[Whitfield:] All right. The White House is in damage control again, this time after President Trump retweeted a video of his supporters yelling "white power." Listen.
[Unidentified Male:] Yes, get out of here. White power. Yes. There you go, white power, you hear that?
[Whitfield:] The video was finally yanked from the president's Twitter feed but not until about three hours have passed. The White House's defense, the president didn't see it. The White House sending out this statement saying in part, "What he did see was tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters." CNN's Jeremey Diamond is at the White House for us. So, what kind of response are you hearing from Republican, other members of the president's administration following this retweet?
[Jeremy Diamond, Cnn White House Reporter:] Yes, Fredricka. Well, the president didn't just retweet this video. He also attached this comment to it, saying, "Thank you to the great people of villages," where this video was reportedly taken. We have heard some reaction from some prominent Republicans. Our colleague Jake Tapper had the Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar as well as Republican Senator Tim Scott on his Sunday show this morning. And their responses were quite different. Listen.
[Alex Azar, Health And Human Services Secretary:] I've not seen that video or that tweet, but obviously neither the president, his administration, nor I would do anything to be supportive of white supremacy or anything that would support discrimination of any kind.
[Sen. Tim Scott , South Carolina:] The entire thing was offensive, certainly the comment about the white power was offensive. There's no question. I mean, we could play politics with it or we can't. I'm not going to. I think it's indefensible, we should take it down. That's what I think.
[Diamond:] And so, Fredricka, the president did eventually end up taking down the video after Senator Tim Scott called for him to do so, saying that it was indefensible as you heard in that clip there that the president had retweeted this in the first place. What we do know is that the video was still up for more than three hours, Fredricka. And of course we know that this is not an isolated incident. In fact the president has repeatedly amplified, retweeted, posted in some form or fashion hateful and racists comments, and sometimes from his supporters, sometimes from his own mouth. We know that the president posted that tweet recently about when the looting starts, the shooting starts, a comment associated with racist policing tactics of the 1960s. Fredricka, as well, beyond that, of course, we know that the president has also talked about very fine people in Charlottesville. That is something that critics have pounced on today, to say that the president's retweet of this video is very similar to when he said that that white supremacist rally that there were very fine people among them. And of course we know that the president has repeatedly amplified anti-Muslim bigotry on his Twitter platform as well. In this case, though, the difference is that the president ultimately decided to take down this retweet that he posted of this video. What he has not done, Fredricka, is apologize for it nor has he condemned the footage and the message the racist message from this one Trump supporter that he amplified in this video this morning Fred.
[Whitfield:] All right, Jeremy Diamond, at the White House, thanks so much. All right. Coming up, promising news out of New York in the fight against coronavirus. We'll go there live, next.