gabe gutierrez tells us why many are choosing a new venue instead of mar-a-lago. reporter: long known is the epitome of high society. they don t want to be sobered with the president s remarks. at least 17 charities have pulled their annual fundraising events from the so-called southern white house. many after the controversial comments after charlottesville. the zoo and conservation society. others include the red cross, the american cancer society, and the salvation army. well, the decision was made because the whole conversation had become a distraction to the mission of the salvation army. reporter: tax records show rental fees at mar-a-lago run up to $276,000 per event. the departures could cost the trump organization more than $1 million. profit from mar-a-lago are placed in a trust for the
welcome back. it is the bottom of the hour. here are the morning s top stories. the city of charlottesville has covered the robert e. lee statue. it followed a city council vote to shroud that monument and two other confederate statues. a man tried to cut away the tarp, but he was stopped by police. the covering was a symbol of the morning of the people killed against the white nationalist featured on a vice documentary on the violence in charlottesville has turned himself in just days after warrants were issued for his arrest. christopher cantwell was charged with using tear gas and for bodily injury linked with clashes with those opposing the racist rally. last week he told the new york times that he was caught on camera pepperspraying a guy
have reportedly quit. a number of members who were appointed by former president obama reportedly resigned one day before the panel s quarterly business meeting. this one i actually thought was fake news when i first read it. espn pulling one of its announcers from an upcoming university of virginia football game because his name is robert lee. the network says it made the decision simply because of the coincidence of his name after the violent clashes in charlottesville over the removal of a confederate statue. and you have the rest of your day to get your hand on a power ticket. the grand prize has reached, this is crazy, crazy, $700 million. the second largest in u.s. history. i want to stay on money, a different kind. money, power, politics. president trump yet again touting big numbers on the economy and saying he will renegotiate nafta in his campaign-style speech that took place in phoenix last night. i want to bring in a man who was tweeting pure gold last night
were true or false? we re going to fact check his speech. joining me now, aaron schrockman, executive director of politifact. president trump provided a lengthy defense to his response to the violence in charlottesville but he admitted a key ad lib, the one that set the world in flames in his initial response. let s take a listen. really fast, here s what i said on saturday. we re closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. this is me speaking. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. that s me speaking. aaron, what s the truth here? this is actually amazing. at politifact we say words matter and we credit the president for reading off a piece of paper. what he left out was what got him in trouble and anyone in that crowd would not know it. he talked about in his initial statement about violence being on many sides. he repeated it, many sides,
was actually commanding the armed forces. and general mattis the defense secretary h.r. mcmaster the national security adviser impressed upon him over the course of many months their view which is that it would be very dangerous for the u.s. to withdraw completely from afghanistan and tried to present the case to him gradually that adding more troops would be helpful in stabilizing the country. trump i m told from reporting was angry about his options in afghanistan. he fumed about it. he was frustrated. he felt there was no easy solution no easy victory with this war but eventually came around to siding with the generals. and kim, what an amazing turn of events where afghanistan and sending american troops into harm s way is not subject enough for the speech. that because of the damage done over charlottesville and the kind of back filling that needed to be done that was inserted,