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STATE AND COUNTY LEADERS. HE'S LIVE IN WEST BALTIMORE. DAVID? DAVID: MINCE WORDS BOTH CONDEMNED THE PRESIDENT'S TWEETS AND INVITED HIM TO THE 7TH DISTRICT FOR A TOUR.POLITICAL PUSH BACK AS UNRELENTING AS THE PRESIDENT'S TWEETS BASHING BALTIMORE AND U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ELIJAH CUMMINGS. MANY VIEW THE TWEETS AS A RACIST ATTACK. GOVERNOR HOGAN VENTED ON WBAL RADIO'S C-4 PROGRAM. >> THE COMMENTS ARE OUTRAGEOUS AND INAPPROPRIATE. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. PEOPLE ARE FED UP WITH THIS KIND OF NONSENSE. WHY ARE WE NOT FOCUSED ON SOLVING THE PROBLEMS AND GETTING TO WORK? QUITE FRANKLY WHAT IS THE PRESIDENT DOING, WHAT IS CONGRESS DOING? REPORTER: ACTIVIST AL SHARPTON AND FORMER MARYLAND LT. GOVERNOR MICHAEL STEELE IN TOWN FOR A PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED EVENT AT THE NEW SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH ARE TAKING AIM AT THE PRESIDENT'S BEHAVIOR AND CALLING HIM A CON MAN. >> HE HAS A PARTICULAR VENOM FOR BLACKS AND PEOPLE OF COLOR. I'M GOING TO KEEP MAKING TROUBLE FOR BIGOTS. AS FAR AS ME BEING A CON MAN. IF HE REALLY THOUGHT I WAS A CON MAN HE WOULD BE NOMINATING ME FOR HIS CABINET. REPORTER: THE PRESIDENT LEARNED ABOUT CONGRESSMAN CUMMINGS DISTRICT FROM A CLIP ON FOX AND FRIENDS OVER THE WEEKEND. KIM KLACIK IS A MEMBER OF THE BALTIMORE COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE. SHE DIDN'T RETURN OUR CALLS. FORMER MARYLAND LT. GOVERNOR MICHAEL STEELE INVITED THE PRESIDENT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE 7TH DISTRICT FOR HIMSELF. >> THE STREETS ARE READY FOR YOU. THE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE READY FOR YOU. FOLKS WANT TO TALK TO YOU. SO JUST SHOW UP. PUT THE TWEET DOWN BROTHER AND SHOW UP. REPORTER: COINCIDENTALLY, THE PRESIDENT'S SON IN LAW JARED KUSHNER OWNS APARTMENT COMPLEXES IN BALTIMORE COUNTY THAT HAVE BEEN CITED FOR HUNDREDS OF CODE VIOLATIONS. MICE INFESTED SOME OF THOSE PROPERTIES. >> HERE IN BALTIMORE COUNTY WE HAD TO THREATEN WITH BOTH SIGNIFICANT FINES AND WITHHOLDING FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO ENSURE THERE WAS COMPLIANCE IN HAVING APARTMENTS BE LIVABLE. SO THERE'S A CERTAIN IRONY IN HAVING THE PRESIDENT ATTACKING A CITY AND REGION WHEN HIS OWN SON IN LAW WAS DIRECTLY INVOLVED AND HIS COMPANIES WERE INVOLVED IN CREATING CONDITIONS WHERE THE QUALITY OF LIFE WAS THREATENED. AS FAR AS ADDRESSING SOME OFHE PROBLEMS GOVERNOR HOGAN SAYS HE'S SETTING UP A MEETING WITH THE MAYOR AND POLICE COMMISSIONER TO DISCUSS THE CITY'S NEW CRIME FIGHTING PLAN. THE GOVERNOR IS ALSO LOOKING FOR HELP FROM THE TRU

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Baltimore Mayor Bernard "Jack" Young said Monday that President Donald Trump should send federal assistance to the city instead of criticizing its conditions in "childish" tweets."If he really wants to, he needs to send us the federal assistance -- not only to Baltimore, to cities around this country that are in the same situation that Baltimore is in -- but he's so interested in childish tweets," Young told CNN's John Berman on "New Day."The comments come two days after Trump attacked Baltimore in a series of tweets, calling the Maryland city a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" and a "very dangerous & filthy place," and saying conditions there are "FAR WORSE and more dangerous" than those at the US-Mexico border. Trump's tweet was part of a wider attack on House Oversight Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings, an African-American Democrat who represents part of the city."I mean, if you want to help us, help us. Don't talk about it, send the resources we need to rebuild America. He's talking about he wants to 'make American great again.' Put the money in the cities that need it the most and that way you can make America great again," said Young, a Democrat.Young, who became mayor after his predecessor, Catherine Pugh, resigned amid a book deal scandal, said Trump "has never" reached out to him since he took on the position in early May."And he had a pledge that he was going to do infrastructure -- we're still waiting on that," he said, referring to a Trump 2016 campaign promise."We have an aging infrastructure in the city of Baltimore, but for an unfunded mandate by the EPA for us to correct it and we have to constantly raise water rates on the poor people of the city of Baltimore," Young said.On Monday, Trump tweeted, "When the leaders of Baltimore want to see the City rise again, I am in a very beautiful oval shaped office waiting for your call!"The tweets from Trump on Saturday were widely condemned by Democrats and progressives, who lambasted the president for lodging attacks on a majority black city.Young, who said in a tweet on Saturday that Trump's comments were "completely unacceptable," said Monday that the president "has a pattern now of attacking people of color.""He's the most powerful man on the face of the earth as President of the United States of America. And this is below the President to do these kinds of things. He should be uniting this country instead of racially dividing us," he said.