national security meetings. he s a foreign policy advisor. what exactly does he do in the white house other than come on and talk on television and tell other cabinet members what to do? he spreads hatred of muslims is what he does. look at his track record and look at what he s said about muslims and this is exactly what vladimir putin wants, the united states to be at war with a billion muslims in the world, blaming muslims for the acts of a very few troersz. that s like blaming me as a christian for what the ku klux klan did in charlottesville because they walked around with crosses any more than ice is muslim terrorism. the point is that people want us at war with a muslim faith and that s exactly what vladimir putin wants. so should republicans on the hill demand that donald trump fire those on his staff who are linked to these groups? after all, steve bannon was the head of breitbart when they had
calling on him to do. when people have driven trucks through crowds in europe, he s called it radical islamic terrorism. he should use this turcht today to say this domestic terrorism, this is white nationalism and it has to stop. he missed an opportunity to be very explicit here. these groups seem to believe they have a friend in donald trump in the white house. i don t know why they believe that, but they don t see me as a friend in the senate, and i would urge the president to dissuade these groups that he s their friend. so is it too little too late? the delayed response leaves today s remarks looking like a political fix it job. meantime, gallop poll has the president s approval rating at its lowest level yet, only 34% of people approve, 61% of people disapprove of the president. joining me now is ohio republican congressman mike turner who represents the dayton area. thank you very much for joining us. first off, what is your reaction
need to be pull together. what we need to go is give the president an opportunity and have the president take that opportunity to pull us together. these groups need to be isolated. we need to come together and say we stand together against racism, we stand as the country that elected barak obama, donald trump. we love our democracy, we love other diversity. as he looks at what is on his to-do list does that. respectfully i was there every step of the way during the campaign and it took him awhile to condemn hate groups. it took him awhile to condemn david duke. he didn t do that initially. he never said to white nationalists explicitly. it if he did, i can t remember it off the top of my head, he never said. he did. he did. i don t think he did. i was there every day. and then why would he not say it today? these protestors what you re saying is did he condemn them. hold on hold on hold on. let me finish what i m saying.
president to address a domestic terrorist attack that killed a young lady and injured others and the events caused two law enforcement people to die. 48 hours. when it took him less than an hour and a half to condemn a ceo of america for resigning from his economic council because he had not made a response. so let s not act like that s insignificant. let s not pretend that there s not delays in those responses when donald trump has to respond to white people committing violence. gets up and tweets before a meeting is over. so part of a radical islamic terror he would say it even before it was announced as radical islamic terror. absolutely. so let s not pretend that. to say that he can bring us together when in fact everyone knew these groups had marched. they had marched and announced this rally weeks ago. this mayor if what he said is so had convened with the naacp and