manu raju, matt and jackie kucinich. the ohio man charged with plowing his war into a crowd saturday in charlottesville arraigned on murder and other charges this morning and ordered held without bail. this morning s court hearing for james alex fields jr. on state charges. he, of course, is central to the federal investigation now the president is hearing about at the white house as we speak. we are told we ll hear from the president again from charlottesville later today. his team including the vice president saying it is a media creation that the president fell mimpab miserably short blaming the violence on many sides. wrong. leading the republicans are part of a giant chorus saying the president of the united states failed a big leadership test by failing to name names and single out the hate 3407kers. mongers. the president seems tone defr and soft in the wake of a domestic terrorist attack on his watch. this morning, well, the
each president faces pivotal moments when the nation they lead looks to them for leadership, empathy to be the consoler in chief. president trump s first leadership test came this weekend when violence broke out at a rally of chiet supremacists and neonazis in charlottesville, virginia. one woman was killed and two virginia state troopers died when the helicopter they were flying to monitor the scene crashed. the department of justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the deadly car attack. a little while ago the charlottesville police held a press conference and said while they regret that any lives were lost, they were prepared to change course once violence broke out. we were certainly not intimidated by the fire power of the alt-right. however, it was prudent to make sure that officers were equipped to go out and deal directly with the violence. we were hoping for a peaceful event. but many said president trump failed this first big test when
played about a year and a half ago, a year ago, when it came to david duke, and certainly what we ended up seeing saturday is a president that is unwilling to go that extra step to criticize. i think that disparity is very important to consider. when you look overall on saturday, the president he really did fail the presidential leadership test. we did see republicans who were more complementary of how he handled things, you know, senator tim scott, who did praise what president trump ended up saying today. but he also went a step further, senator scott did, by saying it would have been much more impactful had he done it on saturday. and that two-day delay, 48 hours, i think, is incredibly important on a president s ability to rise to the occasion, to demonstrate leadership during either a time of tragedy, a time of horror or shock, to be able to unite the country, not
this is not a president who would ever admit that he failed a key leadership test. over the weekend, when he failed 0 address these white sprem 1i689s directly. sprem sich sifrts. supremacists. the president said in the clip, as i said on saturday, comma, making the case perhaps he believes he was expanding upon his remarks which were criticized roundly by every party. members of the republican party. so he didn t talk about domestic terrorism. his attorney general did. and this is his effort at rebooting, but i think many times we judge our presidents, but by how they respond in the moment. to these to these kinds of issues and i think he failed that test and this was an effort to say, okay.
yesterday. critics saying it simply did not go far enough. did the president fail a key leadership test? our panel standing by to weigh in. we ll be right back.