Words for the leader of north korea than he did for a war hero who was fighting brain cancer. Announcer this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn coma rat ta. This is new day wednesday august 23rd, 8 00 here in new york. President trump fiery and described by many as unhinged, accusing the media of distorting his words on charlottesville and violence. Except the president conveniently his own blame of many sides. Last night he also omitted that he had said that very fine people marched with White Supremacists. Be clear, this was a new low. He played his supporters for fools. We all know what he did and did not say and he will be called out for it, period because what you ignore, you em power. There are also political attacks last night. His party had to hear him attack the two gop senators from where the trump rally was held. Also have learned that Mitch Mcconnell has not spoken in week. Joining us david gregory, margaret tal leb and timothy obrian, the author of trump nation, the art of being the donald. David gregory, we have said it before but it has never been more true than it was last night, which was this was him at his worst. Right. His most destructive, most selfdestructive, the president willfully lying to a narrow bapds of his supporters and as you said trying to play them for fools, trying to turn americans against the news media. Doing so deliberately, cynically in an effort to try to lessen the impact of what he has done to himself as president. The when you hear the majority leader Mitch Mcconnell saying privately that he wonders whether trump can salvage his presidency, these are selfinflicted wounds. President trump made the decision to say that there was a blame on many sides. And that there were many good people among the neonazi and racists and antisemits that were in charlottesville. Hes got chaos within the west wing. Sel selfdescribed great businessman cant run his staff. Thats all his doing. Its not the medias fault. You may have a problem with the news media. Thats not the medias false. Thats where the media will play a role to point that out and judge him guest his own promises. Lets play his original words about charlottesville and then how he tried to amend them last night. Listen to this. Heres what i said on saturday. Were closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. This is me speaking. We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. Thats me speaking on saturday. We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry on many sides. Its been going on for a long time in our country. So, tim obrian, why de omit the on many sides last night, which was the very part that had so much human and the good people were there on both sides as well. Because hes been getting away with this for decades. This is not a new donald trump. Donald trump has been a racebaiter for decades going back to the central park jogger case in the late 1980s, this is a man who inserted himself into a racially politically charged situation. By taking ads out accusing the alleged assailants of crimes they hadnt been convicted of committing. He was part of the Birther Movement against obama. Trumps positioning on race and social issues attendant to race is not a new phenomenon. Secondarily he spent a long Business Career and public career getting away with flagrant boasts, nattoflatout. Its not new. I think whats new is hes in a forum where large institutions have to decide whatter going to stand up for. Whether its the judiciary, media or the gop. Where are we on that . We keep calling out leaders . What are you going to do. Paul ryan was on the town hall. He said after the president speech about afghanistan what he should have said last week. Now theyre dealing with another opportunity the president materially misrepresented what he said. He doubled down once again on a negative message. How is it playing within his own ranks and d. C. . Its become much more complicated by the president s apparent willingness to take on Mitch Mcconnell, senator majority leader, some of these long standing republican incumbents who face primary challenges. What we saw last night of course was messaging to the base between the wink wink nod nod on behalf of the likelihood of his pardon. In terms of many of these issues, the problem of course is that the president , just because you have a rally at 10 00 p. M. East coast time to talk to your base, it doesnt mean you can only talk to your base. Of course youre talking to all of the United States. So the question increasingly is was thewhat the Republican Leadership is willing to do. Until then the calculation is President Trumps success is their success and theyre tied together. If it you see Republican Leadership begin to calculate that may no longer be the case you could potentially see a change. I think we need to see what happens when everyone comes back from the august recess. Another interesting calculation is what he decided to do in attacking arizona senators in their own backyard. Republicans. Republicans. So here he is talking about jeff flake and john mccain. We were just one vote away from victory after seven years of everybody proclaiming repeal and replace. One vote away. But you know, they all said, mr. President , your speech was so good last night, please, please, mr. President , dont mention any names. So i wont. I wont. No, i wont. One vote away. I will not mention names. Very president ial, isnt it . And nobody wants me to talk about your other senator whos weak on borders, weak on crime, so i wont talk about him. So, david, hows this battle going to play out with the Republican Arizona senators . You know, i dont know. I mean it is really remarkable to hear a republican president going to arizona, the state of barry gold water and trash its two republican senators, both pretty conservative on Foreign Policy matters and other matters as well. I think this is the critical question. President trump, aside from the temperament issues, stability questions, and his judgment, as a republican, has become an increasingly isolated figure. He is running against the republican party, running against the stabment. He did that in the campaign. As president , hes actively in a hot war with the senator majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Hell take on paul ryan if necessary. Taking on jeff flake who is the junior senator he was referring to whos written a book about reclaiming the soul of conservativism in the republican party. I dont know if whether conservatives and the establishment of the party band together to reclaim some agenda back. Look, President Trump still promised to accomplish things. He promised that he would get infrastructure done. Health care reform done. Repealing obamacare. And tax reform done. So far, hes come up empty. And those are facts that hes going to have to contend with politically. Sad reality is there are people in that crowd last night who are desperate for better out of their wage structure, from the leaders and the president s been making it about him and his own personal battle. Will they get their interest served in we dont know. Now, i dont know if this is a good thing or bad but Hillary Clinton reenters the fray. We have the excerpt of her book. The were going to play her recounting of that now infamous scene. The i think it was the second debate while trump was looming belined h behind her while she was speaki speaking. This is not okay, i thought. It was a second president ial debate, and donald trump was looming behind me. Two days before the world heard him brag about groping women. Now, we were on a small stage and no matter where i walked, he followed me closely, staring at me, making faces. It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled. It was one of those moments where you wish you could hit pause and ask everyone watching, well, what would you do . Do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he werent repeatedly invading your space . Or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly, back up, you creep. Get away from me. I know you love to intimidate women, but you cant intimidate me. So back up. I chose option a. I kept my cool, aided by a lifetime of dealing with difficult men throwing to throw me off. I did, however, grip the microphone extra hard. I wonder, though, whether i should have chosen option b. It certainly would have been better tv. Maybe i have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched first, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world. Okay. Thats insightful, i think, and interesting to hear her take on that. Because option b would have been better tv, obviously, and better i think that the obviously her supporters would have loved for her to turn around and say back up, you creep. But she explains, in her why she sort of never does that. Thats not her model. Isnt it interesting, as you know well, if she had schoezen option b, how many people would say she was so aggressive and so nasty and so unlady like. You dont have to be Hillary Clinton as a woman, as you know, as i know from my wife and other women in my life, to be in a position where men speak to you in a way that can or look to you in a way in a is men acing, unwelcome or dismissive. You may go into a Cocktail Party and nobody asks you what you do or doesnt care about what you think. I thought her use of the words trying to throw me off in a professional setting where they dont treat you the same way. I think theres so much truth that Hillary Clinton is speaking there and im really interested in hearing more about those experiences as a women and the very difficult walk that she had trying to portray the toughness of her president shl candidate while also dealing. Also had a complicated affect on the election. There were people who were for Hillary Clinton. There were also people so against her that it wound up being a proxy for a trump vote, margaret. Theres so many Trump Supporters who, when they have to deal with his shortcomings, and his personal failures, as president , they say yeah, but i was never going to vote for Hillary Clinton. Yeah. I think, you know, one of the questions thats going to emerge with the publicity around the book is to what end is all of this intra spec shn . About Hillary Clinton trying to burn nish or adjust her own legacy or supposed to be a life line of fastforward to the democratic party, which could use it right now in terms of motivation and organization. The and so, just as we heard the president at this rally last night try to explain to everybody what he was really doing and what he really meant to try to sort of dial down the criticism around the way he handle the charlottesville, theyre two different situations but i think in this case were seeing Hillary Clinton try to explain to people these were the things that you couldnt see. These were the things i was thinking. The question now is what are American Voters supposed to do with that information and what are democrats supposed to do with that information Going Forward . Di think its interesting because she rarely allows a window into your inner thinking and thoughts. That was interesting to hear her. We all watched that moment and had to wonder what were they both thinking. So her credit i think historically she has had very good strong spine and strength of character standing up to the face of these kinds of issues. Think the larger thing going on is the democrats have a post hilly probl hill larry problem. And how is the gop going to confine contemporary conservative tichl. I think thats the political may laze were all in now. The proposition meets this em all e. Both the same way. Time to define who you are and what youre about and go out and fight for it. I think were also going to be looking for accountability from Hillary Clinton in all of this introspection. What does she own . It it comes out in a couple weeks. Then well know. I think september 12th is the day im being told. Thank you very much. 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President trump started last nights rally with the right message. About the violence in charlottesville. Tonight this entire arena stands united in forceful condemnation of the thugs who perpetrate hatred and violence. Heres the problem. After he said that, he did all he could to dissolve that unity by distorting reality and blaming those responsible for calling him out. But the very dishonest media, those people right up there with all the cameras, they dont report the facts. Just like they dont want to report that i spoke out forcefully against hatred, bigotry and violence and strongly condemned the neonazis, the White Supremacists and the kkk. So, we have a matter of fact here. I will now play for you what the president said that he said after charlottesville. Heres what i said on saturday. Were closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. This is me speaking. We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. Thats me speaking on saturday. Now this is not an edit. He was done. Thats what he said that he said. But the problem is he omitted things. And he did so on purpose. We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. Le on many sides. Those were the most important words, because it drew a moral equivalence between nazis and those opposing them. That was the whole point. He left it out. Not a coincidence. The what about those people he so condemns . I hit them with everything. I got the white supremacist, i neonazi, i got them all in there. Kkk. We have kkk. The i got them all. Well, heres what i said about those very same people when pressed by cnns jim acosta. You had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking do you know of, to them, a very, very important statue. Who what fine people protest with White Supremacists . Even if you went there with a pure heart to talk about the statue, when you saw what was going on, you would leave and thats why there is no proof, whether its visor the reporters on the ground or anything you can find that shows there was some parallel Pure Movement there that was just about the statue. The statue was a ruse and the people there were hateful. These are those people. Jews will not replace us. Jews will not replace us. Enough of them. Thats what they were saying. It wasnt about the statue. It was never about the statue. It was about hate and getting a platform from it and getting a favor from the president and what he did last night was misleading. Do not forget. It is a matter of fact. He drew a moral equation between White Supremacists and those opposing. It isnt about the violence on both sides it was about the morality at play on both sides. Those are his words. He can run from them but cant hide from the truth. Thank you for that. Lets discuss his speech last night with anna navarro and anna tweeted last night. Well read that. Only possible defensible defense for that behavior was the early onset dementia. Welcome to both of you. Good morning to you. Dust storm to both of you. Anna are you going over boshd. When you move into thedementia, new realm and fra ngly have no proof or evidence. The why jump that shark . Because its not normal. People who are normalizing it at this point are becoming complicit. What we saw yesterday was a president of the United States fanning the flames. Look, for a while there, as chris said, he was reading off the tell prompter and you thought, okay. This might be a normal rally. He might have some president ial moments. Then h