crowd where everything is happening. has there been any response to what we ve seen here? including the violence. you had members of these white nationalist groups striking, punching clergy members with brass knuckles. where s the city leadership? any response from the mayor of charlottesville? any response? reporter: i have not seen them out here. yesterday, they said they would be ready for the rally and planning for this for weeks. they had a plan in place to handle this. we re going to see how that plan unfolds as the day goes on. for those just tuning in, you are watching live pictures from charlottesville, virginia. a very large protest and counterprotest. white nationalist groups, various groups converging on the city of charlottesville to protest the planned removal of a statue of robert e. lee from a park now called emancipation park. i ve been handed by my producer
who gather to strike fear do not reflect the university s values. i ll also mention for viewers any facebook posts last night, the mayor of charlottesville, whose name is mike signer, i believe, the marches called a cowardly parade of hatred and intolerance. i m going to go to richard first to get joan seethed. richard, this is, you know, the south has a history. a particular kind of history. home of thomas jefferson, the place where the rally last night happened was around a statue of thomas jefferson who founded the university. we haven t confronted the history of the civil war, the south? well, the vast majority of the people in the south do not support this kind of thing. do not support racism or neofascism at all.
supremacist groups today and instead, a group of hundreds as described to me by reverend blackmon last night to me on the phone, hundreds of torch wielding white nationalist marchers, mostly men, converged on the church and then on the statue chanting various slogans including the nazi slogan, blood and soil and chanting white lives matter and you will not replace us and the jew will not replace us. all of those chants captured on various cell phone videos. that is a scene right now in charlottesville. as you can see, it s a little chaotic and calmer now. okay, we re going to put on andy. he s a colleague of reverend blackmon. what is going on now? marching down market street is the national socialist movement, the neo-nazis. the traditionalist workers party which is the neofascist organization and the ku klux
statue is a way to call attention to the lack of gender diversity on corporate boards. and the pay gap facing women working in financial services. for more, let s bring in stephanie rule who is here with me. i love that. that s an amazing statue. just look at that. that s a little girl facing off against a bull. but even look how she s powerful little girl. defiant with her hands on her hips challenging status quo. when you look at that little girl, you see yourself, you see your daughter, and it s amazing. so state street is a two and a half trillion dollar asset manager.
fundamental questions of physics all elegantly lucidly written. i have to confess, i didn t always understand everything, but i learned an awful lot. and now for the last look. this is the world famous bolshoi theater in moscow. a statue of apollo, the greek god of music riding his chariot has sat atop the bolshoi s portico for more than 150 years. in the 1990s the statue joined the ranks of princes and emporers when it was added to the nation s curbs si. it decorates the front of the 100 ruble note. last month it was requested that the central bank remove this iconic image. it seems he is offended by the greek god s clothing or lack thereof. you see, following a recent theater restoration a more modest version of the bolshoi statue was unveiled with a