And never able to be comparably replaced. A lot to discuss. Lets start with Ron Brownstein joining me now. Ron, oh, my dear friend, ron, tell me lets start with the statues and the tweet for the president. Why is the president why does the president want to make this about statues, confederate statues . Hes trying to blur two lines here. First, he is suggesting that the violence in charlottesville is fundamentally about the statues as if they came from the deep southern culture. It was a pretext for a rally that was about expressing White Nationalist views. Jews will not replace us. Its not a slogan of the confederacy. Second, he is also, you know, he is trying to do a second line saying there is no difference between robert e. Lee and George Washington and Thomas Jefferson because they owned slaves. Robert e. Lee and Stonewall Jackson led a rebellion against the United States. They took up arms against the government. They were treasonous. George washington and Thomas Jefferson built