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Opportunity to come out, apologize, and express some deeper, deeper, much more meaningful thoughts. we ll see if he does do that. senator blumenthal, thanks so much for joining us. thank you. all right. let s bring in some more of our specialists to assess what is going on. gloria, the president can come out and apologize. i don t want the ku klux klan support, i don t want the support of these neo-nazis. i don t want the support of the white supremacists. he could come out and say that, and he could say i made a mistake. do you think he ll do that? no. i mean, first of all, as we know, donald trump never admits that he did anything wrong. so, he would never admit he made a mistake. he s had plenty of opportunities to tell them he doesn t want their support. after his statement today, he got an at-a-boy from david duke who tweeted, thank you, president trump for your honesty and trump to tell the truth about charlottesville. so, he gets an atta boy from david duke and what he d ....
senator mccain, you mean the one who voted against obamacare? who is do you mean senator mccain who voted against us getting good health care? senator mccain said that the alt-right is behind these attacks and he linked that same group to those who perpetrated the attack in charlottesville. well, i don t know, i can t tell you. i m sure senator mccain must know what he s talking about. but when you say the alt-right, define alt-right to me. you define it, go ahead. no, define it for me, come on, let s go, define it for me. senator mccain defined them as the same group what about the alt-left that came charging excuse me. what about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right. do they have any semblance of guilt? let me ask you this. what about the fact they came charge, that they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs. do they have any problem? i think they do. yeah, i was surprised that he decided to go right after ....
Argument that both sides are to blame for the weekend violence in charlottesville, virginia, undermining his own scripted condemnation of the racist groups yesterday. you know, i want to play this clip for you, senator. this is the president speaking about the way that all of this emerged. listen to this. was george washington a slave owner? so, will george washington now lose his status? are we going to take down excuse me. are we going to take down are we going to stake dotake down sf george washington? what about thomas jefferson, you like him? okay, good. are we going to take down the statue? he was a major slave owner. are we going to take down his statue? so, you know what? it s fine. you re changing history. you re changing culture. and you had people and i m not talking about the neo-nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally. but you had many people in that group other than neo-nazis and ....
In. he said he did not know that david duke was at that protest on saturday in charlottesville, but at the same time he said later on, almost in the same breath, that he was watching the events unfolding in charlottesville, quote, very closely. the other thing that he tried to say at one point, wolf, is that not all of the protesters in that white supremacists neo-nazi crowd were bad people. very obviously wolf, anybody who witnessed went down in charlottesville, any of the authorities who were working on that investigation will very clearly say the white nationalists, the supremacists and the neo-nazis were very much responsible for that violence and that unrest that unfolded. and, wolf, getting back to the president s explanation, well, he likes to wait for the facts to come in, keep in mind this is the same president who said that barack obama was not born in this country and that barack obama wiretapped him here at trump tower without any proof at all. so, for a president to come o ....
Cetera. i think that s more representational of america, certainly is of verirginia. and the arrests that were made chris, if i may only one from out of state. this was attracting trash from all over the place. let me be very clear. what happened friday, saturday in charlottesville was a direct result of folks being upset that a statue, a monument of the confederacy was going to come down. when pre president trump took the podium on saturday, a woman was dead, murdered by white supremacists, neo nazis. he did not use those words, that terminology. you have white supremacists, neo nazi sympathizers in the white house in sebastian gorka and steve bannon. this is not just rhetoric. that s an outrageous overstatement. that is not an outrageous overstatement n germany wait, chris n germany, there are no statues and monuments of nazi soldiers. children do not go to schools ....