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

president. >> white nationalists -- >> do you want the support of these white nationalist groups who say they support you, mr. president? >> mr. president -- >> have you denounced them strongly enough? >> would you call that terrorism, sir? >> those comments were praised by the editor of a prominent neo-nazi website that said, "he didn't attack us. he just said the nation should come together. nothing specific against us. really, really good. god bless him." to just about everybody else, however, donald trump's remarks were an astounding new low. the man occupying the office that has for decades been the leader of the free world refusing to denounce an abhorrent ideology of racist supremacy or to call out nazis by name. the backlash was immediate and bipartisan. with trump's approval rating falling to 34% on the new gallup daily tracking poll. the lowest ever in that survey. this afternoon amid mounting pressure the white house tried for a redo with a reluctant president going before cameras to finally denounce those hate groups by name. but only after ticking through a list of his s

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

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

nationalists and white nationalism and white supremacy. we also say this goes far beyond what's just happening now and what the president says now. i'll remind us all of how he ran his campaign. his chief strategist when it appeared that he wasn't going to win was steve bannon. they got this coalition together. they started getting the attention and the support of people on the extreme right. he didn't reject them then. he doesn't reject them now. he has them on his staff. and i don't care what he says. he needs to fire those people or, as mr. painter said, he needs to move into some action. let me also say that it is disingenuous for him to say let the country come together when he's the first president in decades who refused to honor -- put out a declaration honoring ramadan. he didn't honor lgbt history month. he couldn't even say the word "jew" when he came out with the proclamation about holocaust remembrance. so let's not just solely concentrate on what he said in this particular circumstance. he's -- there's already a long history o

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

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

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

>> it is white supremacy, plain and simple. the statue had to go and it is link to what supremacy we see today. amy: activists toppled a statue in durham, north carolina, two days after a white nationalist rally in charlottesville, virginia. we will speak to the college student who climbed up the ladder, looped a rope around the monument, then pulled the statue to the ground. she was arrested tuesday and is heading to court just after the show. and we w will look at the growig movement too rememove confederae statues s and symbols with h bre newswsome. two years ago, she skilled a 30 foot flagpolee at t the statee carolina capipital and reremovee confedederate flag the day after the memorial for the parishioners or skilled in charleston. plus, president trump attacks the antiracist protesters who confronted the white supremacist in charlottesville. pres. trump: what about the alt left who can charging at them as you say, the alt-right, due to have any someone's of guilt? amy: we will plate excerpts of his bellicose news confere

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

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

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

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

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

white nationalists support white supremacist ideologies. within the white nationalist movement that claim they are not violent organizations, they want white ideals and they don't want to be a minority for example, in this country and then you've got the extreme, the kkk, the neo-nazis. then you have the alternative -- i think we've heard quite a lot about over these past few months and there's a scism between the alt-right and the alt light. they have a core believe that white identity is under attack by multi-cultural forces in america and europe. they're focused on the preservation of western civilization, civilization from europe and the name which coined by richard spencer whose the head of a white nationalist think tank. it was the one after donald trump won the presidency saying, hail trump, hail victory, which is neo-nazi speak or nazi speak and people came up and were using the nazi salute during one of his speeches. very important to mention this, the fact that donald trump himself, not a statement from the white house, but the pr

take a listen. >> it's this constant, oh, it's the white man. it's the white supremacist. that's the problem. no, it isn't. >> surely it's not the position of the trump white house that white supremacists are not a problem. >> certainly not. i'm not certain the context of that quote. i can tell you where i spend a great deal of my time and a great deal, unfortunately, of the american taxpayer's resources is combatting a global -- >> of course. >> it's an international problem. it's something we focus a great deal on. we make difficult decisions every day on how to balance and rebalance those resources. we have nation state problems in north korea and we have asymmetric terrorist global jihadi problems that have spread across the entire globe. what we have done is try to apply the resources in a way that is risk-based and focused on the threat. i don't understand what -- and i don't have the context for what he was speaking to a moment ago. but i will double down and be very clear and direct with you for a fourth time that the violence we saw yesterday is unacceptable. ther

what he has not done while president is condemn white nationalists, white supremacy, white nationalism, or nazis or neo-nazis. that is why a lot of folks believe that his statement today -- the statement here on saturday did not go far enough. back to you. >> athena jones, thank you. now, condemnation and white supremacy has been a common theme as republican leaders responded to saturday's violence in charlottesville. house speaker paul ryan said white supremacy is a scourge that must be defeated. former presidential candidate jeb bush saying white supremacists and their bigotry do not represent our great country. also, senator marco rubio called saturday's violence a terror attack by white supremacists. also, snalt majority leader mitch mcconnell did not use the term white supremacist, but instead said hate and bigotry do not reflect american values. with us now from los angeles, david ciders, senior reporter for politico, and cnn political commentator john thomas. good to see you both, gentlemen. david, i want to start with you. is trump -- is president trump failing the first crisis

i understand others at the white house and the white house team may have already described our story multiple sources and are confident in our reporting. >> it's interesting when they don't specifically say what their issue is with the story, they just say it's inaccurate and we're not talking about it anymore. great scoop, great conversation. let's go tower panel. as somebody who has issued statements, apart from being no consequence, the characterizations are inaccurate, misinformed and not pertinent, that is not specific to anything in the report. >> that is not saying the report is not true. that in no way says the president didn't dictate the statement. that just says there are things in the story that aren't true and we don't think the story matters. that's not saying that donald trump didn't actually dictate the statement. and it makes sense to me that trump would be the person who dictated the statement because it's a transparently stupid thing to do. so the only person who would have the means of overruling everyone else is the president himself. >> because lawyers wouldn't

>> white nationalists, white supremacists, they're not a part of anybody's base.y're not a part of this country. they are a part of hatred, of bigotry, of evil and we need to stand up to that. whether it is the president of the united states, a senator from any of our great 50 states around the country, or our city councils and mayors, schoolteachers, call it for what it is. it is hatred, it is bigotry. we don't want them in our base. they shouldn't be claimed as part of a base and it has to be made crystal clear. >> yeah, but why won't the president do that the way you just did? >> well again, i encourage the president to do that. this president has done so when people have driven through trucks in europe. he's called it radical islamic terrorism. he should use this opportunity today to say this is domestic terrorism, this is white nationalism and it has to stop and i encourage the president to do so. the healing power of the white house, the ability to lead of the president of the united states, it needs to be seen today. yes, he condemned bigotry and hatred. bu

and white supremacists.rds matter. i want you to hear what one of the most extreme groups, the 3ur7b who runs that is one of the most racist, hateful people in these groups and is a part of this march. i want to read what he said after donald trump spoke those words but failed to mention neo-nazis and failed to mention white supremacists. he said the nation should come together nothing specific against us. when asked to condemn he just walked out of the room. really, really good. god bless him. this is from one of the most extreme people in this whole white supremacists movement saying the good thing is donald trump didn't say anything condemning us specifically so we are good and he is good because he is basically saying to us we are okay doing what we are doing that we need to keep doing this. this was really a recruiting tool as far as different groups going out and marching together. definitely for recruitment. that is what the groups are looking to do, include and bring in more young people hoping they

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

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

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

white lives matter. white lives matter. white lives matter. >> you got maced? by who? >> by comis. >> all right, senator, so you saw the video. you heard the chanting. on one side you had these white supremacists groups in this video clearly coming to charlottesville to spread their message of hate. if you couldn't hear them, you will not replace us, referring to african americans, jews will not replace us. obviously referring to jews. blood and soil, a slogan from the nazi era. whose streets? our streets, meaning white streets, white lives matter. it was horrendous to see that. and then to hear the president of the united states say, you know, there's blame on both sides of equal footing. your reaction? >> wolf, my dad came to this country in 1935 to escape nazi germany. he was 17 years old. he had barely more than the shirt on his back. he spoke virtually no english, and he knew almost no one. and this great country, the greatest country in the history of the world, gave him a chance to succeed, to raise a family, and to believe in america. nobody loved this country

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the white house now claire fifing. and iv >>> and prescription for savings. major pharmacies accused of letting customers pay more than they have to for generic drugs. how to make sure you save. >>> and good evening. thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. we begin with that deadly chaos on the streets of charlottesville, virginia. the aftermath of the brutal eruption of violence sparked by white nationalists. new video you see it here. the deadly car attack. the driver charged with murder. accused of plowing his car in to a crowd of counter demonstrators. 20-year-old up james fields handcuffed at the scene. police say he was marching with white supremacists earlier. the faces of the victims, the young paralegal in the path of the car. two state troopers responding to the violence killed when the police helicopter went down. just a few miles away. and late this afternoon, the man who started the rally chased from the news conference by protesters. abc's eva pilgrim starts us off from charlottesville. >> r

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

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

all levels of society. >> reporter: so white supremacy, he says, requires a white homeland to flourish>> there is nothing that can stop an idea whose time has come. and that time is now. >> reporter: his followers up front cheer while the students sit in stony silence. 90 minutes later, his mission accomplished, spencer takes off, in a fast retreat. >> spencer sucks. spencer sucks. >> reporter: heimbach isn't as lucky. with no police to protect him, an angry crowd soon descends on him, and he is literally chased down the street. >> no nazis! >> i crossed a rubicon long ago that i'm willing to die. and i -- that might sound stark. that might sound a little scary. >> reporter: a little dramatic. >> a little dramatic. sure. but the fact is, you know, politics can be -- it can be a war. >> reporter: a spencer victory? perhaps, but coming up, antifa strikes back. as neo-nazis prepare to descend on a small kentucky town. stay with us. copd makes it hard to breathe. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. ♪go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way" with anoro

white folks control everything. >> be careful, now. >> we are in the dregs of secular humanism and until this nation comes back to god, we're going to continue to see this hatred on the front street. >> thank you both very much. >>> up next, white supremacist richard spencer planning to hold another rally in charlottesville. >>> and breaking news at this hour, north korea says kim jong-un has prepared plans to follow missiles against guam. game on, if they shoot. time's up, insufficient we're on prenatal care.es. and administrative paperwork... your days of drowning people are numbered. same goes for you, budget overruns. and rising costs, wipe that smile off your face. we're coming for you, too. for those who won't rest until the world is healthier, neither will we. optum. how well gets done. cameras. introducing the newly redesigned gla suv. at a price that'll make you feel like you've gotten away with something. the 2018 gla. lease the gla250 for $359 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the

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

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

supremacist -- white prem see, and neo-nazis. as americans and be one country united. we'll talk about this with cnn politics reporter eugene scott. good morning. why is it so important to orrin hatch, marco rubio, and ivanka trump's own words, why is it so important to name the groups if you are the president of the united states? >> because this weekend has shown as has much of the last year that meanwhile white supremacists think -- year that many white supremacists think that president trump is o then r side. we saw people paradesing the president's response for not -- praising the president's response for not being emphatic. we saw david duke saying he was part of the president trump white house because they thought they had the same values. we saw the kkk newspaper embrace donald trump during the 2016 election. the reality is that these groups th that president trump hasn't named think he's with them. >> it was exactly a year ago that hillary clinton gave a speech in which she laid out this very dark vision of donald trump

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

general john kelly, the white house chief of staff, left the white house and as quickly as you could alt right, he

the new statement from the white house, it is a change in tone.s the white house trying to fix a presidential misstep on the first statement and why is it not coming directly from president trump? >> alex, the reason it's not coming directly from president trump is that it wasn't a misstep in the first place. this is a president who has shown over and over for years that he knows how to denounce specific people and groups and things that he disapproves of. it is impossible to escape the conclusion that this was a deliberate and purposeful choice he made not to defend -- not to condemn the white supremacist, the neo-nazis who instigated this violence, who are people who don't share traditional values, american values, morality and decency and the result of that, as you saw from cory gardener and lindsey graham, is that americans across the political spectrum are being hit in the face now with the reality that we find ourselves with the president who himself does not seem to understand, share or reflect traditional american notions of values, morali

not talking about white on white crime, why do we want to talk about black on black crime?ike i said, you kill where you live. two black folks worried about black on black crime, join naacp, the urban league, push, sclc. get out here and work to integrate this country. i guarantee you, if i'm living in a white suburban neighborhood and somebody -- my old lady makes me mad enough to want to shoot some of the, i'm not going to drive in my car and drive back to the ghetto and shoot you. trust me. you kill where you u live. a a look at the statistics. 90% of all homicides in america is caused by friends or relatives. 96% of all homicides in america is caused from arguments, not breaking and entering. we don't need more lock salvador, we need locks on the attitude. when you look at fear -- i understand that because the height of the civil rights movement when i would go south, i mean, i was frightened. thank god i went anyway. at that time i did not understand that fear and god do not occupy the samame space. thatecause of the non-fear the king and the nonviolent movement have,

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

son, was disowning his white supremacist son. and we're going to speak with a recovering white supremacist, who is part of an organization called life after hate. this is democracy now!, our exclusive intervrview withth the great-great-grandsons of stonewall jackson. we will also hear after the break, them reading a part of the letter that they have written calling for monuments to their great-great-grandfather to be taken down around the country. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we bring you this exclusive interview with two of the great-great-grandsons of the confederate general stonewall jackson, let's go back to president trump speaking at this fiery, unhinged news conference he had on tuesday in trump tower here in new york. pres. trump: so this week is robert e lee. i noticed stonewall jackson is coming down. i wonder, is a george washington next week and is a thomas severson the week after? yet as herself, where does it stop? amy:y: t

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

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