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Those comments and those demonstrations. i want to ask you what is a difficult question. trump has several advisors who are jewish. steve ma knew shin. do you believe that they need to be more outspoken, take more of a public stand, if not against the president personally, against the comments that the president made in the wake of charlottesville. >> i dont think it is the responsibility of the jewish members of the administration to beat back bigotry, hate and anti-semitism in all forms. i thi...

And for the president of the united states to draw a false equivalency between those anti-semimites and the very people who were peacefully protesting against bigotry was reprehensible and we couldnt hold the call. >> i want to make clear to our viewers it is disturbing and part of an interview with one of the white nationalists at the charlottesville rally. have a listen. >> im here to spread ideas, talk in the hopes that somebody more capable will come along and do that, somebody like donald t...

Now, from the presidents point of view, he likes to be seen as unpredictable and he also tweeted today he has the capability to change his tone on the drop of a dime. so in many ways the people that are looking at this, like james clapper and saying this is an indication this is someone whos unfit for office from the presidents view, he sees that as a strength. >> well, it is coming from more than one party as well. outfront tonight, john avalon, shannon, the white house reporter for bloomberg n...

Of the letter that director clapper sent to trump with that first intelligence briefing and of course that he composed to hillary clinton as well to whoever would win. what message was he trying to send? >> yeah, sure, jim. i should point out this is the kind of thing that jim clapper is known for. i worked for him for many years and it was not unusual for him to sit down and write a letter to an employee or to someone in a position of leadership when he thought as though he needed to say someth...

>> understands the character of this nation. outside of those comments, corker has been generally supportive of president trump, voting along with the president nearly 90% of the time. this according to statistical analysis website. he w he is not alone in publically questioning the presidents stability. the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, who has served under ten presidents, democrats and republicans, expressed blunt doubts about the presidents fit ps for office right h...

Tonight more fall-out from president trumps charlottesville comments. a group of rab bs has canceled a traditional call with the president saying his words in the wake of the violence were lacking in moral leadership. this is just the latest in a string of groups cutting their ties to the white house. two of the ceo councils disbanded. the entire arts council quit. several members of the national infrastructure advisory council sit. his comments also appear to be taking business away from his ma...

He seems to get. were seeing it now. the more he feels embattled, the more he lashes out and creates greater problems. i have one other concern, wolf. that is, as much as i respect general clapper, the thing he left hanging is what we should do about it. he said, i dont think hes fit for office, but he had no real answer to that. and the inference was that somehow there should be some effort to remove him, or at least thats how some people would have heard it. and i think we have to be very, ver...

Chaos of washington is every day getting worse. >> listen to how the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, who served, by the way, under 10 american presidents responded to president trumps speech last night. >> i really question his ability to -- his fitness to be in this office. and i also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it. maybe he is looking for a way out. having some understanding of the levers that a president can exercise, i worry about frankly access t...

The fact of the matter is the president should have been clear the first time and we still wouldnt need to have this conversation, but donald trump cannot let things go. he cannot just let it lay. as preston said, he needs to settle scores. he feels that republicans have wronged him by going after him after he made his remarks, saying that there were some fine people in these white supremacist gatherings. and call him out for being wrong. and donald trump, this gets under his skin. this wasnt ab...

Seems totally either incapable or uninterested in doing that. >> this is a very sensitive moment, and you hear words like that from general clapper and its going to encourage others to follow suit. >> yeah, i got to tell you, i agree with david here when it comes to removing him from office. that is extremely dangerous talk. weve seen members of congress talking about trying to impeach him or that he should get knocked out. the only way thats ever going to happen is if the republican and democra...