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. >> mason: bryan stevenson is a public interest lawyer and founder of the equal justice initiative.r. stevenson, thanks for being with us. >> delighted to be with you. >> mason: the events in charlottesville and the president's response have opened some very deep and ugly divisions in this country. what do you think needs to happen now to heal this? >> well, we have a tragic history of racial inequality in america that we haven't done a very good job of confronting or acknowledging. and it continues to haunt us. it compromises our ability to get to the kind of society we seek. so i think we have to own up to that and begin dealing with this legacy in a more direct way. i mean, white supremacy has done horrific, destructive things, but despite all of that, the true evil of that era for me wasn't the forced labor. it was this ideology of white supremacy. we said that black people aren't as good as white people. and even though we passed the 13th amendment in 1865, we didn't deal with that ideology, and so it endured. so what we've seen in charlottesville is a manifestation of our fail

think that truth-telling has to begin for us to make the progress that needs to happen. >> mason: bryan stevensonank you very much for being with us. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> mason: with the president under fire, mark strassmann checked in with some republicans who voted for him. janelle jones, ellen diehl, and lucretia hughes. >> reporter: has your support for trump lessened one bit? >> absolutely not. >> not at all. >> no. >> reporter: not one bit. >> no, i don't look at him as, you know, my pastor or my moral leader. i look at him as the leader as it relates to governmental issues. >> we're not looking for somebody charming. we're looking for a man who knows how to turn things around, and he's got a track record of turning things around. >> reporter: when you saw charlottesville what, did that say about where we are as a country? >> it wasn't necessarily a completely black-white issue, but i think that the media is turning it into a black-white issue. it's definitely a left-right issue, but it's left fringe and right fringe. >> reporter: the confederate stat use don't bother you? >> no. i

so bryan stevenson is chapter lays it out and explains it so well. of course the sugar focus on police officer to police officers have a tremendous amount of power and discretion on the street to stop people, to search them and the law makes it easy for them to do that. but i think people should focus also on prosecutors added of thing people have been focusing on them a lot. they are the most powerful officials in our criminal justice system. police officers aske absent youe a lot of power to stop people on the street, search them, frisk them, arrest them, but police officers can only bring people to the courthouse door. it is the prosecutor who decides whether they remain entrenched in the system and end up with a criminal record and all of that. the prosecutor has so much to do with that. that is because of the two powers they have, the charging decision and the plea-bargaining decision. those two decisions made by prosecutors almost predetermine the outcome of criminal cases. why do i say that? if the police officer arrested person on the street,

what happens is win you create this mythology around he civil rights movement, bryan stevenson, an activistoks back the civil rights movement like it was a three-day festival. day one, rosa sat down on the bus. day two, martin had dream. day three, everybody who could vote and everybody had cotton candy and we assign couple buyy. kumbiya. what helps is when you create a caricature of a movement you create care to tours tours of t- caricature of the people in the movement and you don't realize our social changes help. so you look at the polls on martin luther king and don't under the full context. what happens is people look at "black lives matter" activists on the bridge or colin kaepernick take a knee and ask why are people doing that? dr. king would not allowed people walking across a bridge to help. you're joist like, selma just came out. don't know what you're talking be. but this is -- again, this is like deeply entrenched in our discourse around the nature of what -- how we teach history. so i think it's really important that as sort of leaders in your district, you are providing oppo