and fleetwood mac going their own way for 50 years. >> and the journey, it has been worth a damn. this is the "cbs evening news." >> mason: good evening. i'm anthony mason. the disturbing images have been playing over and over, white supremacists holding a torchlight march friday night at the university of virginia in charlottesville. then their violent clashes saturday with counter-protesters that left at least 16 injured. and the sickening scene when a driver plowed into the crowd, killing a young woman and injuring 19. today, two days after this domestic terror attack, and after meeting with the attorney general and the f.b.i. director, the president finally condemned the hate groups by name. >> 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 dear as americans. >> mason: the president took a lot of heat for failing to call out white supremacists immediately after the attack. now the job of his chief political strategist appears to be in jeopardy. major garrett is at the white house with more on that. major? >> reporter: steve bannon's job as chief strategist has never been in more jeopardy. he breakthrough a nationalist message to the white house but also clashed frequently with top officials path and present, and one well-placed source says banon's job could be gone by the end of this week. new chief of staff john kelly simply has no tolerance for west wing rivalries, and for this and other reasons bannon has fallen out of favor. as with all palace intrigue at the trump white house, nothing is official until the president decides, but he will make that decision in an atmosphere where the president is being criticized for not criticizing white supremacist groups strongly enough, white supremacist groups that at times found traction at breitbart news, a news site steve bannon used to run. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms... >> reporter: the leader of the free world, president trump, was behind his daughter, attorney general and vice president in denouncing white supremacists and neo-nazis by name. on saturday the president implied cowlt -- counter-protesters and armed shield-wielding white supremacists were equally to blame. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides, on many sides. >> reporter: that initial equivocation echoed ways in which mr. trump has played to racially motivated segments of american politics, starting with his five-year advocacy of the birther movement that questioned whether president obama was born in the u.s. mr. trump has also been slow to denounce ku klux klan figures like david duke as he was in february of 2016. >> honestly, i don't know david duke. i don't believe i've ever met him. i'm pretty sure i didn't meet him. and i just don't know anything about him. >> reporter: when a black lives matter protester was assaulted at a campaign rally, candidate trump seemed to defend the attacker. >> maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing. >> reporter: during the campaign, mr. trump also attacked a federal judge with mexican heritage and the muslim parents of a fallen u.s. army captain, and steve bannon is not the only trump aide with ties to the so-called alt right movement. white house staffer sebastian gorka also used to work for breitbart news and in a recent interview dismissed the threat from white supremacists. this morning the c.e.o. of merck pharmaceutical kenneth frazier resigned in protest from the president's manufacturing council. less than four hours later the president derided mr. frazier on twitter, a shorter time than he took to denounce white supremacists. anthony? >> mason: major garrett at the white house. major, thanks. the charlottesville police chief said today he regrets the death of heather heyer and virginia state troopers jay cullen and berke bates who were killed. but he defended the actions of his officers before and during the violence. here's david begnaud in charlottesville. >> reporter: screams and panic as-year-old nazi sympathizer james alex fields, jr., drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. heather heyer was killed. others weres toed into the air. marcus martin is the unanimous in the red shoes. that is one of his shoes flying out from underneath the vehicle as the driver reversed, trying to flee the scene. >> my life could have been over, ended. >> reporter: martin says he lays blame at the foot of the officials who permitted the rally. >> because without your approval, this would have never happened. >> reporter: over the weekend unite the right brought together hate groups from around the country, including neo-nazis, kkk, and white pride groups. on friday men marched with tiki torches on the university of virginia campus and saturday they marched downtown brandishing nazi salutes and chanting "hail trump." some wore t-shirts quoting hitler. others carried similar bombs of southern nationalists. clashes broke outen the streets between hate groups and protesters. witnesses say white supremacists chased a young black man into a parking garage and attacked him less than a block from the charlottesville police station. the organizer of the rally returned sunday to complain that police didn't do enough to protect the at right protesters, but he ended up needing the police as locals shouted him down and literally ran him out of town. charlottesville police chief al thomas, jr., addressed the criticism from both sides. >> we did make attempts to keep the two sides separate, however, we can't control which side someone enters the park. >> reporter: do you regret not having your officers better prepared and in their proper gear earlier so they could have acted sooner? >> i certainly have regrets. we lost three lives this weekend. >> heather is my darling child. >> reporter: susan bro is the mother of heather heyer, the 32-year-old paralegal who died standing up for what her mother says were injustices she saw against the black community. >> i'm extremely proud that she stood for what she believed in. she gave heart to it. she gave soul to it. now she's given her life to it. >> reporter: tonight in the spot where heather and the others were hit by that vehicle, there is a memorial, all day people have come here to place flowers, light candles, or like these folks here, just stand and think. i can't tell you how many people have walked up to us and said, "i just want you to know that what happened here in town does not represent who we are." anthony! >> mason: david begnaud where heather heyer died in charlottesville. thanks, david. a man charged in the attack is being held without bail and is waiting for the court to appoint an attorney to represent him. here's kris van cleave. >> nazis go home. >> get the hell out of here. >> nazis go home. >> reporter: another tense moment in charlottesville as two white supremacists squared off against locals and the media outside the courthouse where james fields, jr., appeared before a judge. >> if an angry mob starts beating a car with sticks and there are hundreds of them and the police are not protecting you, you panic. report but the case inside the courtroom is about this video from saturday where police say fields slammed his car into counter-protesters and two stopped vehicles, killing one and injuring at least 19. the 20-year-old was arraigned in court this morning, appearing via video from jail. fields looked scared and nervous. those who know him remember a child who used racial slurs and was fond of hitler. derek weimer was fields' high school history teacher. >> he loved hitler, and he loved, you know, the nazi movement. they were all geniuses and the whole white supremacy thing, you know, white people were dominant. >> reporter: as a young teen, fields' wheelchair-bound mother called 911 multiple times. records show he allegedly threaten her with a 12-inch knife and on another occasion hit her. fields, who is now the focus of a federal civil rights investigation, grew up in kentucky but proved to ohio with his mother a year ago. newly released court documents show fields worked as a private security officer for securitas, making $650 every two weeks. in 2015, fields joined the army but lasted only four months due the a failure the meet training standards. court records described fields as cooperative, which could help the ongoing investigation as it tries the piece together his trip from ohio here to virginia and any possible contacts he may have had with groups espousing violence or social media interactions and the like. securitas says he was on scheduled time off and has now been fired. anthony? >> mason: kris van cleave in charlottesville. thanks, kris. a 23-year-old man is accused of trying to detonate what he thought was massive bomb in oklahoma city just blocks from the site of the 1995 bombing of the murrah federal building. omar villafranca has more from the scene. >> reporter: a confidential f.b.i. informant alerted the f.b.i. to the plan of jerry drake varnell's plan to blow up an oklahoma city bank. in the criminal complaint, varnell wanted to pull off an take similar to the oklahoma city bombing, adding, "i'm out for blood." when militias start getting formed, i'm going after government officials. the informant introduced varnell to an undercover f.b.i. agent, posing as someone who could help him get bomb-making supplies and plan the attack. raul bujanda is with the f.b.i. >> he then began acquiring components for what he believed would make a 1,000-pound improvised explosive device. >> reporter: last friday varnell assembled what he thought was a working bomb and tried to detonate it with a cell phone. >> he parked the car and tried to remotely detonate the bomb. >> reporter: varnell follows the 3%ers, an extremist anti-government group. former f.b.i. assistant director ron hosko. >> we have violent people who are on the fringe, who are angry, who feel a call to action, who feel like their response is the answer. and too often that response is to kill a lot of innocents. >> reporter: varnell was in federal court today in oklahoma city right behind me. incidentally, it's right across the street from the oklahoma city national memorial, the site of the deadly 1995 o.k.c. bombing. anthony? >> mason: omar villafranca. thank you, omar. the united states needs china's help with north korea, but president trump signed an executive memo today that's sure to actor the chinese. it calls for an investigation into whether china stole american intellectual property. here's ben tracy. >> reporter: china has repeatedly warned trump not to use trade as a means to force stronger action on north korea. china accounts for 90% of north korea's trade and has been reluctant to punish the regime economically for fear of collapse. yet today china issued an order banning all imports of north korean coal, iron ore and seafood in compliance with tough new u.n. sanctions. meanwhile, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, marine general joseph dunford, began a tour of asia, meeting to reassure south korea's president moon jae-in. dunford says the u.s. still prefers diplomacy to force, but the u.s. is ready to use the full range of its capabilities to respond to any attack. the u.s. staged joint military exercises with japan today and will go ahead with exercises in south korea next week, something both china and north korea oppose. kim jong-un's regime continued its defiance, claiming 3.5 million north koreans have volunteered to join its army, and in a new threat warned that even an accidental event could become a nuclear war on the korean peninsula. north korea says kim jong-un has now been briefed on military plans to launch four missiles toward the u.s. territory of guam, but he wants the wait and see what the u.s. decides to do first. meanwhile, the secretary of defense james matt yition says the u.s. would shoot down any north korean missiles heading toward guam. anthony? 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>> mason: they regrouped, and after bassist john mcveigh married christine mcvie, she was brought into the band. ♪ stronger every day christine just sort of fit. >> yeah. done. >> mason: done. that simple. ♪ loving you but the mcvies would divorce, one romantic crisis that nearly wrecked the band. ♪ you can go your own way >> there's no way they would survive all this stuff. >> mason: why have you survived? >> because i think me and general wouldn't stop. >> mason: fleetwood and john remain the rhythm section through many changes. in 1975, fleetwood invited lindsey buckingham and stevie nicks to join the band. why were you so convinced that was going to work? >> they had what we could call in early fleetwood mac "it." >> mason: with what's now considered their classic lineup, fleetwood mac's 1977 album "rumors" would be their biggest, selling 40 million copies. ♪ if you wait just a little while ♪ 50 years on, mick fleetwood is the one band member who has been there from the very beginning. does that anniversary mean anything to you? >> oh, yeah, it's huge. it's reflective. it's prideful. ♪ don't stop thinking about tomorrow ♪ and the journey, it has been worth a damn. >> mason: here's hoping their chain is never broken. that's the "cbs evening news." i'm anthony mason. thanks for watching. good night. tonight, tom cruise's stunt gone wrong. behind the scenes, slamming into a wall at full force. what happened next. then, chris pratt's weekend without anna faris. >> you goes going to church today? >> out with his son and his new message for fans. >> plus why miley cyrus wasn't at the teen choice awards. plus, are katy perry and orlando bloom back together? plus, kate hudson's shaved head singalong. sylvester stallone on the "this is us" set. and the stars of "black-ish" take us on a tour of their tv home.