>> peter alexander, thank you so much and we are joined by attorney general jeff sessions. sir, good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah. >> let's talk about the president's words that we're focusing on at the moment and he said on saturday that this was an e greemgious display of hatred, bigotry and violence and he seemed to add on many sides. on many sides and he was asked and given an opportunity to specifically condemn white supremacists who are protesting. why didn't he call them out? >> he made a very strong statement that directly contradicted the ideology of hatred, hatred, bigotry, racism, white supremacy. those things must be condemned in this country. they're totally unacceptable, and you can be sure that this department of justice and his administration is going to take the most vigorous action to protect the right of people like heather heyer to protest against racism and bigotry. we're going to protect the right to assemble and march and we're going to prosecute...

and the kkk. >> the president did not. >> mr. sessions, that came from the white house. >> it was attributed -- >> it came from the white house and it was authorized -- >> and here's a president, as you know, general sessions, he's not afraid to take to twit toteo chastise a number of folks, yourself included and not afraid to call out terrorism overseas, but here is a president that didn't do that. why? >> the president did do that yesterday. >> that wasn't the president. that's not the same as the president. >> you're interrupting me. >> you asked me and i was giving you an answer. >> go ahead. >> there is a white house spokesman that made that statement explicitly condemning these groups by name, and i'm sure he'll talk again about it soon. >> today. with the president of the united states is going to explicitly condemn these so-called alt-right groups and white nationalist groups. >> he will be speaking to the people today. i'm not sure what he'll say. that's my understanding,...