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Tonight more fall-out from president trump's charlottesville comments. a group of rab b's has canceled a traditional call with the president saying his words in the wake of the violence were lacking in moral leadership. this is just the latest in a string of groups cutting their ties to the white house. two of the ceo councils disbanded. the entire arts council quit. several members of the national infrastructure advisory council sit. his comments also appear to be taking business away from his mar-a-lago golf club. two more charities canceled events at the club, bringing the total to 18 organ...

He seems to get. we're seeing it now. the more he feels embattled, the more he lashes out and creates greater problems. i have one other concern, wolf. that is, as much as i respect general clapper, the thing he left hanging is what we should do about it. he said, i don't think he's fit for office, but he had no real answer to that. and the inference was that somehow there should be some effort to remove him, or at least that's how some people would have heard it. and i think we have to be very, very careful when we have these discussions because we have a system, a constitutional system, and ...

Chaos of washington is every day getting worse. >> listen to how the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, who served, by the way, under 10 american presidents responded to president trump's speech last night. >> i really question his ability to -- his fitness to be in this office. and i also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it. maybe he is looking for a way out. having some understanding of the levers that a president can exercise, i worry about frankly access to the nuclear codes. >> access to nuclear codes. so if the former dni, director of national intelli...

The fact of the matter is the president should have been clear the first time and we still wouldn't need to have this conversation, but donald trump cannot let things go. he cannot just let it lay. as preston said, he needs to settle scores. he feels that republicans have wronged him by going after him after he made his remarks, saying that there were some fine people in these white supremacist gatherings. and call him out for being wrong. and donald trump, this gets under his skin. this wasn't about america, this wasn't about uniting the country, this was about donald trump. message disciplin...

Seems totally either incapable or uninterested in doing that. >> this is a very sensitive moment, and you hear words like that from general clapper and it's going to encourage others to follow suit. >> yeah, i got to tell you, i agree with david here when it comes to removing him from office. that is extremely dangerous talk. we've seen members of congress talking about trying to impeach him or that he should get knocked out. the only way that's ever going to happen is if the republican and democratic leaders and rank and file members come together, wolf, on capitol hill, and for some reason t...