welcome back. you re watching msnbc. the accused shooter in the charleston massacre will now be representing himself in his federal death penalty trial. msnbc s chief legal correspondent ari melber joins me now. dylann roof, the shooter, made this last-minute request, putting his legal team aside, wanting to defend himself. when this guy could be sentenced to death. what do you make of this? this is the ultimate risky decision. legally, this makes it far more likely that he will be found guilty and more likely he will face the death penalty. trying to represent yourself in any case, let alone a capital murder case, the most complex that there is, is like trying to do surgery on yourself. even if you were a doctor, it s a bad idea. if you re not, it is dangerous. given how dangerous it is, does it give him more opportunity to appeal? well, there s always the
to the best of my knowledge. and what is it, the status really, on fire officials really being able to put this fire out? well, they are still working on it. we had rain last night. it helped a little. the high winds, though, there s still a lot of wind over there spreading fires around. they re still working on fires this morning. we are bringing in firefighting resources from other counties in tennessee to assist, and they are trying to make as much progress as possible in putting the fires out. then if the winds are still high, your best guess, how wide could this spread? i could not speculate on how wide it could spread. but we re going to fight it as hard as we can to keep it from spreading. dean, we appreciate all your hard work. good luck out there. thank you. all right. we re taking a break. flex, the shooter in the charleston massacre makes the odd request to defend himself,
there are other newspapers that have made the same argument. that is an argument that this deserves to be seen as separate from the charleston massacre, that s a legitimate argument. you can go to david french and read the same argument. it happens to be an argument that lost here s what it said. that s not every tree, every rooftop, every picket fence in the south should be festuned with the confederate battle flag. that s not white nationalist. it s not something that i think kurt, you know that steve bannon is not a white nationalist, you know that he s not an anti-semite. that s the premise you ve come on the air to smear him. now that we ve established i ve never heard kurt say that. an organization has come out in defense of steve bannon and
from the charleston massacre, that s a legitimate argument. you can go to david french and read the same argument. it happens to be an argument that lost here s what it said. that s not every tree, every rooftop, every picket fepsz, every telephone pole . that s not white nationalist. you are talking about an opinion of a confederate flag as history. it is not something i think is a good idea but it is part yeah, but curt bardella, you know steve bannon is not a white nationalist or an anti-semite. now that we have established he is not i never heard curt say that. look, the zionist organization of america came out in defense of steve bannon and said he is pro israel. you guys have used up air time
without criticism from her own party. governor haley pro-sided over the removal of the confederate flag last summer in front of the charleston statehouse after the charleston massacre. good morning. it s bright and early. what an honor it will be to interview governor haley. first this morning, i think i want to start with that sound bite. the loudest voices in the room. was that comment directed at donald trump? partially him but a lot of people. you know, a lot of what i was talking about, we ve seen across our country, look at baltimore, ferguson, people feel they have to be loud and angry to get their voices heard. look to the example of south carolina spp when we had the shooting of walter scott, it was a time we could have had that. instead, we got together and two months to i dat the day