Andrew young. And plus those white supremacist in charlottesville. News will not replace us. Well take an inside look at last weeks mayhem and at the men behind the march. Sadly because of our rivals are a bunch of stupid animals that we dont pay attention. They could not get away from the car. Also, a debate, is it better to ignore kkk or con frofront t. Joining me is Eugene Robertson and Donna Edwards and and peggy noonan point welcome to sunday, it is meet the press. The longest Television Show in history celebrating its 70th year, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning, years from now this is not remembered as a week that steve bannon left the white house. His departure may have consequence in the months to come. He was widely expected even by him. This was the week for choosing sides. President trump seems to choose his. Though this may not have been his intention. The president s equivocation over to blame. Here are the cover of three national magazines. Some may seem liberal biassed and the economists on the right often does reflect international. The largest in boston were some 40,000 people gathered and 33 people were arrested for mostly disorderly misconduct. Mr. Trump chose to be the president over red america over the country healing. Democrats have it easy. Their voters expect them to criticize this president. The elected leadership are desperate to criticize but quietly waiting for permission slip for voter to speak out. All of this for another typical week for President Trump both sides now to the bannons white house exit. Days after the president would not commit to keeping him on. Mr. Bannon came on very late. I went through 17 senators and governors and i won all the primaries. Steve bannon is out. Captured on the cover of Time Magazine and saturday night live where bannon was the puppeteer pulling the president s string. And casualty of the fight he started inside the white house. Now, bannon tells the Weekly Standard, the trumps presidency that we fought for and won is over. I feel jacked up and now i am free. I got my hands back onto my weapon. That weapon, bannon is back on breitbart. Many believes that President Trump and not steve bannon is the problem. The president has not yet able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. He also recently have not demonstrated that he understand the character of this nation. What we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority. Moral authority compromised when tuesday happened. This after trumps bla blamed b sides. They came at each other with club and vicious. You had many people in that group other than neo nazis and white nationalists. Former mitt romney called for the president to apologize. Mr. Trumps response should not be a surprise. A year ago, bannon was brought into where i a campaign that was flaring after mr. Trump refused to stop attack a muslim gold father. I was viciously attacked on the Democratic NationalConvention Stage by mr. Khan and i responded. 18 months ago, mr. Trump failed to confront white nationalists on the campaign trail i dont know anything about what you are talking about White Supremacy or White Supremacists. Six years ago, mr. Trump launched his career with the false claim that the first africanamerican president was not born in the United States. You are not allowed to be a president if you are not born in this state the white house was unable to unwilling to provide a guest right down in the press secretary. One republican who is willing to talk is jc watt. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for having me back. Why is it easy for you to come out. You are here this morning. Why do you think so many of your former colleagues who currently are the leaders of the Republican Party are hesitant . Well, chuck, i said earlier in the week that i am not concerned of what others are thinking or what they are saying. My conscious would not allow me to keep quiet and when i was asked, my thoughts on this issue, i chose to speak out simply because i think all president s have what we call and what i call right now moments and everybody, republicans and democrats and every president is going to have a right now moment. I think President Trump had a right now moment last weekend and i dont think he responded the right way. Reverend Martin Luther king say, i am an air to rope, fire and murder. He said i am not angry about that. I am not ashamed of that. I am ashamed at those that would be so inhumane that they would do that to other human beings. When circumstances like last weekend happened, i think we need more clarity, a president speaks for himself or his values and those right now moments and he speaks for the values of our country and you saw the exodus and many people replies, those are not our values of the country. We have someone from the president Faith Council that resigned. Reverend bernard out in new york. I am quite disappointed. Chuck, we did not have more on the Faith Council to resign or at least speak out and so i just felt like when you ask me, would i . I said that i would be delighted and come and share my thoughts. Let me ask you this, it sounded like you think the president lost moral authority, how does he regain it . Well, chuck, i think any president always has to have multiple advisers in council. I think thats important. Not only should you have them, you should listen to them and when i dont know anyone in a circle would be able to say to him, mr. President , when it comes to civil rights and race issues, let me give you some hindsights and some insights and foresights on these issues. The last several months, he has more than one right now moment. When you coronet to gintinue to impression that you dont understand of being the president of the world. Those are the values of your country. People around the world takes note. It feels like the party is stuck politically. We are a little bit stuck as a country. What you are saying o f the president and you are not alone and being concerned about this. How do we get unstuck or repudiate in his comment or some people misheard him to be genero generous. Chuck, one thing i will agree with President Trump is this. The racial divide did not just happen when donald trump got ele elected. They did not just happen when president obama got elected. They were heightened and intensified over president obama and it carried over the trumps administration. Jc watts as an elected official and a leader if you will and president obama or President Trump, we all have obligation as leaders to not put salt in the wounds and bring a decency and respect to the wound. When you have people like my 2yearold granddaughter because of her skin color would say she should be eradicated or on the face of earth. We dont want to live in harmony with her. Chuck, she does not know those people. When any of us speak to the side of evil or we maybe intentionally given the impression that we are siding with the evil thats a tough ditch to get out of. If you are serving in congress and you are in leadership, how would you handle President Trump right now. Would you try to work with him . If he does not repudiate, would you have this uncomfortable distance from him . Whats your advice to paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell to these folks . First of all, there is opportunities to use your words to repudiate the president over the last seven or eight months and obviously, during the campaign. He got elected so hes the president. And over the last several months, there is opportunities to disagree with the president on many issues and you know this is not a time for us to be afraid of being tweeted. You know this is not a time to suppress our conviction. I know a lot of those members of congress and they dont think like that. They dont think the way the White Supremacists or the kkk. However, if you are silent, they wear the cap of intentionally or unintentionally, they wear the cap saying we agree with that and thank god for being sad or rand paul or john mccain or lyndsey graham. Those members came out and said we totally disagree with that. Thats not who we are and not the country that we live in and not the party that we want to represent. Jc watts, i am going to leave it there. Congressman from oklahoma, good to see you, sir. I appreciate it. Yesterday i spoke with one of the early leaders, andrew young. He was the executive director of the southern leadership conference, afterwards, he was also the u. S. Ambassador of the united nation. Today hes chairman of the Andrew Youngs foundation. When i spoke to him, i asked him to put of this weeks in context. We originally redeem the soul of america from the triple evils of race, war and poverty. Most of the issues we are dealing now are poverty. We still want to put everything in a racial context. The reason i feel uncomfortable condemning the plan type. Theyre almost the poorest of the poor. Theyre the forgotten americans. They have been used and abused and neglected. Instead of giving them affordable healthcare, they give them jobs and theyre happy. That does not make sense in tod todays world. They see progress in the black community and television and everywhere else. It is not our fault. We had a struggle from slavery but theyre not militants, theyre chicken. We never try to take advantage of anybody else. Our job was not to put down white people. Our job is to whip everybody up together to come so that we would learn to live together rather than perish together. It feels like we are in a moment where we are stuck and we are stuck for a lot of reasons. The president , you have some even said that there is a growing folks who lost his moral authority to be a healer in all this and to help with reconciliation of all this because of what he did. If he called you this week, how would you tell him to fix it . I dont know what i would say. I think hes caught in a trap. I dont think there is any easy answers. Whats the trap . Hes still politicking and thinking nationally. And so is everybody else, including those whos thinking back and blame it on the civil war hundreds of years ago. The problem that we have is we are not living in a nationalist environment. His business is all global. His business is in a Global Economy and hes trying to run the country from a national economy. You just say, you dont know what you dont know how he can get out of his trap. What would you tell him now . I dont know. For instance, i think i mean it is hell to pass a bill and hell to change an attitude. And almost any changes i tell you what, i admire his family the things that the president had to do is think of the american people. I try to think of him as a potential leader and not as the United States. A leader of the free world and of the enslave world. You co you come from the Non Violent Movement that was successful. What do you say to those activists to generations later who thinks violence is the right way. No, it is more than five generations later. There is those who thought violent then. They were killed by their own anger and inability. And if i swung back at it, he would slap me on my head. Dont get mad, get smart and that served me well. It served me walking in the midst of the clan and alone at night without a gun and without Police Protection and the only reason that i did was the only ones who were courageous enough to go with me and insisted that go with women and children. The men, you know hide behind all kinds of solutions but we have to keep our eyes on the prize. And the prize is not vengeance, not getting even but the prize is redemption. Also, mr. Young, the confederate symbol debate. He says removing these symbols can be more trouble. Because of that, it stayed lost millions of dollars. The shocking video that charlottesville violence. Throughout the broadcast, well bring you comments from people that we spoke to this week in kentucky state fair in lewisvill louisville. You cannot rewrite history. A symptom of much of a problem. It is at the top to tear down part of our history because you cannot erase it. You. Woah. Flo and jamie here to see hqx. Flo and jamie request entry. Slovakia. Triceratops. 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One of the things we were talking zaabout and you showed, thought were fabulous interview with jc watts who were so brazen and an grew young who seems so wise at a grandfatherly putting the sub texas of the questioning is has the president lost his moral authority because of the events in the past week. I thought about that and i think the problem for him is that he did not lose his moral authority because he did not have moral authority and you cannot lose what you do not have. The whole twist tale of the first seven months of his presidency is i know i am unusual and i am different and i have things that have been offensive to people in my past and however, i am going to grow into this figure who was a serious moral. Serious guy. This was a moment that he did not do that. One of the baseline things that you want from the president during the crisis is you want a calm in the storm. You want a stable center, you dont want a guy who loses his temper and starts talking like this and gets defensive and making everything terrible and further apart. Well, you cannot lose or have more authority, you have to have more accomplice and more saying. I see no evidence that donald trump has that. He flips from issue to issue and position to position and what he probably sees as a big pragmatic way and pragmatic to and disaster and amoral. And it was maya angelou says if someone shows you who you are, why dont you believe them. He showed to us time and time again. Steve hayes, whether he spendind or not, he did not mean what we heard. We heard from a reality. Good grief. Pretty tough of what happened with donald trump this past week. Here is the bigger question. Donald trump is pleased with where we are at this moment. He looks at the praise that hes got and he looks at the em behold embolderment of the White Supremacists. He looks around and hes happy about that. Steve bannon says this was a turning point for the presidency in a positive direction. So it is not that the president made the mistake but the president compounded the mistake by the way he handled it since. Hes going to say you know what, i repudiate what i said. There should not be any confusion of how i feel about this group. Hes happy and those of us who have fought the identity of politics of the left for many years, it is incredibly discouraging of this embrace of the right. All right, i am going to go back to the same question that i asked jc watts and jodonald you. Donna edwards. We can see that over the course of the last week and demonstration and the moving remark by susan bro the country has a moral compass even in the president does not. Thats how he moved past this. We have a president who started in his early days in business to the birthism and campaigning as president. Hes the same president as he was the same man, i dont think thats going to change. I think we should no longer expect what we expect in the president in moments like this. I think ronald reagan, for example, after the challenger disaster where he came on a beautiful speech that you wrote for him, and an amazing moment, well never get it from donald trump, we just wont. I dont think people seriously look to President Trump for that. They look for reaction and theyre always curious and always looking for a statement for moral leadership and look the way they looked and charlott charlotte, carolina, the day afterwards. It was during the bond hearing of the shooter because the family of the dead showed up and showed who they were as americans and instead it was heartbreaking. I forgive you, i hate what you did but i love you. The president amplified those moments and he did not do that. You know what, there are more of us who dont engage in hate than there are with others. Thats our moral authority. Yes a nice note to end on. Well be back in a moment. More on this, getting more politics for some things here. The men behind the margins, charlottesville, it is a little tough to watch. Just going to warn you. Warn yo. Jews will not replace us jews will not replace us im here to spread ideas, talk in the hopes that somebody more capable will come along and do when heartburn h