to the violence in charlottesville for quite some time, it appears that the president has just tweeted again, athena, right? reporter: hi, boris, that s right. after hours of silence, we ve now seen two tweets from the president just in the last 40 minutes. this latest tweet, just a couple of minutes ago at the top of the hour tweeting out am in bedminster for meetings and press conference on v.a., veterans affairs, and all that we have done and are doing to make it better, but charlottesville, sad, exclamation point. we ve heard that sort of sentence construction in tweets before from the president calling various things sad. now he s calling what s going on in charlottesville sad. 40 minutes ago when we saw his first tweet, i ll read that again for our viewers, he said, we all must be united and condemn all that hate stands for. there is no place for this kind of violence in america. let s come together as one. that tweet coming about 40 minutes ago. again, the first time we heard
and i haven t seen i ve seen police around the area but i haven t seen as many as i have earlier by emancipation park. all right, thank you for bringing us the very latest as this develops, we appreciate that. okay, everyone, as we have been waiting, we have now heard from the president who sent out a tweet. this is how it reads. we all must be united and condemn all that hate stands for. there is no place for this kind of violence in america. let s come together as one. so all of you seeing that. we re now just hearing from the president and this is something that has followed a number of tweets and statements from other elected officials as well as the first lady, who put out her own tweet. let s go right now to nbc s kelly o donnell, who is covering the president s vacation time. this is anything but a vacation day right here. we know that he has been calling it a working vacation in
welcome back, everybody. at 52 past the hour, you re looking at video from earlier this morning from charlottesville, virginia, where there was certainly a clash between two opposing groups regarding the removal of a statue of robert e. lee. we heard from the president about 30 minutes ago. here s the tweet that he sent out. we all must be united and condemn all that hate stands for. there is no place for this kind of violence in america. let s come together as one. let s bring in former counsel to president obama with a welcome to you. first of all, the statement by president trump that he just issued about 30 minutes ago, your thoughts on that. i thought it was a very measured statement. i thought it was a good statement, a strong statement, and atypical for many of his tweets in that it seemed that it was thought out and, you know, it wasn t an off the cuff statement and i think in a time like this, what s most important for a president is that he really has to lead and to speak t
now the white house is saying that president trump and the white house has been in communications with the virginia governor s office, they are monitoring the situation on the ground very closely and, again, we may hear president trump speak about this directly when he steps up to the podium to talk about this va bill in just about 25 minutes, kelly. kelly: kristin, we will be following the details of all of that, thanks for the report, by the way, on the president. julie: fox news alert, president trump tweeting on the situation in charlottesville and i will quote, we all must be united and condemn all that hate stands for, there s no place for this kind of violence in america, let s come together as one. kristin fisher covering that moments ago. we want to go more in-depths now. democratic strategists, and gop strategists and author, first of all, let s just talk about donald trump s tweets because he got a lot of criticism early on in his campaign because he took
one person was killed during that. 19 people injured as a result of that horrible violence. president trump tweeting today, quote, we all must be united and condemn all that hate stands for. there is no place for this kind of violence in america. let s come together as one. and first lady melania trump tweeting, our country encourages freedom of speech, but let s communicate without hate in our hearts. no good comes from violence. hashtag charlottesville. we are live now at the university of virginia medical center in charlottesville where the injured are injured are being treated paramedics brought 20 people to the hospital over my shoulder here. 19 are being treated for injuries. one person has died. we don t have any information on the person who passed away. the city of charlottesville says they are working to notify the victims families right now. when asked about the types of injuries for the 19 people that were brought here, a