more than 1,500 symbols. 109 public schools named after confederate schools. ten major military bases. nine state holidays or observances. virginia, one-time capital of the confederacy has the most. we will hear from the charlottesville mayor promising a statement about the future of the robert e. lee statue at the center of what happened. what to make of this debate. it s a conversation that we ve seen across the country for some time. whether the confederate flag in south carolina, defined politics a very long tile. took more than a decade to get a resolution and still complaining from time to time. obviously front and center again now in a much more dramatic way because of, a., first what happened in charlottesville and, b., the president s response. where will this go and what is the complication to it? again, the president is on safe
conversation that whether this person leaves or this person comes? that this is going to change? yes, we can stop that conversation. it doesn t make an impact fop your earlier question, why did the president have to have his advisers there? jo even think he thought about it. he was singularly focused in the aftermath of charlottesville and media criticism and republicans criticism. i don t want to psychoanalyze too much but doubt he was concerned about the impact on gary cohen or elaine chao standing up there with him. we re laughing, because this is not new and not a surprise, but it s leadership 101. yes. leadership 101. if you re going to take a risky stance you don t drag people down with you. people who serve you loyally. you watch their body language, looked like they did not maybe should have been surprised. they mknow who they re working for but all looked surprised. a fascinating mix of old-fashioned political ambition and the human ego combined with
russia sanctions bill he despises. what does this tell us? i don t say it to be flippant. that s where we are. seven months into this administration. and in the wake of that, absent any great policy successes, we have the week we just lived with the president, i m sorry, the trump loyalists may dispute that, failing the moral character test what an american president should say after what we saw in charlottesville. what does giving steve bannon the door to do the president now? throwing a bone to those in the gop focusing in on bannon even though it s not clear bannon was the man whispers in his ear for this entire charlottesville event. we have to see what the significance of this departure is. not all the national icht i69it of the white house. because one person with influence goes does that mean
charlottesvil charlottesville, several cities have decided they, too, are going to take down their monuments to the civil war. baltimore hastily carried away four confederate monuments. lexington, kentucky hopes to do the same. the reverend is a social justice champion, supports removing all monuments. good to see you. good to see you. tucker: i m sympathetic to your point of view, i wouldn t want to see something that offended me every day, if there was an al sharpton monument, marion berry monument, i wouldn t like it. if you are are offended by the mounuments i understand that. it s not that i m offended, it s an offense to the united states of america to honor war criminals. honor those who were traitors. tucker: that s the standard. they were traitors of our country, they started their own
we saw the same pattern in xweshgly where i have also filed a civil rights lawsuit against the university of california berkeley, berkeley police have standing orders not to protect peep in a riot unless there is imminent death. those are the actual orders of the police department and the mayor there who is also a liberal and supporter of black by all means necessary and sympathizer of black lives matter and other groups like that. what we saw in charlottesville as well. combination of a lack of will or absolute hostility by the political authorities in these cities coupled by fear of lawsuits. the berkeley case what happened was the occupy people filed a lawsuit after being arrested in 2014. and the city caved in and agreed with them in a settlement agreement, in the future they re not going to get into it if you have a liberal protest there, they let you do what you do. they re only going to intervene in case somebody is about to be killed.