down.ay take all of them not just the confederates but union and confederate's.ut them in a museum or original place where these people came from. everyone has money. i am sure someone will sponsor it or champion the cause at some point and put them in a private museum. host: ok. maryland.tonio in speaking of money, the "new york times" reports the trump administration no plans to bill containing the image of harriet tubman. was delaying the changing despite the obama administration have been initiated a timeline that would have it unveiled in 2020. briefing, the treasury secretary said the redesigning of the currency required developing complicated counterfeiting technology and a new printing process which takes years, hoping it is done in the near future. he says the currency timelines were set by career officials and an extensive interagency process . jeff is next. from kentucky on our opposed line. caller: yes. to me it is a waste of money to take all of the monuments down. it is a slap in the face. host: did you know about the name and the connection to the

nascar moving away from confederate symbolism, kagt indicating it will no longer fly the confederate flag, this after bubba watson drove a black lives matter car on the track. nascar also indicating it's trying to move towards more inclusiveness for all fans. meanwhile, this is in stark contrast of what's going on here at the white house. and the president weighing in on the issue of u.s. military bases named after confederate generals. first, some top pentagon officials indicated that they were at least open to the idea of discussing renaming ten u.s. army bases around the country named after confederate generals. the president indicating in a tweet just yesterday, as far as he's concerned, his administration will not consider the idea, citing american heritage. meanwhile, there are some other developments here in the united states on this very issue of symbolism involving the police, namely the -- a&e, which is a network, has now announced it is going to essentially get rid of the show "live pd." that's a show that follows the police. they've decided they're going to do that after

they are what i would call confederate monuments. the impetus came from the confederate generation. i think there were different purposes behind them. all of which are related to the confederacy, of course. don't misunderstand what i'm saying. as liz said, you cannot separate. there are people who try to separate the consent -- separate the confederacy from the institution of slavery. they really should just stop and spend their time doing something else because the two are inextricably linked and all you need to do is read what the confederate generation said it was up to. it was to uphold the slaveholding republic beyond the reach of threatening people as -- such as abraham lincoln and william seward. but having said that, i think it's important to approach the memorial landscape with an understanding that it's more complex than reducing it to a simple -- it is either people or -- evil or-- people not evil proposition. i think it's more complicated than that. but i'll just reiterate that i think it's a local issue. it's a statue by statue issue that should be settled by the people

a fan walks in way confederate flag t-shirt.they getting booted or more of a, shall we call, symbolic gesture? >> no. it will be symbolic. back in 2015, like i said, when it was a conversation and the initiative was launched to try to stop some of the flags coming in to the racetrack, that was a little more symbolic. i think that i know for a fact that this will, there will be measuresut in place that will address those people. up know, you're talking about racetracks sometimes that hold 100,000 people, but they'll be people put in place to address those measures and have conversations with the people that try to sneak flags in and do those types of things. i'm not fully privy to what all will take place or how had will be enforced but nascar is taking a strong, historical stance. i'm resting assured that there will not be any >> final question. as we mention, you are an nba baller and here you have lebron james really being vocal in all of this the last couple of weeks, because the question overall is how do we fix this. he twe

remove the names of confederate generals from army bases a secretary general. of the fence marc esper agreed to meet with people to discuss this on a bipartisan basis truck shut it down he got on to twitter saying that this is a great american heritage and a history of winning victory in freedom while completely ignoring that the confederate army the the sad painful fact is that they were traitors and they were fighting to maintain slavery and they were fighting to rip the country apart and it just seems that he's really tone deaf on this issue he likes inject himself on these cultural matters because he feels like this will help general galvanize his base but he's seems to be completely ignoring the protesters who are demanding change and want more to do of the reporter stacey bivins thank you you're welcome. now germany's foreign minister has warned israel that its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank will violate international law issued the warning in israel just weeks before the new israeli government plans to make the move which is also being co

your association said the presence of confederate flags at its events runs contrary to its commitment to provide a welcoming and inclusive environment to all fans. of the reporter stacy bivins joins me here in studio now stacy racial justice protests have reached the sporting world we've seen the n.f.l. and now nascar yeah it's interesting because the confederate flag has become synonymous with nascar and it's fair to say when i was going through social media that black america is actually really stunned by the decision to ban the flag because it has become so ingrained and i remember going to one race one time involving never to return because there are people wearing the confederate flag and waving the confederate flag and i just felt so uncomfortable that people felt like this was a way to celebrate and complete while completely ignoring what this flag needs to so many african-americans which is enslavement and oppression and finds taking this right now well i think that bubble wallace has a very strong fan base and he's the one african-american racer who is a part of this and he d

down.ay take all of them not just the confederates but union and confederate's. them in a museum or original place where these people came from. everyone has money. i am sure someone will sponsor it or champion the cause at some point and put them in a private museum. host: ok. maryland.tonio in speaking of money, the "new york times" reports the trump administration no plans to bill containing the image of harriet tubman. was delaying the changing despite the obama administration have been initiated a timeline that would have it unveiled in 2020. briefing, the treasury secretary said the redesigning of the currency required developing complicated counterfeiting technology and a new printing process which takes years, hoping it is done in the near future. he says the currency timelines were set by career officials and an extensive interagency process . jeff is next. from kentucky on our opposed line. caller: yes. to me it is a waste of money to take all of the monuments down. it is a slap in the face. host: did you know about the name and the connection to the co

collection of statues where each state gets to send, would probably be jefferson davis, who was the confederate president during the war. and so each state gets to send , the statues. speaker pelosi basically wants them to be removed by what is called the "joint committee on the library." it is a standing committee that is the leadership of the rules and administration committee in the senate and the house administration committee in the house and it wants to remove those statues anyway. what we have heard from republicans, at least, is that is kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell, i believe have said that do you need the states to make this decision. and they are welcome to send other statues. we have seen the statues in the collection change. but speaker pelosi, i believe, would like to see them gone, perhaps even if some of the southern state legislatures will not be inclined to replace them. so now that she has sent the letter, what is the process? guest: now the joint committee , will need to figure out whether or not they are actually going to do much of anything. now, this is separate from

another statue down: protestors try to destroy a confederate monument in the city of portsmouth, virginia. britain could have halved the number of virus deaths if it had locked down just one week earlier says the government's former scientific advisor. russia says a massive diesel spill in the arctic could take years to clean up. and the authorjk rowling speaks out about being a victim of domestic abuse. in business, a long road to recovery. the federal reserve weighs up the damage to the us economy and says fixing it will take years. we begin in the us, where there are increasing calls to remove pro—slavery confederate names and symbols in response to the anti—racism movement triggered by the police killing of george floyd but president trump says army bases named after officers who fought for the confederacy during the civil war won't change because they're part of the american heritage. it comes as police in the southern state of virgina are trying to disperse protesters who attacked a confederate war memorial. david willis reports. they are potent symbols of a racist past, erected in

in alabama, they took down the confederate flag on the capitol grounds, too. one by one, the flags and the monuments to the confederacy have come down, but there was one place where the confederate flag very stubbornly remained. and that was mississippi. the heart of the old confederacy, raising the confederate battle symbol to the hem heavens. day after day, year after year, everywhere the state flag flew. the man you see here is named aaron henry. he was the president of the naacp in mississippi. aaron henry was part of a national civil rights movement. he worked with dr. martin luther king jr. by 1982, he had won a seat in the mississippi state legislature, in the legislature, he worked insistently on trying to change the state flag. aaron henry introduced a bill to change the flag in 1988. that never got a vote. neither did the bills he tried in 1990 or 1992 or 1993. they wouldn't even hear him. not long before he died, representative aaron henry talked about that struggle. >> you see, we have the -- the residue of the confederate flag in the coffin corner

the confederate side, john b. jones, who i might add in the fifth grade, i want you to know that i slogged my way through his entire diary. yes, when i look back on that and i wonder why i haven't read that again. july 8, we have sad tidings from the west, general johnston telegraphs from jackson that vicksburg capitulated on the fourth instant. this is a terrible blow. it produced much despondency. if lee falls back again, it will be darkest day from the confederacy that we have seen yet. jones and richmond is learning about vicksburg before they do gettysburg. interesting how information is traveling. henry adams would write to his father, who is being the minister to great britain, july 23, 1863, the disasters of the rebels are unredeemed by even any hope of success. it is now conceded that all idea of intervention is at an end. meaning foreign intervention. colonel josiah gorgas, most of you have never heard of, but he was the chief of ordinance for the confederacy. he made cannonballs down in richmond. you sh

continue to target confederate monuments. donald trump says he won't even consider renaming military bases that are namamed after confedere mililitary leaders. confirirm covid-1919 cases in te u.s. past 2 million. the figure troubling in just six weeks. india reporting almost 10,000 new daily cases for the first time. we will have an update. and the european force of human rights says they were wrong to prosecute a group of pro-palestine activists who called for a boycott of israeli goods. hello and thanks for joining us here. it's good to have you with us. first, to the u.s. where overnight, antiracism protetests brought down a statue of jefferson davisis, the prpresidt of the confederacy. this, in richmond, virginia. to some american, symymbols of e slaveholding southern states invoke a racist past. nancy pelosi has called for confederate statues to be removed from the u.s. capitol and top military officials are apparently open to renaming some military bases. the response from donald trump, no way. line.drawing the the u.s

also places where there may be ships, there may be militaryn installations but may be named for confederate figures, basically all of that needs to go away. want to basically have a jefferson davis highway running through a military base either. put that into the defense authorization. that will be in the bill as it goes to the floor. hofe, chairman of the armed services committee, said even though it was adopted not going vote, he is along with it. it will not take an affirmative senate.the because it is in the bill coming out in the committee, more than likely, if senators want to not make the military have to remove the names of confederate generals and the like, they will have to have a vote on the which floor to do that, is not necessarily a vote that a lot of senators want to take. host: for those items attached to the defense of the white house on that? guest: so, even before i knew that the amendment had been offered, i happened to be one of the rotating reporters in the white house press briefing on wednesday afternoon. and the press secretary said the president would not sign any

there is no way that loyal confederate women would do this. and there's this denial that need exists. actually, it was the working poor who were involved in the riot. these were people who did not own substantial property. they were not, for the most part, slaveholders. they're just your working class and poor people who are struggling to participate in the -- who participated in the riots. mayor mayo said there is no reason why there should have been any suffering among the poor of this city. more money has been appropriated than has been applied for. but the riot yesterday was not for bread. boots are not bread. brooms are not bread. men's hats are not bread. and i've never heard of anyone eating them. so, the confederates very much attempted to downplay the seriousness of the riot. they wanted it -- and they wanted to keep word of the riot from leaking out. they did not want northerners to hear about it. so, secretary of war stettin issued an order suppressing news of the riot going out over the wire. "the richmond examiner" did not comply.

from there, major general howard would press the confederates. meanwhile, major general henry slocum would move the left wing up the savannah river, the elements crossing at a fe rry, a key crossing of the savannah river. general's calvary would move behind the right wing. this would hopefully prompt the evacuation of beaufort, south carolina and give sherman a firm foothold in the state. however, all this movement, especially on the left wing, depends on -- what do the ups commercials say? logistics. importantics is very when you have got to move stuff up, especially foodstuffs. this is one of the things that's going to play, the left wing especially. that's peter auster house on the top there. picture of and a real starving horse and i figured if i did, it would gross people out. i went to the bronze starving horse at the calvary museum. you can count the ribs on it here. quartermaster, i regret to trouble you, but i wish to know the exact state of things. it is reported to me by major general osterhouse that his horses are dying of actual star

confederate statues, like, for example, the statue of confederate president and violent white supremacistfferson davis, in richmond on wednesday. this morning, trump once against defended confederate symbols, scream tweeting, in all caps, "those that deny their history are doomed to repeat it. of course, trump probably most hates the removal of confederate statues because he stands like a statue of donald trump that is currently being pulled down. i mean, seriously, look at that forward lean all that's missing are the protesters pulling on cables "if we get just get the chest out a little further past the toes, the whole thing will come down." and yet, venerating the confederacy isn't the only insane culture war issue the right has pinned their hopes on this week. now that trump has crated the economy and utterly failed to contain a pandemic still raging across the country, all the right wing weirdos on fox news have left is to get mad at cartoons and muppets >> hbo max's "looney tunes" reboot is disarming some classic characters >> what? >> elmer fudd's rifle is gone. no more. >> oh, no.

army bases named after confederate soldiers. among those calling for that to change is retired general david petraeus, who wrote in "the atlantic" of the, quote, irony of training at bases named for those who took up arms against the united states and for the right to enslave others. he added, we do not live in a country to which braxton bragg, henry l. benning or robert e. lee can serve as an inspiration. acknowledging this fact is imperative. today, the president wouldn't answer questions on his decision. while the white house makes an impassioned defense of bases named for pro-slavery confederate soldiers, the president has yet to propose any specific reforms of police practices in the wake of george floyd's death. on capitol hill, republicans have tasked the only african-american republican senator to take the lead in coming up with a plan. >> we should all want to follow the lead as it relates, to, a, making sure we get something accomplished, and not just having pieces of legislation they are for show. >> reporter: the whi

nascar banned the confederate flag. the president defending confederate symbols. just think of the staggering difference there and, karen, there's another issue. next week, the president is going to hold his first campaign rally. he's going to tulsa, oklahoma, on june 19th. okay. there's like a million things there, leave the campaign rally, he doesn't want to social distance and no masks and we'll talk about that. june 19th, which for many people is the moment to mark the end of slavery. it's an important date for african-americans in this country and then tulsa which was the site of one of the most horrible race massacres on u.s. soil. again, i don't know what he knows about these things, but someone in there should be aware of the symbolism here and he may want to address that. >> i think a couple of things on that. they may be clear and this may be a dog whistle. trump does understand from a cultural perspective the swath of his base and in so many of the studies after 2016, it was racial anxiety that people were really feeling and he spoke to so effectively.

m 11 statuorialize confederate leaders, including confederate present jefferson davis. and confederate general josephee r standing just a few feet away from a plaque marng the spot of abraham lincoln's desk congress. house speaker pelosi this weekco asked foress to now take all the confederate statues off display. can you imagine jefferson davis? alexander stephens? treason, they committed treason against the united states of america. and their statues are stilhere because their states put them here.s: >> desjardepublican senator roy blunt, who oversees the committee responsible for the statues, says moving them is possible, but only the states can take them out of the capitol. and some states are. like arkansas, about to replace its controversial statues with musician johnny cash and cil rights activist and journalist daisy bates. it is a cultural turn. nascar this week banned the confederate flag from its events.na th and marine corps have also just banned the flag. but some worry this is a slippery slope toward the removal of monuments to founding fathers, many of wh

confederates up.aves, the fact is the slaves freed lincoln. applause. if we hadn't joined the union army, stonewalljackson might joined the union army, stonewall jackson might have been the president. so we backed up the union army and lincoln signed at the end of the victory of the civil war for the union, the emancipation proclamation. and when he signed it, he committed that on january one 1863, slaves would be freed. while a lot of folks that go to black churches and go to watch night service on new year's eve don't understand thatis new year's eve don't understand that is not a night to pray until midnight and then go party after. watch night was where we watched to see the clock struck 12 to know that we we re clock struck 12 to know that we were free. that is what watch night was. but somehow they didn't get that message to texas. there wasn't twitter then, wasn't facebook then. and people in texas continued the slave, the enslavement of blacks for another 2.5 years. finally a general came in a

of a confederate general in dc. there are other confederate memorials to war figures in other places in dc, this being the most prominent which makes it the biggest for protesters, dc's delegates eleanor holmes norton said i opposed harrington down this way, there are more appropriate settings like museums to avoid the racing an important part of history from which americans can continue to learn. we don't want constituents -- stages removed but we have to justify any honor considering his history. that was prominent. only confederate general monument in dc is down. that area is at police headquarters amid a number of courthouses was as we watch this, this is happening across the country in different ways, discussions of different monuments that need to come down so a statue of george washington by protesters in portland, they got that when down, wrapped the head of that statue in an american flag, that was set on fire it after this was taken the group pulled the monument down and defaced with graffiti. rick leventh

banning confederate flags at all races and events. the house speaker nancy pelosi calling tonight for the removal of 11 confederate statues from the capitol, but president trump saying he opposes removing the names of confederate commanders from nearly a dozen military bases. let's discuss now. cnn's white house correspondent, mr. john harwood, and our national reporter for "the new york times" both are here. thank you, gentlemen. i appreciate it. we've seen 16 days of mass protests, john. americans are making it clear that systemic racism must be addressed, even nascar taking action. the white house won't even acknowledge that there is a problem. what is up? >> what's up is the shape of the modern republican party. and as you suggested, we've seen one administration official after the other, the attorney general, homeland security secretary, the national economic adviser larry kudlow today say they don't believe that systemic racism exists. this is a party that depends overwhelmingly, almost exclusively on white votes, and the energy

senate is talking about changing the name of bases named after confederates this does not sit well with the president it has been suggested that we should rename as many as 10 of all legendary military bases my ministration even consider the renaming of these magnificent and fabled military installations as the most diverse and integrated part of american society it is only right installations by the names of military heroes who represent the best ideals of our republic all across the country confederate monuments are being beheaded toppled and there's a friendly map to help you plan your next target nascar has banned the displaying of confederate flags at the racetrack the presence of the confederate flag at nascar events runs contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all our fans our competitors and our industry the display of the confederate flag will be prohibited from all nascar events and properties a film that has long been considered to be a classic of american cinema is now. no longer available on h.b.o. max with the way it has captured t

because when he is defending confederate generals, when he's bringing confederate generals and getting-erected in washington, d.c., he's really fighting for a very small sliver of the american electorate. and he has very few allies, even within the republican party, that are calling for that kind of action. >> ryan, i want to talk to you about what adam wrote in the atlantic. he has a new piece out talking about how president trump is struggling to run against joe biden. after 12 years of feasting on white identity politics with a black man and a woman as its -- as its preeminent villains, the republican party is struggling to run its obama-era culture war playbook against an old, moderate white guy. adam points out this doesn't mean trump can't win, though. >> no, it doesn't. i mean, i think, one, it reminds us that 2016 was a much different election. one, because trump didn't have a record then. and, two, because hillary clinton was far more polarizing than -- than joe biden is. i think that's, you know, no offense to clinton's many fans. but she had a large segment of the public tha

the marine corps and the navy are banning any confederate symbols from their bases. they are issuing statements about racial equality. the new incoming chief of staff of the air force, a very passionate statement about this, command sergeant major of the army talking about his struggles growing up bi-racial. you are seeing them move out smartly and move ahead, and they are very savvy. they are not partisan, but they have very fine-tuned political antenna about the nation. they know where the national conversation is, and when they issued these messages to their own troops. they know they are speaking to the nation even if the white house is not. >> admiral kirby. i've had military officials say to me a number of times when there have been issues of disagreement or discomfort in the pentagon with the president's decision, that military leaders have struggled to figure out which hill to die on in the words of this person there and often choosing, well, this is not the hill to die on. it just strikes me when you see three hills here, and that's an expression, willing to

general, there are ten military bases named after confederate leaders.eneral esper and the army secretary were open to renaming them. how does it look that the president is nicksing the idea? what do you think? >> part of the driving force behind this was the fact that both the navy and marine corps banned confederate flags from their bases which was a good idea. this topic of changing the names of the bases, this isn't the first time it came up. i remember it coming up ten years ago when i was on active duty. at the same time it was like, oh, yeah, that's a small problem. what we've seen in the last two weeks was a deeper conversation and having been on all of these bases, frankly, i never thought about the hit try of them and what it was. >> reverend lee, the veneration of these confederate leaders comes from the ideology of the lost cause. explain what that is. >> don, i was steeped in the lost cause growing up. it's the idea even in the most progressive homes of the south that general lee, the standard bearer of southern heritage, was agen tile man,

bases named after confederate and military commanders.other words, the people these bases honor by baring their names are traitors. who lost. you want to defend that? go right ahead. yes, many american heros trained at those bases and fought and won battles and wars. the fight for freedom and liberty and america. many of them black and brown. we can rename the bases after them. president trump doesn't have to keep confederate names on our military bases. our military bases. he is choosing to. he says he's done so much for black people. let's remember what he does when he has the choice. which choice does he make? he and his add mirs choose to gas peaceful protestors marching for racial equality. to have a photo op. chose to launch his climb to power promoting the racist birther lie that the former president obama was not born in the country. chose to attack athletes taking a knee. to protest police brutality and racial inequality. >> wouldn't you love to see an owner when somebody disrespects our flag, to say get that son of a bitch off t

. >>> the new images tonight, a confederate statue lifted out of a virginia square. it had stood there for more than a century. at least seven cities making similar moves. some statues destroyed by protesters. >>> news tonight about the oscars what the academy plans to do to improve diversity at hollywood's biggest awards. >>> together for nearly 70 years until the coronavirus kept them apart. tonight, emotional reunion. it's america strong. >>> good evening. this can for joining us on this friday. i'm tom llamas in for david. and we begin with the coronavirus and that new cdc forecast. as many as 140,000 people could die by the fourth of july. this is an anxious moment as states begin to re-open and people gatter in larger and larger numbers again. the toll is already staggering. more than 2 million cases and more than 114,000 lives lost. fema's latest map shows where the number of cases are highest, especially across the south. north carolina reporting a single day high in cases and deaths. florida, with ag sites. hospitalization in texas up 42%. the city of nashvi

instead he was tweeting about confederate monuments.o, you know, the vice president there was talking about all the encouraging news, his words talk about coronavirus. so, what do you make of this? and specifically the president's refusal to be there. >> yeah, the president in that tweet about the monuments seems to be more interested in protecting long-dead confederate traders than he is in protecting americans right now. yeah, i was really appalled when the vice president today said, well, we've all heard the encouraging news. the encouraging news, really? there have been 125,000 funerals. it's the equivalent of three jumbo jets of americans crashing every day, and we hear, we've all heard the encouraging news. i want to hear the plan to fix this. the plan is social distancing, universal face masks, ramping up testing, and selective closing of municipalities when the virus is surging. that's the plan, and that's what our leaders should be saying to this public, not we've all seen the encouraging news. i'm really tired of this sycophan

statues where each state gets to send to people would probably be jefferson davis, who was the confederate president during the war. .. rat is basically the leadership in the senate and the house a administration committee in the house that wants to remove the statute anyway. what we have heard from republicans at least, kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell has said that you need the state to make this decision. and they're welcome to send other statues, we have seen over the years and the change and they would like to see them gone even if perhaps some of the southern state legislators would be inclined to replace them. >> now that she sent that letter was a process. >> whether or not they're going to do much of anything, this is separate from the other issue that congress is also debating and a role for congress itself, the question of naming military bases that you mention in the open and that would require president trump in the pentagon to tend to. and on one hand it's congress itself that could make decisions and they generally been pretty deferential to the state. >> we saw the senate

why did congress have confederate flags in the first place?racy fought against america so why have statutes of the confederacy in the building? it's like women having gluten in the kitchen. i don't even understand what that is. the government treats traitors better than black citizen. george floyd had a $20 counterfeit and gets chokes to death. the confederacy is responsible for thousands of dead americans and you build a statue. the winning side is finally deciding it doesn't need to keep celebrating the side that tried to destroy them. one step that the pentagon is considering is renaming military bases that are named after confederate offices, you know, names like fort bragg in north carolina, forthood in texas and fort slave catcher in georgia. i don't even know how they let that one pass. what's interesting is that, while the military thinks this symbolic move can help race relations in the ranks, the commander in tweet strongly disagrees. >> u.s. militaries leaders expressed a willingness to discuss renaming bases named after confederate

military bases named after confederate commanders. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. amid the national reckoning on racism the army said earlier this week that defense secretary mark esper was open to having bipartisan conversations about changing names of bases named after confederate commanders. today, though, the president is rejecting that out of hand, tweeting that those bases are part of a great american heritage and announcing my administration will not even consider the renaming of those bases. while the president is weighing in on that issue we have not yet heard from him what types of policing reforms he is willing to support. but some powerful testimony on capitol hill today is certainly ratcheting up the pressure. >> tonight an emotional plea on capitol hill. >> he didn't deserve to die over $20. i am asking you, is that what a black man is worth? $20? this is 2020. enough is enough. the people marching in the streets are telling you, enough is enough. >> reporter: george floyd's brother intensifying the pressure on president trump and congress to reform p

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and more confederate statues are falling.ite people say taking down these symbols is an attack on their history. some black people say leaving them up is something worse. >> it's my great great grandmother, julia branch. born a slave. >> former secretary of homeland security, jay johnson. >> the confederate flag, to me, represents the viewpoint that she should have remained a slave for the rest of her life. >> hbo max, own by the parent company of cnn, is even pulling the classic film "gone with the wind" from its streaming service for racist depictions, until it can return with historic context. it is a measure of how fraught the debate remains that the movie immediately shot up on amazon's best-seller list. still, it's all been enough to spur former president barack obama to speak out about it. >> the kinds of epic changes and events in our country, that are as profound as anything that i've seen in my lifetime. >> in so many ways, this moment does feel different than all the calls before, for these types of changes. but, i

and confederate bankers that is a constant symbol to me the confederate statue that we have now honoring a dishonorable man and a dishonorable cause and a dishonorable confederacy. statues mean so. there are others in richmond who are adamant the statue should remain the organization sons of confederate veterans has spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to prevent the removal of statues in charlottesville and elsewhere. well mr morehead was again and andrew morehead had to meet him yes or welcome to richmond in hollywood cemetery a matter told him a relative of robert e. lee absolutely with the beard with the reddish beard you look more like you have stewart but that's actually let's take a look at a few things and write. these are the dead from gettysburg. we visit the confederate section of the cemetery with the graves of around 2000 soldiers who died in gettysburg a battle lost by robert e. lee in 1963 it was arguably the turning point in the war. heavy casualties. around 50000 soldiers from both sides died in that battle there are a lot of people that feel that those statu

when we bebegugan, we were focu on the confederate monuments. 1700 of them put up between 1890 and 1920 and jumped forward and put a bunch of them up in the 1950s. these statutes were put up to revere people who fought against the united states of america in the civil war for the purpose of preserving slavery. opposition was that was inappropriate. they were put up to send a message. they were put up in places of reveren reverence. as soon as we started doing that, the folks said context lize them and don't take them down, put a blaplaque up and do start because we don't know where we'll stop and it's always that argument that they use that it will come to take down lincoln and jefferson and not stay focused on white supremacy as it relates to confederate monuments. that's what we're going through as we speak. >> professor, contextizing is one thing discussed a lot but i think what a lot of people don't realize and we're seeing the roosevelt statute outside the museum of natural history in new york, this is talk of removing that given its monume

the american confederation turned out to be even more short-lived.in 1787, one of the first acts of the convention that gathered in independence hall in philadelphia right around the corner was to scrap the articles of confederation whose revision was the stated purpose for their meeting and to write a new institution. despite the appeal, it was multinational commonwealths of the sort that carlisle seemed to envision have a troubled history. would his united british empire have been any more successful than the confederation that he wanted to replace? that's hard to say for sure. but it wasn't a bet that most americans were willing to take. thank you. [ applause ] >> i think the plan is for questions. i know there are two microphones in the wings. i'm happy to entertain questions about vermont, new hampshire, ireland. yes, right here? >> how much was carlisle's commission -- >> i think there's -- i don't know if the q&a is going to be on c-span, they're asking us to speak on the mic. that's one of the reasons i didn't run around. >> how much was carl

explosion on the confederate states laboratory. arein this explosion, there -- missed my slide there. children,45 women and of human, who were killed -- a few men, who were killed, and another 120 that were injured. this is a catastrophe that hits home among the working class. and then, following this, is when james, the confederate secretary of war, introduced his price schedule. in this price schedule was in response to an act that had been passed by congress to regulate impressment. porridge, food for animals, crops, and property. by property, what they're talking about is enslaved hadle, because the army enslaved people dig trenches, build fortifications, worked for the army. set a price for various commodities and it's something farmers were not happy about. andsome farmers boycotted refused to bring goods into the city because they knew when they did that, the army would seize their goods and they would only pay what was in suttons price schedule. in addition to this, there was a new act that required merchants to get a passp