Thank you all exclamation point. Shortly after that, the Vice President announced that, he would cut his trip to south america short. He will return now to d. C. He said this today. Were also praying that in america, that we will not allow the few to divide the many. The strength of the United States of america is always strongest as the president has said so eloquently when we are united. Around our shared values. So it will always be. And his attorney general, jeff sessions, adding his thoughts at an event where he was speaking on sanctuary cities in florida. We cannot, in no way can we accept, apologize for racism, bigotry, hatred, violence and those kinds of things that are too off arise in our country. So all of this, acknowledgement that they are haves are certainly frayed. And once again, the agenda which was supposed to be the sanctuary cities appearance by jeff sessions, and also infrastructure, are sub merged in a drama that many would say the president has fueled. In a momen
Statement. He was simply waiting for the facts before going further. President trump says that steve bannon is a good person and not a racist. Attacking mccain, even as he deals with this floundering agenda, another blow with his latest diatribe. The president blames senator john mccain for the failure of his effort. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. A stunning display. The president just spanned the flames of the Charlottesville Violence by saying there is blame on both sides asking why there is no focus on what he calls the alt left and saying counterprotesters attack the white supremacist rally. He refused to condemn the alt right saying you had people that were very fine on both sides. Earlier, the president shared a social media post from an alt activist and conspiracy theorist which the former head of the ncaa called a racial dog. Then they show cnn being hit by a train called trump. A car slammed into a crowd protesting the racism rampage.
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 theyre going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. It was the president himself that failed america. Hes 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. Theres growing fall out from President Trumps 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
That the decision to remove him from the west wing was quote fine as he clearly had become a distraction. Lets get right to our reporters. Jonathan swann of axios, one of the first to break this news. And phil rucker from the Washington Post and kelly o, white house reporter. You had been on bannon watch and you predicted this this morning but some differing versions of the timing of this decision. Lay out what we know at this hour. Look, yes, bannon has been telling people that he resigned on august 7th, effective august the 14th to mark one year since he joined the trump campaign. That was really a face saving decision, agreement. He was told that he was out. And that conversation happened a few weeks ago. The entire senior staff had basically turned against him. There were very few left in his corner by the end and frankly the president had turned against him. The president has been telling people, you know, who is this guy, what does he think he is . He resented steve bannon the na
Now to the reason why the merck ceo resigned. It took the president two days to criticize the presence of neonazis and White Supremacists on the streets in our country which this weekend resulted in charlottesville in a loss of life. And tonight after a grim weekend for the american presidency, the president of the United States is back at trump tower. Youre looking at a live picture. And in part because of what happened this weekend, the crowds are large and loud in midtown manhattan, about five blocks from here. We have for you tonight a look at the president s comments just after 3 30 p. M. On saturday afternoon, and then over 45 hours later today back at the white house. We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides. Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the kkk, neonazis, White Supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we h