. but many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of robert e. lee. so this week it's robert e. lee. i noticed that stone wall jackson is coming down. i wonder, is it george washington next week, and is it thomas jefferson the week after. you know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop? >> never mind the actual conflating there of civil war generals with revolutionary war generals. president trump addressing the movement to take down monuments honoring the confederacy around the nation. last night alone. and here's some video from memphis, tennessee, where protesters surrounded this jefferson davis statue, calling for its removal. some even spitting on the memorial to the confederacy president there in memphis. msnbc is live in memphis this afternoon with the latest on what's happening there.