Trump defends his Charlottesville statements: Alt-left shares blame

the facts you still don't know the facts and it's a very very %HESITATION important process to me and it's a very important statement so I don't want to go quickly and just make a statement for the sake of making a political statement I want to know the facts if you go back to my back like I brought it I brought it I brought it as I

said I didn't remember this Saturday we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence it has no place in American that I went on from there now here's a thing as good as his excuse me take it nice and easy here's the thing when I make a statement I like to be correct I want the facts this event just happened

in fact a lot of the event didn't even happened yet as we were speaking this event just happened before I make a statement I need the facts so I don't want to rush into a statement so making the statement when I made it was excellent in fact the young woman who I hear is a fantastic young woman and was on NBC her mother wrote me and

say through I guess Twitter social media the nicest things and I very much appreciated that I hear she was a fine really actually an incredible young woman but her mother on Twitter thanked me for what I said but honestly if the press were not fake and it was honest the press would have said what I said was very nice but I'm like you know I'm on

right now kidney unlike you and I'm like the media before I make a statement I like to know the facts I don't they don't what they did was got a couple of how about a little bit of their David what hallmark college need to help bring the country together you not at all I think that the country look you take a look I've created over million

jobs in some president the country is booming the stock market is setting records with the highest employment numbers we've ever had in the history of our country we're doing record business we have the highest levels of enthusiasm so the head of Walmart who I know is very nice guy was making a political statement I mean yeah I don't think that way and you know why because

I want to make sure when I make a statement that the statement is correct and there was no way there was no way of making a correct statement that early I had to see the facts unlike a lot of reporters unlike a lot of reporters I don't know David Duke was there I wanted to see the facts and the facts as they started coming out were

very well stated affect everybody said his statement was beautiful if he would have made it sort of that would have been good I could have made it shorter because I didn't know all of the facts frankly people still don't know all of the facts not anymore usually it was very important to me to get the facts out and correctly because of I woulda made a festive

and and the first statement was made without knowing much other than what we were saying the second statement was made after with knowledge with great knowledge there's still nothing his ring there's still things that people don't know I want to make a statement with knowledge I want to know the facts of what two questions what this terrorism and keep telepathic appealing about your keypads whether they

have the driver of the car is a disgrace to himself his family in this country and that is you can call it terrorism you can call it murder you call it whatever you want I would just call it as the fastest one to come up with a good verdict that's what I'd call it because there is a question is it murder is to terrorism and then

you get into legal semantics the driver of the car is a murderer and what he did was a horrible horrible inexcusable thing yeah killing another tape that didn't get them in your home that that I would question the out could manage I never spoke to Mister Bennett of the well it's probably what you're good yeah don't have public location eight hundred I like Mr Ben he's

a friend of mine but Mr Bennett came on very late you know that I went through seventeen senators governors and I want all the primaries the Bennett came on very much later than that a and I like him he's a good man he is not a racist I can tell you that he's a good person he actually gets a very unfair press in that regard but

we'll see what happens with Mister Bannon but he's a good person and I think the press streets in frankly very unfairly then your national security adviser a charming yeah hello I'm glad I did it the last I'm leaving the Senate indicated he senator do you mean the one about who is under the new me Jenner can who voted against I was getting healthcare yeah all right

in I believe that then he link that relate to that perpetrated Darling well I don't I don't know I can't tell you I'm sure center know what he's talking to but when you say the old right %HESITATION define Albright to me you define I think that we're going to talk about eleven dot Njoya ginger alt left I came charging at the as you say the alt

right do they have any semblance of guilt why don't we ask you this what about the fact that came charging that they came charging with clubs in the hand swinging clubs do they have any problem I think they do but I don't you know cars I'm concerned that was a horrible horrible day wait a minute I'm not finished I'm not finished make news that was a

horrible day I will tell you this I watched as very closely much more closely than you people watch that and you have %HESITATION you you have a group on one side there was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent and nobody wants to say that but I'll say it right now pneumatic group you had a group on the

other side they came charging in without a permit and they were very very violent would you call the hole left in the game at the new not I or those people all of those people excuse me I've condemned neo Nazis I've condemned many different groups but not all of those people were neo Nazis believe me not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch

know that people were also there because they want you protest the taking down of a statue Robert delay so that kids bring and you take a look at some of the groups and you say that you know if your honest reporters which in many cases you're not but many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee self

this week it's Robert Italy I noticed that Stonewall Jackson's coming down I wonder is it George Washington next week and is the Thomas Jefferson the week after you know you all you really do have to ask yourself where does it stop but we dared to protest excuse me you take a look tonight before they went there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert

elite infrastructure question go ahead Robert elite they ought I would say that's up to a local pound community or the federal government depending on where it is located are yeah race relations in America and you think things have gotten worse or better the problem I think they've gotten better or the shape I look they've been prayed for a long time and you can ask president Obama

about that because he'd make speeches about it but I believe that the fact that I brought in it will be soon millions of job you see where companies are moving back into our country I think that's gonna have a tremendous positive impact on race relations we have companies coming back into our country we have two car companies to just announced we have fox gone in Wisconsin

just announced we have many companies I say pouring back into the country I think that's gonna be you positive impact on race relations you know why jobs what people want now they want jobs they want great job with good pay and when they have that you watch how race relations will be and I'll tell you we're spending a lot of money on the inner cities we're

gonna fix with fixing the other cities were doing far more than anybody's done with respect to the inner cities it's a priority for me and it's very like the little plane I'm not putting anybody on a moral plane what I'm saying is this you had a group on one side and you had a group and the other and they came at each other with clubs and

was vicious and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch but there is another side there was a group on this side you can call of the lefty you've just call them the left that came violently attack in the other group so you can say what you want but that's the way it is you're you said there was hatred was probably although I

do think there's a plane yes I this blame on both you look at look at both sides I think is blame on both sides and I have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either but I don't all have not and if you reported it accurately you would say not little you have some very good people you also were very fine

people on both sides you had people in that group excuse me excuse me I thought the same accuses you did you had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of them a very very important that you and the renaming of apart from Robert de lead to another we're not going to do it it was a slave owner was George Washington the

slave owner so will George Washington now lose his status are we going to take down excuse me are we gonna take down are we gonna take down statues to judge what how about Thomas Jefferson what do you think of Thomas Jefferson you like them well okay good are we gonna take down the statute that he was a major slaveowner now we're gonna take down his debt

you do you know what it's time you 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 white nationalists okay and the press has treated them absolutely unfairly now in the other group also you had some fine

people but you also had trouble makers and you see them come with us with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats we don't get a lot of bad in a lot of bad people in the other group hinders everything you're saying the president's treated right now Clint barely a hundred there were people in that rally and I look the night before

if you look they were people pro testing very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert Italy I'm sure that group there was a bed was the following day it looked like they had some rock bad people neo Nazis %HESITATION white nationalist whatever you wanna call but you had a lot of people in that group that was there too innocently protests and very legally protest

because you know a lot of you know they had a permit the other group didn't have a permit so I only tell you this there are two sides to a story I don't what took place was a horrible moment for our country a horrible moment but there are two sides to that country anybody have a final is anybody having eleven infrastructure religion thinking in infrastructure billion

get healthcare glad you know I don't know we came very close with healthcare unfortunately John McCain decided to vote against it at the last minute you'll have to ask John McCain why he did that but we came very close to health care we will end up getting healthcare up but will get the infrastructure actually infrastructure something that I think will have bipartisan support and I actually

think I actually think Democrats will go along with the infrastructure family profit for the family of the victim card happy reaching out of the rich and well we I was very I I thought that the statement put out the the mother's statement I thought was a beautiful statement I would study I was it was something that I really appreciate it I thought it was terrific and

really under that under the kind of strategies under and the heartache that he's under I thought putting out that statement to me was really something I want to get out thank you all very much thank you thank you currently I plan to go to Charlottesville you know and the welcome to the lead and wow no I don't know how that was something else are we still

talking let day listening to be in Charlotte it's a it is the one I mean I know a lot about Charlottesville Charlottesville is a place and very badly hurt over the last up I don't actually one of the largest George will credit what do you think need yeah river well I really think jobs can you too create jobs over a million since more than a and

you see just the other day the car company thing and we you know popped up I think if we continue to create jobs at levels and I'm I'm creating jobs I think that's going to have a tremendous impact positive impact on race relations people could be working together get a lot of money much more money than I ever thought possible your remark that's gonna happen and

the other thing very poor I believe wages will start going up they haven't gone up for a long time I believe wages that because the economy is doing so well with respect to employment and unemployment I believe wages will start to go up I think that'll have a tremendously positive impact on race relations our lawyers