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Their permit did not cover that, joy. and i would like to ask mr. trump, hes had time now to make three different responses to this incident. has he even taken a moment to call the family of heather? and offer condolences on behalf of this nation? has he taken a moment to consider the 20 people who were hurt and offer the sympathy of this nation? this is not will a leader. this is not a leader. and i am ashamed of what is happening in the highest office. >> and lastly, reverend, describe to us, ...

White nationalists failed to stick to an agreement on where to demonstrate. soon they were doing battle with counterprotesters. >> if you do not disperse immediately, you will be arrested. >> what about the alt-left. what about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs. >> reporter: in fact, thats true. witnesses tell nbc news there were people on both sides who seemed ready for a fight. some counterprotesters were armed with clubs, some with pepper spray. >> com...

Home states and ten and then organize. joining me now, reverend tracy of justice and witness ministries. she was one of the counterprotesters in charlottesville. shaw for joining me, reverend blackman. we spoke first friday night when you were inside of a church on the grounds in the university of virginia. donald trump said the night before the saturday melee, there were good people who were quietly marching in charlottesville. and he was talking about the white nationalist protesters. you we...

Were clashing. both sides were coming together. people were throwing things at each other. this was hours after that. it was hours after the rally had been declared an unlawful assembly by police. and these were all entirely counterprotesters who were marching through the streets. there was nobody attacking them and they werent talking against anybody. they were simply marching through the streets. and it was as calm and as peaceful as i had felt all day until the moment that the car flew past m...

Many others were injured critically. the car went into reverse, the bumper dragging. several protesters giving chase. the driver was eventually arrest and charged. the photographer who snapped all of these photos is ryan kelly. he joins us tonight. ryan, if you can take me through what happened. you saw the car backing uphill before driving into the crowd. >> yes. so i was walking the downtown mall, sway pedestrian mall. i got to a cross street where vehicle traffic is allowed. i saw the car bac...

Drove through innocent bystanders, not dissimilar from what we have seen. i had senators from both parties calling me saying, hey, we feel the pain of whats happening in your state. we condemn it. for a moment, there was this pride of, hey, folks in positions of leadership across political parties are stepping up and standing up to this. the president missed that opportunity. i tried to give him the benefit of the doubt for at least saying the word yesterday. he couldnt move on. i think people i...

I understand you saw the car backing up hill before driving into the crowd. >> yes. so i was walking the downtown mall, sway pedestrian mall. i got to a cross street where vehicle traffic is allowed. i saw the car backing up, and then i saw the crowd of counterprotesters at the bottom of the hill. thought nothing of the car. assumed it was turning around the block to get out of the way and get on wherever he was trying to go. so i started taking some pictures. i had a long lens. i was fairly far...

Market pop yesterday. the weekend fears cooled the diplomacy -- the growing wisdom. >> hope so. >> thanks to see you. thanks for getting up early for us. have a great day. >> you, too. the mother of charlottesville victim heather heyer talking to cnn. heres what susan bro told anderson cooper what she would say to james alex fields, accused of plowing his car into a crowd of counterprotesters killing her daughter. >> you took my child from me, and im going to be the voice that she can no longe...

Counterprotesters. what if there were no counterprotesters there? would he not have had word of condemnation for that group or should he not have who were there with a permit to demonstrate hate speech and hateful etiology? this was a very low moment. >> who were the people that were armed to the teeth? there was more fire power on the white racist supremacist side than there were with the police officers. can you imagine a group of african-americans with that much fire power carrying semi assau...

I moved over to the sidewalk, and then he came barreling down at full speed into the crowd, immediately put into reverse, and reversed at speed back up the hill and took off down the side street. >> and this crowd -- i mean, before this car happened, was it the crowd just hanging out on this street? what was the scene like before? >> so it was a couple of different crowds of counterprotesters who had converged a few blocks before. and they were marching through town. they were chanting. they wer...