me and this man have more in common than i do with some of those people. >> reporter: james bessengere south carolina secessionist party and johnathan thrower shakem, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> sreenivasan: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: families trying to rebuild their lives in the rubble of their hometown, ground-zero in the fight for an isis stronghold in syria. and, preparing for the solar eclipse that's expected to be out-of-this world. but first, back to the fallout from the president's comments on charlottesville. political correspondent lisa desjardins joins me now to discuss how republican lawmakers have reacted, and the new numbers from our latest newshour poll, done in collaboration with npr and marist college. these were done after the statement on saturday. >> that's right. this was a poll done monday and tuesday. so some of this might include the president's latest reaction. most sin colluding his reactions from saturday. here's what we've found. we asked people what they thought about the president's response. 27% felt it was str