impact here? and we don t you know, we don t have an answer to that question. everybody standby for a moment. i want to get an update on the actual situation unfolding in charlottesville, virginia right now. brian, what is the very latest? reporter: wolf, some real frustration on the part of city officials here. we have been speaking to them all day. the frustration is because after all of that violence in the streets behind me on saturday, they have made only a total of five arrests. five people taken into custody and charged and that includes the chief suspect in the car strike, james alex fields with his second-degree murder charge. they arrested four other people on things like disorderly conduct, carrying a concealed weapon. they are looking for the public s help tonight and we have videotape of a beating. this young african-american man and his friends was just beaten almost senseless by a group of
opportunity to come out, apologize, and express some deeper, deeper, much more meaningful thoughts. we ll see if he does do that. senator blumenthal, thanks so much for joining us. thank you. all right. let s bring in some more of our specialists to assess what is going on. gloria, the president can come out and apologize. i don t want the ku klux klan support, i don t want the support of these neo-nazis. i don t want the support of the white supremacists. he could come out and say that, and he could say i made a mistake. do you think he ll do that? no. i mean, first of all, as we know, donald trump never admits that he did anything wrong. so, he would never admit he made a mistake. he s had plenty of opportunities to tell them he doesn t want their support. after his statement today, he got an at-a-boy from david duke who tweeted, thank you, president trump for your honesty and trump to tell the truth about charlottesville. so, he gets an atta boy from david duke and what he d
our past, just as the torch carrying and the hooded ku klux klan of the past also was put in the rearview mirror. so, senator, what happens now? how does the united states of america how does our country deal with this critically, critically decisive moment? i think that, first of all, when we come back, we ought to review the hate crime statutes and determine whether the penalties are sufficient. second, even before then, our republican colleagues hopefully will speak out as forcefully as all of us have, and many have already. and i admire and support their independence and their courage. and the more of our faith leaders who can step forward, as many have already, but i think the time for leaning back is over. the time for moving forward is now. and the ceos who have resigned
in. he said he did not know that david duke was at that protest on saturday in charlottesville, but at the same time he said later on, almost in the same breath, that he was watching the events unfolding in charlottesville, quote, very closely. the other thing that he tried to say at one point, wolf, is that not all of the protesters in that white supremacists neo-nazi crowd were bad people. very obviously wolf, anybody who witnessed went down in charlottesville, any of the authorities who were working on that investigation will very clearly say the white nationalists, the supremacists and the neo-nazis were very much responsible for that violence and that unrest that unfolded. and, wolf, getting back to the president s explanation, well, he likes to wait for the facts to come in, keep in mind this is the same president who said that barack obama was not born in this country and that barack obama wiretapped him here at trump tower without any proof at all. so, for a president to come o
the fbi director james comey, the nsa director admiral mike rogers, they will testify behind closed doors later in the week, later next week, but the other hearing with sally yates who is the acting attorney general james clapper, john brennan, former cia director, that will be an open session earlier in the week. is that date still open? that date is still open. i believe we re going forward with the closed hearing towards the latter part of the first week of may. the open hearing we re still in negotiation with the senate over who will be interviewing what witnesses in open session. but we expect that to go forward as soon as we can pin down the date as well as get the schedules of the witnesses. but in all of this we re working very collaboratively, democrats and republicans together. quickly on north korea, you ve been studying this very closely as all of us have, when the president of the united states says in his reuters interview there is a chance that