total u.s. coal production. >> and coal mining advocates say studies that show a link between cancer and mining don't take into account other lifestyle factors. it's also worth pointing out officials in west virginia actually asked for the study to be bun. the chris? >> that's an important point thank you very much. we're following a lot of news. what do you say? let's get after it. >> if you want to discover the source of the division in our country, look no further than the fake news. >> th issue of charlottesville is the albatross around this administration's neck. >> they're trying to take away our culture and they've got clubs and everything. antifa. >> i found this down right scary and disturbing. i worry about frankly access to nuclear code. >> the president would very much like the president was and almost every one of his rallies. >> we were just one vote away from victory. >> the president had more kind

words for the leader of north korea than he did for a war hero who was fighting brain cancer. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn coma rat ta. >> this is new day wednesday august 23rd, 8:00 here in new york. president trump fiery and described by many as unhinged, accusing the media of distorting his words on charlottesville and violence. except the president conveniently his own blame of many sides. last night he also omitted that he had said that very fine people marched with white supremacists. >> be clear, this was a new low. he played his supporters for fools. we all know what he did and did not say and he will be called out for it, period because what you ignore, you em power. there are also political attacks

last night. his party had to hear him attack the two gop senators from where the trump rally was held. also have learned that mitch mcconnell has not spoken in week. joining us david gregory, margaret tal leb and timothy o'brian, the author of trump nation, the art of being the donald. david gregory, we have said it before but it has never been more true than it was last night, which was this was him at his worst. >> right. his most destructive, most self-destructive, the president willfully lying to a narrow bapds of his supporters and as you said trying to play them for fools, trying to turn americans against the news media. doing so deliberately, cynically in an effort to try to lessen the impact of what he has done

to himself as president. the when you hear the majority leader mitch mcconnell saying privately that he wonders whether trump can salvage his presidency, these are self-inflicted wounds. president trump made the decision to say that there was a blame on many sides. and that there were many good people among the neo-nazi and racists and anti-semits that were in charlottesville. he's got chaos within the west wing. sel self-described great businessman can't run his staff. that's all his doing. it's not the media's fault. you may have a problem with the news media. that's not the media's false. that's where the media will play a role to point that out and judge him guest his own promises. >> let's play his original words about charlottesville and then how he tried to amend them last night. listen to this.

>> here's what i said on saturday. we're closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. this is me speaking. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. that's me speaking on saturday. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry on many sides. it's been going on for a long time in our country. >> so, tim o'brian, why de omit the on many sides last night, which was the very part that had so much human -- >> and the good people were there on both sides as well. >> because he's been getting away with this for decades. this is not a new donald trump. donald trump has been a race-baiter for decades going back to the central park jogger case in the late 1980s, this is a man who inserted himself into

a racially politically charged situation. by taking ads out accusing the alleged assailants of crimes they hadn't been convicted of committing. he was part of the birther movement against obama. trump's positioning on race and social issues attendant to race is not a new phenomenon. secondarily he spent a long business career and public career getting away with flagrant boasts, nattoflat-out . it's not new. i think what's new is he's in a forum where large institutions have to decide whatter' going to stand up for. whether it's the judiciary, media or the gop. >> where are we on that? we keep calling out leaders? what are you going to do.

paul ryan was on the town hall. he said after the president' speech about afghanistan what he should have said last week. now they're dealing with another opportunity the president materially misrepresented what he said. he doubled down once again on a negative message. how is it playing within his own ranks and d.c.? >> it's become much more complicated by the president's apparent willingness to take on mitch mcconnell, senator majority leader, some of these long standing republican incumbents who face primary challenges. what we saw last night of course was messaging to the base between the wink wink nod nod on behalf of the likelihood of his pardon. in terms of many of these issues, the problem of course is that the president, just because you have a rally at 10:00 p.m. east coast time to talk to your base, it doesn't mean you can

only talk to your base. of course you're talking to all of the united states. so the question increasingly is was thewhat the republican leadership is willing to do. until then the calculation is president trump's success is their success and they're tied together. if it you see republican leadership begin to calculate that may no longer be the case you could potentially see a change. i think we need to see what happens when everyone comes back from the august recess. >> another interesting calculation is what he decided to do in attacking arizona senators in their own backyard. >> republicans. >> republicans. so here he is talking about jeff flake and john mccain. >> we were just one vote away from victory after seven years of everybody proclaiming repeal and replace. one vote away. but you know, they all said,

mr. president, your speech was so good last night, please, please, mr. president, don't mention any names. so i won't. i won't. no, i won't. one vote away. i will not mention names. very presidential, isn't it? and nobody wants me to talk about your other senator who's weak on borders, weak on crime, so i won't talk about him. >> so, david, how's this battle going to play out with the republican arizona senators? >> you know, i don't know. i mean it is really remarkable to hear a republican president going to arizona, the state of barry gold water and trash its two republican senators, both pretty conservative on foreign policy matters and other matters

as well. i think this is the critical question. president trump, aside from the temperament issues, stability questions, and his judgment, as a republican, has become an increasingly isolated figure. he is running against the republican party, running against the stabment. he did that in the campaign. as president, he's actively in a hot war with the senator majority leader mitch mcconnell. he'll take on paul ryan if necessary. taking on jeff flake who is the junior senator he was referring to who's written a book about reclaiming the soul of conservativism in the republican party. >> i don't know if -- whether conservatives and the establishment of the party band together to reclaim some agenda back. look, president trump still promised to accomplish things. he promised that he would get

infrastructure done. health care reform done. repealing obamacare. and tax reform done. so far, he's come up empty. and those are facts that he's going to have to contend with politically. >> sad reality is there are people in that crowd last night who are desperate for better out of their wage structure, from the leaders and the president's been making it about him and his own personal battle.. will they get their interest served in we don't know. now, i don't know if this is a good thing or bad but hillary clinton reenters the fray. we have the excerpt of her book. the we're going to play her recounting of that now infamous scene. the i think it was the second debate while trump was looming belined h behind her while she was speaki speaking. >> this is not okay, i thought. it was a second presidential

debate, and donald trump was looming behind me. two days before the world heard him brag about groping women. now, we were on a small stage and no matter where i walked, he followed me closely, staring at me, making faces. it was incredibly uncomfortable. he was literally breathing down my neck. my skin crawled. it was one of those moments where you wish you could hit pause and ask everyone watching, well, what would you do? do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he weren't repeatedly invading your space? or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly, back up, you creep. get away from me. i know you love to intimidate women, but you can't intimidate me. so back up. i chose option a. i kept my cool, aided by a

lifetime of dealing with difficult men throwing to throw me off. i did, however, grip the microphone extra hard. i wonder, though, whether i should have chosen option b. it certainly would have been better tv. maybe i have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched first, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world. >> okay. that's insightful, i think, and interesting to hear her take on that. because option b would have been better tv, obviously, and better i think that the -- obviously her supporters would have loved for her to turn around and say back up, you creep. but she explains, in her -- why she sort of never does that. that's not her model. >> isn't it interesting, as you know well, if she had schoezen

option b, how many people would say she was so aggressive and so nasty and so unlady like. you don't have to be hillary clinton as a woman, as you know, as i know from my wife and other women in my life, to be in a position where men speak to you in a way that can or look to you in a way in a is men acing, unwelcome or dismissive. you may go into a cocktail party and nobody asks you what you do or doesn't care about what you think. i thought her use of the words trying to throw me off in a professional setting where they don't treat you the same way. i think there's so much truth that hillary clinton is speaking there and i'm really interested in hearing more about those experiences as a women and the very difficult walk that she had trying to portray the toughness of her president shl candidate while also dealing. >> also had a complicated affect on the election. there were people who were for hillary clinton. there were also people so against her that it wound up being a proxy for a trump vote,

margaret. there's so many trump supporters who, when they have to deal with his shortcomings, and his personal failures, as president, they say yeah, but i was never going to vote for hillary clinton. >> yeah. i think, you know, one of the questions that's going to emerge with the publicity around the book is to what end is all of this intra spec shn? about hillary clinton trying to burn nish or adjust her own legacy or supposed to be a life line of fast-forward to the democratic party, which could use it right now in terms of motivation and organization. the and so, just as we heard the president at this rally last night try to explain to everybody what he was really doing and what he really meant to try to sort of dial down the criticism around the way he handle the charlottesville, they're two different situations but i think in this case we're seeing hillary clinton try to explain to people these were the things that you couldn't see. these were the things i was

thinking. the question now is what are american voters supposed to do with that information and what are democrats supposed to do with that information going forward? >> di think it's interesting because she rarely allows a window into your inner thinking and thoughts. that was interesting to hear her. we all watched that moment and had to wonder what were they both thinking. >> so her credit i think historically she has had very good strong spine and strength of character standing up to the face of these kinds of issues. think the larger thing going on is the democrats have a post hilly probl hill larry problem. and how is the gop going to confine contemporary conservative tichl. i think that's the political may laze we're all in now. >> the proposition meets this em all e. both the same way. time to define who you are and what you're about and go out and

fight for it. >> i think we're also going to be looking for accountability from hillary clinton in all of this introspection. >> what does she own? it it comes out in a couple weeks. then we'll know. i think september 12th is the day i'm being told. thank you very much. president trump blaming us for distorting his words about charlottesville. blaming the media is not new. but the president has created a matter of fact. and we will take you through the facts and you can decide who is wright and w right and who is not. next. shawn evans: it's 6 am.

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ask your doctor about neulasta onpro. all right so this is not about a matter of opinion. it's about a matter of fact. president trump started last night's rally with the right message. about the violence in charlottesville. >> tonight this entire arena stands united in forceful condemnation of the thugs who perpetrate hatred and violence. >> here's the problem. after he said that, he did all he could to dissolve that unity by distorting reality and blaming those responsible for calling him out. >> but the very dishonest media, those people right up there with all the cameras, they don't report the facts. just like they don't want to report that i spoke out forcefully against hatred,

bigotry and violence and strongly condemned the neo-nazis, the white supremacists and the kkk. >> so, we have a matter of fact here. i will now play for you what the president said that he said after charlottesville. >> here's what i said on saturday. we're closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. this is me speaking. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. that's me speaking on saturday. >> now this is not an edit. he was done. that's what he said that he said. but the problem is he omitted things. and he did so on purpose. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. le on many sides. >> those were the most important

words, because it drew a moral equivalence between nazis and those opposing them. that was the whole point. he left it out. not a coincidence. the what about those people he so condemns? >> i hit them with everything. i got the white supremacist, i neo-nazi, i got them all in there. kkk. we have kkk. the i got them all. >> well, here's what i said about those very same people when pressed by cnn's jim acosta. >> you had some very bad people in that group. but you also had people that were very fine people. you had people in that group that were there to protest the taking do you know of, to them, a very, very important statue. >> who -- what fine people protest with white supremacists? even if you went there with a pure heart to talk about the statue, when you saw what was going on, you would leave and that's why there is no proof, whether it's visor the reporters

on the ground or anything you can find that shows there was some parallel pure movement there that was just about the statue. the statue was a ruse and the people there were hateful. these are those people. >> jews will not replace us. jews will not replace us. >> enough of them. that's what they were saying. it wasn't about the statue. it was never about the statue. it was about hate and getting a platform from it and getting a favor from the president and what he did last night was misleading. do not forget. it is a matter of fact. he drew a moral equation between white supremacists and those opposing. it isn't about the violence on both sides it was about the morality at play on both sides. those are his words. he can run from them but can't hide from the truth. >> thank you for that. let's discuss his speech last night with anna navarro and anna

tweeted last night. we'll read that. only possible defensible defense for that behavior was the early onset dementia. welcome to both of you. >> good morning to you. >> dust storm to both of you. anna are you going over boshd. when you move into thedementia, new realm and fra ngly have no proof or evidence. the why jump that shark? >> because it's not normal. people who are normalizing it at this point are becoming complicit. what we saw yesterday was a president of the united states fanning the flames. look, for a while there, as chris said, he was reading off the tell prompter and you thought, okay. this might be a normal rally. he might have some presidential moments. then he takes these papers out of his pocket. he obviously had intent of going rogue, doing what his advisers told him not to do.

alice sin. he is the commander in chief, leader of the united states. we have had the most horrible week, horrible ten days of division, racial tensions, grief in this country, and instead of this man going out and figuring out how to heal the country, it was all about him. he didn't talk about hatred. didn't talk about bigotry, heather heyer e he talked about how he was the victim. how he was being attacked. that is called narcissism. that is not normal. that is not sane behavior. i am no a psychiatrist. i'm a regular human being who knows a lot of people and the difference between right and wrong which is more than this 71-year-old man baby seems to be able to know. >> you're better than that. to come out there and you criticize the president constantly and that's fine. but to say that the man has a medical condition or imply that somehow has dementia. we've had pret intense moments on tv.

yelling the p word on tv. no one tweeted out and said you have early onset dementia. to describe someone that way is incredibly unfair. i also think that honestly you're a lot better than that. >> oh a kay but before we get -- i mean i just curious, what -- did you think his speech last night was okay? >> i thought it was a classic campaign rally speech that we've been seeing now for what? a year, over a year? >> can but he's the president. the. >> you campaign when you're the president. >> right but -- one more thing. by definition a campaign is divisi divisive. as president you're supposed to be uniting the country. did you feel the speech was unifi unified. >> i don't think every speech he gives has to be quote a unified speech. the i can get you thousands of examples where barack obama was not unifying trying toe pass obamacare. did anyone say he was unhinged or has early onset dementia?

>> alysin -- >> one thing though. this is the part that i think people that criticize the president and constantly say well he's unpresidential or he's unhinged are outside the realm. the same people saying that are the ones that are tweeting that are the same ones saying it's time to impeach him. if p you don't like the president it doesn't mean you have to go to personal attacks or somehow say his mind is not sane. that's a very bitter thing to say. >> let me say this. i did not say he had dementia. >> you implied it. >> nope nope nope. go read my tweet. it's right there. i'm not making it up. what i said was. >> you might have dim men that because you got angry right now. >> ben, hold on this is not about you and me. i'm not going after you because you apologize for every ridiculous thing that man says. >> hold on. >> i let you speak. what i said was that the only defensible excuse, the only defensible explanation is if he

is not mentally well. because if it he is, then he is just such an incredible self-centered narcissistic unfit jerk that it makes it that much worse. >> that's what i'm talking about. >> the only thing that would make it defensible is if he really is not well. if some time later in the future we find out he has something. i'm not saying he has it. >> of course you are. >> i'm saying it is the only defensible excuse for him disgusting self-centered narcissistic behavior. >> i get you hate the president. you voted for hillary clinton. >> i get that you apologize for every ridiculous. >> i'm--i don't apologize. >> i agree with both of you this isn't about both of you. ben irndo you think it was help for the country. >> people that criticize the people last week on his response and i was one of those that criticized him on his response to charlottesville. last night he omitted the both side the and zblsh. >> wait, omitted.

okay. >> so my point is this. last night i think the president understood and pivoted to become a better president on that issue and not keep doubling and tripling down. >> but by -- >> he wasn't add they're two -- >> this is where i dis-i agree. every said i hope we see a different president. i hope he changes his tone. the. >> taking out a piece of paper from his pocket and saying something different than what he actually had said. >> this is where i think you look at it completely different than i do. i think the president last night was more responsible than he was a week ago. we should be glad he was more responsible and not go back to the both sides rhetoric. they all said you can't walk out there and have a moral clemency between the both sides. last night he omits -- >> he didn't admit wrongdoing. >> in a campaign rally last night? i don't think anyone there last

night thought he was quote rewriting history. i think what they thought he he was actually are having a rally with his supporters and he didn't say things that why hurtful people would have said he's doubling down. >> you said he wanted to not hurt anybody. do you think he's hurting reporters and the pr press with his language? >> i think if you're going after the press you have to be very clear who you're going after. i don't think -- >> you tipgk the president as a ho whole do you think he'sini -- s many people in the press trying to imply he's unhinged or not mental hi fit. >> you're taking it all wrong. >> when i watched last night's speech and came over to talk about it, i didn't think last night was anything outsided ordina ordinary. >> fair enough. >> you say unhinged and crazy.

>> we let you have your say. but should the president, using this inflammatory language about the press. the. >> i think when the press starts implying somehow you shouldn't be president or somehow you're in this disaster own or acting as a 6-year-old as i heard people in the prets literally say, you have a right to defend your several. >> y>> i think we need to have bigger discussion about it and both sides probably need to tone it down. >> go ahead, anna. the look, i think what we saw yesterday is the really donald trump. we have seen in the last few days a donald trump that sometimes sticks to script, that sometimes reads off the teleprompter and gives a lot of us, sooths our nerves, if if you want. but when he is the real donald trump and speaking from his heart or lack there of, when he is speaking off-the-cuff in his

genuine thought it is a zascary reality. le he was not trying to do anything for the country. this was nothing but an entire diatribe. the a self-defense of himself. he can't get over the backlash and criticism he caused. le he wants to be hold he was great. that his words were great. since nobody is going out there and saying it, nobody with real credibility. he's out there to make the case for himself. this was not the art of the deal, this was the art of nas a sichl. the art of being self-centered. the art of being all about him. he turned this tragedy of charlottesville where a woman died, where people have been hurt, where the entire country has been in a state of distress by seeing how broken we are, and he turned it all about him. it was all about him. we cannot normize that. we cannot get numb to the idea that this is the president of the united states and that this

is normal acceptable behavior. it is not. twos a grotesque display of narcissism. >> it was a campaign rally. it ea rally. this is the overreaction. >> it's a rally by the president of the united states. >> what you just described, last night, is the classic reason why i think he fights back so hard. you go personal as you can. >> so does he. >> and he fights back, but then you say he can't do it but the other side can attack him say he's unfigt and might have dement dementia. >> don't we hold our president to a higher today? >> of course we do but yoci don think there's wrong with him saying what he -- every president i know has done exactly that when they're talk to the speechle sporting him. >> you've heard jimmy carter, george w. bush have a campaign rally like that one?

>> no. the donald trump rallies are completely different. >> that's right. so every president doesn't. >> i'm saying his style is completely different. of the when you talk to your base, you rally them up. that's what a rally is. get them excited. >> you choose your words. well on that neote. anna, ben thank you very much for the debate. all right. this is a really interesting story. a prankster fooled the editors at breitbart. he was pretending he was steve ban non. there are these e-mail exchanges that reveal what is going on at the place that bannon proudly boasted is a platform for the alt-right.

all right. so, steve bannon was white house chief strategist, right? he gets thrown out, goes back to breitbart a place he said should be a platform for the alt-right. then, there's an e-mail prank that fools the website's top editor and reveals just what these people want to do to the president of the united states. the prankster was posing as

bannon and shared the e-mails that went back and fofrt with cnn. t the jake tapper has the story. >> reporter: war was how they responded to bannon's yous from the white house. now a sf described prankster posing as bannon has fooled top staff into spilling how that war might play out. the real steve bannon returned to breitbart just as the fake bannon was sending e-mails to editor in chief. the topic? jared kushner and donald trump. do you think they're have them packed and out for christmas? the very real one replied of the set plea see what i can do. i don't know what motivates them. if it they are seminormal, then yes, they out by end of year. the prankster who treat the

under the name see onreformed. would do ban non's dirt work against certain trump white house aides. >> i spooked them today he said in one response to the man he thought was steve bannon. did five stories on globalist takeover positioning you as only hope to stop it. you need to own that. the just have surrogates do the dirty work. boil, raheem, me, tony have been waiting for this, referring to breitbart matthew boil and tony lee. editor in chief also shared with the fake bannon an unfounded unsubstantiated personal smear of first a daughter ivanka trump. the it is a smear cnn will not repeat. a senior official at the white house today asked about the e-mails declined to comment. le but mar low is not the only breitbart editor targeted and fooled by the a bannon bluff at

the man behind the war tweet was e-mailed too. the reading on line how i'll be bringi bringing -- real joel poll lick. indeed. no one can figure out what they do. respond at the bogus ban non, had a good chat with alex mar low. already aligning the cross hairs. responded the very real joe poll lick. excellent. the prankster tells cnn the latest stunt was inspired by bannon's firing. breitbart was literally falling over itself. in july the self-describe the lazy anarchist fooled top white house officials thinking he was donald trump jr., causing quite a stir in the west wing. the candid previously private exchanges sheds light on the inner workings of the site that bannon once referred to as the

flat form for the alt-right. now that opposed ban non is back on staff. he's back "i'm about to go back know what i know and we're about to rev that machine up, he promised." >> breitbart did offer an statement. the obsession is simply a result of our effectiveness. this time an im positive -- globalists present an exzi ten shall agenda. le the if people want to know our thinking, they don't need to judge us on elicitly obtained comments. they can simply read our front page. so i don't understand the breitbart strategy. do they think they can go after ivanka? these are not just top aides. these are flesh and blood. is this reallile plan? >> buy all accounts that's what bannon was doing in the white house. he fought against them.

>> this is what this out let does. it's what it did before, while he was in there and everybody said he had nothing to do with it. >> i know their tactics i'm just surprised by the target. >> don't be. be surprised no more. >> did i just feel like it's the president's daughter is going to win. but who knows? let's move on. espn taking the sharp reaction to charlottesville to a new level. why they pulled an anchor from covering a college football game in virginia. finally, listening to my wife, went to a doctor. and i became diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma ...that diagnosis was tough. i had to put my trust in somebody. when i first met steve, we recommended chemotherapy, and then we did high dose therapy and then autologous stem cell transplant. unfortunately, he went on to have progressive disease i thought that he would be a good candidate for immune therapy. it's an intravenous medicine that is going

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president trump giving two very different speeches in just the past two days, which is the rael donald trump? it's get the bottom line. we know the real donald trump is the unscripted campaigner. that's obvious. the i think that the bigger question is the whiplash from one to the other from scripted policy maker international war talker to campaigner. and what that causes for washington. >> but also, the content and the

message so discorded. le on monday night the beginning of his remarks, all about love and unity and peace and reaching out and bringing the country together trying to wrap himself in the military there to try to clean up some of the charlottesville hangover he's still clearly dealing with. he started down that road for a second last night at his speech and just took a turn into that all-out rant that is so completely the opposite of what he was calling on the country to join him in. >> why do you think he did that? >> well, listen, it's clear what the political strategy is. he is lost isn't. -- he has lost independents? what are the numbers. >> he won independents against hillary clinton last november. it was one of his groups that he barely edged her out on. but they're gone right now. they're gone. some mainstream republicans we're seeing. what is the political calculus here?

the only survival day-to-day is to keep the most core support fired up. that's clearly what the intent was. i also think it was to correct from where he was on monday on an issue in afghanistan where not everyone in sort of the breitbart wing of the party was going to embrace. >> i would wonder how much of the motivation is tactical versus reactionary. i think if it he gets attacked he attacks back. he's not about being presidential or decorum and not a bigger man and not about apologizing. last night i feel it was just about him. he was forced to be commander in h chief on monday. he had to. because unless he wants to fight in afghanistan himself, he has to be a leader of men and women and last night is what he does most which is take care of himself. >> this is the part that actually makes me a little sad just because i think what we're witnessing in moments like that is a presidency squandered. because he is choosing day in

and day out, to make it about himself, his grievances more than about the country overall. >> i'm interested in the battle roy jal that appears to be goin on between him and mitch mcconnell. last time they did speak, some sort of profannity laced rant. donald trump charismatic. mitch mcconnell, not so. but who wins? but mitch mcconnell -- >> that story when that came out i thought he does have a long memory. doesn't just let things go. having it out there that he is concerned about whether or not this presidency is actually complete itself, and that there is danger in its very existence. here's the thing. they both actually need each other. because obviously donald trump needs mitch mcconnell to get a legislative victory on the board that he hasn't had and he needs that. he knows that.

mitch mcconnell at his republican conference also know republicans are blaming them more than the president for the lack of action in washington. and they need to get something on the board as well. it's not just the president. so they are going to need each other here. i don't think it's like one wins and one loses. the they're both going to have to find a way to get something done. >> mcconnell is going to have to stay quiet because the president is going to keep attacking and doing what he thinks is right for himself. and the question is who's going to skep up to do what's right for the american people. ryan came out and said that the president had been wrong. it is a time for leadership again. let's see if it p haens. >> thank you very much. great to have you here. cnn "newsroom" with john berman is going to pick up after this break. febreze car vent clip cleans away odors for up to 30 days. because the things you love can stink. when you switch to progressive.

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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com career clear. good morning everyone i'm john berman, so do you feel better this morning? president trump certainly does. that seemed to be the goal of the 77-minute deluge of division, a speech overnight that left few targets unattacked and included a complete an literal revision of history. just ten days after the hate filled violence that left heather heyer dead, this is how the president chose to bring the country together, or not. he feels better, maybe his base feels better but did protest