prestaged by previous violence. this wasn t an attack to defend a monument of the confederacy. it was an open klan like march saying you will not replace us and jews will not replace us. there was a verdict against the unite the right rally in charlottesville. more than $25 million was awarded. but what i found interesting, congressman, is that the jury deadlocked on two counts that related to the ku klux klan act. they convicted based on violations of virginia law but could not find for the plaintiffs on the ku klux klan act portion of the case. that s relevant to you because both yourself, right, and congressman bennie thompson of mississippi have lawsuits based on the ku klux klan act.
aboard air force one, which then became something of a flying oval office. as president bush and his staff tried to decide what to do, and what was going on, on the ground below them. the man credited with keeping the president out of harm s way, that day, during that time, going now to colonel mark tillman, the nation s 12th presidential pilot, and was the commander of air force one, in 2001, to 2009. colonel, thank you very much for honoring us by being here right now. i have to ask you, you re commanding air force one. obviously a very important and serious job. at that moment, did you have any idea of how historic the attacks were, or even what was going on? no, not at all. it was a simple mission to bring the president back to washington, after he met with the children in the elementary school, and then shortly after, it became, it wasn t an attack, it was an accident, with the
can t have people who are there who don t believe it wasn t an attack. others say it was a peaceful march by protesters. all of this is going on at the white house. they are focusing on other domestic priorities. president biden defended the filibuster in a town hall he had with if it s a relic, why protect it. no reason to protect it other than you ll throw congress into a chaos and nothing at all will get done. the most important is the right to vote. erroll, i think there are some progressives nothing would get done if they don t try to change the filibuster for certain things. what do you think progressives made of that response by the
that he believes iran is responsible for the weekend attack on oil facilities in saudi arabia, but he is dialing back his claim the u.s. is locked and loaded. let s discuss now with john kasich, the former republican governor of ohio. hello, sir. good to see you. i first want to play something the president said just moments ago at a rally in new mexico. here it is. america is respected again like it hasn t been for a long time. and i can tell you because i meet so many of the leaders and their presidents and their kings and their queens and their prime ministers and their everything, dictators every once in a while. every once in a while, you get a rogue dictator. okay. so it s interesting that i wonder what s going on because he s putting kings and queens and prime ministers and dictators all together as if they re equal. are dictators just fine if they don t go rogue?
we re dealing with saudi arabia. we re dealing with the crown prince and so many other of your neighbors, and we re all talking about it together. we ll see what happens. why the shift in tone? that s a great question. i think which is probably better left to psychologists. i mean trump does this all the time, don. you know that. he just veers between one extreme to another. he s bellicose one day, pacifistic the next. it doesn t make any sense. and as president, you want to be able to send a consistent message this is what we expect from our allies. this is the kind of behavior that will lead us to go to war with our enemies. and right now, trump is so inconsistent and incoherent, nobody can figure the guy out. that makes for a very dangerous situation in a very volatile region of the world. well, in that same tweet, he also says i m going to quote here. he says waiting to hear from the kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack and under what terms we would