Mason good evening. Im anthony mason. As a rule, former president s their successors. But after the violenc charlottesville and president trumps defense of farright protesters, former president sort out a joint statement today. Without mentioning m t americas reject racial bigotry, forms. And business leaders, who thought they had abanded the president today. Heres margareteporr by the tie president tweeted he was disbanding his business adrylmon members, including the heads of g. E. , campbells soup, and 3m, had resigned. Labor leader Richard Trumpka was among them and spoke to cbs this morning. We believed that the symbolism of being associated with that spirited defense of racism and bigotry was just unacceptable. Reporter this morning, the remaining members of the president s Strategy Council had a phone call to discuss quitting. As cbs news Julianna Goldman reported, mr. Trumps friend, swar, the c. E. O. The blackstone called the president with the bad news. In a memo sent to j. P
A lot more racist than donald trump. I dont feel like you could feel about race like i do and watch that kushner walk around with that beautiful girl. Hail trump. Hail trump. This city is run by jewish communists and Brian Stevenson is a Public Interest lawyer and founder of the equal justice initiative. Mr. Stevenson, thank you for being with us. Delighted to be with you. The events in charlottesville and the president s response have opened deep and ugly divisionsen the country. What do you think need to happen to heal this. We have a tragic history of racial inequal tee in america we havent done a good job of confronting or acknowledging and it continues to haunt us. Compromises our ability to get to the society we seek. I think we have to own up to that. And begin dealing with the legacy in a more direct way. I mean, White Supremacy has done horrific destructive things, but despite all of that, the true evil of that era for me wasnt the forced labor, it was this ideology of White S
To the confederacy. In your view what should happen to them . One thing we are frying to do its erect markers that talk about slavery. We have to make that vizable. In berlin, germany, you cant go without seeing a marker or stone. Placed close to the home of a jewish family abducted during the holocaust. Germans wantup to go to the holocaust memorial. Trying to recover from the damage done by the holocaust. We are not doing that. We have got to do that. I think truth telling has to begin. For us to make the progress that needs to happen. Brian stevenson. Thank you for being with us. My pleasure, thank you. With the president under fire. Mark strassmann checked in with republican whose voted for him. Janele jones, ellen deal, and loshiqua hughes. Has your support for trump lessened one bit . Not at all. I dont look at him, as you know my pastor. I look at him as the leader, governmental issues. We are not looking for somebody charming. Looking for a man who know house to turn things aro
Has now included checking those surrounding areas. Were live along the new jersey turnpike nbc10 news. The rail line is cancelling several trains this afternoon. The 445, the 5 06 and 5 10 theyre all cancelled. Patco says thats because of snow on the tracks also equipment issues, all other trains are running as scheduled. Turning to the weather and those bitterly cold temperatures, still these utilities workers pushed through as they worked on power lines in Prospect Park in Delaware County. This guy was throwing some rock salt on to his sidewalk along montgomery avenue and todays cold temperatures are keeping ice out there. Heres a look out at boathouse row, bundle up for a bitterly cold night ahead. Chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking the drop in temperatures in your neighborhood. Its going to be another bitterly cold night but not as cold as last night when a couple of spots even went below zero. We got a mix of clouds and sun and fairly uniform temperatures, 22
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