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Those comments and those demonstrations. i want to ask you what is a difficult question. trump has several advisors who are jewish. steve ma knew shin. do you believe that they need to be more outspoken, take more of a public stand, if not against the president personally, against the comments that the president made in the wake of charlottesville. >> i don't think it is the responsibility of the jewish members of the administration to beat back bigotry, hate and anti-semitism in all forms. i think it is the responsible of all americans. and most important, the buck stops with the president of...

And for the president of the united states to draw a false equivalency between those anti-semimites and the very people who were peacefully protesting against bigotry was reprehensible and we couldn't hold the call. >> i want to make clear to our viewers it is disturbing and part of an interview with one of the white nationalists at the charlottesville rally. have a listen. >> i'm here to spread ideas, talk in the hopes that somebody more capable will come along and do that, somebody like donald trump who does not give his doubt tore daughter woubaughter to a jew. i don't think you can feel ab...

Now, from the president's point of view, he likes to be seen as unpredictable and he also tweeted today he has the capability to change his tone on the drop of a dime. so in many ways the people that are looking at this, like james clapper and saying this is an indication this is someone who's unfit for office from the president's view, he sees that as a strength. >> well, it is coming from more than one party as well. outfront tonight, john avalon, shannon, the white house reporter for bloomberg news and shawn turner, a long time intelligence officer who served as jim clapper's spokesperson. ...

Of the letter that director clapper sent to trump with that first intelligence briefing and of course that he composed to hillary clinton as well to whoever would win. what message was he trying to send? >> yeah, sure, jim. i should point out this is the kind of thing that jim clapper is known for. i worked for him for many years and it was not unusual for him to sit down and write a letter to an employee or to someone in a position of leadership when he thought as though he needed to say something that needed to come from him personally. first of all, the insinuation and the president's tweet...

>> understands the character of this nation. outside of those comments, corker has been generally supportive of president trump, voting along with the president nearly 90% of the time. this according to statistical analysis website. he w he is not alone in publically questioning the president's stability. the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, who has served under ten presidents, democrats and republicans, expressed blunt doubts about the president's fit ps for office right here on cnn. >> i don't know when i have listened and watched something like this from a president ...