walk that one back. when the full video within the context around it. the horrible racial slurs and anti-gay slurs directed at 15-year-old kid, you see how the two sides of the issue, phillips and sandmann. then savannah is asking, do you think you owe an apology. he had somebody come up to him in what i would say an aggressive fashion and bangedw a drum in his face. howie: commentator dan bongino said guthrie should resign in disgrace. mara: everything is fodder for the culture wars. the smartest thing the kid said in hindsight i wish i could have
that s something in his heart. he said, i can t really answer that. i would like to let mr. phillips talk about that. he said he wasn t disrespecting mr. phillips at all in his mind. nathan phillips has a completely different view of what happened that day. he has talked about that, said he felt he was being mocked. at one point the teenagers started doing the tomahawk chop while native americans were singing their prayer song. nathan phillips said, look, i don t think everything in his statement not yet responding to the words out of sandmann s mouth but in the statement that was sent out he didn t think some of it seemed disingenuous. however he said he, too, would not mind having a meet-up with him, that he was willing to do that. he wants this country to come together. sara sidner, thanks for bringing us up to speed. appreciate it. new developments in the longest shutdown in u.s. history now.
confrontation. add ago ching a chaperone gave permission to perform the school chants. on saturday, he told the washington post he felt threatened by the teens and they swarmed around him. the guy in the hat wouldn t let him retreat. he told the detroit free press he decided to intervene between the students and the other group, calling it the moment between beast and prey. he says sandmann should face consequences. instead of being expelled, the student should go through some kind of sensitivity training that should be cultural education of some kind. if they don t, then don t graduate him. within the hour here at the diocese, the american indian movement is planning what it calls a peaceful vigil to confront racism. nbc s gabe gutierrez, thank you. we have some breaking news
was trying to provoke a group of teenagers into a larger conflict. salmon has every opportunity to move back. so does phillips. neither do. while they face off, kids face more taunting from the hebrew israelites. that s right. while phillips maintains he felt the kids were mocking him and being rude, sandmann says it was the adults using hateful words and trying to provoke the kids, not the other way around. now, the diocese that overseas the covington catholic high school after the initial viral video came out said they condemned the students actions towards nathaniel phillips, the elder there, and towards native americans in general. they still have not rescinded that condemnation saying there is going to be an investigation. the mayor of the city also condemned. but a congressman, thomas massey, who represents the district, says he actually backs these kids and believes they were the target of bigotry and