The president

says his rhetoric brings people together

but he's not talking about the people protesting in El Paso and Dayton.

The lead starts right now.

President Trump arriving in El Paso, Texas, as protesters there say his visit

brings hollow and his critics charge that his rhetoric has helped fuel the

violence. What's he going to say when he arrives? Plus, exclusive reporting today on how the White House snubbed its own administration

officials who thought combating white supremacy should be a higher terrorism priority. Plus, President Trump being accused of weaponizing hate by one of his potential

2020 Democratic opponents who calls for tighter gun restrictions at the site of

another rampage.

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Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin with breaking news.

In just acts of carnage and violence murdering 31 people in two mass shootings just

13 hours apart. Earlier today President Trump was in Dayton Ohio where he

visited a hospital that treated multiple victims from that shooting where

nine people were killed.

Protesters greeted the president there in Dayton and more protesters are awaiting

the president's arrival in El Paso, where the accused domestic terrorist there, killed 22 people echoed some of the language used by the president when talking about Latino immigrants, particularly the notion that migrants and refugees coming here constitute an invasion.

Our team of reporters have spread out across the city of El Paso covering this story from

all angles.

We're going to start with CNN's Boris Sanchez.

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