Good evening at the end of another difficult and turbulent week.

We begin tonight keeping a monis with what President Trump has been doing lately to calm

the waters, to heal the divisions, and give people a reason to believe that things will

be better if we can all just pull together.

I'm kidding.

Today, one of the two Congresswoman, he persuaded the Israeli government to keep out of the

country as part of his apparent vendetta against him, turned down an offer to let her in

for a visit with her grandmother, who's in her 90s and lives on the West Bank.

Congresswoman Rashida Tleib said no to conditions that would have barred her from airing her views

about boycotting Israel.

She and Ilana Omar are, as you know, two of the four Congresswoman of color whom the

President has been attacking repeatedly.

They're also, whatever you may think of their politics or political talents, legislative

back ventures who only occupy the nation's mind space, the national mind space that they

do because the President targeted them.

But this is what the President wants.

He wants the diversion.

The diversion from the very real concerns over the economy, diversion from the rash of

gun violence we've seen over the past few weeks, and he wants division.

He wants to cast Congresswoman Tleib and Omar as foils in the endless drama of us against

them.

Never mind the consequences.

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