This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. There was no script this time, no prepared statement. President trump said today what he really believes happened in charlottesville. Flashing anger at times, the president said both sides the White Supremacists and the counterprotesters are to blame for the violence that left one person dead and 35 injured. We have never seen a president ial News Conference quite like this one at trump tower this afternoon. White house correspondent Margaret Brennan was there. Margaret. Reporter President Trump unloaded his pruistration and defended his decision to wait two days before denouncing the hate groups behind that rally. He called it a horrible, horrible day. I didnt wait long. I wanted to make sure unlike most politicians that what i said was correct, not make a quick statement. The statement i made on saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement. But you dont make statements that direct unless you know the fact. It
They were met by opponents including clergy, students, black lives matter activists, and protesters with the antifascist movement known as antifa. President trump blamed it on many sides. Pres. Trump we conondemn in the strongest popossible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. On many sides. It has beenen going on for a log time in our country. Not donald trump, not barack obama, it has been going on for a long, long time. Amy we will host a roundtable discussion with a protester who survived the car attack. A domestic terrorism attack. When protesting against White Nationalists in charlottesville. We will speak with a nurse who treated the wounded, as well as Jalane Schmidt, an organizer with the local black lives movement and professor it university of virginia dr. Cornel west was there and blalackmon, of uniteds church of christ. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to dedemocracy now , dedemocracynow. Org, the war ad peace report. Im amy goo
The sport in front of thousands of fans over the week. But he was injured in his last career race. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 14th. In afrom abc news, this is world news now. We do say good morning to everybody. We are going to start in charlottesville where that city reeling from the weekends violence. They carried signs like never again, and love will always trump hate. And they say the man who plowed his car into them idolized adolf hitler. You see his arrest right there. Elizabeth hur is in charlottesville with the latest. Reporter at the scene of terror and chaos in the streets of charlottesville that ended in death and devastation. The city is now sharing messages of unity and condolences for the victims. I want the country to know that the city of charlottesville is a place of extreme compassion. Reporter the suspected driver, 20yearold james alex fields from ohio now sits in jail, charged with murder, meanwhile, the man who organized the demonstrat
Philadelphia. She was a wonderful person. Like came into his life about a year ago and she became a stepmother to his son. Like she had great energy, too. And they just tried. They tried but on this day god wanted them and he had a better plan for them. Reporter around 11 45, police were called out after a Family Member discovered the couple unconscious. The bodies were found in separate rooms. The victims appeared to have been assaulted. Sources tell action news something was tied around their necks. There were no signs of forced entry. Neighbors awoke to Police Activity and were stunned when they learned what police were investigating. Very rare. I mean, its like wow. Its very quiet neighbor, nothing, you know, like very, very good things here but this is very, very rare. Reporter gonzalezs 10yearold son was not at home at the time. Family members said his mother was upstairs and heard nothing. Compounding her grief, her other son gonzalezs brother was shot and killed on the steps of
President trump tweeted out that for everyone of these ceos on the Manufacturing Council, that would leave, he would have another one that would take their place. A few hours after that, here inside of trump tower was asked about the ceos they were leaving, he contended they were quote leaving out of embarassment he says, because they were making their products outside of the country. Now the president has a different take on this essentially, trying to contend or trying to suggest at this point that he is doing them a favor by ending not just the Manufacturing Council but also another wider policy group. Here was his tweet to that end a little while ago. He says, and i quote, rather than putting pressure on Business People of Manufacturing Council and strategy policy and forum, i am ending both. Thank you all was his parting message. Now the president has yet to dom meant today on his remarks yesterday from inside trump tower about charlottesville, how he said there is blame to go aro