Came charging, do they have any semblance of guilt. You had a group on one side that was bad and the group on the other side that was also very violent and nobody wants to say that but i will say it right now. You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very violent. The president defended his initial statement that some attending saturdays rally were only protesting the removal of confederate symbols. Those people i have condemned neonazis, i have condemned many different groups but not all of those people were neonazis blues not all of those people were White Supremacists by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue of robert e lee. The president made his comments to a lot of criticism from both democrats and republicans including marco rubio who tweeted 6 but response including organizes of events and by the charlottesville terrorist attack are 100 to blame for a number of reasons.
Criticized the president s condolence call to the widow of a us soldier killed in niger. In an exclusive interview with maria bartiroma, he said kelly disapproved of those comments. He was so offended because he was in the room when i made the call and so were other people. The call was a very nice call. He was so offended that a woman somebody would be listening to that call. He couldnt believe it. He said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. This is not. I was so nice. I have called many people and i would think every one of them appreciated it. I was surprised to see this to be honest with you. Investigation is underway about the niger ambush resulting in the death of those four american soldiers. Kristen fisher live from the white house with more. Where does that investigation stand . The white house is a wont rest until he gets answers. The secretary of defense was on capitol hill meeting with senator john mccain after mccain complained that the senate had not been briefed about wh
Liz a look into americas news headquarters on a very busy saturday, im elizabeth prann. Nice to be with you at home, im leland vettert. President trump pushed his feud with federica wilson. Also saying the media hasnt given him enough credit for this weeks success in the senate. What does the white house want to focus on . Culture fight over gold star family call or tax policy legislative achievement . Its an excellent question, leland. You know, the story with the soldier so much consuming so much oxygen, but policy wise tax reform continues to be front and center. In interview tomorrow morning with sunday morning futures President Trump says he wants tax reform this year, he wants it done even sooner. President trump was asked, you know, do you think with the rapid timeline that youre going to have the votes, here is what he said . I think we have the votes. I think that rand paul is going to vote for the tax cuts. I think that other people we have tremendous enthusiasm this time. He
Karl rove and Juan Williams standing by with analysis and breaking tonight from us attorney john durhams probe into the russia investigation origins, looking at the emails and communications are antitrump cia director john brennan. Lets start with Kristin Fisher for the latest on the impeachment standoff. Where are we . To congress is heading home for the holidays with no clear plan what is going to come next and Mitch Mcconnell said we are at an impasse on the logistics of what this impeachment trial is going to look like in the senate. Following House Democrats rush to impeachment, weeks of pronouncements about the urgency of the situation, House Democrat prosecution seems to have gotten cold feet and to be unsure of whether they even want to proceed to the trial. Nancy pelosi is refusing to send the two articles of impeachment to the senate until mcconnell provides more details about how he intends to run the trial. Democrats want new witnesses while mcconnell does not. Democrats wa
this will be the opposite of his proclaimed strength and he is at the bottom of that barrel. apparently, deciding that he doesn t want to be the bottom crap, he wants to crawl up to some degree, how does that affect the loyalty or lack thereof in this desperate group of people? right, i think desperate is the correct word. i think it is increasingly going to start unraveling, pat cipollone is you know, it is a huge breakthrough, i can t imagine that he has not told them something very useful, bannon is a kind of unique future, like a weird nihilistic narcissistic figure who is sort of desperate to have attention and it is the possibility of appearing in front of national television and having his moment in the sun, might be worth it for the kind of total collapse that follows, he is just a weird or one psychologically to figure out, but i think in general, we are now seeing how successful the january 6 hearings were, i am really curious you know, can they stick the landing? what is t