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Mccain but also the defense of his statements to date about why nationalism and the accusations now of him not doing enough regarding the idea of white supremacy. you remember, president obama in '08 after being elected did not want to have to do it necessarily, had to come out and talk about race. is that something that this presidency is being asked to do? what is the talk right now? >> yeah. mick mulvaney acting chief of staff asked directly on the morning talk shows. whether the president would do that. mulvaney wouldn't commit either way pup get a sense that wasn't in the plans. put this ...

President trump calling him a symbol of white renewed identity and common purpose. jim acosta is at the white house for us tonight. jim, has the white house said anything about the reference to the president in this so-called manifesto? >> reporter: the president was asked about it and he said he hadn't read it. kellyanne conway was urging reporters to read the entire manifesto and there were parts that said that this killer was an ecoterrorist and so on. she was looking past the language in this manifesto that was describing the president as sort of a hero to people who identify with their wh...

They are part of a larger disease of intolerance that has taken hold on what was thought to be the most tolerant, the most open, the most welcoming country the world had ever known. >> reporter: before the mosque attack, authorities say the killer in new zealand wrote a long manifest owe, describing the president as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose. they are blasting the notion the president's rhetoric had anything to do with the violence in new zealand. >> not a terrorist or nazi. he is a ruthless killer and he is to blame. >> reporter: questions are raised about what the...

States. >> is it any surprise that the alleged shooter in new zealand wrote this about donald trump in his so-called manifesto. he asks himself, border? and he answers himself, that's a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose. sure. his own words. words matter. it matters when president trump downplays the real emergency of global white supremacist terrorism. it matters when he ignores the real emergency of climate change. even as students around the world took to the streets today to demand action. this president focused on a manufactured emergency at the border instead of the rea...

Ago. and he explained his own breaking point came in 2017, the french presidential election of what he describes as an anti-white ex-banker, and the terror-related death of an 11-year-old swedish girl, run down by a muslim terrorist in a stolen truck in stockholm, a crime he writes he could no longer ignore. in his 87 pages, the suspect does make one reference to donald trump. he writes, are you a supporter, asking himself, as a symbol of renewed white identity, and common purpose, he answers, sure. as a policy maker and leader, dear god, no. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. >> thanks, drew. now ...