about it, but as was said, racial tension in this country is fought going away. it s gotten a lot worse. these demonstrations will continue to happen. how does the president react then? take this as a learning, a lesson to be learned? and does he speak out forcefully and does the party, will they be satisfied by that going forward? but i do think at the moment he gives his party a little breathing room on what has become a dominating story the last couple days. this is on him. on him. this is on him. repeat myself. but when you hear this, oh, this is still a young administration. you know, understanding this is a presidential moment. not only the president but the entire white house has to jump in. it s seven months. and, again, you know, whether it s a mass shooting or a protest likes this that shouldn t take a meeting to figure out it s a challenge for the president of the united states to step up. shue it? denouncing nazis! really? that takes a lot of thought?
or more getting in the president s face. and also some of his allies. like the new york post editorial page. one. president s favorite newspapers, also taking him to task. you make a good point. the president made points about political correctness on the campaign trail. why not showing any nuance here a president who rarely shows nuance going after people. the only time he shows nuance or skirts criticism seems to be according to republicans and democrats that pointed thissous, about vladimir putin. he doesn t want to criticize vladimir putin, and why not calling out white sprim siuprem? makes no sense to folks today. he can clean it up, say in strong, direct terms but maybe defensive over all the criticism so far he s gotten. listen to the chants. we should be shaming the protestors. playing for you all probably not too much.
fascinating, the last 48 hours watching the number of republicans in part trying to distance themselves from the president. they worry what he s doing to their party. but first instinct, i think, just do the right thing. stand up and speak out and try to set an example for the president of the united states and what where are we that everybody else has to set an example for the president? supposed to work the other way. isn t it? and that sort of split, already started, when you saw that through health care. this idea the recess and then pivot to tax reform. work together on other things and that seems like this is only opening up the distance between trump and his republicans in congress. the other point from earlier today in his criticism of the merck ceo is wall street and sort of corporate america has been one bright spot for president trump, and to the extent that he now is a toxic brand of himself, where
as telling as it gets. the president insists on putting the economic remarks at the top of his statement before he got to his denunciation of the kkk and other hate groups. that was the president s call. thanks for joining us on inside politics. dealing with breaking news. wolf blitzer continues our coverage after a quick break.
and the approach matters. and also he can be completely unequivocal. he was equivocal saturday saying clearly who is responsible for this. the united states is not condoning this behavior. strongly condemns these groups in the sharpest possible terms. he could certainly do that, better late than never. clearly, concern within the white house that what he did on saturday is overshadowing everything right now and the president needs to do something to clean this up, because they do not sincerity matters, too. how into it is he and how much is just a reaction from the blowback he s gotten, and how much does he really feel these things? his first instinct was not to condemn these groups on saturday. so how sincere is he going to be? a critical point. you made the observation, this should have been politically a no-brainer for the president