President trump on twitter and in person declined to label those responsible as hate filled extremists. The governor of virginia today had no such hesitation. We had folks come to our beautiful state. Lets call it what it is. They were white supremists. Yes. They were nazis. Call their names. They dont stand for us. They call themselves patriots. Ladies and gentlemen, they are not patriots, they get out of bed every day to hate people and divide our country. As i said yesterday. Go home. Lets bring in brian todd in charlottesville right now. What are the priorities of city officials right now. You heard it in the governors voice just now, we heard it all day today. Theres a lot of anger in this city over whats transpired here over the last 48 hours. People are very angry the White Supremacists descended on this city and they stuck around today. The governor said we dont want you here, get out, theres no place for you here. You heard what he said today about how angry they are that this
deeply distraught and emotional, he put it right on the line. as he sees it. i know there are people around the president who don t believe that s what the president thinks, that s not who he is. but, you know, what s more important is, that these white supremacists, some of them were quoted today, there was a quote in the press today by a white supremacist saying, we were emboldened by donald trump s electi election, we have taken our signals from that. he has to denounce this, i think, to restore the order to build up the moral authority of this presidency, i cannot emphasize enough, the overall context of this is, as frankling roosevelt once famously said. the presidency is a place of moral leadership. preeminently a place of moral leadership. what he was talking about was, that repeatedly in american history, questions come up about right versus wrong, it s been up for the president whoever s in that office to identify what is