life of heather heyer, some charlottesville residents are trying to hold those who organized the rally accountable. nine charlottesville residents have filed a civil lawsuit and went to trial today alleging physical harm and emotional distress from the unite the right rally in august of 2017. a jury will ultimately decide whether the rally s organizers engaged in a conspiracy to commit violence. the plaintiffs are hoping the civil suit makes up for what they call a lack of accountability that paved the way for other forms of right-wing extremism, including, of course, january 6th. a member of the plaintiff s legal team summed it up like this. one message of this case is that these events, like charlottesville, like january 6th, they are not spontaneous, flukish events that just happen. there s an enormous undercurrent of planning, of intent, and a purposefulness that we all need to wake up to. joining our conversation is msnbc political analyst, the former congresswoman, donna edward
have to put together all of the background and the detail to understand that the white supremacy and the engagement in violence is something that is deeply organized all around this country and it was in full force in charlottesville in august of 2017. david, let me read you some of the reporting on this. as hundreds of white supremacists prepared to descend on charlottesville in 2017, they hashed out logistics in private chat groups. they suggested a dress code of polo shirts during the day and shirts with swastikas at night. they worried about mayo on sandwiches spoiling in the august heat. and they swapped tips on how to turn ordinary objects into lethal weapons. that s according to messages cited in court papers. the planners messages, part of elite trove from discord, were laced with slurs against black and jewish people along with violent fantasies of cracking skulls and driving into crowds.
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august of 2017. these events took place in january of 2021. and, i mean, the president doesn t even have executive privilege about it because they re claiming that the president really had nothing to do with it, so if he knows anything about it, it was obviously a crime and not any kind of communication about official presidential business. but in any event, steve bannon is on another galaxy. he s got nothing to do with executive privilege. let me ask you this, because you mentioned it. you said listen, i m not sure this is up to your purview, but this is what i want to ask. an individual found liable for contempt of congress may result in a fine and between 1 and 12 months in prison. okay. usually it doesn t involve prison, but it could. now are you willing to go that far? and are you willing to make an example of steve bannon to anybody else who says subpoena, i don t care. well, luckily that s not our call.
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