>> president trump fired back at the media and critics over his response to the racist rally in charlottesville. also tonight that backlash against confederate symbols nationwide is growing. no doubt about this this is what we're talking about tonight. check the run down to see what else we're talking about at six #:30. like always, if you want to tweet us, do it. the suspect in the deadly car attack, james alex fields jr. faces multiple charges including second degree murder. he's being held without bond. the woman \he\es is charged with killing will be remembered by the community tomorrow. a service for heather higher will be held at 11:00 at the paramount theater. at the same time protests against confederate symbols

are growing nationwide. protest ors also hit the streets outside of trump tower in new york. actually this is the situation in north carolina where you can see the protestors pulled down the confederate statue. this is new york outside a trump to your where the president woke up for the first time since his inauguration. the fallout forhr to what happened in charlottesville continues. i didn't wait long. i wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians that what i said was correct, not make a quick statement. the statement i made on saturday, the first statement was a fine statement, but you don't make statements that direct unless you know the fact it takes a little while to get the facts. you still don't know the facts. many say the president's condemnation of white supremests in charlottesville is too little too late. host and commemorator roland martin joins us now to talk about the state state of america and the

events in america. thanks for being here. president trump was holding a press conference earlier today. it was supposed to be about infrastructure but he evidently inevitably began talking about charlottesville. i watched it much more closely than you people have it. and you had a group on one side that was bad and you you had a group on the other side that was also very violent and nobody wants to say that. but i'll say it right now. you had a group, you had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very, very violent. >> that was president trump responding to a question. it seemed to me that he was placing blame on both sides there. what's your take first of all on what he said today and did he undo his scripted denuns craigs from yesterday? this is a president who has seated the moral authority of the presidency. we look to the president of the united states to bring us together. what he did on saturday was shameful. he tried to clean up yesterday. he walkedt

an immoral leader. why do i say that? i don't like to have to say that, i was raised to respect the presidency, but to have the president provide cover to the knee oh nazis and when david duo tweets thank you, mr. president. you have a problem. we saw the statement on saturday and then we saw the statement that came out on was it -- i'm losing \track\tract of the day, monday. today it seemed like he was going back. it was black and white yesterday . i stand against racism. i stand against knee oh nazis. yesterday was forced what he said on saturday and today his true feelings. we saw him coddle, play foot situates, this is the man who played into the birth wrist many of president obama and he's doing it right now. this is a found ment funtdmental problem. it is shameful to listen to him make these comments because what does it say to the rest

then he goes on with his comments he's wholly ignorant of the could be fed rate statues because he were not erected after the civil war. they were erected where white supremests took over state capitols to enforce gym crow. that's what people are opposing and we should look to the president for leadership. he is saying i am aligning myself with white supremests. that is dangerous. >> let me ask you you when we talk about the state of where we are right now under this particular administration, one of the questions today, a report er asked him did he think racial tensions or the racial divide in our country was better or worse since he's come into office and he said he thought it was better. a. that means he's includeless. here is what we have here, by 2044 there is will no whites 47 percent, so no one particular group will be majority. there's fear. i've been talking about

so. there's fear. it doesn't mean all whites are racist, all whites are bigots, but when you've been the document national majority all of a sudden you're afraid. what does he do, he pushes the buttons. he pushes the buttons on illegal immigration. he knows exactly what he is doing. fear is driving people and what i'm saying is we are a better country because we are a more diverse country. what his supporters are saying is we don't want that day to come. that's what's driving a lot of this stuff. actions speak louder than words, what should president trump do from here on how of out. what is he to do. he has to stop playing games with white sue supremests. he needs to get rid of steve ban on a. who he called a good man. >> get rid of sebastian. individuals that aligned themselves with nazis.

also must be honest. he avoids the naacp. he avoids latino organization, black media, hispanic media. he doesn't want to be the president for all of america. he wants to appeal to about 30 percent of the country because he is satisfied in terms of how he won. >> just to play devil's advocate , the folks who are around him will say that's not true he is the president for everyone. >> he has to show it. >> he said jobs. all about jobs . here's the deal, it's amazing how when he is there to condemn what happened on saturday he talks about jobs. then yesterday he's there to condemn what happened on saturday he talks about jobs. tell that to heather heyer who had a job at a law firm who was hired by an african-american. tell that to other americans who have been impacted by police brutality. it's not always about jobs. there is a level of hate in this country that is billing up that has alway

there and his administration is pulling back on analyzing and watching white supremest organizations to shift the money over to islamic terrorists. i'm sorry, domestic terrorism is the exact same aster wrist many in other parts of the country. let me ask you real quick because we're really out of time. what should the people do. pressure the people should say mr. president represent all of us. the people should be hitting him with e-mails and letters and tweets and members of congress stand up to him because we also expect you to do right by the people. you represent us. roland martin host of the roland martin show on tv11. we appreciate it. like we mentioned earlier anger over what happened in charlottesville is now making its way to cities nationwide. the statue of the confederate soldier in durham, north carolina toppled yesterday. act vises used a rope and a ladder to pull down. ea

city of alexandria want to hear your ideas on renaming davis son jefferson. route one is also named for the president of the con ephedras i. last year the council voted to begin the process to rename the highway. this afternoon a small crowd of protestors surrounding the man holding a flag of a man in charlottesville. the people shouted terrorists go home. the man said he was saluting and honoring the confederate general . he was escorted by police. fox5's ronica cleary is live at a con fed ate statue or neer one in the district tonight . what's the latest. >>reporter: another update, it's in maryland actually. that roger tan i statue there's been controversy about that. it's on statehouse grounds. governor hogan went into this debate this afternoon putting out this afte

call on the statehouse trust to basically remove that statue immediately and then as you said we're in front of this statue, across from the judiciary square metro stop. this is albert pike . they pointed out that this is on national park service land and that they would like to see it removed. this was the mayor's press secretary and they'd like to see basically public input used to determine which historical figure should replace this statue. i heard you both referencing it but let's take a look one more time at this footage from north carolina. the thing that really stands out to me is that this violent protest pulling down this confederate statue, this took place after the violence in charlottesville. they're kicking the stat eurks pulling it down and the point that is really important to make is that take away the violent and unlawful efforts to debate and have a conversation about these confederate statues, those are people on both sides of the

real thoughts that are not based in violence that they want to share and speak about. we've had a conversation all day with people sort of explaining and sharing the views. we took to the streets of d.c., listenedded to what people had to say. i don't have a problem with taking them down along with the confederate flag. i think there's a big difference between remembrance and reference and i don't think people are going to forget if you take the statues down. i think it would be a lot kinder to do it based off the painful legacy that that means to a lot of people. it's our history. this is where we came from. this is part of us. this is how we teach our children where we came from and now things are different. isn't that wond lful? things are different. but that's what it was. so they need to stay up. >> i feel that they should be re moved. they symbolize hatred, bigotry and a part of our history that is not a proud moment, so i don't see any issue s with them

>> now let's take a look at some of your tweets using the #5@6:30 . one person tweeted re move them and place them in museums. they weren't heros they were trait ors. and another person saying it should be a legal thing like state-wide votes, but personally it depends on the statue. a wide investigate of thought there. we have a twitter pole going on i think 750 people have voted in it which is an unusual amount of response for these types of things which shows you how many people want to weigh in and have their voice heard. so check that out and let us know how he feel. when you hear this debate with people that aren't taking it to violence and unlawful activity there are a lot of people that have voices that really want to be heard and that's why we're here at five 5@6:30. thank you very much, ronica. meantime white house chief strategist steve bannon walking a fine rope. could be

the latest casualty of a white house shake up. hi, sarah. thanks for having me. we're glad to have you here tonight because steve bannon has gone back and forth to being in the president's good graces and then he's on is way out and then he's safe and then he's on the way out. what are you hearing. >> steve bannon has been a subject of his job security. it happened with riens pry bus the chief of staff with whom he formed an convenience. they smoothed that out by taking a walk in the rose garden. this rivet with hr mcmaster is different because it stem from genuine identify logical differences. this is not a dispute over influence or access , territory disputes. this is about the fact that bannon and mcmaster have completely divergent world views and want the president to do different things when it comes to forei

ed as an unfixable problem and it's why you see people inside and outside the white house feeling pressure to take sides whether that's folks coming out in favor of mcmaster, alleys coming to the defense of ban ofnlt perhaps this is bannon 's greatest challenge so far. let me ask you during the press conference on what was supposed to be a talk about infrastructure today one of of the reporters asked the president a question about steve ban oranges is he going to be fired? is he going to be let go . the president called him a good man, he isn't a racist but said we'll have to see about steve ban ofnlt we've heard that receipt rick before when he was asked about riens priebus leaving. could this be a sign that bannon is indeed on his way out? >> that underscores the serious of this situation. this might not just be idol gossip. bannon 's future in the white house could be in

it's worth noting that bannon has alleys that goes beyond bright bart, he does have the backing of some deep pocketed trump donors like the mercer family, like shelled on add ellison. that could help spare him from an exit. there are people even in congress like house freedom caucus chairman mark meadows who have demonstrated their willing miss to go to bat for bannon when his role appears to be in jeopardy. it's in the a simple question whether the president loses his favor with bannon. there's a lot of moving parts to his employment in the west wing as the president would say we'll see. thanks for joining us tonight. the president doubled down during a press conference. he's also taking heat for a tweet. we'll break it down after this.

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we do business where you do business. ♪ ♪ ♪ q. welcome back, president trump is taking heat tonight for tweet ing and then deleting a post is that going viral. it is causing a lot of outrage from his

a woman who is meant to the president's relationship with the media. tom fitzgerald joins us now with more on this cartoon that he retweeted. you know ation you you know this is not the first time the president has done something like this. a couple of weeks ago the president retweeted a gift and in that gift it was a repeat of when he had appeared as a private citizen with world watching entertainment and substituting the vince mcmahon image. he put up -- there was a symbol of ynn over it. there was an out cry of people because of the fact that they said that president was advocating violence against journalists. this one almost disappeared as quickly as it appeared this morning. have we shown it so far? there it is. you see it says the trump train and then there's the image of a character there with cnn plastered over the character's face. the

probably for more people who saw the image captures of this than ever actually saw it from the president's account because it disappeared almost as soon as it went up. obviously the imagery here in the context of what had gone on in charlottesville over the weekend with this youngs woman losing her life because somebody ran her over with a vehicle is hard to escape. one of the other things jim and shawn what we see out of this, we might be witnessing some of the limits of chief of staff john kelly's ability to rain in the president's tweeting. the one thing we know about general kelly he was a no nonsense general and this might rain that the general isn't all that comfortable with, but short of taking a phone out of the president's hand and having some access before these tweets go out. for the life of me i don't know how you would stop h kind of thing other than seeing

realizing what it was and then getting to the president as quickly as possible if you're chief of staff john kelly and asking that it be deleted. i don't know if this is the end of this? it's probably not by any long shot. it's probably not the last time that we're going to see things that get revised, explained or out right deleted. the first it seemed like it what goes going to be the case, maybe not so much now. he's going to do what he wants to do. thank you, fits. we'll be right back.

last night was the first night back for the host of all the late night talk shows since itself the racist violence in charlottesville and the situation and the president's response was ats the top of the mimes and the monday monologues of the hosts. even though the night show isn't a political show it's my responsibility to stand up against intolerance and extremism as a human being. what happened over the weekend in charlottesville, virginia was just disgusting. i was

the news like everyone else and you're seeing nazi flags and torches and white supremests and i was sick to my stomach. my daughters are in the next room playing than i'm thinking how can i explain to them that there's so much hatred in this room world. they're two years old and four years old. they don't know what hate is. they go to the playground and they have friends of all races and back grounds and they play and they laugh and they have fun. but as kids -- falon's monologue was one of the most political show every and it comes with yitsism he's faced when it comes to politics. set myers is no stwrainger to political discussions. he also opened up his show and took on the president's response. donald trump did not immediately denounce the white supremest movement when given the chance and now whether he knows it or not many of those people see him as leading that movement. the leader of our country is called the president because he's supposed to preside over

society. his job is to lead, to john cajole to lift up what is good about us and to absolutely and unequivocally con chem what is evil in us. >> steven could he bear dedicated the majority but tried to punctate with a little comedy . if only the president was as mad about knee oh nazis about murdering in the streets as he's been about hillary clinton, cnn, christian stuart, nordstrom's not selling his daughter's clothes, arnold schwartz nationer. me, the state of new hampshire. >> kimmel also had a similar message. the one thing he decides to be quiet about is this and of course everybody went nuts because there aren't many sides, the protestors were shouting nazis flags. one of them killed a young program and injured many others with his car . one of

nazis on it. all he had to do was condemn the nazis. >> and the late late show james gordon tackled the topic with his signature british humor. this is the part of the show where we talk about the the news . so let's do it. after two days of criticism this morning donald trump finally denounced the kkk knee oh nazis and white supremests who matched over the weekend in charlottesville, in his statements today trump said quote, racism is evil. he then followed up by saying if you'll excuse me i'll have to go build a wall to keep out mexicans. it was listening to listen to their various takes but i was not surprised that they all did it. >> not at all. we have a very special guest in the the studio tonight, patrick henry. that's right. he's here at 5@6:30. we'll explain why coming up in just a few

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>> our next guest devoted their careers to foster a lf of history and the love of kids. richard shoe man has played patrick henry for 20 years are both here today. jenny, first off tell me a little bit about your book. what's the point of it. who is for. the voice the revolution in the keenan it launched today is the story of patrick henry and the revel rugs ry war and it's geared to help kids get excited about history and learn the history of america. >> mr. henry, what should kids know today about your role in american history. >> according to mr. jefferson i set the ball of i am tuesday of the ball rolling down the hill back in 1765 and since that time have played a very large role in separating present great britain . jenny, real quick how do you get kids interested in history. >> you have to make it exciting for them. you have to make it fun and personal. one thing that i did

than showing the founders as men i showed them as kids so we begin with mr. henry as a child so kids can relate to another child. the book is out today. thank you very much.

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