statues, flags, schools, bridges, buildings. more than 150 years since the civil war, new skirmishes erupting. the maryland governor ordered the removal of the statue of supreme court justice roger taine knee lexington, kentucky, s mayor asking for the relocation of two statues. there is a difference between acknowledging and learning about our history and glorifying it. it s pretty crappy to have a monument to some people who sold human beings as property. in may, city workers in new orleans took down a robert e. lee statue. these statues are not just stone and metal, not just innocence remembrances of event nine history. these monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized confederacy, ignoring the death,
this week it is robert e. lee. i noticed stonewall jackson is coming down. i wonder is a george washington next week and thomas jefferson the week after? you really do have to ask yourself where does it stop. you had people, and i m not talking about the neo-nazis on the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. you have many people in that group other than neo-nazis and white nationalists, okay? the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. now, in the other group also, you had some fine people but you also had troublemakers. you see them come with the black outfits and the helmets and the baseball bats. you ve got a lot of bad people in the other group. bill: that from the lobby of the drum tower earlier today. we should stay late this afternoon, a surprise question-and-answer session with president donald trump. it was an instructional event that was quickly, it was overridden with questions about virginia and the clarification
were about charlottesville and the president saying his initial comments reflected the best information he had at the time. when i make a statement, i like to be correct. i want the facts, this event just happened. in fact, a lot of the event didn t even happen yet, as we were speaking. this event just happened. before i make a statement, i need the facts. toy don t want to rush into a statement. the president criticize the media for mischaracterizing who was there and why. not all those people were neo-nazis, believe me. not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch. those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statute, robert e. lee. i think there s going on both sides, and i ve no doubt about it, and you don t have any doubt about it either. mr. trump questioned the wisdom of removing statues and monuments that pay all managed to figures of american history. this weekend this i noticed stonewall jackson is
the majority of the questions were about charlottesville and the president saying his initial comments reflected the best information he had at the time. when i make a statement, i like to be correct. i want the facts, this event just happened. in fact, a lot of the event didn t even happen yet, as we were speaking. this event just happened. before i make a statement, i need the facts. toy don t want to rush into a statement. the president criticize the media for mischaracterizing who was there and why. not all those people were neo-nazis, believe me. not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch. those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statute, robert e. lee. i think there s going on both sides, and i ve no doubt about it, and you don t have any doubt about it either. mr. trump questioned the wisdom of removing statues and monuments that pay all managed to figures of american history. this weekend this i
this is a decision made by the man himself, the president makes the decision. even when it s suggested list, let s play it straight and by the numbers, he may veer off, and i think today may have been an example of that. he seemed to get out a great deal about what he really felt about what happened in the coverage that happened over the weekend as well. bill: thank you. kevin corke in washington. for on the president s news conference with our all-star panel. charles krauthammer, laura ingraham, julie pace a little later in the program. but first, there are new questions tonight about what will happen to confederate statues and monuments all around the country. some people have already taken the matter into their own hands, as we ve seen overnight. doug mckelway reports in charlottesville. in a sign of still simmering tensions, a man carrying an assault rifle held a confederate flag at the foot of the robert