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i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow.dent had nothing, nothing at all to do with the misleading statement about his son's meeting with the russian lawyer or so said his attorney, over and over again. now, the story from "the washington post" shows that is not the case at all. the president accused of dictating that misleading statement for his son for don jr. to obscure the true reason for the meeting with that russian attorney. stunning reports show political and legal concerns for this administration. >> so far this morning, no words from the president about this, either out loud, on paper or on social media. so, we know that the president's staff and family, with the new chief of staff, general john kelly. does the president's twitter account report to him as well? we are at the white house with the story of presidential dictation. very significant. >> reporter: yes, it is, john. "the washington post" reporting donald trump personally dictated this statement first given to "the new york times" about donald trump jr. me

time for "cnn newsroom" with poppy harlow. >> key word there, poppy. >> you better hope -- i'm hoping that my baby goes to sleep at 6:00 p.m. all next week. because i've got to get up at 2:00 in the morning while you're at the beach, my friend. have a good time. >> bring the kid! bring the kid! like the person with the cat at the baseball game. >> i do think she would not disrupt the show at all. absolutely not at 16 months old. >> she could do my job, you have to carry the rest. >> thank you, guys. have a wonderful week off. >> you know you have walked on them. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm poppy harlow. john berman has a well-deserved week off. if president trump was hoping to silence north korea with his improvised threat to unleash fire and fury t didn't work. today pyongyang is shrugging off the threat that it calls nonsense from a president that it calls, quote, bereft of reason. and a senior north korean general says a plan is in the works to send four medium-range missiles into the waters off guam, saying the plan had go to north korean leader kim jong-un within days for rev

i'm poppy harlow. john berman has the day off. day 200 of the trump presidency and the president insists, this is not a day of rest, even though technically he is on vacation. working hard from new jersey, is what the president wrote this morning while bashing the media and claiming that his base is bigger and stronger than ever. for his part, the vice president, mike pence, wants the world to know that absolutely, positively, unequivocally, he is not contemplating a run for the top job in 2020. never mind those weekend reports that several big-name republicans are eyeing presidential campaigns next go-around. whether trump runs or not. and there's more fallout from the 2016 race. at a meeting in the philippines, secretary of state rex tillerson told his russian counterpart that moscow's meddling in the u.s. election badly damaged u.s./russia relations. we are following all of these developments this monday morning. let's begin with our global affairs correspondent, elise labott at the state department and then we'll go to joe joh

i'm poppy harlow. john berman has the week off.after president trump insisted his base is bigger, stronger and closer than ever, a new cnn poll

good morning, i'm poppy harlow. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern. not only is north korea not intimidated by the stark and unscripted warning from president trump, it put out a new and quite detailed warning of its own in response. a senior north korean general is drawing up a plan to launch four medium range missiles toward the u.s. territory of guam, landing less than 25 miles off the coast. supposedly the plan will go to kim jong-un in days. meantime, the war of words continues, the media calling the fire and fury from president trump, a load of nonsense. they rule out dialogue saying only absolute force can work. let's begin with will ripley who has been in north korea many times. your assessment from this response from north korea? >>reporter: as we expected, pyongyang is upping the ante with president trump. instead of backing down, the statement dials up the rhetoric further, personally insulting president trump saying he lacks knowledge of the situation on the korean peninsula, he can't be reasoned with and north korea has to use force in de

i'm poppy harlow. john berman has the week off. a day after president trump insisted his base is bigger, stronger and closer than ever, a new cnn poll shows otherwise. the core just 35% now strongly approve of his presidency, a decline from 47% in just february. overall 38% of americans approve of the president's job performance six months in. that's the lowest yet in polling. now look at this. only 24% of all americans say they truth most of what comes out of the white house. almost three americans in four say they do not. 73%. break that down by party. 93% of democrats mistrust the trump white house, no surprise there, but here is what's remarkable, guys, only half of republicans say they trust most of what they hear from the president and his inner circle, only half of republicans. jointing me now, cnn political director david chalian. i would say ma strikes you most, but i would suppose that's it. >> and it's so interesting, that number you just cited that presents new challenges for getting your legislative agenda through. rep

i'm poppy harlow. this morning, new pointed words from president trump and the north korean regime just hours after saying his fire and fury warning to north korea might not have been tough enough, president trump is declaring the u.s. military now fully prepared for action. in a statement this morning the president writing military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded should north korea act unwisely. hopefully kim jong-un will find another path. now, this tweet from the president just moments after pyongyang declared it was president trump who is driving the peninsula, quote, to the brink of nuclear war and vowed strategic nuclear weapons will hit the united states' mainland at the first sign of any preemptive move by the united states. now, yesterday the world heard from president trump directly in two really remarkable news conferences. he said this about north korea's dictator. >> he does something in guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody's seen before what will happen

poppy harlow joining me.d to have you this week. >> my pleasure. >> a community coming together, hundreds turning out in charlottesville singing songs of hope. listen. ♪ we all need somebody to lean on ♪ >> that was an impromptu candlelight vigil honoring heather heyer at the very location where hate groups marched with torches and nazi signs just days ago. the escalating crisis over president trump's response has the president fighting back this morning denying his own words, his moral equivocation that hate groups and those protesting them share responsibility. >> and the revolt against president trump's response is growing louder and louder from former republican presidents and ceos to the president's own military generals. that's rather, stunning and notable. republicans in congress largely avoiding attacking the president by name, and this comes as the president we are told remains defiant and without regret over his defense of white supremacists. we have it all covered for you. let's go to jeff zeleny i

. >>> cnn news room with poppy harlow and john berman pick up the ball. >> don't wait until tomorrow.ned. we had a camera waiting to see this anthony scaramucci shows up to work. all right. guys, thanks so much. let's get to it. >>> good morning everyone i'm poppy harlow. >> im john berman in h what would have been day 12 of the scaramucci error. we are in day one of can you take a memo era. a new controversy. the president accused of personally dictating a

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top of the hour, i'm poppy harlow.off this week. >>> the president threatening fire and fury. the secretary of state though saying this morning americans should sleep well and rest assured. we begin with some reassuring words from tillerson after the single most chilling public statement made by the u.s. president in quite a while aimed at north korea. you will hear that in a moment. first, tillerson's comments a short time ago on a flight from malaysia to guam. listen. >> i think americans should sleep well at night, have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days. i think the president, again, i think he felt it necessary to issue a very strong statement directly to north korea. but i think

"new day" with chris cuomo and poppy harlow starts right now.k coming just hours after a terrifying scene unfolded in barcelona. >> all you could hear was so much chaos, everyone screaming and running. >> he was plowing people down. >> president obama responding by citing a fake story. >> terrorists know the united states and our allies are resolved to bring justice. >> just when you think it couldn't get any worse, he quadruples down. >> what we want to see is clarity and moral authority. and that moral authority is compromised. >> he also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of this nation. >> this is a party that is in crisis, and it couldn't happen at a worse time. >>> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day." it's friday, august 18th. 6:00 here in new york. alisyn is off, poppy harlow has been with me all week. value added. thank you for being here, my friend. >>> this is the starting line -- arrests overnight in

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i'm poppy harlow. john berman has the day off.he trump presidency and the president insists, this is not a day of rest, even though technically he is on vacation. working hard from new jersey, is what the president wrote this morning while bashing the media and claiming that his base is bigger and stronger than ever. for his part, the vice president, mike pence, wants the

we have a documentary coming out about it in the fall, poppy harlow is doing some reporting. this is the kind of stuff if he did more of this, that 70% don't tweet number would change. >> i agree. i think he was watching "new day" closely yesterday and he probably paid a lot of attention to poppy harlow devastating reporting on this out of ohio, and it is good news that he's going to get to a policy, an urgent policy matter, an actual crisis today. but i think that if you look at those numbers on the tweets, are they misleading? do they happen after he watches tv? are they a good signal? are they a bad signal to world leaders? the numbers in the poll, the cnn poll are so high on that, it shows that even his base believes this. they believe it's a liability, and that's the kind of thing that really has to -- john kelly, general kelly the chief of staff, he isn't pretending he can stop this. he's trying to curb it or make it more focused but you know, the president's most, you know, most loyal enthusiastic allies in the white house do not want us to know he spent all of yesterd

i'm poppy harlow.d words from president trump and the north korean regime just hours after saying his fire and fury warning to north korea might not have been tough enough, president trump is declaring the u.s. military now fully prepared for action. in a statement this morning the president writing military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded should north korea act unwisely. hopefully kim jong-un will find another path. now, this tweet from the president just moments after pyongyang declared it was president trump who is driving the peninsula, quote, to the brink of nuclear war and vowed strategic nuclear weapons will hit the united states' mainland at the first sign of any preemptive move by the united states. now, yesterday the world heard from president trump directly in two really remarkable news conferences. he said this about north

good morning, i'm poppy harlow, john berman has the day off. the trump administration is starting as the previous 199 days. some seemingly based on the morning television shows as he is watching on his working vacation. the president saying the stock market, border security, job gr growth and so much more bringing the economy together. the president is happy with the latest sanctions with north korea. north korea is just the opposite. words coming from pyongyang and rex tillerson is at the same reform as counter parts in north korea. the two have not spoken, but tillerson says there could be a time and place for diplomatic discussions if they would cease their testing. north korea saying that is not happening. rex tillerson sat down with his counter part and complained about moscow's meddling in the 2016 election. it is drawing the countries apart. we are in bridgewater, new jersey, next to where the president is right now. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. clearly the bad weather here in new jersey is driving the president to twitter th

time for "cnn newsroom" with poppy harlow. >> key word there, poppy. >> you better hope -- i'm hopingt my baby goes to sleep at 6:00 p.m. all next week. because i've got to get up at 2:00 in the morning while you're at the beach, my friend. have a good time. >> bring the kid! bring the kid! like the person with the cat at the baseball game. >> i do think she would not disrupt the show at all. absolutely not at 16 months old. >> she could do my job, you have to carry

poppy harlow, so glad you are with us. we begin this hour with a new low for president trump. 38% of americans, only 38% approve of the job the president is doing, compared to 56% who disapprove. since modern polling began, only one other president had a job rating below 50%, that was bill clinton at 44%. here is part of the president's problem. 6 in 10 americans do not consider him honest or trust worthy. almost 3 out of 4 do not trust most of what is coming out of the white house these days. let's go to david to break down the numbers. that is stunning. we'll get to the drop off in his base support in a moment. the fact that you have 73% of americans do not trust what is coming out of this white house, including a large portion of republicans, david. >> yeah, poppy, this is a credibility crisis. this is the trump deficit with the american people. look at that number when we break it out by party. you can see, democrats have entirely tuned out. they don't trust anything, 93%. independents, a group he won, look how skewed

you have chris cuomo and poppy harlow with you. the president of the united states has made it clear he will not completely condemn the hate that led to violence and death in charlottesville. it's united lawmakers in his own party and much of the country in outrage against his words and parent lack of moral leadership. >> make no mistake this morning, the president showed us his heart yesterday. newspapers all over the country today are blasting his off the duff comments. rarely have we seen something like this in american history, all this as the nation mourns the death of heather heyer. another american sit si takes down con federal monuments overnight. >> here now is the president of the united states in his own wor words. >> he said that the alt right is behind these attacks and he linked that same group to those who perpetrated the attacks in charlottesville. >> i'm sure senator mccain must know what he's talking about. when you say if alt right, denine alt right to me. you define it. >> i'm saying. >> define it for you. >> se

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. kate bolduan at the hour starts now. >>> hello, i'm kate bolduan. overridden. the bombshell. this one from aboard air force one. a stunning revelation about donald trump jr.'s infamous meeting in 2016 with a russian lawyer. today's reveal, what happened after the meeting was discovered. "the washington post" is reporting president trump dictated the misleading statement about the purpose for the meeting, even though the president's attorney made very clear before that that the president played no role in crafting the response. don't forget, folks, first the line from don trump, donald trump jr., the meeting was about russian adoptions and sanctions. then he released e-mails revealing the motive was to get dirt from the russian government on hillary clinton. the post now reports the president's advisers wants don jr. to admit the true motive from the start for the sake of transparency, but the president overruled them all. we are at the white house with more on this. what is -- is ther

meanwhile tomorrow for cnn news room with poppy harlow. >> great to see you guys, interesting programmingso much. lot of breaking news. let's get to

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. hello, i'm kate bolduan. overridden. the bombshell. this one from aboard air force one. a stunning revelation about donald trump jr.'s infamous meeting in 2016 with a russian lawyer. today's reveal, what h

. >>> top of the hour, good morning, everyone, i'm poppy harlow.begin with major new developments in the russian investigation. bob mueller accelerating a piece of it focusing on the meeting between the president's son, campaign advisers and the russian lawyer. they received documents and testimony from the people in the meeting. the probe now crossing the president's so-called red line looking at his finances to see if they have financial ties to russia. the president scoffed at the probe, called it a witch hunt. he said democrats made the whole thing up. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is. >> justice correspondent evan perez has been working his sources. he joins us with more, then we'll get to joe johns at the white house. evan, first walk me through the additional subpoenas that you guys broke the news, are being issued and the tie they have to the don jr. meeti

i'm poppy harlow. at this hour with kate bolduan starts right now. >>> hello, i'm kate bolduan. we are looking at breaking news, a war of wards for president trump, one with the man who help he needs to get anything done in congress, the other with a nuclear power, threatening the fire missiles near u.s. military. let's start with the latter. one of kim jong-un's generals saying he's bereft of reason and calling the inferior nonsense. the pacific is on edge. cnn's ivan watson is there. i want to get to joe johns who is traveling with the president on his working vacation in bed minister. we are getting word of a new statement in response to the back and forth with north korea. joe, what are you hearing? >> reporter: we just heard from sarah huckabee sanders, the prez secretary. she said the president will be attending a meeting with high level members of the national security team, including the adviser, hr mcmaster. the vice president will be coming up for the meeting with the president, as well as the chief of staff, john kelly. it's not clear right now as to weather the presi

meanwhile tomorrow for cnn news room with poppy harlow. >> great to see you guys, interesting programming. thanks so much. lot of breaking news. let's get to it. >> top of the hour good morning everyone. >> the breaking news this morning, blame congress. that's right. in the wake of evidence of russian meddling in the u.s. election, russian military intervention in syria, russian occupation of crimea, the president of the united states is blaming a bad relationship with russia not on any of that, but on congress. >> moments ago the president attacked lawmakers for the russian sanctions bill which they overwhelmingly passed in the house and senator. he wrote, a relationship with russian is at annial time and very dangerious low. you can thank congress, the same people that can't even give us health care. this comes as the president prepares to meet with security adviser and mcmaster finds himself in ht center of a policy debate and report the personality struggle that could come to a head today at 11:00 a.m. we find sara murray at the white house. >>reporter: we don't know a lot about this

poppy harlow joins me. so just hours after caving to pressure to condemn commit supremacists and other hate groups, retweeting. the president's retweets this morning sh -- we'll show them to you. he might have deleted them. >> meantime the president's failure to quickly condepartm - thousands take to the streets here in new york city to protest the president's response. let's begin with cnn's jeff as we well. >>reporter: president trump is waking up here at trump tower for the first time since takings office. part of his working vacation here from new jersey back to new york. including a tweet he sent out over night echoing the message of a conspiracy theorist. >> only hours after attempting to quell the outrage over his initial response to the deadly violence to charlottesville, the president's retweet originated from a prolific social media user said to be a mer of the so called alt-right. embraces misogyny and xenophobia. harassment of former hillary clinton aide. ? president seth rich. >> he has peddled

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top of the hour, i'm poppy harlow. john berman is off this week. >>> the president threatening fire and fury. the secretary of state though saying this morning americans should sleep well and rest assured. we begin with some reassuring words from tillerson after the single most chilling public statement made by the u.s. president in quite a while aimed at north korea. you will hear that in a moment. first, tillerson's comments a short time ago on a flight from malaysia to guam. listen. >> i think americans should sleep well at night, have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days. i think the president, again, i think he felt it necessary to issue a very strong statement directly to north korea. but i think what the president was just re-affirming is the united states has the capability to fully defend itself from any attack and defend our allies and we will do so. so the american people should sleep well at night. >> so that is what tillerson says. let's contrast that with what we heard from pres

poppy harlow has been here all week and there's been a lot of news. >> sure. >> up first, the death toll rising to 14 lives lost. 13 of them taken when a van plowed into a crowd of people in the city's popular district known as la rambla. many police just arresting a fourth spect. the search continuing for the driver of the van. the latest victim die canned d second attack. the five terrorists were killed at that scene. the police say they're working under the assumption that the incident was linked to the one in barcelona. >> president trump responding by tweeting a debunked story about a general killing muslims over a century ago with bullets dipped in pig's blood. the republicans this morning calling out the president publicly questioning his fitness for office and his stability. let's begin before that though with our coverage in barcelona with cnn's reporter. >>reporter: good morning, poppy and we're beginning to learn a bit more about who the victims were. the one was a father, and he had a 5-year-old son and a baby. they were here as a family on vacation. this is an attack that sh

alisyn is off, poppy harlow joins me. president trump refused to condemn hate groups by name, and that continues. he's up this morning. he's tweeting, but not talking about this. republicans and democrats are blasting the president's response to the deadly violence sparked by white supremacists in virginia. >> vice president mike pence is defending the president while at the same time saying what the president seems incapable of saying, at least yet, single out white supremacists, neo nazis and the kkk by name. meantime, the suspect accused of driving his car into that crowd and killing 32-year-old heather heyer will be arraigned this morning. let's begin with cnn's jeff zeleny in bridgewater, new jersey. you have more breaking details on what the president mans to do next. >> reporter: good morning, poppy. president trump is traveling to washington later this morning for a brief visit, interrupting his working vacation here. i'm told by a white house official the president is expected to address the charlotte attack in s

poppy harlow with me all week. here is our starting line. democrats and republicans united in blasting the president's response to the violence smashed by white supremacists in virginia. the president did condemn violence but said on many sides, many sides, twice he said something that shocks the conscience of members of both political parties and people across this country. the vice president, mike pence, defending the president, blasting the media for scrutinizing his deafening silence. then the vice president did exactly what the president did not do, he condemned white supremacists, neo nazis and the kkk by name. >> naming them is critical. meantime, the suspected attacker will be arraigned in a few hours, accused of driving his car straight into that crowd, killing 32-year-old heather heyer for standing up to hate and voicing that. his high school teacher says he was a nazi sympathizer who long idolized adolf hitler. military options are prepared in case sanctions on north korea fail to defuse the nuclear threat. let's begin with cnn's

poppy harlow has been here all week and there's been a lot of news. >> sure. >> up first, the death tollto 14 lives lost. 13 of them taken when a van plowed into a crowd of people in the city's popular district known as la rambla. many police just arresting a fourth spect. the search continuing for the driver of the van. the latest victim die canned d second attack. the five terrorists were killed at that scene. the police say they're working under the assumption that the incident was linked to the one in barcelona. >> president trump responding by tweeting a debunked story about a general killing muslims over a century ago with bullets dipped in pig's blood. the republicans this morning calling out the president

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i'm poppy harlow. president trump escalating his rhetoric in response to threats from north korea, fire and fury, his words on tuesday. his words today, locked and loaded. here is the president's latest statement on twitter. military solutions are fully in place, locked and loaded should north korea ask and hopefully kim jong-un will pass. they vowed to hit the mainland with strategic nuclear weapons should the u.s. launch a preemptive strike. we have global coverage of all the fast moving developments. let's begin in beijing with will ripley. what do you make of the latest statement given how many times you have covered this from inside north korea? >> reporter: president trump had his catch phrase, fire and fury, locked and loaded. north korea has been war fanatic talking about the united states. the rhetoric we have seen this morning for north korea is similar to statements from the country. trump is driving the situation on the korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war, a statement we have heard

. >>> i want to bring in a woman who you know too well, poppy harlow.crisis. you have a special report coming up, called hooked america's addicts. i want to talk to you about what struck you the most in this crisis. >> we spent a good time in the state of ohio, and j.d. vance is doing some work in ohio to curb the epidemic. hats off to him. the reason that i and our team wanted to go is we feel like america doesn't necessarily get it. i think so many people feel like this is tragic, that it's happening, but not happening in my neighborhood and not happening in my home. that's just not true. we found that no one is immune. here's part of the story. >> it is ravaging every single segment of our society. this is a chemical, almost warfare on us that people don't know how to control. >> the high school cheerleader, addicted at 15. the 20-year-old baseball player dead. these fathers, now inmates, because of their addiction. and even the sheriff's former wife, addicted. this is the real picture of america's opioid crisis. where drugs don't discriminate. it's

. >> good morning, alisyn is off, poppy harlow is joining me this week. >> happy to be here. >> president trump raising eyebrows by retreating to the fringe, retweeting a conspiracy theorist who has pedaled baseless stories. the president back in new york, thousands taking to the streets to protest his arrival at trump tower. >>> charlottesville prepares for a memorial for heather heyer, killed for standing up to hate. in just moments we'll speak to the man at the center of this horrifying picture that captures the deadly violence in that town, marcus martin, pushed his fiance, marissa, out of the way as this car rammed into them. he will share his story for the first time right here, his fiance marissa, also a close friend of heather heyer will join him. let's begin our coverage with our jeff zeleny live in new york outside of trump tower where the president last night was met by apparently thousands of protesters. >> reporter: good morning, poppy. president trump is waking up here as you said in trump tower for the first time in some seven months. he left his home here two days before i

been tweeting about that ied at that mosque, the target in minnesota, he could have tweeted about poppy harloweport on the opioid epidemic. lot of topics he could have been tweeting about that were on television. as you said, bill, it comes back to what the personal issues are. >> we lost three servicemembers, he could have been tweet being that. you have the "new york times" reporting on this climate change examination, 13 different federal agencies. that is going to be good test for this administration, bill, because it's going to go to the credibility factor. you got all these scientists from the government, the white house, the sur fwats are going to spin it deep state, obama scientists. it's going to the credibility. if you can't believe your own scientists, what are the people left to judge this administration by, if they can't believe their own reports? >> well, if you already have decided before the science comes in, their policy is based on a decision they've already made and the fact that the scientists have come out and said this because they're afraid it will be suppressed says an

he has been facing pressure to declare it a national emergency and cnn's poppy harlow saw firsthand howping families apart. ♪ >> i've missed you so much. ain't a day went by. ♪ >> man. it's been a long time. ten years. >> yep. >> ten years. >> yeah. >> i'm sorry. >> it's fine. it's fine. >> reporter: 12-year-old caleb just saw his biological father for the first time in a decade. >> i just want you to know, i've changed for the better. i done a 360 in my life. >> yeah. >> reporter: he knows more than any child should ever have to about the grip of heroin. it ripped his dad away from him. >> you were going through so much when you was that age, man. i didn't have no means to get you to where you guys needed to be. i didn't. >> yeah. i understand. >> so i let you guys just stay where you was. i knew you were well took care of. >> come on. just throw it. >> reporter: is it a crisis in this community? >> oh, i think so. the addiction to it and the hold that it has on people makes it really hard to get off of it. >> reporter: but the kindness of strangers has saved caleb. he's being raised b

. >> poppy harlow's been doing all this great reporting on people who have been dealing with this.ou can check out her stuff, go to cnn.com/hooked. . >>> president trump also tripping down on his criticism of republicans after the failure of his health care bill. many in the party agree. i recently met with five conservatives at the tic-toc diner in clifton, new jersey. here's part of our conversation. >> a show of hands, who thinks president trump has done a solid job the first six months. so, like, four. what's his biggest win, biggest accomplishment so far? >> i would say the biggest win that he's brought to the table has been the actual conversation about repeal and replace of health care. i think our system is broken, and i think it's important that he's bringing the conversation back to the table as someone who's willing to take action, and that i appreciate. >> marco, what about you? biggest win so far? >> i think he's been able to keep so far all of his promises. he's had some hurdles, for example, with the travel ban. the judges kept blocking it and stuff like that. same t

poppy harlow joining me this week. >> great to be here. >> here is our starting line. hours after caving to pressure to condemn white supremacists and other hate groups by name president trump retweeted a right wing conspiracy theorist who pedaled baseless stories. thousands protesting the response outside trump tower and others topple the confederate monument in north carolina. even the late night hosts doing what the president did not getting serious and specific to address the deadly violence. >> the president's failure to quickly condemn those white supremacists has led three big name ceos to quit one of his advisory councils completely as charlottesville prepares for a memorial for heather heyer killed for standing up to hate, all of this has the president's controversial chief strategist steve bannon appears to be on thin ice, laying low, apparently hasn't talked to the president about his future nor met face-to-face with him in about a week. je jeff, the president last night was met with a lot of protester. >> reporter: good morning, poppy. president trump is wa