according to the president. so that s part of it, mayor. you can put lipstick on a pig but it s stale pig. absolutely. first let me say david is absolutely right. let us try to keep our focus on hither higher and the two state troopers and copt to send condolences and our heart felt prayers to their families and those injured and the entire city of charlottesville.
term of his presidential leadership. and it is john made this point. general kelly brought in as chief of staff to right the ship. how is that going so far? it just shows you he s not being listened to. everyone should be asking themselves this morning, what will i tell my child when they ask me, mom, dad, what did you do? what did you say when the president said this? it s a gut check for everyone, all of us this morning. the city of charlottesville will gather in just hours on a day to honor remarkable young woman, heather heyer, 32 years old, murdered in the car attack in an act of domestic terror on saturday. cnn s katie hartung is live at the site of the memorial. what will we see today? reporter: here just two blocks from the site where heather heyer lost her life,
admit my mistakes, take accountable for them, but also graciously give credit where it s due to the individuals of the city of charlottesville who helped me mature and grow as a one. you are making excuses. there is no accountability. i didn t make an excuse for everybody tonight. you let me finish. what you just did just now is allow these individuals a way without because when you make comments and parallels and say, yes, we know what they did is long and you bring up that conjunction word, but, because i am a doctor of education but saying we still need to blame or place blame or put somehow some way we need to have a real conversation. you need to be quiet and let me talk. when you do that, that removes all the pain that the other individuals feel. because what you are doing is trying to take away the blame from where it belongs. that is what so many people of the people in this country are
understand how they couldn t have helped. the city sent us a statement saying they re aware of the beating of deandre and that they re imploring people, you know, if you recognize any of the these racists beating your friend to please come forward. deandre, i understand, there were reports that he and his mom, who s been with him in the hospital, as have you, have talked about, because of that, suing the city of charlottesville. will they? i hope they will. then again, i m not really going to, you know, talk about that right now. you know? i m going to leave that to him and his family to discuss that part. vonzz, these racist groups say they re coming back. if they dare return to charlottesville, what do you do? we re going to keep standing up for our community. they can keep coming, and we re going to keep coming. we re going to stand up for our community. it doesn t have to be violent. they can talk. it s freedom of speech and we have freedom of speech also. but i mean, they
heyer. her mother made beautiful comments. we feel the pain of the family, pray for them. what more have we learned about heather? heather heyer, yeah. 32 years old. paralegal. she was with friends when she was mowed down. they called her a gentle soul. her mother displayed remarkable composure when she described her daughter, her now deceased daughter. i m extremely proud of my daughter. i m extremely proud that she stood for what she believed in, that she not only gave mouth to it but gave heart to it. she gave soul to it and now she s given her life to it. meanwhile, the city of charlottesville is vehemently denied that it pulled back on aggressive policing which might have nipped this rioting in the bud. a statement from the mayor s office said no stand down was ever given on saturday. back to you, harris.