grieving. after what happened in a church basement on a wednesday night. i mean this is this is for a lot of folks the culmination of that. but, you know we heard from one of the victim s family members saying to us in the 12:00 hour if i had to choose between that confederate battle flag and my sister i would certainly choose my sister. so it doesn t end the grieving. but it does seem to be helping a state heal as again, you hear this machine rev up behind me to take down the flag pole francis. all right. we ll continue to watch that craig. appreciate the update there. as this is a pivotal moment. certainly a long road to today s historic moment particularly over the last 15 years when the confederate flag first taken down from the capitol dome and placed on the capitol grounds. the naacp and other organizations had an economic boycott of the state because of the flag and earlier today leaders of a south carolina naacp claimed victory.
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the president and the first lady made this t-shirt famous. and knowing that that is part of this movement and it really is just a start, i m sure as you were watching that flag go down. oh, yeah the campaign is going great. we re seeing a lot of people going out and making a special effort to show love to someone who is different from them. we just got our website up yesterday called hate won t win movement dotcom. things are picking up. t-shirts are available now so people can purchase them. but the main thing for us is that, you know we re challenging society to change itself. and what we really want is for people to go out there and show some love to people who are different or to people who are empty or to people who don t know how to love. as you re with your family members remembering your grandfather and talking fondly about him. what do you think he would be
hate signs of racism have no place in the united states of america s halls and should come down. republican leadership should be ashamed for associating themselves with this intolerance. they should regulate it to museums and the ashbin of history. kelly o donnell joins me live from washington now. kelly, definitely nowhere near the shouting, the yelling, the uproar of yesterday and spending bill it was attached to was pulled and any sign that is a resolution is near? reporter: there is no path forward. house speaker john boehner suggested the idea of getting democrats an republicans to work together to try to look for a solution. and when we talked to democrats yesterday, they shot that down pretty quickly saying when s left to talk about? they feel very strongly that this symbol the confederate flag the battle flag should not be permitted in these
listen what south carolina congressman sanford told my colleague craig melvin this morning. it took really the actions of those nine families i mean they re sort of super human rather glorious level of grace, miraculous level of grace, that s what created the vacuum that really changed the confederate flag. under that grace was forgiveness, for yourself, for other family members, as well for the loss of your grandfather. what s the reaction to you and other families that when you hear that that s the reason why we re having this historic moment? it just confirms what we already believe, that god really allowed what he hated to see to accomplish what he loves to see, which is all of his people loving each other. and i want to show you here you helped create the hate won t win. that social media campaign in the aftermath of the shooting.