gymnastics you go through as a trump stoirter to say he was just calling out the press or this was him trying to have both sides be heard. no, you don t get to play that. the klan is unacceptable in american political life. neo-nazis unacceptable in american public it will life. there are no good people at these ral eyes. the fact that donald trump is still sending them signals that he thinks they re morally equivalent to everybody else in the process is a condemnation of the man, harsher than anything i could possibly express. who tep you make your point, here s what the former ku klux klan grand wizard david duke and richard spencer praising the president s press conference today. duke tweeting, thank you, president trump for it your courage to tell the truth about the charlottesville and condemn the leftist terrorists and blm antifa. spencer tweeted i am proud of him for speaking the truth. i mean, he s getting praise from
we cannot allow this old evil to be resurrected. marco rubio s state of florida was one of the founding members of the con fedry. the government to succeed from the union and fight a war again the united states of america to preserve white supremacy and slavery. what marco rubio said today is all true. all obvious. but it can cost him some votes in florida. some support the formally confederate state of florida marco rubio is right that white supremacist groups would appreciate what donald trump said today. and those who voted for donald trump came from former ku klux klan leader david duke who voted for donald trump. after the president spoke today, and assigned blame to both sides, david duke said thank you, president trump, for your
he is not a racist. i can tell you that. he is a good person. he actually gets a very 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 frankly very unfairly. cecilia, the president making no promises about steve bannon s future. reporter: he was asked the question about whether he has confidence in his controversial chief strategist, and you could hear the president. he didn t actually answer the question. the president we know has grown frustrated with steve bannon. steve bannon has openly battled with other aides here in the west wing, but one source tells me it s the president s decision whether or not steve bannon stays or goes at this point. cecilia vega with us live tonight as well. thank you, cecilia. the president offering a defense for some of the people who descended on charlottesville, adding they did have a permit. and the former leader of the kkk, david duke, liking what he heard. abc
who resigns, who resigns over this? who resigns? which one of you can t live with yourselves for working for a guy that elicits praise from david duke. tell me who resigns. mcmaster is a general, deena powell used to be an executive on wall street, kellyanne conway owned a company. his kids. what do they do. so ashley, what are you hearing from the west wing tonight and how will tomorrow look or seem any different for them in. well it s in the west wing frustrated, exacerbated, even stunned but not quite surprised. they were stunned that he would go out and say this publicly and undo all of their hard work and undo his agenda but again they weren t surprise fd for president to go off script and to hear these sentiments expressed from their boss. the reaction was more muted than you might expect for a day like this.
john mccain was mentioned in that exchange. let s listen to that. called on to you defend your national security adviser mcmaster against the task diit the last time. he called on you again. senator mccain? right. you mean the one who voted against obamacare? you mean senator mccain who voted against us getting good health care? senator mccain said that alt-right is behind these attacks and he linked that same group to those who perpetrated the attack in charlottesville. i don t know, i can t tell you. i m sure senator mccain must know what he is talking about. and david jolly we have a tweet from mitt romney tonight saying no, not the same one side is racist bigoted nazi, other opposes racism and bigotry. david, last two presidential nominees in your party now standing to night on this issue against donald trump.