This personal whoa whoa. Whoa. That was. In the. Journal today. From testified to and this is Democracy Now. Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its day more criminals. Including the k.k.k. Neo nazis white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as America 2 days after a Nazi sympathizer drove into a crowd of anti racists protesters in Charlottesville Virginia killing one person and injuring 19 President Trump finely condemns white supremacist violence but what steps will the White House take to stop the growing violence we'll spend the hour will be acclaimed author can of coffee cup in his 1st major interview since the end alteration of President Trump. I think one of the problems with the conversation around racism there are tried to based on the book just tried to have around the country is the notion that this somehow only endangers black people. But I'm here to tell you that it is dangerous all of. Tallahassee collets for the hour all that and more coming up. Welcome to. Democracy Now Democracy Now dot org The War and Peace Report I mean the goodman massive protests against white supremacists in the trumpet ministration continued nationwide Monday from the streets of North Carolina where a crowd of activists toppled the Confederate statue and Durham to the holes of Washington where 3 separate corporate C.E.O.'s resigned from President Trump's American manufacturing Council over Trump's failure to quickly condemn the deadly white supremacist violence in Charlottesville Virginia over the weekend in Durham the crowd of activists shouted We are the revolution as a woman climbed up a ladder looped a rope around the top of the Confederate Soldiers monument in front of the old Durham County Courthouse then pulled the statue to the ground as the crowd erupted in cheers. Ok. Thank. You you are in Nashville Tennessee activists rallied around the bust of Confederate Army General Nathan Bedford Forrest putting a black wall over his head demanding the bus be removed from the state capitol in Gainesville Florida workers removed a Confederate soldier statue from downtown while officials and Baltimore San Antonio and Jacksonville Florida all said Monday they would take steps to remove Confederate statues from public spaces major protests were also held in Washington d.c. In Naples Florida in Minneapolis Minnesota where activists burned in effigy of a Nazi and in New York City where thousands of people poured into the streets to protest as President Trump arrived home to Trump tower for the 1st time since his inauguration This is Brooklyn residential Lani Wilson if you marry. If people are going to sit down. The road or right in the United States. We've seen this or you know what to do we stand up we make our voices heard and we do know. We're going to these schools right back to their kids who will have no power in this country they might be up in the White House the boy behind the plastic. Fields they fight when costs play good is the power of the people that makes this country work and we are going to prove in the prove it again and again and again for as long as you have to show there is no place for hate in the United States 3 corporate executives also resign from Trump's American manufacturing Council Monday in protest of Trump's failure to quickly condemn the deadly neo nazi violence in Charlottesville which are rapid after more than a 1000 Nazis Ku Klux Klan members and white supremacists descended on Charlottesville to protest the city's plan to remove a confederate statue of Robert e. Lee on Monday morning the c.e.o. Of the pharmaceutical giant Merck Kenya Frazier who is African-American resigned from the council saying quote America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred bigotry and group supremacy which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal he wrote while it took President Trump 2 days to condemn the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville it took him only an hour to attack Frazier for resigning tweeting quote now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's manufacturing counsel he will have more time to lower ripoff drug prices unquote the c.e.o. Of Intel and Under Armor also resigned on Monday from the council in protest even after Trump made his statement even the company that makes the tiki torches that were wielded by hundreds of white supremacist are. Their torch bearing March on Friday night in Charlottesville has spoken out condemning the white nationalists and their ideology the company take a brand products wrote quote taking brand is not associated in any way with the events that took place in Charlottesville and are deeply saddened and disappointed unquote and that's the extraordinary pressure of the growing street in corporate protests Monday President Trump finally condemned the deadly white supremacist violence in Charlottesville Virginia which killed one person and injured dozens racism is evil and those who cause violence and it's the more criminals of thugs including the k.k.k. Neo nazis white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans after making his statement Trump refused to take any questions from reporters despite having promised to hold a news conference later and they after a separate announcement cnn's Jim Acosta tried to ask Trump about his Charlottesville statements. You're going to. Hear. Were you know your brother. Or brother. Here or. Are we going to work for. You. Or a career. If you will that's President Trump saying your fake news to cnn's Jim Acosta despite Trump's but grudging condemnation of white supremacist violence he also tried to deflect and distract from this this violence by retreating about crime in Chicago by a far right wing conspiracy theorists the tweet was originally written by the right wing extremist Jack Purcell back known for. Reading conspiracy theory such as pizza gate Trump also failed to succumb to mounting pressure both from within and outside the administration to fire his chief strategist Stephen Bannon former head of Breitbart News which promotes far right wing and white nationalist propaganda the United Nations also condemned the nazi violence in Charlottesville over the weekend this is Farhan hoc spokesperson for the un secretary general and we're against all reason and bigotry we believe that there must be no place in our societies for the violent racism anti-Semitism xenophobia and discrimination that we've seen in Charlotte in Charlottesville Virginia in recent days. Obviously. We condemn any of the violence that affected civilians and we express our condolences to the family and loved ones of the of the victims and wish a speedy recovery to all those who were injured in Charlottesville Virginia James Alex fields Jr appeared in court via video link from jail for his 1st court appearance where he was charged with 2nd degree murder for driving his car through a crowd of counter protesters during the white supremacist rally Saturday killing counter protester Heather higher and injuring 1000 others he was denied bond 20 year old fields as a Nazi sympathizer who in German from Ohio to Charlottesville to rally with the white supremacist before allegedly carrying out the deadly assault with his car more details about fields life emerged Monday he's been accused of repeatedly assaulting his mother Samantha Bloom who is disabled and uses a wheelchair records show his mother repeatedly called 911 to report fields was threatening her or had assaulted her she says he threatened her with a footlong knife had her on the head and spit on her military records show field center of the Army in 2050. But flunked out of basic training less than 4 months later one of James Alex fields high school teachers in Kentucky says he was that Sest with Adolf Hitler and Nazi military history and showed clear Nazi sympathies that the teacher tried unsuccessfully to steer him away from the far right extremist groups are planning a series of protests for this upcoming weekend and at least 9 cities Atlanta Austin Boston Los Angeles New York Pittsburgh Seattle Washington d.c. And in Mountain View California the rallies are being called to protest Google for having fired a white male engineer who authored a sexist manifesto which email to all of his colleagues in which he claimed women are biologically inferior and less capable of assuming leadership roles in the tech industry than now fired engineer has become a hero among far right extremists there are also white supremacist rallies planned for San Francisco in Berkeley California later this month counter protests are already being planned Meanwhile Texas a and m. University has canceled a planned white lives matter rally which was slated to take place on September 11th and its concerns about the possibility of deadly white supremacist violence. A board member of the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has resigned in the wake of this weekend's White Supremacist violence in Charlottesville Waldo Jock with tweeted I just resign from the a.c.l.u. Of Virginia Board what's legal and what's right or sometimes different I won't be a fig leaf for Nazis who wrote ahead of this weekend's White Supremacist rally the a.c.l.u. Represented rally organizer Jason Catherine free speech grounds in the case against the city of Charlottesville which was trying to revoke the permit for the event and Boston Massachusetts the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized Monday by a teenager who threw a rock through a glass panel etched with numbers symbolizing the numbers to. Tud on the arms of Jews and others imprisoned in Nazi Germany concentration camps it's the 2nd time this summer that Boston is how a cost memorial has been vandalized Boston's Jewish Community Relations Council said quote The images of Nazis marching in the streets of America over the weekend in Charlottesville and now shattered glass once again at the sacred space in Boston are an affront to our Jewish community and to all those who stand up against bigotry hatred an anti semitism. President Trump says he's considering their ring pardoning the notorious former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio who's been convicted of criminal contempt for defying a court order to stop his deputies from racially profiling people then detaining them on suspicion of being undocumented Trump called Arpaio a great American patriot and said he's considering considering pardoning him as early as this week Arpaio is a major supporter of Trump whose policies have included detaining immigrants in a scorching outdoor tent city jail which Arpaio once referred to as his own concentration camp the Justice Department is demanding web hosting provider dream host turn over 1300000 visitor IP addresses of people who visited the website disrupt Jay 20 dot org which was used to organize the protests against President Trump's inauguration the Justice Department is also seeking names addresses telephone numbers e-mail addresses and other information about the owners and subscribers of the website more than 200 protesters were arrested during the inauguration day protesters are now facing decades in prison on trumped up charges the web server is fighting the request and international news in Syria the journalistic monitoring group Broncos being slaughtered silently says as many as 30 civilians were killed and up to 60 more wounded by u.s. Backed airstrikes and shelling in Iraq on Monday the group also says. As the u.s. Led offensive has destroyed the oldest market in the city amidst the ongoing offensive to seize control of rockets from ISIS North Korea says it will hold off on attacking the u.s. Territory of Guam saying they will wait to see what the foolish Yankees will do before making any decisions tensions have been escalating between the u.s. And North Korea President Trump startled the world last week by threatening to attack North Korea with Fieri with fire in theory sparking concerns about the possibility of a nuclear war and response North Korea threatened to hit the waters off the u.s. Territory of Guam home to 2 major sprawling u.s. Military bases residents have spent decades opposing the militarization of our island of their island to see our full interview about resistance to u.s. Militarization of Guam go to Democracy Now dot org Meanwhile in Japan tens of thousands of residents of the island of Okinawa protested over the weekend against u.s. Military bases on the island for decades residents have called for the expulsion of u.s. Troops from Okinawa which houses about 2 thirds of the 50000 u.s. Troops currently stationed in Japan and Venezuela thousands poured into the streets for an anti-imperialist March on Monday to protest President Trump's comments saying the u.s. May launch a military intervention in Venezuela he made the comment on Friday this is the Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir pre-training more than people we do not admit into our culture he can play realist Lords of the United States government it seems to us delirious attitude was threatening attitude ago you get into the threat more in Israel with weapons because simply all the previous means of this could not be consummated according to the wall yelling that maybe the North American imperialists have removed their masks and have gone directly to military aggression that they have completely removed the masks on Monday Vice President Mike Pence defended President Trump's comments about a possible u.s. Military intervention and Venezuela. It's an atrocity the urge for the law to stand by while the sway will allow the city to do it we will not stand by it that is where the more it's important to know the reason for aid that. The field stay in the soil. Is the security and prosperity of our entire industry or in the people of the United States of America as well as some of the largest oil reserves in the world vice president Mike Pence made those comments in Colombia but he is now in Argentina as part of a regional tour across Latin America and Sierra Leone mudslides triggered by massive rainfall have killed more than 300 people near the capital Freetown the number of casualties expected to rise the search and rescue teams are still looking for thousands of missing people increased rainfall is been linked to human driven climate change and in the occupied territories 5 Palestinian journalists were released from Israeli custody Monday in the Israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip the journalists were arrested by Israeli authorities last week on charges of quote leaking sensitive information to enemy groups unquote human rights and press freedom groups say Israel has been increasingly cracking down on freedom of the press and Palestinian journalists Israel is also trying to shut down Al-Jazeera us office in Jerusalem and revoke the press credentials of Al-Jazeera as journalists in Israel this is a Mark the way head of the Palestinian independent commission for human rights. During the few past months almost since last March we are witnessing a regression in the freedom of speech in the freedom of journalism in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and it is a result of the escalation in the dispute between Palestinians and it might be because of what is happening in the region of regional conflicts that can have a negative reflection on the Palestinians and those are some of the headlines This is Democracy Now Democracy Now dot org The War and Peace Report I mean he couldn't . And on one can solace welcomes all of our listeners and viewers around the country and around the world. We turn now to look at the fallout from Saturday's violent white supremacists protest in Charlottesville Virginia where a 20 year old Nazi sympathizer killed one anti-racist activists an engine more than a dozen others when he intentionally drove his car through a crowd of counter protesters on Monday the driver of the car James fields appeared in court for the 1st time President Trump initially failed to directly blame white supremacists for the bloodshed in Charlottesville saying the violence was committed by quote many sides on Monday I'm it's growing Street and corporate protests Trump finally condemn the deadly white supremacist violence as I said on Saturday we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence it has no place in America and as I have said many times before no matter the color of our skin we all live under the same laws we all salute the same great flag. And we are all made by the same almighty God. We must love each other show affection for each other and unite together in condemnation of hatred bigotry and violence we must read discover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans racism is evil and those who cause violence in its day more criminals and thugs including the k.k.k. Neo nazis white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans but that was President Trump speaking on Monday Meanwhile foreign policy has revealed the existence of a recent f.b.i. And Department of Homeland Security bulletin that concluded white supremacist groups were quote responsible for 49 homicides in 26 attacks from 2000 to 2016 more than any other domestic extremist movement on quote the f.b.i. And Department of Homeland Security report went on to state quote racial minorities have been the primary victims of white supremacist violence the 2nd most common victims were of the Cole Kazan's and other white supremacists perceived that all the white supremacy is perceived as disloyal to the white supremacist extremist movement despite the f.b.i. And Department of Homeland Security findings that trump administration recently cut funds to organizations dedicated to fighting right wing violence was the nation grapples with what happened in Charlottesville Virginia we turn now to the best selling author Tom Haas a cotes the national correspondent for The Atlantic where he writes about culture politics and social issues he's the author of Between the world and me which one to 2015 National Book Award for nonfiction and the author of the forthcoming book titled we were aid. Years in power and American tragedy Hasi It's great to spend this hour with you I want to start by asking your response to what happened in Charlottesville and then to President Trump's actions and response. Sponsors that it's predictable. You had 8 years before President Trump the situation with the opposition party basically ran. In opposition to the president on a platform of Finley based to racism and it doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist but when charges of birth tourism came up no one repudiated when the House majority leader at the time John Boehner. Claimed the president had never worked a real job no one repudiated it when you're getting rich called the president of the United States a food stamp president no one repudiated it and so you found yourself in a situation in the 2016 election where all of that I hate and all of that racism have misspoken the party's base and so the idea that President Trump what I don't trust with him become president that he would you know become the winning candidate is not surprising at all and that Trump himself you know with the stroke of birth the resume who has this long history of racism is himself going back to the 1970 s. When he was accused of housing discrimination into the 1990 s. When he called for the death penalty for the Central Park 5 who were later exonerated in 1900 when he claimed that he didn't want black people counting his money and his casinos. That that person at that figured out political figure within use that same energy that was in the party to become president and the reactio