lee allow us to do this. i want to thank her and thanked the lee family as well. i'm sure there were a lot of people who wanted to name things after mayor lee and for the family to say, yes, this school feels right, means a lot to us too. it speaks to what we are doing in the school dressed strict -- school district. i am very proud to be part of this. i think the last thing i will say, school names matter. they do communicate. to children, who they should look up to. who is valued and whether their cultures and their community and our diversity is fully respected , and for this service that ed and anita lee have contributed to our kids and to our school scent to our city. i cannot think of a more powerful statement to the kids of today and of the future to put this name on the building. thank you to everybody for doing this and i'll be very probably supporting this this evening. >> thank you. commissioner norton? >> i want to add my thanks to the authors of resolution for bringing this forward. everything that i know about mayor lee and his career, i think is he

the most moving, of course, is that of lee asleep in the field at the chapel at washington and lee. efforts are underway to take it out. another outstanding likeness of lee is in statuary hall in the u.s. capitol. recently, one of averaging a senators came up with the bizarre idea that the lee statue in the capitol be replaced with a likeness of pocahontas, who was here before the virginians were here. and she was dead at 21. famous monument was dedicated in richmond. memorial meant as a jim crow signal of defiance. one does not rush home from a war and start building memorials for yourself. wars are traumatic events. wounds need to be healed. lee memorial came from ladies associations and donations from veterans who had little money in the reconstruction period. some said the statue was too far from downtown richmond. others resented the fact that a french sculptor, not an american, was contracted to do the lee image. becauserly complained the stone from -- for the mon ument came from the yankees state of maine. statue, the "richmond times dispatch" declared that the lee statue to

lee saved the peace. we meet today because of those two men. >> but not many people know that. >> in civilian clothing would do it. but the cost of just switching his coat would be astronomical. we just -- that's enough i need to say. >> let me object a point of order here. please keep your questions brief. don't hide statements in questions. and i hate to say that. i'm dear friends with all of you, but we have a lot of people that would like to ask questions. we have a short amount of time. get up to the microphone, ask the question, and wait for your answer. >> another way -- another thing that you mention we're missing ignorance, amnesia. you did mention impatience. without asking a historian to give a sound bite in the argument in response, what is a sound bite to sort of turn the argument on its head when you're having a conversation which is the first battle to get to a conversation? to add statues? like instead of being obstructionist, is there a better way to frame it? >> the one sound bite, huh?

lee in richmond. i just disagree strongly with those who say that the south put up the monuments in open defian defiance. defiance of what? the south was trying to get back on its feet again and the race question was one of several issues that was holding the south back, but getting rid of the monuments is taking away our past and we are courting death as a nation if we allow that. >> just one more question. >> when i went to amway the first axiom i learned is within 3,000 years of recorded history any nation that forgets its past has no future. history is undisputable on that point. >> last question. >> what can we do as individuals or collectively to get more ballots at the university level where there is no diversity of thought, where it's a liberal agenda and so many of the schools, public funded institutions, are only -- the students are only hearing one side of the story. what can be done? >> well, that's called higher education. that's called tenure by faculty in all due respect to my attractiv

it is falling from its assault on lee. he went home and collapsed while offering thanks to god for the evening meal. falling ands now seemingly no one falling in that denominational hierarchy and no one seems to care. sylvia. abraham lincoln once commented, broken eggs can never be mended. and neither can broken monuments. history and collective memory are uneasy and at least changeable. amnesia is not a memory for anything. in limiting the past has never been a successful means of healing. the first thing it does is guarantee that you make the same mistakes twice. winston churchill put it succinctly, the farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see. you have to remove everything that does not come up to what they call moral superiority. moral superiority, the lowest moral standards in existence. television, movies and video games. they listen to radios and cds. science-fiction always present sexuality. filthy everyday language. all in all waking hours. -- in our waking hours. the overwhelming number of

lee. robert e. lee stopped talking to james longstreet and turned to another confederate general who serves under james longstreet. lee says can you get your troops from point a and oint b and asks him to deploy his men perpendicular to the road. he is going to cross an attack north toward gettysburg. a big attack. that is what robert e. lee is do to do, longstreet will attack the flank. they will keep going upwards unfortunately for robert e. lee. things change. battlefields are constantly changing things. johnston and clark claimed they made it to the round tops. this is a picture taken from the tower area. the wheatfield, you cannot see what is over there. this is going to create a problem for the confederates. not to mention the union that they can't see what the battle line is. they are trying to do this in secret. there are some soldiers taking this picture. the confederates have been spotted. they will make this counter march, something else you can do a book on. the confederates are going to

i'm here to support steven lee's -- or commissioner lee's reappointment. i believe he's the most qualified person for this commission, not because of just his ties to the night life and hospitality committee, but also, i've known steven lee about 15 years, and what i admire the most about him is his ties and his reach to different generations. again, i'm a 15 year veteran, started from -- as a promotor, and i can see that the people like i started today, steven lee can reach out to them and represent them in the entertainment commission. so it's great to have someone like him that understands different generations. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker. >> hello, esteemed commissioners. i'm here to support mr. lee. i happened to meet mr. lee back in 1999 when i was an investor in a nightclub, and he happened to introduce me to who is now my wife when i met him, and we are still together, this young lady and i. mr. lee is a pillar in the night life industry. he also knows how to run a club and how to help people make it in this -- in this city of san francisco,

mayor lee, the late mayor lee and the office of community development. tndc, as don said. that's gone back 30 years, which is justs so tremendous. h.u.d., the housing authority. thank you for trusting the new partners and really overseeing this and ensuring that they will be a steward of these properties going forward. and also i want to thank our bank of america team. ari belliak who was the head of organizing this for our firm, told me that we had over 40 people working on this. so i -- so it was quite an initiative and something that we were so incredibly pleased and proud to be a part of. this rehab is about so much. you know? it's about the mccal and life safety changes. it's about the public spaces now being so welcoming and really creating a great sense of community. but it's also about the residents, as everyone's been saying. it's really about transforming their lives and a major part of this was a social services component that was included in our participation and i got to hear more about that this morning. and just what it was able to do to make this transition

spike lee speaks. a look at blackkklansman, spike lee speaks. a look at blackkkla nsman, the latest spike lee speaks. a look at blackkklansman, the latest picture from the legendary black filmmaker. america first. this film is about today and we live in a very, very serious time in this world. does it matter that most film critics are white and male? does it have a negative affect on diversity in cinemas? it's about not only having one narrative that goes in terms of filmmaking, it goes in terms of acting, it goes in terms of film criticism. and asians, long underrepresented on the big screen, now have crazy rich asians, the first major asian led studio film in 25 years. so is the drought now over? we have such a treasure trove of interesting stories to be told with equally as powerful actors. and we look at the state of portrayals of native americans in hollywood cinema. why won't the old stereotypes fade away? nothing of any substances going to change until you have the native people writing the stories and directing them. plus a report on the

the minna lee is a celebration of 50 more solutions. in our collective effort toward ending chronic homelessness in san francisco. and that is something to celebrate for sure. i'd like to thank our partners, s.h.s. and to echo everything that the mayor just said about a team coming together, a true partnership and that was h.s.h. and dish. specifically, again, i would like to thank jeff for his leadership and his drive to really kind of open every door and really tackle every issue, like kicking down the door to make things happen. it takes courage. and i really want to thank you, jeff, for your continued coverage and our efforts together. thank you. i want to thank terry abbott. i know she was new on to the scene. i want to thank her for her leadership. i want to thank margo ancanetti who has always been there in the supportive housing realm and has guided us and has been a true partner. and, of course, there is the dish tale. i really want to thank you guys. special thank you to lauren and to doug. and their leadership of dish who nev

lee and stone wawall jackson. said a year ago, that's you talking, running for governor. now you say today we want to get past race after you talked about how we should praise and erect people whose only role in history was to uphold slavery and commit treason against the united states. >> you know, why is it that you on the left are so obsessed with what happened 150 years ago? >> no, no, i'm talking about you last year, i'm not talking about -- i'm talking about corey stewart running for governor last year, that's what you said, you went back 150 years ago. i'm talking about what you said, explain to me your statement in light of what you're saying now. >> reverend, let me explain this. people don't care what happened 150 years ago. historians love this stuff. i love history. but the end of the day, we need to look at what the problems are are today, and you mentioned that it was only people of a certain race who were facing these challenges, with their education, their health care, their jobs, everything else.

linda lee. >> commissioner norton: linda rose lee was with the school district from 1994. she was a gifted person and educator with outstanding leadership and impressive capacity to bring people along, including those that others doubted. linda's conflict management skills were well known. her understanding of research based best practice in education and her ability to communicate these in development and professional learning activities, as well as in written forms, including manuals, training modules was highly respected throughout california and beyond. linda was almost single handedly responsible for the ed indications of sfusd. her impasse on inclusive education in san francisco cannot be overstated and her passion was contagious. linda began her own participation in public education as a child with a physical disability. as one of los angeles's many segregated special education centers where she was a student until 4th grade. then her father advocated for her to be included in regular class in her neighborhood school. something that was no small feat in the 1960s. i

lee stands at 60 feet. we started digging further, taking a look at this trend of virginia's building. does it mirror what is happening on the national scale from the slide i showed you? it did. from 1880-1899, and actually, that was not supposed to happen. it is a touchscreen. that is lovely. until 1910 is where we see the boon in that monument building. what you'reunities, finding is communities with less financial wherewithal, and i whiteo say, let me say, members of the community would gather resources and pay for what they could afford. many times that was a mail-order statue. that is fascinating because i was in michigan in february, fun times. we passedpeech and as the public square, i recognized the civil war soldier, except it was the same guy in front of the courthouse in chesterfield, his clothing is different. it is the same guy. this is what happened. them, whichoduced allowed communities to build these smaller scaled things. they ended up in front of the courthouse. virginia, as these monument

lee felt. or thought. and i'm wondering if there's any kind of reception on the other side, which, of course, is very rare, about people talking at the time, not now, when we extrapolate back, but at the time about how they felt about these monuments. whether in the north or the south, black or white. that is not the udc who created them, but an alternate view. >> yeah. so fantastic question. i would say, again, i'll point to the lee monument in richmond, is the -- probably the example we have. the best evidence. and that is that the richmond planet -- the african-american newspaper in richmond absolutely publishes countless editorials condemning this monument going up. so that is a clear case in which african-americans are -- and i'm forgetting -- what's the editor's name? john mitchell, the editor. thank you, john. was a member of the city council at the time, i believe. and he is -- you know, beside himself that the richmond city council is going to support a monument to a confederate general. so we hav

he complimented spike he said, i've always respected spike lee.hich -- [ laughter ] >> -- which surprised the heck out of me. >> audiences may be surprised how lee ends the film. something most directors would be reluctant to give away. but for him, the painful race-fueled images of charlottesville give starworth's 40-year-old story a relevance. >> david duke, the alt right, the kkk and the neo-nazis, they wrote the ending for this film. >> the operation did not lead to any arrests, but did thwart several planned cross burnings. >>> we appreciate you spending part of your evening with us. that is nightly news for this monday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. smoke in the air is gett thicker, as fires continues to conversaticonfis >>> right now at 6:00, smoke in the air getting thicker as fires continue to rage. jeff ranieri is tracking that smoke. >>> our investigative unit looked into claims made by president trump. >>> and b.a.r.t. unveiling a new plan to combat a problem. >>> i'm jessica a

tiy lee took no questions. the wealthy woman is being charged in the 2016 murder of keith green, her ex-boyfriend and father of her two young children. in april of 2016 green vanished after a meeting about a child custody issue. his body was later found in a field with a bullet wound through his neck. s.w.a.t. teams raided finding enough evidence. lee's former body guard was also arrested. he pleaded no contest. in february he cut a deal with the district attorney's office that could lead to prosecutors potentially dropping the murder charge against him in exchange for his truthful testimony against lee. the two men charged in the case remain in jail. lee is the only one out on bail after having posted property and cash worth nearly $70 million. the case will be delayed from september until sometime next year. we know lee will be back in court august 29 a:00 at 8:30 a. for the setting hearing. for now reporting live at the red wood city hall of justice. >>> san francisco police are investigating a stabbing at 1

whether you want robert e lee on the statue are off the statue, you cannot overlook lee. he was there in every sense of the word. coming outok on lee this year. i will probably get criticized. i do not think his greatest success was of an army commander. i think his greatest accomplishment came in the five years after the civil war when harder than any american to bring reconciliation back to make north and self come together as a nation -- south come together as a nation. lee woulde reasons, not write his memoirs, he would not attend veterans reunions or battlefield dedications. he did not trust the press, he was a long farsighted. he would be, and i say this with all respect and genuine anger, he would be appalled at seeing the confederate title flag waving publicly today. that is not what robert e lee wanted. he wanted the country to come together after a horrible war and he thought that americans could. he devoted the last years of his life to that war and was dying slowly in the process. in march of 1863, lee suffered a massive heart attack, massive heart attack. wha

lee camp in richmond. eventually united confederate veterans which would organize in 1889, they had reunions, they had periodicals, the confederate veteran which began in the early 1890s, a periodical such as the southern historical society papers, all of these are ways in which they sought to make sure that the next generation -- and it's always about the next generation -- understood what they had fought for. former confederate general clement a. evans explained why it all mattered so much. quote, if we cannot justify the south and the act of succession we will go down in history as solely brave, impulsive but rash people who attempted in an illegal manner to overthrow the union of our country. they're always worried about this question of whether or not they had been treasonists. in the years after 1865 these respective memories grow. union and confederate. union veterans, though, seethed at the lost cause with its distorted and reimagined renderings of the confederacy. here i want to point out that mos

and it happened happenstance shortly after lee died. and it was clear everyone wanted to do -- do some kind of memorial to robert e. lee, and then it quickly became a conversation, it can be nowhere else but richmond. and then it took another 20 years before that happened. but when it was finally determined to place it on this western side of town that actually had absolutely nothing there, but, you know, big open fields, but the desire to build this grand boulevard again, the house-building began in earnest. and today it boasts some of richmond's most expensive and impressive architectural real estate in the state, frankly. the whole area is a national historic district. each of these monuments save two are considered national historic landmarks. and i'm sure everyone in this room has been there at one time or another. would that be a fair assessment? raise your hand if you've been there. yeah. they're massive. the lee alone stands at 60 feet. and we started digging even further. taking a look at, again, this trend of even virginia's b

th>> the phone call at stunned even lee himself. i>> announcer: th "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good monday evening, everyone and thank you for joining us. another spasm of violence shattered communities in chicago where people wondered tonight how much more can theyake. the bullets flying over the weekend leaving at least 66 people shot and a dozen dead in just 5ur setting back hard one progress against street violence there. the shootings once again exposing the reality of two chicagos, one seemingly awayrom the violence and one where nobody is safe. >> reporter: she was 17, out at a party when gunmen opened fire. >> my baby just left the house and 20 minutes later i get a call saying she got ot. reporter: shot in face and died on a city street. five others wounded including an 11-year-d boy. >> my baby did not deserve this. she did everything she's supposed to do as a teenager. reporter: chaos outside a hospital. shocked and grieving relatives from the mostly black and latino neighborhoods plagued by gang violence wai

. >> behind the scenes of "blackklansman," the new movie some are calling spike lee's best work. >> god bless white america. >> and we hear from the man who says he got inside the klan. >> i thought what have i gotten myself into? i've got to do something. >>> and key of politics. ♪ the emotional chord struck up on stage at the vmas tonight with "one day." but first the "nightline" 5. >>> good evening. and we begin here tonight with the breaking developments in that haunting colorado murder case. a husband now charged with nine felonies in connection with the murder of his pregnant wife and two young daughters now turning that case on its head. he is now blaming his wife for the deaths of their daughters, saying she turned on them when he told her he wanted to separate. abc's clayton sandell with the bombshell allegations tonight. >> this afternoon my office filed former charges against christopher lee watts. >> reporter: tonight a bombshell twist in the case against christopher watts, accused of killing his pregnant wife and two daughters. in a newly released affidavit watts saying it

and blackkklansman, the spike lee film. and the children act, iam the spike lee film.he children act, i am interested to hear what you say, because i have read the novel and i liked it. adapted from the novel by ian mcewan. emma thompson is a high courtjudge whose work is engulfing her life. she's involved in life—and—death cases, one of which is about the 17—year—old boy refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds, but he is technically a child, and there is an argument about whether he's been forced by his parents into this position. she has to deal with weighty philosophical issues. she brings the work home with her, and her husband, he is starting to feel shut out of their marriage. here is a clip. i'll make reservations for dinner, because i've had an awful day myself. we'll go drink some wine, andl day myself. we'll go drink some wine, and i can get some opera tickets for saturday night. no, i am dutyjudge all we tickets for saturday night. no, i am duty judge all we can. tickets for saturday night. no, i am dutyjudge all we can. to make judgments for monda

lee in -- lee and jackson and such. but during this period where it became more explicit, where they say, second-tier confederates? >> that's a very good question. what we found is that the statues to the big boys, the big icons, confederate icons, those absolutely dominate the landscape. ended, in many cases, those particular statues are the ones that often just have, like in richmond, it just is lee. there is nothing else there. but, as we moved along the timeline, each one gets a little bit more language. it may talk about a particular battle, where they died. or, where there was a certain honorary, so there is a slip there. but, the language that takes on the strongest, in terms of lost cause narrative, or white supremacy, specifically, those tend to be more generic monuments. where, there may be that singular soldier, or something like that. there are some instances where it is individuals that are in particular, but, yeah. very good question. thank you. okay. >> and one of your slides, in terms of the demonstratio

lee felt. i don't know if there is any reception on the other side about people talking at the time -- not now what we extrapolate back, but at the time about how they felt about these monuments, whether they felt in the north or south, black or white, not the udc who created them but an alternate view? >> fantastic question. i would say, again, i'll point to the lee monuments. the african american news people in richmond absolutely publishes countless editorials condemning this monument going up. so that is a clear case in which african americans are-and forgetting -- what's the editor's name. >> john mitchell. thank you, john. >> he was a member of the city council i believe. he is bee sites himself that richmond city council is going to approve a monument to a confederate jen raw. we have that. it would be wonderfully rich if we did have accounts of people confronting monuments. one of the -- this is not answering your question but a way to flip things on its head is to think about the way i

kewsong lee the co-ceo of the carlisle group is with us.ts earnings period in the united states. 20% growth in profits. the gdp was higher than expected. how are you allocating capital. >> when you have a strong economic environment, that does not necessarily translate into a good investing environment. valuations with pretty much high across the board. the most of important thing to understand about private equity and capital is the nature of our returns has changed over the past 20 years. it used to be you buy low and sell high. or you put leverage on it and because of financial leverage you could juice up the returns on the equity. it turns out at least at carlisle. 60% to 70% are generated by fund atal top-line growth, efficiency, corporate improvement. creating value. the nature of the job has changed. in terms where we are seeing opportunity. we have the luxury of taking a long-term orientation. we are of the view, we have to be able to drive the value improvement because we are paying up for these companies. nobody is getting great b

and goodness, well, it's the new spike lee. the new spike lee, tell us all.ce. this is based on the stranger—than—fiction story of ron sta llwo rth. john david washington is stallworth, who in the 1970s becomes — he joins the formerly all—white colorado springs police force and he decides to infiltrate the ku klux klan, and he — initially he gets an advert from the press with the phone number, and he rings up and says "i'm a white supremacist and i want tojoin the klan", and they believe him, and he starts working his way right up the chain, right up to david duke, grand wizard. but when it comes to actual face—to—face meetings, of course, they have to get somebody else to play ron, so what they do is they pull in his partner, flip, played by adam driver, who isjewish, and they say "ok, well, i'll do the voice on the phone, you do it in person". but they have very different, initially very different, attitudes to the case. here's a clip. well, i'm not risking my life to prevent some rednecks from lighting a couple of sticks on fire. this is the job. what's yo

spike lee's film marks a triumph for him as a director.n years, and his first picture in a while to have become part of the cultural conversation. stallworth brothers. we're on a roll, baby! with critically—acclaimed films like blackkkla nsman and megahits like black panther, it's been a noteworthy yearfor black cinema. more modest undertakings with black characters and black stories have also been doing very well, as tristan daley reports. with months still left in 2018, this year has already seen the release of several films with black leads. a number of these films deal with real issues facing black people in america, but with creative flair. you don't talk white enough. like this young blood. hey, mr kramer, this is langston from regal view. i didn't catch you at the wrong time, did i? there was sorry to bother you, a satire about a telemarketer dealing with problems of race and capitalism in a wacky alternate universe. in blindspotting, colin, played by daveed diggs, tries to stay out of trouble on his last days of probation in his ra

teams raided lee's hillsboro mansion finding enough evidence to arrest lee and her boyfriend. he pleaded no contest. in february he cut a deal with the san mateo district attorney's office that could lead to prosecutors potentially dropping the murder charge against him in exchange for his truthful testimony against lee and byott. lee is the only one out on bail after having posted property and cash worth nearly $70 million. the case will be delayed from september until sometime next lee will be back in court at 8:30 august 29th for that setting hearing. outside of the haul of justice in redwood city, amanda del castillo, abc 7 news. >>> a pedestrian was hit and killed near sfo this morning. officials say the pedestrian was hit by a vehicle on northbound 101 just after 4:00 this morning. it's not clear why that pedestrian was on the highway. at one point all north bbound lanes were shut down. the pedestrian's identity has not been released. >>> the cds is warning of new measles cases across the country and right here in the bay area. >> 107 people from 21 states have reported