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To botch how it is pronounced, antifa, that are anti-fascists. some come ready to fight with clansmen, et cetera. the blame for the violence sometimes was the fault of the counterprotesters, not the protesters. you say now is not the time to talk about that? >> reporter: what i say is that the woman who was killed, the woman who died was run over by someone who went there for the purpose of expressing the most vile anti-jewish, anti-black sentiment. that group was marching with torches. i have t...

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Pictures looked like. i barely had a sense of what i even just saw. i didnt put any of it together until i was looking at the pictures on a laptop a few minutes later, you have no doubt that this happened intentionally, that the driver intentionally plowed into this crowd? >> oh, absolutely. he backed up the hill. i passed by in front of him. i was on the road for maybe 10, 15 seconds. i moved over to the sidewalk, and then he came barreling down at full speed into the crowd, immediately put int...

Sorry, chris, go on. i just wanted it to be clear for the audience. >> yeah, i hate arm chair quarterback law enforcement in general. there should have been anticipation there were going to be armed individuals at this event that there was going to be a high potential for violence. thats when you bring in officers in greater numbers than you think that you need and make sure these groups are separated. this thing looked bad from the very beginning. looked like it had high potential. >> richard, ...

Anti -- the racist protesters didnt even abide by their own permit. they started coming way into the city and the routes that they werent supposed to. the counterprotesters would not have been there had it not been for the racist protesters who there were the beginning. >> i want you to listen. this is republican senator, cory gardner, of colorado, speaking about an hour or so before the presidents news conference. listen to what he said. >> this past weekend was a tragedy. when we witness peopl...

American politics. >> its a layup. yeah. anything on many sides, there had been speculation whether it was ad-libbed or written. do you know? >> i dont know in specific. i do know in private this is what donald trump has talked about with aides. and i think what the issue is -- i think fundamentally this white house doesnt see the white nationalist movement as a problem. they see it as a legitimate expression of a constituent group. the same way black lives matters is an activist group. they don...

White supremacists and not equating them with the counterprotesters, some of whom obviously were also violent. he was focusing on the nazis and the racists who had come into this progressive college town and marched and chanted saying, anti-semitic things and racist things. then, he went and said the statement that people wanted him to make. he did that yesterday. in which he specifically condemned these groups, the clan, white supremacists and nazis. and then here we have president trump reveal...

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And what it means for their party. >> i am joined on the phone by cnn commentator, van jones. van, i want you to take a listen to part of the presidents remarks just now. he made it clear his original inspini instinct on saturday was how he truly feels. the fault for the violence seen in charlottesville on saturday could not just be laid at the feet of the nazis, clansmen, alt right, and various racists but it was actually the fault of both sides. take a listen. >> i think there is blame on both...

>> you know, i think thats a good question, don. i think many people came there looking for a fight. i think they were looking for a confrontation with the counterprotesters perhaps with the police. it was a really, really dicey situation. we think its critical always that law enforcement officers have a really good plan, good intelligence and what i worry a little bit about and i dont want to speculate too much here, but i worry that perhaps the -- there would have been more law enforcement off...