among the first on twitter, senator cory gardner who joins me now. me show our viewers what you tweeted. mr. president, we must call evil by its name. there were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism." you heard tom bossert, homeland security advisor to the president arguing the president did condemn it. what do you think? >> well, this is not a time for vagaries. this isn't a time for innuendo or to allow room to be read between the lines. this is a time to lay blame, to lay blame on bigotry and to lay blame on white supremacists, on white nationalism and on hatred. that needs to be said. this president has done an incredible job of naming terrorism around the globe as evil, radical islamic terrorism whether it is in europe or the middle east. he has said and called it out time and time again and this president needs to do exactly that today. call this white supremaist, this white nationalism evil and let the country and world hear it. it is something that needs to come from the oval office and this white house needs to do it today. >>

cory gardner, orrin hatch, ted cruz.ken sort of, not to criticizing trump but letting him have a honeymoon period. you can clearly say the honeymoon is over, republicans feel comfort and and confident in criticizing their own president saying he's not something we want the party to see him doing and want him to change course. >> his daughter is jewish. ivanka trump. son-in-law jared kushner. you think he'd have a responsibility to speak out against the racism and anti-acceanti-se anti-semitism that was present? >> as larry said it should be easy for a president to first denounce the racist, disgusting, un-american views of white nationalists and white supremacists and if he wants, pivot to this idea of violence versus non-violent protests or this idea of free speech or an idea of whatever equivalent he wants on the two sides. when we conflated those in one short statement he made it seem like there was that moral equivalence between the two sides and that's why he's getting so much pushback and why so many people in his

among the first on twitter was senator cory gardner, republican of colorado who joins me now.k you for joining us. you had tough words for president trump on saturday. mr. president, we must call evil by its name. there was white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism. you heard tom baossert arguing the president did condemn it. what do you think? >> this isn't a time for innuendo or read between the lines. this is a time to lay blame on bigotry and white supremacists and hatred. this president has done an incredible job of naming terrorism around the globe as evil. radical islamic terrorism whether it's in europe or the middle east. he has said and called it out time and time again. this president needs to do exactly that today. call this white supremicism, this white nationalism evil and let the country hear it, let the world hear it. something that comes from the oval office and some critics need to do it today. >> some say president trump doesn't do it because he might believe these white supremacists are a part of his base, not, obviously, his entire base. but a par

. >> you have said the president will speak out again on this and there was senator cory gardner of colorado who said this -- >> call this white supremacism, this white nationalism evil and let the country hear it, let the world hear it. it's something that needs to come from the oval office and this white house needs to do it today. >> it's a republican senator from colorado. is that coming now from the president? >> well, the president, i suspect, will be talking to the country again soon, maybe today. i plan to meet with him today and the fbi today will be meeting with him to brief him on the case. he takes it exceedingly seriously and there's no doubt about it. he opposes these kind of radical racist bigotry that these organizations espouse. >> you talk about this as an opportunity to come together on this front. this is a president as you know who is known for his blunt talk. for a week now we've been reporting on the war of words with north korea. many americans could likely quote that line, his warning of fire and fury. he was so clear on north korea and even as a candidate he said th

you have the sound of cory gardner.from paul ryan, john mccain and senator tim scott. but i have to ask you, david, tweets in a moment like this? tweets? tim ryan, speaker of the house. mitch mcconnell, senate majority leader. where are they? where are they speaking to their president, the supposed moral leader of their party? because they're on vacation? >> this continues to be a confounding question about why republican leaders will not call out president trump. it's because i think they're afraid. it's because i think they want to focus on advancing parts of the agenda that the president seems less concerned about advancing. as abby said, this is easy to condemn. this is easy to separate what's wrong and what's right. you can have a debate as some do between the left and the right behind identity politics and what goes too far. this is not the area to have that debate. these are contemptible figures in our society. that's not even questionable. to me, the larger point is about president trump not wanting to be presid

cory gardner said mr. president, we must call evil by its name. this was white supremacist and this was domestic terrorism. no one can accuse president trump of not talking tough enough to kim jong-un. >> if he does anything with respect to guam, or anyplace else that's an american territory, or an american ally, he will truly regret it. >> over the weekend, president trump told the governor of warm, we are with you 1000%. he also spoke with the chinese president who urged mr. trump to show restraint. despite this escalating war of words, the u.s. military attitude toward north korea hasn't really changed. no deployment, no evacuations of american citizens from south korea, all signs that this may be more talk than action, at least for now. >> we will have much more on the violence in virginia later. thank you. chris: , joining me now for his first sunday interview is director of the cia, mike pompeo. welcome. >> it's great to be here. chris: with the news this week, it all came this week that north korea can output a warhead on a missile, how clo

cory gardner definitely should and does have his finger on the pulse of the republican electorate. >>is first town hall meeting in more than a year. that was the lead of the denver post.criticism and by the way, this guy has been mia. so i think there was a lot of pent up frustration. >> i want to talk about infrastructure for a minute because this is something the president is talking about later today. and talk about deja vu, the golden towers were staked out there as members of the media waiting to see or hear from the president trump today like during the transition. this is something that the president campaigned on. democrats said we're willing to work with him on this. so why hasn't more materialized in the last seven months and what could materialize coming up is this because we saw some infrastructure discussion with folks in the house and that hasn't seemed to have gone anywhere fast. >> well, like you mentioned, that is kind of what is crazy to remember here. early on in december and january, dchls were actually on board with infrastructure. chuck schumer talked about this

>> reporter: well cory gardner called it an opportunity for the president. at any moment he has a chance to say more than he has so far. and the criticism from republicans has been clear. but it has not been an attack on the president. it has been in the nature of saying this is an imperative for the president, but not a critical attack on him that might provoke anger from the president that we have so often seen, it has been a rallying around the president to say this is what you must do to stand for the values of our country and our party. and when you have a voice like lindsay graham of south carolina, who has gone through the painful process of the confederate flag issue in his state and he was so clear in saying the president must tell these groups from white nationalists and the kkk and neo-nazis that he is not their friend. the president has opted not to take too many questions from reporters who have asked about those groups having political support for the president or whether he would denounce them further. he has continued to walk out of the room,

we don't want them in this country. >> what you hear is from those people that cory gardner was just describing, the neo-nazis, the kkk and the white supremacists, they take comfort in what they hear from donald trump. they take comfort. that should be so alarming p to the president of the united states. it doesn't seem to be. i want to remind you, again, wolf, cory gardner, his job is to get republicans elected to the senate, to think through campaign strategy for every senate race next year, to make sure that republicans hang on to their majority in the united states senate. that's how he is talking. that's what he ceasees as the rt thing to do politically, morally, all of it. donald trump is missing the boat here. he is getting more isolated on an island apart from the country he represents. >> the reaction is coming in very quickly. here is a democratic senator of hawaii. as a jew, as an american, as a human, words cannot express my disgust and disappointment. this is not my president. senator brian schatz of hawaii. we are getting david axlerod, a lot of reaction along those lin

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 using the term islamic terrorism, now refusing to use the term white nationalist. i have asked several where the president stands on white nationalism and whether he plans to make a statement condemning these groups at any point. i haven't gotten an answer from them. we should note the president was asked as he was leaving that brief press, and he ignored the shouted questions. >> athena jones for us in new jersey. notable, the president's statement was at 3:30 p.m. eastern time

you saw criticism from the republicans from the likes of orrin hatch, cory gardner, who are not typicallyple that are critics of the president statement from marco rubio saying it is very important for the nation to call it like it is cory gardner's tweet mr. president, we must call evil by its name. not all of them are traditional republican critics he's now under fire from quoters he wasn't under fire from before complicated by the fact that the daily stormer, a neonazi website praised the president's remarks, said didn't have any condemnation in his remarks, they were heartened what they saw by mr. trump if you're an american president, you don't want a neonazi website praising your comments, period, end of sentence. this is a very difficult for this president to be he's got to find a way to come back to the center on this but he really flubbed an opportunity to stand up and show leadership against these groups that were so violent and hateful in charlottesville. >> and risk off moves in the market was the rhetoric in and around north korea any more on that since friday? >> no. we're g

senator cory gardner says mr. president, we must call evil by its name.these are white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism. but no one can accuse the president of not talking tough enough to north korean leader kim jong-un. >> if he does anything with respect to guam, or any other american territory or american ally, he will truly regret it. >> over the weekend president trump told the governor of guam that we are with you 1000 percent. he also spoke with the chinese president who urged him to show restraint but despite the escalating war of words, the us military toward pyongyang has not been changed. no deployments and signs that there may be more talk than action at least for now. >> we have much more on the violence in virginia later in the program. thank you. joining me now for the first sunday show interview is the director of the cia, mike pompeo. welcome to "fox news sunday". >> great to be with you this morning. >> all of the news this week, that north korea cannot put a warhead in a missile. how close is the regime to being able to depl

colorado senator cory gardner. >> this isn't a time for in u end oh or allow room to be read between the lines. this is time to lay blame, lay blame on bigotry and lay blame on white supremacists, on white nationalism and on hatred. >> to orrin hatch who tweeted my brother didn't give his life fighting hitler for nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home. top administration officials were scrambling to come up with answers. attorney general jeff sessions was asked why he was slamming neo-nazis in a statement sunday and the president wasn't. >> the president did that yesterday. >> he is the president of the united states. >> you're asking me, i was giving you an answer. >> a member of the president's manufacturing council, the merck pharmaceutical president resigned saying i feel responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism. the president fired back saying frazier will have more time to lower rip-off drug prices. on a trip to clolombia, vice president pence condemned them by name. >> we have no tolerance for violence from white supremacist, neo-nazis, and the kkk.

. >> jon: more on cory gardner and his reaction, joining is now, jake sherman. what about the white house playbook? i know you talk to some white house aides, this speech at this news conference yesterday was supposed to be about infrastructure. what happened? >> that's a good question, you'd have to ask the president. what is clear to everybody who knows donald trump and talks to donald trump and observes donald trump is he doesn't care on a lot of occasions about what people say. back to the infrastructure issue which seems to have gotten totally lost, this is nowhere near getting done. it did not help donald trump and his goal of restoring his nation's infrastructure, to say the least. i think disheartened is a good descriptor, disheartened about what the president did yesterday, i think a lot of white house aides know they can't control the president, they can only attempt to influence him and that's the kind of rubric that they're working out of at the white house. >> jon: what about general john kelly? is he someone who might whisper in the president's ear

cory gardner is a important man in the senate conference.s in charge of electing republicans in 2018. the fact that he's denouncing trump is a big step. colorado isn't a state that went for president trump back in 2016. these people are going to want to see him do more than just sort of say president trump is doing a bad thing. they're going to want to see him take some kind of action. that might be where the rubber hits the road. >> shepard: there's no reliable polling yet to -- it's too soon to know how the events in the last few days will affect the base. is there any anecdotal evidence that would say some that supported the president would make a turn as a result of this or is this like i can grab her in the private parts and the defaming of the gold star family and the belittling of the physically challenging reporter? does that go into that list of things that are tolerated? >> kind of looks like it might. president trump clearly has a base that basically isn't willing to turn on him no matter what he does. most polling indicates that

it's about what senator marco rubio and senator cory gardner and ted cruz and governor chris christie and congressman pete sessions and on and on and on what they think. they have gone, they have gone public making it it very clear that they don't think president trump was specific enough in condemning white supremacists. so, it doesn't really have any effect or bearing what i think. i'm asking you all these republican officials who want the president to succeed are saying this didn't go far enough. >> yeah, i think you should give yourself more credit. what you do think does pervade the things you say on air and the things you cover. i also think what you believe and you think is important as the president does, as well. he believes all americans should have a conversation and an open debate on this matter. this is unacceptable. this violence cannot stand. he made that clear yesterday. i think that the other statements that you've highlighted governor christie and the other leaders in the party that you've quoted have all said things similar. they all denounced the violence. denounce

. >> reporter: colorado senator cory gardner agrees. >> he should use this opportunity today to say thishe terrorism, white nationalism, and it has to stop. >> they offered a more specific rebuke. the condemnation, of course, includes, white supremacists, kkk, and all group. former kkk grand wizard david duke in charlottesville. >> we're going to fulfill the promises of donald trump. that's what we believed in. that's why we voted for donald trump. >> reporter: the president denies he has anything to do. >> not donald trump, not barack obama. this has been going on for a long, long time. >> reporter: errol barnett, cbs news, bridgewater, new jersey. >>> ousted director anthony scaramucci is speaking out. he also urged the president to distance himself from his chief strategist steve bannon and his former employer "breitbart news." >> you've also got this bannon/breitbart influence which is a snag on the president. if the president wants to execute that legislative agenda which is so prominent for the people, then he has to move away from that sort of bannon/breitbart nonsense. >> he also

with the exception of lindsey graham and john mccain and marco rubio and cory gardner and others, haveese comments, and they will not speak out against the president? >> that's a perfect question to keep asking them over the next several weeks. and you know, lawmakers in general, the good ones who remain in office, have a very good sense of what their voters want from them. they go out in the district, they talk to folks. they keep their finger on the pulse. that's what you have to do if you're going to be a successful lawmaker who continues to get re-elected. and so i'm sure that many members of congress are taking stock of how their base is reacting to this and how they can play it. i don't want to make any suggestion that these folks aren't human beings who have very real reactions to this. i think we're seeing from many members of congress that they are incredibly dismayed at the notion that we are not just condemning white supremacy, the response that should be given to an event like this, but they're looking at perhaps the confederate statue issue. they may come down differently

i want to put up some of those, republican senator cory gardner tweeted mr. president we must call evil by its name, these were white supremacists this was domestic terrorism. governor chris christie a staunch trump supporter wrote we rejected the racism and violence of white nationalists like the one acting out in charlottesville, everyone in leadership must speak out. when you hear those, whether explicitly or not, it's pretty clear if they are saying the president didn't do enough. >> and senator graham was actually pretty explicit. when your address book from, what we need to hear the president say domestic terrorism. if you go back to ronald reagan or bob dole, leaders of the party who explicitly condemned the kkk, affiliated groups, baggage groups and they try to align themselves with the republican party. this president has it and i think he missed an opportunity to show leadership. if he comes out three days later and because of domestic terrorism that will not have the same impact, although i will think it would be helpful for him to do. i don't want

take look at the scene in colorado when republican senator cory gardner was asked about it during a town hall earlier today. now, we should note that the audience did appear to have a large number of anti-trump protesters. >> are you confident that donald trump is fit to lead our country? yes or no? >> let's bring in our panel. david, senior national correspondent for christian broadcasting network, nicholas is an msnbc contributor and political reporter for "the new york times," zerlina maxwell is director of programming for sirius xm and a former member of the 2016 clinton campaign. nick, senator gardner isn't just any senator. he's the head of the national republican senatorial committee which means he's in charge of recruiting and supporting candidates to help keep the senate majority through 2018. one of the key questions here, what happened in charlottesville, the president's delayed response, has there potentially been lasting damage here for 2018? >> it's hard to say, chris. look, they the factors that are going to pull people into races in 2018 that are going to help or hinder c

republican senator cory gardner tweeted, "mr. president, we must call evil by its name.se were white supremacists, and this was domestic terrorism." reporters pushing the president even further. >> mr. president, do you want the support of these white nationalist groups who say they support you, mr. president? did you denounce them strongly enough? >> reporter: it wasn't until today, two days later, that the president finally called the hate groups out by name. >> the average american should be distressed that it took so long for the president of the united states to condemn the ku klux klan and neo-nazis after demonstrations which resulted in death in charlottesville, virginia. >> reporter: tonight police in charlottesville vowing to make more arrests as they pore over videos of the violent clashes from the weekend. >> we're all still grieving in charlottesville, we're still praying, but we're also starting to get back on our feet and look toward the future. >> reporter: the country now struggling to do the same. for "nightline" i'm eva pilgrim in charlottesville, virgi

cory gardner from coronado called it -- colorado called it tweetepad, there can be no moral ambiguity. white supremacists are evil. fo just how bad a fo owr former kkk leader -- a former kkk leader is tweeting his encouragement. more on the backlash to the president's remarks coming up 30 the "cbs evening news" at 5: . >>> rehein the national park service is under pressure to revoke a permit for an upcoming rally. a group called patriot prayer plans to hold a demonstration. nancy pelosi is among those wanting to pull the permit. she says this raises graven ongoing concerns about public safety. we spoke with a bay area man who plans to attend and says he is no racist. >> reporter: who decides what qualifies as a hate group and who decides where to draw lines around free-speech? those are two questions swirling around what may or may not happen on august 26. >> i am actually from the philippines. i emigrated here when i was 10 years old. >> reporter: are you a white supremacist? >> no [ laughter ] i am not. >> reporter: he describes himself as a conservative libertarian and says he very

with all due respect to the marco rubios and to the cory gardners and to the orrin hatchs of the world, we have seen this show before. i saw it time and time again on the campaign trail. these people still voted for party first. maybe there will be a longer pause in this moment. it just feels very familiar, jake. >> david chalian, let me bring you in. in february, 2016, candidate trump refused to condemn david duke and white supremacists and the ku klux klan. i asked him three times on this show. so there are people who are not particularly surprised by what happened saturday and, in fact, i don't know many people when what happened saturday happened and we found out president trump is going to make a statement thought, oh, this is going to go well. >> i think that's probably a good point. i do think you are right. it is not surprising to watch this happen if, indeed, you have watched donald trump over the course of his campaign for the presidency. what i think is surprising and shocking to many observers of his comments in the last several days now today and saturday. he is doing it w

cory gardner at the town halls over the last week has gone hard against the white supremacy movement.ome voices here doing the right thing. >> marco rubio here in six tweets calling the united states out by name, now cowering behind some general description. and no one, especially the president of the united states, should tolerate it. charlie dent a really, strong, strong statement. ileana ross leighton. shall we encourage being so grateful what they're doing? they're just doing the right thing. marco rubio can sit down, talk to his children and they will know he's doing the right thing. they will be proud of him and see that jerry moran. as you said, cory gardner being as clear and unequivocal as the entire republican party needs to be. >> as you say, though, this is a low bar for courage. this is the easiest bar you could ever clear, condemning the ku klux klan and the nazis marching through the streets of charlottesville. this should be an easy one. kasie hunt, i can't believe there is even a calculation on this for republicans in congress, who are on home recess, what is stopping

. >> reporter: colorado senator cory gardner agrees. >> he should use this opportunity today to say this is terrorism, this is domestic terrorism, this is white nationalism and it has to stop. >> responding to pressure this morning, a white house spokesman offered a more reb ngess sficpe conmn nation, of course, includes white supremacists, kkk, neo-nazi and all extremist groups but it is clear leaders of right wing ideology support the president. former kkk grant wizard david duke in charlottesville yesterday. >> we're going to fulfill the promises of donald trump. that's what we believed in, that is why we voted for donald trump. >> the president denies he has anything to do with the rising confidence of white nationalists or racial division. >> not donald trump, not bar ak obama, this has been going on for a long long time. >> reporter: now to date president trump has not forcefully refused right wing extremist support on camera. and just a day after he called for national unity, president trump's re-election campaign released an ad claiming his enemies do not want him to succeed. ela

. >> when it comes to president trump, i'm with cory gardner. he missed an opportunity to be very explicit here. these groups seem to believe they have a friend in donald trump and the white house. i don't know why they believe that but they don't seem me as a friend in the senate and i would urge the president to dissquad these groups that he's their friend. >> also today we heard from the president's homeland security adviser and his national security adviser. both appearing on television. each saying that they believe the president does include white nationalists, white supremists, kkk, neo-nazi, all of that, in his views about what happened yesterday. and so this is a question, alex, that we'll continue to be asked of why is the president unable, unwilling, simply not taking the advice of those around him or echoing what the public seems to be asking for him to do is to speak more directly and bluntly naming these groups. one top official, the homeland security adviser, said the president was trying to give a countermessa countermessage of u

today, colorado republican senator cory gardner called on mr. trump to do just that. >> call this white supremacism, this white nationalism, evil. and let the country hear it. let the world hear it. it's something that needs to come from the oval office. il by its name." should calld do my brother didn't give his life fighting hitler for nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home." today, the white house issued this statement in response to the criticism: "the president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry, and hatred. of course that includes white supremacists, k.k.k., neo-nazi, and all extremist groups. he called for national unity and bringing all americans together." >> sreenivasan: virginia governor terry mcauliffe has two words for the white nationalists who came to charlottesville this weekend-- "go home." today, mcauliffe and the mayor of charlottesville continued to be vocal in their denunciation of those that came to protest the removal of a confederate statue and renaming of a p

senator marco rubio tweeted: senator cory gardner directly addressed donald trump.of virginia had this to say to those who came to the city: and i have a message to all the white supremacists and the nazis who came into charlottesville today. our message is plain and simple: go home. you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. shame on you. the day of violence ended with a vigil for the victims, as many reflect on a city and nation divided. chris suarez is a reporter for the local newspaper, the daily progress, and described what he saw. the rally was supposed to take place from 12 noon until 5pm in what is called emancipation park, which had been previously named lee park, for the confederate general of the confederacy, the opposing forces in the civil war. but it started way earlier. i arrived at 9am downtown in cha rlottesville, earlier. i arrived at 9am downtown in charlottesville, and you had these columns of different fascists, white nationalist groups coming into the park. police had already been deployed, and it got pretty nasty pretty fast between the an

republican senator cory gardner tweeted, "mr. president, we must call evil by its name. these were white supremacists and that was domestic terrorism." david duke not happy either. he tweeted at trump, "i would recommend you take a good look in the mirror and remember it was white americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists." today, reporters sought to press the president further. >> mr. president, number of the white nationalists -- >> mr. president -- have you denounced them strongly enough? >> reporter: he ignored them. >> president walking away from those questions. david wright joins us now. that statement from the president is drawing a lot of heat. the white house is now trying to clarify what he meant when he condemned violence, quote, on many sides? >> that phrase was a source of concern to people. made the statement a little bit ambiguous. moral ekwif lens between the white nationalists and the counterprotesters. tonight, the white house said that the president was condemning hatred, bigotry and violence from all sources and in all forms. ceci

senator cory gardner directly addressed donald trump. virginia had this to say to those who came to the city. and i have a message to all the white supremacists and the nazis who came into charlottesville today. 0ur message is plain and simple: go home. you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. shame on you. the day of violence ended with a vigil for the victims, as many reflect on a city and nation divided. chris suarez is a reporter for the local newspaper, the daily progress, and described what he saw. emancipation park was previously named lee park, after the confederate general who took part in the american civil war. i arrived at 9am in downtown charlottesville, and work of different fascists and white nationalist groups coming into this park. police had already been deployed. it got pretty nasty pretty fast between them and the antifascist activists. i left for a while and went to a cafe nearby, and i watched a live stream for a while whilst waiting for my phone to charge, and violence had erupted already and it wasn't even n

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when it comes to president trump, i'm with cory gardner, he missed an opportunity to be very explicit here. these groups seem to believe they have a friend in donald trump in the white house. they don't see me as a friend in the senate. i would urge the president to dissuade these groups that he's their friends. >> there's two word that is need to be said over and over again, domestic terrorism and white supremacy. we just hasn't seeing the leadership in the white house. >> there was a statement released from the white house that did go further but it was released from an anonymous official, that did not want their name released. but the president still has not said the words himself. >> li want to focus more on thi criticism that the president is getting, not calling a duck and duck, a spade a spade here, white supremacists for what they are. keep in mind president trump, then accountcandidate trump ver critical of his predecessor for not using the term radical islamic terrorism. just listen to a couple clips here. >> radical islamic terrorism. and i'll tell you what, we have a presi

see a number of republican lawmakers who normally would be supporters of trump including senator cory gardnerrom colorado, the mainline republican, coming very critical after the president. after losing support from his own party, that makes his legislative role more difficult to achieve down the line and even anthony scaramucci, the disgraced former communications director, said he said he should have said more. and trump's issue is he will not say the word. the white house had a statement saying trump condemns the white supremacist groups, but people would like to hear it from the horse's mouth. haidi: it is interesting because you had a response from hillary clinton. you had a response from barack obama, but is there a sense that this is confusing messages, trump himself always saying one thing, then you have other people in the administration walking back to fine-tune the message? ros: that is definitely not unique to this issue. it is something we see often. president example trump on friday talk about the possibility of a military option in venezuela, which took a lot of people by surpr

republican senator cory gardner said mr. president, we must call evil by its name. these were white supremacist and this was domestic terrorism. republican senator and marco rubio are on board saying and calling on president trump to call these people by name. especially at a time of president trump has shown his not shy about using very strong language when it comes to referring to the growing nuclear threat in north korea, possible military options of venezuela and very sharp attacks just this week on the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. a lot of international problems abroad and now this growing domestic disturbance at home. >> julie: thank you kristin. meanwhile, officials in virginia, this just in. confirming the deaths of two people aboard that helicopter. the crash we heard about earlier today. they are linked to the incidence and charlotte fell. stay pleasers in the chopper went down in a wooded area. 7 miles outside the city, late this afternoon. the state police are not confirming the identities of the deceased. the president confirming they were o

. >> cory gardner missed an opportunity to be very explicit. these groups believe they have a friend in donald trump in the white house. i don't know why they believe that but they don't see me as a friend in the senate and i would urge the president to persuade these groups that he is their friend. >> the only direct response from president trump came about an hour ago. it was a retweet to an article about the department of justice and the fbi opening a civil rights investigation. >> perhaps evolution of the president's statements were because of a reaction that he got from white supremacist and white nationalist group. >> let me just start with david duke. he has been praised and announced by the former leader of the kkk. he has been praised for some of the things that align with his vision of america but he's also been criticized, one of his tweets sing remember, it was white americans who put you in the presidency, but most of these groups, by and large, very pleased with president trump's response to all this violence in charlottesville an

republican senator cory gardner tweeted, mr. president, we must call evil by its name.ere white supremacists, and this was domestic terrorism. david duke, not happy either. he tweeted at trump, i would recommend you take a good look in the mirror and remember it was white americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists. >> and that was abc7 reporter david wright reporting. after the president's comments about virginia he signed an emergency spending bill to fund veteran's medical care. that bill will pump more than $2 billion into a program allowing veterans to receive private medical care at government expense. it addresses a budget shortfall at the department of veterans affairs that threatened care for thousands of vets. president trump made improving veteran's care a central campaign promise. >>> abc7 chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz has a live report from the front lines of the north korea nuclear threat on this week with george stephanopoulos. it's scaramucci's first interview after his stint at the white house. it starts at 8:00 thi

cory gardner tweeted this, we must call evil by its name.hese were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism. >> on the opposite side of the coin is the former leader of the hate group, the kkk, david duke is questioning mr. trump over his condemnation over the rally in charlottesville. he asks why decades of white americans being targeted for anti-white hatred we come together as a people and you attack us? >> he tweeted this take a look in the mirror and remember it was white americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists. duke explains the reasoning for the rally that took place in virginia. >> this represents a turning point for the people of this country. we are determined to take our country back. we're going to fulfill the promises of donald trump. that's what we believed in and that's why we voted for donald trump because he said he's going to take our country back. >> joining us now to uc that more about this we have the ceo for the center for civil and human rights. good to be with you today. so we just hear

like, cory gardner i don't like signing statements anyway.t a concern rising to that the pret might actually abide by the law that congress sent him, very overwhelming unanimous votes. on the -- key senators, senators mccain, bob corker, on key alert making they're that they're abiding by this overwhelming law. >> and the president doesn't like them. overwhelming numbers. bipartisan tom tillerson writing a bill saying you can't fire bob nuell mueller? job mccain, lindsey graham, their schtick, push back. but a state trump won? >> and moving forward with that legislation and having a legislation, a real difference. >> but -- >> absolute -- >> will the main stream republican senator relatively recently elected willing to -- tells you everything you need to know about the change on capitol hill. >> and tom tillerson up for re-election in 2020. the president will be up, kind of watching out as well. >> the president could have suburb pushed any of these sanctions himself. this white house, could have done sashnctions on their own. the message sen

cory gardner and orrin hatch and marco rubio said this. very important for the nation to hear potus describe events in charles shville a terror attackr what they are. what we saw from president trump was the bluntness that carried him into the campaign and his presidency and was foregone and went into vagueness. it's a difficult subject for president trump to tracy. we saw this during the campaign. many of these white supremacists groups to national prominence to a tough subject for him to deal with ever since he has been president. >>> kelly jane torrance is with us, as well as julian zeleny, a professor at princeton university. thank you both for being with us. i want to read as dan was talking about there, what marco rubio wrote on twitter. a couple of others that are notable here. john mccain, senator john mccain for one wrote white supremacists aren't patriots, they are traitors. america must unite against hatred and bigotry. the president doing night and upsetting people for not doing so. at this point we are now close to 20 hours fr