Trump to Meet With Sessions, FBI on Charlottesville Rally

Bloomberg
August 14, 2017

President Donald Trump will meet with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray in Washington on Monday to discuss the deadly white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the White House said after a mounting public outcry about Trump’s response to the extremists.

“There is no bigger case right now that we are working on. Every resource will be dedicated to it,” Sessions said on CBS. “I will be asking that we do that kind of thing today.”

Trump on Saturday denounced the “egregious display of hatred, bigotry, violence — on many sides” in Charlottesville. The White House said “of course” he included white supremacists, neo-Nazis “and all extremist groups” in that statement.

Sessions defended Trump and suggested the president may say more publicly about the issue Monday.

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