senator mccain. look, you see his anger there. the anger is not only at the press, but the anger is that john mccain who dared vote against him and his vote was, you know, the deciding vote. and john mccain, you know, he s not been a fan of john mccain nor is john mccain a fan of his. john mccain has disagreed with him on foreign policy, and he has made it very, very clear. so, he s been a thorn in the president s side. i don t think it matters a whit to the president that john mccain is having, you know, is ill. i think this is the president taking that vote personally. and, again, it s one of these things where it s all about donald trump. john mccain now voted against donald trump, so, it is all about john mccain now is an enemy of donald trump, and that s how he will be treated no matter what. david axelrod, what was your reaction when you heard that exchange involving john mccain?
saying that these things are equivalent is that he sanitized a neo-nazi rally as just another protest. a neo-nazi rally is not just another protest. it is something very different. and you saw the video that you have been using. the president said, i want to get all the facts. i got the facts. what are those facts he got that made him take back the statement that he delivered? obviously now under pressure that he delivered the other day. what is it that he knows that we don t know? because we re able to look at those pictures the same way he was. and those were not, as he put it, innocent and legal protesters. here s another excerpt of what the president said a little while ago at trump tower. listen to this. you had a group, you had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very, very violent. go ahead. what you call the alt-left is
so, the notion that the president is looking for an off ramp here seems a little remote to me. you know, he also, rebecca, shared a tweet of, a really ugly cartoon. i don t even know if we want to put it up on the screen, of a train crashing into an individual who had a sign that said cnn. this, only a couple days after we saw a car plow into a crowd. he later, you know, deleted that retweet, if you will. but that was really, really awful. right. i think we are learning a lot today and over the past few days, wolf, about how donald trump views his job description as president of the united states, because i think most presidents in this position would take this as an opportunity to lead the country, to show some moral leadership, to try to heal divisions in the country. donald trump is taking almost the polar opposite of the
it was as if he had forgotten what he read from that teleprompter yesterday, reverted back to his initial comments saturday, but he doubled and tripled down on those initial comments. was this planned, jim accosta? was he supposed to have this kind of exchange with reporters in the lobby at trump tower? reporter: no. not at all. and as a matter of fact, wolf, before the president came down, some of his aides came over to the reporters and gathered us together to say, listen, the president is going to come down with the treasury secretary, steve mnuchin, with the transportation secretary elaine chow and so on and he was going to make some statements, and he was going to go back inside the elevator and the transportation secretary, treasury secretary, will come up to the cameras and answer questions. so, they were trying to make it very clear to all of us, i think it was wishful thinking on their part, wolf, that we would not ask any questions. but, of course, as soon as the presiden
occasions covering this president, not only as president of the united states, but as a candidate, he almost never can resist a question that is aimed in his direction. and especially when it s a question that he finds to be challenging. and when the questions started coming in, the real donald trump came out. and this is something who i think, wolf, that we re going to look back ten years from now and observe this moment that we saw unfold here today at trump tower as really kind of a turning point in this presidency. it is very difficult to imagine. many republicans in washington rallying to the president s side after he almost gave the neo-nazis and the white supremacists a pass for what unfolded in charlottesville over the weekend. i think it s one of those moments, wolf, that as it sinks in, the worse it gets. it was that kind of a disaster that we saw here at trump tower today, wolf. i ve covered a lot of