Sides. I dont have any doubt about it, and you dont have any doubt about it either. The Washington Post responded with a very, very tough tuesday was a great group for david duke and racists everywhere. The president of the United States all but declared he has their backs, close quote, two more ceos resigned from the president S Manufacturing council, that brings the total so far of resignations to eight. Lets bring in our senior white house correspondent. Jeff, a senior white house official says the president s impromptu News Conference yesterday was all him, those are direct quotes, all him. But others are encouraging surrogates to echo what the president actually said. What is the latest youre hearing from inside the Trump Administration . Reporter wolf, inside trump tower here and in fact back in washington at the white house, advisors there, they have been unusually silent. Theres been few defenders coming forward at least publicly to defend what the president said yesterday, and certainly no republican members of congress either. Officials i have talked to here said that were going to try to get back to the agenda and essentially do our jobs. But the whole point of the president coming out in front of the cameras yesterday was to talk about infrastructure, to talk about the agenda. So the agenda has been impacted by this, theres no question about it. But officials acknowledge that. But wolf, just moments ago in santiago, the Vice President mike pence is traveling in south america. He was asked about this in a News Conference, listen to what he said. What happened in charlottesville was a tragedy. And the president has been clear on this tragedy and so have i. I spoke at length about this heart breaking situation on sunday night in colombia. And i stand with the president and i stand by those words. But today, while im here in chile, our hearts are in charlottesville. Because just a few short hours ago, family and friends gathered to say farewell to a remarkable young woman. Heather heyer. And we have been praying, weve been praying for gods peace and comfort for her family and her friends. And her loved ones. And were also praying that in america that we will not allow the few to divide the many. Reporter so listening to the Vice President there say, we will not allow the few to divide the many. Certainly a very different message than the president was saying yesterday, so the Vice President has been traveling, hes been abroad for several days now, wolf, so hes not been involved in these conversations, but the reality here is, even as the white house tries to turn the page and theyre trying to get the president back on track, saying hell go to camp david on friday to talk about the afghanistan policy, it is still the words he uttered in the lobby of trump tower yesterday that will perhaps haunt his presidency, that he will certainly have to address, but obviously the Vice President taking a much softer tone as you heard moments ago in chile. He didnt echo that theres blame on both sides, we didnt hear that from the Vice President. Congress has all been quit to point out that hatred and bigotry is very, very bad. But many of them have actually stopped short of criticizing the president himself. Give us a sense of how lawmakers, particularly republican lawmakers are reacting. Reporter thats right, wolf, were seeing several republican lawmakers calling out the president by name. Senator Mitch Mcconnell the majority leader who was silent until this morning, despite the president s stunning press conference yesterday afternoon. I am told by a source close too the majority leader that he was very upset at President Trumps remarks especially given mcconnells own work on civil rights issues over the yearing, but he did not call out the president by name in a Statement Released by his office this morning. But he did allude to trumps comments saying there were some very good people who attended that protest in charlottesville. He said there are no good neonazis and those whos spouse their views are mcconnell also concerned about similar democrat demonstrations happening in lexington, kentucky. Im told one reason why mcconnell did not mention the president s name is that he got into this flap last week with the president who reportedly blamed the majority leader for failing on health care, that the president was wary, it looked like he was piling on the president just to get back at him over their dispute, and also he needs the taking a tougher tone, like republican senator Lindsay Graham with, a frequent critic of trump, saying this, through his statements yesterday, President Trump took a step backwards saying theres an equivalence between neona i neonazis, kkk members and White Supremacists. The question is exactly how republicans will fight back, whether there will be hearings on capitol hill, or at least symbolic votes rebuking the president , as some democrats are pushing the house right now, but were not getting any indication that republicans are joining that effort as of yet. But this all is overshadowing what the president s trying to do on capitol hill, wolf. He certainly is. In addition to blaming violence on both sides, mr. Trump also defending White Supremacists and others. You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, they were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of robert e. Lee. You had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest. We now want to show you our viewers here in the United States and around the world who actually attended the rally in charlottesville, virginia, and what their stated intentions were. A group of White Supremacists gave vice news exclusively access over the weekend. This is released by vice, but we want to warn all of our viewers, some of the views expressed in these clips are very disturbing. Jews will not replace us jews will not replace us when did you get into as you said the racial stuff . When the Trayvon Martin case happened, and tamir brown and all these things, and the little [ bleep ] behaving like a savage. Whatever problems i might have with my fellow white people, they generally are not inclined to such behavior and you have to kind of take that introconsideration when youre thinking about organizing a society. Oklahoma city. Exactly, you have to go back to Oklahoma City to talk about a white act of terrorism. Dylan roof. You can remember dylan roofs im trying to make myself more capable of violence. [ chanting ] we have been told to disburse, some are being outright pushed out. Its a half hour before the speakers are supposed to start. Were obeying the law, were doing everything were supposed to two trying to express opinions and the criminals are over there getting their way. Youre the true nonviolent protesters . Im not even saying were nonviolent, im saying that we [ bleep ] did not initiate force against anyone, were not violent people, but well [ bleep ] kill these people if we have to. They just literally came down the street at 80mileperhour to hit us just now. There are people, bodies laying on the ground right now. I seen bodies flying after being hit by that car. This is my town, we did not want them [ bleep ] here. And now we got bodies on the ground and theyre trying to revive somebody right now. Im not saying it was worth it. We knew we were going to meet a lot of resistance. The fact that nobody on our side died, i would go ahead and call that points for us. But the car that struck a protester, thats unprovoked. So the video appears to show someone striking that vehicle. When these animals attacked him again, and he saw no way to get away from them except to hit the gas. And sadly, because our rivals are a bunch of stupid animals who dont pay attention, they couldnt just get out of the way of hiss car. So you think it was justified . I think more than justified. All right, with us now, our cnn politics reporter and it for at large, chris calizza, and Cornell William brooks whos now a cnn commentator and gloria borger, that was incredibly hard to watch. We saw them friday marching in long, long lines, with those flames reminiscent of what we saw in germany in the 30s, screaming jews will not replace us. You will not replace us. And then the president came out last night and said what he said. Im wondering whether he watched this vice footage because what the president said is, you also had some very fine people on both sides. You had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest. This was not innocent. This person that was interviewed on vice didnt care that Heather Heyer died. He had absolutely no concern about this, he called the other people, demonstrating on the other side stupid animals and worse. And the president has said that there were fine people, and the president said i saw the same pictures as you. So my question now to this president is, what pictures were you looking at . Because you see those pictures, cornell, you and i have looked closely at those images that we saw, so reminiscent of the video we have seen, the film over the years that we have seen going back to na nazi germany. The president said he saw images from the night before, where we had protesters wearing polo shirts and golf shirts with nazi insignia, when you wear a swastika, its a statement about the president , your capability and your willingness to engage in violent, but its also a statement by the lineage and legacy of violence that you come from, going back to world war i ii, so suggesting that these phoen folks were on the same moral plane, he might as well say theres no moral plane. Look at those people who lost their lives fighting against naziism, and say that these people are on the same moral plane as these protesters. They were chanting jews will not replace us. You will not replace us. And blood and soil. A common nazi statement. You hear that kind of rhetoric, coming up from long lines from the folks with the torches moving forward. Its pretty alarming. I dont know if the president saw that video or if he didnt see that video, but to come out and say theres blame on both sides is causing all this outrage. What was particularly interesting to me is to see just how well organized these folks were. Some like to say its a very small segment of the south, but these are people that look like they could be my next door neighbor or your next door neighbor. One thing that struck me about what the president said yesterday, he didnt want to rush out and make a statement, he wanted to make sure that he had all the information, at least from the footage that came out of charlottesville, virginia, when you see swastikas, you need to stand up and denounce that, you dont need a lot of information. This is a president that in the past has leapt and made big statements about terrorist attacks before information has come out labeling them as that. And made judgments time and again throughout history time and begin sand now in the oval office. When y he did not make that same leap. I have to wonder what did he see and why in this moment did he not do so . And there are certain talking points th points from the white house. The president was right, the president expressed empathy for the victim. He didnt say Heather Heyers name on saturday, he did say this violent was on many sides. And then sure on monday he said something that i think most people thought sure, a little bit late but better late than never. And then what he said monday, what he said was effectively how he feels. Where was the altright, why dont you show those people. There are people who are for me and people who are against me. And the people that are for me get a bad rap by the media and democrats. This does not fit into that. This is not something that fits on that spectrum. And unform, his world view is such, we are willing to not even talk about it now, but this guy tweeted over the weekend, this conspiracy theorist, it doesnt matter if this guy was engaged in Conspiracy Theory before, because hes making nice with trump. Being a moral person is not saying people are good because they agree with me. And thats the problem that we have got. Just a molt ago, he tweeted, the president of the United States tweeted this. This was two minutes ago, rather than putting pressure on the Business People of the Manufacturing Council in strategy and policy form, i am ending both, thank you all. Eight ceos have already resigned. And we know that people on the strategic and policy forum were discussing this morning what to do as was the Manufacturing Council, eight people had resigned from the Manufacturing Council, so its embarrassing to the president , particularly since these were the Business People he was supposed to bring in and they were going to rally around him and make America Great again. So what that was, was damage control, allegedly from the president trying to kind of beat them to the punch before they all abandoned him, which is exactly what they were beginning to do because his remarks yesterday to ceos and Business Leaders in this country were completely unacceptable as they should have been and he was kind of like, okay, you quit, im firing you. That tweet reminds me of seventh grade when i would get word that a girl was going to break up with me and i would call and be like, i broke up with you. Thats what that is. Its well, were going to disband this before you all leave and embarrass me. And no acknowledgement whatsoever about the very real criticisms and concerns that all of these executives from different walks of life have of these statements. The first one to resign was the ceo of merck pharmaceuticals, he was the only one of the ceos that was under attack directly by the president. And the president has consistently acted as a craven candidate, seeking to retain his racist base, as opposed to standing up to the full measure of his office, and conducting himself with some gravitas. This young woman, heather hieye was become memorialized today. This was a revenge tweet instead of speaking of the moment. Her father spoke of love, love in a democracy is a verb meaning justice, hes not spoken about justice for her, in terms of holding her killer accountable. Hes not shown up at at her Memorial Service. What about saying to the leaders of the Business Community, as someone else would do, you have a problem with what i said, lets meet, lets talk about this, let me hear you out, inste inste instead, he doesnt want to hear from them because now theyre on the enemies list. Everybody is on the doesnt like me list and therefor should be ignored and attacked. Trumps presidency is the headline, trumps presidency is on the brink of total collapse. I mean, look, hes going to keep a certain part of his base, no matter what. They will be for him solely because there are people criticizing him and they think those people are bad and they wont be for him. So he will keep those people. Theres not a lot for the president in the first six months, immigratihealth care, t, immigration, what has the president gotten done . There hasnt been a lot of momentum there, this not only takes it from sort of a political failure, which it has been, now six months in, now morally, and more important frankly, this is a moral failure on the part of the president. This will go down, whatever is eventually written about Donald Trumps presidency, this will be a part, that the president of the United States vacated the moral leadership that every past president in the modern era has issued, stepping up in times of crisis, stepping up to be big to lead. I just want to add something to that. I do not believe that a large majority or a large portion of the president s base would condone this. I dont think so. Hold on for whoever it is, i dont know that theyre at the base of anybody except themselves. The breaking news, i want to just reiterate the president s tweet, that which just reported on, rather than putting pressure on the Business People of the manufacturing con council of strategy and policy forum, i am ending both, thank you all. I want to bring in our business correspondent. This is a moment that certainly the president didnt want, he thought he had the big Business Community on board and now they were abandoning because of the comments, because of the reaction to what happened in charlottesville, virginia and now he has to go ahead and disband these two forums. Reporter thats right, wolf, and this is really a missed opportunity for President Trump, he had the full support of some very big brands that carried a lot of weight, the Largest Commercial Bank in the United States, jpmorgan chase, youre talking about one of the biggest Investment Advisors in this country, black stone, and plenty of other brands like ibm for example was in this group, they represent a Cross Section of these industries, they were supporting the president. They may not have accomplished much during that short time when they came together. But they were at least giving him legitimacy and support to the public, and now those two groups, were talking about two separate groups here, the one i was talking abo