of what to expect flooding the streets outside of trump tower this weekend, angry over his response to the deadly charlottesville, rally. pete: our own rob schmitt is outside down the street outside of trump tower with the latest, good morning, rob. rob: we have seen a lot of protests outside of trump tower in the last year that s for sure. we saw another one yesterday. we will likely see another one today. 7:30 in the morning east coast. little early for protesters. barricades up behind me outside of trump tower here. all of this in response to the way the president responded to what happened in charlesville, virginia over the weekend and that car plowing in to a number of people there who are actually going against well, it was a protest, anti-protest, stuff like that. you heard the chants yesterday, let s pull some of the video. no trump, no kk, no fascist u.s.a. we heard these chants before in protest here outside of trump tower. the president s initial response condemning violen
i thank you for joining us on this incredibly emotional weekend and i think a lot of people are scratching their heads and you can t believe it s 2017 and something like this is still happening and we ll talk about the president s response. charlottesville vice mayor wes bellamy. dr. bellamy. excuse me. thank you so much for joining me. thank you. president trump tacking heat from all sides, and charlottesville violence, and many sides on saturday, and it s also the words he did not use. he didn t call out white supremacists directly and he didn t call the car plowing into protesters terrorism. the response has been swift the weekly standard asking today why won t trump denounce white supremacists. the dallas morning news, on saturday president trump failed his country. the white house trying to clean things up. a spokesman said the president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all form of violence, bigotry and hatred and that
statement, when such actions arise from bigotry and hatred, they cannot be tolerated. 20-year-old james alex fields jr. is charged with that car crash. let s go to nbc s mia rodriguer. good morning to you. what s going on? reporter: it is much quieter this morning a stark different to the violence we saw yesterday. things were quiet overnight as well according to authorities. we want to warn you now some of the images you re about to see may be disturbing. a day of demonstration turns violent then deadly. a car plowing into a crowd of people protesting the unite the right rally.
crowd protesting a white nationalist rally. eric: i m eric shawn. that horrific crash was captured on video. a car plowing into protesters at a high rate of speed, knocking down victims in its path. police are saying it was no accident. this is the woman who was so tragically killed. she was 32 years old. healther heyer. five people remain in the hospital at this time. suspected driver identified as james alex fields. he comes from ohio. he s charged with second degree murder and the justice department opened a civil rights probe into this incident. the nearby crash of that state police chopper tragically killed
where it should be. this is not about a statue. this is not about our police chief or law enforcement. this is about white supremacy rearing its ugly head and thinking that they can come here and make a stand. we all have to work together to change it. wes bellamy, vice mayor, thank you. thank you. shocking footage of that car plowing into peaceful protesters in virginia. i ll talk to the man who shot this video and witnessed the entire attack. and congressman david cicilline wants congress to come immediately back into session. he ll tell me why. my mom s pain from