trump-s-conflation-race-n1031346) "Racial resentment isn't just a part of President Donald Trump's re-election strategy for 2020. It's the heart of that strategy, and, until this week it was partially obscured by the protective cover of the American flag." But Rep. Omar was greeted with a different kind of chant when she arrived home in Minnesota Thursday night: [cheers from her constituents.]( [Image]( Democrats on the House committees set to hear testimony next week from former special counsel Robert Mueller believe the hearings will help Americans understand "the gravity of the president's misconduct," staff members told reporters. "It is not that that there will be a big, dramatic, new revelation necessarily, we're not expecting that," a Judiciary Committee Democratic staffer said Thursday in a briefing ahead of the hearings. "What's important is there is truly shocking evidence of criminal misconduct by the president — not once but again and again and again — that would result in any other American being criminally charged in a multiple count indictment." [Read more from NBC News' Alex Moe.]( On [All In last night](, Rep. Jerry Nadler was optimistic about the Mueller testimony Wednesday. He responded to Chris Hayes' question about increasing perceptions that the oversight and investigations were going too slowly. "We will show [the President] instance after instance lying to the American people or instructing others to," Nadler said. "We're going into court, it's frustrating how slow... we're going to court shortly on getting grand jury material and enforcing the McGhann subpeona. When we break that, we will break the log jam," he said of White House Counsel Don McGhan's argument against complying with a subpoena. MSNBC will bring you live coverage of the Mueller testimony Wednesday. In Case You Missed It: Videos from MSNBC Today [Image]( [Trump says he tried to stop 'Send her back!' chant aimed at Rep. Omar. He didn't.]( Defying video proof, Trump says he tried to stop the disgusting chants aimed at Ilhan Omar during his rally this week as several fellow Republicans defended the president. Peter Baker, Kimberly Atkins, and David Jolly discuss. (11th Hour) [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Image]( [Klobuchar fights Trump's hateful distraction with focus on policy]( Senator Amy Klobuchar, 2020 Democratic candidate for president, talks with Rachel Maddow about the danger of Donald Trump's use of hate and division to rally his base and distract from the shortcomings of his policies and governing. 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