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as emotions are running high on this day they ve already seen so much violence. not just today but also in that rally you saw white supremacist leading to the university of virginia campus. and a lot of locals here having a hard time grappling with the images coming out of this otherwise quiet college town. we have seen the verbal altercations between, yes, of course, protesters and counterprotesters, in addition to the violence, but also i ve seen verbal altercations between members of this community telling people visiting here from outside to go home. to leave them be and to let charlottesville return to the college town it normally would be in the lead up to school starting back up again later this month. all right, kaylee hartung reporting live from charlottesville. thank you. i want to get straight to athena jones who is in new jersey where the president is having a working vacation. after waiting for him to respond to the violence in charlottesville for quite some tim ....
pursued them. moore called the whole thing a baseless attack. here s a statement from his campaign. moore has endured more attacks than any in the arena still, a bipartisan force on capitol hill is calling for him to step down from his nomination. and henry joins us live from capitol hill. brand-new this hour, roy moore has gone on a tweet storm charging that this is what he calls the obama-clinton machine coming at him. he has vowing he will never go up the fight so he is pushing back hard and caught in the middle is the sentry publican leader mitch mcconnell who has been warning steve bannon and others to be careful with these old. she said i went along with it, i went to his house a couple of times. it s not really that question of her going, it s a question of whether or not he did this. i understand this is a hugely politically charged environment. his opponents are looking for anything they possibly can find to take him down the long-held republic and seat. the qu ....
she s cool on the show. i like all of your opinions. keep tweeting me. shannon bream is up next. shannon has lindsey graham on friday will be a great show, as always. shannon? shannon: he spent the day with the president. he will fill us in on that, laura. thank you very much. let s get you caught up on three breaking stories tonight. the inspector general at the justice department is starting an investigation into what republicans contend is bias at the doj and fbi and the russia collision investigation and those fisa warrants. we are learning that president trump has fired his veterans affairs secretary dr. david shulkin. senior north and south korean officials are just launching high-level talks to set up a planned summit in april with president trump. team coverage tonight, tomlinson standing by at the pentagon with why dr. david shulkin was locked up into his let s go. we begin tonight with chief national correspondent ed henry following the new pressure on the fbi. good ....
and that is going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. katie tur is going to take over. it s 11:00 a.m. out west, it s 2:00 p.m. in washington where it is day two of french president emanuel macron are meeting at the white house. we ll see if that special relationship between macron and the president can change the president s mind on a host of issues, primarily the iran nuclear deal. even as the president hosted his french counterpart, mr. trump was pressed on issues here at home. and at this afternoon s joint press conference, it was his embattled pick to be the next secretary of veterans affairs. i haven t heard of the particular allegations, but i will tell you, he s one of the finest people that i have met. admiral jackson, dr. jackson, he s a wonderful man. i said to him, what are you needed for? and as far as experience is concerned, the veterans administration which is approximately 13 million people, is so big, you koucould run the biggest hospital system in the wo ....
speaking on behalf of the administration on the message of that day. so in those instances, they feel like they don t need to have a press briefing. but as you and i both know, there have been many occasions where the president has a spray or something in the oval office, talks to reporters a little bit and they still have a press briefing. there are a number of questions that need to be asked, one of them being this daca issue. but wolf, as you saw early this morning, the president likes it when the news sort of fits his tailored message. that is why it s no mystery, i guess, that he was defending sinclair broadcasting early this morning and going after news outlets like our own which, of course, like to ask those questions they don t want to answer at the press briefing. all right, jim, thank you. jim acosta reporting from the white house. we re also following the progress of that caravan . the caravan, as it s accident call as it s being called, seek asylum either in me ....