joining me now is the mayor of boston, marty walsh. mr.ayor, welcome to the show, sir. >> thank you for having me. thank you. >> all right. so let's talk about this rally, specifically. have you issued a permit for this group? do they legally have the right to go ahead? >> there's been no permit issued. today, this group or some group associated with them came in and pulled an application for a permit that we're going to go after it with our boston police department, our superintendent, and this group will have to live by the terms of the agreement we make and what they can do and they can't do, if they are to have this rally or whar they want to call it in boston. >> it sounds like you're going to grant them a permit, but it's going to come with some restrictions? >> some major restrictions. we certainly don't condone and our hearts go out to the folks of charlottesville. i spoke to the mayor the other day to let hill know we're standing in solidarity with them. we don't want these people in our city. we don't want to be spreading hate ne

mayor marty walsh expressing his gratitude. >> want to thank all of the people that came out today. i want to thank all the people who came out to hear that mention of love, not hate, to fight back on racism, to the fight back on anti-semitism, to fight back on the white supremacists that were coming to our cities and the nazis coming to our city. i want to thank everyone who came here and expressed themself in such a positive, great manner today. kelly: and president trump also tweeting: i want to applaud the many protesters in boston who are speaking out against bigotry and hate. our country will soon come together as one. we have fox team coverage on all of this. steve harrigan is covering the protests in boston. but first, for more on the president's response, we go to rich edson reporting from bridgewater, new jersey, near the president's golf club. rich, we're hearing a much deferent tone now on protests -- different tone now on protests from the president. >> reporter: kelly, a much more positive, hopeful tone that you read right there from the president's tweet, certainly co

boston mayor marty walsh said the city will not tolerate hate and is encouraging the group to stay away. >> boston does not welcome you here. boston does not want you here. boston rejects your message. we reject racism w we reject white supremacy, anti-semitism, kkk, we reject hatred do everything to keep hate out of our city. >> this monument was vandalized for the second time. a teenager who alidgedly broke a glass panel ll be charged with willful and malicious destrukds. >>> a memorial will be held this morning for heather heyer. she died after a car plowed into a crowd. james alex fields is charged with second-degree murder. >>> and ahead, only on "cbs this morning," afl-cio president, richard trumka, the latest representative to withdraw from a white house manufacturing council because of what the president said and didn't say about the event in charlottesville. >>> there will be a primary runoff to fill the senate seat in alabama previously held by jeff sessions. luther strange will face roy moore. strange has the backing of president trump and finished a distant second to moore.

thank you, great job by all law enforcement officers and boston mayor marty walsh. what's your response? >> well, based on your reporting certainly there are not a lot of police agitators there. as a matter of fact, boston police officers have done a good job of keeping the protesters apart but donald trump as a super narcissist, as someone who supports at least the sympathizes or reports this racism, this hatred and bigotry, all he knows is to fight and to put your finger on the wrong button, to create some type of chaos or adversity, if you will. and instead of being the healer in chief, the consoler in chief he's the agitator in chief. and until he figures out that he's not representing himself, that he's representing all of us, or at least he's supposed to, you'll get these tweets that simply agitate. black lives matter is there. they have been nonviolent. no issues there. only eight people were arrested. but why were they there? they were there standing up to racism, hatred and bigotry. what brought them is racism, hatred and bigotry. that's why you have the or

mayor marty walsh saying i ask everyone to be peaceful today and respect our city. love not hate.st intolerance. >>> six police officers have been shot in three separate incidents in florida and pennsylvania. in kissimmee, florida, one officer is dead and a second one in critical condition. two officers were shot in jacksonville, florida. and in a third incident, two pennsylvania state troopers were shot. i want to bring in now cnn digital correspondent dan lieberman. dan we've heard from police in kissny a short time ago. what are they saying about that incident? >> it was an emotional press conference there this morning in kissn ny kissimmee, florida, where two police officers were shot last night responding to a call in an area known for drug activity. police were surprised and not able to return fire. one officer died and the other we're learning is in grave, critical condition. here's what the police chief said this morning. >> it breaks my heart to have to come speak to you tonight about another senseless tragedy. one that's resulted in the death of one of our police officer

. >> reporter: boston mayor marty walsh is speaking out against a so-called free speech rally this saturdayt white supremacist demonstrators are planning to attend. >> we are a city that believes in free speech, but we will not tolerate accept theiments to violence. we will not tolerate threatening behavior. we will not have it. >> reporter: for the second time this year, the holocaust memorial here in boston was vandalized late last night. as for the so-called free speech rally, anthony, it is scheduled to go on as planned this weekend right here inside the boston common. >> mason: demarco morgan, thanks. and up next, why a black man in the south is painting confederate flags. [woman] so you're saying you didn't eat this ice cream? [man] baby, i swear on my lucky shirt... i ate it. [burke] fright-ning bolt. seen it. covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ with some big news about type 2 diabetes. you have type 2 diabetes, right? yes. so let me ask you this... how does diabetes affect your heart? it doesn't, does

president trump tweeted great job by all law enforcement officers and boston mayor marty walsh.e supported today. boston stood for peace and love, not bigotry and hate. we should work to bring people together, not apart. ruth is calling from california on our independent line. ruth what, do you think? should hate speech be protected? caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i think generally speaking, yesterday. however, when it is an act of iolence or incites violence, i believe our constitution -- [indiscernible] well i don't have a copy of it. i'm not sure i'm correct about that. but in the workplace, for example, when there are zero tolerance to violence, that includes several violence. -- host: what would you consider verbal violence, ruth? footage, ll, in the there were some people who were, you know, saying we will kill you or we will hurt you or we will do something to you or people should die or something like that, and i don't exactly . member but it was clearly threatening and not just verbally, but physically threatened. and to approach a church with tomorro

the mayor of boston marty walsh posted a photo donating clothes, houston, we in boston are here for youd to step up help however we can through the darkest hour and look at this tweet from chris, he sent a powerful picture with the caption a reminder of what real heroes look like and a young girl named sammy gave a shout out to her uncle saying he is among scores of people in houston helping out. there are thousands and thousands of these tweets all over social media. amazing and inspiring to see our country always come together in a time of such tragedy. rob: one guy who wasn't on the united train. >> we talked about this guy, university of tampa professor sent out this tweet, i don't believe in instant karma but this feels like it for texas, what he was saying was people of texas deserved the flooding because the state voted for donald trump. the university of tampa has fired the professor. they announced the firing on facebook saying we condemn the comments and sentiment, story has been relieved of his duties. a lot of people on social media plotting that decision, instance karma for

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adding, great job by all law enforcement officers and boston mayor marty walsh. back sharply, today, boston stood for peace and love, not bigotry and hate. we should work to bring people together, not apart. trump didn't take the bait. tweeting our great country has been divided for decades. sometimes you need protests in order to heal and we will heal and be stronger than ever before. trump's own administration could be in need of healing too. his former chief strategist steve bannon in a new interview says no administration in history has been so divided among itself. later this week, the president heads out to arizona for a political rally, potentially courting controversy there. >> donald trump, our next president, of the united states. >> reporter: trump reportedly hinted he may pardon former maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio. >> and sheriff joe arpaio, great guy, tough. >> reporter: arpaio fashioned himself america's toughest sheriff. sheriff joe found guilty of criminal contempt after defying a federal judge's order to stop racial profiling. due to be sen

great job by all law enforcement officers and boston mayor marty walsh. the boston major shot back sharply. today, boston stood for peace and love, not bigotry and hate. we should work to bring people together, not apart. trump didn't take the bait. he tweeted, our great country has been divided for decades. sometimes you need protests in order the heal. and we will heal. and be stronger than ever before. trump's administration could be in need of healing, too. his former chief strategist, steve bannon in a new interview, said no administration in history has been so divided among itself. later this week, the president heads to arizona for a political rally. potentially courting controversy there. >> donald trump, our next president of the united states. >> reporter: trump has reportedly hinted he may pardon former maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio. >> and sheriff joe arpaio. great guy. >> reporter: he fashioned himself america's toughest sheriff. he was found guilty of criminal contempt after defying a federal judge's order to stop racial profiling. he'

this morning boston mayor marty walsh met with counter protesters at one points, hugging a black lives matter leader and then tweeting this i ask everyone to be peaceful today and respect our city. love not hate. we stand together against intolerrance. we have teams on the ground. there are duelling demonstrations. i think everyone is learning as we go what is being represented by these duelling groups. we have one group that says it's marching in the name of peace and unity. another group that says it is demonstrating in the name of free speech. so let's gets to cnn's sara. >> reporter: two things. we're standing with this man who moved from trinidad. we have a crowd coming our way boston common right behind us. this crowd has been marching. they are with black lives matter. mostly white people are in the crowd. what do you think about america dwefrts. >> this is what america looks like today. for people that are now, this is what america looks like. you look around. you see people of different diversity here. i always say people not only black lives matter, all lives matter, you know

couple of other tweets, one of them, great job by all law enforcement officers in boston, mayor marty walshho is a democrat and he did tweet himself and he said today boston stood for peace and love not bigotry and hate. we should work to bring people together and not apart. one would hope that the president would have started with a tweet like that. your thoughts? >> well, i would hope so. but i don't think i could try and figure out donald trump and his tweets. we are getting -- we are getting different tweets every day and a lot of them are incomprehensive. a know what he needs to do. he needs to do a complete turn around and repent for the sin of racism and bigotry. he needs to make it clear that he's not going to tolerate the alt right which is a neo fascist movement. he needs to go back to the white house, clear out the alt right, fire sebastian gorka who wore a nazi medal to the inaugural ball and they need to be cleared out. she needs to support racial minorities in this country, his justice department is busy trying to attack affirmative action in our universities. and he needs to

that was boston mayor marty walsh earlier today speaking about the city's plans for tomorrow's free speechh coalition, that's who they are, they've said they are not affiliated with the group from charlottesville last week, but they have invited joe biggs, gavin mcginnis and a republican senate candidate from massachusetts as well as holocaust denier augustus invictus. joining me to discuss is the former commissioner of the nypd and -- i hope you're pronouncing your name right, sir, you can correct me -- a cambridge, massachusetts, city council member. is this what we should be doing? should we be allowing free speech on the boston common? >> well, these protests are allowed, this so-called free speech coalition and their rights are guaranteed by the constitution. so, of course, we should allow it. but that doesn't mean we have to believe it's a free speech rally. these people bring hate into our city. we saw the type of hate they bring in the events in charlottesville, and people are right to be concerned, they're right to speak back. and i believe that the nonviolent response -- much lar

william evans, we have been watching a news conference that included himself and the mayor of boston, marty walsh man who the president of the united states also thankeded. headlines out of this news conference. 27 arrests there in boston. no major injuries or property damage. a couple of assault and battery. arrests. as this press conference took place, new tweets came through from the president of the united states. some might say out of character. our country has been divided for decades. sometimes, you need to protest in order to heal. obviously, a typo there by the president. we will heal, be stronger than ever before. i want to applaud the protesters in boston who are speaking out bigotry and hate. our country will soon come together as one. i think he redid the tweet with proper spelling. if you look at his twitter. i want to go to garrett on the ground in boston. garrett, what did you hear from the police commissioner and mayor, how did that square with what you saw on the streets today? >> well, i thought the most important thing they both said was this idea that 99.9% of the people came

great job by all law enforcement officers and boston mayor marty walsh.hen it comes to the president saying there have been many anti-police agitators, that's not particularly what we have been seeing. there have been confirmed arrests but a largely peaceful demonstration in boston where 20,000 counterprotesters have drowned out the voices to the alt-right today in the boston common. >>> moving on now, of course there is a surge in efforts to do away with confederate statues after last weekend's violent clashes in charlottesville, virginia. this morning, duke university in north carolina removed a statue of confederate general robert e. lee from its chapel, following growing calls from its students there. the statue had been vandalized earlier in the week. early on wednesday, baltimore removed three confederate monuments, including a statue of former supreme court justice robert b. taney. he authored the dread scott decision, upholding slavery and denying slaves citizenship. and on tuesday, birmingham's mayor ordered a confederate statue covered up with p

boston's mayor marty walsh praised the rallies and marchers spoke out >> i won't have anything to do, kkk if i see any of them here, i will ask them to leave. we have a permit. i can ask you to leave if i have to. they can go stay somewhere else >> this national debate over the removal of the statues continues. places like tennessee, north carolina and texas, president trump tweeted about boston, saying i want to applaud the many protesters in boston, who are speaking out against bigotry and hate, our country will soon come together as one. >> joining to his talk about the debate of confederate statues and freedom of speech, bob mccart knee, senior reporter with the "washington post." thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure >> i want to start locally, terry mcauliffe didn't get much press, but on tuesday, he said that he felt the issue of, the future of confederate statues should be decided by each locality. the next day, less than 24 hours the next day he encouraged all localities to take down these confederate statues. is there debate or conversation for those people are not whi

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. >> marty walsh thank those who came out to spread a message of love. >> donald trump tweeted i wanto applaud the protesters in boston speaking out. our country will soon come together. he went on to post, our great country has been divided for decades. sometimes you need protest to heal. we will heal and be stronger than ever before.>>> a state trooper killed in charlottesville was laid to rest yesterday. >> lieutenant j collins was honored. he and his pilot were monitoring the protest in a helicopter when it crashed. the funeral for bates was held this past friday.>> students at the university of virginia begin the new school year friday was move-in day on campus. last week's clashes were on the minds of students and parents alike. some dorms had signs that said no home for hate here. flags flew at half staff all across the campus. >>> the search continues for a second terrorist in barcelona.>>> just one day away from the solar lips. more on the potential impact to california's power grid. >>> all that and more coming up after the break. stay tuned, we'll be right back. food. water

well, the president also went on to praise the boston police department and the work they did in marty walshmaking sure it was an orderly protest, and orderly march. freedom of speech and the ability to assemble something the american people have had an opportunity to do since our history and we have to continue to give them that. no place in our society where these protest turned violent and people are killed. it's unacceptable and should never have been. in order for people to share their views and vision with america, should be an opportunity. it has to be done in a fashion where people can do so in a safe environment and i want to praise the boston police department for making sure people could do that yesterday in a manner. >> protest is fine. anarchy is not. trish: thanks so much. turning onto headlines and fox news alert. the second officer gunned down in an ambush. sergeant richard howard's succumbing to his injuries a day after being shot in kissimmee, florida. responding to a call with officer matthew baxter who died friday night. police arresting miller, charging him with first-de