scene. joining me is tom costello. i know you ve had ran opportunity to speak with some eyewitnesss and this has been a hellacious day for people in charlottesville and for people in the police community having to deal with the clashes and then the loss of life of one person and now two troopers. reporter: that s right. this has been a horrific day of racist rhetoric, of who would have imagined that in 2017 we re talking about one of the biggest gatherings of white nationalists, of kkks, of neo-nazis and of this alt-right white nationalist movement in decades. behind me, we re at the scene where that car, according to the police, intentionally mowed down counterprotesters, killing at least one woman and just seconds before you came here, they brought in the state police crime investigation, forensics trucks. so this looks to be like this will be part of the
trump-like statement that says in the strongest possible terms that he s against racism, that he stands firmly against people who are racist in this country and against people who are domestic terrorists. we were just showing three tweets by people he defeated in the primary on the gop side with jeb bush. he used the term white supremacist. john kasich also saying that there s no place for the kkk and marco rubio saying that he would prefer to hear from a president calling out white supremacy by its name and to hear that it s a terror attack. i want to play more from what the president s remarks were from bedminister about the attack. take a look. we want to get the situation straightened out in charlottesville and we want to study it and we want to see what
brothers and sisters to white people and knew towards the end of his life that god was going to judge the original sin. we are still needing to reconcile with that and until we do, rallies like today and the vie lance that was visited in charlottesville is not going to stop. reverend, thank you, sir, for joining us. i appreciate it. we know tomorrow is going to be a new day of hard work for everybody there and especially for those three family who is have lost a loved one after today. thank you very much. absolutely. our prayers go with them. and three people having lost their lives today, dozens more injured after these clashes and crashes in charlottesville. so the chopper crash that happened, we have a virginia state police helicopter that crashed near the protest area. it was patrolling and had been in service to monitor the white nationalist rally. that loss of life came after a
of describing this domestic terrorism issue. there are a lot of facts that have to be collected. i think if in fact this is somebody associated with this group, it meets the definition of domestic terrorism. using the threat of violence, it matches very clearly that definition. the fbi will be working collectively with the fbi and charlottesville police. if in fact they work this as a terrorism matter, they will be working in a very collaborative way. i ll be very shocked if that if the residents in the vehicle of the person who committed this act has not already been searched. they certainly will be looking at the full digital footprint connectivity and any statements he may have made, associations or affiliations with others who
we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred and bigotry and violence on many sides. on many sides. it s been going on for a long time in our country. not donald trump, not barack obama. it s been going on for a long, long time. there is no place in america. what is vital now is a swift restoration of law & order and the protection of innocent lives. hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. there we have the words of president trump earlier today talking about the incidents in charlottesville, virginia. this is a new lightning rod of a rash sh