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democrats (202) 748-8000. .ndependents (202) 748-8002 residents of charlottesville (202) 748-8003. we will get to your christ. the newspaper in charlottesville virginia, the 125-year-old daily progress. this is their website. turnsnationalist rally fatal. ohio man charged with second-degree were -- murder. charlottesville protest takes a deadly turn. the reporting piercing chaos and violence turned to tragedy as

hundreds of white nationalist, neo-nazis and kkk members planning to stage their largest rally in decades clashed with counter protesters in the streets. one person dead and 19 others injured. officers died when their helicopter crashed. mcauliffe said he had a message for all of the white supremacists and nazis who came to charlottesville. go home, you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. let's get to your comments. sam is in gainesville, florida. caller: good morning. that's tim from gainesville, florida.

i just wanted to say i hope that the president will talk about unity through reparations. if i am for myself alone, then who will be for me? for others, what am i. and if not now, when. thank you for taking my call. next on the independent line. caller: i am a baby boomer. america seems like it's worse than it was even in the 50's and 60's. we are americans. we should be better than this and no matter the color of our skin. when we fight a war they don't care about color of our skin. they don't care. if you are wearing american warrior -- uniform, you are the enemy.

host: it's ridiculous. showing you some of the photos from friday night. the groups gathering in the evening to protest the city's planned removal of a robert e lee statue. looking at some of the confrontation yesterday ahead of the incident with the automobile. 19 injured yesterday. at his golfump resort in new jersey spoke to reporters gathered for a fee bill signing ceremony. here's some of what he had to that. we are closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious violence andtred

bigotry on many sides. this is been going on for a long time in our country. not donald trump, not barack obama. it's been going on for a long time. it has no place in america. what is vital now is a swift restoration of law and order and the protection of innocent lives. no citizenship ever fear for their safety and security in our society and no child should ever and play to go outside or be with their parents. and have a good time. i just got off the phone with the governor of virginia and we agreed to hate and division must. we have to come together as

americans with love for our really i say this so strongly. true affection for each other. getting your reaction to the violence in charlottesville. richard rodgers tweeting, president donald trump must forcefully condemn neo-nazi white nationalists as an american. nazi terrorists will cause more rage as antifascist terrorists which will result in more rage. there should be american excellence. is lumpingand this all trump supporters together. university of virginia newspaper, the daily cavalier.

the paper reporting this morning online. one dead, 19 injured after a car plowsthe paper into crowd of cor protesters following alt-right rally. on the independent line, go ahead. i want to express my condolences to the families who lost loved ones. i think everything that's happening is not a surprise. the president fostered this kind of climate with his bigotry and racism during the campaign. with his lies regarding president obama's place of birth. it's a shame that in 2017 we haven't come further than we have in this country. he said make america great again.

he's taking america back to a very dark period. republicans, democrats, independents. we all have to speak against this hatred and finding ourselves appreciation for one another. host: in new york on the democrat line. surprised by it because they are domestic terrorists and this is been going on for many years. centuries in our country. donald trump is a proponent of this. he did this at his rallies. called for this kind of incitement. all he has to do is look in the mirror. that's his base. that's his supporters. that support donald trump are racist. it's a shame in this country

after all of the struggles and the blood that has been shed, all of the marches, all through the civil rights. i am a child of the segregated south and this is what has happened. because this is what it is. if you support him, that is what you support. kate will never win. he will go down. bullies always go down. that's my thought for today. we have set aside a line for charlottesville residents. among those participating in the rally yesterday's former kkk leader david duke. here is what he had to say yesterday. we are determined to take our country back.

we are going to fulfill the promises of donald trump. that's why we voted for donald trump. he said he's going to take our country back. host: roger on the democrat line. general robert e. lee is on the wrong side of history now. however, he was a soldier. sental george washington troops to pennsylvania and ohio --slaughter whiskey made makers because they weren't paying their taxes. general douglas macarthur defied orders of the president of the united states. these statues should remain to remind us of war, the participants of history and whether they are on the wrong side or not. we should not forget about them. of date their plaques to show the new perception of what they

did. remove their names from highways. anybody go down jefferson davis highway every day? i do. what comes to the statues, leave them there. christopher columbus slaughtered tens of thousands of natives. what a man. and how many days -- we celebrate christopher columbus backward thinking communities. others are looking forward to having indigenous people day. host: one of the causes behind whitelly was a protest of supremacist groups against the removal of the robert e. lee statue in charlottesville. headlining in the new york times, white nationalist protest leads to deadly violence.

the authors of that article this morning on the ground in charlottesville. good morning. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. host: what can you tell us about the city's mood lately night and this morning's? we heard the governor asking for white nationalists to leave the state. any evidence that has happened? >> i would say the city's mood is quiet but tense. i did talk to a spokesman for the white nationalist rally organizer last night. he said there was nothing planned for today except it were going to issue a statement and they are planning to hold a press conference on monday possibly in alexandria or d.c. i haven't been out on the streets this morning. i was last night and i can tell you the streets of downtown were .ery quiet

a lot of police out there patrolling. a lot of streets closed off. most people who were out there were media and very few walking the streets of downtown. ordinarily it would be a very lively nightlife. us back to yesterday. tell us about what the flashpoint was between the white nationalists and counter protesters. the white nationalists started amassing in the city park around 9:00. the counter protesters had gathered at the church for a sunrise service. each made their way separately to emancipation park. where the statue of robert e. lee was. the white nationalists gathered inside the park as they have the

right to do by their permit. and the counter protesters encircled the park from the outside. it was very tense. as more people came, things got violent. witnessed skirmishes, street fights. people clipping one another in the street as the white nationalists tried to make their i didn'tlee park and witness the actual flashpoint inside the park. the police declared unlawful assembly. barricades started coming down and things turned into chaos. we are getting reports of the arrest of the driver who killed the protester. have police released any information on the victim in that attack? >> as of last night they had not

released the name. it was a 32-year-old woman. they were notified next of kin. i have not heard of there is a name released. host: what are your coverage plans this morning? >> i'm only one person. i have colleagues joining me. we will go to some church services because this is a community that really is wrestling with what is happening here and trying to understand. outll be trying to figure what went wrong. how did this get so out of hand. what happened with the police response. probably head out and do a swing around the states. i don't expect much in the way protest or street action today. i could be wrong.

a wait and see attitude on that. came down onu friday were you expecting there would be tension or violence? i didn't know what to expect. my gut told me there would not be violence because the city had taken such great pains to prepare and because a month ago there was a kkk demonstration that ended with police using tear gas on the protesters. since the was that city had a lot of advanced knowledge of this that they would have found a way to keep the peace. i didn't know what was going to happen. i certainly didn't expect things to get so out of hand as they did yesterday and especially that terrible car crashing

into the crowd of people. it was just terrific. we will look for your reporting today and this coming week. thanks so much. continue with your calls and comments. this is baldwinsville, massachusetts. thank you for waiting on the independent line. caller: thank you, good morning. i didn't like any of the white supremacists, either. i voted for donald trump and i am not a racist and i don't know why everyone keeps conflating him with racists. he is not, i'm not and most of us who support him or not. these white supremacists, nobody cares for them. the people all that went into fight against him, they were

allowed to go fight against them. they wanted to fight against him and they went to do that purposely. the police did nothing just like they did nothing in berkeley. they want the white supremacists .o beat of they allow it and it's pretty ridiculous and i think president obama for knocking race relations act 60 years. host: glenn on the republican line. caller: good morning. i did 25 years work in a trump castle. the guy is a great guy. i never liked him in the boss all the my time but he hasn't been a bad person. as a trump supporter he was the only one that picked up the flag of freedom and moved us forward. freedom for everybody. everything on the left is identity.

except this morning, who drove the car and what side he was on. news, we allhoo! know the left wing media. even c-span has tilted to the left. we need balance. i am with the guy who just called. we are trump supporters and we ain't racist. i will help anybody anytime. my neighbor is a muslim. i helped him with anything he needs. we go fishing together. obama is coming back to stoke this racist sentiment, to create this division. let's see anybody on the news identify what side this guy is on and they won't because it wasn't one of theirs. i don't go for the stars and bars. to go in and fight them either. the cops could have kept them out and let those guys sit around and look like idiots.

all you hear about is the car. nobody wants to say what side that guy was on. trumpet ain't a racist. thank you for your time. stay balanced c-span for the country. host: here's what we know about the driver. james alix fields, a 20-year-old who recently moved to ohio from where he grew up in kentucky was charged with second-degree murder and other counts. his mother told the associated press on saturday night that she knew her son was attending a rally in virginia but didn't know it was a white supremacist rally. i thought it had something to do with trump.

the reporting of the associated press. mentioned president obama who has tweeted about the incident yesterday with the language of nelson mandela. no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. people must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to love. love comes more naturally to the human heart that it's opposite. i thinkmy opinion is the removal of all of these statutes should be determined by local elections. if they did that i think people would have more respect for either the removal or their remaining. thank you very much. statue was part of the

reason the gathering of the white supremacists in charlottesville. the mayor of a town in kentucky followed up to that. to our charlottesville line. excuse me, this is philadelphia next. good morning. i think the president gave a very good response that we as americans should love one another. think the use of these labels is put forth by people who want us to hate one another particularly the media and i think we should start using ofse hateful descriptions the marilyn's. everyone in the streets is not bigoted. it's a shame this is going on and we should stop listening to these people will try to make us hate one another especially the media. thank you. comments about the removal

of the statue. 400 miles away the mayor of lexington, kentucky hinted at the white supremacists might get the opposite of what they had hoped for. toannounced he would work remove the confederate moderate at his counties courthouse. events in virginia remind us we must bring our country together by condemning violence. we cannot let them define our future. mcauliffe yesterday afternoon in a statement to reporters calling on those groups to leave the state. here's some foot he had to say. you came here today to hurt people and you did hurt people. my message is clear. or strong letting it. you have made a commonwealth stronger. you will not succeed.

there is no place for you here. there place for you in america. here today to unify folks. i remind you all that we are a nation of immigrants. are native american, the first ships that came to jamestown, virginia in 1607. the mosaics tile of immigrants is what makes us so special and we will not let anybody come here and destroyed. please go home. and never come back. take your hatred and take your bigotry. there is no place. use your time and energy to help people. host: governor terry mcauliffe. david is in jacksonville, florida. go ahead. what happened yesterday

was wrong. ramming a car. the white supremacist movement. i just want to add one thing. virginia, to of this day glorifies thomas jefferson. he founded the university. going to take down statues of people who were on ,he wrong side of history thomas jefferson had multiple slaves. should they just disband the university of virginia? there's a lot of things that went wrong in this country and many people were wrong. violence on both sides is wrong. clearly ramming a car is not good at all. host: reaction from members of congress. what grassley tweeting, white nationalists are doing in charlottesville is homegrown

can't be that tolerated anymore than what any other extremist does. john mccain saying white supremacists aren't patriots, they are traitors. americans must unite against hatred and bigotry. doris is on the democrat line. good morning. i just wanted to say that trump is not going to condemn these people because they are part of his group. he built his own campaign on hatred and bigotry and misogyny. everything like that. he disparaged all racial groups. and it's like these people went to virginia to say they were protesting the statue they were going to take down. how many americans citizens did robert e. lee kill? how many american soldiers did

he kill? the south seceded. they were no longer part of america. robert e. lee was a traitor along with the rest of these people. he killed american soldiers and american citizens and these people idolize him. he's like a god. that doesn't make any sense to me. trump will not denounce these people. they are a big part of his base and a big part of the republican party. thank you. your callse taking getting your reaction to yesterday's violence in charlottesville, virginia. we also welcome your comments for charlottesville residents. here is david in middletown, new jersey.

go ahead. good morning, c-span. the best channel on television. good morning. it's good to talk to you. i have called on numerous occasions. young world war ii veteran. i watch yesterday in horror and anger at what was going on in charlottesville virginia. i want to complement governor for theauliffe wonderful things that he said about these white supremacists that live in our country. he told them to get out of virginia and get out of the country. i am with him 1000%. i think president trump and the congress should get together and get these non-patriotic

americans out of our country. they don't belong here. they are not patriots. i would like to ask one simple question. how many of these white supremacists served in the military? i would really love to know how many of them served in the military. more reaction from capitol hill. a couple of tweaks from marco rubio. these haters in charlottesville are agitators in search of relevance and publicity for their vile cause and very few people support. nothinging that patriotic about nazis or the kkk or what supremacists. its direct opposite of what america seeks to be. don't give them relevance they crave. the only way they win is if they can turn the rest of us against each other. thoughts from marco rubio.

next on the democrat line. brenda. caller: good morning. i watched yesterday and was just appalled at what was going on. it is as weak as tissue paper. -- our president is as weak as tissue paper. he is weak. he started all of this mess. now he does not know how to handle it. he has not tried to bring this country together since he has in the office. this is what happens. not been anywhere to have a rally other than in the states that he has one. he's too afraid to go into the states that he did not win. to bring the country he has to be stronger than what he is. why the grant whatever

you call that man says he's fighting for donald trump. we all need to wake up. if donald trump doesn't know how to bring us together we have to do it ourselves. grab thet means let me hand of another white person because donald trump is not the one. in lumberton north carolina on the republican line. good morning. i am calling as a native american. i just heard terry mcauliffe make mention. i'm not offended by what happened because this is taking place in the south and these are some of the evils of slavery in the south. and it's not surprising. i voted for donald trump.

he's not racist. he's trying to bring people together. yes it is america first. what happened yesterday was bad. people hurting each other. this is what happens in the south. people need to get ready. there's probably going to be a race war one day in this country. the best thing we can do is pray pray thatountry and god leads us in the right direction. host: the president in new jersey at his golf resort had a scheduled signing of a bill dealing with the veterans affairs department and spoke to the violence in charlottesville. here are all of his comments from yesterday afternoon. we are closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville virginia. we condemn in the strongest's egregious of this

display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. on many sides. on for abeen going long time in our country. not donald trump, not barack obama. a longbeen going on for time. it has no place in america. is a swiftal now restoration of law and order and the protection of it lives. no citizen should ever fear for their safety. and security in our society. and no child should ever be oraid to go outside and play be with their parents and have a good time. i just got off the phone with the governor of virginia. and we agreed to hate and division must stop. and must right now.

to come together as americans with look for our nation and and true affection. true affection for each other. our country is doing very well in so many ways. we have absolute record employment. the lowestmployment it has been in almost 17 years. we have companies pouring into our country. soconn and car companies and many others. they are coming back to our country. we are renegotiating trade deals to make them great for our country and great for the american worker. we have so many incredible things happening in our country. when i watch charlottesville to me it's very sad. the great worke

of the state and local police in virginia. law enforcement incredible people. and also the national guard. they have really been working smart and working hard. .een doing a terrific job federal authorities are also providing tremendous support to the government -- governor. we are here to provide whatever other assistance is needed. we must remember this truth. , creed,er are color religion or political party we are all americans first. country.ur we love our god. we love our flag. we are proud of our country. we are proud of who we are. we want to get the situation

straightened out in charlottesville and we want to study it. and we want to see what we are doing wrong as a country where things like this can happen. my administration is restoring the sacred bonds of loyalty between this nation and citizens. our citizens must also restore the bonds of trust and loyalty between one another. we must love each other respect to each other and our future together. so important. we have to respect each other. ideally we have to love each other. host:'s comments on twitter. -- reaction to donald trump's comments on twitter. trump is very weak on homegrown terrorism evidenced by his apathetic response.

david says a president will not criticize putin or white supremacy. how can this be considered leadership. president trump reportedly in new york today at trump tower and will be in washington tomorrow briefly and here is why. property theft by china will get scrutiny. president trump is planning to job china for allegedly stealing intellectual property from his misses. -- businesses. he will sign an executive memo asking the u.s. trade representative to determine whether to investigate state backed theft by china of intellectual property from american technology and defense

companies. back to your calls on yesterday's violence in charlottesville. david, thanks for waiting. >> the kkk movement is not really violent and neither is the black panther movement from back in the day. when people start throwing bricks and coming with the sticks and stuff, that's what's causing the violence. i'm latino. i am mexican and i am not out there reading up like people and white people. this is all ridiculous. the police can't control their tempers.

thatle bunch of people need to come back to reality. that's pretty much it. thank you for taking my call. host: madison, wisconsin. good morning. caller: good morning. the problem is we never finished the civil war. if you look at the electoral map , all the red states supported trump. that's the heart of the confederacy. what should have happened after the civil war as the white nationalists should not have been appeased. they should have hung every confederate general. there should have been a racially integrated working class to go down south and hang every general from robert e. lee down. everyone of them should have been hung and that would have solved the problem. of very proud of the people charlottesville for standing up to the white nationalists. scum andist fascist they did a wonderful job and that person who was killed --

she is a martyr and she is a hero. i'm very proud of her. reaction from leaders on capitol hill. here's paul ryan. saying the views fueling the spectacle in charlottesville are repugnant.-- we mustlosi tweeting vowed to defeat bigotry, racism and hatred. here's how is a and arkansas. thank you for taking my call. we must learn agree to disagree. these people even though i don't support these people i don't understand the ideology. the same rights as any

american to march and express themselves. if you don't want to listen to them or whatever just stay home. black lives matter, they march all the time. i disagree with them. todoesn't give me the right go with the cops and start hitting people. they have the same right to march and do whatever they want to do. just ignore them. ,f you want to destroy history it seems like basis all over. this is a terrorist act. we must agree to disagree. this is not right. there is something wrong here. ignore them. just ignore them. thank you for taking my call. host: baltimore, maryland.

democrat line. caller: thank you for your opening for -- open forum. to the like to open up callers saying they know donald trump. obviously they don't know the trunk history. his father went to plan meetings. donald trump his father when they had real estate didn't allow lax or hispanics or people of color to move into their properties. divided among itself cannot stand. we cannot have a leader who campaigns on division and then tries to unify a country afterwards which he has no intention. tory time it is time for him come out in crisis and speak on his heart someone has to do it for them.

hate is something we've got to sit down and have a real conversation about the racist. history of america. it's time to close the page on that and all of those statues need to come down. i'm an african american. i will be 65-year-old next month. i came through civil rights. i came through segregation. i was of the generation of kids who had to be busted into white schools in the same tensions are back now and it's time to sit down and have an open conversation about what the hurt is about. i'm sure i had enslaved you you wouldn't want to be reminded of that generations later. the hurt that is happening. many black people that died. i am asking god to unify this country to bring leadership that really has an open mind to bring people together. donald trump is not that. he himself is racist.

i want to recognize that all trump followers are not racist. are trumpcists followers and i would like to close with that. host: ted cruz urges a justice department investigation. the present social media director tweeting the fbi , the civil rights division opening of civil rights investigation into the circumstances of the deadly vehicular incident that occurred saturday morning. lauderdale on the republican line. go ahead. caller: good morning. withhappened in charlotte

the white nationalists. i'm against that. to remove all of the statues of robert e lee that's fine with me. what concerns me is the backdrop of what happened. drop isee as the back the mainstream news creating a powder keg in this country regarding the race situation in the united states. and have a black narrative if there is any other side, any other fact, any other cannot be allowed and to me this is creating a powder cake and the white nationalists are a fringe group today. because ofell you what's going on with the lark onam news goes p a become more and more mainstream.

they are going to be regarded as speaking more for white people in the united states than being crazy they are. i agree. nationy worry about this and i really hang it on the media creating a powder keg. what people know there's also black racism. examples if you want me to talk to you about them. the narrative is black history -- many facts are left out. think the media was responsible for inciting the conflict between the groups? let me give you an example. you just have the washington times or new york posts somebody saying the site of the protest

of the white nationalists was encircled by the protesters against them. and they were not allowed to go to where they were going to stage their protest. so as far as inciting violence in this case, not a lot is being made of the fact that there were counter protesters who were also inciting violence. there were projectiles being thrown at the weight nationalists. i don't like the white nationalists but i also don't think somebody should blame the violence solely on them when you held byclubs being black people. i worry about this country if there isn't more balanced the fact.of what happens in this country. i really worry. i am going to be watching and i can tell everyone listening in your audience is the only thing

that is projected on the mainstream news is the one side of the black narrative in this situation, you should worry for our nation because the powder cave is going to keep getting stronger. rate will become more mainstream. and until two sides are presented we are in big trouble. host: here's another view of the governor's comments. governor mcauliffe refuses to condemn the antifascist. the usually busy streets with heavily armed police and protesters following altercations which lasted from

friday night through saturday morning. originally built as a protest in and all free speech into aally transformed torch wielding nazi flag wielding dereliction of american values. what transpired amounted to a disgusting and unwelcome throwback to segregationist ideas and rhetoric at a time when patriotic conservatism is .aining ground almost none will be dedicated to the fascists left. terry mcauliffe was was into a downtown building under police protection in the afternoon. one female witness to the scene showed thank you for showing up.

our comments on the media. carroll tweets that hate is bad for the usa and there's plenty coming from liberals. steven says grown men holding weapons walking towards innocent -- not arrested. david is tweeting that his reconciliation speech touts accomplishments. it's not about the economy. c-span wj is how you tweet us. cleveland, ohio next. the independent line. good morning. good morning. whether you believe what the right-wing wing people are doing, it's their right to go and protest. to have the left laying black

lives matter people you don't or the clip clucks clan neo-nazis going to counter .rotests when they go somewhere you don't see -- it's ridiculous squash -- idea is to if you are worried and you go out and speak your mind and they don't like what you are saying you see what happens in charlottesville. you can't rewrite history. generally was a great general. he was on the losing side and there are monuments and there are families and people down there. it's their heritage. you can't deny it. it's ridiculous with this country is coming to. you cannot speak your mind anymore. you are not allowed.

whether it's the media or the blacks. we've got to do something. a couple of opinion pieces. susan miller writing, violence and venom. this is not the charlottesville i know. torch toting white nationalists as they marched on the marble steps of the rotunda at the university of virginia. --hours later arm diminished .rmed militia groups the trigger for the night the right rally. permeated the air as fascists and counter protesters paroled near the park. the ultimate act of terror, a car accelerated down a narrow street in the city's point

district near the downtown mall. a street lined with peaceful protesters and slammed into the crowd leaving one dead nearly 20 injured. could this be happening at the home of my beloved all modern and a progressive city that boasts a warm and inclusive environment. also this morning the lead editorial in the washington post about the president's reaction to charlottesville and their headline on the lead piece in the post this morning. what the presidential president would say. what happened in charlottesville was not the fault of many sides. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregiously of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. here is what a presidential president would have said.

the violence friday and saturday in charlottesville is a tragedy and and on acceptable impermissible assault on american values. it is an assault specifically on the ideals we cherish most. pluralistic democracy, tolerance, peaceable diversity. the events were triggered by individuals who embrace and extol hatred. , neo-nazis, click clicks clan members and their sympathizers. springfield, massachusetts. ben is on the democrat line. welcome. i just wanted to comment on the -- some of the comments that spin made. there was a gentleman who talked about the black narrative. i'm a black person. i'm 84 years old. born in mississippi.

served in the korean war. served 23 years in the massachusetts house of representatives and i do have a perspective. the issue around the black narrative i have trouble understanding what he's talking about righteously. have needed more time to explain what he meant. as ise the media understand it, i don't know any is controlled tv by black people. i don't know any media newspaper constantly giving us information controlled by black people. there has to be some kind of combination of a narrative. the gentleman who tried to associate leaves history with that of jefferson. jefferson did a lot of things

that were wrong. that wasome things right. he did some things that were good. he was a graduate of west point. at the outbreak of the civil war he resigned from the u.s. army and decided to go with the confederacy. those peoplecy was who had seceded from the united states of america. they were rebels. they had seceded from the united states of america. for those statues to be removed they were removed because of a vote on the part of the local community. we and massachusetts and you and california can't make people in charlottesville virginia move the statue.

president said he was going to make america great again. what period of america would he be different to? back in the day when white men could bench black men and get away with it because they didn't have to be judged by any law that had anything to do with the quality? host: a couple more calls. the reaction of the attorney general opening an investigation vehicle attack at yesterday's protest. the attorney general saying we stand united in charlottesville andany message of hate contrary tototally american values. lorraine is next in covington. louisiana republican line. thank you.

i would ask the people who are discrediting or blaming trump to some degree about what happened in charlottesville to google the history of david duke. klanld ask the peoplehe is a fx leader. he ran for governor in louisiana which is the state i now live in. he was convicted of fraud and thrown in prison. groupe kkk is largely a that was comprised of democrats. i just feel like let people be objective. check their history. we do want to unite our country and condemn acts of hatred and this kind of thing. not blaming the president but blaming the groups themselves. reaction of nikki haley.

the former governor of south carolina. you may recall her shepherding that state into the removal of the confederate -- flag from the grounds of the state capital in south carolina. following the shootings at the immanuel baptist church. this is nikki haley's reaction as u.n. kim basinger. i know all too well to pay can cause. for actions like this. let's get one more call. patrick in new jersey. caller: good morning. -- i am talking as a white man to you this morning. i support the expression that was made in charlottesville, virginia. you take away our history, our statues, it's going to be a rallying cry.

the whites are going to get together and we're going to have our own self-determination and that's what we are seeing here. the whites are standing up for our heritage and we want to be heard and say the wordand say t" fascistthis nazi or nonsense. it is the whites who want to keep the blacks or browns from taking over. host: more calls on this issue a bit later on here on "washington journal." coming up in a moment, we will look at the latest news from north korea. we have a couple of guest joining us, with tensions rising there. we will talk with professor john delury from yonsei university. also, patrick cronin, and asia specialist for the center for a new american security. later on, dr. matthew hahn. he is a family physician talking