are. >> first of all, hats off to getting him to talk. in response to his claim that google is psychologically unsafe here's whatting goole said. the important part -- it doesn't mean anything goes. damore also told lori he doesn't support the alt-right and is not likely to participate in that protest for this weekend. >> there's a lot of news going on. let's get after it. president trump retweeting hours after condemning hate groups. >> racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists. >> i think what he said today was exactly right. >> three ceos are leaving

because of the president's lack of response on saturday. >> there are people who have a world view in this white house that is very fringy. >> say this has no place in american politics. >> this is new day with chris cuomo and -- >> good morning, welcome to the new day. alice son is off. poppy harlow joins me. so just hours after caving to pressure to condemn commit supremacists and other hate groups, retweeting. the president's retweets this morning sh -- we'll show them to you. he might have deleted them. >> meantime the president's failure to quickly condepartm -

thousands take to the streets here in new york city to protest the president's response. let's begin with cnn's jeff as we well. >>reporter: president trump is waking up here at trump tower for the first time since takings office. part of his working vacation here from new jersey back to new york. including a tweet he sent out over night echoing the message of a conspiracy theorist. >> only hours after attempting to quell the outrage over his initial response to the deadly violence to charlottesville, the president's retweet originated from a prolific social media user said to be a mer of the so called alt-right.

embraces misogyny and xenophobia. harassment of former hillary clinton aide. ? president seth rich. >> he has peddled a number of debunked conspiracy theories on line, including the democratic national committee was gee -- the pizza gate hoax which alleged top democrats were operating a child sex trafficking ring during last year's campaign. on monnday, the president caved to pressure condemning the groups by name. >> racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis and other

hate groups. >>reporter: cnn learn the the president insisted on addressing the economy before making these additional remarks which came two days after the death of heather heyer until charlottesville. >> they have been condemned. >> >>reporter: hours later shortly before leafing the white house, the president took aim at the media for the controversy that has now cost him the support of ceos. the president's do-over also does not appear to be enough for thousands of protests who lined the streets outside of trump

tower. >> no kkk. >> now police are bracing for more protesters here at trump tower today. you can see heavy security line including the dump trucks. the president is scheduled to hold meetings on his infrastructure plan. one adviser not here is steve bannon. who is on thin ice this morning. keeping our eye on that to see if he can with stand this latest storm. >> all right. thank you very much for the reporting. moments ago we spoke with marcus martin and marissa blair. marcus is the man you see toppled in this photo. he was in charlottesville. he was there with tmarissa. in an instant he pushed her out of the way even though he knew he was going to get hit by the

car. he suffered a broken leg and other injuries. both he and marissa knew the woman killed in the same incident. heather heyer. here's part of what we talked about this morning. >> marcus, how you feeling? how's your leg? how's your heart? >> heavy. heavy. just lot of pain. a lot could cope with. >> it is. we see that you both have the shirts on to support heather this morning. what do you want people to know about why you were there? >> because i wanted to stand up and spread love. i wasn't going to attend the rally. but then i get on facebook and i see videos of them just beating with torches. and that's what i stand for, like i stand for my black community. i stand for everything what's right. and by me being able to see

what's really going on, i couldn't allow myself not to go. >> do you remember yourself being on the street and the car coming? >> yes, sir. >> how do you remember it? >> yes, sir. the only thing i remember was we was walking up the street, and the car was just sitting there, just there. and out of know whernowhere i'm on the phone and you hear the tires screech and i look up and body as flying. if just for one split second i didn't think about myself. i thought about my fiancee. i had to protect her. i put it all on the line for her. >> did you know you were going to get hit when you moved her out of the way?

>> there was a big chance of me getting hit but i'd do it all over again to make sure everything's okay with her. >> a car coming at you. that's a deadly weapon and it took your friend's live and could have taken a lot of lives. how are you guys feeling together since that moment? >> i mean we're just happy to be together. i was telling him last night, being at the rally, being at the current prote counter protest it made me think that maybe the world isn't such a great place. maybe human beings aren't so great but every since then we've got nothing but love and support and kindness from people all over the world, people we don't even know. it just shows you there is good in the world that i'm so lucky to have someone like him to protect me. we grew to love each other more

and more each day, but this is unexplainable how much our bond has grown since then. >> what do you make of the idea that people like you and your fiancee and heather heyer who were down there to oppose the white supremacists were somehow week wa equally in the wrong for what happened? >> the only individual that's in the wrong in this whole entire situation is the guy that ran the car into a peaceful protest. there was a lot the wrong going on down there, but that protest that i was in and my fee -- we chance -- >> racists go home.

>> we don't want you here. that's all we said. i guess that led to the tragic event that occurred. and he took it upon hisself to walk out the rally, to get in his car, to find out where the good protest was going, and you find us and you run us down. and i feel multiple times that people saying he's 20 years old, it was an accident. he knew exactly what he was doing. his intentions was clear. he wanted pain. he wanted hurt. he wanted blood. that's what he was after. you come down to charlottesville, yes, everybody out there was out there as their own risk, but we was out there standing up for things we believed in. we wasn't out there to protest

hate or anything. only thing we was doing was standing up for things we believed in. that's all. that's all. >> he wasn't even going to go. the he said i saw the hate and what they were doing and on facebook and i wanted to go and stand up just like heather did. >> they're also an example of a different reality which is for those who are laboring under the misperception you had these neo-nazis that were in conflict with these groups that are equally as violent and disgusting, yes, you do have bad actors that find their way into the left. and there have been violence and other things. but, the people you were just seeing there, that was the majority of the overwhelmingly of who was there to protest against the white supremacists. that's why drawing any ekwif lens, the president making the

case that's yes needed to be measured is so offensive. >> i'm so glad they shared their stories with us. let's talk about all this in with the panel. david gregory. chr chris -- david gregory to you first. the president last night, instead of tweeting about heather or marissa, or marcus, he chose to retweet a conspiracy sheer theory. about histh -- peddled the pizza gate conspiracy which another month another guy shoots up the dcp. this in the midst of a national crisis. your take? >> well, i just think there's a pet tu lens on the part of president trump who didn't like admitting a mistake and therefore he didn't. and the mistake was a completely

unsatisfactory response to this violence over the weekend that had to be corrected. but with the guidance of some of his advisers. and to undercut that by this lack of discipline, getting on twitter. and just showing this is was something perhaps he wauz just going through the motions to do. the it makes me question the impact frankly of general kelly as chief of staff, whether the president's really listening to him, whether he wants to be a more disciplined president who's focussed on his agenda. there's no other way to look at it. that the president was kind of dragged into giving a more forceful statement. and i think it's ironic that has we talk about protecting the first amendment rights, the kkk and others who peddle this hate, they're also reaching a world view that would not offer those freedoms to other people. lest anybody get confused. i don't think the president is really absorbing this.

the it still gives them space because he doesn't want to alienate them. >> i think to add to david's point with your own, you see what matters to the president here. by his actions. what he didn't say in the first instance, how he put it the second time. what he decided to retweet. what he decided to tweet and then delete just this morning, put up a couple of other ones. look, to many people this will be funny, slash harmless, but now? on the heels of what you're trying to heal in charlottesville. he retweeted a train bashing into us. retweeted something elsewhere someone i think the president thought was being supportive of him, where he said i'm going to quit twitter because the president just retweeted me. and then someone pointed out to me that the guy's tweet was he

probably supporting arpaio because he believes he's a fascist. this is where his head is. the this is what he values. >> i always, chris i always rejected this idea no one really says it anymore but early in his presidency you have to ignore his twitter feed. even many democrats. his twitter feed is the main line into donald trump's cerebral cortex. i'll give you a some what le less -- how about yesterday. two tweets about the merck ceo who left an advisory council. zero tweets about charlottesville. it speaks to what he is focussed on and what he cares about. i kept overnight and when i got up this morning thinking about why would he retweet an alt-right conspiracy theorist who is a well known.

this guy has a following unfortunately. the reason is i think because donald trump basically divides the world into people who love him and people who hate him. if you love him and tell the story he wants to be told you're good. he doesn't go really beyond that. the it doesn't matter what else you've said or done, or if it does, well, he said something nice about me. remember his first response when asked about vladimir putin. he says nice things about me, i'll say nice things about him. that's who the guy fundamentally is. it's why he says we're fake news. because we don't report nice things about him, which of course as we know is not our job. >> so he was someone who was born in kentucky, a major area for this president. then glue up in hoe ohio. the a you said it's tempting and comforting to try to stereotype

these as a bunch of -- >> i think when you have an incident like this we try to find people who are not like us and say these ideas only belong to em this. it's convenient because it allows us to absolve ourselves of any responsibility. what worries me about the response to this particular white nationalist terrorist attack is we're trying to paint this white nationalist movement as a movement primarily of poor and working class americans when the truth is that the alt ri-ri is led by frankly pretty well educated people. it's mostly a problem for those who are doing pretty well and have good education and jobs. effectively we have to accept that racism is across the country. >> jd, let's stay with that

point. the idea that we're seeing develop here is okay, the neo-nazis, the white supremacists, they shouldn't have been down there with torches and doing violence. what about all the lefty extreme mists? i don't see where it meets the facts of this situation and i see so many people defending the white supremacists on social media. >> unfortunately in this country we're suffering from a reel problem of what aboutism. whenever somebody bad happens people automatically try to point the finger at somebody else. the there's definitely left wing violence. we saw that in president trump's vaugs. but as we just watched, that wasn't the main thing p that was happening in charlottesville.

the only bad thing that happened is is that someone was killed by a terrorist. i think we need to be able to talk about that to point the finger at that evil and name it without trying to point the finger at somebody else. >> david gregory, weigh in. >> j.d. vance is fantastic and his book is as well. not that he needs help selling it from me or anybody else. but the perspective is so important. one, there is a larger argument and feeling in this country about politics. it is about a lot of people who look up and maybe they condemn the kkk but they feel there is a kind of political correctness that elites and liberals have taken over and have marginalized them and made them into bigots when they're not. i think that's part of the undercurrent in the politics. there's another point. let's remember why these fascists were down there. it was to oppose the removal of a statue of general robert e.

lee who led the confederate courses. there's a bigger discussion to be had about america's memory of the confed rassy and why -- it's appropriate we have it. these are people, including general lee, who were enemies of america. he fought against america and to protect the enslavement of american people. first of all, the procedure context of what else was going on, and by the way, how many black families in northern virginia or throughout virginia have to send their kids to a school named after general lee or some other enemy of america who fought to ensleeve black people? this is the really conversation to have. >> you also had a other hypocrisy here. which is donald trump and people

around him are the same people who are saying you have to call muslim terror radical islamic terror. you have to call it that. >> so many times. >> yes. even though his own secretary of defense spoke to him the same wisdom of so many eothers which was don't give the terrorists ownership of a fate. it's you're giving them what they want. it's so important to name the problem, chris. and then here. the we say we didn't want to dig fi th ny fi them and give them the attention. it rings false in a frightening way. it seems almost like he was trying to defend these groups. >> he didn't want to do it. that's why he didn't. for the same reason he opened with the economy and jobs in a speech that should have been about charlottesville yesterday. he does what he wants to do. he doesn't listen -- that's why i always think we focus -- i

understand we should focus on the fact there's a new chief of staff. but the truth of the matter is donald trump does whatever he wants to do. the that's been the through-line of his entire life. he makes controversy. he is a pro vok a tour. will be for the remainder of his presidency and the rye maemaind his life. you saw yesterday, this was like when i make my 8-year-old apologize for something he doesn't really think he did wrong. yeah, i'm really sorry. this was not donald trump. this was him saying the economy is great. i'm going to talk about that. the yes i'm going to name these people but i'm going to make it clear that twice, he says, that as i've said repeatedly or because i said on saturday because he think he's already done enough and wants to make sure you know it's grudging.

that's, to david's point about a conversation and my wife tells me every day that jd, i need to be more like jd. i think what's important here is who can lead that conversation? a president. and that's why saturday was so problematic and even his response yesterday. because it's an abdication of moral leadership. that matters well beyond republican and democrat. >> jd, part of the charge of being president is to bring a country together when it is most divided. this is a president who likes to quote abraham lincoln, who likes to say we are the party of abraham lincoln but is it not his charge to do what lincoln said in his second innaug recall? and can he do is that. >> i think can he. it's question of whether he chooses to.

what bothers me is if you think about how divided this country is, the one thing or one of the few things that really unites us is the idea that nazis are bad. we are the country whose grandparents defeated the nazis so the fact this provides an opportunity for the president to go and say this is the thing that should really unite us together, and it was a missed opportunity. he chose not to dru in a enemy. chose not to say what unifies us as a country. >> it wound up creating a new division because he forced media to take it on. >> not just the media. republicans. >> true. people had to take up the conversation because he failed to to it. gentlemen, thank you so much. appreciate it. so, president trump's finally denouncing the hate groups by name. what did it do? what was the net effect of the statement you see on your

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the fact is it took two days for the president to denounce the hate groups. joining me now is the chairman of virginia's republican party. good to have you, sir. >> good morning, sir, how are you? >> i'm doing well. how do you feel the community is there in northern virginia? are you in -- we're hearing reports that charlottesville, that the memorials and vigils and what we'll see for heather heyer when her funeral procession is had that these are all helping to bring people together and move forward is that your sense? >> it's a wonderful aftermath from a terrible weekend to have the unity that we have. here in my home county, we've had v had -- people united, and in wake of a terrible tragedy it's

good to see virginia coming together. >> members of your party, as you know, stepped up against the president of the united states and called him out for not calling out the hate groups there by name. and did so themselves. what do you make of that moment? do you think the criticism was justified? >> you know, the statement that we saw on yesterday was the statement we wanted to see on saturday, but, you know, at the same time, we were as virginian as, focus pds on what was going on with all of our leadership and what they were doing to respond on the ground minute by minute. from the democrat governor who i don't give a lot of credit to but i do for this weekend. our nominee for governor, all of your elect the officials throughout virginia. the president's statement really meant a lot to us yesterday, at least from what i'm hearing from the people i talked to since then. >> and too little too late argument, do you put any stock

in a that? better late than never? >> i think i head something like 54 minutes after the beginning of the event or something like that. i think if we start parsing out how much time it took and too little and too late all the different things, we're getting away from the fact that three people died on saturday, an innocent woman and two of our police officers. i think that's the focus. the president's statement went a long way to bring us back. these people are violent hate-filled racists and have no place in our commonwealth and all have been vocal from the president on down in denouncing that and you cannot denounce these people enough. we've got to continue to get the message out. >> but isn't it point that he didn't denounce right off. he denounced on many sides, which to even the untrained ear sounded like he was creating an equation to those protesting

against the white supreme supremacists and white supremacist s themselves. he deleted a cartoon of a train running over cnn just days after the hit-and-run we all witnessed as a terror attack in charlottesville. do you believe any of that's helpful? >> well i think the most important thing we do now is to remember the people that we lost, remember the violence that occurred and i think what we do when we start talking about who did enough and said enough and tweeted what, we start getting away from that. we haven't seen anything like this in virginia in a long time and it really puts a black eye on our state. these people weren't even from virginia. >> true. >> i haven't found one person who knew someone from virginia that -- >> the people were the people protesting against him, like heather heyer and melissa and her fiancee. they went to go fight against hate and the reason i'm bringing

it up is not to distract. i believe what you ignore you empower. you have given them coverage. you know who agrees with me? they put out on their own sight they took the president's statement action affirmation and congratulations. not to not bring attention to the two troopers who lost their live the. but to emphasize they died as a result of hateful people in the form of white supremacists. the that should have been called out from jump, don't you think? >> they sure did die from hate-filled people and it's despicable. i'm very proud of the reaction of virginia's leaders. and the president's statement yesterday i think that was the right statement, the statement we would have like to have seen on saturday. when virginians are faced with adversi adversity, we rise up. i'm proud of how our leaders

have reaektected. the fact that my colleagues on the other side are standing with us frm us. it is a nonpartisan issue. >> no question about it. in a country that has really cause for divisions, one of the things most of us agree on is when it comes to hate in the form of these extreme righty groups like the white supremacists, nobody's for them. this is an obvious cause for unity. we'll stay on the story. and please come back to us and let us know how the healing goes. >> thank you. v well spoken. >> when president trump retweeted a right wing activityist who pushes conspira conspira conspiracy theories, we'll debate next.

it took two days after that violence in charlottesville for the president to finally call out these hate groups by name for what they are. just hours after doing it, he chose to retweet a conspiracy

theorist last night and retweet a violent image this morning only to delete it. the joining us now cornell williams mike brooks and former trump campaign director. it's nice to have you on such an important morning and discussion about this country. cornell, to you, the president came out and finally named these groups yesterday. and them he follows that by these retweets of conspiracy theorists. is he undoing what he finally did yesterday? >> he is undoing. but he's also maintaining a certain pattern which is to say that the president is trying to have his hate cake and eat it too. he's demonstrating a pattern of immoral and implausible deniability. what i mean by that is by giving a full throated denunciation of white nationalism yesterday, then retweeting this tweet where

the author, juxtaposes the crime in chicago, black-on-black crime, as a similarly as an excuse for anti-black racism. it's just unconscionable. we see this pattern over and over again with the alt-right. which is to say whenever there's an instance of anti-black racism and anti-semitism, it's juxtaposed with the so called black-on-black crime. this is not an accident. the president is again blowing a racial dog whistle right after he gave that denunciation of white supremacy yesterday. it fits in with a long standing pattern. which is to say the president is unwilling to give up this segment of his base. >> so, michael, you said this president has "no patient" for racism or bigotry.

did he not express that patient to call it out waiting for than 24 hours to do it yesterday and instead of tweeting about heather heyer and what she stood for or marissa and other boyfriend, heros in all of this, he's tweeting these conspiracy theorists and violent images and deleting them? >> i think the president's fur elaboration yesterday was appropriate. i expected it as i said on cnn sunday morning. i also believe his first statement was a cautious one because there are people still roaming the streets of charlottesville when he was speaking, carrying weapons, and wearing helmets and shields, and i believe -- >> hold on. the he shouldn't have been call a spade a spade and call hate what it is and call it

unamerican immediately? >> i think he did it on yesterday. >> immediately. doesn't it matter? doesn't it matter what -- >> poppy -- >> right away? >> poppy, it does, of course it does and i think the president chose his words carefully under the guidance of general kelly because there were people in the streets still ready to commit violence. if he didn't please you and the d.c. establishment, with his timing and his words, i'm sorry about that. but i think he was very clear yesterday. his statement was an elaboration -- very appropriate one and if any white nationalist watches that and still believes he represents them in any way shape or form -- >> this isn't about me or the establishment. this is about people like heather and her friend. >> that's precisely it. this is not about a d.c. establishment.

it's about main street america. and timing is everything. where the president issues this milquetoast statement at the onset and then the white house issues an anonymously source statement clarifying what the president did not say. then he does engaged in a denunciation and follows it up with this racial code whistle, if you will, today. the president is demonstrating a certain pattern, which is to say he wants to both disavow while embracing this base. note, the president took a political nanosecond to criticize kim fraser, the coe of merck but took a moral eterni eternitity to come out against

these. >> why is that? within an hour -- >> i can answer you, poppy if you give me a chance here. i believe the president's reaction was kind of akin to barack obama's reaction after the shootings in dallas when the police were put down. the he was very cautious, didn't want to go off on any person or group until they -- >> it's not caution, it's cowardice. >> i understand. i believe that you think that. but we're talking about main street america. i live on main street america. >> i live on main street america too. >> can you just let me finish? can you let me finish? >> yes, sir. >> thank you very much. on main street america, i don't think people are as focussed on what words he said and what boxes he checked the first time he spoke as they're looking at his message in total. his further elaboration that came out yesterday where he made it very clear after he had all the facts that white

nationalists and naziism are actually at fault here and have no place certainly in the republican party. also, cornell, i'll agree with you that it if republicans ant especially conservatives have a duty to call out these people when we get the chance because that has been hanging around our head inaccuratery for many years. the we need to seize those opportunities. i think the president did that but if he didn't do it according to your timing i'm sorry but where i live we're looking at it differently. >> this is a moment where the president could continue to seize that opportunity, michael and do that through his messages directly to main street on twitter. he's choosing to do something else. we're out of time. thank you very much. to the world of sports nfl commissioner roger goodell speaking out about players protesting the national anthem. what de say? we ha yeah, well it was $30 before my fees,

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the number of national anth anthem proets continues to grow. >> hi, chris, nfl commissioner was asked by a fan if anthem protests this season are "going to be another problem." . here's what he had so say. >> national anthem is a special moment to me. it's a point of pride, and it's -- that is a really important moment and i think but we also have to understand the other side, that people do have rights, and we want to respect those. >> all right. of also, yesterday, brown's head coach hugh jackson was asked how he would react. >> i think everybody has a right to do -- and i get it but the national anthem means a lot to myself personally. i would hope we don't have those issues. i under stand there's a lot going on in the world. hopefully that won't happen. i can't tell you it won't, but i just know our guy, i don't think

that's where our focus is. i hope the things going on in the world get ironed out. >> the envelonfl doesn't have a requires them to stand. we'll see players continuing to spot light this issue. >> thank you so much. coming up, a lawsuit where the plaintiff claims president trump lied about terrorism to justify the travel ban. ♪ when heartburn hits fight back fast with new tums chewy bites. fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum new tums chewy bites. no splashing! wait so you got rid of verizon, just like that? uh-huh. i switched to t-mobile, kept my phone-everything on it- -oh, they even paid it off! wow! yeah.

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related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside our country. >> our next guest says it's inaccurate and in fact he's going to sue the government for information from prove whether that data came from the justice department. the man is editor in chief -- and friend of james comey. what are the grounds for the suit? >> well the president made an arresting pair of claims in that comment that you just quoted. one was the claim that the majority of terrorism related crimes in the united states since 9/11 are committed by people who came here from overseas and the second is the first claim is based on justice department data. i believe both statements are false. i don't believe any such justice department data exists. and so in the wake of the president's claim, i requested

from the justice department under the freedom of information act, any data and co correspondence. i didn't get a response so late last week i filed a lawsuit. >> do you have standing for the lawsuit? explain that to people. >> oh, because anybody is allowed to make a request under the freedom of information act to government. and anybody who makes a request and who whose request is either denied or not acted upon within a specified period of time has standing to bring a lawsuit under the law. so there's no serious standing question here. >> so part of it is they won't give the information i want so i'm going to sue. the second part is the substance. why do you believe the president was making a false statement which i believe in specific would be that the majority of terror related crimes committed in the u.s. are committed by people from outside the u.s.

you say that's wrong. >> right. first of all, the justice department data ha have been released which only involve international terrorism cases, those data alone which we analyzed at some depth do not support the president's claim. >> hold on don't support the claim that they come from the countries that he banned? because by definition if they're international people who commit crimes they would be coming from outside the country. >> no. so that definition is wrong many not all international terrorism cases are committed by people who came here from abroad. international terrorism under u.s. law involves acts by or in coordination with international terrorist groups. those can be done by domestic people. >> like the cases we hear of when people were seen as providing support or sending money back overseas, but they are here in the u.s. or u.s.

citizens. >> correct. >> distinction i wanted you to make. >> exactly. moreover, those cases do not involve -- many of the people on the list of cases that the president may have been relying on, though i'm not sure -- were actually extradited to the united states for trial from abroad. so they're literally people we imported to prosecute, not people who came here and committed acts of violence or terrorism. moreover it ignores critically all cases like what happened in charlottesville over the weekend, which are domestic terrorism cases. so i don't believe the underlying factual claim is true, and i also don't believe that any justice department data could reasonably be said to support it. and so that's -- what the purpose of the lawsuit is to find out is the president right? both about the underlying facts and about the justice

department? or am i right? >> all right. benjamin. thank you very much. we'll keep an eye on the lawsuit. let us know of updates. you kncnn news room picking next. ve. winds stirring. too treacherous for a selfie. [ camera shutter clicks ] sure, i've taken discounts to new heights with safe driver and paperless billing. but the prize at the top is worth every last breath. here we go. [ grunts ] got 'em. ahh. wait a minute. whole wheat waffles? [ crying ] why!

good morning everyone john berman here for the first time since taking offers president trump woke up in new york this morning, the city that never sleeps and he used the extra wake time for tacit outreach for the group he might feel like he has neglected. conspiracy ne conspiracy theorists. he did say racism is evil but overnight. he retweeted a message from