Inserting Charlottesville News Today

♪ >> harris: this story lit it up on twitter last night. a lot of people shaking their heads going what? espn pulled one of its announcers from calling a university a university of virginia football game next month and reassigned him to another game. why? his name is robert lee, very similar to the confederate general robert e lee who is a statue helped spark the recent violence in charlottesville. espn issued a statement last night. "we collectively made the decision with robert to switch gam...

>> mercedes: they have to support the legislative agenda that they would go on. if they do not get on board, they will lose his midterm elections. they will suffer because of the fact that they hasnt had accomplishments. on tax reform, a bit more optimistic that theyll be able to pass at least partial. >> dagen: two weeks ago i said that it wasnt north korea or even the ensuing issues over charlottesville. you see the stock market weakness which started about two weeks ago when it first came to ...

>> gianno: wow! im very ready and im glad to be on the air with you all. ive been on the air with everyone and ive interviewed you for extra tv. >> harris: lets do the newest. president trump of the words for his base last night. in phoenix, he spent nearly 30 minutes defending his response to charlottesville racist, violence and hate. while bashing the mainstream media and the process. watch. >> what happened in charlottesville strikes at the core of america. i spoke out forcefully against hatr...

Flake. hes been very critical of the president. often times, the book that just came out, but hes one of the least popular senators in the country. one of the things in the presidents favor is hes voted 90% of the time in regards to the presidents agenda, so he can appreciate that. this has become very difficult for the president. going forward when congress does come back in session, there are people who say because of the charlottesville situation that there is a dark cloud on his agenda movin...

Family lives in and around charlottesville, this is where i grew up, so we were very disturbed from night one to see neo-nazis, klansmen, white supremacists marching with torches. when we didnt hear an initial response of i condemn these people by name, that was bothersome. its deeply frustrating and upsetting, but i will hold this president to the same standard that i feel like i set for president obama. time and again, for 8 years, i criticized the president for surrounding himself with people...

This is just stupid. >> gianno: there is no argument they can provide to say this is okay. im checking democrats arguing racism yet. >> harris: this story was fiery hot last night. >> dagen: i thought it was made up. >> sandra: headline -- the story was so popular that site servers were overloaded on tuesday night when this hit. >> harris: note the timing of when they made this decision, as things were unfolding, the hatred and charlottesville, as they were unfolding, they made this decision, we...

Tragedy happen in america and so part of the healing process is bringing these parties together in the white house to have these discussions. listening, reaching out, thats more effective. when he talked about afghanistan this week, he went directly to the military officers, basically had a very serious tone. i think the campaign rally is simply not enough to deal with the sensitivity of this topic and helping to deal with improving. >> harris: i bring it up because some who support the presiden...

In terms of inserting charlottesville was not okay. i dont think it was the appropriate environment. obviously he had a very tough week last week and arguably one of the worst weeks in his presidency, but the crowd was a jovial crowd. race is a very sensitive issue and there were a lot of people impacted by his comments last week. obviously it was very much impacted by it, but this was not the right tone, tenor, or environment for this conversation. >> harris: i see so many nodding heads, im sit...

I got the white supremacists, the neo-nazis, the kkk. i got them all. theyre having a hard time. its time to expose the crooked media perception and to challenge the media for their role and fermenting division. >> harris: trumps critics say he mischaracterized the comments about charlottesville and one even called the speech disturbing. why did this last night? >> gianno: its a lot to unpack what happened last night. for anyone who doesnt know, ive been a defender of the president where i belie...