you see the flag flying over the white house 24/7, that she did.ing that pat nixon made the white house wheelchair accessible, little things you don't notice. done a lot, s have but the two that did the most are clearly jacqueline kennedy nixon.. host: few minutes left, laura in troy, michigan, line for democrats. go ahead. caller: good morning. renovations the being done, who selects the contractor? donald trump have his hand that and can you tell take long this might before the president come necessary or will we be paying extra time at maralago? guest: president trump had the ng to do with contractor, this is done by the gsa, general services a bland sounding title for federal government handles these at kind of things, they handle, not and white house upkeep things like that, but federal buildings everywhere. ones that i think pick the contractor, i know like are folks who don't president trump or read into hat everybody wants, but i'm pretty sure he had nothing to do with the selection of the contractor for this and again, approval of this renovation job dates back to the obama era

that was a war for white supremacy. it was a war to erect the state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people. discussed,s that i really bubbled from the base of the republican party in that within rallyed around the cause of the confederacy makes complete sense. amy: we're going to go to break and come back to this discussion with ta-nehisi coates, national correspondent for the atlantic where he writes about culture, politics, social issues. his forthcoming book will be out in october titled, "we were eight years in power: an american tragedy." we will be back in a moment. ♪ [music break] amy: "this little out of mind" by odette a. putting a black cloth over the remains -- to many of you remove. it is the song that clergy saying on friday night as they held a gathering in a chapel at as university of virginia outside hundreds of torch bearing white supremacist marched past. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman and juan gonzalez. can massive protests aga

by white supremacists.e have to fight racism tooth and nail. and people like david duke are despicable and they shouldn't be able to run on the republican line. but we are a country of free speech which is why they got their permits in the first place. which was retracted and the supremacists went to a federal district court judge last night and said you can't stop our free speech so they were allowed to protest. it's fascinating the dance between the first amendment and that sneaking evolution to violence. >> we have to be careful with this. people do have a first amendment right. but the moment they turn violent, that turned violent very quickly, the police should be able to step in, the handcuffs should be on and they should be bheeld off to the jailhouse. judge jeanine: that's it for the first hour of "justice." the second hour begins in moments. we'll have all the breaking developments out of charlottesville. the white house response and the latest on the nuclear standoff with north korea. award winnin

by white supremacists.fight racism tooth and nail. and people like david duke are despicable and they shouldn't be able to run on the republican line. but we are a country of free speech which is why they got their permits in the first place. which was retracted and the supremacists went to a federal district court judge last night and said you can't stop our free speech so they were allowed to protest. it's fascinating the dance between the first amendment and that sneaking evolution to violence. >> we have to be careful with this. people do have a first amendment right. but the moment they turn violent, that turned violent very quickly, the police should be able to step in, the handcuffs should be on and they should be bheeld off to the jailhouse. judge jeanine: that's it for the first hour of "justice." the second hour begins in moments. we'll have all the breaking developments out of char meta appetite control... it's your glass of willpower that helps keep cravings... ...far, far away. feel less hungry

white nationalists.ore thing i want to note. this is a president not shy about criticizing a long list of people whether it's democrats like president obama or hillary clinton or fellow republicans like senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, senator john mccain, james comey. and the current special counsel bob mueller. what he's not done highway president is condemn white nationalists, white supremacy or nazis or neo-nazis. that is why a lot of folks believe his statement today on saturday did not go far enough. back to you. >> thanks to athena jones for that. for more now on the president's sons to charlottesville and the criticism surrounding it, democratic strategist dave jacobson joining me from los angeles via skype. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> just a few moments ago, we heard david gergen saying the fact that the president did not specifically call out and con dep the neonazis from the rally today, that was essentially a defense of the white supremacists. do you see it that

lay blame on bigotry and on white supremacist, on white nationals and hatred.aid. this president has done an incredible job names terrorism as evil around the world, whether in europe or the middle east. said and called it out time and time again and this president needs to do exactly that today. call this white spr supremacism,needs to come from the white house and needs to be done today. >> joining us from bridgewater, new jersey, covering the president, not far away right now. he's continuing what he calls his working vacation. athena what is the latest what has been the reaction, the official reaction, from the president, if any, today? >> reporter: hi, wolf. we have mnot heard from the president today. i was checking his twitter feed to see if these tweeted in the last few minutes and he has not. no word on exactly what he's up to, but we did hear from his daughter ivanka trump on twitter earlier this morning. a senior adviser to the president and here is what she tweeted earlier today. she said, there should be no place in society for racism, white suprem

country went to white people, mainly white immigrants of europe. they have no reason. host: they're tracking hate groups and all kinds of hate groups and it's not just white supremacist and white nationalists organizations that hey tracked. what do you think is causing this rise in this country? and what would be your suggestion for bringing it back together? caller: well there is no rise of any -- i'm sorry. these people have always existed. the fact that you say there's a lack separatist group is not sensical because black people have been the victims of all sorts of violence and intimidation and terrorist acts that having pepper rated upon them by the oldest known terrorist group in the country. i know you're looking for an answer as to why there is a rise but from black folks losing jobs and black folks losing any kind of career opportunity, there is no rise. these people have always existed. they may be mobilizing in greater numbers but they've always existed. like i said, when you have a system that's predicated upon white sbrimet and white s

white americans believe -- white christians believe -- some white christians believe that jesus loves them more. some black christians believe that jesus loves them more. i am a christian. real christians believe and know that christ is our only personal savior. personal savior, to the individual, period. that is one thing. the other thing is this. really quickly -- i am noticing the proliferation of fake news, and the fact that the young lady you had prior to this gentleman -- he is going down this road. they specifically said that donald trump -- the lady specifically said donald trump .as correct in his assessment and what she said was, he should be not correct, not right, and not logical, but he should be -- he should join the country together. i am trying to figure out how to say this. host: what she said -- this is the second caller who said this. not bed that he should getting into the details of the logistics. she did not say anything about him being logical. she said the president of the united states, past presidents, use the office for moral authority. some have been critic

the white house's position. another one is very importantly, h.r. mcmaster today, who said on television, this was an act of domestic terrorism. the president has to be equally frank, he has not been. it's clear in his heart he doesn't want to be, and it's clear that the white supremacists have taken heart from his vagueness, from the fact that he has not condemned them, and the kind of way we know donald trump can through his tweets and other personal statements. so i think the country is still on boil today or tonight. i think we -- the president talks about bringing us together. if anything, the emotions have become more poisonous, the divisions are deeper, and we're a long long way from being a country that we want to be. we're not united, we're tearing ourselves apart at the moment. >> you mentioned ivanka trump, the president's daughter. there should be no place in society for racism, white supremacy and neo-nazi. we must all come together as americans and be one country united #charlottesville. he's had n

the white supremacist stuff. there is a lot of steve bannon's thinking left in this white house, and to john's point. it's left in the figure of the one guy who really matters in this white house who is the president of the united states. >> and i would say he hasn't acted on a lot of it yet. the fascinating part. definitely the tone, tenor of the remarks in charlottesville were the moral equivalence, the criticism of the alt left, no doubt that is echoing steve bannon and clear. forget steve bannon a second. clearly what donald trump thinks. if you watched him at that news conference, came back to it repeatedly. that is his thinking, perhaps supported and echoed by steve bannon. reince priebus, the republican guy. gone. steve bannon, pitchfork tea party america first, not interventionist in the world. if you're watching the president's having a meeting now. what about more u.s. troops in afghanistan? national security advisors say is necessary. the president's instinct. oh, please. why do i want to extent americ

white citizens just a little while before the election. it begins this way.contempl believe in the constitution of the united states contemplated a government to be carried on by unenlightened people believing that his framers did not anticipate the franchise meant of an ignorant population and believing those men in the state of north carolina who joined informing the union do not contemplate their descendentsto subjection to an inferior race. so the night before election day the colonel stood on stage, gave what was later described as a sizzling speech and he said ifll you see the negro voting, tell them to go home. if he will go home, shoot him down in his tracks. so there's nothing subtle about this in the place erected into applause. that was the tone that was said for election day the following mo morning. so there's nothing subtle about this. there is nuances in the sense of a power grab going on. furthermore, they had already made arrangements in washington with the mckinley administration that no federal troops to come to the eigh

house, worked in the white house, been an adviser to white houses. myself have covered presidents going back many years. what about the president's comment to the golf magazine of sports illustrated that the white house is, quote, a real dump, explaining why he's spent so much time at his other properties on weekends. you most recently worked inside the white house. >> i can't imagine a situation where anybody would call that a dump. it is a privilege. it is a privilege to serve the country. in the white house. period. end of story. >> and, george, you and i both were involved in different capacities in the reagan years. i was a reporter, young reporter. every time i would walk through the gates i would feel a sense of awe that i was somehow, you know, representing the american people by covering this white house. ronald reagan used to put on his suit coat before walk ing into the oval office just to show respect. some of his predecessors and successors did not. >> ronald reagan had his personally imposed dress code to counteract what he thought was

the white house now clari clarifying. and ivanka trump saying what her father is not. >>> the abc news exclusive. anthony scaramucci, his first interview since being fired from the white house. >>> and prescription for savings. major pharmacies accused of letting customers pay more than they have to for generic drugs. tonight, how to make sure you save. >>> and good evening. thanks for joining us on this a. i'm tom llamas. we begin with that deadly chaos on the streets of charlottesville, virginia. the aftermath of the brutal eruption of violence sparked by white nationalists. new video you see it here. the deadly car attack. the driver charged with murder. accused of plowing his car in to a crowd of counter demonstrators. 20-year-old up james fields handcuffed at the scene. police say he was marching with white supremacists earlier. the faces of the victims, the young paralegal in the path of the car. two state troopers responding to the violence killed when the police helicopter went down. just a few miles away. and lat

. >> white trash. jungle bunny. >> honky. >> [ bleep ]. >> dead honky. >> i'm not allowed to say certain things. i mean, i can make fun of jewish people but i'm not allowed to make fun of other ethnic groups. >> they don't arrest anybody that kills rabbits. [ bleep ] if you want to get away with murder, all you got to do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket. >> when you laugh, it's a racial joke. when you don't laugh, it's a racist joke. >> just for the record, my arab friends, i don't do any arab jokes in my act. it's not that i don't think they're funny. it's just -- i don't know. i don't want to die. ♪ >>> thank you, thank you, thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. i did a festival in telluride, colorado. it's a ski town. not a lot of minorities there. i was talking to this dude, and he's like, yo, man, before you go, i got to ask you one thing. where are you from? i went, i'm from south carolina but my parents are from india. he went, what? b

white house. he was the only white house communications director who was in charge of all the communications without having been hired. friday night on this program, i said that the incoming white house chief of staff would face a very clear challenge on monday, today. >> i think we have a test for general kelly on day one, and that is exactly how many minutes does it take him to yank those white house credentials off the neck of anthony scaramucci because if scaramucci works in that white house, by definition general kelly has failed to control that white house. >> and he passed. general kelly passed that test today. it was the easiest test that any white house chief of staff has ever been given. and now he has the jared test, the ivanka test. the job of white house chief of staff was called appointment secretary until richard nixon militarized the title to chief of staff. the power of the appointment secretary was the power of who got to see the president. the appointment secretary was supposed

that he came onto the white house. obviously he has been a lightning rod since the very first day that president trump announced him as the chief strategist. he's someone whose linked to the alt right movement and breitbart news. the republican establishment from the very beginning was skeptical of him and obviously a lot of democrats were very indicate cal when president trump made this announcement but craig, we can't underscore this enough in the wake of charlottesville. the calls for him to go were growing louder by the day. the fact you had president trump drawing a parallel between white supremacists and counterprotesters, a lot of people felt that was very bannon-esque and calling for him to go. >> nicole, is that why steve bannon is out? charlottesville? >> listen, i trust kristen welker's reporting. if that was a factor, i'm sure thafbs the case but it would have been the factor in chief of staff kelly's mind. the window into donald trump's -- lays there in his twitter feed and indiscernible from steve bannon'

rocking the white house. president trump fired steve bannon, the kroemcontroversial head of breitbart. bannon's once very influential role in the white house dramatically diminished amid in-fighting and sources say the ouster was in the works for weeks. bannon was given the opportunity to resign but ultimately was forced out. he is expected to return to breitbart, once called the platform for the alt right strongly supporting mr. trump as a candidate and president. the site has been critical of members of the trump team. it proceeds to be fighting against bannon and more recently even critical of the president himself. a top breitbart editor responded to news of bannon's firing with a single word tweeting this word -- #war. a white house source just told cnn that's not what bannon wants. all of this comes at the end of a very tumultuous week for president trump, facing bipartisan blowback for his reaction to the violence that erupted at a neo-nazi demonstration in charlottesville, virginia, including the deat

this ceo, kevin plank, is white. that's the only difference between kenneth frazier and kevin plank in terms of what they did today. they both resigned from the president's commission. one is black. one is white. one was attacked by the president. one wasn't. that is not the kind of thing that goes unnoticed by the white supremacist vote. two state police officers were killed in a helicopter accident while they were on duty in response to the white supremacist march in charlottesville, virginia. it was an accident, but it was an accident that would not have happened if the white supremacists did not create a situation that required a state police helicopter on the scene. donald trump said all the right things about the state police officers who were killed, officers h. jay cullen and berke m. bates. but when heather heyer was murdered, he blamed many sides. we don't know what number heather heyer is. we don't know how many thousands and thousands and thousands of people have been murdered in the united states over hu

now a white house shake-up.t do you say to the american people, congressman, who say we're finishing this week -- for some people it's hard to even digest the news right now, there's just so much being thrown at them. what do you like about what you're seeing right now with the president in washington, what's happening with this country? >> fortunately, there are so many americans who are in between the extremes that exist. reject the extreme elements of our society. who want to unite. we are americans. we should not be left or right, liberal or conservative, republic or democrat. as we watch what happened last week in charlottesville, we should actually renew our interest, our strongest desire to be building bridges between us and rejecting those extremist elements. the president has maybe the most unique ability of all with the challenges that are still ahead of us, to be able to broaden his coalition, reach out across the aisle on issues where he can find common ground wherever possible on the other side but

a dressed up term for white nationalism. calling themselves white i dent terrorism.balism inparent in a human spirit ought to be also applied to white people. that is who is in his government. sebastian gorka, wore the medal of a nazi organization. being paid by the taxpayer in the government of donald trump. >> and national security adviser h.r. mcmaster asked about working with gorka and bannon. take a listen to this. >> this gentleman by the name of sebastian gorka. what's his role in the national security council? >> he is not in the national security council. what we have -- >> seems to represent himself as a spokesman on the national security. why is that? >> the scheduling people for the media and spokespeople is not my area of responsibility. >> can you and steve bannon still work together in this white house or not? >> i get to work together with a broad range of talented people. it is a privilege every day to enable the national security team. >> you didn't answer. can you and steve bannon work in that same white house. >> i am ready to work with anybody wh

he did not talk about race or white nationalists or white supremacy. he didn't talk about the fatality that has been reported or about that car plowing through the crowd and he didn't talk about the images we saw last night of white nationalists carrying torches through the streets of charlottesville, which evokes and harkens back to the post reconstructionist era. this is going to get a lot of attention and people want to hear more from the president. president trump has not found himself much -- very often in this position where he's called upon to act as consoler in chief, if you will, where he's called upon to try to calm and soothe the concerns and so i think that there are many people who are not going to be satisfied with what they heard the president say with regard to charlottesville. especially this phrase about how there is violence and bigotry on all sides. and him not calling out the very organizers, the white nationalist organizers of these demonstrations that have led to all the violence is. >> do we know if the president has spoken with

a all right of folks are saying he is equating the neo-nazis and white supremacists and white nationalistsemonstrating last night and today with the folks counterdemonstrating, protesting the racial epithets they were espousing. i asked a white house official what the president meant by many sides. this is what one said. they said, the president was condemning pate red, bigotry and sources from all sources and all sides. there was violence between protesters and counterprotesters today. that was the white house doubling down on this idea that both sides are to be blame. another thing that's notable here is that the president talked about bringing the country together, about the need to yu night, unite, to straight situation in charlottesville, to study it and figure out what is going on in the country that allows this sort of thing to happen. a lot of critics on both sides of the aisle are saying that the president himself needs to call out the organizers of this demonstration by name, people that were carrying flags with nazi emblems, people carrying confederate flags, people that showed

ultra conservative white supremacists. >> i didn't know it was white supremacists. i thought it had something to do with trump. trump is not a supremacist. >> joining us now from charlottesville, virginia, nbc news correspondent maya rodriguez. good to have you with us. what more can you tell us about the investigation this morning, and the woman who lost her life in this deadly attack? >>> a senior -- they don't know if he trald to charlottesville specifically with the intent of attacking counter protesters or whether this was something that was more spur of the moment. they're trying to figure that out. in the meantime, the department of justice has opened a civil rights hate crime investigation into the car attack itself. now, this is the intersection where 32-year-old heather was killed during that attack. in an emotional interview her mother said that she loved heather. she spoke about her passion for social justice and what drew her to the counter protest this weekend. take a listen. >> her entire life has been passionate about justice for everyone and fairnes

yet not on that list, john, is nazis or neo nazis or white supremacists or white nationalists. in fact, he didn't even use those phrases in his remarks today. this is bipartisan criticism we are seeing, a condemnation i could say of the president's lack of condemnation. from the likes of utah republican senator orrin hatch who wrote on twitter, we should call evil by his name. my brother didn't give his life fighting hitler for nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home. another republican of colorado, senator cory gardner, said something similar on twitter, saying, mr. president, we must call evil by its name. these were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism. those are two examples of several republicans including john mccain and others like jeb bush and marco rubio who have used the terms white supremacy or white nationalist to talk about this. you have a president calling for unity, a lot of folks questioning how can you begin to bring people together if you won't use this terminology, call it by its name. this from a man who criticized obama and folks for not u

one less white supremacist in the white house. one less white supremacist in the white house. that doesn't change the man sitting behind the resolute desk. >> that statement is to rise and organize. >> all right. trish: all right. let ned take a stab at this. >> pablo, let me make something very clear. steve bannon never has been, is not, and never will be a white supremacist or a racist at all. it is unfair charge. knowing who he is as a person. but trish, the thing that i think is important moving forward on this, is that president trump, who i believe, his instings tend towards the america first pop youism needs to come out and reassure the base, despite bannon's departure he is committed to that agenda. here is the thing that concerns me, really quick, charlie, there are again a lot of voice inside the west wing committed to that agenda. >> let's be real clear, there are a lost voices inside trump's head not committed to that agenda. i've known donald trump for a long time. steve bannon gave him the playbook, the playbook to w

reminded -- first of all i can them white supremacy. white supremacy. think it would be more interesting to have a meaningful discussion about what motivates them. we have them on the right and the left. there isn't a lack of support on either side. we lived with president obama for eight years who was unwilling to call radical islamic terrorists radical islamic terrorists. cryn't remember some huge from the mainstream media about that. footage where we at black lives matter movement chanting plate -- pigs in a blanket, kill them now. there was no comment made about that. host: a minute ago you made the point to say you condemn white foremacy, they stand hatred. would it be helpful if the president did what you just did before going in having this larger discussion that you want to have it you are talking about? caller: it very well may be, i would encourage them to do that. even if he had done that, i don't think there is anything this president can do or say that will satisfy the mainstream media and his critics. was also person that not satisfied wit

and this white house right now. what message are you getting with the pardon of sheriff arpaio and the, you know, firing of sebastian gorka. the thing, he is real. he believes that -- that, you know he has the got success in mind. and he has got outcomes he wants to make sure. he is a businessman. what he wants to make sure is that, that, what he promised the american people he is getting done. now that's what i see. and from that standpoint, those that helped him get along the way, you know, get, get to the president of the united states he is going to make sure he helps them out making sure that they, that are do, due process. >> help out the people who helped him even if it means this pardon. congressman gosar, thank you for being with us. breaking news in addition to all the breaking news, hurricane harvey. category 4 storm. on the verge of coming ashore in texas. the president signed a disaster order freeing up federal aid for the storm. want to go to weather nation's ben mcmillan in ingleside, texas miles from

call this white supremecism this white nationalism evil and let the country and world hear it.t's something that needs to come from the oval office. this white house needs to do it today. >> meantime, ivanka trump tweeting a more pointed statement than her father. she said, "there should be no place in the world for racism, white supremacy, and neo-nazis. we must come together as americans and be one country united." >> the department of justice and fbi launching a civil rights investigation into the deadly events at a white nationalist rally in charlottesville, virginia. james alex fields accused of driving his car into counterprotesters, killing one person. he faces charges including second-degree murder and is expected to make his first court appearance today. brian todd has more on the suspect and the investigation. >> reporter: we've got important new information about the suspect accused in the car strike which killed that young woman on saturday here in charlottesville. according to our justice producer, mary kay maloney, she got this information from a justice departmen

white supremacist groups. while the president faces tough criticism over his response to the attack, his homeland security advisers tom bossert says the president's message called for respect and love among americans. bringing in our white house correspondent athena jeans fra bridgewater, new jersey, where the president is spending his working vacation. first of all, do we know what the president is doing, a beautiful sunday, up in new jersey? >> reporter: hi, wolf. not so far. no word on what the president is doing. in fact, a small pool of reporters assigned to follow him today isn't even supposed to gather for several more hours. we've asked several times whether he's golfing. no word. it is a beautiful day for golf but we have no word on that. we also haven't heard anything more from the president about this issue, charlottesville, and what happened there, or any other issue at all today. but we did hear from the president's daughter ivanka trump who is, of course, one of his seen dwrer anior advisers w tw

>> white issues, according to white supremacist ideology is a cultivation of fear, the idea that whitee are under attack, that they're being oppress oppressed, and it is that kind of paranoia that drives what they do. richard spencer makes no bones about that that what he does is identity politics for white people. it is a logical conclusion for that form of social things if is a reflection of what has been happening on the left. >> i found your article today fascinating talking about the sort of people that are trying to convert. talk to me about how that works. >> essentially what makes you right for recruitment into white supremacist or any kind of violent extremist, it is essential to show that it is identity for the so-called state. and it is looking at people who are suffering. so primarily young, white men, who don't have things going for them. they don't have a great job, a girlfriend, they have other sorts of problems. it is way easier to blame other people than it is to look inward and say what can i be doing better. essentially rch geveryone getti involved in these hate grou

no word from several white house officials that i've reached out to where the president stands on white nationalism and white nationalists and whether he plans to speak out against these groups. >> athena jones reporting with the president in new jersey. let's listen to what the president had to say now. we do have that sound for you. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. on many sides. it's been going on for a long time in our country. not donald trump, not barack obama. it's been going on for a long, long time. >> i want to bring in my panel, cnn senior political analyst and former advisor to four presidents, david gergen, washington bureau chief for the chicago "sun times," lynn sweet, and julian, and with us, civil rights attorney charles coleman. david, president trump did not call out a group or specific group for this today. why not? it seems like these far right racists are a safe group to condemn. >> the president had a very hard time coming to grips with the fact that he has a lot of support from wh

there were a number of black letter carriers who were beaten to death by white mobs and some white women came to the rescue and gave them shelter in their homes. there were a number of other white women who sheltered black servants in their homes to keep them safe but this was catastrophic or wilmington in so many ways. a lot of these people that were being chased and harassed and shot at left the city and swam the river and hid in the swamps. they went to cemeteries. for three days wilmington shut down. you can pretty much mark the end of wilmington's ascendancy in the city of north carolina to the day of this coup and it was called the riot but it was really a coup d'État because the next thing they did was round of the alderman and a gun pointed at city hall megamall resigned and appointed white supremacist down the line. the leader of the violence becomes the mayor and becomes a multi-term mayor. we guys later on there's a huge huge -- and he is eulogized as the fine figure of southern chivalry if you can believe that. no legal action was ever taken. in fact george rowntree later jud

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steve bannon out at the white house, the controversial white house advisor leaving after what could be called a controversial week. an explosive ber view where he seemed to contradict many policy positions and then just a few days ago a very lukewarm endorsement from president trump where he referred to a mr. bannon several times and characterized him as a late comer to the campaign. >> mr. bannon came on very bad later than that. he is a good man, i think, he is not a racist. he gets unfair press in that regard, but we'll see what happens with mr. bannon, but he is a good person and i think the press treats him very unfairly. >> so we start with our reporting on this, as i was watching this unfold and thinking about this, when there has been a shake up, that changes things internally inside that west wing, is it your sense that this is a high of relief. have so many things just happened in this white house in a compressed period of months that is just business as usual. >> i had a text from a top source that gajust gave me that one word. before we were able to fully confirm it and rep

, was disowning his white supremacist son. and we're going to speak with a recovering white supremacist, who is part of an organization called life after hate. this is democracy now!, our exclusive interview with the great-great-grandsons of stonewall jackson. we will also hear after the break, them reading a part of the letter that they have written calling for monuments to their great-great-grandfather to be taken down around the country. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we bring you this exclusive interview with two of the great-great-grandsons of the confederate general stonewall jackson, let's go back to president trump speaking at this fiery, unhinged news conference he had on tuesday in trump tower here in new york. pres. trump: so this week is robert e lee. i noticed stonewall jackson is coming down. i wonder, is a george washington next week and is a thomas severson the week after? yet as herself, where does it stop? amy: that wa

white supremacy did not win yesterday. they did not do anything they came there to do their successfully beside insight a little bit of fear. this will not intimidate us. i believe we can win and we will win. it is not over. amy: brandy gonzalez, i want to thank you for joining us, injured in the car attack, what has been called domestic terrorism on saturday. and lisa moore, registered nurse, who was helping some of the victims in charlottesville, virginia. when we come back, we will be joined by one of the organizers of the antiwhite supremacist protest. we will be speaking to jalane schmidt, a professor at the university of virginia, dr. cornell west spoke friday night and saturday night in virgrgini, and we will be speaking with reverend traci blackmon who was also there. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are talking about the terror in charlottesville him a white supremacist violence that began friday night as hundreds of neo-nazi

went free, white people -- black people went crazy and white people locked him up again.s time, when o.j. got paroled, black people was chilled. o.j., who? but on the inside, the juice is loose! the juice is loose! ( cheers and applause ) we were happy on the inside! >> trevor: roy, o.j. is a convicted felon. >> i'm sorry. who? ( laughter ) i don't know who you're talking about. let me give you some advice. you. the genius master race. comes courtesy of dr. martin luther king. you probably swung by his house a couple of times back in the day. what dr. king always said, keep your eyes on the prize. you've got donald trump in the white house. he's got jeff sessions by his side. you want confederate monuments, jeff sessions is a living confed rat monument! play it cool! play it cool! when obama gave us reparations, we didn't grab tick tiki torched scream direct deposit, we just cashed the checks. >> trevor: black americans got reparations? >> i'm sorry, who? >> trevor: roy wood, jr., everybody! we'll be right back! we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause classic hershey's

there is one less white supremacist in the white house. but that doesn't change the man sitting behind the resolute desk. jackie, what are they trying to say there? are there more white supremacists in the white house and this idea is this really a reset? >> leaving that aside, i think they're absolutely right that moving bannon out, i wrote that he was -- some people were treating him like he was a ventriloquist and trump was his puppet. if there was a week that showed this wasn't true, it was this week with charlottes vilville w we saw his true feelings. one of the things about bannon's departure that is overlooked and the talk of white supremacist when we were talking about north korea, steve bannon was a real voice within the administration for -- against the hawks, as he perceived t he was really upset when the president just off the cuff said what he did about a potential military operation in venezuela and was very upset with the president's rhetoric toward north korea, the militaristic rhetoric. >> and contradicted the president. >

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so far the posture coming out of the white house is defiance, no apologies, as one white house adviser told me there was nothing, quote, disqualifying about the president's comments. president trump laid low, steering clear of the cameras arriving back at his new jersey golf club one day after his in sen deari news conference on charlottesville. >> i think there's blame on both sides. >> the president said to have no regrets of his performance, still he is dealing with the consequences, announcing he is shutting down two advisory boards. rather than putting pressure on business people, the manufacturing council and strategy and policy forum, i am ending both. thank you all. top white house officials are backing the president, including vice president pence who danced around a question about trump's comments. >> i spoke at length about this heartbreaking situation on sunday night in columbia. and i stand with the president and i stand by those words. >> for now, aides to the president and key surrogates appear to be sticking to white house talking points that read the president was enti

not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch. >> white nationalists -- >> 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're not-- but many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of robert e. lee. so this week it's robert e. lee. i notice that jacques i stonewan is coming down. i wonder is it george washington the next week, and thomas jefferson the week after? you really do have to ask yourself where does it stop. >> reporter: he condemned the driver who ran his car into counter-protesters. >> well, i think the driver of the car is a disgrace to himself, his family, and his 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, hosh, inexcuse exoouzable thing. >> reporter: have you spoken to the family of the victim of the c

lee. >> white lives matter! white lives matter! >> reporter: they quickly clashed with counterprotesters. people from both sides ready to fight. it would be the start of a bloody 24 hours. tonight, as divisions seemed wider than ever, president trump returned to new york city. >> new york hates you [ bleep ] donald trump! >> reporter: the welcome, anything but warm. earlier today the president spoke from the white house directly condemning hate groups for the first time since the events over the weekend. >> racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant that everything we hold dear as americans. >> reporter: but some even in his own party saying those words came too late about an incident that has become a new american flash point. ♪ let it shine, let it shine, let it shine ♪ it's early saturday morning in charlottesville. on the one side 26-year-old matt heimbach, one of the leaders of a white nationalist g

the white house insists the president will sign it. the vice-president today traveling in a georgia, he said the president will sign it as well, but still no sense of when that will be. now, wolf, we know the president and the white house indeed were not supportive of the sanctions bill. they tried to slow walk it through the house of representatives and essentially this bill handcuffs him in, you know, releasing and freeing sanctions in the future. it puts most of the control of that in the hands of congress, which this white house didn't want. but again, he said he would sign it on friday. he still hasn't yet. sarah huckabee sanders, the white house spokeswoman, said this today. >> he has not, but as we put out a statement earlier this week, he will and we'll let you know when the details and final plan on that -- >> what's the delay, what's the dlat here? you have had this since friday. what's holding him back? >> there's nothing holding him back. there is a review process, a legal process. they are going through that, and he'll sig

and really all that's going to be left is this sort of radioactive white nationalist, white supremacistlement, and it's just going to get very, very ugly. and having steve bannon on the outside now declaring war, as he says, on the establishment is going to make things even more chaotic and disruptive. this white house is coming apart. it's going to get worse before it gets better. the last thing i'll say about that is that the upon is not steve bannon despite how loathsome he is. the problem with the trump presidency always at its core has been donald trump. and if he doesn't go anywhere, this malignancy will continue. >> having bannon out of the picture will either prove that to be true or false in the coming days. john, you guys at the economist are unabashed capitalists. but what peter was getting at is there is an inability now regardless of whether you're a democrat or republican in america, there's an inability at the moment for the president to get things done, get those things on his legislative agenda accomplished because the president has no allies. he has been, as my colleag

white supremacists. in condemning the violence, president trump did not single out the white hate groups, instead he blamed, quote, many sides, many sides, he said. that comment triggered bipartisan criticism for being vague and equivocating. the president is said to speak again on the issue. he is being briefed this hour on the case by the attorney general. jeff sessions, this morning, wouldn't predict what the president would say, but came to the president's defense for his initial response. >> i thought it was a pretty -- it was a good statement delivered a few hours after the event. the next day, yesterday, they explicitly called out the nazi's and kkk. it came from the white house. it did. it was authorized. >> here is the president, as you know, is not afraid to take to twitter to chastise a number of folks, yourself including, call out terrorism overseas. here is a president that didn't do that. why? >> the president did do that yesterday. his spokesman said -- >> that wasn't the president. it's n

military is overwhelmingly white.make sure that it's not just words that we're actually implementing policies that increase inclusion. >> can i speak on something michael said i thought was really important. instead of hoods and burning crosses, you're seeing khakis and tikki torches. you are seeing a new version of the kkk coming out and looking like they're preppy college students. that is a huge worry. and those are the people they're trying to recruit on college campuses. they have been putting flyers out and trying to target young people to grow their base because they knew at some point their ideologies were sort of dying out, they weren't accepted by society and fewer and fewer people wanted to act and talk like them. now they're looking for young people to try to build that base. >> talking about that base or the base for the president, mark, yes, this is cynical, no doubt, but what the president really lose support from these groups if that is what he cares about? if he would call them out, who else are they

so i don't think you can compare the trump white house to any previous white house. >> we have heard about different factions in the white house and i'm wondering whether this beent the part sure has created then this will be the end of the departures or are you expecting further departures in the near future? >> i am not privy to the inside workings of this white house. i only know what i have read. it appears the initial group of people who have been warring with each other have all departed. process thatnusual the people who come into an administration onto the right fit, particularly the people who have been campaign people. differentre very things, campaigning and governing are two very different paths and require different skills. as long as the president behaves the way he does in terms of playing outside of the established lanes that you will continue to see a degree of turmoil that is inescapable. >> thank you very much for your time we are getting reports that bannon is getting ready to go back to breitbart. let's get a check on where stocks are trading. reactiona wishy-was