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Blame on both sides. i have no doubt about t you dont have any doubt about it either. >> there was violence coming from both directions, but only one side gathered the night before to denounce jews, minorities and others. trumps about face essentially blaming both sides equally had republicans speaking out against him and his comments. >> im not going to defend the indefensible. im not here to do that. im here to be leclear, concise. his comments on tuesday started to erase the comments that wer...

Changes. the president has not yet -- has in the yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. he also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of this nation. he has not demonstrated that he understands what has made this nation great and what it is today. >> corker was not alone. republican senator tim scott of south carolina called on trump to act with moral authority. >> i am not going to ...

Understands what has made this nation great and what it is today. >> corker was not alone. republican senator tim scott of south carolina called on trump to act with moral authority. >> i am not going to defend the indefensible. im not here to do that. im here to be clear and concise and succinct. his comments on monday are strong, and the comments on tuesday started to erase the comments that were strong. what we want from our president is the moral authority. that was compromised when tuesday ...

Theres no evidence to suggest this ever happened. the white house has not responded for requests to comment. the president running out of allies in his own party. two key republican senators publicly questioning his fitness for office. two republican senators. listen to bob corker of tennessee, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, who is on the trump short list for secretary of state. he has concerns about the presidents mental health. >> the president has not yet been able to d...

He simply cannot defend the indefensible. >> his comment on monday were strong. his comments on tuesday started erasing what was strong. what we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority. and that moral authority is compromised when tuesday happens. theres no question about that. >> the president is busy counterpunching, as usual, targeting two republican senators who called him out -- lindsey graham and jeff flake of arizona. and seems to enghiorse grahams -- endorse grahams...

Trump during the campaign. whether it was john mccain who wouldnt endorse him, lindsey graham, this dynamic was at work during the campaign last year and i think the political element of this i think it makes this so difficult to figure out is donald trump ended up winning but he won with basically 90% support from republican voters. so i think to get beyond the republicans who already come out and attacked him, criticized him, been negative towards him, gives the question of who was going to g ...

Im not going to defend the indefensible, im not here to othat. im here to be clear and concise and succinct. his comments on monday started to erase the comments that were strong. what we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority, that moral authority is compromised when tuesday happens. theres no question about that. we should all call that on the carpet. >> that was south carolina senator tim scott saying our moral authority has been compromised by this president. also weig...

Terms about the president defending monuments in honor of the confederacy. larry hogan said of the presidents charlottesville comments, "i thought he did a really bad job responding to it. it wasnt presidential." on the tweets about confederate statu statues, "i think he probably should stop talking about the issue because not very many people are agreeing with him these days." senator tim scott of south carolina says he approaches the issue in moral terms. >> im not going to defend the indefens...

This time calling into question the presidents competence, stability and moral authority. this time the criticism is coming from two republicans who have been allies to donald trump, one of them senator from tennessee who was under serious consideration to be trumps secretary of state. here he is today. >> the president has not yet -- has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. he also recently has not demo...

Scott, the only african american republican in the u.s. senate, telling -- saying that trumps moral authority is compromised. so add senator scott to the growing list of republicans who are calling out the president. >> right. and we know that it was slow to start, but you had senator corker today, questioning the presidents stability and confidence. and then you have senator tim scott, a friend of the presidents saying im not going to defend the indefensible. and he said that the -- while the c...