infrastructure that could deliver millions of new jobs and trillions of dollars in infrastructure to make our communities safer. we re focused on this nonsense, because we don t have a leader who is focused on bringing us together. mayor benjamin, the southern poverty law center found that at least 1,500 symbols of the confederacy exist in public spaces all over this country, most of those are in the former confederate states. most were actually built during the early jim crow era, long after the civil war was over. what should be done with these confederate statues that exist all over the country? well, i think it s important, you know, here in our state, we re still a state with a very strong legislature and it presents you with a period of reflection. i am proud of the people of south carolina after the incredible tragedy in charlottesvill charlottesville.
. but many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of robert e. lee. so this week it s robert e. lee. i noticed that stone wall jackson is coming down. i wonder, is it george washington next week, and is it thomas jefferson the week after. you know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop? never mind the actual conflating there of civil war generals with revolutionary war generals. president trump addressing the movement to take down monuments honoring the confederacy around the nation. last night alone. and here s some video from memphis, tennessee, where protesters surrounded this jefferson davis statue, calling for its removal. some even spitting on the memorial to the confederacy president there in memphis. msnbc is live in memphis this afternoon with the latest on what s happening there.