and we see the consequences of surrounding yourself with those type of people and how they re advising the president and how the president responds to an act of domestic terrorism by racists with that pitiful statement he put out. where do you think it came from? they re bending over backwards to not say something as a racially motivated act of domestic terror. it s interesting, they re quick to jump to conclusions and judgment when it was president obama. there was no oh, let s wait for the facts, not do it by association, remember the vicious attacks against president obama during the r reverend wright situation. now that the shoe is on the other foot, it is a completely hypocritical double standard. the white house did attempt, they re attempting to do a rolling walk back of donald trump s mild statement yesterday that didn t include any individuals specific names. they put out a statement that the president said very strongly
area. so the president s refusal, indifference to this, is really a low point in his presidency which has had a lot of low points. michelle? i don t know how anyone could look at what we witnessed yesterday, all day long from the beginning to the end and not look at this as an intentional act of domestic terrorism. it was murder. it was murder on the issue of race, political ideology, ethnicity. people are making a statement that donald trump promised them that they were going to take america back and they were fulfilling donald trump s promise. david duke told the nation that yesterday. if you go to any message board of some of these white nationalists and the center alt-right groups, they were all saying after the president made his very lame apology for what happened yesterday if you want to even call it an apology, people were saying the president loves us, he didn t call us out. he loves us. they are fulfilling his profit
allegations he clearly is unnerved by them. every time they re mentioned he goes off. but he isn t assembling the kind of legal team that you would expect someone in this position to assemble. you have people like jared kushner who are lawyering up with more experienced attorneys, paul manafort, than donald trump is. what should he be doing in terms of the kind of legal representation he needs, and in your view is the white house counsel doing enough to make it clear to this president that this is real jeopardy for him in his administration? no, they re not doing enough at all. first thing he ought to do is not talk about the investigation. no more tweeting, no more talking about it. that was our policy in the george w. bush white house when i was there. you do not talk about pending investigations. you only hurt yourself. you only dig yourself in deeper. second, they ought to do a clean sweep of the white house and boot out anybody who had any contact with the russians that they w
alt-right. to the bob dole point, george bush, when david duke was running for u.s. senator as a republican, he came out and said no way, that we re not accepting bigotry, understanding that duke was the former grand wizard of the kkk and he pushed back against that. the thing also to remember is that what donald trump has done is he is taking a fringe group, the alt-right, a hateful, sexist, racism movement, and normal liesed them. that s what he did by having steve bannon, by having goreka. let s go back a little further. during the campaign, if he wasn t outright using every horrible hateful isms out there, he was doing dog whistles. to say nothing of birtherism. it s what got donald trump his fans among the alt-right, he was willing to indulge in this openly racist conspiracy theory.
to figure another place to put him in government, nobody wants him. only donald trump wants him. maybe that s the reason for the personality. gabriel sherman, you study the fox world, he is a frequent figure on fox. this kind of figure is very popular there. we know donald trump watches that channel relentlessly. is there a sense among people that work in that world that they need to cultivate these kind of personalities, in part because it gives people like sean hannity influence at the white house? you know, i think that s a good question. i think not only fox has to cultivate seb gorka, it is the reverse he is willing to go on and say what many of the fox audience believe. if anything was revealed by the 2016 election, the fox audience is the trump base and fox made the programming calculus that they need to reflect these world views from a ratings,