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Between 2015 and 2016 is the country saw a 197% increase in anti-muslim hate groups and a 23% increase in neo confederate groups. hate groups are unfortunately nothing new in the u.s. or the world and for some who lived through world war ii the recent rise in violence and division is chilling. this afternoon i talked to a holocaust survivor who said the events in charlottesville struck a frightening cord for him. who is part of my conversation with george wolf. >> when you see that, what do you ...

Ourselves to the presidency becoming trump like. trump needs to be presidential or we need to deal with him as the officer that he has now as the chief executive officer of this country. >> reverend al sharpton. thank you vich for joining me today. >> thank you. >> coming up, president trump spoke out more forcefully today against white nationalists, but concerns remain about some members ties to those groups. so should there be a west wing shake up. more on that coming up. dont let dust and all...

Racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. justice will be delivered. as i said on saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. it has no place in america. >> welcome back. that was president trump speaking earlier today on events this weekend in charlottesville with more detail than his remarks on saturday. joining me now is richard painter. he was the white house chief ethics lawyer under president george b. bush and now...

I was very proud to stand with my leadership against groups of i hate. but do more. we pulled our dmunt together and said were not them, none of us. thats what the president needs to do next. denounce denounce denounce. >> i think its admirable -- >> pull the country together. the political discourse of blame and hate has got to stop. lets talk about what were -- zbloot let me ask you one more question before we have to go. its admirable that you were able to do that for yourself and thats great...

He condemned, quote, many sides. so today after days of mounting political pressure, the president again addressed the violence. this time naming the groups in his condemnation. >> racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs. including the kkk, neo nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. >> so, yes, president trump did name check the hate groups, but he failed to denounce their support of him...

National security meetings. hes a foreign policy advisor. what exactly does he do in the white house other than come on and talk on television and tell other cabinet members what to do? >> he spreads hatred of muslims is what he does. look at his track record and look at what hes said about muslims and this is exactly what vladimir putin wants, the united states to be at war with a billion muslims in the world, blaming muslims for the acts of a very few troersz. thats like blaming me as a christ...

Calling on him to do. >> when people have driven trucks through crowds in europe, hes called it radical islamic terrorism. he should use this turcht today to say this domestic terrorism, this is white nationalism and it has to stop. >> he missed an opportunity to be very explicit here. these groups seem to believe they have a friend in donald trump in the white house. i dont know why they believe that, but they dont see me as a friend in the senate, and i would urge the president to dissuade the...

Need to be pull together. what we need to go is give the president an opportunity and have the president take that opportunity to pull us together. these groups need to be isolated. we need to come together and say we stand together against racism, we stand as the country that elected barak obama, donald trump. we love our democracy, we love other diversity. as he looks at what is on his to-do list does that. >> respectfully i was there every step of the way during the campaign and it took him a...

President to address a domestic terrorist attack that killed a young lady and injured others and the events caused two law enforcement people to die. 48 hours. when it took him less than an hour and a half to condemn a ceo of america for resigning from his economic council because he had not made a response. so lets not act like thats insignificant. >> lets not pretend that theres not delays in those responses when donald trump has to respond to white people committing violence. >> gets up and t...