talking about statues. and i don t know whether itbut e an effective strategy and a deflection. here we have right out of the gate that he didn t respond to this appropriately. it was not to unequivocally denounce hatred and racism and bigotry and instead of uniting us against hatred and bigotry, we are divided now over monuments and statues across this country and i think it s important to remind people as a republican the republican party is the party of lincoln. we are against hatred. we are against bigotry and in this issue, as in virginia, these should be decided on the local level. i m from the south, born and raised in atlanta. there s a lot of racial tension in the south and i think these are very emotional issues and should be decided on a local level and for the president to continue to drag this out i think is the wrong direction.
charlottesville. police are saying that it never happened. democrats and the left have as i ve been saying, using the tragedy and charlottesville to call for the removal of confederate statues and symbols all over the country. and the president warranted that this could be a slippery slope. sad to see the history and culture of the great country being ripped apart with the removal of the beautiful statues and monuments. you can t change history. but you can learn from it. robert e lee, stonewall jackson? who is next? washington, just burned has jefferson? according to the new poll tonight, 62% of americans agree. the pieces of american history should be left. congresswoman nancy pelosi, senator booker all saying that all confederate statues should be removed from the u.s. capitol. wait till we show you what i ll sharp is saying tonight.
focus or refocus attention on the monuments issue as sort of a cultural divide and away from his more incendiary comments? yes, because it s a much more popular stand. returning to the statues and heritage and history and the demands of what trump would view as the liberal secular culture, wanting to tear down these monuments to our history puts him on safer ground than he was when he was trying to defend the marchers. does everyone pretty much agree with that? i think ironically he seems to have polarized this debate in a way that it wasn t before. you did have various officials on both sides of the partisan i ll moving sort of cautiously around this issue and trying to find a way to diffuse it thousand that it has been so inflamed and moving a lot faster in a lot of places. you see cities considering taking them down where before
television at neo-nazi marchers and one guy says, these democrats, they will not let trump do what he needs to do. and the other guy says now all these democrats want to do, they re just worried about statues. that s exactly what donald trump wanted. these guys weren t talking about the real achilles heel in the trump administration and that s the failure to deliver anything to those two guys. instead of talking about the fact that there s no infrastructure bill, no tax reform bill, no progress on paychecks, no nothing, they re talking about statues. and i don t know but it s become machiavellian impulses that president trump has or it is what it is, but it s become a very effective strategy. it is another deflection. i don t think we got to this point, excuse me, tara. here we have right out of the gate that he didn t answer respond to this appropriately. his initial gut instinct wasn t to unequivocally denounce hatred and racism and big industry and
was trying to defend the marchers. does everyone pretty much agree with that? i think that s what he is trying to do. i don t know if it will be successful. i think ironically he seems to have polarized this debate in a way that it wasn t before. you did have various officials on both sides of the partisan aisle moving sort of cautiously around this issue and trying to find a way to diffuse it. now that it has been so inflamed, ironically you see it moving a lot fastener a lot of places. you see a lot of cities moving to take these down or to consider taking them down where before they were trying to put it off or diffuse it. it may have the opposite effect that certainly those marchers intended and the president as well. but if a lot of cities do move against it quickly, people may be upset who don t want to see the statues taken down. i saw the effect of president trump s strategy yesterday. when i was in congress and i wanted to know what people thought, i didn t need a poll