sure he should have. and he didn t. now he says something monday and the immediate meade ya goes crazy with the fact he led with economic news instead of charlottesville. hashtag got to be trump s fault. everything is trump s fault. it s interesting. what is the issue? racism and donald trump s long history of saying things that are race u out loud and normalizing racism to the point where certain people who had been in the shadows, certainly white supremacy and white supremacists and white nationalists, that s not a new phenomenon. what s new is they are em bowdened by this president and are able to go out in public without any masking of their faces and proudly declare that they are supreme over other races of people. so donald trump has given comfort to this group of people whether it be his not renting to black people, whether it be his calling for execution of the central park five when those young men were innocent of the
and young people who end up finding that idea can sometimes believe it and it can lead to violence. sophie york james, james peterson, thanks to both of you. great conversation, one which we hope to continue. meantime, north korea s military presents plans to its leader to launch missiles into the waters near guam. but is unkim jong-un back trkin on his threats? and president trump says the senate majority leader may need to step aside if he can t push his agenda through. but given the president s misstep with charlottesville, has he made it harder to get anything accomplished? (boy) sorry. (dad) don t worry about it. (mom) honey, honey, honey, honey! (vo) at our house, we need things that are built to last. that s why we got a subaru. (avo) love.
confederate flag-waving racists, but the reality is that the real challenges around race are systemic in nature and they re embedded in our very societies about access to education, access to health care, life expectancy, the criminal justice system. there are full-blown systemic forms of racism every day, not as spectacular as charlottesville but they require the same amount of effort. if we re committed to rooting out and confronting racism in our society, yes, we have to address the sort of terrorism that occurred in charlottesville and at mother emanuel church in south carolina and we have to look at the everyday iterations of how race to operates in our society, because that s where you can sort of get to the systemic roots of it and actualry address the problems in a more holistic way than responding knee jerk to each sort of version of bad behavior when it comes to race. sofie, there are people on the far right and the washington post writes about
me. he said he doesn t want anything to d with those type of groups. no, he has not. hold on for a second. he said in 2016 i disavow them. he talked to new york times about them. he said those groups is what he said and then went on and actually named them. the bottom line is evangelical christian leaders, all of them have a responsibility to denounce all of this by name, kkk, neo-nazis, they have nothing, nothing and let me say that in all caps nothing do with true biblical christianity at all. just because they claim their v they re christian doesn t mean it s so. i agree with that. the ones in charlottesville surrounded by white supremacists wi assault weapons, that s problematic, something we haven t seen since the 60s. donald trump has not denounced these groups. he has. three members associated with white nationalism work in the white house right now. nick, i want to get to you one more time.
turn down the volume of the critici criticism. we ve seen a growing number of ceos who have removed themselves from the president s council. under armour, we of e soon the head of disney, also elon musk, various reasons, not just charlottesville, but also the paris climate accord. these are people the president respects who have taken a position for either their corporate identity, their personal views, perhaps both, and the president doesn t take lightly to that, so he is doing what he has been known to d throughout the obviously, it s raining there so kelly o donnell, we thank you for that. let s talk more about the members of congress because already they re having to deal with the fallout from the president s response to the violence in charlottesville. take look at the scene in colorado when republican senator cory gardner was asked about it during a town hall earlier today. now, we should note that the audience did appear to have a large number of anti-trump