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Are even helping he and iran find common ground. leaders of both nations scolding the president, condemning racism. in one country, russia, there is notable silence. lets go to oren liebermann live in jerusalem this morning where i just imagine the response is categorically against the preside presidents comments. >> reporter: nearly unanimous politicians from the left and right coming out and mentioning president trump by name or talking about his comments. this idea that theres some sort of mo...

Neo-nazis with counterprotesters. one official said that john kelly urged staffers to stay focused on their work. back with my panel now. gloria borger, i cut you off mid-sentence. what did you want to say? >> i was going to say to scott, its great to say republicans have to get back to work and theyve got to pass the agenda, but, you know, the point is the presidents isolated right now and i want to suggest something i know would be shocking to most people. but maybe one way to get something do...

Correctness. there can be too much of a slide into political correctness. the problem there of course is that even while some of his advisers concede, this is a debate the president in the white house can win, they say it is the wrong motel. you a debate about political correctness when more than half the destination still furious and livid with you for steeming equate white supremacists with counterprotesters. >> it seems he is going to lose almost any fight here unless he makes it absurdbly wh...

Criticizing. today, senator ted cruz had no problem saying the kind of thing that donald trump should have said if he had the decency to actually think these things. >> the president said that both sides were to blame and seemed to equate the white nationalists with the counterprotesters. do you agree with him? >> you know, the president speaks for himself. the klan is evil. they are racist bigots. nazis are the very face of evil. their hatred, their anti-semitism is completely unacceptable. and...

Is it appears he does not want to listen, take advice or understand the true issues, especially around races that are impacting our country and that was really demonstrated yesterday. >> and you say this. youre a conservative. >> i am. >> and you have defended this president on occasion. >> i have defended him where i believe appropriate absolutely. >> and this time you just cannot. >> i absolutely cannot. and i dont think anyone should come on this air or any other network and defend what the p...

Protests and those who are protesting against them. dave? >> all right. fred pleitgen live for us in lebanon. thank you. president trumps comments are even helping israel and iran find common ground. leaders of both nations scolding the president and condemning racism. in one country, russia, there is notable silence. well go to oren liebermann live in jerusalem. fascinating to know what the reaction is in israel when you watch the words, the imagery, some of the symbolism over the weekend of ...

Strong and ill be your friend ♪ ♪ ill help you carry on >> instead, the president is defiant. sources telling cnn he has no regrets for saying that counterprotesters share the blame with neo-nazis and white supremacists for the deadly violence in charlottesville. youll remember in remarks already infamous, he said yesterday that there was some very fine people amongst the white supremacists who gathered there. i want you to hear from those, quote, fine people, in their own words. thanks to v...

Enjoy being able to have people scared of them so they can paint themselves as victims and that reinforces their message that people are scared to let us spread our ideas because theyre true and theyll spread like wild fire if were able to have what they consider freedom of speech and spread what they believe. >> theres something else i want to play with you. because vice also spoke to a white nationalist about the death of heather hire who was killed when a car was rammed into a crowd of counte...

>> i think that chris is obviously a very emotional person. he gets very worked up. i also think that a lot of white nationalists and the alt-right enjoy being able to have people scared of them so they can paint themselves as victims and that reinforces their message that people are scared to let us spread our ideas because theyre true and theyll spread like wild fire if were able to have what they consider freedom of speech and spread what they believe. >> theres something else i want to play ...

Today, senator ted cruz had no problem saying the kind of thing that donald trump should have said if he had the decency to actually think these things. >> the president said that both sides were to blame and seemed to equate the white nationalists with the counterprotesters. do you agree with him? >> you know, the president speaks for himself. the klan is evil. they are racist bigots. nazis are the very face of evil. their hatred, their anti-semitism is completely unacceptable. and i think we s...