we are joined now by the mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu. mayor, thanks for taking the time tonight. >> thank you for having me, jim. i appreciate it. >> mayor, i know i don't have to talk to someone from new orleans about the experience with devastating storms. but as this storm takes that turn to the east towards louisiana, what are the conditions like right now? >> well, first of all before i begin, our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody in houston. those images that everybody is seeing right now were very real to us 12 years ago. we lost 1800 people and so houston and all of texas has gone through just a dramatic, probably the most catastrophic storm the united states has seen. so, we're thinking about them. as soon as we clear free here, we're going to be over there helping them like the rest of the world 4e7d helped us. the weather pattern has gotten better for us in the last couple of days as the storm kind of starts going northeast and starting to move at a fairly decent clip now. if something sits over you at 2 miles an hour,

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and, you know, mitch landrieu is exactly right on the history. you think about the aftermath of the civil war, the south was defeated, no one was putting up civil war stay chew statues. these people were treasonous against the united states. the statues went up in the redemption period, you had southern democrats, southern conservatives trying to sell the idea that the confederacy was grand, rather than treasonous, and bloody. and they did it in part to terrorize black southerners into saying these people, nathan bedford forest and robert e. lee rule over you, they will physically preside over you, there was a movement to put up monuments, particularly in the early 1920s when lynching was reaching its peek in the united states. you had 30 years later in the 1950s after brown v. board, this big wave of confederate flags that went up across the south. these things weren't put up in the aftermath of the war. these were symbols of terrorism that were deliberately meant to frighten and remind black people of their quote/unquote, place. for people to d

this morning, new orleans mayor mitch landrieu, president of the u.s. conference of mayors, took a shot at tom home and, the head lman, the head of immigrations and customs -- customs o enforcement. workthe podium -- most with us, but many do not in the larger cities. that is where criminal aliens and criminal gangs flirt. and -- flourish. mayor landrieu said he is wrong about that, that kind of rhetoric is not helpful and he added that police officers keep the streets safe, irrespective of immigration status and they do so all the time. your response to mayor landrieu and his charge against someone that is mentioned frequently to be the next secretary of homeland security? sarah: i think that tom has served our country well. he has been active in law enforcement and i was certainly trust his opinion. confidencea lot of in him and his abilities, having been in a multitude of different positions within law enforcement and been able to see it in a lot of different places, not just one location like the mayor. so i would differ to tom on the issue. reporte

president mitch landrieu of new giles of mesa, arizona. he is standing in for mayor brian barnett of rochester hills, michigan whose airplane was delayed. also is tom cochrane, the german next -- gentleman next to my colleague. executive director. the conference of mayors is a nonpartisan organization of cities of 30,000 are more. told.are 1408 i am all the guest speakers are making their first visit. father spoke to our breakfast one to 1975 when he was mayor of new orleans, and once in 1979 as secretary of housing and urban development. so much for monitor breakfast trivia. good for you, good for you. i was not, obviously. >> i was 12. >> the mayor is a graduate of catholic university. previously served in the louisiana house of representatives and served as louisiana's governor. mayor benjamin has been in office since 2010. his law degrees are from the university of south carolina. 's previous government service includes appointment at the age of 29 to the governor's cabinet as director of the department of probation and parole and pard

president mitch landrieu of new orleans, vice president benjamin. and john giles of mesa, arizona. he is standing in for mayor brian barnett of rochester hills, michigan, whose airplane was delayed. also with us is tom cochran, the to myman sitting next colleague, the organization's c.e.o. and executive director. the conference of mayors is a nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of there aremore and 1408 of them, i am told. all the guest speakers are making their first visit. to one of our low-cal breakfasts. however, mayor landrieu's father spoke to two of our breakfast one to 1975 when he was mayor of new orleans, and once in 1979 as secretary of housing and urban development. so much for monitor breakfast trivia. that has said the cook family for many years. >> all three. >> good for you, good for you. i was not, obviously. >> i was 12. >> the mayor is a graduate of catholic university. earned his law degree at loyola university. previously served in the louisiana house of and asntatives louisiana's lieutenant governor. he's been mayor since 2010. mayor benjamin h

. >> new orleans mayor mitch landrieu is also president of the u.s. conference of mayors. in washington, d.c., he spoke about issues facing u.s. cities and the national policies that mayors would like to see congress address. he's joined by the mayors of columbia, south carolina, and mesa, arizona, at this event hosted by the christian science monitor. it's just under an hour. >> ok. here we go. maybe not. >> thank you. >> while they're miking the mayor benjamin, i'm going to start by keeping us on schedule. thanks for coming. our guests are leaders of the u.s. conference of mayors, president mitch landrieu of new orleans, president steven benjamin of columbia, south carolina and john giles of maya, arizona, standing in for mayor brian barnett of rochester hills, michigan, whose plane was delayed. also with us at the table is tom cochran, sitting next to linda feldman, the organization's c.e.o. and executive director, the conference of mayors is a nonpartisan organization of city with populations of 30,000 or more and there are 1,408 of them, i'm told. all of our guest spe

mayor mitch landrieu has asked for more. >> this is unacceptable on every level. >> frustrated residentsan stewart ask for answers. >> if we flood like this in a typical rainstorm, what's going happen in a hurricane? >> reporter: dwayne boudreaux is still cleaning up water left in his grocery store. >> it got up on the shelves on the coolers. anything it's touched,'ve got to throw it away. the mayor says even if the pumps were working in full capacity, they were no match for this past weekend's storm. demarco morgan. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," the google employee is speaking out. >>> plus rvs are making a comeback. americans are heading into the great outdoors and buying recreational vehicles at a record place. we'll show you how the millennials are driving the resurgence. >>> and -- >> reporter: under all this green in salinas valley is an old crop gaining new status. cauliflower is hot and trendy, but it's also at the center of a food fight over a name. we'll have that story coming up on "cbs this morning." >> that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. i'm anne-marie gr

be safe, mayor mitch landrieu of new orleans. appreciate you joining us. >> caller: thank you so much. take care. bye-bye. >> when we come back, much more on our breaking news, monster hurricane harvey, making landfall along the texas coast. you heard the national weather center saying it's happening now. on the night president trump pardons controversial schafheri j joe arpaio. what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance..." through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald's helps more people go to college. it's part of our commitment to being america's best first job. ♪ when you switch to progressive. winds stirring. too treacherous for a selfie. [ camera shutter clicks ] sure, i've taken discounts to new heights with safe driver and paperless billing. but the prize at the top is worth every last breath. here we go. [ grunts ] got 'em. ahh. wait a m

i'm waiting on mitch landrieu to call me.to south carolina. >> some people wants him to run for president. >> that catapults him into another stratosphere. someone had the audacity to have culture to stand up against something that is pervasive in our culture right now. >> a huge deal in new orleans, too, which has a history -- we were talking about this during the break -- of not removing the names and sort of adding to it. but not actually taking it down which they're now doing. >> he made a very important point in that speech. he said there is a difference between reverence of history and remembrance of history. and a lot of the confederate statues in new orleans and other states and cities were put up during the cult of the last cause period in american history. not during the civil war itself, but later to revere the confederacy and to revere the lost cause. and that changes what the meaning of those statues. it was basically a way to lie about history and to tell a tale about american history that's not actually accurat

moller-maersk mitch landrieu has asked for more resignation. >> when you have credibility issues around anything, whether it's a big or small contributor to a major event, you have to do that. >> this is unacceptable on every level. >> reporter: frustrated residents like naaman stewart, demanded residents. >> if we flood like this in a typical new orleans summer rainstorm, what's going to happen in a hurricane? >> reporter: dwayne boudreaux is still cleaning the mess left by two feet of water in his grocery store. >> it's filthy water. it comes from off the streets, off the stiewrs, off the drains. it's on the shelves, got into the coolers. anything it touched, i've got to throw it away. >> reporter: it could take months to complete repairs on the broken pumps. but, anthony, the moller-maersk says even if the pumps were workath full capacity they were no match for this past weekend's historic storm. >> mason: demarco morgan with the pumping problems in new orleans. thanks, demarco. coming up next on the cbs evening news, dr. jon lapook on why stroke rates are dropping for men but not wo

mitch landrieu is the mayor of new orleans, and joins us now. i'm curious what your best advice is to other cities more hard hit this time. >> well, it's not really a time to give advice. can i tell you i had an opportunity to watch your previous two segments, it's just heartbreaking, it brings back so many incredibly difficult memories and exactly what was said in both of those segments is unbelievably presh yent and correct. those individuals that lost everything will go through a very, very difficult time. this is one of the worst disasters that the country has ever seen, it's hard to compare the two but it's clearly as big if not bigger than katrina. and of course people lost everything. and so there upended. a lot of people are in shelters, you can see what is happening down in the south western part of louisiana and in the eastern part of texas and beaumont with them still suffering the effects of the storm and rescues, not being complete yet. so the rest of the nation is going to rally to the cause, they're going to be there to support th

after that, new orleans mayor mitch landrieu outlines the agenda at the conference of mayors, an organization he currently heads. and, a discussion on the future of genetics. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, the spin was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> now joining us on oulton.cators is jeff m what do you do for a living? cyber security research. host: what does that entail? >> we help our clients protect their networks from cyber vulnerabilities were cyber attacks, and we do a lot of risk assessment, vulnerability and penetration testing for clients, and more and more we are looking at working with companies -- to find out who did it, how pervasive the attack was, what mitigation strategies were affected to get rid of the attack. and what details were compromised. >> why does louisiana state have of cyber research department? list -- backbucket in the day it was billed, there was an institution in northern louisiana that was a vanguard in this. toike to say that we have unders

>> in many ways it's just beginning, thank you scott cohn. >> joining us is mitch landrieu, new orleanss for being here. >> good to be with you thank you. >> i was struck by two things, the houston mayor imposed a curfew while at the same time he wanted the astros game continued. what's that balance you have to strike as a mayor during moments just like this >> it's very hard, you know, because every storm as we've said a thousand times is different. it could look like the entire city of houston is flooded when really only two-thirds is so the other third stands up as if nothing has happened it's a very surreal experience to actually go through simultaneously the storm can be finished in houston and then it can move over. what you saw in beaumont, plaina and lake charles spanked really bad a couple days after it hit houston there's a rolling recovery and one of the things that the local officials have to manage i've been in touch with the mayors of both beaumont and plano and, of course, lake charles. motiva shut down the refinery are. the colonial pipeline shut down. you just ran a sto

walter and jim had been writing this project of healing america, and so mitch landrieu of new orleans is here. we are really happy he is here. speechhave not read his about a very sensitive issue, you must read that speech. a brilliant speech of leadership. he will be joined by a good to talkbout -- hours, about how domestic politics has an impact on our leadership position. what we are doing is taking on a american-led the liberal order of the last of the two years. condi and i felt we would describe it. for 72 years, every american president from harry truman through barack obama has agreed on one thing -- we have to be forward, deplored,, engage with restts -- engage with the of the world as a leader. that is why we have stood for free trade and trading agreements to lift global prosperity. it is why we have nurtured these big institutions -- they are not -- like thect united nations and its agencies, the imf, the world bank -- because when a natural disaster like haiti, a place we have to respond. united states is the linchpin of all this, and we believe in something else every pr

president mitch landrieu of new orleans, john giles of mesa, arizona.

mayor mitch landrieu of new orleans is here and we are happy he is he or today. [applause] if you have not read his speech about a very sensitive issue in his community, confederate you must read that speech of leadership and we will be joined by a good friend, senator dan sullivan of alaska and congressman joe kennedy of massachusetts on sunday evening to talk about how domestic politics has an impact on leadership positions. this week we are taking on a big subject. the american-led liberal order of the last 72 years. we would try to describe it. 472 years, every american president from harry truman through to barack obama has agreed on one thing, we have to be forward deployed and engaged with the rest of the world as a leader. that is why we created this set of alliances like nato and our east asian alliances and why we stood for free trade and trading agreements to lift global prosperity. it is why we have nurtured this big institutions that are not always perfect, like the united nations and its agencies, the imf, world bank, because we believe when there i

totals.the storm could also bring heavy rain to eastern louisiana -- including new orleans .mayor mitch landrieuorleans: "5-10 inches of rain over the duration of the event in our geographical lcoation with the potential for double -- and this is what worries me the most -- for double if we get stuck in prolonged rain bands." harvey is forecast to make landfall in texas late friday into early saturday. the last hurricane to hit the state was ike in 2008 -- a storm that killed 21 people in texas, louisiana, and arkansas.in washington, i'm karin caifa. (pam) i'm here in the weather center with chief meteorologist brittney shipp... tracking the hurricane. a building ridge of high pressure will lead to a substantialwarming trend especially for locations away from the coast.widespread upper 80s to lower 100s are likely starting on sundayfor inland areas. several days of very warm readings are likely which could lead to heat related issues. at the coast temperatures will be more moderate. (pam) the winner of last night's 758- million dollar powerball jackpot... has come forward... reporter jared plite

that city's mayor, mitch landrieu, gave an kbagsed speech on that and we lee you with his words today and in the second decade of the 21st century asking african americans to drive by property of men who fought to destroy the country and deny that person's humanity seems perverse. it seems absurd. >> those comments from may. that wraps things up for this hour. ali velshi picks things up right now from washington. >> good to see you. have a great afternoon. i'm ali velshi in washington. it took three days, but this afternoon president trump tried again to get it rights on the eentsz in charlottesville. no more condemning hate in general terms. no more criticizing violence on many sides. this was the leader of the free world doing his best to be firm and unambiguous. all this starred on friday night. there was violence. there was pepper spray. there was uncontrollable clashes with counterprotestors. the images gained the attention of the world. tension reached a new

mayor mitch landrieu said the pumps have been repaired, but they are not up to full capacity because four of the five turbines are off-line and they are waiting for additional generators and hopefully they will arrive before the next storm that's expected over the weekend. >> what is clear to me today is that we remain at risk, i believe if a major storm comes until we get additional turbines. >>reporter: the failure comes 12 years after the devastation of hurricane katrina and while the problem is with the drainage system not the levees many residents are pointing angry fingers at the city and state government for what they call a lack of preparation. >> we can't live in this community and not know the pumping systems are supposed to do what they are designed to do, what they have been invested into do. >>reporter: much of the southeast is getting soaked, one of the hardest hit states is alabama where persistent rain cause flash flooding thursday night damaging several homes with flood watch is still in effect in some areas.>> there is nothing we can do, we have to wait until the wa

what mitch landrieu has done and said in new orleans is so inspirational and so historically significantthe white nationalists and the ku klux klan lead this debate. let's on cnn and other outlets have a real discussion, a painful discussion among brothers and sisters who are americans, but for a confederacy that was on the wrong side of history, let's have a real discussion about that here in 2017. >> those people sitting there with their arms crossed and heads down, uncomfortable around the president and his advisers, what are they going to do? what are they going to do in this moment? >> if you stand by silently. >> what you ignore, you empower. >> has president trump lost his moral authority with what he did yesterday? we'll continue to debate this next. day 13. if only this were as easy as saving $600 when you switch to progressive. winds stirring. too treacherous for a selfie. [ camera shutter clicks ] sure, i've taken discounts to new heights with safe driver and paperless billing. but the prize at the top is worth every last breath. here we go. [ grunts ] got 'em. ahh. wait a min

we saw a moral moment from a colleague, mitch landrieu, when he talked about the removal of statues inrleans. rising to the occasion doesn't have a party label. it comes from the heart. goes -- when there's issues, if there's a crisis, you go to it and addressed it straight on. charlie: but it didn't happen. do you think this was simply looking at his political base, are part of his political base? i'm talking about the first instinct. do you think someone was in their lobbying, saying you have to be balanced and careful, because the people who got you elected will take offense? mayor fischer: your advisors are there to advise. they are not there to decide. you go where your heart and head wants you to go. if you can't be authentic, if you can't be the person you are, what good is it holding office? peace officers are honors to hold.if you ever honors --fficers are is to makeions things better than they can be. the job of us to lead is to make the city, state, country a better place. we do that together. charlie: did the president, in a sense, by what he said today, though a long way i

work in louisville and anaheim, compassion, the leadership we're receiving from your president, mitch landrieuve mayors leading all across this country, working to make sure this wonderful american ex-experiment works for all of god's children. >> thank you. >> thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >>> it you have to remember what matters and who matters. just hours, charlottesville is going to remember the brave young woman, heather heyer, her life taken by a man using a car as a weapon of terror. we're going to talk with one of heather's friends next. >>> in just a few hours, a memorial service is going to be held for the woman on your screen, charlottesville victim heather heyer. she wasn't at the protest in an equally extreme and violent alt lefty capacity as the president assumed. she was there to oppose hate, and it cost her her life. joining us now is alfred wilson who worked with her. he will be speaking at today's memorial service. thank you very much for joining us. i'm sorry for your loss. >> thank you for having me here this morning. >> now we know, i see from your bow tie h

if you look back at these beautiful remarks from mitch landrieu earlier this year who quoted the vicehe confederacy, alexander stephens. he said when the great truth is that the n word is not equal to the white man, slavery and sub bored nation to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. what did you make of how the president addressed these monuments yesterday? >> this man is lethally ignorant, incapable of having a kindergartner's comprehension of race. for those who say it's about history and heritage, it is. the history and heritage of racism, of bigotry. building their sense of biological and in many cases theological and national identity upon a lie, a mythology of white supremacy. the belief that some people are inherently superior and some people are inherently inferior. for the president then to defend the actions again taking down robert e. lee, stonewall jackson -- remember, these people hated america enough to want the secede from it. the people that we claim, black lives matter, the antifa movement and so on, are interested in preserving the fabric of americ

cheryl: listening to mayor mitch landrieu in new orleans talking about a threat of hurricane harvey. the landfall expecting to hit state of texas, the outer band expected to have a grave effect on city of new orleans. remember 12 years ago, hurricane katrina in new orleans. the city preparing for ill effects of course of hurricane harvey. want to take a look right now at the oil contract. we've been watching oil moving as well as the dow. there is the dow rising 30 points. all this is happening despite what we're seeing in the oil contract. also some refineries under direct threat from hurricane harvey. gerri willis on floor of new york stock exchange. she will wrap up a lot of big movers of today. again the oil story is big. i want to go to phil flynn standing by at cme in chicago. phil, first to you. we were talking early this morning with you, of course platforms are evacuated a couple of days ago. platforms in the gulf are safe but those refineries still seem to be in the direct path of harvey. >> absolutely. that is one of the driving forces of prices today. how bad are these re

mayor mitch landrieu took aim at city officials. >> but i can't even begin to tell you how extremely frustrated and angry i am at the inability of the sewerage and water board to communicate clearly and to give accurate information to the public even and i'm not sure even at this moment that we have the complete and accurate information. >> woodruff: 2016 was the hottest year on record, the third straight year of record global warmth. that's according to a new report, led by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. among the findings: the global temperature increase was helped by a strong "el niÑo" effect. nd concentrations of major greenhouse gases also reached a new high. the brewing tensions between the u.s. and north korea dragged stocks down again on wall street today. the dow jones industrial average lost 204 points to close at 21,844. the nasdaq fell 135, the s&p 500 dropped 35. still to come on the newshour: the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee weighs in on the north korean threat. a new exhibit gives voice to those enslaved at a presidenti

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and, mitch landrieu, mayor of new orleans two months ago, gave a very thoughtful speech on this. so, communities have to make judgments about this. a lot of these monuments are being moved to places of history. but, my concern as a former secretary of homeland security is we see white nationalists now, neonazis using these symbols as rallying points modern day. we saw what happened this charlottesville. we have to avoid repeat occurrences of that. >> i want to to back to president trump's comments and what mr. falwell said. is the media overreacting? did the president speak his mind? did he make it leer in your mind? >> i don't think the media is overreacting. the media everything the president says. what the president doesn't seem to grasp here is that he is -- our history is no doubt delicate. it's complicated. you have to understand history to be president. i tell public audiences, those who know history learn from it. those who don't know the mistakes of history are bound to repeat it. i'm very concern pd that this president is -- frankly dividing us when he should be bringin

we saw a moral moment from my colleague mitch landrieu, when he talked about the removal of statues ineans. he rose to the occasion. -- she rose to the occasion. rising to the occasion doesn't have a party label. it comes from the heart. a leader goes -- when there's issues, if there's a crisis, you go to it and address the issue straight on. charlie: but it didn't happen. do you think this was simply looking at his political base, or part of his political base? i'm talking about the first instinct. do you think somebody was in there lobbying, saying you have to be balanced and careful, because the people who got you elected will take offense? mayor fischer: your advisors are there to advise. they are not there to decide. you go where your heart and head tells you to go. and then you let the chips fall where they if you can't be may. authentic, if you can't be the person you are, what good is it holding office? these offices are honors to hold. if you ever forget that, you ought to leave. our job is to lift people up, provide aspiration for people to be better than they can be. that is

president mitch landrieu of new orleans, vice president stephen benjamin of columbia, south carolina, and john giles, mayor of mesa, arizona. he is standing in for mayor bryan barnett of rochester hills, michigan, whose airplane was delayed. also with us today is tom cochrane, the gentleman next to my colleague, the organization's ceo and executive director. the conference of mayors is a nonpartisan organization of cities of a population of 30,000 or more. there are 1408, i am told. all the guest speakers are making their first visit to our breakfasts. mayor landrieu's father, moon landrieu, spoke to two our breakfast once in 1975, when he was mayor of new orleans, and once in 1979, as secretary of housing and urban development. so much for monitor breakfast trivia, a category that has fed the cook family for many years. >> i was here for all three . -- i was here for all three. mr. cook: good for you, good for you. i was not, obviously. [laughter] >> i was 12. [laughter] mr. cook: mayor landrieu is a graduate of catholic university. he earned his law degree at loyola univeristy. he p

we have new orleans mayor mitch landrieu with us now. we know time is precious.ow are you doing right now? >> listen, by the grace of god, is going to miss us. it came to the east of us and it's going to the west of us. we're not going to feel the kind of impact that houston felt. we're pretty well prepared for what comes our way. as you can see, you have to be humbled by mother nature. on this anniversary of katrina, our house and prepares go out to the folks in houston. unfortunately the worst is not yet over. beaumont got hurt very badly as did southwest louisiana last night. as we've watched this thing unfold. you've seen the incredible humanitarian crisis. but simultaneously you see the unbelievable hheroism. even in your darkest hour, it's going to be okay. the other thing for the country to watch and it's very important, everybody is in the same boat. nobody is asking anybody in the boat what color you are, where you're from, what class you're in. everybody is helping each other. at the end of the day it's going to be all right. we'll have to go through ve

and i wanted to talk to the mayor of the great city of new orleans, mitch landrieu, who joins me now.ieu, you've helped bring new orleans back from the brink. you've helped make new orleans the extraordinary city it is now. as you see what's happening here in houston, elsewhere in louisiana, and in beaumont and port arthur, what goes through your mind tonight? >> it's really unbelievable. those images, they're just hard to watch, actually. you interviewed me 12 years ago, and it was just incredible to watch these individuals go through what we went through. for those of us that were in the water, helping people out, you know, you saw the most unbelievable tragedies that you can imagine. yet at the same time, miraculous, you saw people who would just walk across the street from other people normally, helping each other out. and it just lifted your spirit about our capacity to help each other in the darkest hours. and so even though it's hard to watch, you're witnessing this in realtime, how heuman beings can really rise above all the differences that we have and reach down and lift eac

in new orleans, mayor mitch landrieu admitted thursday that turbines and pumps needed to drain low-lying parts of the city remain below capapacity, after torrential downpours flooded parts of new orleans earlier this month. climate scntntists sayay human-driven global warming is leading to more intense storms and increasing the maximum intensity of rainfall. in florida, prison officials on ththursday injected a 53-y-yeard condemned prisoner with a lethal dose of an anesthetic never before used in a u.s. execution. at 6:10 p.m., mark james asay was strapped to a gurney and administered the drug etomidate. witnesses say asay twitched his legs briefly and appeared to breathe rapidly before his death was declared at 6:22 p.m. etomidate was developed by a division of johnson & johnson, and has been criticized as being unproven in executions. in response, the johnson & -- the company said -- "we do not condone the use of our medicines in lethal injections for capital punishment." mark james asay was the first white man to be put to death in florida for killing a black man in the state reinstit

mitch landrieu took down robert e. lee in new orleans, the statue.e of this has to continue. >> you can imagine where people -- where jews would not want to go into plays that bore their oppressor's name but yet you have to go into schools named robert e. lee high school. there are confederate flags still hanging in parts of the country. why would anyone feel safe with the oppressor's flag hanging over them or in a building they have to sit in, michael? >> these are tough issues, you know, we have a long lift of freedom of speech. first amendment rights and we have to be very careful the supreme court has decided some of these issues. we tend to err on the side of speech. and so it has to create a clear and present danger. i mean, that's the famous oliver wendell holmes decision, clear and present danger to current law on freedom of speech. and so weep, i think we need to make sure we have the proper balance. the flag certainly is a symbol, the confederate battle flag certainly a symbol of hatred, a symbol that creates fear in.americans. and i think

democratic mayor mitch landrieu: >> to literally put the confederacy on a pedestal in our most prominentces of honor is an inaccurate recitation of our full past. it is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. >> brangham: but in the weeks since charlottesville, as even more confederate statues came down in places like baltimore, which the city removed, and durham, north carolina, toppled by activists, a new question emerged: what are we to do with monuments that honor historical figures who've been accused of wrongdoing? among the examples cited recently: statues and commemorations for christopher columbus, whose brutality toward native americans was well documented; boston's faneuil hall, named after merchant peter faneuil, who had ties to slave trading; and the philadelphia monument depicting former mayor frank rizzo, who led a police force widely seen as brutal and racist. it's a debate attracting voices from every corner-- including president trump: >> i wonder, is it george washington next week? and is it thomas jefferson the week after? you know, you

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would recommend if you have chance some time soon that you listen to the full youtube video of mitch landrieu's speech in new orleans about the removal of a confederate monument in new orleans. new orleans, the controversy is removing memorials. salem is just the opposite, putting up memorials. but he makes just such a stunning argument about why this issue of memorials and public memory are so important. he said century old wounds are still raw because they never heal right in the first place. this removal is, however, about showing the whole world that we as a city and as a people are able to acknowledge, understand, reconcile, and most importantly, choose a better future for ourselves, making straight what has been crooked and making right what is wrong. and i think that very much applies to some of the debate that we're having here in salem about addressing issues that may have happened 325 years ago, but i think it's really imperative for us to look ahead. in closing, i will point back to bridget bishop and we're meeting here to honor her memory today, but i can point to so many other site