roland martin host of the roland martin show on tv11. we appreciate it. like we mentioned earlier anger over what happened in charlottesville is now making its way to cities nationwide. the statue of the confederate soldier in durham, north carolina toppled yesterday. act vises used a rope and a ladder to pull down. ea city of alexandria want to hear your ideas on renaming davis son jefferson. route one is also named for the president of the con ephedras i. last year the council voted to begin the process to rename the highway. this afternoon a small crowd of protestors surrounding the man holding a flag of a man in charlottesville. the people shouted terrorists go home. the man said he was saluting and honoring the confederate general . he was escorted by police. fox5's ronica cleary is live at a con fed ate statue or neer one in the district tonight . what's the latest. >>reporter: another update, it's in maryland actually. that roger tan i statue there's been controversy about that. it's on statehouse grounds. governor hogan went into this debate this

roland martin joins us to talk about this. thank you very much. what a day this has been.art with that question. are they historical markerses or are they symbols of hate. >> they're symbols of hate. first of all, most people don't understand none of these monuments were erected after the civil war. it's a period of where they say we have to come oght. 1877 when jim crow was ushered in. we had an election in 1876 then you had this period called redeemer democrats in the 1890s or so where they began to assert themselves, kick african-americans out of statehouses all across the country and then you had this lilly white movement of the republican party. most of these confederate statues were eject rected the late 1800s and 1920ss and 19 30s. people don't understand they were erected specif african-americans, to scare african-americans and to impose the wheel of racist in this country. the confederate flag, robert e lee told his troops furl that flag, it is a symbol of trees on. when did it come back 1948 at a convention in mississippi why, because the democrats had a plan to

for analysis, let's bring in roland martin, host on tv1. good to see you. >> likewise. you have less than 40% approving of the president in these key states, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin. those were pivotal states during the election. more than 60% are saying trump's overall conduct embarrass them. a quarter say it's made them proud. what do you think of those numbers? >> i would love to know what the hell those folks were thinking last year when they voted for donald trump. we knew who he was. we saw the racial buttons he was pushing. we saw how degrading he was to women. here's the problem. if you look at gerrymandering in this country, it doesn't matter what the overall numbers are. the question s what are the numbers in each congressional district? 700,000 will be deciding what takes place when it comes to congress, whether they'll flip or not. that's the real issue. republicans in many of these states, especially southern states, will be able to gerrymandering a lot of these districts. set up super republican districts. the question is, how will independents i

roland martin. christopher ruddy, the ceo of news max media. a long-time friend of president trump. and jen psaki. now with cnn. a lot to get to this week. including the late-night as the hurricane was taking hold. of sheriff arpaio. >> i noticed, my love and prayers to fellow texans and what they're going will you today. i notice bossert's focus was let's focus on texas. the president caused the focus on this. because he did a late-night pardon while the hurricane was going on. to me, what donald trump has done and said, reminds me of an emerson quote. your actions speak so loudly, i can't hear what you say. this is somebody that constantly has talked about healing, healing, healing, but almost every one of his actions as president has been the exact opposi opposite. >> and chris ruddy. pretty clir the president was going to do this regardless. he asked early in the administration, if he could stop the prosecution of joe arpaio. the situation is. >> i think he sees the situation on a individual basis. he knows joe arpaio. 85-year-old guy. health conditions. served the country for 5

of the national action network, and host of msnbc's politics nation, and host of news one now, roland martinreverend al, i want to start with you. between 2001 and now, we have seen three times more deaths caused by right-wing extremists than islamic terrorists. knowing that and knowing that this event was taking place, a white nationalist event on friday night, did charlottesville police, did authorities show up prepared for what could unfold? >> well, i think that that is one of the things that we've got to look at and look at very deeply. i think there were some preparations. i think there were some attempts to move the site where they were going to be allowed to have their demonstration and then the judge ruled that they could stay there. i think also the question becomes how do you prepare for a terrorist to drive a car in a street that no one would think that someone would do that. so i think at one level we can question their preparation for the crowd, but the deadly act i don't know is something they could have prepared for and it shows the climate of hate in this country. one of the

roland martin. the host and managing editor of news one now. christopher ruddy, the ceo of news max media. a long-time friend of president trump. and jen psaki. communicatio communications director for president obama. now with cnn. a lot to get to this week. including the late-night pardon on friday night. as the hurricane was taking hold. of sheriff arpaio. you heard tom bossert on that right now. but the president meeting some real fierce opposition. >> i noticed, my love and prayers to fellow texans and what they're going through today. i notice bossert's focus was let's focus on texas. i don't want to focus on this. well, the president is the one who caused this to be focused on because he did a late-night pardon on friday in the midst of the hurricane going on. to me, what donald trump has done and said, reminds me of an emerson quote. your actions speak so loudly, i can't hear what you say. this is somebody that constantly has talked about healing, healing, healing, but almost every single one of his actions as president has been the exa

and roland martin, host and managing editor of news one now. guys, good to see you both.being here. >> is this a law firm? velshi, march fin and march stin. >> the two march stinls on your screen are unrelated, as far as i know. glen, let me start with you. the reason i wanted to make that point about the statistics that our problem in our u.s. prisons is not law and order. we don't have a ton of prison breaks. there was one a couple days ago. they got all the folks back. mental health is actually a massive problem in our prisons. the idea that people go to prison, go to jail come out, can't get employed and get back into jail, we've got way more people as a proportion of our pop liegs in jail than any other developed country. >> you know, president trump during the campaign said to black folks in america, what do you have to lose? well, this is the answer to that question. what we have to lose is an entire generation of particularly young people of color, folks who have mental health oirkz, folks who have addiction issues to mass incarceration. if you look at the previou