he has to do it. it s his job. i said before. i m sure people didn t vote for barack obama, praying for him. you had the shootings in south carolina. he came out. other tragedies, multiple shootings during the obama administration is what presidents are supposed to do. the question, can he step up now? obama had to be careful in way he talked about racism in a different way. so it didn t seem his own background was sort of affecting his bias. now president trump is dealing with kind of the same range of con plex complicity but a different side of the spectrum. it s important for him to say i speak for everyone. a good point earlier. probably come out, read a prepared statement. doubt he ll deviate much given what happened saturday. strongly worded, probably, at jeff zeleny is reporting suggesting that he s going to call racism evil, call out the names by name. but off-script and is asked
delivers all of these, but i am told it is a very forceful condemnation. senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. stay with us. awaiting the president to deliver this statement. listen to the way jeff describes how this came about and see an aide putting something on the podium. maybe the president is coming any second. the question, is the president doing this? can t read minds. the president doing it because he realizes he made a mistake, failed the test and wants to? something he must say? he wraunts ants to say? or walking in to give this statement because he realized politically he has to? maybe he s been convinced he has to by his staff. see if this is hey, we ll see if john kelly, the new chief of staff, had any, had any influence here in pushing the president to make this statement. why not make it sunday in bedminster? they didn t tell the press what the president was doing all day long. put out an anonymous statement and wouldn t explain why it could not be on the
their dreams, in their hearts, and to express the love and joy in their souls. thank you. god bless you, and god bless america. thank you very much. mr. president do you hear the president of the united states leaving the room after delivering a statement. he began oddly with talk of being in washington meeting with his economic team. talking trade and tax policies and creating more jobs. the president claims credit for the economy, economic environment and turned to the events in charlottesville. saying the just it department and fbi leading the vin investigation, talked about the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists, repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. no disagreement there. one of the questions, why monday? not saturday? talking before the president came in the room about his challenge. trying to convince people he means it. how did he do? it was important to say some
thing i have to address. you know? because i didn t address it two days ago. you know? and he was very clearly reading a statement that had been well crafted by his advisers, but it did strike me, same as margaret. minimum what he needed to do. inserting some phrases and things you expected him to do earlier without the outreach to some groups that probably feel victimized at this point. add on to what was said. what happens the next time? what happens how he reacts the next time will be worth watching. because this message needs to be consistent to kind of undo the damage that has already been done. and our white house correspondent sara murray stand big at the white house. sara, obviously, the president realized he had to do this. there will be a debate whether it was genuine? see that in the follow-through. take us in the conversation at the trump white house.
president of the united states. he is traveling in colombia. listen to the vice president. a media creation, the device that the president of the united states, the vice president says, called it out clearly. listen. president trump clearly and unambiguously condemned the bigotry violence and hatred which took place on the streets of charlottesville. we have no tolerance for hate and violence. from white sprim siftem upremac neo-nazis orred kkk. these dangerous fringe groups have no place in the united states and we condemn them in the strongest terms. well put by the vice president there. his statement not so clear and you heard the vice president say the president did that. the president did what he just did. called them out by name. here s the president on saturday. he did no such thing.