now. anthony, there was a very telling moment during this press conference. when chief of staff, john kelly who was just standing off to the sidelines, was just looking down at his shoes during all of this, you know he has been charged with establish iing command and control of white house staff. the limits of his ability to keep the president on message were laid bare today. >> margaret brennan with an extraordinary day at trump tower. thank you, margaret. soon as the president finished speaking social media exploded. former k.k.k. leader david duke wrote, thank you, mr. president, for your honesty and courage to tell the truth. others were not so complimentary. paul ryan tweeted, white supremacy is repulsive. this bigotry is counterto all this country stands for. >> florida republican senator marco rubio said, you can't allow white supremacists to share only part of the blame. >> california democratic

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this is the cbs "overnight news." the president said there was blame and violence on both sides. we wanted to get a fact check on what happened in charlottesville. so we are calling on our reporter, paula reid who was on the scene, for cbs news on saturday. how well armed were both sides? paula? >> reporter: pretty much every white supremacist demonstrator i saw had some sort of weapon. either a helmet, a shield, a firearm, a baton. as for the counterprotesters, i would say most of them were unarmed. many of them were members of the clergy or students. now there were some people who were there as counterdemonstrators who were there to cause trouble. but, overwhelmingly the counterprotesters

also the only one administering medical aid to those who had chemical agents in their eyes and mouth. >> did you get any sense of where most of the tension was really coming from on the scene? >> you have to remember, emancipation park where robert e. lee is, is raised above the street. several feet, steps above the road. white supremacists had the park. we were seeing a lot of objects coming down from the park into the streets. where most of the counterdemonstrators were. and it is clear, for every one counterdemonstrator flag you could see, there were 10, 15, confederate or white supremacist flags. >> the rally schedule ford saturday. there was a lot of people a. riefd f -- arrived friday night carrying torches. what was the significance of that? >> police caught off-guard from the start. several hundred marching through university of virginia campus, chanting white supremacist slogans and carrying tiki torches.

why they got to the rally several hours early and were pretty amped up. >> paula reid. thank you very much. let's tornado to john dickerson, top washington correspondent, an sochor of "fa the nation." i was struck by the fact that the president was carrying his saturday speech in his pocket. which suggested that he had something he wanted to say today. a. >> yes, he was, in the middle of making, continuing an argument. he seemed more interested in the signing -- in assigning blame in his remarks to, those on the left, and ensuring there was this equivalent understanding of what took place. than he was interested in showing moral disgust. that a president should show towards neo-nazi protesters who representative beliefs that are entirely at odds with the united states. the country that he is the leader of. that repeated and made worse his moral failure from saturday. presidents are supposed to rush into the moments and unify americans. but the

that statement and continuing to try to defend himself was, was, continuing an argument and saying, both sides were to blame. he wanted to make sure he was right about the details when he characterized the protesters he overlooked nazi slogans and flags and salutes. >> john, in the end what do you make of what happened today in terms of how it will affect the president? >> will this happens in a context. the president won office, and was heralded by many supporters by speaking bluntly. by speaking truths. by not bothering with the ni niceness. his reluctant to speak the truth about neo-nazi protesters cha chanting nazi slogans. a failing he repeated twice. this is, he had a moment like this during the primaries that rattled republican leaders. republican leaders will now have to distance themselves from the president and the question is -- how they get back together again? >> john dickerson. thank you m

joining us is dr. calvin butz, president of the state university of new york at old westbury and pastor. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> the president said yesterday that racism is evil. have his remarks effectively undercut that? >> i think so. everyone believes that he is trying to avoid identifying the hatred and the level of vitriol in the country today. and his statements today, in terms of trying to spread the blame, so to speak, did not really ensure americans, most of them. i would encourage the president to pay attention to the polls, that we should not be living in fear. everyone is afraid today. >> is it possible to keep the country united? with this rhetoric? >> no. that's the problem. coming from the bully pulpit of the white house. you have to speak to the

we are not going to fight the civil war again. we are not going to stand for the kind of hatred that we see tearing this country apart. and the president needs to tone it down. he needs to demonstrate that he can lead this nation. it is a difficult job. but we are a good people. we have come a long way. and we cannot let a man like him take us backward. >> what does a man like him, what do you mean? >> someone who is a bully. someone who does not listen off to the deep reservoir of intelligence. of the men and the women of the united states government. >> if you could say something directly to the president today or have him say something, what would it be? >> it would be there is domestic terrorism in the united states of america. the president of the united states does not tolerate it. say it from his heart. i think he needs to sit back and take

america truly today it? is a diverse nation that is one. e pluribis unum. out of many, one. he is segregating this population of ours with his rhetoric. >> dr. calvin butz, thank you for joining us. >> thank you.

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members living largely in the shadows. more about that now from jim axelrod. >> reporter: who makes up america's hate groups? ask christian pitchalini, that's him, 25 years ago, a leader in the skinhead movement. who are the people who make up the rank-and-file of the white supremacist movement? >> you know, jim, the average american. our mccannics, our dentist thousands, our teachers, lawyers, doctors, nurses. unfortunately that's the way it has turn into in the last 30 years. >> reporter: born and raised in working class chicago he joined his first white power gang at 14. before quitting eight years later and starting a nonprofit, to combat hate. >> this notion that white supremacists are all around us, a very scary picture you paint? >> it is. unfortunately, it is a reality. >> reporter: the southern poverty law center counts more than 900 active hate groups in

a number that is growing. >> this is a movement that is really fueled at this moment by a lot of young, angry, white men. >> heidi beiric, who tracks hate groups for the splc agrees with the former skinhead, pitchalini. >> it is false to think people in the white supremacist movement are poor people living in trailer parks with no education. >> he takes it further. saying no one should be surprised at support for president trump from white supremacists in charlottesville last weekend. do you think white supremacists look at donald trump and feel affirmed? >> absolutely, 100%. the anti-immigrant, anti-refugee talk. and the idea to put america first. those are all things we talked about 30 years age it resonates just as deeply with the people who are in the movement. >> this past january, the obama administration, gave pitchalini's group,

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the president lashed out. >> they're not taking their job seriously as it pertains to the country. >> reporter: the third attack since the weekend on ceos the president hand picked as outside economic advisers. like intel ceo who stood next to president trump in february and praised his tax policies. after the president's response to the violence in charlottesville, krzanich and leaders of under armor stepped down. mr. trump lashed out in a tweet. for every ceo that drops out of the manufacturing council. i have many to take their place. grandstanders should not have gone on. >> i especially want to thank, ken frasier. >> merck's ken frasier was one of the first to distance himself sunday saying he was taking a stand against intolerance and extremism. mr. trump took two dayso

explicitly condemn the white supremacists in charlottesville within an hour of his resignation, frasier was in the president's twitter line of fire. while frasier move put pressure on colleagues for the most part they're staying put. a professor at george washington university business school say speaking out, risks the president exacting a vendetta. >> taking on the president of the united states for a publicly traded company is not small ball. >> yes, difficult to take on the president of the united states. the risks are high, but the, the payoff might we be high as well. >> late today, the president of the afl-cio also stepped down, writing, i cannot sit on a council for a president that toll rates bigotry and domestic terrorism. dozens of business leaders still serve on mr. trump's advisory board including ceos of lock hooed m lead martin and wal-mart. >> next, why a black man in

at a time when confederate flags are being removed all over america, a prominent black artist in the south is adding them to his paintings. why? here's mark strassmann. >> reporter: leo twigs, son of the south sees life as a series of crossings. while the now 83-year-old artist spent four decades painting a recurring symbol, the confederate flag. hundreds of them. why pick that? as a recurring symbol? >> because i think the south is full of contradictions, you know. we have got the,

hospitality. then we have the segregation. and they seem at opposite ends. that flag resurfaced in charlottesville, front and center over the weekend. as a boy in south carolina, twigs watched clansmen wave it as a paraded through his hometown. segregation marched through his life too. >> you can go to any of the white schools. i went to nyu because -- at the time, the state would pay your way to, to another university. paid you to go away. >> paid me to go away. >> reporter: in 129d 70 the first black student to earn doctor of arts at university of georgia. twigs became one of the south's most acclaimed artists. his paintings of this flag representative his journey and the south's. >> i make it a tattered and worn relic of the past that should be in a museum. yet, we see it flying around. as if the war is still going .

>> alive and present. >> it was for dylan roof, after he massacred nine black worshippers at mother ee manual church. south carolina lowered the flag at the state capital. it faded from view much like in the paintings of leo twigs. >> i call it. find a moment. it is part an isolated incident. part of the african-american story. the stony road be charred. i hope the flags create an atmosphere for conversation. >> what can i do? >> what can i do? >> charlottesville reflected the message of leo twigs. something america has yet to cross over. mark strassmann, cbs news, charleston. that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm avenue anthony mason. k

thank you for watching. this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm tony dokoupil. a fiery president trump defended his response to the deadly racist march in charlottesville, virginia. the president took a break from his summer vacation to answer question as but infrastructure at trump tower in new york city. but the topic quickly turned to the riot. mr. trump again placed blame on both sides and he denied he took too long to condemn the kkk, and white supremacists. a question from our own margaret brennan seemed to spark the president to anger. called on you to defend -- >> i did it last time. senator mccain? >> senator mccain, the one who voted against obamacare. who, you mean senator

who voted against us getting good health care? >> senator mccain said the alt-right is behind the attacks and linked the same group to those who perpetrated the attack in charlottesville. >> i don't know. i can't tell you. >> well i don't know. i can't tell you. i am sure senator mccain must know what he is talking about. when you say the alt-right, define alt-right to me. you define it, go ahead. define it for me, come on. let's go. >> senator mccain, defined them as the same group. >> what about the alt-left. excuse me, what about the alt-left that came charging as you say at the alt-right. do they have any semblance of guilt? >> let me ask you, this what about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hand swinging clubs, do they have any problem, i think they do? >> are you putting what you are calling the alt-left and white >> as far as i'm concerned. that was a horrible, horrible

wait a minute. i'm not finished, fake news. i'm not finished. that was a horrible day. i will fell you something. i watched this very closely. much more closely than you people watched it. and you have -- you had a group on one side that was bad. and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. and nobody wants to say that. but i will 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. >> do you think what you call the alt-left is the same as neo-nazis? >> all of those people, excuse me, i have condemned. neo-nazisment i have condemned many different groups. but not all of those people were neo-nazis. believe me. not all of the people were white supremacists by any stretch. those people were also there because they wanted to appropriate test, t

down of the statue, robert e. lee. so, excuse me. and you take a look at some of the groups, you see -- you know it if you were honest reporters which which in many cases you are not. many of the people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of robert e lee. this week it is robert e lee. i notice stone wall jackson is coming down. i wonder, george washington next week. thomas jefferson the week after. you know, you really do have to ask yourself where does it stop? but they were there to protest, excuse me. you take a look the night before. they were there to protest the taking down of statue of robert e. lee. infrastructure question, go ahead. >> should the statue of robert e. lee stay up? >> i would say that is up to a local town, community, or the federal government depending on where it is located. >> are you against the confederacy? >> how concerned are you about race relations in america, do you think things have gotten

office. >> they've avenue gotten better or the same. they have been frayed for a long time. you can ask president obama about that. he would make speeches about it. but i believe the fact that i brought in, it will be soon, millions of jobs, you see, where come pans are moving back our country. i think that is going to have a tremendous positive impact on race relations. we are going to fix, fixing the inner cities. doing far more than anybody has done with respect to the inner cities. a priority for me. and it is very important. >> are you putting what you are calling alt left and white supremacists on the same moral plane. >> i'm not putting anybody on a moral plane. i am saying this, you had a group on one side, a group on the other came at each other with clubs, it was vicious, horrible. and a horrible thing to watch. but there is another side. there was a group on this side, you can call them the left, you have just called them the left. that came violently attacking the other group. so you can say what

but that is the way it is. >> on both side. hatred. violence on beth side. >> i do think there is blame, yes, on both side. you look at, you look at both side. i think there is blame on both side. and i have no doubt about it. and you don't have any doubt about it either. and, all -- and, and, if you reported it accurately, you would say. [ indiscernible ] >> excuse me. excuse me. you had some very bad people in that group. but you also had people that were -- that were very fine people on both side. you had people in that group, excuse me. excuse me. i saw the same, pictures as you did. you had people in the group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue. and the renaming of a park,

>> george washington was a slave owner. was george washington a slave owner? so, will george washington now lose his status? are we going to take down--excuse me. are we going to take down, are we going to take down statues to george washington? how about thomas jefferson? what do you think of thomas jefferson? you like him. >> i do love thomas jefferson. >> he was a major slave owner are we going to take down his statue. you know what it is fine. you are changing history. you are changing culture. and you had people. not talking about the neo-nazis and white nationalists they should be condemned totally. you had many people in the group other than neo-nazis and white nationalists. okay. and the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. now, in the other group, also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with, with the black outfits and health melts and the baseball bats.

the other group. >> i didn't understand what you were saying, the press has treated white nationalists unfairly. i didn't understand? >> there were people in the rally. i looked the night before. if you uh look, there were people protesting very quietly. the taking down of the statue of robert e. lee. i'm sure in the group there were bad ones. the following day it looked like they had some rough, bad, people. neat white nationalists whatever you want to call them. you had a lot of people in the group who were there to innocently appropriate test and legally protest because you know, don't know itch you know, they had a permit. the other group didn't have a permit. i only tell you this. there are two side to a story. i thought that what took place was a horrible moment for our country t country. a horrible moment. there are two sides to the country. does anybody have a

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one of the hottest stars in hollywood, the hurt locker, mission impossible. borne legacy and avengers. his success didn't come overnight. and, john blackstone sat down with renner to discuss his long trip to the top. >> reporter: in jeremy remmer's new movie "wind river." >> out here you cannot blink not once ever. >> winter in the mountains of wyoming and there is a bed found in the snow. >> sorry, what is it that you do again? >> hunter. >> lion hunter? >> i hunt. >> why don't you come hunt one for me then. >> renner plays a man who has a lethal skill but is still vulnerable. >> it is my daughter emily. she passed three years ago. >> i like he is a fath.

>> she is such a good girl. but we let our guard down. >> that's something i haven't played. i know there is a lot of restraint in the character. >> jeremy. >> there is little restraint in other characters renner played in three franchises, the spy in "miss imposs."ible a secret agent in "the borne legacy." >> get down! >> reporter: and now a fixture in "at vthe avengers" wielding and arrows as hawkeye. >> don't get me wrong, i considered like, am i going to have the energy, the time to dupe this. i am like, yeah. these are awesome movies. i'm an idiot not to say yes, you know? >> oh, boy.

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i'm tony dokoupil. i think there is blame on both sides. and i have no doubt about it. >> an angry president trump returns to his original assessment of charlottesville at an extra ordinary news conference. >> what about the alt-left that came charging at, as you say the alt-right. you had a group on one side that was bad. and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. dynobo wants to say that. but i will say it right now. i thought that what took place was a horrible moment for our country. a horrible moment. but there are two sides to the country. this week it is robert e. lee. i noticed stonewall jackson is coming down. i wonder is it george washington next week? and is it thomas jefferson the week after? you really do have to ask lfurse, where does it stop? >> announcer: this is the cbs

"overnight news." there was no script this time. no prepared statement. president trump said what he really believes happened in charlottesville. flashing anger at times, the president said, both sides, the white supremacists and the counterprotesters are to blame. for the violence that left one person dead and 35 injured. we have never seen a presidential news conference quite like this one. at trump tower this afternoon. the white house correspondent margaret brennan was there. margaret. >> president trump unloaded his frustration and defended his decision to wait two days before denouncing the hate groups behind that rally. he called it a horrible, horrible day. >> 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. as i said on, remember this, saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. it has no place in america. then i went on from there. >> the president then doubled down on his assertion from saturday that both sides were to blame for the violence. >> you had a group on one side that was bad. and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. and nobody wants to say that. but i will say it right now. you had the a group, you had a group on the other side, that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent. those people all of those people, excuse me. i have condemned neo-nazis, i have condemned many different groups. but not all of those people were neo-nazis, believe me. not all of those people were

stretch. those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue, robert e. lee. so, excuse me. and you take a look at some of the groups and you see and you know it, if you were honest reporters, which in many cases you are not. many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of robert e. lee. so this week it is robert e. lee. i notice that stonewall jackson is coming down. i wonder is it george washington next week? and is it thomas jefferson the week after? you know, you really do have you ask yourself where does it stop? >> reporter: he condemned the driver who rammed his car into counterprotesters. >> i think the driver of the car is a disgrace to himself, his family, and this country. and that is, you can call it terrorism, you can call it murder, you can call it whatever you want, the driver of the car is a murderer. and what he did was a horrible, horrible inexcusable thing. >> have you spoken to the family of the victim of the car attack? >> i will be reaching out. >> when will you be reaching out?

>> i was very, i thought the statement put out, the mother's statement, i thought was a beautiful statement. i will tell you it was something that -- that i really appreciated. i thought it was terrific. and, really under the kind of stress that she is under and the heartache that she is under, i thought putting out that statement, to me was, really something. i won't forget. >> the mother of heather heyer who was killed in saturday's attack thanked mr. trump for denouncing "those who promote violence and hatred." but the president's frustration broke through when we asked about republican senator john mccain's call for him to denounce attacks by the alt-right on white house staff. >> senator mccain? >> to the alt-right. >> you mean the one who voted against obamacare, you mean senator mccain who voted against us getting good health care? >> senator mccain said that the

attacks. he linked that staple group to those who perpetrated the attack in charlottesville. >> well i don't know. i can't tell you. i am sure senator mccain must know what he is talking about. when you say the alt-right, define alt-right to me. you define it, go ahead. define it for me, come on. let's go. >> senator mccain, defined them as the same group. >> what about the alt-left. excuse me, what about the alt-left that came charging as you say at the alt-right. do they have any semblance of guilt? >> let me ask you, this what about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hand swinging clubs, do they have any problem, i think they do? >> are you putting what you are calling the alt-left and white supremacists on the same moral plane? >> i'm not putting any body on a mrl plane. i am saying, you had a group on one side, one on the other.

it was vicious, horrible. horrible thing to watch. but there is another side. there was a group on this side, you can call them the left, you have just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other group. so you can say what you want, but that's the way it is. >> when asked whether senior adviser steve bannon will remain in his administration. the president hedged. >> look, look, i like mr. bannon, he is a friend of mine. mr. bannon came on very late. you know that. i went through 17 senators, governors, i won all the primaries. mr. bannon came on very much later than that. i like him. he is a good man. he is -- not a racist. i can tell you that. he is a good person. he actually gets a very unfair press in that regard. but we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. he is a good person. i think the press treats him frankly, very unfairly.

>> and you may be able to hear some of the protesters outside of trump tower, where we are now. anthony, there was a very telling moment during this press conference. when chief of staff, john kelly who was just standing off to the sidelines, was just looking down at his shoes during all of this, you know he has been charged with establishing command and control of white house staff. the limits of his ability to keep the president on message were laid bare today. >> margaret brennan with an extraordinary day at trump tower. thank you, margaret. soon as the president finished speaking social media exploded. former k.k.k. leader david duke wrote, thank you, mr. president, for your honesty and courage to tell the truth.

others were not so complimentary.

this is the cbs "overnight news." the president said there was blame and violence on both sides. we wanted to get a fact check on what happened in charlottesville. so we are calling on our reporter, paula reid who was on the scene, for cbs news on saturday. how well armed were both sides? paula? >> reporter: pretty much every white supremacist demonstrator i saw had some sort of weapon. either a helmet, a shield, a firearm, a baton. as for the counterprotesters, i

would say most of them were unarmed. many of them were members of the clergy or students. now there were some people who were there as counterdemonstrators who were there to cause trouble. but, overwhelmingly the counterprotesters were unarmed. also the only one administering medical aid to those who had chemical agents in their eyes and mouth. >> did you get any sense of where most of the tension was really coming from on the scene? >> you have to remember, emancipation park where robert e. lee is, is raised above the street. several feet, steps above the road. white supremacists had the park. we were seeing a lot of objects coming down from the park into the streets. where most of the counterdemonstrators were. and it is clear, for every one counterdemonstrator flag you could see, there were 10, 15, confederate or white supremacist flags. >> the rally schedule ford saturday. there was a lot of people a. -- arrived friday night carrying torches. what was the significance of that? >> police caught off-guard from the start. several hundred marching through university of virginia campus, chanting white supremacist slogans and carrying tiki

seems that helped embolden them. why they got to the rally several hours early and were pretty amped up. >> paula reid. thank you very much. let's tornado to john dickerson, top washington correspondent, anchor of "face the nation." i was struck by the fact that the president was carrying his saturday speech in his pocket. which suggested that he had something he wanted to say today. a. >> yes, he was, in the middle of making, continuing an argument. he seemed more interested in the signing -- in assigning blame in his remarks to, those on the left, and ensuring there was this equivalent understanding of what took place. than he was interested in showing moral disgust. that a president should show towards neo-nazi protesters who representative beliefs that are sttirely at odds with the united

the country that he is the leader of. that repeated and made worse his moral failure from saturday. presidents are supposed to rush into the moments and unify americans. but the president, by bringing that statement and continuing to try to defend himself was, was, continuing an argument and saying, both sides were to blame. he wanted to make sure he was right about the details when he characterized the protesters he overlooked nazi slogans and flags and salutes. >> john, in the end what do you make of what happened today in terms of how it will affect the president? >> will this happens in a context. the president won office, and was heralded by many supporters by speaking bluntly. by speaking truths. by not bothering with the niceness. his reluctant to speak the truth about neo-nazi protesters chanting nazi slogans. a failing he repeated twice. this is, he had a moment like this during the primaries that rattled republican leaders. republican leaders will now have to distance themselves from the president and the question is -- how they get back together again? >> john dickerson. thank you very much.

joining us is dr. calvin butz, president of the state university of new york at old westbury and pastor. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> the president said yesterday that racism is evil. have his remarks effectively undercut that? >> i think so. everyone believes that he is trying to avoid identifying the hatred and the level of vitriol in the country today. and his statements today, in terms of trying to spread the blame, so to speak, did not really ensure americans, most of them. i would encourage the president to pay attention to the polls, that we should not be living in fear. everyone is afraid today. >> is it possible to keep the country united? with this rhetoric? >> no. that's the problem. coming from the bully pulpit of

the white house. you have to speak to the sensibilities of this nation. we are not going to fight the civil war again. we are not going to stand for the kind of hatred that we see tearing this country apart. and the president needs to tone it down. he needs to demonstrate that he can lead this nation. it is a difficult job. but we are a good people. we have come a long way. and we cannot let a man like him take us backward. >> what does a man like him, what do you mean? >> someone who is a bully. someone who does not listen off to the deep reservoir of intelligence. of the men and the women of the united states government. >> if you could say something directly to the president today or have him say something, what would it be? >> it would be there is domestic terrorism in the united states

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of hate groups in the country, members living largely in the shadows. more about that now from jim axelrod. >> reporter: who makes up america's hate groups? ask christian pitchalini, that's him, 25 years ago, a leader in the skinhead movement. who are the people who make up the rank-and-file of the white supremacist movement? >> you know, jim, the average american. our mccannics, our dentist thousands, our teachers, lawyers, doctors, nurses. unfortunately that's the way it has turn into in the last 30 years. >> reporter: born and raised in working class chicago he joined his first white power gang at 14.

before quitting eight years later and starting a nonprofit, to combat hate. >> this notion that white supremacists are all around us, a very scary picture you paint? >> it is. unfortunately, it is a reality. >> reporter: the southern poverty law center counts more than 900 active hate groups in the u.s. a number that is growing. >> this is a movement that is really fueled at this moment by a lot of young, angry, white men. >> heidi beiric, who tracks hate groups for the splc agrees with the former skinhead, pitchalini. >> it is false to think people in the white supremacist movement are poor people living in trailer parks with no education. >> he takes it further. saying no one should be surprised at support for president trump from white supremacists in charlottesville last weekend. do you think white supremacists look at donald trump and feel affirmed? >> absolutely, 100%. the anti-immigrant, anti-refugee talk. and the idea to put america first. those are all things we talked about 30 years age it resonates

just as deeply with the people who are in the movement. >> this past january, the obama administration, gave pitchalini's group, $400,000 to continue its work battling hate groups. in june the trump administration told them, the grant anthony had been canceled. >> thank you, jim. the cbs "overnight news" will be right back. ♪ new lysol kitchen pro eliminates 99.9% of bacteria without any harsh chemical residue. lysol. what it takes to protect. i just want to find a used car without getting ripped off. you could start your search at the all-new carfax.com that might help. show me the carfax. now the car you want and the history you need are easy to find. show me used trucks with one owner. pretty cool. [laughs] ah... ahem... show me the ca.rfax start your used car search and get free carfax reports

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the president lashed out. >> they're not taking their job seriously as it pertains to the country. >> reporter: the third attack since the weekend on ceos the president hand picked as outside economic advisers. like intel ceo who stood next to president trump in february and praised his tax policies. after the president's response to the violence in charlottesville, krzanich and leaders of under armor stepped down. mr. trump lashed out in a tweet. for every ceo that drops out of the manufacturing council. i have many to take their place. grandstanders should not have gone on. >> i especially want to thank, ken frasier. >> merck's ken frasier was one of the first to distance himself sunday saying he was taking a stand against intolerance and extrem

mr. trump took two days to explicitly condemn the white supremacists in charlottesville within an hour of his resignation, frasier was in the president's twitter line of fire. while frasier move put pressure on colleagues for the most part they're staying put. a professor at george washington university business school say speaking out, risks the president exacting a vendetta. >> taking on the president of the united states for a publicly traded company is not small ball. >> yes, difficult to take on the president of the united states. the risks are high, but the, the payoff might we be high as well. >> late today, the president of the afl-cio also stepped down, writing, i cannot sit on a council for a president that toll rates bigotry and domestic terrorism. dozens of business leaders still serve on mr. trump's advisory board including ceos of lock lead martin and wal-mart. >> next, why a black man in the south is painting confederate flags.

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at a time when confederate flags are being removed all over america, a prominent black artist in the south is adding them to his paintings. why? here's mark strassmann. >> reporter: leo twigs, son of the south sees life as a series of crossings. while the now 83-year-old artist spent four decades painting a recurring symbol, the confederate flag. hundreds of them. why pick that? as a recurring symbol? >> because i think the south is full of contradictions, you know.

we have got the, southern hospitality. then we have the segregation. and they seem at opposite ends. that flag resurfaced in charlottesville, front and center over the weekend. as a boy in south carolina, twigs watched clansmen wave it as a paraded through his hometown. segregation marched through his life too. >> you can go to any of the white schools. i went to nyu because -- at the time, the state would pay your way to, to another university. paid you to go away. >> paid me to go away. >> reporter: in 129d 70 the first black student to earn doctor of arts at university of georgia. twigs became one of the south's most acclaimed artists. his paintings of this flag representative his journey and the south's. >> i make it a tattered and worn relic of the past thatul

in a museum. yet, we see it flying around. as if the war is still going on. >> alive and present. >> alive and present. >> it was for dylan roof, after he massacred nine black worshippers at mother ee manual church. south carolina lowered the flag at the state capital. it faded from view much like in the paintings of leo twigs. >> i call it. find a moment. it is part an isolated incident. part of the african-american story. the stony road be charred. i hope the flags create an atmosphere for conversation. >> what can i do? >> what can i do? >> charlottesville reflected the message of leo twigs. something america has yet to cross over. mark strassmann, cbs news, charleston. that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm avenue anthony mason.

this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm tony dokoupil. a fiery president trump defended his response to the deadly racist march in charlottesville, virginia. the president took a break from his summer vacation to answer question as but infrastructure at trump tower in new york city. but the topic quickly turned to the riot. mr. trump again placed blame on both sides and he denied he took too long to condemn the kkk, and white supremacists. a question from our own margaret brennan seemed to spark the president to anger. called on you to defend -- >> i did it last time. senator mccain?

>> senator mccain, the one who voted against obamacare. who, you mean senator mccain, who voted against us getting good health care? >> senator mccain said the alt-right is behind the attacks and linked the same group to those who perpetrated the attack in charlottesville. >> i don't know. i can't tell you. >> well i don't know. i can't tell you. i am sure senator mccain must know what he is talking about. when you say the alt-right, define alt-right to me. you define it, go ahead. define it for me, come on. let's go. >> senator mccain, defined them as the same group. >> what about the alt-left. excuse me, what about the alt-left that came charging as you say at the alt-right. do they have any semblance of guilt? >> let me ask you, this what

about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hand swinging clubs, do they have any problem, i think they do? >> are you putting what you are calling the alt-left and white >> as far as i'm concerned. that was a horrible, horrible day. wait a minute. i'm not finished, fake news. i'm not finished. that was a horrible day. i will fell you something. i watched this very closely. much more closely than you people watched it. and you have -- you had a group on one side that was bad. and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. and nobody wants to say that. but i will 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. >> do you think what you call the alt-left is the same as neo-nazis? >> all of those people, excuse me, i have condemned. neo-nazisment i have condemned

many different groups. but not all of those people were neo-nazis. believe me. not all of the people were white supremacists by any stretch. those people were also there because they wanted to appropriate test, the taking down of the statue, robert e. lee. so, excuse me. and you take a look at some of the groups, you see -- you know it if you were honest reporters which in many cases you are not. many of the people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of robert e lee. this week it is robert e lee. i notice stone wall jackson is coming down. i wonder, george washington next week. thomas jefferson the week after. you know, you really do have to ask yourself where does it stop? but they were there to protest, excuse me. you take a look the night before. they were there to protest the taking down of statue of robert e. lee. infrastructure question, go ahead. >> should the statue of robert e. lee stay up? >> i would say that is up to a local town, community, or the federal government depending on where it is located.

>> are you against the confederacy? >> how concerned are you about race relations in america, do you think things have gotten worse or better since you took office. >> they've avenue gotten better or the same. they have been frayed for a long time. you can ask president obama about that. he would make speeches about it. but i believe the fact that i brought in, it will be soon, millions of jobs, you see, where come pans are moving back our country. i think that is going to have a tremendous positive impact on race relations. we are going to fix, fixing the inner cities. doing far more than anybody has done with respect to the inner cities. a priority for me. and it is very important. >> are you putting what you are calling alt left and white supremacists on the same moral plane. >> i'm not putting anybody on a

moral plane. i am saying this, you had a group on one side, a group on the other came at each other with clubs, it was vicious, horrible. and a horrible thing to watch. but there is another side. there was a group on this side, you can call them the left, you have just called them the left. that came violently attacking the other group. so you can say what you want. but that is the way it is. >> on both side. hatred. violence on beth side. >> i do think there is blame, yes, on both side. you look at, you look at both side. i think there is blame on both side. and i have no doubt about it. and you don't have any doubt about it either. and, all -- and, and, if you reported it accurately, you would say. [ indiscernible ] >> excuse me. excuse me. you had some very bad people in that group. but you also had people that were -- that were very fine people on both side. you had people in that group, excuse me. excuse me. i saw the same, pictures as you did. you had people in the group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue. and

robert e. lee to another name. >> george washington was a slave owner. was george washington a slave owner? so, will george washington now lose his status? are we going to take down--excuse me. are we going to take down, are we going to take down statues to george washington? how about thomas jefferson? what do you think of thomas jefferson? you like him. >> i do love thomas jefferson. >> he was a major slave owner are we going to take down his statue. you know what it is fine. you are changing history. you are changing culture. and you had people. not talking about the neo-nazis and white nationalists they should be condemned totally. you had many people in the group other than neo-nazis and white nationalists. okay. and the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. now, in the other group, also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with, with the black outfits and health melts and the baseball bats. you have a lot of bad people in the other group. >> i didn't understa w

were saying, the press has treated white nationalists unfairly. i didn't understand? >> there were people in the rally. i looked the night before. if you uh look, there were people protesting very quietly. the taking down of the statue of robert e. lee. i'm sure in the group there were bad ones. the following day it looked like they had some rough, bad, people. white nationalists whatever you want to call them. you had a lot of people in the group who were there to innocently appropriate test and legally protest because you know, don't know itch you know, they had a permit. the other group didn't have a permit. i only tell you this. there are two side to a story. i thought that what took place

was a horrible moment for our country. a horrible moment. there are two sides to the country. does anybody have a final? you have an interest. >> president trump at trump tower in new york city. the cbs "overnight news" will be right back. ♪ susie got all germy ♪ a cold, a bug, a flu ♪ when school was back in session ♪ ♪ those germs were shared with you ♪ back to school means back to germs. and every year kids miss 22 million school days due to illness. but lysol spray and wipes kill 99.9% of germs... including common cold and flu viruses... to help protect your home and family. and now that lysol is the only disinfectant with box tops, you earn cash for your school, every time you lysol that. i'm about to pop a cap of "mmm fresh" in that washer with unstopables in-wash scent boosters by downy. because this scent lasts up to 12 weeks, which is longer than any relationship i've ever been in.

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this is the "overnight news." the latest craze in adventure photography is rooftoping. the shooters climb to the top of a skyscraper and risk their lives for breathtaking shots. i tagged along with two rooftoping daredevils for cbsn on assignment. >> i feel like i am the robin hood of photography.

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victor to become vick invades. today he is within of hundreds of so-called urban explorers. walking the rooflines in pursuit of art, adrenaline and cash. for some rooftopers, climbing is a full time job. >> right here, your room at the top. >> yeah. >> for vick invades he lives at home with his grandmother. >> this is my one jungle gym, the city. take add van taj. >> vick invades the sidewalk. >> vick invades the cross walk. >> how much do you think you can

>> feel like i could make a few million. maybe pushing it. i can get there. >> vick is trying to rise to the same level as vitalyi, and vadeem. two of rooftoping's most famous and daring personalities. >> yes. >> the founders of the brand on the roofs. the duo can earn $10,000 or more per project. and appeared in ads for cannon. timberland. and converse among others. company that have paid you for roofing? >> converse. >> they didn't tell me how to do it. you're going to do what you do. i gave them a lot. >> the billion doll rar company sent him shoes and paid him for this picture on the manhattan bridge which he climbed imillegally. requested an interview with converse they responded. >> while weer encourage all people to follow their passions encourage, at the same time we have construction workers that do it. they're getting paid for it sat same time. i go up for a purpose. i go up there to document it. >> and cameras also document

climbers falling to their deaths. still, there is no deterring vick or friend josh as they take their cameras and go on their next invasion. >> our journey is up there. >> how do you get in? >> doors are open. check the door. you've get lucky. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: we watch from a distance as vick and josh slip into a constructing site in brooklyn and start to climb. 55:00 a.m. on the water front. vick invades maze his way to a tower not yet built.

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one of the hottest stars in hollywood, the hurt locker, mission impossible. borne legacy and avengers. his success didn't come overnight. and, john blackstone sat down with renner to discuss his long trip to the top. >> reporter: in jeremy remmer's new movie "wind river." >> out here you cannot blink not once ever. >> winter in the mountains of wyoming and there is a bed found in the snow. >> sorry, what is it that you do again? >> hunter. >> lion hunter? >> i hunt. >> why don't you come hunt one for me then. >> renner plays a wh

lethal skill but is still vulnerable. >> it is my daughter emily. she passed three years ago. >> i like he is a father. the father dealing with loss. >> she is such a good girl. but we let our guard down. >> that's something i haven't played. i know there is a lot of restraint in the character. >> jeremy. >> there is little restraint in other characters renner played in three franchises, the spy in "miss impossible." a secret agent in "the borne legacy." >> get down! >> reporter: and now a fixture in "the avengers" wielding bow and arrows as hawkeye. >> don't get me wrong, i considered like, am in

dupe this. i am like, yeah. these are awesome movies. i'm an idiot not to say yes, you know? >> oh, boy. >> in 2008, he played a realistic hero. a military bomb disposal expert in iraq in "hurt locker." >> there is too many locks. i can't do it. i can't get it off i'm sorry. understand. i'm sorry. >> the hurt locker was largely shot in jordan, in 1200 degree plus temperatures. >> maybe give you something that doesn't weigh 14 pounds. >> they thought about it. walked differently in it. authentic as you can be.

one of the experiences this wasn't a movie. i, i, it changed me a lot. changed me a lot. >> when he was nominated for an academy award. he made a phone call that can still touch his emotions. >> you call your bluts. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. i called her to ask her to be my -- yeah, i called her to be my date. a really, really cool thing. she said of course i will be your date. >> renner its the old us of his mother's six children. a family that lived modestly in modesto, california. >> i group with no money. used to have noeg money. hollywood was not in his plans.

>> so you are not thinking of going into acting in high school. no, no. i should go to college. >> his father suggested local community college. >> pick a class. go take it. i went okay. go fail. i always had love. and that, that go fail, son, empowered me to go succeed. or try. so i did. i went and tried stuff. you know? and one of them was an acting class. once i stride the acting class it stuck. >> reporter: he left for los angeles, determined to be noticed. >> i gave myself 11 years. don't know why 11 years. you know. but, you know. 11 years, i will need to be in a movie. movie big enough that will play in modesto, be in a role i didn't have to tell my parents, i'm the guy in the red shirt in bakt ground. you've will see me in that movie. >> the movie turned out to be national lampoons senior trip. >> what? >> want to cut and go to a party? come on! i know you like me. >> that was my first job ever. that's not a bad job for a first job. >> reporter: after the promising start it would be almost seven years before renner had his next role. >> his break came with dahmer in 2002 playing serial killer, jeffrey dahmer. the next year, a rogue policeman in "swat." for the first time he had a bit of money and found something to do with it. >> that's when i got the first house.

brother. so we pooled our money together. barely. fixed it up. the realtor was like i can sell this for this number. i'm like, what? okay. >> how many houses have you done now? >> this is, 27th. >> 27. >> 27 tt. that we built, yeah. he drafted the plans for remodeling the home he lives in to day with a swimming pool, fit for a theme park. >> bigger. >> not just a pool. this is an event. >> ha-ha-ha. well, i wanted it to be a playground for all the kids and a playground for all of the adults in my family. >> no one in his family is more important than his 4-year-old daughter ava and shares custody with his ex-wife, a mod m. sunny potechko. >> to be a father. in a pool house he writes and records his own songs. >> it was my first love, music.

>> planning something you recorded here. >> i can play you something. not sure what i -- what i revealed to you. here is the stuff. >> the song garden of stone is for ava. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ this garden of stone >> that's why i don't, don't release music. you know? because it is such a personal thing. >> reporter: after wind river. he will be kept busy with more avengers sequels. his acting career may have had a slope start, but in hollywood, jeremy renner is now much in demand. >> what's going to happen next? i have no idea. ha-ha-ha. you know, i am excited to see. excited to grow. excited to see what is going to happen.