Partner, lisa marie. I got more emotional during that record than ive ever gotten. Sharing pictures and stories from their private relationships with the king. But first here tonight, the nightline 5. Number 1 is coming good evening. At a time when this country is consumed by the story of hate and violence that played out in charlottesville, virginia the president for Many Americans has brought little comfort. His remarks at a fiery News Conference yesterday have been criticized for emboldening hate groups, and now some are worried that a rally scheduled for this weekend in boston is only going to escalate things. Tonight we hear from many different perspectives in our divided nation in our new series american flash point. You will not replace us you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had very fine people. On both sides. White lives matter white lives matter ive condemned neonazis. Not all of those people were neonazis. Believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists. Reporter it is the firestorm threatening to engulf the trump presidency. What about the altleft that came charging at the as you say, the altright . You nazi scum do they have any semblance of guilt . Reporter while the president did condemn neonazis and white supremacists. They should be condemned totally. Reporter and while he is correct that some on the left did get violent, critics say there really is no comparing the counterprotesters with the bigots who openly support hitler and the kkk. Jews will not replace us to have the president seem to equate those people with the people who were protesting their viewpoints was something quite shocking. Reporter while this administration is used to criticism, today the president s words led to a Massive Public rebuke throughout this country from business ceos, faith and military leaders, and even on fox news. Last night i couldnt sleep at all because President Trump, our president , has literally betrayed the conscience of our country. Reporter the fallout spreading into boardrooms of some of the countrys largest companies. 11 Business Leaders quit President Trumps manufacturing advisory council, leading the white house to end the council altogether. These are the leaders of American Business saying we cannot work with this white house, we cannot even be in an advisory role with this white house, because we believe that what the president has said is racist. Reporter a major blow to a president who prides himself on his business ties. When asked yesterday how he would heal the countrys racial divisions, he said jobs. I think if we continue to create jobs at levels that im creating jobs, i think thats going to have a tremendous impact, positive impact on race relations. Reporter also today, some evangelicals who overwhelmingly backed trump in the november general election are now starting to waver in their support. Johnny moore, an unofficial evangelical adviser to the president , said in a statement to abc news that the way some in the administration have handled the fallout has been unhelpful, too emotional and insensitive. Many conservative republicans have roundly condemned trumps moral ambiguity. Reminiscent of what we saw in germany in the 1930s. The president has to totally condemn this. Reporter today the u. S. Senates only black republican, senator tim scott, saying in an interview, i think you are missing four centuries of history in this nation. Though other conservatives like the pastor c. L. Bryant defend the president. Do i think President Trump is a racist . Of course not. The president made it very clear how he felt about white supremists and how he felt about the altright and the white nationals. No father should have to do this. Reporter on the ground in charlottesville today, a display of raw grief at a Memorial Service for heather heyer. Amazing grace killed allegedly at the hands of a young reported nazi sympathizer who rammed her and many other counterprotesters with his car. As i listened to her friends and heard stories of my daughter and the way she was, she wanted equality. She wanted to put down hate. They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well, guess what . You just magnified her. [ applause ] reporter heathers legacy already being felt across the country. The city of baltimore awoke today to find that confederate monuments had been removed under the cover of night. I think any city that has confederate statues are concerned about violence occurring in their city. Reporter in new york city signs commemorating the confederate general robert e. Lee were taken down today. And in birmingham, alabama the mayor ordered a Civil War Monument entombed in plywood, though he was later sued by the state attorney general, accused of taking an illegal action. Across the country there are more than 700 monuments to the confederacy sitting on public land. The majority of them in the south. Hello, everybody. Reporter in his defiant press conference yesterday the president waded into the debate over the removal of these memorials. This week its robert e. Lee. I noticed that stonewall jacksons 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 . Reporter history Mary Rollinson says that while many southerners rightfully want to celebrate their ancestors theres really no way to separate the history of the confederacy from slavery. The confederacy very explicitly said if we dont do this we are going to have, you know, social equality of negros and whites and this is just absolutely something that we should lay down our lives to prevent. Reporter meanwhile, in cities across the country they are bracing for what many fear will be more hatefilled rallies. Including in boston, where there is an event scheduled for this saturday. We also have a message to the hate groups, especially any that are planning to come to our city this weekend. Boston does not welcome you here. Boston does not want you here. Boston rejects your message. Reporter today we met the surprising figure at the center of this storm, College Senior john medler. Well, what we have planned is that were going to have what we call a free speech rally. Reporter he says he does not want nazis or the kkk at the event. He says plans for saturdays event were under way long before this past weekends events in virginia. So youre saying this is not a rally to talk about white nationalist, nazi, racist stuff, its about talking about the First Amendment. Correct. So none of that stuff is going to be discussed . No. That is not our plan. Reporter but opponents who are organizing their own rallies say the purpose is far more insidious. What we saw in charlottesville was it was a horrible tragedy that could have been avoided. And thats exactly what were trying to avoid here in boston. They might not have swastikas. They might not sieg heil. But they still want jews to leave the country. They want muslims to leave the country. They want a pure white race in the united states. Reporter and they look at the incidents in charlottesville not as free speech but hate speech. Free speech can be hate speech. And i think that you do have a lot of people on the right who feel that this speech has been suppressed. But there is a difference between saying what you think and calling for a country that eliminates races and religions. Reporter john medlar does concede that a previous event just this past may organized by his Group Featured mostly far right speakers and that his original lineup for this saturdays event was very similar. The history of these people who were on your original speakers list, theyre accused of saying antisemitic, racist, misogynist, hateful things. Why would you want to give them a platform under any circumstance not wiwithstanding your robust professed belief in the First Amendment . Well, ive been accused of apparently running some kind of a kkk rally. So i dont put much stock immediately in what people say about other people. I prefer to actually listen to them. We all have very strong messages that we hope we can all convey peacefully through our right to assemble. Reporter the counterprotesters making sure their voices will be heard loudly and clearly. There is some level of risk that there may be people who do not have the same sense of peace, the same sense of allowing both sides to express their views, even if they dont agree. We will outweigh those sentiments. That we will be the light that pushes back the darkness. Reporter they will be doing it, they say, in the spirit of heather heyer. I hear music in the air who was memorialized tonight by hundreds of people in a candlelight vigil and whose grieving mother moved so Many Americans with her words today. Say to yourself, what can i do to make a difference . And thats how youre going to make my childs death worthwhile. Id rather have my child, but by golly, if ive got to give her up, were going to make it count. [ applause ] and for much more on this story tune in to 20 20 on friday for a full hour special, fractured america extremism in the streets. Next here on nightline we switch gears entirely. 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If you listen to elviss music these days, its a little bit hard to believe he was once considered so rebellious. But some of todays edgiest musicians will tell you that they have been deeply influenced by the king, and now 40 years after his death we travel to memphis. Heres abcs Chris Connelly. Reporter 40 years ago Linda Thompson got a phone call at her home. On the other end of the line was a 9yearold girl. It was lisa marie presley. She said, my daddys dead. My daddys dead. She just blurted it out. Reporter thompson had spent 4 1 2 years as Elvis Presleys lover and confidant before they parted in 1976. One year later she struggled to believe what she was hearing. The king of rock and roll, dead at 42. Presley was found unconscious in his mansion at about 2 30, was pronounced dead an hour later. I first quizzed her, are you sure that he didnt just go to the hospital . And she said no, no, hes dead. Reporter four decades have passed. How long . This year elviss granddaughter, riley keogh, was nominated for a golden globe, an award elvis never won. And the love his millions of fans have for the king of rock and roll and the electrifying music he gave to the world never did die. Well, thats all right mama reporter it all started on july 5th, 1954 at sun studios in memphis, where the truck driver whod yet to sing with a band did the song thats all right. Thats all right now mama you had this kid coming in, this 19yearold kid coming into the studio. He had never performed in public before. Its a music thats so spontaneous, so free. Well, its down at the end of lonely street at Heartbreak Hotel reporter two years later he was crushing it live and on tv with Heartbreak Hotel. He had a look that nobody had back then. The italian type of waistcoat. And you know, the stitching. Very cool stuff. Reporter yet the generation has aged that knew elvis as a rebel, the hipthrusting thunderbolt of charisma and sexuality who shocked a buttoneddown nation with his performance of hound dog on the milton berle show. Hound dog with such contemporary country artists as land antebellum of need you now fame. And i need you now elviss once dangerous music was passed down to them by parents and grandparents. My first memory of hearing Elvis Presley was my pawpaw, my dads dad. He would work real hard all through the week and on the weekends elvis was a goto just music that was place at our house. Jailhouse rock, blue suede shoes. Playing on git where my dad were some of my first introductions to elvis. He passed away when i was six months old, but ive always been a fan of his music but kind of a student too. With suspicious minds playing drums for elvis made you feel like you were backing a stripper. You had to catch everything he did. I even studied karate later on to where i could anticipate his moves. He was so nervous about performing, he wasnt sure the fans would like him. He asked me one time, why are they here . I said to hear you. He said, i cant understand why. Here we go again reporter those who sang backup on such songs as suspicious minds, on tour in las vegas, or here in nashvilles historic studio b would never forget their years with elvis. Most artists sing with the mike on a stand. Elvis wouldnt do that. So he would grab that mike with his hand as if he were on the stage. Reporter the 1992 comedy honeymoon in vegas would feature this performance from a 4yearold elvis impersonator. Take my whole life too yes, thats a young bruno mars. Whose thoughts back then appeared in the documentary viva elvis. I like singing. And his dancing. Reporter ten years ago it was lisa marie, duetting with her late father on his social justice hit in the ghetto. Its proceeds going to charity. Its another hungry mouth to feed in the ghetto i had thought about many other songs, but that was just the one that just did have a really indepth thing that i felt i could do something with. Reporter in 1972 Linda Thompson was a beauty pageant goddess 12 credits short of graduating from memphis state when she met 37yearold elvis at the movies. You cant even remember the movie. No, woub able to if Elvis Presley was sitting next to you, maci in macking on you . I was very standoffish until he whispered in my ear, honey, you know im not married anymore, were separated, we have been separated for seven months. I went, oh, well, let me lean in a little closer here, aw little more here. Reporter as she chronicled in her memoir a little thing called love, linda was moved into elviss graceland residence just weeks later. He confided a flaw that he had to you. He said, ill probably only admit this once, but i have a selfdestructive streak. It was evident in a lot of things, particularly in the way that he abused his body with prescription medication. Reporter one humorous outofcontrol moment would enter elvis lore forever. We were, the two of us, watching tv at graceland. Robert goulet happened to be on tv singing if ever i would leave you and he says, honey, step out of the room. And he starts to reach for his gun. He says, just cant stand to watch this any longer. So i closed the door behind me, and i heard boom, boom, boom. I walk back into the bedroom, and the television is just shot to hell. Reporter that tv, with its bullet hole, is among the memorabilia now on display at Elvis Presleys memphis, a new complex of elvisthemed museums, restaurants, and shopped across from graceland. A 137 million bet that elvis fans will continue to make the trip to reexperience his legend. His backup singers paying tribute, performing sweet sweet spirit 40 years after they sang it at his funeral. 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Its bachelor Fan Favorites week on who wants to be a millionaire. [cheers and applause] [dramatic music] welcome to bachelor Fan Favorites week on who wants to be a millionaire. [cheers and applause] todays bachelor fan favorite is a wine maker and the bachelor from season 16. Lets see what hes up to now. From san francisco, california, please welcome ben flajnik. [cheers and applause] whats up, brother . Whats up, man . Good to see you. Good to see you too. [cheers and applause] whoo hes still got it. Kinda. All that sexy, still got it. Its been a while. It has been a while. What are youlets catch everyone up to date. Yeah, lets catch up. So you were our bachelor. Yep. Youit was a bit of a controversial season, i guess we could say. It was. I think thats why i disappeared for a while. Right, you disappeared off the face of the earth. I dont blame you. You chose a girl named courtney and there was a big controversy. What was life like after the show . The first year was tough, i would say. I think thats why i kind of wanted to go back into normal living, right . Right. Sonoma, san francisco, kind of get back in my old routine, make wines. I made a lot of wine