standing up for the president and you get a bit of a sense of how the vice president is trying to ease things in this interview that he did with our colleague peter alexander, a snip pet of what the vice president thinks could be one of the next chapters in all of this. >> what happened in charlottesville was a tragedy and the president has been clear on this tragedy and so have i. i spoke at length about this heartbreaking situation on sunday night in columbia and i stand with the president and i stand by those words. >> reporter: that was not the interview, but these were recent comments from the vice president, who is cutting his trip short. he will be back. he will go to cam david with the president. that's a change to the schedule, so they're going to try to turn the page that way. and also, the vice president lp not be appearing with virginia republican candidate for governor he had gill less pi this weekend as planned.