charlottesville was not about a statue. it was about hate.play in america and the world to see. and this -- i mean, this is amazing. a white house official speaking on the condition of anonymity, telling "the washington post" that the president is committed to combatting white supremacy and violence in all forms. i want you -- everybody listen, think about this. since when do you have to be anonymous to condemn white supremacy and violence? that seems like something a president would say in an impassioned speech from the oval office out loud, not something that would come from an anonymous source. but for this president it's all about politics. it's about dog whistles. and why is the president relitigating charlottesville anyway? why is he trying so hard to rewrite his own history, with twisted revisionist history of the civil war, robert e. lee, why is he trying to do that? how many fine people do you know who would go and march with people who are saying those things, who are carrying all of those things, about a civil war? this is supposed

you are black man that lives in charlottesville, charlottesville is not like that. these people came from different states, different areas. none of them were there from charlottesville. i will admit to all of you i was somewhat blind to some of the things that were happening around me. my close friend and employee, heather, quite often would sit at her desk and cry and be upset with me. as i walked out of the office to shake a client at hand they would pull their hand back and not acknowledge me because they were surprised when heather would announce to them they will help with financial problems. they get kind of surprised about it. heather would get bothered by that and quick quite frequently point out, i will look and ask her why she would get so upset and she would point out it is a problem if they don't acknowledge you are an educated man solving their problems. you are fixing their problems and they are trying to suppress you. the incident in charlottesville stirred up a lot of feelings black and brown people have known for years. a lot of people don't recogn

i still enjoy being there in charlottesville. my wife and i were talking the other night, and she reminded me of a tragic incident that took place in 1998. three white supremacists in texas chained and dragged james byrd junior for miles. they dragged him on the ground through dirt and gravel. , the horrific part about it was the fact that he lived through most of this dragging and died when his body hit a culvert. when his body hit the colbert, that is when he died. the impact that it had on jasper is 20 years later and if you go look up jasper or check about the policy and things that have gone there, businesses have shied away to go to jasper because of that incident. white supremacy, white nationalists basically almost shut this down down because of this one incident. this town didn't acknowledge the part -- the part that is tragic about this is that the town did acknowledgment happened to this man. they didn't name a street after him. they didn't try to basically solve the problem that took place in jasper. they just tried t

i don't think donald trump said the right things when it comes to charlottesville. comes to joe biden, ignoring the pain of the situation and the mood in which charlottesville opened, to use that experience as an emotional tool especially directed to where the group impacted by it, african-americans, was fairly disgusting. and for an individual who can be impactful in this race and potentially when i was disappointed with that. jillian: a lot of people share that sentiment. it seems there are two trains of thought. some say this shows he's willing to go head the head with donald trump, willing to battle. a lot of people say, this is from a clergyman who protested the whites the premises in charlottesville and a lot of people have the sentiment. how much charlottesville and our dramatic footage seems to be motivating and framing joe biden's candidacy one might think we would have received a call or visit in the past 20 months first. a lot of people feel they are being used as ponds. >> nobody wants to be used as a pond in that regard. joe biden obviously is trying to

we love charlottesville. we're so excited to be here. >> more than 1,000 miles away from minneapolis and it doesn't matter. the excitement from uva fans right here in charlottesville, virginia, it is electric.ee no n to see the players to understand tla py. just look at the fans' faces. all excitement to start out followed by moments of concern, then spurts of joy, highes fiv all around. but wait, disappointment and shock. frozen faces. tstudents holdinght to one another. defeat inching closer, but got wiped away with encouragement andure elation. a big, a huge major win. >> it's the best thing i've ever seen. >> how insane was that? >> tha wwas great. t does it mean they're coming back here to charlottesville as champions? >> they put in a lot of hard i the season to get to this point and we're s o proudf them. they deserve every minute of it. >> from the packed arena to the crowded corner, this -- iswell, th is a sight you rarely see. it is shut down. the roadwayneas tur into a pedestrian plaza. students ar

. >> president trump said he thought his response to charlottesville was perfect. gary cohn, lindsey graham, cory gardner. >> you want to talk about that because you want to -- >> you keep bringing up charlottesville. >> i was happy on friday -- >> i did not. >> i was happy you finally came out and said -- >> not finally. i've been saying it the whole time. >> was president trump's response perfect? >> i think it was twisted for many years. >> he said his response was perfect. >> intent matters. >> was his response perfect? gary cohn doesn't think his response was perfect. >> it's a simple question. yes or no. >> it's not a simple question. >> when president trump condemned racism, bigotry, evil, violence and then took it many steps further and called out neo-nazis, white supremacists, kkk, that is darn near perfection. >> so yes? >> when you're culling out kkk, neo-nazis and saying there are people who hadn't signed up for that. >> you know president trump left an ambiguity -- >> all neo-nazis, all anti christianity, all anti-semitism, anti muslim activity should

at least until charlottesville. tech companies did not take the threat seriously, but even now, there is some hate inspired violence to clean hate out the platform. plate -- facebook only recently recognized that it is the same toxic political rhetoric, but still raising easy to find white nationalists content on its platform. twitter has made no attempt to remove it from their platform. people like david duke, richard spencer, also on twitter. algorithmhich has an continues to be one of the greatest forces on the internet. without any meaningful content moderation, we can only expect to see more young white men teen radicalized. we know that online radicalization can lead to deadly consequences. people that were killed by the alt-right since 2014 and every one of those men responsible was radicalized and i wassome extent why they have partnered with several other organizations to a defense policies that tech companies can adopt to help stem the growth of hate online. it is something we need to tackle with urgency b

he started off yesterday, his campaign, with two words "charlottesville, georgia."e's going right after donald trump. and whether you talk to republicans, people in the white house, democrats, even democrats who might support more progressive candidates in the field than joe biden, a lot of people think that in the general election, joe biden has the best chance against donald trump. i'll say one word -- pennsylvania. that's where joe biden was born. that's where he's going to be spending a lot of his time. we used to hear florida, florida, florida. you're going to be hearing a lot of pennsylvania, pennsylvania, pennsylvania, and donald trump knows it, wolf. >> yeah. with his blue-collar roots, joe biden in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, three states the president won. they think he would be very, very competitive, and i know the republicans are nervous about that. joey, let's talk a little bit about biden featuring charlottesville, virginia, the white supremacist rally there in his announcement video yesterday. the president was asked today if he still thinks t

charlottes v charlott charlottesville is not like that. these people came from different states and different areas, none of them there were from charlottesville. i will admit to all of you before august the 12th i was blind to some of the things happening around. my close friend and employee heather, he is would be worried about me, they would pull their hand back and not acknowledge me because they would be surprised that when they would meet mr. alfred wilson a black guy would come from around the corner, heather would be bothered by that idea. he is would quite frequently point it out to me. and i would ask where it bothered here, and he is says it's because they don't acknowledge that you're a suggested professional man there to fix their problems, the incident in charlottesville stirred up a lot. a lot of people don't recognize or realize litting things i have experienced all of my life. going to a store and having someone follow me around. to me it's not a beg deal, but for others it's brand new and it's on the forefront of what the

leaning in to charlottesville. over the entire three minutes of it, ending almost with the phrase, we cannot forget what happened in charlottesville, saying we the democratics need to win here and i'm the one who can. >> what i found surprising is how singular the message is. think about every other presidential candidate talking about health care, climate change, pay equity that are debated day in, day out you hear in town halls. joe biden will get to that. to have not only the strategy but the discipline to say, i will solely focus on this notion that i am the person you can envision in the general election against donald trump and beating him because of who i am, my stature and experience. joe biden is telling the voters he'll get to those issues. no doubt he'll be asked about them. as much as he'd like to fast forward through the primary, that's not the case. he'll have to share a debate stage. he'll be tested, poked and prodded by voters and he has to fight for the nomination inside the modern day democratic p

he leaned in to charlottesville. that was the common thread throughout the three-minute video >> going well beyond the language we have heard from him in his recent public appearances. he sees the same here as in the 30s and it conveys that he sees this election as a national emergency. if there is one person who is capable of defeating president trump and doing the job, he's that guy. >> here is the website that was unveiled. our best days still lie ahead. couldn't say "are ahead"? i'm not going to quibble. so many candidates are deciding if they should ignore president trump, name him. joe biden has named this as a contrast against president trump >> to make the argument as bluntly as he can that this is an election about who america is and who donald trump is. not the economy, not the stock market, not the country being at peace. all of those are strengths for president trump. but who trump is. we know from 2018 and the congressional election that republicans are hurting. this question of trump's negatives, mostly

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some folks are embracing biden's rollout including charlottesville city council or, haven't endorsedy presidential candidate but i will say the biden announcement brings in a new dynamic putting charlottesville at the center of his rollout, taking on trump, more than some others have done. justice democrats, that helped elect alexandria ocasio cortez said joe biden is entering charlottesville and the fight against white nationalism in the 2020 campaign but where was joe biden when sympathizers were beating up on congresswoman omar and a black lives matter activist agrees saying charlottesville is not a prop. with all of that said it is clear joe biden's campaign is off to a rocky start. >> interesting way to begin with people going to charlottesville. makes you wonder what was happening behind the scenes. >> show biden's campaign promise, will try to unite the country, he has to start by uniting the party. let's talk about aoc, mistaking a fellow democrat as a republican. >> he catches heat for this twitter mishap. this photo shows politician standing next to a cardboard cutout, gop

the debate turned to talking about charlottesville.was on green new deal, felons, letting people in prison vote, socialized medicine, lots of things favorable to republicans to a position that may not be so photographerable for this president. >> listen, the fact that we have to complement the president on doing what a president should do. >> condemning? >> absolutely. not condemning hatred. i think speaking to the american consciousness we are a better country than this, to call us to our better angels when this president does manage to be able to get halfway close to it. we all give him a round of applause, but what we saw yesterday was, indeed, hor risk. we've seen these incidents on the rise, much of that has to do with i think what is sewn at the top. a lot of division, a lot of derigs. a lot of otherizing, a lot of them versus us. i think that in my opinion that's unamerican and i think we can do a better job. i think we will in 2020. >> i just wanted to say this because there is something that really gets under my skin. is that

here's david duke who says, after charlottesville. thank you, president trump, for your honesty and courage to tell the truth about charlottesville and condemn the leftist terrorists. and the significance of that, and this was i think one of todd's most powerful messages when he ran unsuccessful in florida. i'm not calling you a racist, i'm saying the racists think you're with them. dog whistles have been a nasty underbelly of the republican party sadly for a long time. i have two hunting dogs, dog whistles are silent to the human ear. these are mega phones. >> yes, and we have seen this from president trump time and time again. whether it's charlottesville or weaponizing nfl players kneeling during the national anthem in protest of unarmed black men being killed by police officers in this country. he doesn't talk about or express the underlying reasons for these protests. instead he uses it to create and identify and caricature and drag into this battle any type or form of enemy. months ago he's a nationalist, right. and there are ot

why is he trying to revise his record on charlottesville all of a sudden? questions that must be answered, next. advil is... relief that's fast. strength that lasts. you'll ask... what pain? with advil. and relief from symptoms caused feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin by over 200 indoor and outdoor allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity. and live claritin clear. [kno♪king] ♪ memories. what we deliver by delivering. the latest inisn't just a store.ty it's a save more with a new kind of wireless network store. it's a look what your wifi can do now store. a get your questions answered by awesome experts store. it's a now there's one store that connects your life like never before store. the xfinity store is here. and it's simple, easy, awesome. >> forget left and right just for a second. let's just be reasonable. this is how the president describes the controversial answer he gave during the charlottesville situation. >> and if you look at what i said, you will see that that que

charlottesville, virginia, for example. that incident is not captured in hate data. that jurisdiction failed to report the horrendous tragedy that unfolded there. the hate crime. and it certainly was. thats the country we know law enforcement agencies failed to report, and that a lot of the victimsoff -- a lot of are reluctant to call 91 to report hate, sometimes because of distrust, or fear that the incidents will not be taken seriously. host: when you testified you were joined on the panel by turning point usa's candace owens. here is what she told lawmakers about white nationalism. [video clip] >> they change the data set point by widening the definition of hate crime and upping the number of reporting agencies that are able to report on them. they are manipulating statistics. ,he goal here is to scare black hispanic, gays, and muslims, to helping them censor dissenting opinion and helping them regain control of our countries narrative, which they feel that they have lost. they feel that president trump should not have beat hillary. if they were rashly concerned a

the debate has turned to charlottesville.ago it was on green new deal, letting felons still in prison vote, socialized medicine. lots of things that are very favorable for republicans. >> mr. mayor? >> the fact that we have to compliment on doing what a president should do -- >> condemning hatred. >> not just condemning hatred but i think also speaking to the american consciousness that we are a better country than this, to call us all to our better angels when this president does manage to get halfway close to it, we give him a round of applause. what we saw yesterday was indeed horrific. we've seen these incidences on the rise, and much of that has to do with what is being sewn at the top. a lot of division, derision, a lot of them versus us. and i think in my opinion that's un-american and i think we can do a better job and i think we will in 2020. >> i just wanted to say this because this is something that really gets under my skin, is that, you know, i can't stand when these things happen because the president did this.

i bet you can still feel the excitement from charlottesville. the university of virginia men's basketball team is the nca march madness national champions. >> the team was led by sophomar deondre hunter to a big wte over s tech. let's show the moment the cavs made sool history. [ cheers ] >> check out the excitement on the floor there and the disappointment for texas tech. o agonyf defeat. >> hper made the tying three pointer with on12.1 secds left av regulation followed by another that g the cavs that 85-77 huge win. history-making win for the uva clears and for the state of virginia. >> yes. for sure. >> satisfe to say a lot of studs stayed up and may be awake right now. it's been a long night of celebrations. david, you coun't have slept at all. >> reporter: my photojournalist and i have been up -- the students are just getting rest and hoping to be up for 8:00 a.m. classes. you had theups, the downs. ultimately, it was a big win. a national championship title. >> it's awesome. feel like from last year to this year it's been the ultimate come

lee, gaslighting on charlottesville, do you think she's proving joe biden's point?u know, biden's video launching his campaign was sort of the -- we have a national emergency and his name is donald trump. that essentially was a slogan he's rolling out for us. trump, every time he opens his mouth is sort of proving the point whether it's charlottesville or not. just to take gentle issue with ryan's point, everybody agrees that it was wrong except for one person, donald trump. he's mr. never back down and, you know, it's really amazing that we're talking about this two years later and he can't just move on. but then again i have to say look at joe biden, we're talking about anita hill a couple decades later too. >> that's a whole other show. >> but they're not good at saying they're sorry, none of them. >> we are beginning to get to that. we talk about moral equivalence. there's not -- you know, they're not equal. but i do want to ask you about this. what's going on here? because susan is right, it's been two years, the president has never made this defense and now al

whether it's charlottesville owner.t to take gentle issue with ryan's point, everybody agrees that it was wrong except for one person, donald trump. he is mr. never back down. it's really amazing we are talking about this two years later. and he can't just move on. but then again i have to say look at joe biden. we are talking about anita hill a couple decades later. politicians aren't good at saying they're sorry none of them are. >> we are tweeting to that. again we talk about moral equivalence. there is not -- they're not equal. but i do want to ask you about this. what's going on here? because susan is right it's been two years. the president never made this defense. right. now all of a sudden oh, wait a minute this is how we can spin this. what's going on here. >> i think waste going on here is that look, the president doesn't like to back off statements as susan said. and joe biden, vice president biden is calling him out right on the very thing he doesn't want to be called out on. democrats have all the policy pr

but folks, we saw hate in charlottesville.again in pittsburgh at the tree of luf synagogue, the attack was the deadliest in american history on a jewish community. and we're reminded again that we are in a battle. we are in a battle for america's soul. i really believe that. and we have to restore it. so, folks, i want to thank rich fitzgerald, the county executive, the allegheny county executive for being here and mayor, mayor nezby, city of duquesne, is here as well. you're here somewhere, mayor. i got to see it. and international firefighters' general president and my friend for a long, long time, one of the guys that in the unions along with the teachers as they say, brung me to the dance when i started. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] and thank you for your endorsement. and kevin schmidt, president of teamsters local here. thanks for the use of the house. i appreciate it. and president of the firefighters, dave, where are you? pennsylvania firefighters. there you are! i passed right by you. dave, thank you very much. a

you fastened on charlottesville. now it seems, of course, tragically prophetic. now days later we see what happens in poway. i guess i'm wondering, was it always a plan of the campaign to focus on white supremacy, or was this just going to be a campaign video that made a big splash but then you'd move on to other priorities? >> well, vice president biden feels intensely that we are in a battle for the soul of this nation, that we are in a moment of real moral reckoning, and we have to make a decision about what kind of country we want to be and how we want to treat each other. so it's something that he feels pro foundly, it is a motivating reason for him to run. he thinks -- i heard the woman you were just talking with say there's so much more good in this country than there is evil. i think that's certainly something that vice president biden would agree with. it's something that really motivates him and is a core reason he's running for president, to restore a sense of dignity and moral leadership to the white house. i think you'll hear a lot from him on that.

we will not forget charlottesville. he said the soul of the nation is at stake. >> right, and i think that was using this iconic moment of charlottesville as a cudgel against president trump, saying to primary voters that this is who trump is, that we have to take the fight to him and that trump is counter to what america is. so it wasn't about personal biography. people know who joe biden is and what he's been in politics. and it was also a message designed to reach out to the progressive wing of the party, to minority voters, to young, socially conscious voters to say this is what matters, questions about race baiting, about immigration. that's where we have to define this race. and even though he, biden, doesn't represent the future, right, you always think about going forward in politics, not backward, he is essentially saying, i am uniquely qualified to get off the bench and stop the madness of donald trump as president. and as david axelrod said in the last hour, if there is a stature gap here, he wants to exploit

he's still talking about charlottesvil charlottesville, still consumed by the mueller investigation. but the reality is, yes, a strong economy for a sitting president is one of the key factors in winning elections. so this is going to be a challenge for democrats to make the argument to voters, are you better off than you were before? but we get the sense this election may be different in the sense of is it about sort of your view and your feeling for how things are. and that's why joe biden is going after what he calls the soul of the nation. he is going after that sort of moral clarity here. one of the reasons we're told the president is so obsessed with joe biden is pennsylvania. that is one of the favorite states, the single sort of crowning achievement, if you will, from 2016 that the president flipped from blue to red. joe biden, of course, from pennsylvania. was there yesterday, going back on monday. so that is why the white house and the president indeed are so focused on joe biden. but boy, he has a democratic primary to win first before he goes head-to-head with joe biden.

let's talk about charlottesville, first of all.this is the president earlier today, once again, trying to defend his remarks about there being very fine people on both sides. >> if you look at what i said, you will see that that question was answered perfectly. and i was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to robert e. lee. a great general. whether you like it or not, he was one of the great generals. people were there protesting the taking down of the monument of robert e. lee. everybody knows that. >> he was responding to biden, who had made a major point in his announcement about the president's comments after charlottesville. >> that's right. and you have a president there, really trying to rewrite history. the sole purpose of that rally, organized by unite the right, was to celebrate white supremacy. there was basically neo-nazis there, who were defending the legacy of robert e. lee, also a white supremacist, who the president there praised today on the south lawn of the white hous

president trump is defending his response in charlottesville in 2017.e says he was only referring to the protesters of the statue of robert e. lee. and a cyclone made widespread destruction when it made landfall in the north and was the second to strike mozambique in the last couple of weeks. joe biden faced tough questions about his age and past decisions. jessica dean reports he got big boosts from generous supporters. >> reporter: the early numbers are in. the former vice president's campaign said it raised $6.3 million in the first 24 hours since it launched. >> please welcome former vice president, joe biden. biden went directly at president trump. this president has done nothing to help that group of people. >> he says he plans to connect with working-class voters to get the support of those that go up against trump. at 72 the president is four years younger than biden's 76. >> i am a young vibrant man. i look at joe, i don't know about him. i don't know. >> if he looks young and vibrant compared to me i should go home. >> biden's entry has change

the streets of charlottesville erupted last night after the university of virginia beat ut xas tech 85 to 77 in overtime. it was an epic comeback, a year after virginia became the first number-one seed to ever lose to a number-16 team in the first veund. we will ore on their championship win at the end of our program. still to come on the newshour: the attorney generes faces tough ons from congress about the mueller report. israis decide their future, they head to the polls to choose eir next prime minister. civil rights advocates and tech represen dramatic rise of hate speech through social media. and, much more. >> woodruff: ocapitol hill today, attorney general william barr gave mo specifics on when the public might see the mueller report, but little information on what he release. lisa desjardins was in the hearing room. >> desjardins: barr was scheduled to talk abt his agency budget, but democrats had something to say first. >> let's address the elephant in the room... >> desjardins: meaning, the fact that barr, one of the few people to have read the completed mueller report, is t

and after charlottesville, this was the low point of his approval ratings across the nation. and the entire public disapproved of this, but actually when you looked at the base itself, there was a poll taken right afterwards, 30% actually thought that equally the liberals and equally the neo-nazis were to blame for the violence and even further 10% thought the liberals were to blame for the violence. so though that the general public, the mood was pretty low after this statement he made, his base felt that it is a little more kochl pli indicated. a complicated. and he is seeking out to his base when he makes comments about robert e. lee. there is still some that support the monuments. so he feels that these comments resonate with those voters that will vote for him. though it totally turns off democrats and independents. he is really trying to appeal to his base when he makes these kind of statements about the monuments, about robert e. lee. >> natasha, the question though here, you are seeing joe biden certainly engineer tter the rac this charlottesville piece. is joe biden

why is he relitigating charlottesville. but as long as he wants to, let's play some of the sound of president trump back in 2017, saying -- he had said today that he answered the question perfectly. let's take a listen. >> they started charlottesville -- >> excuse me, you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. >> now, elsewhere, in those remarks, the president did condemn neo-nazis and white supremacists. so he's not saying that the neo-nazi and white supremacists are very fine people, but he is saying people protesting alongside those neo-nazi and white supremacists were very fine people. who are they? >> remember the context of how those rallies were organized? it was a unite the right rally, organized by a well-known white nationalist. >> that kessler guy, right? >> richard spencer, i believe. >> richard spencer, yeah. >> these are people chanting very anti-semitic statements, and yet the president equivocated on that. it's no doubt that that moment was

by bringing up charlottesville. we're now all talking about charlottesville, again. the president doesn't figure out how do i not talk about charlottesville. we get to see on screens, tiki torches of white supremacist and he's associating himself with that. and, so, i think biden has done a brilliant move here. >> rick tyler and adrienne is sticking with me. still ahead this hour, even as he rallies at the nra reports of turmoil inside the massive gun lobby. details on the nra's problems with money and influence. >>> plus, who is the one man outside the white house president trump turned to as the russia probe clouded the west wing? what made him finally say no to the president. sort of. >>> but, first, as we have been saying. joe is a go for 2020. but rattling some of the wide democratic field. >> on a philosophic basis, it is about moving to the future. it's not about re-creating what we did. it's about taking the same decency in the philosophy that we have that political philosophy and taking it into the future. >> that was the former vice president just a few hou

at charlottesville at the time. as the mayor of charlottesville during the rally, first of all, just what went through your mind when you heard president trump essentially doubling down on his very fine people on both sides? >> he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. it's not just delusional, it's very dangerous to choose to see this event through that lens that he is offering again. i mean this was already a disaster the first time it happened, as you said. this is what led to steve bannon who was the architect of this populous strategy where they decided to include groups that had always been on the fringe of american politics in their coalition to create this political strategy. there were make america great hats, the red baseball caps around this unite the right rally, like you said. what the president seems to be very stubbornly and dangerously trying to mislead the country about was this was not about history enthusiasts. we have a lot of that in virginia. we call them flaggers. those people really c

that message about charlottesville has really been central to biden over the past few months. when i have been traveling with him around the country, he always points back to that moment in charlottesville and the president's response to it. one thing we're going to be watching in the coming hours is how much money did joe biden raise in the first 24-hour period. biden has never been a prolific fund-raiser. he doesn't have the small donor grassroots level fund-raising list that people like bernie sanders and kamala harris might have. we'll see if we get answers about that. also, we have seen these criticisms coming his way from his fellow democratic rivals. last night, joe biden was at a fund-raiser in philadelphia hosted by a comcast executive. bernie sanders' campaign criticized that, saying he's at a fund-raiser with a corporate lobbyist. we'll see if biden is ready to engage yet with his fellow democrats. so much of the focus has been pitting this between himself and president trump so far. >> david, i have to imagine, if all of his democratic rivals are taking aim at joe

and even before the shooting, the president was relitigating charlottesville. that's not where the president wants to be. >> eddie, as we wrap up here i think it's also important to underscore and point out that we're not just talking about the president's words here. we're talking about his administration's actions. for example, his department of homeland security disbanded a group of intelligence analysts focused on domestic terrorism, they revoked obama era funding for groups that targeted white nationalism while prioritizing fighting islamic extremism and abandoned that same obama era plan entirely. it's pretty clear that the mechanisms that our government has in place to try to reduce these number of incidents, the trump administration is, in fact, disbanding or ending? >> absolutely. i mean, remember, jeff sessions and the justice department was talking about shifting their interests or concern from these white nationalist organizations and groups to so-called black identity extremist groups to give you a sense of how things were inverted. look, one of th

many question why he would wait so long, if indeed charlottesville was indeed the primary motivating factor when we've now seen some other 19 democrats beat him to the race. he's just generated $6.3 million in 24 hours. that's the largest 24-hour fund-raising effort by any democratic candidate at this point. so, he's up and running. donald trump as you pointed out, he's already taking the fight straight to joe biden. he made issues to do with his age and i think relishes the opportunity going up against the former vice president. we'll see how this plays out. >> but we also saw biden here on a show in the u.s. called "the voice" -- "the view" trying to tackle subjects of his own. and in the past, anita hill in that confirmation proceeding that put clarence thomas on the supreme court. many criticize biden for how he handling hill's allegations of sexual harassment. i want you to listen to this short clip. >> i'm sorry she was treated the way she was treated. i wish we could have figured out a better way to get this thing done. i did everything in my power to do what i thought was wit

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they have just landed from minneapolis to charlottesville. the wahoo faithful celebrating the first ever men'sasketball title in school history. david culver has been on campus for all the excitement today and they are just out of their minds today. they've been waiting decades for this. >> reporter: oh, yeah. jim andwendy, this crowd is charged. here's the reality, though. this plane landed a little over a half hour ago. i don't know if they're takin the scenic route to get here. atience.testing the a lot of folks really want to see tamir te they're going to be coming up in a bus we'retold. they're going to arrive here. once they do they'll unload and walk down this long path, couple hundred feet all the wow to john paul arena, jones arena. there they're going to have time to say a few words, perhaps greet the crowd. say their thanks. the thing is, this is not even the official parade and celebration. that's not until saturday. this is just kind of a welcome home gatherind quite the gathering it is. you've got hundreds of folks who have pile

. >>> "outfront" next, trump digs himself into a hole again defending his comments about charlottesville all because of joe biden. >>> plus friendly fire. biden splashy entry into the presidential race now has democrats attacking each other. >>> and the man who oversaw the mueller probe reportedly alegislatured president trump he was on his side, right in the middle of the investigation. let's go "outfront." >> good evening. i'm jim chuto in for erin burnett and trump takes biden's bait. the president relitigating his disastrous response to the deadly white supremacist rally in charlottesville. why now? who words, joe biden, resurrecting the president's very fine people remark in a campaign video and the message clearly getting under trump's skin. >> there were very fine people on both sides in charlottesville. >> i answered that question. and if you look at what i said, you will see that question was answered perfectly and i was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to robert e. lee, a great general. >> he answered the question perfectly. let'

he is not going to charlottesville. because of the push back on that.is not going to philadelphia. he will be at a union events on monday in pittsburgh. ainsley: i wonder if the video that wasn't favorable among some of the team if that was the video that he shot in scranton there were pictures of him in scranton where he grew up outside of the house that he grew up in and that didn't look like it was part of the video. then again we haven't seen the entire video. ed: a whole lot more. breaking news on immigration as well. we will get to all of that joe biden officially entering the presidential race just moments ago. steve: could joe biden's past come back to haunt him this time around? the next guest says he has a lot to worry about. we'll be right back. the right gear... matters. introducing the all-new 2019 ford ranger, it's the right gear. with a terrain management system for... this. a bash plate for... that. an electronic locking rear differential for... yeah... this. heading to the supermarket? get any truck. heading out here? get the ford range

that is not how he responded to charlottesville. there's 180 degree turn in how he's responding. >> the reality is this. the president incites violence. he does. his rhetoric is very, very obvious and clear to the people that follow him. the idea this president has talked about good people on both sides, has had conversations at rallies, inciting rough them up a little bit. >> i'll pay your legal bills. >> it's a lie because he lies all the time. rough them up. he was in front of the suffolk county police department, if you catch a criminal, it's okay if you rough them up. it's no longer a dog whistle, it's a bull horn. it's totally problematic. we continue to say the president isn't radicalizing anyone, it's just words. it's not just words. when he talks about undocumented people animals, putting people in cages. when he's using this language, he's radicalizing people. we see the reports. hate crimes are on the rise under donald trump. >> i think that's the real point eugene that hate crimes are on the rise and this is where i agre

trump keeps trying to defend his response to white supremacist violence in charlottesville. let's go to white house correspondent kaitlan collins. the president's been tweeting and making it clear that the former vice president, joe biden, is very much on his mind. >> reporter: yes, wolf. privately in recent weeks, the president is asking people what they think of joe biden, whether or not they think he can beat the president in the upcoming election. but today we saw the president's unease about joe biden burst into the public view as arlette noted with several tweets today just on joe biden and his endorsements from the unions alone. now, wolf, the president is looking ahead to 2020, he is being forced to look back at comments he made in 2017. tonight, a president usually known for his confidence appears to be unnerved by his latest rival. former vice president joe biden. aides insist president trump isn't worried about running against biden but he's clearly on his mind. >> i don't know what the hell happened to biden. never saw that before. i don't know. just doesn't look

he picks the unforgettable, viscerally horrifying moment of charlottesville for impact.cere in that video. he's a practiced politician and knows what he's doing, but he sounded sincere. and for the record, robert e. lee was more than a military tacktician. he was the leader of a treasonous military. >> for he had stuck with the union, it would have been great. he didn't. >> he was a traitorous leader of a rebellion. >> you are getting letters. they're coming. >> i want letters. >> i know you are a progressive and running fabulous on that and i get the feeling that a lot of progressives would like the candidate as progressive as possible and still beat trump. they want to solve that equation. this is a big stakes if we lose. >> i will speak for myself. that would be fine for me. i don't speak for the democratic party. we fight the last war. we struggle to understand what happened in 2016. nobody knows what's happening in 2020. i thank might be right. that might be the general idea. >> as progressive as you can get away with and win. >> a lot of people think that. that's t

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there is mixed feelings on the ground here in charlottesville. there are some people who are concerned that our city is being used simply as a ploy for vice president biden to catapult into the presidential race and then there are a group of people here who i've heard from directly that stated they were glad that vice president biden had decided to take on 45 directly. he has been very direct in regards to addressing white supremacy in the initial rollout and personally i'm proud of that. i am happy that vice president biden decided to take this route. i think it was, indeed, touchy because it is triggering for many here but it is appropriate and necessary. >> we have learned that the mother of heather hire killed at rally, she was not contacted by the biden team and in a statement she said the heerj hire foundation does not support any candidate. i am the public case of that and co-founder and i will not endorse or any candidate in any way. i was not contacted by joe biden or anyone from his office. do you think joe biden should have reached out

which charlottesville event will decide the direction of this country? will it be the president's defense of white supremacists? or will it be biden standing in opposition at the very start of his campaign? framing the choice in 2020 as one that will define the character of this country. >> we are in the battle for the soul of this nation. i believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an abhorrent moment in time. but if we give donald trump eight years in the white house he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are, and i cannot stand by and watch that happen. the core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that's made america america is at stake. >> but can character trump trumpism? can character trump trumpism? i want you to listen to what biden said. it was just a little while ago. it was at a fund-raiser in philadelphia. and here is the quote. it says, "i don't think there's ever been a time, an election where more is at stake about

trump for his handling of the protests in charlottesville. i hope you have the intelligence to wage a successful primary campaign. you'll be dealing with people who have truly sick and demented ideas. >> do you have a message for president trump? he welcomed you in the race, questioning whether you have the intelligence to be the president of the united states. >> everybody knows donald trump. >> as for the president's tweet about don mcgahn, it's perfectly illustrates why the trump legal team was adamantly opposed to an interview with the special counsel given the president's history of making false statements. the president's lawyers were obviously fearful that mr. trump could in fact perjure himself by contradicting the sworn statements made by top white house officials like don mcgahn. but, wolf, a source familiar with this issue says the president has not waived his right to assert executive privilege and blocked mcgahn from testifying. that source said the the president is allowed to present his opinions on twitter. that's a legal argum

he should not compare what happened in charlottesville and say there are good people on both sides. he is a role model to others, to children. i call upon him to call out hatred, bigotry of any kind of anti-semitism, islam phobia, i call upon the president -- excuse me, i'm quite upset -- to actually embrace love. to embrace the other. to build up community not tear it down. >> joining me now to discuss further is rabbi levishento. the vice president -- he's also jared kushner and ivanka trump's rabbi. what is your reaction to everything we've been learning about this shoot something. >> obviously, one of pain, one of disappointment, but even though we feel these very deep feelings of pain, disappointment, sorrow, compassion, of course, and comfort, to be offered to those who have lost their loved one. the overwhelming sentiment must always be hope and the future and moving forward. and not allowing something as heinous and as terrible and evil as this to stop us or cut us down. i've been thinking about it ever since someone came to synagogue yesterday who is a congress gant of that