idea of crowd size during the day or during the evening? you know, it really was just my own personal sebs to be honest with you. we had a couple different vantage points during the day. it seemed like a thousand, a couple thousand. later that number really began to swell. it seemed like therern 4,000 or 500 people here along the streets and the pris corded off these crowds to keep them separated from both trump supporters and from the convince center itself. stephanie gosk outside convention center. president also mentioned anti-farks the antifa yich faction from the podium tonight. a kind of mocking the group, showing up. they were, of course, in the news in charlottesville, as well. let s bring in annie carney who joins us from politico tonight. thank you for he being so
has changed. our theory of the cheap seats. everything looks different on the outside. while i take a drink, tell us what a long walk ha has been for him to talk about how a decision on afghanistan specifically looked different for him in the oval office. right, i mean, it was remarkable. it was a campaign promise. barack obama made the same promise to get out of afghanistan and here are two presidents in a row unable to do it. for donald trump it was remarkable because he doesn t like to be wrong. he doesn t like he likes to have the last word. he doesn t like people to tell him what to do. that s what we re seeing this donald trump tonight. he s been criticized not on policy so much but just not getting things done, his personality, twitter, whole thing. he was criticized so much on charlottesville, he s just pushing back on it. he says and i love how he says this every time, i don t watch tv. but this morning i was watching
said, quote, if we have to close down our government, we ll build that wall. an interesting comment for the coming weeks. on trade as nafta is being renegotiated he said, quote, we ll probably end up terminating nafta and ended with praising theor troops saying wel make america strong and safe and great again. with that let s get analysis from our panel. fox news white house correspondent and matt schlapp the contributor with the hill. that s as good as anything i ve heard on the campaign trail and he is relitigating charlottesville. clearly he had something he wanted to get off his chest and we were discussing this. the president had i think a clear win last fight with his
reaction. he complained to the crowd they re trying to take away our heritage. he hinted at a pardon for sheriff joe arpaio and then some. what happened in charlottesville strikes at the core of america. and tonight, this entire arena stands united in forceful condemnation of the thugs who perpetrate hatred and violence. i don t want to bore you with this but it shows you how dishonest they are. most of you know this anyway. here s what i said really fast. here s what i said on saturday. we re closelifuling 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 on saturday. i love the people of our country, the people, all of the people. it says i love all of the people
caused this violence statement after charlottesville after he had made that more contrite statement that everybody in the west wing had hoped would let this blow by. so no, donald trump will not change, and i think anybody who expects and this is what mish mcconnell is most worried about too, anybody who expects to see a president grow into this job is likely to be quite disappointed. anita, he went back and forth between the kind of dog whistle buzzword for the crowd our people and we all know what he means. he means trump supporters and then back to what was a lot of the language from the top of last night s afghanistan speech which as michael beschloss said on social media last night, first speech on war and peace in the modern era where president has felt the need to talk about