the folks in the city of charlottesville were spectacul spectacular, but it's sad for charlottesville and virginia. but much beyond that, this was a sad day for america. i remember when i finally went out and gave my speech i got phone calls and texts from folks all over the globe because what's going on in america and then when trump came out and said they were good people on both sides, that was the lowest point of his presidency and i talked with him that day i had a phone conversation and told him what was going on in charlottesville. >> host: you thought you persuaded him to say the right thing. you hung up thinking he understood there were no good people on the nazi side. >> guest: foolishly i thought the president of the united states -- and i talk about how bill clinton had issues as you know in oklahoma city where he wenwent on infield of the natio, barack obama have charleston south carolina when he went down and heal the nation, george bush on 9/11 went up there with a bullhorn. when these major incidences happen in the country they are looking for the president, they are l

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i was in charlottesville.went to middlebury college where as george mentioned charles murray was invited to speak. i went to evergreen college in oregon and read college, and went to talk to protesters and to standing rock and talk to people who would been arrested and put in prison for protesting there. yeah, i guess to put it bluntly what i found out is free speech means pretty much nothing at all. we think of free speech as this value that we uphold that no matter what our politics are beyond free-speech, that it is the think we can agree on, the classic quote that doesn't actually come from anyone but people district to voltaire. i disagree with what you say but also to my death i will defend your right to say. that's what 95% of americans think. but as it turns out, that's a lot more complicated, and speech doesn't really mean speech in a society where some are so much more able to speak, and equally as importantly be heard sense of many of the people. what i found is that speech, like everything else in

. >> the open hate in charlottesville. pittsburgh. >> murdered because they were jewish. >> charlottesville. >> he said that he wanted to kill black people. >> you were looking at your own backyard. >> an army of hate. whose numbers are soaring. the country is changing. >> get the [ bleep ] out of here. >> the furor growing. >> go home! >> and it is spreading across the world. >> why would you treat us like this. >> a fire fed by politicpolitic. >> very fine people on both sides. >> haunted by the past. >> adolf hitler says we can learn from them. >> the roots of the crisis. >> there is a boom and then nothing left. >> the flash point question -- >> black lives matter! >> all men are created equal. you don't believe that. >> of course not. >> no hate, no fear. >> the fabric of a country. demands a call for action. >> we have never continue all that could be done. ♪ >> once upon a time in america, it looked like almost everyone was white. the idea of america as a white man's country very powerful idea. in 1960, whites made

and that part of charlottesvil is going me blue. at the same time, dan bishop was able to make in-roads in the district, workingss voters. it was a erttle bit of a replay 2016. >> woodruff: and you're saying-- and you're pointing out and reminding us tat mccready, the democrat, did better than he did last fall. from this?epublicans taking awab are they tellingue are you sensing there's more nervousness out how-- what president trump can expect in north carolina next year? >>o, i spoke with bishop's campaign strategist today, and his view s, "lo, we may be losing college-educated voters in charlottesville," but he said, if we can make that up by getting working class voters in rural counties, that's oky. that's still a winning coalition." he felt like they were in good shape for statewide races anid gointo 2020. on the democratic side, like you said earlier, president trump won tht is distr 12 percentage points. for the democrat to get within two po ants is pretty big shift. and if the democrats can perform like that again in 2020, t

i was in charlottesville, i went to middlebury college, the scientist charles murray, i went to evergreen college in oregon and i went to d.c. and talk to protesters and people who had been arrested and put in prison for protesting there. to put it bluntly, when i found out is that free speech means pretty much nothing at all. we think of free speech is this value that we uphold no matter what our politics are, beyond free speech, that is think we can agree on," that doesn't actually come from anyone, i disagree with what you say but i'll defend to my faith death your right to say. as it turns out, that's a lot more complicated and speech doesn't really mean speech in a society where some are so much more able and equally as important to be heard and so many other people. so what i found is that speech, like everything else is along the predictable lines of race, class, gender and every other form of oppression and most people really have no significant right to free speech and i would argue also no significant rights to liberatory freedom. the first amendment in particular for the whole

if there wasn't that police president someone got hurt or killed, as we saw in charlottesville, he is very fearful there would be enormous criticism. one of the city councilors

but what's happened is that that part of charlottesville has really flipped. mccready won it la t ll. he expanded on that margin this time. and that part of cha gottesville ng more blue. but at the same time, dan bishop was able to make in-roads in the more rural parts of thewo districtki class voters. it was a little bit of a replay of 2016. >> woodruff: and you're saying-- and you'rinting out and reminding us that mccready, the democrat, did better than he did last fall. what are republicans taking aw from this? are they tellingue are you vousnessthere's more ner about how-- what president trump can expect in north carolina next year? >> so, i spoke wit bishop's campaign strategist today, and s view was, "look, we may be losing college-educated voters invi charlotte," but he said, if we can make that up by getting working class vters at's okay.ties, th that's still a winning coalition." he felt like they were in good shape for statewide races and going into 2020. on the democratic side, like you said earlier, president trump wosthis ditrict by 12 percentage

people were not sure what would happen after charlottesville.e ideas that the surface manifestation of the alt-right broke, but the underlying forces really essentially the economic and spiritual crisis of all this group of young people is still exist. yet you they retreated back online and have been some good stories about how a lot came to youtube and it been in discord, ichat app, congregating in all my spaces and sort of reforming but are scared to go outside. so the last -- i was surprised milo yiannopoulos spoke three reseal in d.c. and that's what he went to see and cover the story. it was full of like literally crazy people, like people who are like prince this committee can with me to tell you that robin williams hates everyone because of the illuminati conspiracy. i was writing this got my reporters notebook. it was like 300 300 people, bue people that were like dedicated 4chan with happy mask, they were frightened of me. everyone was frightened of being humiliated and being filmed being humiliated, even mcginnis and self surround hims

they have spawned descendents with variations down to charlottesville. this fella in the foreground here is wearing the same insignia that folks in springfield wore in 1924. among the organizers of the charlottesville rally of 2017 was matt heimbach of southern indiana. i have sort of followed him. he has dozens of interviews from all over the world. heimbach is no rube. he is a college graduate, thank god not in indiana. in maryland, he was a history major. no rube. he requires, others require that we have answers to the question of who is an american? who are these people marching down pennsylvania avenue? who are their descendents today? what is our responsibility as citizens and historians? i won't tell you your responsibility because i believe in ideals and that is for you to decide, but i will tell you as a historian we have a responsibility to tell the story, to figure out ways to tell it accurately with documented evidence, to figure out ways to tell it effectively. not just to other historians. we can get this pretty well pretty quickly, but to

that is why they felt comfortable coming to charlottesville. i made the point that people use to wear hoods. they used to do this at night. they don't think they have to do that anymore. they had this big coming-out party. they got hurt badly and charlottesville. i agree with your point. they were not able to do another charlottesville because they were so injured and wounded and charged and so forth. it has gone now underground on the web that this person from el paso, this killer who wrote his manifesto and really specifically talks about white supremacy, white identity, directly quoting donald trump's tweets. you are right. the president failed us this week in his speech. i wish he had come out and said, opened his speech up and said, you know what, i am sorry. my rhetoric has created division and hatred i was wrong. it's time for us to come together. if president trump had done that, he could have turned the entire corner. he does not have it in him. he gave this speech which he read off of a teleprompter. he is the number one out there wit

we have a gap in our statutes person, james s charlottesville -- just like if the shooter in el paso -- right before he committed his attack i can guarantee you, either both of charged with crimes of terrorism. international terrorism or attacking to commit that on behalf of a foreign terrorist organization. standard anddouble as we -- crimes in our country of expressing ay their condemnation for activity. what's beyond permissible in a society of laws. and of the rule of law. and so, there is that moral equivalency that we need to have approach that we terrorism but beyond that, because people will say to me, it just semantics or moral equivalency, but a lot comes important.hat's one thing is that people right now, i think, oftentimes in the terrorism the word and they immediately think islamic extremist. think jihad. they think 9/11 and people need to know what a threat is because decisions in ke your daily life an i'm not suggesting that we all go around for d to go out in public fear of terrorism that would be the worst thing to do but you is to know what the threat so you can ap

i say that as we saw those folks on the field carrying torches in charlottesville that we are in a battle or the soul of this nation and we are. that's why i'm running for president . [applause] we have to rebuild , we have to rebuild this nation. we have to rebuild it. the middle class is being crushed, the poor are getting poorer and income equality is at an all-time high . made even worse the god-awful tax cuts that trump has passed benefiting virtually no one but the super wealthy. folks, wall street did not build this country, you built this country. the middle-class built this country. and unions built the middle class. it's time we start to reward work over well. why in god's name should a nurse, a firefighter, a police officer, a teacher, why in god's name to make a one of the higher tax rates and someone making tens of millions of dollars. it's wrong and it will change in my administration. ladies and gentlemen, let's guarantee and we can, we can without a power guarantee every single solitary american that healthcare is a right and not a privilege. i will put around the affordab

those after we solve folks walking on the field carrying torches in charlottesville that we were in aattle for the soul of the nation. and we are. that is why i am running for president. we have to rebuild. we have to rebuild. this nation. theave to rebuild death middle class is being crushed. the poor is getting poorer and income equality -- income inequality is at an all-time high made worse by the god-awful tax cut that donald trump has passed that benefits no one but the super wealthy. wall street did not build this country, you belt this country. the middle class build this country and unions build the middle class. start to reward work over wealth. why in god's name should a nurse, a firefighter, a police officer, a teacher -- why in gods name should they pay at a higher tax rate than someone making tens of millions of dollars? it is wrong and it will change in my administration. gentlemen, we have to it istee and we can, within our power, guarantee every single solitary american that health care is a right and not a privilege. the affordable care act covered more than 20 millio

president, there are not two sides after charlottesville when one side is the ku klux klan. there is only one side, and that is the american side. that is it. one that says we are not going to tolerate a government where tax cuts go to the wealthy, and the middle class is left picking up the crumbs. we believe that if millionaires can refinance their yachts, students should be able to refinance your student loans and afford college. we believe that big pharma and take oil don't own washington. the citizens of this country own washington. we believe in science and in facing the existential threat of our time, the climate crisis. that is why on day one as president, i will sign us back into the international climate change agreement, and on day two, i will bring back the clean power rules. on day three, i will bring back the gas mileage standards. on day four, five, and six, i will introduce sweeping legislation to bring down greenhouse gases and solve this climate crisis. on day seven, you are supposed to rest, but i don't think i will. you know what else we believe in? we be

president, there are not to sites after charlottesville when one side is the ku klux klan.re is only one side, and that is the american side. that is it. that is all. [applause] one that says we are not going to tolerate a government where tax cuts go to the wealthy, and the middle class is left picking up the crumbs. that's because we believe that if millionaires can refinance their yachts, students should be able to refinance their student loans and afford college. [cheers and applause] we believe that big pharma and big oil and the nra don't own washington, not with other lobbyists, they don't. the citizens of this country own washington. [applause] we as america believe in science and in facing the existential threat of our time, the climate crisis. that's why on day one as president i will cite us back into the international climate change agreement. [applause] and on day two, i will bring back those clean power rules. on day three i will bring back the gas mileage standards come and you don't need congress to do it. [applause] and on day four, five and six i will intr

when he talked about the charlottesville neo—nazi protests and he said there were good people both on them, you didn't walk away from him then. i did. crosstalk. you didn't walk away from him. when he described countries that immigrants coming to american were coming from work, i can't even use the word, you didn't walk away from him then. you are didn't walk away from him then. you a re loyal to didn't walk away from him then. you are loyal to president trump throughout. you are being a little unfairand throughout. you are being a little unfair and that is not exactly factual. 0n the charlottesville situation, i totally denounced that, you can find a tape of me on george stephanopoulos's show, that is a very vivid memory for me, because that was after i was ousted and fired from the white house. i was on george's show totally denouncing that. forgive me, i spoke to you last year and i discussed that and many other issues and you remained steadfastly loyal to donald trump. you said to me, stephen, i tell you what, judge a man by his actions, not by his words, that is what you said to

foreign service officer was present at the protests in charlottesville in 2017 when a man drove a car into a crowd of demonstrators. they were protesting against a march by right wing extremists. brennan gilmore called the attack on video it cost a young woman her life but when i saw what i had on video i gave it to the police 1st but when i saw it was not accidental it was not an accident it was clear show you know that this guy had a 1000000 other choices drive through this crowd and so i thought that it was important to share for those reasons and so i sent it out soon far right websites began claiming gilmore had staged the bloodshed some said he was part of a shadow government out to topple president trump with cia support this conspiracy theory spread like wildfire landing on the right wing hard line info wars page. i think it's like reading your the hate campaign rapidly infiltrated his real life to this day he receives death threats by e-mail burning gilmore you are directly involved you are sick sick sick. hash tag down with the deep state there's one burning gilmore's body f

let's go live now to hong kong where our correspondent charlottesville some pill is standing by thanks for joining me how a protest is commemorating today. book clashes rebecca what widely predicted today and that is exactly what we have seen on the streets of hong kong things have thought it's calmed down a little bit now people as i'm sure you can see behind me are starting to go home many of them still wearing the mosque that they were wearing just a short time ago now what we saw with a number of a protest is throwing rocks and stones at police said most of cocktails were also thrown at government buildings a short time later police issued a warning urging people to leave the government complex area or they would be made to leave and then the police moved in we saw riot police on the streets we saw water cannon very briefly police used blue dye in that would come in something that we've seen a couple of times before were designed to mob the protesters so that they can be identified and tracked down onto it so that has been another violent evening here in hong kong crucially people

know battles continue over coederate monuments across the country especially since the riots in charlottesville. in alexandri city leaders changed the name to richmond highway in january. it took an opinion finm 's attorney general to say that counties could do it as well. we asked peopl in arlington yesterday how they felt about >> i think the peoplesp that occupy this ace if they want the name to be different to suit their beliefs and, you know, what makes them more comfortable with the city that they live in, that's totally acceptable. >> it's aot reminder for a l of people every time they see statues that are up that, you know, we had that oppression and it's really something that think that needs to be changed. >> reporter: now, arlington county says theew signs will cost $17,000. businesses and residents along this stretch of highway will n alsoeed to update their addresses but they will stillil get maelivered to the old addresses from the post office. w now, till be some traffic delays we' told this morning during the one-hour process. th remaining signs on the 2.6-me replaced over the n

before and after charlottesville, this nation will never be the same.ing. the philosophers tell us faith sees best in the dark. now, hate is on the rise again. we are in a defining moment again in american history. who are we? what do we want to be? after charlottesville, i said that i believe we are in a battle for the soul of america. i say it again today, we are in the battle of the soul of america. [ applause ] >> here at the historic 16th baptist church, there is no reminder of that and no example of what is demanded of us in response. it is a battle we fought again and again. it is a battle that's claimed countless lives. hate is ononly hides, it does n away. if you give it oxygen, it comes out of the rock. it can't be defeated or drowned out but it can't be vanquished. we should realize that the revulsion of hate as its ugliest can sum us as as nation to do better and bring out the best in us. the white supremacists so heinous can't be ignored by any decent americans. presents an opportunity to continue to make progress against systematic racism.

because -- so my organization , after the charlottesville you the right -- the charlottesville rally, brought litigation against 23 of the alt-right, white supremacist, white nationalist groups and the militias. the self-professed militias that were there. we brought the litigation to prevent them from returning because immediately after the unite the right rally, the groups were saying, our civil rights were violated because we didn't get to have our rally, it got shut down, so we're going to be coming back again and again. i don't think anyone in the world wanted to see another act of violence the way we saw on that day. so we used state anti-militia and anti-paramilitary activity statutes that exist in most of our states across the country. y're entirely content-neutral. they're based on actually banding together like militias and engaging in the organized, armed use of force, or projection of ability to use force. and we ended up getting 23 court orders against all 23 defendants, prohibiting them from returning to engage in that activity. why do i bring that up? because we've used

in august, 2017, most of us in this room recall the rally in charlottesville which ended with a vehicular domestic terrorist attack and ran his vehicle killing heather and wounding dozens of others. and i watched that and i saw what happened and i thought this is the same kind of terrorism that we have been seeing across europe and other places on behalf of foreign terrorist organizations like isis for the last couple couple of years. the vehicle had become a weapon of choice in the lot of attacks in u.k., france, germany. i immediately wrote about it that very next day to say we have a gap in our statutes because if this person, james beforein charlottesville he committed his attacks like the shooter in el paso had pledged before he committed his attacks, i can guarantee either or both of them would be charged with crime terrorism. or attempting to attack on ehalf of a foreign organization. crimes are away of expressing their condemnation of activity ta is beyond what is permissible in a society of laws and of the rule of law. so there is that moral aquifflens si in the way we approach t

when i saw those folks in charlottesville, coming out of the fields, carrying torches.ins bulging, shouting the same anti-semitic bile that was shouted in the streets of nuremberg and berlin in the '3 0s, accompanied by the ku klux klan and when a woman was killed and the president was asked to respond, and he said there were very fine people in both groups. no president has ever, ever said anything like that, the possible exception of andrew jackson before the civil war. that's when i decided, how can i, i've spent my whole life doing this, how can i remain silent? because i was raised by a dad who taught me silence is complicit. this is the way he has tried to divide this country and pitted people against one another. and you saw it didn't just end with charlottesville, look what happened in el paso recently, you know, young man saying i shot all these people in the parking lot because there's a hispanic invasion. well, the president just weeks, and the 2018 off year campaign kept showing that video of people marching up, we're being invaded by latinos and mexicans ar

police department in charlottesville virginia. it is an honor to provide sawritten testimony from assault weapons. them is concerned about the level of gun violence in the united states and specifically the correlation between violence and proliferation of assault weapons of high-capacity ammunition magazines. it is our organization's opinionli that particularly gun violence is a health issue and as with all issues demands a comprehensive nonjudgmental pragmatic evidenced of based on - - based approach to reducing injury. no others those that prevent gun violence of which we are a member is committed to addressing the pervasive nature of gun violence. with his terrific on - - horrific impact across america. specifically those to include homicide, suicide and accidental shootings involving assault weapons is unacceptable. and to be clear noble defines assault weapons a semi automatic guns with a high-capacity ammunition magazine designed for military use. we advocate for limiting high capacity magazines at ten rounds and those semi

charlottesville.hes, when i heard those chants, and saw the hate on the march, i knew like all of you, all these i had hoped it would never happen again, i knew like all of you that hate was on the marnlch. it was a defining moment for all of us and ththat our silence is complicity. hate is on the rise again. we're at a defining moment again in american history. who are we? what do we want to be? i say it again 2k5itoday, we ar the battle for the soul of america. those of us who are white try, but we can never fully understand no matter how hard we try. we are almost at this next phase of progress in my view. it is hard work, but there is almost 330 americans, i know there is nothing that we can't accomplish if we stand together. >> joining me now, mike memoli there in birmingham for us. what were the main takeaways from this speech and the mood of the crowd as they were listening to him? >> reporter: for the biden campaign, this was an important moment for them to continue building on the foundationa

, virginia, who was considering a run for charlottesville city council. the threats forced the activist don gathers to drop out of the race. the white supremacist daniel mcmahon has a long record of threatening violence against antiracists and antifascists. he once dubbed himself the antifa hunter. several of his online posts were shared by the man who attacked the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh, killing 11 jewish worshipers. amnesty international, human rights watatch, and dozens of other groups are urging the u.s. senate to reject the nomination of marshall billingslea to a top state department post overseeing u.s. human rights policy. billingslea openly supported the use of torture and harsh interrogation methods while working in the pentagon during george w w. bush's administrati. the trump administration is threatening to cut federal funding to a middle east studies program run jointly by duke university and the university of north carolina chapel hill. the u.s. education department recently wrote to the schools claiming its classes are unfairl

charlottesville was a nightmare as well. to call those people nice people, it was a large mistake on his part. >> and there was the time that he told people of color to go back to the crime infested places from which they came. >> and the s-hole nations, yes. >> and then the rat eroded infested and the rodent infested mess in baltimore. >> right. >> you didn't speak out after any of those instances. >> one of the things that happens is i'm not that big of a figure. on facebook i could say things, but for some reason now i've got thn pres ten this place. even back then i was opposed to what he was doing. >> do you think the president of the united states is a racist? >> the growing up a racist was one who employed violence and hatred. i don't see him as a racist per se, but i do see him with a white superiority complex. when you look at his cabinet, his interns, his corporations with the posse of black people in there. i would say he has a white superiority complex. because of that white superiority complex, the rules are wri

rochelle bractney is the chief of police in charlottesville, virginia. previously she served for 30 years with the pittsburgh bureau of police. she was the first african-american woman to oversee a special operations division. she received her b.a. and m.a. from carnegie mellon university and phd from robert morris university. she is a graduate of the stillal fbi come -- now -- national fbi academy in virginia. this --next guest, served with the consumers union. mrs. randall received a b.a. from university of southern california and jd from george washington university. amy swearer is a senior legal policy analyst in the center for judicial studies at the heritage foundation. previously she held positions with the charles koch institute and the lancaster nebraska public defender's office. she received or bachelor of science in criminal justice and her jd from the university of nebraska. diana muller is the founder of the grass roots initiative to bring one woman from every state to washington, dc to meet with legislators on behalf of gun owners. she is a

bractney is the chief of police in charlottesville, virginia. she was the first african-american woman to oversee a special operations division. she received her b.a. and m.a. from ca carnegie mellon univers kristin rand is the legislative director for the violence policy center. before joining the center in 1994, she served as the counsel for consumer's union. she received her b.a. from university of southern california. amy swearer is a senior legal policy analyst in the center for judicial studies at the heritage foundation. she held position with the lancaster nebraska public defender's office. she received or bachelor of science and her jd from the university of nebraska. dana mueller is the founder of the grass roots initiative to bring one woman from every state to washington, d.c. to meet with lawmakers. previously she served for 22 years in the tulsa police department. she received a bachelor of science in criminal justice and psychology from the university of central missouri. david chip is a senior policy advisor and is a member of th

nazi group called right sector it seems kiev has a poll for americans on the far right remember charlottesville. of the. 4 members of the far right group involved in that riot were arrested and lo and behold they too had a fixation on the hours of battalion they even traveled to europe and met one of the battalions leaders with so many neo nazis in the us you would think washington would unambiguously oppose their growth but that's just not the case at 1st in 2015 congress unanimously voted against military aid to the neo nazi as of battalion i am grateful that the house of representatives unanimously passed my amendments last night to ensure that our military does not train members of the repulsive neo nazi azoff but talian but just one year later washington changed its mind and all of the sudden pictures began surfacing on social media of hours of and us soldiers striking poses together and makes you wonder if the u.s. even thinks nazi ideology is a threat let alone something negative frankly you know our vetting screens for human rights violations not for ideology neo nazis you know can join

and education and then with high school classmate and in charlottesville and monticello and the campus of university ofrs virginia then came back and it has opened my eyes and i also thought the university of virginia looked very appealing. and my older brothers had gone to yale. and to be a wonderful character. and i went in to see him after we got back from the trip and said i just had a wonderful trip to see you and went to the university of virginia we saw the beautiful c campus and i thought i might apply to the university of virginia. he was standing very close to me and considerably shorter and jammed his finger into my chest and said you are going to yale and i don't want to hear any more about it. [laughter] he didn't say's it out and let's talk about it or your feelings. [laughter] it was a different approach and never thought about the university of virginia again. [laughter] change one - - teachers change the world. and who they give credit for and one of the most lovely of all to say she and up being a teacher. you are doing what needs to be done. here is to you. >> so you