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once again defended remarks he made after a violent white supremacist rally earlier this month. one woman was killed when man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. >> here's what i said on saturday: we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and silence. >> reporter: what he actually said is this: >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides -- on many sides. >> reporter: it was the words "on many sides," and his apparent defense of white supremacists three days later. >> very fine people, on both sides. >> reporter: that led to widespread backlash. this from house speaker paul ryan. >> i do believe he messed up in his comments on tuesday when it sounded like a moral equivocation or at the very least moral ambiguity. >> reporter: and even stronger

corker of tennessee. >> the president has not yet been able to demonstrate the ability nor some of the confidence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. >> reporter: the president last night blamed the media. >> oh, that's so funny. look back there. the live red lights, they're turning those suckers off fast, i'll tell you. >> reporter: as you can see, cnn and the other cable networks did not stop their live coverage, contrary to what the president said. now, anthony, it would appear that the raucous rally last night in phoenix and the respectful speech here in reno today would have nothing in common, but, in fact, they do have this in common inch beth cases the president found a way to tell core audiences, core supporters exactly what they wanted to hear. anthony? >> mason: chip reid in reno.

just the night before mr. trump stuck to the script as he addressed the nation about afghanistan. james clapper, former director of national intelligence, was struck by the difference between that speech and his performance in phoenix. here was clapper last night with cnn's don lemmon. >> it's interesting to contrastland last night's teleprompter trump performance versus tonight, which is, of course, the real trump, just as it was in the unglued, impromptu press conference at trump toer. i just find this extremely disturning. >> are you questioning his fitness? >> yes, i do. i really question his ability to... his fitness to be in this office, and i also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it. maybe he is looking for a

> mason: what is the president's motivation? chief white house correspondent major garrett has more about that. >> they are trying to take away our history and our heritage. you see that. >> reporter: president trump taunted the news media with accusations of divisiveness that since charlottesville republicans, democrats, and business leaders have laid at his feet. mr. trump's deflection and grievance are aimed at keeping the third of the country still on his side energized and angry. the us against them strategy targets senate republicans like jeff flake and john mccain both of who endured indirect fire from the bully pulpit in phoenix. flake first. >> nobody wants me to talk about him. nobody knows who the hell he is. >> reporter: then mccain. >> but we are going to get rid of obamacare. ly -- i will never stop. one vote! >> reporter: the president even rattled.o

threat. >> if we have to close down our government, we're building that wall. >> reporter: that sounded all the more bizarre considering the long history of campaign promises about funding the wall. >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan was asked about the shutdown today. >> i don't think a government shutdown is necessary, and i don't think most people want to see a government shutdown. >> but i said, mitch, get to work and let's get it done. >> reporter: attacking some republicans, including a supposed ally like republican mitch mcconnell is also strategic. the president needs to show his base he's still committed to populism despite the firing of chief strategist steve bannon. mcconnell and the president haven't spoken in two weeks, and the president's aides say the president's erratic rhetoric and party bashing threaten his entire agenda. the white house tried the paper over the an animosity with sevel statts

objectives. during his feud with the president, mcdonnell has touched base with mike pence or chief of staff john kelly. through all of this, the president's historically low approval ratings remain stuck in the mid-30s. >> mason: major garrett at the white house, thanks. joining us now, anthony slavanto, director of elections and surveys here at cbs news. anthony, last night the president continued to criticize fellow republicans. why does he feel confident that his base will stay with him if he does that? >> anthony, if you take a look at the polling across the sum they're we've done, you can't paint all of his supporters with the same brush. he has a core base, about half of his total support, inside those numbers. they feel more attached to him than they do to the party. they vote republican, but they consider themselves trump supporters first and foremost. it's a really personal connection. they feel like he's fighting for their culture and their way of life. well, they haven't been very much inclined to listen to anything the republican party lead verse to say. if anything they take any it

themselves, they say, and it's only made their support firmer. >> mason: interesting. he has faced pushback from republican senators over charlottesville and over his threat to shut down the government if he doesn't get funding for the wall. if this gets in the way of his legislative agenda, will that affect his supporters? >> well, here's where you look at the other half of his supporters. if we called them the more conditional supporters. they want policy outcomes from this president. now, they still back him, but they feel like he has to deliver in congress with legislation. they want the tax cut, for example, and while most republicans did approve of how he described the events in charlottesville, it wasn't the same as the numbers he's gotten for things like handling the economy. so these folks are much more transactional, and the question will be: at what point might they run out of patience if he can't deliver on that policy agenda? >> mason: anthony slavanto, thanks. >> thank you. >> mason: at least 35 members of president trump's advisory councils have now resigned in protest over his

charlottesville. among them, thea lee, former deputy chief of staff of the afl-cio who was a member of mr. trump's manufacturing council. she also served on councils for his three most recent predators. thea lee joins us now. what was it about charlottesville that made you quit this council? >> well, it was that final trump tower press conference on tuesday afternoon that was so unhinged, and i think it was the fact that after watching those horrific events in charlottesville and seeing a person lose their life and to have nazis marching on the streets with torches and chanting anti-semitic and racist slogan, it didn't seem like asking too much that the president of the united states should show the same revulsion, and the president's reaction was so inappropriate, so inadequate, so painful that it just felt that any kind of association with the president, with the

no longer possible. >> mason: you've written that it became clear that this is not a normal administration and the usual rules do in the apply. what do you mean by that? >> i have served on a lot of advisory committees for previous presidents, and i never considered that serving on an advisory committee was the same thing as endorsing a president, so it had never seemed before that i had to make that kind of a calculation that it was necessary to distance myself an additional space. >> mason: thea lee, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you, anthony. thanks for having me. >> mason: mr. trump did his best to get under hillary clinton's skin during the debates last year. now clinton reveals how successful he was in her new book "what happened?" it's published by simon & schuster, a division of cbs. a portion of the audio version recorded by clinton was released today. here's julianna goldman. >> no matter where i walked, he followed me closely, staring at me, making faces.

>> reporter: it was the second presidential debate, and in hillary clinton's telling of the story, donald trump loomed behind her, breathing down her neck. only two days earlier the campaign was rocked by the release of a tape in which mr. trump bragged about sexual assault. now they were on a small stage together. >> my skin crawled. it was one of those moments where you wish you could hilt 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." >> reporter: clinton has second thoughts about not choosing option b. >> maybe i have overlearned theless isn't of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingering nails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while. >> reporter: clinton has kept a la

last november, and in another excerpt she wrote about the disappointment of what she called her painful loss. >> i knew that millions of people were counting on me, and i couldn't bare the idea of letting them down, but i did. i couldn't get the job done. >> reporter: the excerpts elude the russia's interference in the election. clinton has also said she'll address mistakes like her private e-mail server in the book, which she's calling the most personal back she's ever written. anthony? >> mason: julianna goldman, thanks very much. the commander of the navy's seventh fleet was relieved of duty today following two deadly collisions in four months. late sunday night the "u.s.s. john s. mccain" collided with an oil tanker off singapore. ten sailors are feared dead. here's david martin. reporter: divers went below decks on the "mccain" searching for sailors trapped in flooded sleeping compartments. this time they took the

out of the mangled wreckage. after one still-unidentified body was pulled from the open water, the navy expanded its search to look for more sailors who might have been washed out of the gaping hole a tanker punched in the "mccain's" hull. having lost two ships, the "mccain" and the "fitzgerald" to deadly collision, the commander of the pacific fleet, admiral scott swift, said he no longer had confidence in vice admiral joseph aucoin and removed him immediately. ships are now in stand down to review basic seamanship, one of several steps senior naval officers felt aucoin should have ordered in june after the "fitzgerald" collision. a string of accidents dates back the january when the guided-missile cruiser "antietam" ran aground. joseph carrigan was relieved of his command,

investigation also found substandard performance from multiple crew members. the house cleaning in the seventh fleet may not be over. lower-rank admiral commanders are responsible for monitoring conditions aboard individual ships like the "mccain" and "fitzgerald" and may have failed to spot accidents waiting to happen. anthony? >> mason: david martin at the pentagon tonight. thank you, david. the texas gulf coast is bracing for harvey, a tropical depression that is expected to strengthen before making landfall late friday. a hurricane watch is up from port mansfield to galveston island. harvey could bring a dangerous storm surge and as much as 20 inches of rain. police in the dutch city of rotterdam today canceled a concert by an american band after getting a terror threat. they later arrested the driver of a van with spanish license plates and several gas canisters. it's in the clear if there is a connection to the concert that

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>> mason: we have an update on the story of american and canadian diplomats in cuba who it is believed were targets of a sonic attack. it now appears some of them suffered serious injuries. executive editor steve dorsey of cbs news radio broke the story. diplomats working in havana started complaining last year about hearing loss and headaches. now an american doctor has diagnosed some with mild traumatic brain injury and likely damage to the central nervous system. the cuban government denies any involvement. in charlottesville, virginia, today, black covers were draped over the statues of confederate general robert e. lee and stonewall jackson to symbolize the city's mourning for heather heyer, who was run dunn and

the clash between white supremacists and counterprotesters man. tried to remove one of the protesters but later gave up. meanwhile, what can only be described as a head scratcher. espn says play-by-lay man robert lee won't work the university of virginia's opener in charlottesville because of the leincidence in his name. e, who is asian american, will work another game. up next, the land o'luck. ♪

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. back up, you creep. what hillary clinton was really thinking during a tense debate with donald trump. >> is the media responsible for hate? are we trying to destroy history and heritage? the president thinks so. >> and blacks for trump, the odd story behind that man standing right behind the president in phoenix last night. first, good evening. we're going to talk about the espn decision that has a ton of people talking tonight. a broadcaster got pulled from calling a uva football game next month because his name is robert lee., the same name as the confederate general.