Just moments prior. Live in bridgewater new jersey near the president s golf club where he is expected sometime now. Brian . Reporter hi, sandra. Look. A rashable Development Just an hour ago with the president deciding to disban entirely two of his key economic councils. The Manufacturing Council, which was built entirely to help him keep american jobs here with 12 big time ceos on that council. As well as disbanning the strategic and policy council really meant to help him forge a new economic policy. Well, the president under pressure really sending out that tweet saying that hes essentially relieving pressure for all of these ceos who are now forced to make a decision as to whether to stand by the president or not, given his comments on charlottesville. Remember, nine ceos out of the 12 in that Manufacturing Forum had resigned as of this afternoon. In fact, 20 minutes after the president sent that tweet in
resigned. Yesterday in a Press Conference, the president struck a much different tone. He essentially said not only really calling these leaders an embarrassment, but he also said the reason they were leaving these councils was because they had jobs outside of the United States. Listen to what the president said about these ceos who were resigning just yesterday. Theyre not taking their job seriously as it pertains to this country. I have to tell you, some of the folks that will leave, theyre leaving out of embarrassment because they make their products outside. I have been lecturing them, including the gentle man that kwraoeur referring to, about you have to bring it back to this country. Reporter so, again, that was a decidedly different tone from what we saw in the tweet today, sandra. The president disbanding both. In a tweet said he also said there were many more ceos that would have taken those positions
she said i know you want to spread her message, but please be respectful of my daughter. Heathers father was one of the first to speak today. He was highly emotional in tears. Despite his incredible level of grief, he was able to make a calm appeal for healing and reconciliation. She wanted to put down hate and for my part, we just need to stop all this stuff and just forgive each other. Reporter heathers mother, susan, offered a completely different message and hinted at where her daughters alleged feistiness may have come from. They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well, guess what . You just magnified her. Reporter the crowd stood on its feet in the after math of that remark then. After the ceremony was done, senator tim caine and governor mccullough came out to appeal
for healing and also for virginia to move forward past its sometimes checkered racial past. Id like that to be the message for all americans. We got to move forward together. Weve got to stop the rhetoric. Weve got to stop the language. Weve got to work together. Our nation is a nation of immigrants. It is that great mosaic tile that has made us the great United States of america. Reporter someone asked mccall live after that will you remove all confederate monuments from virginia. Neither answered. I asked them, especially governor mccauliffe. Will you repute the violence from the left . He didnt answer that either. Sandra . Sandra doug mcelway, thank you for that. As the nation recovers from last weeks events in virginia, our next guest has a new idea aimed at bridging the gap between our
past and modern day. Instead of tearing down confederate monuments, she says build more statues to commemorate for our notable minorities, freedom fight ers. Cheryl, its a difficult subject, but its an uncomfortable conversation as that young womans mother talked about at that Memorial Service today that has to be had. In your piece in the Washington Times you begin it by saying charlottesville is coming to a city near you, count on it. The big question that follows all of this is where does it stop . You are offering a solution. What is that . Right, sandra. Thanks for having me. Welsh basically if were going to go about and tear down monuments because they hurt peoples feelings, they bring back memories of times that we would rather forget, then
instead, why dont we build up monuments that show the other side of the story. Instead of tearing down robert e. Lee, for instance, why not put up monuments that the left would like to see . That the left would like to see put up as inspirational to other americans . There are blacks who fought on the union side in the civil war. There are even blacks who served in the confederacy. More as manual labors and cooks and so forth. But that aside, moving on through history, there are all kinds of minorities that could be formed as monuments and placed next to those so called offensive Historical Monuments that people are so busy trying to tear down. That way we would have a balanced reflection. Next to robert e. Lee, maybe we have Martin Luther king or Something Like that. Im just suggesting, lets stop this madness of whitewashing history and tearing down the foundations of america and instead symbolically build something together. Sandra in your piece you ask a question that President Trumpasked at that News Conference yesterday. Is George Washington next. You asked is the Thomas Jefferson monument in washington, d. C. Next . Ill ask you that question here now. It would seem to be. If youre following that train of logic that all of these monuments that bring up memories of racism have to be torn down and erased from american history, erased from the entire nation, then you just cant stop with the civil war. You have to go back to the founding fathers, many of whom were Slave Holders. Many of whom were Staupblg Advocates of slaves. And so why not Thomas Jefferson . Why not George Washington . Thomas jefferson was a slave holder. If were going to tear down his monument, follow that train a little further, we might as well tear up the Declaration Of Independence because, hey, he wrote most of it. This is where this danger is
leading. I had the opportunity about a year ago to sited on a panel of notable people to discuss racism in america. One of the emerging themes that came out of this room full of leftists is that america is inherently racist because our documents were created by Slave Holders and old racist white men. This is where this is leading and we need to be aware of it. Its not so much about monuments, its political. Sandra in your piece you say tearing down is symbolic of anger, partisanship, violence. But building unity and healing, its also a means of enriching americas public shows of history and fostering deeper debate. That deeper debate is what we all need. The two sides are justchumley,. Thank you. Sandra the Vice President overseas taking questions about the president s response to charlottesville. Hes in South America as tensions with venezuela heat up. Were live at the State Department. Plus, vanished more than three years ago. Lets meet at a sleep number store. Hi. And i know that we have phonAccident Forgiveness. Gent, so the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight four weeks without the car. Okay, yup. Good night. With Accident Forgiveness your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Switching to allstate is worth it. Sandra new evidence in the hunt for malaysian airliner that disappeared, can you believe it, more than three years ago. As scientists narrow the search area to three areas in the indian ocean. Theyre using new analysis of debris recovered from the 2014 crash to search the nearly 10,000 Square Mile Kpapbs identified last november as the likely Resting Place of flight 370. It mysteriously veered far off course shortly after taking off
from malaysia with 239 passengers and crew on board. Vice president mike pence in chile. He did hold a joint Press Conference with the chilean president as he looks to build ties in tre gin and speak out against the growing crisis in venezuela. Rich, the Vice President said the u. S. Will act on venezuela. Reporter thats the message for the Vice President traveling in chile. When traveling throughout the region, theres a political crisis on going in venezuela. Welsh President Trump said the Military Option is on the table. The Vice President has spent much of the last week stressing more of a peaceful transition to democracy in venezuela and acknowledging that the situation is urgent. Venezuela is sliding into dictatorship. As President Trump said, the United States will not stand by
as venezuela crumbles. Be assured that we will continue to stand with free nations across our hemisphere until democracy is restored for the venezuelan people. Reporter president hinted at sanctions against venezuela. This as he travels against South America and South American leaders have rejected any idea of a u. S. Military intervention into venezuela. The Vice President also while he was there urged his South American counter parts to cut off north korea diplomatically, economically, tried to ice late it there, just as the State Department is doing with counter parts and countries around the world. Also asked about the president s comments about charlottesville and whether he thought there were good people among White Supremacist protester, if there is blame on both sides and if there are other republicans condemnations. To that the Vice President called the violence in charlottesville a tragedy. He said he and the president have been clear on this and he stands with the president. Vice president , as you mentioned, is also returning to
the area and away from this trip a day early. Hell go to panama, but return from panama thursday as opposed to friday. Because the president , Vice President and National Security team will be holding a Summit Session at camp david or strategy summit to discuss the fighting thats been on going there for many years. Sandra all right rich edson, thank you. Supposed to be an announcement about infrastructure but the president s comments took a very different direction. How does the white house get back on track . The panel weighs in next. Plus, the stage is set for another clash over confederate phaoupbmentes as the debate grows to take down civil war era statues. How one city is preparing for any possible violence. Kreu
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pick as the white house interim director. Can she help hone in his message. Joining me now, ben shapiro and host of the Ben Shapiro Show and leslie marshall. All right. Ben, let me get your take first just on the moment. What are your thoughts as we see a white house trying to get its message together particularly after that very eventful afternoon and News Conference yesterday. My initial thought is that the biggest problem for the Trump Administration has been trump. Not his staff. Not the people who surround him. But trump. I mean, no one wants him to do the Press Conference he did yesterday. He went out there and did it anyway. That was the day after what was by all accounts a fine statement on White Supremacist and racism. He decided he had to blow all that up for another set of headlines because he was missing something. Im not sure hope hicks if john kelly wasnt the answer, im not sure why hope hicks would be. Sandra she has been a
longtime person alongside the president inside this white house. Leslie, shes 28 years old. You dont hear from her or see her very much. Theres a picture of her there. She doesnt have a twitter account, for example. Shes been quiet, but she has been behind the scenes. Is this the next hope for messaging from this white house . No. Absolutely not. I think of his own family like ivanka, jared and his sons, if they cant reign him in from going off the rails like we saw yesterday, no one can. I would agree with ben that the biggest problem in the Communications Effort of this administration is the commander in chief himself, President Trump. And the problem is that he doesnt stick to i believe what he has been advised by all of those around him. He doesnt stick to what is written for him in a speech, whether its on a teleprompter or he has it in front of him on a podium. He doesnt stick to the message
they might have planned prior to him walking out and meeting with the press once the cameras are rolling and the mics are on. Again, he is causing himself the largest damage. This is obviously damaging to both the Republican Party and the Conservative Movement in the United States. Sandra attend of the day you have to ask yourself, is the president doing what is best for his party, what is best for those who voted him into office . There is polling out there that does indicate that what trump is doing does work for his voters. It works for his base. Im not sure why everyone keeps looking to his base. George w. Bush by tend of his term had a base. Looking at the base is not where you ought to be looking. You need to win over a lot of people you dont have. Right now hes in the 30 range, 35 , somewhere in there in terms of approach rating. Just appealing to the same group of people who are always going to support you. But laura ingram, a big booster
of the president , she said Last Night She Doesnt ThinkPresident Trumps agenda, very hard to see from an agenda form. If you want to broaden and deepen conservative support, i dont see how those Press Conferences like yesterday do any good. Sandra as we watch the fallout from all of this, the latest the president announcing on his twitter a short time ago that hes shutting down these two business councils. The Manufacturing Council and the ceo Advisory Forum after many, i kind of lost track, i think it was seven or eight, that had quit in the moments leading up to him saying, do you know what . Im gonna shut it down altogether. Its interesting because right after you had the fifth whether is a friend of mine, scott paul, walk away, President Trump said, oh, i have so many ceos that want to be on this council and then he shuts it down. Which is not surprising to me. I find contradiction with this president in what he says. But, with regard to what he is doing going forward, and when you look at the numbers and the polls, overall again agree