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but he most definitely provided the fuel the reason why with greg palast in just a moment and will when will the republican party as a whole take responsibility for a fan. in the flames of racism with its half century long southern strategy as jim cavanaugh and valerie urban and big picture panel. greg palast will be will shortly but first i'm joined live on the ground from charlottesville virginia by our t. america's attash a sweet natasha what can you tell us what's going on there. yeah that's right tom you know today the the man being charged with a deadly car crash made his first court appearance today twenty year old james alex fields he has been charged second degree murder for hitting a crowd of people with his car killing one and injuring several others and his bail has been denied today. and the judge has set august twenty fifth for his next

hearing and it's possible that there will be a bond hearing before then and solidarity events have taken place around the country for the violence that erupted in charlottesville and more are scheduled for this evening the community has been vocal about the lives that were lost the i knew it was going to be bad we everyone in town knew there was going to be violence because the groups were bragging ahead of time but the fact that someone actually lost their life that someone would actually take such a violent step to deliberately kill other people was just beyond i just couldn't believe that so those kind of as expected over there murders never expected and that took place right in my back door sitting there and heard the screams and i opened my my back door to let some of the people who were flee the car. and you still really see the community coming together here in charlottesville. thank you for taking the time this is this is truly an extraordinary time and at an

extraordinary. i lacked the words the situation on saturday on saturday donald trump made this speech about how we need to. violence and bigotry and hatred and and then at the very end i had some at a remark that was really rather shocking walk will cover that just a moment we'll be right back. the mission of the news with you is to go to the people tell their side of the story our stories are well sourced we don't hide anything from the public and i don't think the mainstream media in this country can say i think average viewer.

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thank you both for being with us tonight and great having us donald trump finally condemned white supremacy today two whole days after a white supremacist killed one person and injured nineteen more in a sack on an anti-racist protest in charlottesville virginia trump's condemnation was read from a teleprompter and he put just about zero effort into it racism. and those who caused violence it's they are criminals of us including the. whites of. other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear. and that was about it trump didn't even take any questions oh yeah i had a press conference later in the day and i should call a press conference but anyway the president responded to another question about condemning white supremacy by whining about fake news. we have the right this is. like we all know thank you thank you thank you very much.

i really can't believe i'm asking this but does the president of the united states care that a white supremacist just killed someone essentially in his name. tim that's of that's a loaded question when you know the the initial the initial response for which he got in trouble which was condemning violence on all sides that actually we're we're we're seeing a little bit of like flipping of sequence of events as you know it's like when we if you remember when howard dean people said that he lost the iowa caucus because of the scream when the scream actually came after he had lost the caucus in this case. on all sides comment came before the car attack which is you know the big deadly attack the thing that was a great tragedy that happened at this and obviously took it to another level of horror but that was after his initial statement as far as president not you know.

sort of welcome when a president doesn't talk about a lot of stuff i don't know that he needs to constantly be saying everything or you're one of those guys who are who are complaining about obama not willing to call out on the radical turtle plane about oh you know i'm going on a radical i'm certain i mean republican. president obama to i would have liked it to be his case too if there were some things that he just said you know it's not for the president to comment on that it's a local issue in this case obviously the news is big enough that he would and his feet were to the fire enough that he's been raked over the coals for the last couple of days and now even though he has made this condemnation they're already saying it's belated it's too little too late all that sort of that i'm a kid when he's in a situation you can already or think can when this is a president so obviously oddly but he's the president and it's his job he's got the bully pulpit it's his job only pulpit as in the consultation that's a phrase a lot of heroes of all let me just finish what my comments were donald trump fomented that kind of violence that we saw and charlottesville over the weekend

when he was running for president he unleashed the hatred and the vitriolic. right and of the k.k.k. and a white supremacist and for people like me and my family and the people that i know well it sent chills up everybody's spine that i've been talking to that here in twenty seventeen we have white men with tiki torches. roaming up and down the streets of charlottesville on purpose heading right to an african-american church to scare people it's a open carry state there were people brandishing weapons queerly to freak people out that were watching most what are we headed toward i do not believe this is the end and donald trump was forced to say something today

about the k.k.k. and white supremacy he had no choice he had to read it off a teleprompter he didn't mean it. because he knows for sure that those people were part of a small group of right wingers in this country who supported his presidency david duke talked about it over the weekend that trump said he was going to make america great again. or make america what you want to say something to. focus on the people who commit the anytime we talk about who's fomenting who's creating the environment etc it takes the focus away from the people who actually did the thing the guy has been charged with murder let's talk about that and the there was this completely slid by me i completely missed it i didn't hear any discussion about it on sunday and it wasn't until actually just a few hours ago that an article in the republic. caught my attention the whole thing in charlottesville charlottesville was

a protest about removing our history confederate history the statue robert e. lee and those people and one of the phrases that's used on the on the hard right on the racist message boards is we cherish our history in fact it's almost a slogan cherish our history. this is donald trump's original statement saturday listen for that. it was love each other respect each other and cherish our history and our future together so important that was not an explicit shout out to the racists who are in charleville for the rally i don't know what it was what the luster of us was awarded mogs with a southern victory what possibly would cause sebastian gorka or steve miller whoever wrote that speech to him to put that it's not about a dog whistle it's a shout out phrase to the people who are in charlottesville to protest the removal of robert e. lee scott statue it's like i'm with you guys and you're correct this was before

this is before that nut job decided to murder somebody so did the president by saying that incite someone to murder well that's now that we got it we've got to get some new bills of the prosecution i do i don't know i would say. he when you say that what he said cherish the history obviously in this context you're not you know you know what the situation is it's about removing the statue so yeah that i think that may well have been a signal that he's in favor of not removing the statue or he's opposed to the charlottes the whole city council decision or something like that. whether that's not incitement to murder obviously you know we're on says we're on dangerous ground these days nowadays if you text your boyfriend saying you should go ahead and kill yourself if you're talking about the bureaucracy charged stay with a capital gain on the middle of speaking to the people of the united states in the

middle of a essentially a riot what was right you know what was provoked it was as as in fact i would even say a racialized raise riot this is there are there are many of these in the history of the of the united states that started just like this where you usually are back in the day many black people ended up dead or their houses burned down or lynched whatever but here we are in the heart of the old confederacy and the messaging coming from the president of the united states was chilling and it's not lost on me just as an african-american person but everyone who really understood the historical framework for what happened in charlottesville is pretty freaked out by what's going on especially because the president of the united states took two days to comment right after he said we have to church or history it just it just be at that point you have that it's many there are many sides well that's that's the one

that the prospect of i didn't get up and there was some executives we need to talk about as well the mayor of charlottesville and the governor of virginia neither of whom covered himself in glory in terms of keeping civil order throughout this big mess troilus still had plenty and know this that something was going to have. but last time the three of us were on the show we were talking about another one of the situations in charlottesville where the all right came and the answer came there was some pushing and shoving but it good i can see cooler heads prevail but it didn't boil over nobody does so right in this case i mean they had lots of reason everybody knew this thing was coming it was a well known you know in these situations don't police give extra scrutiny to out of state license plates and don't take clothes off streets don't they put make sure they don't feel left and we want to hear i wasn't there so i don't want to hear of the reporters who were on the ground the cops who were in the park most of them

were not in riot gear they're a couple guys from the daily caller said they walked up to a cop who was talking on her phone and she was like she jumped when she saw them walking up to or the cops were not ready for this and it's a mayor's job to it's the first job of a mayor to maintain civil order in your town but this would not be the first time that there was a battle between white supremacists and people opposing them where the police waited until after the white supremacist had kicked the crap out of some of the people they didn't get figure it didn't come out and go oh yeah i mean it was more of before they intervened and you know it was the police department sure as it was getting some sort of here was a bit you know there was it was it was a pretty good fight going on i don't know that you can say and certainly all the number of counts indicate that the counter protesters were three to four times more numerous than the demonstrators themselves. as it's going to say a thing about the police that with striking to me with that and the faint blue with . and the big and the big riot there the police were like armed with

tank. after michael brown aftermath michael brown's murder and so it was very interesting to me to watch on television there were no police at all i mean there are certainly we hear both theories. here they didn't do it because there are white guys here they wanted something to go right the one thing i think we can come to agreement on is that they failed to maintain public order they paled to maintain peace and quiet in their town and i and jim last word is yours tim now tim here you have it all of our evan thank you very much for both of you thanks very much for being with us and we'll be right back with greg palast. what you have for breakfast yesterday why would you pick up your wife. what your biggest fear. is a bit on the table right when celeste read

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to the south educating people and giving them contacts instead of telling them what to make dialogue is far more a valuable thing to be. for more of flexions on the charlottesville attack and the threat of rising fascism i'm joined now by greg palast puffin foundation fellow and investigative reporting filmmaker and creator of the new documentary the best democracy money can buy a tale of billionaires and ballot bandits greg welcome back glad to be with you and i'm so glad you could you could be with us greg does trump own what happened in charlottesville i draw a bright line from the violence inside of his campaign events to saturday's terror attack would you. you bet and to answer what his defender said in the last

segment yes you could pick out one lone nut with a car but my colleague works at the palace the investigative front r. soucy producers act the roberts took a photo which is gone now viral of a whole posse of white guys beating up a special ed school teacher by the way of a young black man with with poles with a giant piece of lumber how he didn't die i don't know. the whole thing on film and and by the way it while taking this picture had a gun pulled on him a nine millimeter what looks like a semiautomatic glock it was it was first aimed at the rescuers of the young black men and then they turned to to zach our camera man and who you know foolishly forgot his bulletproof vest in the car but continued to shoot and thank

god the guy with the gun decided that that it sure of him was not be a very good idea of who's going to pull the trigger so you have to understand it's not one guy there's a whole posse of white guys who there was a young black man a couple of his friends walking by and they're there taunts yes they taunted the white guys with such devilish statements as because they're locals go home this is not your city. the young teacher was chased into a parking lot smashed through the the yellow barrier the the piece of lumber broke off one of the he fell to the ground one of these neo nazis grabbed this hunk of lumber started smashing him on the head three others started hitting him with poles and iron rods and. and then you had the guy pull the gun and some very brave young black men came in to rescue him and of course the cowardly neo nazis. lead including the guy with the with the pistol though we have their

pictures by the way and go to greg palast dot com you can see them if you can identify them please let us know but believe me this is this is a tone this is a setting so it's not one lone nut this was this beating was in fact the touchstone event in my opinion of the horrors this white race riot on saturday gregg in one thousand sixty eight. richard nixon famously reached out to southern white racists with a southern strategy in one nine hundred eighty reagan put it on steroids after his very first speech after he was given the republican nomination for president was in philadelphia mississippi where cheney's former and good and more murder the three civil rights workers back in one hundred sixty four. that year in one nine hundred eighty or maybe lady maybe as early eighty one lee atwater who was one of the top advisers to ronald reagan so we need to you know we can't use the n.

word anymore and we don't even need to talk about bossing anymore basically all we have to do is say cut domestic spending spending cuts and all the white people will get the signal that this is you know cut off the welfare of those lazy about black people i mean these are not though what i'm doing is i'm characterizing as we're actually let me share his exact words with you so there's no ambiguity because i want to get your thoughts on if there's a direct line from reagan in one thousand nine hundred eighty to this years lee atwater. and i know. that. you're going to show a rather narrow you. know message. is much more abstract in the bush. however

morning. when you see what happened in charlottesville and then you listen to what lee atwater said back in eighty one how much do you think the republican party itself is responsible for the rise of the so called out all to right and would the republican party be what it is that it without white supremacy. well ok we're you've moved on with our president mr agent orange from from dog whistle to dog barking it's not subtle in fact you mentioned the three civil rights martyrs andrew goodman and chaney and schwerner i spoke to andrew's younger brother last night because this brought him right back to reagan and philadelphia mississippi to be basically standing on the graves of the civil rights workers and telling white people all don't worry about that stuff anymore that has come to an end so once again we have got trump basically crooning tunes which are barely

disguised to mollify the white racist and we use the term all right but come on let's let's say where it is that this is the new white supremacist culture and and you have to relate this don't forget to the when you say the republican party responsible oh they all cried crocodile tears and mccain and and some of the other republicans talked about how you know basically trump should have been stronger in his statements it's not his statements all these guys the republican party benefited from a massive suppression of the black vote including in virginia and in other states and and that's that's their main goal because you know what there just aren't enough white guys to elect donald trump or a republican congress so they've got to get rid of the non white guys and that's part of this story you know when you don't get protection and by the way the young

man who i told you about who was beaten senseless beaten unconscious and could have and i don't know how he survived but the city is yet to contact and the police have yet to contact him even though he's put in complaint the justice department said we're going to investigate they haven't contacted this man they have the software they have. the databases they can look at the pictures that we have at the palace fund and on our site and tell us who those perps are but they're not interested because they are actually in the protection racket protecting these white supremacist believe me this is the problem that we went through in one nine hundred sixty three and four and five with the with the death of the civil rights workers if we went through with the dog whistles of nine hundred eighty and now we're going back through it again where there's no protection because if you don't have the vote you don't have the cops it is a very very dangerous turn of events isis has been encouraging their devotees

around the world to use vehicles as terror weapons and this is happened in a number of cities now around the world are we seeing the emergence of an american isis here we got it we have just a minute left greg well look these guys are brutal and they are armed and we need more than just a few mollifying words that they want from from trying to say these are bad boys we need we need a law enforcement one thing that did happen in the killing of those three civil rights workers in the sixty's is that the f.b.i. despite nixon despite the officials the f.b.i. hunted down the perps and got him and that sent the signal no you will not you will not now make black people targets in the united states of america and that's what i like to see i don't want to see statement from trump i want to see the feds in the

streets talking to the victims including gondry harris who was beaten nearly to death you know you know it's it's really really extraordinary real quickly greg do you have any sense that we're heading toward a new kind of civil war or something. well i mean trump would like that because that would allow him to you know take measures to change the laws and to allow more kind of antiterrorism and this idea of homeland security fatherland security that he can then use extraordinary forces to to federalize protection for these white races right to wrap it up greg palast thanks so much great having you with us and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag your. i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta e-mails and gave them

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am going to use a night the president denounces the events of the weekend in charlottesville calling racism the k.k.k. and neo nazi groups a great evil and protests spread throughout the country over the weekend in reaction to charlottesville reverend jesse jackson joins us for the conversation tonight and neo nazi ism sees a resurgent not only in the united states artie's alexy the reports on the spread of this ideology through europe reporting tonight from charlottesville virginia this is the news on r.t. america.