Donald Trump Never Takes Responsibility For Anything: Bruni | Morning Joe

AND "NEW YORK TIMES" REPORTER. GOOD MORNING TO YOU ALL.
LET'S STARTS WITH THE LATEST ON THIS WEEKEND'S VIOLENCE AT THAT
WHITE NATIONALIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE.
A MAN PLOWING A CAR INTO A CROWD IS EXPECTED TO APPEAR IN COURT.
JAMES ALEX FIELDS FACES SEVERAL CHARGES.
NOW 19 OTHERS WERE INJURED IN THE CRASH.
UVA HEADLIGHTS SYSTEM SAYS NINE HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AND TEN ARE
IN GOOD CONDITION. THIS IS VIDEO OF FIELDS DRIVING
AWAY FROM THE SCENE OF THE CRASH.
THE SUSPECT LIVES IN OHIO AND TRAVELED TO CHARLOTTESVILLE FOR
THE RALLY. HIS HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY TEACHER
SAID FIELDS SYMPATHIZED WITH NAZIS AND IDOLIZED ADOLF HITLER.
>>> TWO TROOPERS DIED WHEN THEIR HELICOPTER WENT DOWN ON
SATURDAY. OFFICIALS SAY THERE'S NO
INDICATION OF FOUL PLAY THERE. THE NTSB IS INVESTIGATING.
>>> LET'S GET RIGHT INTO THE WHITE HOUSE'S SLOW REACTION ON
THIS. RICK, LET ME START WITH YOU.
INITIAL REACTION TO WHAT YOU SAW IN THE LAST 48 HOURS?
>> WHAT HAPPENED IN CHARLOTTESVILLE IS DISGUSTING
AND A VILE PRESENTATION OF HATE AND BIGOTRY AND PERPETRATED BY
PEOPLE WHO WERE VERY SPECIFIC. THEY WERE NEO-NAZIS, WHITE
SUPREMACISTS AND THE PRESIDENT WAS SLOW TO REACT.
THE REASON THE PRESIDENT NEEDED TO REACT HE'S THE LEADER OF THE
COUNTRY AND FOR SOME REASON MANY OF THESE PEOPLE IN THESE GROUPS
IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES WITH DONALD TRUMP.
THEY WERE WEARING DONALD TRUMP HATS.
THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT DONALD TRUMP REPRESENTS THEM.
THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT DONALD TRUMP FULFILLING THEIR AGENDA.
IN CRASS POLITICAL TERMS, IF I MAY, WHEN YOU'RE GIVEN AN
OPPORTUNITIES TO KNOCK DOWN WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND NAZIS YOU
TAKE IT AND THE PRESIDENT DIDN'T DO THAT.
IF YOU ADD UP ALL OF HIS PAST STATEMENTS, INCLUDING BEING THE
FOUNDER OF BIRTHERISM YOU HAVE TO WONDER WHERE THIS PRESIDENT
IS COMING FROM. >> LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WHITE
HOUSE'S SLOW REACTION. STANDS IN STARK CONTRAST OF
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S QUICK ATTACKS. ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON MELANIA
TRUMP REACTED OUR COUNTRY ENCOURAGES FREEDOM OF SPEECH BUT
LET'S COMMUNICATE WITHOUT HATE. HOURS LATER, THE PRESIDENT READ
A STATEMENT. LISTEN.
>> WE CONDEMN IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS THIS EGREGIOUS
DISPLAY OF HATRED, BIGOTRY AND VIOLENCE ON MANY SIDES.
ON MANY SIDES. IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG
TIME IN OUR COUNTRY. NOT DONALD TRUMP, NOT BARACK
OBAMA, IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
>> WHEN ASKED FOR COLLARRY IF I CASE OF THE PRESIDENT'S REMARKS
AN OFFICIAL SAID THE PRESIDENT WAS CONDEMNING HEY TRIED,
BIGOTRY ANDD VIOLENCE FROM ALL SIDES.
VFS VIOLENCE FROM PROTESTERS AND COUNTER PROTESTERS.
AT THE CENTER OF THE DISCUSSION WAS HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISER
WHO LAID OUT THE SITUATION ON THE GROUND INFLUENCING A
DESCRIPTION OF SPRO OCCASION BY PROTESTERS AND COUNTER
PROTESTERS A WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL SAID.
SENIOR STAFF MEMBER STEVE BANNON AND STEVEN MILLER SPOKE WITH
PRESIDENT TRUMP ON SATURDAY BUT IT WAS NOT CLEAR IF BANNON
OFFERED ADVICE ON COMMENTS. YESTERDAY MORNING OFFICIALS
SPOKE OUT IN THE PRESIDENT'S DEFENSE.
>> WE HAD PROTESTERS AND COUNTER PROTESTERS THAT SHOWED UP
YESTERDAY. THIS IS THE VERY CHALLENGE THAT
CONFRONTED THE MAYOR AND HIS POLICE OFFICIAL, FIRE OFFICIAL,
NATIONAL GUARD OFFICIALS WHAT THEY FOUND WHEN THEY SHOWED UP
WERE GROUPS FROM OUTSIDE THAT SHOWED UP ON BOTH SIDES LOOKING
FOR TROUBLE, DRESSED IN RIOT GEAR, PREPARED FOR VIOLENCE.
>> WHY DIDN'T HE SINGLE OUT THE NAZIS AND WHITE SUPREMACISTS.
>> WHEN HE CONDEMNED BIGOTRY ON ALL SIDES THAT INCLUDES WHITE
SUPREMACISTS AND NEO-NAZIS. IT'S CLEAR WE CAN'T TOLERATE
THAT BIGOTRY THAT HATRED THAT'S ROOTED IN IGNORANCE.
>> IVANKA TRUMP TWEETED THERE SHOULD BE NO PLACE IN SOCIETY
FOR RACIST, WHITE SUPREMACIST AND NEO-NAZIS.
LATE SUNDAY MORNING MORE THAN A DAY AND A HALF AFTER THE TORCH
BEARING MARCH THE WHITE HOUSE EMAILED A STATEMENT TO BE
ATTRIBUTED TO AN UNMAILED SPOKESPERSON.
IT RID, THE PRESIDENT SAID VERY STRONGLY IN HIS STATEMENT
YESTERDAY HE CONDEMNS ALL FORMS OF BIGOTRY, VIOLENCE AND HATRED
THAT INCLUDES WHITE SUPREMEIZES, NEO-NA ZA IS AND KKK.
AN UNNAMED STATEMENT, NOT ATTRIBUTED TO THE PRESIDENT.
WE STILL HAVE NOT HEARD THOSE WORDS DIRECTLY FROM THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. >> FIRST PRAYERS GO OUT TO
HEATHER HEYER'S FAMILY. THERE WAS NO JOHN KELLY ON TV TO
MAKE CLEAR WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID.
I THINK ALL THE LEADERS WHO SPOKE ON HIS BEHALF, HOMELAND
SECURITY SECRETARY MR. McMASTER. FOR THE PRESIDENT NOT TO FEEL
COMPELLED TO COME OUT AND CLARIFY AND MAKE THE REMARKS
MORE POINTED IT REMINDED ME OVER THE WEEKEND THAT THE TWO GROUPS
WHO HAS DEFENDED AND CODDLED THE MOST FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE
CAMPAIGN TO NOW HAVE BEEN RUSSIANS ACCUSED OF INTERFERING
WITH OUR ELECTION AND NOW WHITE NATIONALISTS.
OUR ENTIRE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES BELIEVES THERE WAS A
PART OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO INTERFERE AND YET TO ACCEPT
THOSE CONCLUSIONS AND VIDEO DEMONSTRATES POINTEDLY AND
POWERFULLY WHAT WHITE NATIONALISTS AND SUPREMACISTS
WERE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN CHARLOTTESVILLE.
TERRIcAULIFFE WAS THE ONLY VOICE THAT WAS CLEAR.
THIS IS AN AMERICAN ISSUE. GOVERNOR McAULIFFE STOOD UP ON
BEHALF OF VIRGINIANS BUT SPOKE ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTRY WHEN HE
MADE CLEAR THAT KIND OF RHETORIC AND ACTION WAS NOT WELCOMED IN
VIRGINIA OR AMERICA AND THEY SHOULD GO HOME AND THE QUESTION
FOR ME IS WHERE IS THEIR HOME? THANKFUL WE HAD A VOICE LIKE
GOVERNOR McAULIFFE TO BE CALMING AND REASSURING NOT ONLY TO
VIRGINIANS BUT TO THOSE OF US IN THE COUNTRY.
>> WE GO BACK TO THE CAMPAIGN A YEAR AND A HALF AGO WHEN THEN
CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP SPEAKING ON CNN AND TALKED ABOUT HIS
SUPPORT FROM DAVID DUKE. HE FEIGNED HE DIDN'T KNOW DUKE.
THERE'S THIS PAUSE, THIS WINK WHERE HE DID IT AGAIN ON
SATURDAY WHERE HE SAYS IT HAPPENS ON MANY SIDES WHERE HE
CAN'T SPECIFICALLY CONDEMN WHITE NATIONALISTS.
HE CAN'T IN THIS CASE CONDEMN NAZIS, KKK EXPLICITLY MARCHING
IN THE STREETS OF
CHARLOTTESVILLE. WHY IS THAT
>> THE PRESIDENT UNDERSTANDS THAT PART OF HIS BASE INCLUDES
THESE PEOPLE AND AS A RESULTS, WHETHER OR NOT HE AGREES THEIR
ACTUAL BELIEVES HE DOESN'T WANT TO ALIENATE THEM IF HE HAD
POINTEDLY CRITICIZED THEM. I'LL SAY I DID A LOT OF
REPORTING IN RNC AND INTERVIEWED WHITE NATIONALISTS THAT WERE
COMING TO THE CONVENTION SAYING THEY WERE EXCITED FOR THE FIRST
TIME IN DECADES ABOUT A PRESIDENT AND THAT PRESIDENT,
THAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BEING DONALD TRUMP.
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT HE ACTUALLY WANT THIS TO BE THE
CASE HE'S BENEFITTED FROM WHITE NATIONALISTS BEING EXCITED ABOUT
HIM AND I THINK IN SOME WAYS HE UNDERSTANDS THAT AND IS TRYING
TO PLAY THIS IDEA HE DOESN'T WANT TO SUPPORT THEM BUT HE ALSO
DOESN'T WANT TO TURN ON THE TV AND SAY MY PRESIDENT DOESN'T
HAVE MY BACK. EVEN AFTER THAT PRESS CONFERENCE
WHY PEOPLE WERE WONDERING WHY ON MANY SIDES.
SO PEOPLE ESPOUSING THESE VIEWS ARE LISTENING CLOSE TO DONALD
TRUMP. HE SAID THERE'S A PATTERN AND
THE OTHER PATTERN WE SEE IN OUR PRESIDENT IS HE'S V VERY POINTE
WHEN HE WANTS TO BE. HE'S CALLED OUT THE MEDIA AND
SAID THEY WERE ENEMIES. HE'S CALLED OUT OPPONENTS.
HE'S CALLED HILLARY CLINTON CROOKED.
HE'S ALWAYS BEEN VERY POINTED WHEN HE WANTS TO BE.
WHEN HE WANTED JEFF SESSIONS TO KNOW HE THOUGHT HE WAS WEAK HE
SAID HE WAS WEAK. IN THIS CASE YOU SEE THE
PRESIDENT ISN'T BEING AS POINTED.
THAT'S WHY IT'S REMARKABLE HE'S NOT BEING POINTED.
>> IF YOU LOOK AND READ THROUGH SOME OF THE WHITE NATIONALIST
WEBSITES AND THE PROPAGANDA THEY PUT OUT THEY WERE VERY PLEASED
WITH WHAT DONALD TRUMP DID ON SATURDAY.
THEY SAID LOOK HE DIDN'T CONDEMN US SPECIFICALLY.
WE UNDERSTAND WHY HE M TO GO OUT AND SAY SOMETHING.
THEY VIEW THIS AS A VICTORY FOR THEM.
>> WHAT A PATHETIC LITTLE COWARD OUR PRESIDENT IS.
IT'S EASY TO USE THE TERM NAZIS AND KU KLUX KLAN.
THE KU KLUX KLAN FOR DECADES, THEY ARE BUILT ON LYNCHING
AFRICAN-AMERICANS. THE NAZIS ARE BUILT ON ADOLF
HITLER EXETER MY NATURING JEWS. WE DON'T THINK JEWS SHOULD EXIST
ON THIS AND PLANTS. MR. PRESIDENT, CAN YOU NOT
CONDEMN THOSE PEOPLE? ARE YOU IN SUPPORT OF THAT?
IS THAT WHAT THIS IS? IT IS SO DISGUSTING AND
REPULSIVE. WHEN YOU WATCH HIM SPEAK, WHEN
YOU COULD SEE -- WE SEE HIM SPEAK PASSIONATELY.
HE WAS ALMOST READING THAT TEXT ALMOST LIKE HE DIDN'T WANT TO.
THEN WHEN HE GOT ANIMATED WHEN HE GOT TO THE MANY SIDES PART.
JOE ASKED ME MANY TIMES ANTHONY SHOW, YOU KNOW,W, DONNIE WE'VE
KNOWN TRUMP FOR YEARS OPINION HE SAYS RACIST THINGS.
HE'S NOT A RACIST. HE IS A RACIST.
CAN WE SAY IT ONCE AND A FOR ALL WHEN WE LOOK AT HIS HISTORY.
HE'S TALKED ABOUT REVERSE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WHITES,
THE BIRTHER MOVEMENT. A MAN WHO CAN'T STAND UP AND
CONDEMN KU KLUX KLAN AND NAZISM AND IS A RACIST.
>> DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR MANY OTHER REPUBLICANS, PEOPLE HE RAN
AGAINST FOR PRESIDENT TO JUMP OUT AND DO SOMETHING THAT'S
PRETTY EASY. WE SHOULDN'T BE CELEBRATING
THAT, THAT SHOULD BE AN OBVIOUS STEP THAT ANY RIGHTS THINKING
HUMAN BEING, RIGHT THINKING POLITICIAN TAKES.
YET THE PRESIDENT COULDN'T GET THERE UNTIL A STATEMENT FROM THE
WHITE HOUSE YESTERDAY. >> I WAS THINKING DONALD TRUMP
IS THE YARDSTICK BY WHICH EVERY REPUBLICAN MEASURES WELL.
HE MAKES EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE PARTY LOOK GREAT.
IN THE PARTY THERE ARE DISPUTES HOW MUCH OF A REPUBLICAN HE'S
EVER BEEN. IF WE'RE TRYING TO LOOK FOR SOME
SILVER LINING HERE, SOMETHING GOOD TO COME OUT OF IT, HE'S
MAKING MANY REPUBLICANS WHO WERE MEALY MOUTH ON THIS OR CAME OUT
AND MADE THEIR PRINCIPLES CLEAR HE'S MAKING THEM SAY VERY SHARP
THINGS THEY HAVEN'T SAID BEFORE. WHEN WE'RE DONE WITH DONALD
TRUMP AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT DAY, THESE STATEMENTS WILL LIVE
ON. I WANT TO MENTION ONE OTHER
PATTERN. HE HAS A PATTERN -- HE NEVER
SHIES AWAY FROM EVEN SAYING THINGS ABOUT HOSTS OF THIS SHOW.
HE SAID THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME, THIS WAS GOING
ON UNDER OBAMA. THAT HIS CLEAR EFFORT TO SAY DO
NOT PIN THIS ON THE WAY I CAMPAIGNED, DO NOT S

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