common sense decency and dignity for human life. and the values that we hold as a country. our constitutional rights. this is about republicans, democrats, anybody in between to say this is wrong, we don t stand for that, this country has made great mistakes in the past that led to a civil war. we ve overcome them. we ve apologized for them and we should continue to do everything we can in our power to never let them happen again. and, yes, there is pain that remains andy h yes, there are gt mistakes we still make as a nation. but we can t let them go unlabeled or unnoticed. we have admit them, make up for them, and then do what is right. that is what the president can do today. i urge him to do what he s done around the globe calling out people for their acts of evil. white supremacists, we will not stand for their racism, bigotry and hatred. so the day president trump said we must all, quote, cherish our history. a former it democratic
quote, trump comments were good. he said he loves us all. also refused to answer a question about white nationalists supporting him. no condemnation at all. when asked to condemn, he just walked out of the room. really, really good. god bless him. unquote. mr. bossert, that s a neo-nazi website celebrating our vague the president was. would you concede he was not clear enough in specifically condemning white supremacy? no. you know, the words of the ignorant bear little with me and should bear less with you in the media. unfortunately, they don t. what i would say is that the president not only condemn the violence and stood up at a time and a moment when calm was necessary and didn t dignify the names of these groups of people. but, rather, addressed the fundamental issue. so, jake, what you need to focus on is the rest of this statement. the president didn t just call for human beings to respect one another which is his pragmatist core fundamental bare minimum
sebasti sebastian gorka said. it is this constant, oh, it s the white man. it is the white supremacist. that s the problem. no, it isn t. surely it s not the position of the trump white house that white supremacists are not a problem. certainly not. i m not certain the context of that gorka quote. i can tell you that where i spend a great deal of my time and a great deal, unfortunately, of the american taxpayers resources is combating a global jihadi terrorist problem that as you know has plagued the nation. it is a huge issue. of course. an international problem. of course. it s something that we focus a great deal on. in fact we make difficult decisions every day in how to balance and rebalance the use of those resources to confront our enemies. we ve got nation state problems in north korea. and we ve got asymmetric terrorist global jihadi problems that have spread across the
speak out yesterday. he condemned the, quote, egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides. what was your response to that? you know, i sort of hung my head. i mean it was more of a lot of the same that i think we ve seen. but to be honest, this is not about donald trump. we all talk about him a lot. i think this is about the united states of america. it s about virginia. it s about charlottesville. we re the birthplace of a lot of the democratic ideas that got us here. i ll tell you, these one door closes, one door opens. we had the kkk come to our city also to challenge our approach on telling the truth about race on july 8th. that was an all of event for our city as well, not nearly as violent as this one. but a week later i was leading a discussion with some of the leading democracy organizations in the world that happen to be here in this city. the miller center for public affairs. organizations like that. about how do we uphold and bring