. >>> doug brannen, who was friends with reverend clemente pinyckney he said that the lax gun laws was the problem at the charleston massacre. >> last year we passed a bill that says if one has ever been deemed incompetent they can no longer possess a firearm. i just heard in the piece before you came to me that the shooter in this incident legally purchased a gun. this shooter didn't have a criminal record. he had been arrested but not convicted. i'm an attorney. i'm not prepared to get to the point where we take one's rights away for a charge. we still live in a country where you're innocent until proven guilty. i'm not willing to cross that line. >> president obama has spoken with france's president amid the latest revelations over spying by the usa. wikileaks said that the u.s. has eavesdropped on the french leaders for years. innes ferer hay more. >> the report that the u.s. spied on the past three president, reports cited by which canny which canwikileaks three last french presidents were all reported to have been targeted. >> not only the phones of the presidents, but their mobi

doug brannen plans to introduce a bill that but the time is now. . >> take it down! >> reporter: while the move could cost him re-election, many with presidential aspirations rushed to embrace haley's call. hillary clinton and bernie sanders joined scott walker and jeb bush and rick perry in tweeting their support. senator lindsey graham who had expres a museum. move forward. >> reporter: some are vowing to fight the move. >> if we are going to remove all of these symbols of the civil war? are we going to take down the -- because it reminds of us segregation. >> reporter:? the flag was 34506ed from the top of the statehouse dome 15 years ago to a confederate memorial out front. it can only be lowered by a vote by the stit legislature. obama believes the flag should be taken down and put in a museum where it belongs. the president will be in charleston on friday to deliver the eulogy for the church pastor killed in that shooting who was also a state senator. >> mark albert in washington, thank you, mark. >>> dylann roof charged with the murders appeared in a flag. man

we saw doug brannen come out and say he'll file the bill to bring it down. >> that's a republican statetor. >> for my my journey is to understand faith without works is dead. so as we move forward, we have to have faith, but our work has to be to come together to remove this symbol of hate and i believe that we will. >> and david, your argument -- you wrote very long op-ed for "national review". >> i read it by the way. >> it was well written. you granted a lot of bakari's point about why people could and should be offended by it but at the end of the day you still think it represents to you, and i guess you think to a majority of people who support it heritage not hate. >> i have grown up in the south, and i understand all of the many dimensions that are brought to the view of that flag. and i completely -- i agree with everything that bakari just said about its meaning and its import to a huge number of our very dear citizens who are suffering today. and again, i hate that this debate is taking place against the backdrop of that suffering. but it is viewed in many different ways by ma