Actions. and as you have heard many others have said, removing a number of people off his staff, for example, bannon and others. clearly demonstrate that. i think he can even go beyond that and make what is happening very concerning in this country, which is domestic violence, hate and the type of violence that is being posed from one americans to others buzz of a different belief is unacceptable. we re a much greater nation than this, and he s got to do something different. thanks, don. thank you. absolutely. when you see people marching, no hoods, no sheets, you wonder how many walk among us every day we don t even know about it. thank you all. that s it for us tonight. thanks for watching. i ll see you right back here tomorrow.
You ll see what he s been up to this afternoon. he s been attacking the media for reporting on what other republicans are saying about his statement. he s been attacking the african-american ceo of a publicly traded company. and he has been all over the map here. there has not been a follow-through on his comments denouncing white supremacists and about unity. none of that. i think many people are probably rightfully holding back because you never really know what s going to happen on twitter a couple of minutes or hours after the president delivers remarks from a teleprompter in the west wing. let s look at some of these, okay, david. don, let me say something about that you mention there had a minute ago about the journalism of all this and people being unwilling to say it publicly. i ve been a reporter in washington for more than 50 years. i have never ever in 50 years heard people talk about the
Roll out his economic package today as a signal that look, the death in charlottesville matters but i m going to talk about something else first. it all depends how much of trump you want to study. but it was welcomed today that the president i thought, don, made those remarks. but the question is, is he just trying to get it out of his hair, blame the media, call it a pr problem or can he have some kind of epiphany to realize that the birther movement and his talk of the wall and his disrespect to latinos and latinas and on and on, whether the lgbt issue he brought out of nowhere a week ago to create disunity in our country, whether charlottesville woke him up. did he have an epiphany. i down the ubt it. we ll wait and see. michael, in his first statement he talked about a need to cherish our history. we must love each other, in
I would ask was preparation made for this type of crowd. there was clear evidence, don, they were going to have problems with this crowd. and should better precaution could have been taken here again, i don t want to second-guess this chief. i know what it s like to be in that position but those are going to be the questions that s going to have to be answered. chris, i got to tell you, according to a bulletin obtained by foreign policy magazine confirmed by cnn, the fbi and department of homeland security issued an intelligence bulletin about the growing threat from the white supremacist groups earlier this year. the fbi and dhs and dhs believe that members of the white supremacist movement likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year. do we have a growing terror threat here at home that people are now the focused enough on? yeah. chris? i m sorry. go ahead. that s a good question, don. is that for me? that s for chris. yeah, that s a good question, don. i question whether we re
Hasn t taken any responsibility, don, for his role any energizing the white supremacist movement. he makes it seem like he didn t have anything to do with it. he needs to take some responsibility. i think he needs to fire mr. bannon, the person who proudly claimed that he made breitbart the platform of the alt-right and made richard spencer a hero. and then i think he needs to take some concrete actions to undo the damage that he s done, starting, of course, with taking telling the federal agencies to take white supremacy seriously. merely condemning it is not enough. cedric, one of the main criticisms leveled at law enforcement, it s been officers saying the protesters that they sort of stood back. is that protesters on opposing sides that they weren t kept separately that they weren t separated that they had the chance to get too close together. what do you think of that? that caused all of this just to
President of the united states in the way that members of congress and in the military and in the intelligence community are now talking about him. and there is a way to report this story. we don t know the extent, how pervasive this view of him being unfit is, but it s a real story. it s not going to be people speaking on the record with their names. but we ought to be going out and talking to all members of congress, all members high up in the pentagon who we can reach and do a story that says what we found. maybe my observations are somewhat wrong if there s pushback. but let s find out as reporters because i think it s the real story and we ve never seen anything like this. go ahead, david. don, i don t think it s that hard to do. if you talk to republicans on the hill, the way they talk about the president six months in is that this is somebody who is new to politics and new to governing and still figuring everything out. so you ve got to cut him some slack. i feel like a year ago, six
There now with cedric alexander, the author of the new guardians. and richard cohen, the president of the southern poverty law center. and chris zwecker, investigative director for the criminal investigative division. i got to tell you, before i get to the police response, the police would not have been out there had these hateful people not entered the streets. richard, what did you want to say about the situation and how the president responded? well, you know, look, the president has finally condemned white supremacy. and the problem isn t that he was late in doing it. the problem wasn t that he did it under pressure. the problem is that he still hasn t taken any responsibility, don, for his role in energizing the white supremacist movement. he makes it seem like he didn t have anything to do with it. he needs to take some responsibility. i think he needs to fire mr. bannon, the person who proudly claimed that he made breitbart the platform of the alt-right and made richard spencer a hero.
Supremacists and nazis is not hard. so for.(sthere s a lot of frustration. they re waiting for some of the dust to settle to see where this goes but you know, if you re a republican right now, you re looking closely at the president s twitter account. you ll see what he s been up to this afternoon. he s been attacking the media for reporting on what other republicans are saying about his statement. he s been attacking the african-american ceo of a publicly traded company. and he has been all over the map here. there has not been a follow-through on his comments denouncing white supremacists and about unity. none of that. i think many people are probably rightfully holding back because you never really know what s going to happen on twitter a couple of minutes or hours after the president delivers remarks from a teleprompter in the west wing. let s look at some of these, okay, david. don, let me say something
Of race. given that history, were you surprised that his original statements over the weekend that they were so weak? i wasn t surprised. i mean, we ve talked a lot, don, over the past year how he s one part you know george wallace, donald trump. he s got joe mccarthy in him, gerald k. smith, father coughlin. he beats a fascist drum often and annever wants to criticize anybody on the alt-right. he sees them as his food soldiers. he does it only reluctantly and he tried to my mouth it over the weekend and it didn t work. the public s outraged. august 12th is going to be marked as a time when the name donald trump is forever kind of associated with indifference towards hate crimes, towards neo-nazi. so it s a real low ebb and a president that s had miserable months but this means that people i think many republican senators don t really even want to be in a photo op with hip at
About that you mention there had a minute ago about the journalism of all this and people being unwilling to say it publicly. i ve been a reporter in washington for more than 50 years. i have never ever in 50 years heard people talk about the president of the united states in the way that members of congress and in the military and in the intelligence community are now talking about him. and there is a way to report this story. we don t know the extent, how pervasive this view of him being unfit is, but it s a real story. it s not going to be people speaking on the record with their names. but we ought to be going out and talking to all members of congress, all members high up in the pentagon who we can reach and do a story that says what we found. maybe my observations are somewhat wrong if there s pushback. but let s find out as reporters because i think it s the real story and we ve never seen anything like this. go ahead, david. don, i don t think it s that hard to do. if you talk to republicans on the hill, the way they talk