please go back to david in charlottesville one of the things i've been looking at over the years here is that we do live in a multilateral world that is the reality here but the foreign policy blog in washington and the think tanks and all of their donors don't believe that and they will and this is one of the reasons why we see such an erratic foreign policy because washington believes any and you know polar world but it's not that's no longer the case and that's why we're seeing so many tensions said differently countries can say no and this is what we're expecting. we saw it in ankara go ahead david. i agree and i think rick maybe it was right to point out that the united states is going after a couple of big countries at once but people in the united states not so much disproportionately people who identify as the democratic party blame russia for everything where those who think they're republicans blame china for everything works out well for the government as they can blame both them for everything but people sort of pick who your identity determines which foreign nation you ha

he is the coordinator of the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space and in charlottesville we cross to david swanson he is the executive director of the world beyond war all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate david let me go to you 1st in charlottesville . going after my introduction right here listening to the president the united states we're in a great ideological struggle against autocracy here very much in tune with what we experienced during the cold war which i remember very well and it was an ideological struggle but is are we living in in 2021 in the ideological struggle on the on the world stage what's your take go ahead do. i think mostly in the fantasies of us propaganda i think the reality is more a struggle between of plutocracy and oligarchies there's no democracy to be seen there's no nobody in the us public has had a right to vote on whether to have a great battle against the autocracies you know we've got. you know it's just not credible that there's a military threat out there so somet

schmidt: welcome and greetings from charlottesville, virginia. thank you for joining the the university of virginia democracy initiatives memory project for our launch event today, this afternoon i'm jalane schmidt, associate professor of religious studies at the university of virginia. and i am the director of the memory project. the university of virginia democracy initiative integrates research, teaching, and public engagement on democracy by , bringing together a diverse range of scholars, government leaders, and practitioners, to study and advance the prospects of democracy in the united states and around the world. within the democracy initiative the memory project is dedicated to the study of how memory is , produced and reproduced. we do this by participating in and catalyzing memory work with our community partners. the memory project provides support for different educational initiatives, media production, the arts, public history and commemorative , events. the memory project is pleased to host this afternoon's launch event memorializi

it was exacerbated by what happened in charlottesville and once again a terrible tragedy. people were chilled. there was violence in charlottesville and then last summer we had a policeman kyl george floyd, and he's currently on trial. but in the south, the reaction to what they saw in minneapolis was to turn on the confederate monument because the confederate monuments represented to them more of a plurality. systemic racism and white supremacy and police brutality. so you know, there's now we see that they are mired in the politics of divisiveness that exist and have existed in have been building for the past several years and it's become a national issue. that's probably why we are still having his conversation and lastly which way the south has responded and the legislatures and the gop that dominates throughout the region. the response is to pass a law for something they call the heritage protection act which means that they are doubling down on preserving the statutes and what that does is create a situation such that they've taken away local control so communities t

. >> we all remember charlottesville in 2017 and the images of people carrying torches and blood and soil. i had this exchange with then president trump at the time. let's watch. >> the neo-nazis started it. they started this. they showed up in charlottesville to protest the removal of -- >> you had some very bad people in that group but you also had people that were very fine people. on both sides. you had people -- >> reporter: no, sir. there are no fine people in the nazis. there are no fine people in the nazis. >> they were there to protest the taking down of to them a very important statue. >> rabbi, do you think that four years later we still feel the damaging effects from trump's response to charlottesville? one of the i think disturbing things to see these days is a rise in anti-semitic attacks across the country. your thoughts on where things stand right now and dealing with hate in the united states? >> the former president brought hate to the mainstream. and we are feeling the effects right now. the idea that we could have a conversation about whether there are good and ba

he is the coordinator of the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space and in charlottesville we cross to david swanson he is the executive director of world beyond war all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate david let me go to you 1st in charlottesville . going after my introduction right here listening the to the president the united states we're in a great ideological struggle against autocracy here very much in tune with what we experienced during the cold war which i remember very well and it was an ideological struggle but is are we living in in 2021 in an ideological struggle on the on the world stage what's your take go ahead do i think mostly in the fantasies of us propaganda i think the reality is more a struggle between chrissie and oligarchies there's no democracy to be seen you know there's no nobody in the u.s. public has had a right of vote on whether to have a great battle against the top.

bjorn: a great topic, one of the people that you talk about is harvey, from charlottesville.en: charlotte's. it's easy to confuse. bjorn: the things that harvey did in the city. karen: right so harvey began, maybe people do not remember, he was first black students who integrated at the university had a move charlotte in the 70s and he was elected to the city council . those in the mid- 70s. and in 1977. 112 years since the civil war. there was a local guy, a group that wanted to put it confederate monuments the grounds of city: charlotte. most of the times these things would've gone without question. and even though the monuments actually did end up on the grounds of city hall, he began is one of the earliest members of the city council in the years after the voting rights act. because this into question. he is such a grasp of history and what that his treatment to him. he was brought up in charleston, south carolina he was surrounded by the confederacy. in history that he learned was that in his the black public schools in charleston, that he had grown up with was in histor

it was exacerbated by what happened in charlottesville. and once again a terrible tragedy people were killed there was violence there and and charlottesville and then last summer. we have a policeman kill george floyd and in which is currently he's currently on trial for but but in the south the reaction. to what they saw in minneapolis was to to turn on the confederate monuments because confederate monuments represent to them to more of a plurality of southerners. not just african-americans. systemic racism and and why supremacy and police brutality that's worn out of those two things. and so, you know, there's an and and now we're seeing like these these statues are just mired in in the politics of divisiveness. that's that exists and has existed and has been building for the last several years and it's become a national issue, not just a regional but a national issue and that's probably why you know, we're you know, we are having like why i wrote the book why we are still having this conversation. and and lastly i would just say that yo

this was given a power -- powerful -- in my hometown of charlotte's -- charlottesville.earchers and educators in charlottesville have been hard at work recovering a history of unionism in the region. the efforts to recover its history will be doubled after the attacks on our city and the efforts have made a difference in recognition of the fact that over half of the population of virginia was enslaved on the eve of the civil war and the fact many black man fought in union regiments. their city now celebrates march march 3 liberation and freedom day marks the moment in 1865 when they took possession of charlottesville and brought liberation to the region. the public history conducted collectively by a wide range of students and educators and researchers have ordered us with a new lens. the second way in which modern fellowship in for my book is in the conviction that are grand narratives are more compelling when they include a wide range of experiences and bland a range of methodologies to military and political culture. more than ever before civil war integrates the even

ryevana dredge so that we could then trade and conduct cameras all the way up yonder here the charlottesville i next wrote that i had achieved drafting if you will the some review. of the rights of british america. i just happened to have a copy right here with me. this was a summation if you will of all that we had been arguing. with our government a government essentially 3,000 miles away. and to write down the principles. of the rights of englishmen particularly the principle the holden opinion freely into freely express one's opinion the principle to to call for redress of grievances. the principles that i had written to continue to seek laws that would benefit us, but which had continually received the royal negative including ending the importation of slaves? i next accounted of course is offering our declaration. of american independence all right would say yes, i was the one solely and initially to be given the pen but never forget. i was on a committee a committee of five men improper parliamentary procedure to welcome if you will the expression of various ideas and to come to consen

he was writing from richmond to his father henry massey in charlottesville this letter dated january 29th, 1876. it included a little piece of paper which you can see on the right side of the screen. that was that was fold it up and pin to the inside of the letter and when his father opened the letter and open this little enclosure. he would have found this a smallpox scab and william wrote to his father saying that he basically was sending his father a scab so that his father could inoculate members of the family and william wrote to his father henry. harris says the peace i enclose the scab is perfectly fresh and was taken from an infant's arm yesterday, but that you must let him know whether it takes and if it does not he will send you another scam continues dr. harris says the enclosed scab will vaccinate 12 persons, but if you want more you must send for it, i will pin this to the letter so that you cannot lose it as you did before actually much of the letter william is expressing frustration with his because he had sent an earlier sample and his dad lost it. so william is very,

so, yes when we were talking about hate speech and the contemporary nazis marching in charlottesville but we can bring up any sort of example of the hate speech to frame it i then say the most significant and recent treatment of hate speech is in the westborough baptist church case and people misunderstand and sometimes say it doesn't include hate speech. in this case it explains in the court view yes it does include hate speech. it's hard to think of more than the westborough baptist church. they were basically just a family, a small church that among other things would protest outside of military funerals particularly iraq and afghanistan and veteran funerals and would hold a sign i won't say what they said but they attacked the support in the u.s. for homosexuality and said that because of that, any death in the foreign conflicts were god's punishment on all of us. they would say things like [inaudible] and much more. they protested and did this hundreds of times. matthew snyder. they were on public land not interfering in the actual funeral, but right there. when the father whose

activist whose life was taken standing up to nazis marching against the shadows of vengeance in charlottesville, and the family of a proud son, khalid jabara, of an immigrant family, who was gunned down in front of his home here in america, in the united states of america, by a neighbor fueled by hate. khalid jabara. both families share profound grief. and they've shown incredible courage to turn their pain into purpose. i hope you'll not be offended. i ask both families to please stand. [applause] i want to thank you. i want to thank you for being here. because i know it's hard. no matter how celebratory it is, a law being changed, when you have to show up at something memorializing your family. it's like, you got the news 10 seconds ago. it's the hardest thing to do. i know from experience it takes enormous courage. but i hope, i hope, that every day that's passed, the memory of your son and daughter brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. because i promise you, a lot of people understand who have gone through similar things. it's hard. so i really mean it when i say,

he announced his run for office to crime the anti-semitism that he saw in full view at charlottesvillejust this morning he tweeted out a firm statement. we do think it is critical for the administration to stand squarely in solidarity with the jewish community in this moment when so many of us are feeling frightened. i've heard from jewish people across the country. they are feeling scared. they have extremist on the right and radical voices from the left and they are wondering, is it safe for me to go out wearing a kippah? is it safe for me to walk to synagogue on a saturday? this is in america in 2021. we think leaders, not just president biden, but members of congress need to speak out and call it anti-semitism, without making equivalents or excuses for any other form of prejudice, you can have fierce debates about middle east policy but that is not an excuse to assault and victimize jewish people in america, in europe, anywhere. >> jonathan greenblatt, ceo of the anti-defamation league, thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. judy: one way the biden administration is try

heather hire in charlottesville and khalid gentleman brar rabbi a number who harassed his neighbors forr assuming they were muslim. i thought this was the covid-19 anti-asian hate crime act? why not invite, you know, a single victim of anti-asian violence? why not invite the asian woman beaten with a hammer just last month right here in new york? or the 53-year-old asian woman stabbed while waiting for a bus in san francisco? why not invite a single victim of anti-asian hate crime? because whether you are joe biden or kamala harris or the mainstream media at large, it's not really the victims that matter. it's the perpetrators. they want to hammer home the narrative that the most dangerous people in america are white men. but, as so often the case the reality just doesn't match up with the narrative. let's focus on anti-asian-american hate crimes they occur mostly in two or three cities, new york, los angeles and san francisco. not exactly fortresses of conservatism. not exactly full of people wearing maga hats and chanting donald trump's name. but, and i know this is going to sound cra

after charlottesville, republicans remain stymied over what to do about trump. what many did was just avoid the subject. and to remind you, charlottesville refers to the former president's claim there were good people, among the marchers chanting jews will not replace us and blood and soil on a friday before there was rioting. which is what real nazis shouted during the real holocaust. and congressman greene's mask fears, notwithstanding. it is not like jewish-americans today, don't have plenty to worry about. her remarks come just as the country is experiencing a wave of anti-semitic attacks, incl including this one last week here in mid town manhattan. the victim joseph bergen, spoke about tit this morning. >> i was walking down the street. i see out of the corner of my eye, somebody chasing me with their arm back looking like they want to punch me. before i could even react, i was surrounded by a whole crowd individuals who as you mentioned, proceeded to kick me, punch me. hit me with flagpoles, crutches. and then toward the end of the assault, i mean, i thou

we had a president who instead of simply condemning the violence in charlottesville where a woman was killed during a white nationalist rally, he said to a nation they're a very fine people on both sides. when asked to denounce white supremacy during an election debate, instead of doing so without equivocation, he told the right-wing proud boys, stand back and stand by. urged the crowd to fight like hell moments before they did just that storming the u.s. capitol. we can't strike a match near gas and then act surprised when it catches fire. we need moral clarity and leadership in these troubled times. i'm hopeful this administration the two witnesses before us can bring that difficult task before them. i believe it's critical for us to confront domestic violent extremism in all forms. and as chairman of this appropriations committee i'm firmly committed to doing just that. but let's not ignore the plain fact as repeatedly asserted by the homeland security and fbi director wray and others that white supremacist extremist are the most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland. violen

yes, we called out the prior president and his kind of accolades, extremists from marching in charlottesville odding through capitol hill but in this place we have people waving palestinian flags and then beating jewish people inch this case wt i might really draw parallel to is the hate crime committed against asian americans. where unhinged, you know, fictionalized conspiracies about china first started by political leaders lead to real world consequences as asian americans were attacked on the street. well, today we have unhinged fictionalized conspiracies about israel that show the jewish state is systemically slaughtering children or committing genocide and then that leads to real world attacks on jewish people in the streets of america. on our campuses, in our community. so although again the political tenor may be different, the real outcome is the same. and that's why we think people regardless of where you are on the spectrum need to speak out clearly and firmly and forcefully and say in an unambiguous way that anti anti-semitism is unacceptable because again, this isn't activism, it

schmidt: welcome and greetings from charlottesville, virginia.mocracy initiatives memory project for our launch event today, this afternoon i'm jalane schmidt, associate professor of religious studies at the university of virginia. and i am the director of the memory project. the university of virginia democracy initiative integrates research, teaching, and public engagement on democracy by , bringing together a diverse range of scholars, government leaders, and practitioners, to study and advance the prospects of democracy in the united states and around the world. within the democracy initiative

louis was the recipient of unspeakable hate when we were in college around the charlottesville community in the 1990's. and, you know, we would often discuss that and talk about that. about the changing times. but it was fascinating for me to watch a man like louis, who came from zimbabwe and experienced a lot of what was apartheid in south africa and being the first black to win the south african open to him talking about the greatness of this country and justice in this country and what this country has meant as a beacon for people around the world and justice. we talked about it at length. i understand the intent behind this bill. i just want to say i share that intent and i know speaking for mr. jordan, who had to relinquish the time to me, we share that intent. we just have serious reservations about defining hate crimes and going down the road of collecting data and the way we're doing it and how it divis up by race ddivies up by race. -- divies up by race. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. nadler: i yield to t

he condemned anti-semitism in 1973 and obviously up to his vocal condemnation of the events in charlottesville . he recognizes this is a persistent evil that demands our efforts and we've been working an ongoing contact with the jewish community to offer support. we've taken steps to confront anti-semitic violence including by signing into law strong crimes legislation last week but we are working to bolster safety and security at synagogues and other religiously affiliated facilities and organizations. dhs has briefed directors across the jewish community and is preparing a public awareness goal that will put into place measures facilities can take so we have and across government effort at the president is focused on. >> some jewish groups by claiming a day of action on may 27 which is a thursday . does the president have plans to make any earmarks there? >> i know the president will be traveling on thursday in ohio and delivering an economic speech. i can see if there'sanything more in scheduling plans . >> just in terms of transatlantic travel, at the eu last week lifting restrictions on a

he is the coordinator of the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space and in charlottesville we cross to david swanson he is the executive director of the world beyond war all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate david let me go to you.

years is it's not just that he bowled in them to come out from the shadows like what we saw in charlottesville it was more than just that it was a kind of. almost a mainstreaming. many of their ideologies because trump started talking about them now it's on social media now it's on tucker carlson show or show and it's like a constant narrative what is. and this this group is going to change our world or this individual is trying to last and so everything is anger everything is greed and everything is increasingly excess tension. even with trump gone his brand of politics is what remains the fact that in 2020 the republican party didn't even adopt a new platform they basically they said. drop in a platform and 60 were running on that again and basically the real translation was they were running on. political parties tend to be self-correcting when they do things that leads to their becoming ineffective or losing power in elections they make changes and what donald trump has really done is frozen the republican party in place and made it unable to move beyond his obsessions and his personal lea

this man runs a whiskey distillery near charlottesville.t was basically thrown out of the leadership, he was not part of the house leadership. the freedom caucus, everyone became persona non grata and then he went on to speak out and this man has had his life turned upside down. his own mother calling a traitor to his country. he will have his own book coming out. she showed humanity, courage and passion. democracy. we need a reckoning. we also need to focus on personal qualities. this might feel like a little bit of a good digression, but i want to talk about a conversation i had six days ago with a friend of mine who i wanted to contribute to the book. he had a lot to say but unfortunately he works for espn. he has not allowed to talk about politics. we were talking about anthony scaramucci. this is my friend pedro. again, you can say what you want about anthony, he helped donald trump, some of us find that offensive. he worked very hard against the reelection of donald trump. people are talking about it. this is a conversation i had. wha

in charlottesville what a mob saying we will not be replaced by jews the media to its credit went nuts, made it a lead item on the news everywhere. here, the media is silent as jews are being hunted, almost silent, you can find some coverage, but networks not putting it on the front page where it should be. laura: you said it better than i did, squad leader ayanna presley took to the house floor recently to add fuel to the burning flame of anti-semitism. we are seeing the soul of the country but watch what she says. >> i rise to recognize the trauma and loss of life perpetuated by systems of oppression here in the united states and globally. palestinians are being told the same thing as black folks in america, there's no acceptable form of resistance. >> it is so irresponsible to tie these things together. we have history in our country with african-americans and have done a great job resolving the historical discrimination. what is happening in the middle east is entirely different, has its own history and deserves its own separate treatment. we have a long history in this country of