was that the president was giving white nationalists unequivocal boost. did he again condemn neo nazis. was that lost in the media uproar over his argument that both sides are to blame. taking down statues of confederate leaders could call for those to topple george washington and thomas jefferson since they were slave owners weighs joining a long running debate. stolberg had tweeted from charlottesville the hard left seemed as hate filled as alt right. second thoughts should have said violent not hateful. they were standing up to hate. it s important for journalists not to engage white supremacists and neo nazis whose violence led to woman s death and counter protesters of even some of them that were violent. for all the sound after fury, journalists should remember that no story even about this president and even about race is entirely one sided, bill?
coverage of today s top stories. president trump s initial response to the charlottesville violence led to blistering rebukes. today, the president tried again. let s begin our coverage this hour with senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, more forceful statement from the president this time. forceful but scripted, wolf. president trump promised a news conference today, but that didn t happen. instead he delivered scripted remarks and seemed defensive when asked about the comments here at the white house where he finally condemned white supremacists, something he failed to do by name over the weekend. after two days of stinging criticism for his failure to call out hate groups by name, president trump finally did just that in a scripted statement at the white house. racism is evil. and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold
much obvious potential to commit two murders. when i began flirting with crime, it started off with like stealing cars. i knew a couple of guys who stole cars. i would go with them. i wouldn t steal it myself, but i would go with them. then i learned how to drive. i liked the thrill. so then i started stealing them, got arrested. i go to jail, meet other guys in there who are doing other things, more severe crime. and that s how i begin to evolve as a criminal. for munoz, the next phase of that evolution was to join a street gang and to develop a reputation. if i can intimidate you more than you can intimidate me and i can persuade you, however i do it, to do something, i m imposing my will on you. but yet to me you seem like a pretty affable guy. so how did you achieve that? by violence. violence led to a string of burglaries and assaults that eventually landed munoz in county jail.
so, politics hung overall of this. the president weighed in this morning with this tweet. quote, if u.c. berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on people with a different point of view, no federal fund. well, multiple lawmakers in california were swift in their response. they say that that tweet is a veiled threat and they say that students on this campus shouldn t pay for what this university says was violence led by about 150 outside agitators. the university doesn t feel that the people who were smashing the windows of the student union were students at all. so, we are also hearing reaction from the speaker himself, milo yiannopoulos as well as students. here s what they told us. they wouldn t allow students to listen to different points of view, they re absolutely petrified by alternative visions of how the world ought to look and people with arguments and facts and reason that don t conform to the crazy social
two murders. when i began flirting with crime it started off with stealing cars. i knew a couple of guys who stole cars. i would go with them. then i learned how to drive. i liked the thrill. so then i started stealing them. got arrested, i d go to jail. meet other guys in there doing other things, more severe crime. and that s how i began to evolve of as a criminal. for munoz, the next phase of that evolution was to join a street gang and to develop a reputation. if i can intimidate you more than you can intimidate me and i can persuade you however i do it to do something, i m imposing my will on you. but yet to me you seem like a pretty affable guy, so how did you achieve that? by violence. violence led to a string of burglaries and assaults that eventually landed munoz in