now, aoe thomas joins us host and programming prechter for charlottesville radio. to discuss how his city became ground zero for this past weekend's violence. with so much focus on what the president did and didn't say and that statement yesterday, we want to get your thoughts on that debate over the president's words. tost: the first thing i want point out is that i think the president was correct in saying all violence in any shape or form, any of this mob rule mentality has to be called out for what it is and has to be stopped in its tracks. if it doesn't we will get further down the rabbit hole. the fact that he didn't pick out one specific group -- supposing blackt picked out the lives matter groups that were protesting on the other side, equally violent, i was therefore four hours getting pepper spray by both groups. there was plenty of violence to go around. host: given the background over the battle of the monuments, how did this happen in charlottesville? becausehe battle began it was an issue brought up after ,he shooting in south carolina the church ther