said those things, that were seen to be written for a standard republican presidential statement about these events, that the nazis and white supremacists would still be very grateful to him as president for holding out as long as monday and not saying those things until monday. and thee would get a very clear signal from that kind of holding out that this was still their guy. and here we have the reviews to night after this performance today. from the white supremacist, david duke and others saying thank you mr. president. sure. they got the signal clearly on saturday. you re absolutely right, that their reaction yesterday, would have been well he managed to hold out for two days so he is still with us. and but then today, just make it clear, he took it back everything he said yesterday. and went back to his saturday views.
appear they have backe no but t knows they are still a major threat. reporter: yes, david. it does appear kim jong-un blinked and backed away in what could have resulted in a major military conflict, but this does not in any way end the threat from this volatile dictar. we know intelligence believes he is trying to perfect a nuclear weapon that could reach the u.s., and as the general told me, military options must remain on the table, david. reporting in from seoul again tonight, thank you, martha. back at home to the invisible danger. this time in new jersey, nearly a dozen people hospitalized by dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. a father coming home to discover his entire family unconscious. police and neighbors overcome after rushing inside to help, and here s abc s mara schiavocampo. reporter: tonight, 11 people recovering after being trapped inside this new jersey home, poisoned by a carbon monoxide leak. officials saying they were discovered moments before it was too
nationalists and racist within his party. david, quick one-name answer. who would you be watching for a prime primary in republicans field coming up next time? lawrence, i once add republican say to me if i can t find someone to run against you, i will run against you myself. if i can t find someone to run against donald trump, i will run against him myself. could be john kasich, could be david jolly. thank you. thank you, lawrence. coming up, is donald trump afraid of steve bannon? is that why steve bannon still collects a government paycheck? that s next. this is joanne.
was off to the side during the news conference in trump tower, photographed by the new york times. i want to bring in abc s senior white house correspondent, cecilia vega. what are you learning from your white house sources tonight? were they ready today? reporter: not at all. the people i m talking to, among them, there s a complete sense of surprise inside this white house. surprise even frankly that the president even took questions today. that wasn t supposed to happen. you saw that picture of john kelly there, the new chief of staff, inside trump tower sort of just looking down at the ground as the president was speaking. but i have to tell you that for some that are surprised by what happened there today, david, we re also hearing from one other aide that said, let trump be trump. he was also asked about steve bannon and his future. the president saying he never spoke to bannon about how to respond to charlottesville and about his future? here s what the president said. i
violence. charlottesville. back with my panel now. jim, to you first. i want to play more of the president s presser today. watch this. i didn t know david duke was there. i wanted to see the facts. and the facts as they started coming out were very well stated. in fact, everybody said his statement was beautiful. if he would have made it sooner, that would have been good. i couldn t have made it sooner because i didn t know all of the facts. frankly, people still don t know all the facts. it was very important, excuse me, excuse me. it was very important to me to get the facts out and correctly because if i would have made a fast statement and the first statement was made without knowing much other than what we were seeing. the second statement was made after with knowledge, with great knowledge. there s still things excuse me. there s still things that people don t know the. i want to make a statement with knowledge. i wanted to know the facts.