Bennett, Betsy Woodruff and also charlie savage. Geoff, ill start with you. What was going on when the president made that comment about omarosa . The president was in the middle of a photoop there at his private estate in bedminster, new jersey. He was surrounded by Trump Supporters known as bikers for trump. And the voice you heard was that of Maggie Haberman part of the press pool and she asked if the president felt betrayed by omarosa. That is when he leveled that scorcher calling her a low life. But look, this is what the president tends to do to people whom he views as being disloyal. I think it is worth pointing out that the relationship between the president and omarosa has always really been mutually beneficial if not entirely transactional. She was able to use him to increase her public standing with that high profile white house job. And he was at times able to use her for a certain amount of
political cover when it came to some testy issues involving race. You bring up a re
is now called market street park. in part because it is on market street. but again, the statue is still there. there are a lot of fencing that have been put up around the perimeter of the entire park. we can t really get close to the park at all at this point. a huge change from last year when frankly people had gathered a around the statue inside the itself. all right. maya rodriguez, thank you. unite the right organizer is marking tomorrow s anniversary with a rally in washington, d.c. s la fayette square near the white house. today the president tweeted the riots in charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. we must come together as a nation. i condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. peace to all americans. joining me now is michael eric dyson, georgetown university professor and author of what truth sounds like.
so there is funding if need to protect people. reporter: now, that is a big change from last year in the sense that the city of charlottesville denied a permit to unite the right for holding another rally this year because they were trying to. and this is part of the reason why they are having a rally now in washington, d.c. tomorrow that the park across from the white house. but again, a lot of uncertainty here in charlottesville about what tomorrow might bring. and i want to ask you about this statue, the statue of the general robert e. lee that was the focal point of last year s rally. we know a judge has ruled that the statue should remain as it stands. are there any new updates on that? reporter: so there is a state law here in virginia that basically stops the removal of any confederate monuments. and the statue is still there. now, the park itself has been renamed. it used to be robert e. lee park. last year they renamed it emancipation park and since then they have rename
e lee statue. statues being here in charlottesville in what was robert e lee park for a little less than 100 years, there was a decision by the city council to rename this emancipation park and also they voted to remove the statute and there is a coates two court fight that they had to stick around for a while and now we are waiting to see what the mayor has to say about how things play out from here, regarding the statue. another thing that the mayor was expected to get questioned about today was something very poignant here and charlottesville, this is the home to university of virginia, a place where thomas jefferson is revered. president trump this week has brought up the question, if you re going to remove statues of robert e lee and other confederate generals, you also have to remove statues of thomas jefferson and george washington, men who were both slaveholders, something that the mayor here would face questions about. certainly now we have to wait to see if his paper statemen
another update we have is that a total of 35 people were injured today. of course we have the one fatality that occurred in this particular ramming incident. this is something, to put it in context, like you say, that has been building for quite a while. there was a protest here on july 8th involving the kkk at that same park having to do with the possible removal of robert e. lee park. it used to be called robert e. lee park. there was clashes during that rally and this rally came up and police told us on friday they were going to prepare and take lessoned learned from the rally on july 8th and apply them to this one. what we saw were police in a parking lot across from the street in the park. they did not get involved initially when the clashes broke out between the unite the right rally and the counter-protesters, eventually they did clear out the park. everybody sort of disbursed. at that point, the