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And racially charged violence in charlottesville, virginia. senator bob corker now saying the president has not demonstrated the stability or the competence to be successful. and senator tim scott just said the presidents moral authority has been unquestionably compromised by his equivocation of white supremacists and protesters opposed to them. back with senator of maryland, the ranking democrat on the foreign relations committee. were going to talk about all of that in just a moment. first i w...

Take comfort in what president trump says. lets be clear about what hes doing now this morning obviously. he is desperate for an enemy. everything david gregory just said, completely true, but i would just say that questions about his character, his temperament, his fitness for the job, the majority of americans had questions about that last november in the election. what he had last november that he didnt have as president is an opponent who hes running against. thats what this lashing out is o...

Graham, more equivalency between neo-nazism and -- he cant forget his election trouncing. people of south carolina will remember. the president attacking senator jeff flake on the ballot next here in arizona. lashing out against his critics. why? >> think about the two senators that the president has gone off, gone after very forcefully on twitter and other after neuse. avenues. vulnerable republicans, that republicans need to hold on for next year. not going after the democrats that the republi...

Temperament and his fitness to lead as president of the united states. im not sure the moment of clarity is about any particular label, although what is significant about the past few days is that white supremacists think they have an ally in the white house that is reprehensible. its because of his conduct. i also think part of what makes this moment extraordinary is, look around. whether its business leaders in america, military, the head of our -- heads of our military branches, members of th...

Today in public events. we did hear from him a lot on twitter. >> the president did have plenty to say on twitter. he has really found himself on a political island ever since he made those comments equating neo-nazis. today president trump is lashing out and taking it out on members of his own party. >> reporter: president trump already isolated after controversial comments about charlottesville is driving the wedge even further. today trump cheered on a challenger, tweeting great to see that d...

Pr representatives would call and say if we leave, will you stop the campaign? will you still attack us? and we said the goal of this campaign is to get you to stop enabling donald trump, to defect and move away. once you do that, this campaign is essentially over. the goal of this campaign and the goal of the work that weve been doing at color of change is pushing those in power to no longer be on the sidelines, to force people to have to make a choice, because when we look back at this moment ...

Decided this was a very tentative statement and he wanted to deliver his real one later. he was happy with his statement saturday and privately upset over the weekend and he thought the media had made too much of this. he was sort of pushed into his statement at the white house by his advisors who said, you need to clean this up. this is going to be too politically damaging. yesterday was his way of lashing out. what i said originally was fine. we saw him yesterday pull out his original statemen...

About 40% of the vote while the incumbent strange came in second with 32%. congressman mel brooks came in third with just under 20% and will not advance to september 26th. strange appointed earlier received the endorsement of president donald trump early last week. president trump loomed large over the race. in stranges favor. but neither that or the backing of mitch mcconnells super pac were not enough for strange to win outright. sources tell nbc news they expect trump to campaign for strange ...

>> mr. president, can you explain why you did not condemn those hate groups by name over the weekend? >> theyve been condemned. they have been condemned. >> tonight the president was back to lashing out on twitter. "made additional remarks on charlottesville and realized once again that the fake news media will never be satisfied. truly bad people." im joined by new yorker staff writer jelani cobb, jennifer rubin conservative columnist for the "washington post," and msnbc political analyst micha...

Organized violence against trump supporters. we covered the violence committed by trump supporters at trumps behest as we should have. we didnt really cover the violence that was reciprocal. its easy to attack nazis. we know how that went in history. theres no moral ambiguity. when it comes to the lashing out of people who are, for example, hispanics, who are lashing out at supporters and breaking bottles over peoples heads, people are more conflicted about that, and they shouldnt be. violence i...