The white house for us. And this comes after tremendous pressure had been building over the last several days, a lot of it coming from republicans who came out very quickly and very forcefully, saying the president had not said enough. Tell us now just a little bit more about what the president had to say last hour, kelly. But how he came to this point. Reporter well, as you laid out, there has been a 48hour period of increasing pressure over the president. An assessment by many that while the words he said saturday included a lot of appropriate tones, the absence of calling out the specific groups from White Nationalists, White Supremacists, kkk, neonazi, to say it by name. The absence of that was going to hang over this presidency until he showed that he recognized there was a need for that kind of moral leadership from a president. So we have seen in the intervening hours wide encouragement, some condemnation from his critics, but some from his own party, encouragement to say and do
People who are genuinely decent americans coming forward and saying stop this, i just it was like i dont remember that ever happening in an administration before. And well over 100 years. Decency honor, including everyone. We would like to think thats who we are. But is it really . I want you to compare that to the president of the United States today defending one of the worst moments of his presidency when neonazis and White Supremacists. Jews will not replace us. And when heather heyier was murdered. Very fine people on both side. Ive answered that question if you look at what i said you will see that that question was answered perfectly. And i was talking about people that went because any felt very restrainingly about the monument to robert e lee, a great general whether you like it or not he was one of the cigarette generals ive spoken to many generals here at the would you say. And many people thought of the generals they think that he was maybe their favorite general. People we
Display the way it was, specifically because he was a random victim. All the more terrifying that way, right . Its because the klan, the ku klux klan in that part of alabama wanted to show their strength. They wanted to show what they were capable of and one of the attackers, one of the klan members who took part in that murder, he would explain later in court that he and his coconspirators were specifically hoping that this murder would not just generically terrify africanamericans in mobile, alabama, they were hoping it would specifically intimidate africanamericans into not participating on juries. They wanted black americans in alabama to be too afraid to show up at the courthouse and sit for jury duty. They wanted allwhite juries in alabama. They thought that killing 19yearold Michael Donald would be a good way to terrorize the black community in alabama into achieving that or at least getting them part of the way there. One of the klansmen who confessed to that murder, who confes
Was beaten and strangled, he was killed, he was then hanged from a tree. One of the men who attacked Michael Donald that night in alabama would later admit in court that that teenager, mr. Donald, had done nothing whatsoever to attract the attention of his attackers. They did not pick on him for any particular reason other than the fact that he was convenient and he was a young black man. He was attacked and he was killed and his body was put on display the way it was, specifically because he was a random victim. All the more terrifying that way, right . Its because the klan, the ku klux klan in that part of alabama wanted to show their strength. They wanted to show what they were capable of and one of the attackers, one of the klan members who took part in that murder, he would explain later in court that he and his coconspirators were specifically hoping that this murder would not just generically terrify africanamericans in mobile, alabama, they were hoping it would specifically int
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