mr. bannon. they were laughing at me when i was saying, heyel, this guy trump is going to be serious. he caused friction with d.c. insiders. if you think they re going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. it was the president himself that failed america. he s failed the united states in terms of moral leadership. all of a sudden these statues of civil war generals that were installed in the jim crow era here, they became touch stones of terror. those statues represent the honor, the courage and the bravery of the confederate soldier. those soldiers were not fighting to perpetuate institutional slavery. this is new day weekend with vehicle or blackwell and christi paul. a goorng. there s growing fall out from
that concern that perhaps some of that mixed messaging from president trump could perhaps embolden some of the individuals who may show up today to get a little violent, so as a result, really what we heard yesterday from commissioner william evans is this call for peace and also civility. i just think the rhetoric has really brought this to a different level, and that s what we re worried about. i ve never seen so many people looking, almost looking for confrontation. and, you know, we ve got to knock it down and remember what tomorrow is about. tomorrow is about coming together against the hate and bigotry that we ve seen, unfortunately, in this country over the last couple of weeks. commissioner williams also adding a very stern warning about today s events, that if there is any violence that breaks out, vehicle or and christi, they will bring things to a close. they will stop things. but at this point what we re sealing several hours before the
president trump s response to the violence in charlottesville one week ago today. business titans, charities and he van gel cal advisor all part of a remarkable rebuke of the president. steven mnuchin, a former yale classmates, apparently, urging him to resign. in a letter posted online, more than 300 alumni say it s mnuchin s moral obligation to step down. and you ll remember you see the video here on tuesday mnuchin stood right next to the president at that news conference when the president doubled down on his stance about violence in charlottesville, claiming that both sides were to blame. and a week after that deadly violence there in charlottesville there are new concerns this morning about what could happen today in boston. thousands of people are dppd to attend what s billed as a free speech rally, but they won t be the only ones downtown. there are counterprotestors expected to march and demonstrate against the hate, and they won t be that far away.
event, the boston globe says it best, this is the calm before the rally. things expected to get started here in a couple of hours. all right. we appreciate it. thank you. all right. now to the exodus from the white house. chief strategist steve bannon fired, and this morning more than 20 hours or nearly 20 hours, we should say, after his departure, the president is now speaking about bannon on twitter. sending this out, this official statement. i want to thank steve bannon for his servicement he came to the campaign during my run against crooked hillary. it was great. let s go live no you to cnn white house correspondent. and we were wondering when we could hear from the president, kind of a boilerplate thanks for coming. and we know or at least we re waiting to find out what the real impact will be. reporter: hi, victor. that s right. we are waiting to see what impact steve bannon s departure will have on the white house. there s a school of thought that believes that steve bann
scathing post on facebook calling on the president to apologize for his remarks to show that he stands for what he said on monday, which is against white supremacy, against neo-nazis, against the kkk i should mention news we got just this morning that the white house has announced that they are no longer going to participate in the kennedy center honors. these are a big deal. it s a big reception and gal aeach year honoring artists and performers. and the reason, victor is that we talked about business councils and charities pulling out of mar-a-lago, business leaders pulling out of the president s advisory counsel ilsz, him having to disband them. we ve also seen, though, artists and performers who were going to be honored at the kennedy gala saying that they were going to skip the pregala reception at the white house. this is usually something that honor he s want to take part in, but we heard from television writer and producer norman here, who earlier in month even before