than tweets is is he instigating? is there i mean, i know leaders in charlottesville think that s a string that can be drawn between the two. i think there s some connection there have been some connections. i don t mean to minimize. lack of leadership is very bad. the things he s done from the birther movement on are bad. and the damage the real damage has been done. what can we do? we can try to get jeff sessions the attorney general who s very conservative, but ultimately i think a decent man to make the kind of statement he made saturday night which went way above president trump. we can get others in government to do the right thing. we can urge senators and especially republicans obviously to step up. i think there s been some heartening evidence this was a step too far for them to keep quiet and keep on accommodating and rationalizing a president of their party. many other leaders in american civil society, synagogues and whoever can play a bigger role. i m not minimizin
calling on him to do. when people have driven trucks through crowds in europe, he s called it radical islamic terrorism. he should use this turcht today to say this domestic terrorism, this is white nationalism and it has to stop. he missed an opportunity to be very explicit here. these groups seem to believe they have a friend in donald trump in the white house. i don t know why they believe that, but they don t see me as a friend in the senate, and i would urge the president to dissuade these groups that he s their friend. so is it too little too late? the delayed response leaves today s remarks looking like a political fix it job. meantime, gallop poll has the president s approval rating at its lowest level yet, only 34% of people approve, 61% of people disapprove of the president. joining me now is ohio republican congressman mike turner who represents the dayton area. thank you very much for joining us. first off, what is your reaction
need to be pull together. what we need to go is give the president an opportunity and have the president take that opportunity to pull us together. these groups need to be isolated. we need to come together and say we stand together against racism, we stand as the country that elected barak obama, donald trump. we love our democracy, we love other diversity. as he looks at what is on his to-do list does that. respectfully i was there every step of the way during the campaign and it took him awhile to condemn hate groups. it took him awhile to condemn david duke. he didn t do that initially. he never said to white nationalists explicitly. it if he did, i can t remember it off the top of my head, he never said. he did. he did. i don t think he did. i was there every day. and then why would he not say it today? these protestors what you re saying is did he condemn them. hold on hold on hold on. let me finish what i m saying.
others in advance of that, there is no advance relationship with donald trump and civil rights organizations. when he called me after he was elected, i said i will only meet if the head of the urban league, head of the naacp could meet. they will not meet with civil rights groups together. he wants private photo ops. and i ont do that. the congressional black caucus, the executive committee met. he wanted to meet with everyone else. so there is no prior relationship. and there was a delayed reaction here that was wholey inadequate, too little too late. is it a dog whistle that it was delayed? well, i think it was a clear dog whistle. and the other part of that is something katy, you brought uch. let s not forget the people at this rally had on trump caps. they had on make america great caps. so when he was attacking president obama, there was nobody running around in isis with obama caps on.
president to address a domestic terrorist attack that killed a young lady and injured others and the events caused two law enforcement people to die. 48 hours. when it took him less than an hour and a half to condemn a ceo of america for resigning from his economic council because he had not made a response. so let s not act like that s insignificant. let s not pretend that there s not delays in those responses when donald trump has to respond to white people committing violence. gets up and tweets before a meeting is over. so part of a radical islamic terror he would say it even before it was announced as radical islamic terror. absolutely. so let s not pretend that. to say that he can bring us together when in fact everyone knew these groups had marched. they had marched and announced this rally weeks ago. this mayor if what he said is so had convened with the naacp and