Quote, grandstanders, just to borrow the president s phrase here, are choosing to sit out of the president S Manufacturing council. Weve just learned in just the last little while this, fourth executive announced his exit, scott paul is the head of the alliance for american manufacturing. He joins the heads of merck, under armor, and intel of bowing out. These executives are protesting the president s initial failure to call out these racists for who they are, who are responsible for the deadly violence in charlottesville, virginia. Scott paul has now tweeted, im resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative because its the right thing for me to do. So, lets begin with jim acosta, our cnn senior White House Correspondent outside of trump tower. Jim, in addition to the executive news today, you know, you have the president also retweeting conspiracy theorists. Talk to me about that. Reporter yeah. The president , brooke, seems to be allowing americans into his inner monologue today w
want to see because it has been proven time and time again that we cannot, unfortunately, rely on the leader of our country, and to my fellow republicans, speaker ryan in the house, mitch mcconnell in the senate, the executive branch is failing the american people. we can no longer put party politics as the country around us goes up in flames. we have to step up and be the voice and speak not only to the people who voted for us but to all americans, to this great collective that we call the united states. gentlemen, i appreciate the dialogue. i agree with you. bishop, i see you nodding. i appreciate the respectful dialogue today. shermichael singleton and bishop jim lowe, thank you both so much. thank you. god bless. same to you. just in, another act of vandalism, the lincoln memorial the new target? we ll hear what happened there. also ahead, this emotional letter from parents of one of the men seen at that racist rally. hear their words to their own
those hate-laced groups this time yesterday. so with me to discuss, i have bishop jim lowe jr., pastor of guiding light church in alabama. he organized a march with glenn beck. also with us, a republican strategist. so, gentlemen, great to have both of you on. thanks, brooke. shermichael, if i may begin with you, looking at the president here, you know, he certainly publicly yesterday condemned racism, but when you look at his tweets, it might give you a different impression. let me tick through this. yesterday morning, he went after the african-american ceo of merck. he retweets and deletes the tweet of a train running over a cnn reporter. keep in mind, this is after a car, you know, ran over that young woman, heather heyer in charlottesville over the weekend. and then retweeted a story where he s considering pardoning