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Protesters and the counterprotesters. i want you to speak personally congressman as someone who has faced prejudice in your life. tell us how that felt to see that. >> here is the thing. my dad is black. my mom is white. they met to l.a. and moved to san antonio in the early 70s. my dad was a traveling salesman. he wasnt allowed to stop at every restaurant or go to every hotel room. three decades later, their youngest son is a member of congress. thats because the 23rd district of texas where i ...

Girls, one of them gets killed. that happened at the same week that this young man was stabbed and killed three days before he was due to graduate just after he had been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the united states army. the young white student who killed him was a member of hard core right wing online groups. and this weekend, charlottesville, virginia, a white supremacist march and rally is followed the next man by described as a nazi sympathizer, driving his car at speed into a cr...

White sue prem mapremacists and counterprotesters. he said there were good people on both sides but goods people among the nazis and the clansmen and the white supremacists and the all the right. it was a stunning tour de force by president trump. he talked about the purpose of the march which was from these racists and extremists. they were protesting that charlottesville is talking about getting rid of a statue of confederate general robert e. lee. he said, where is that going to end? it might...

Charlesville, virginia. in a moment ill speak to the photographer who captured the sickening moment the driver slammed into a crowd of counterprotesters on saturday afternoon. here is the moment the car barreled toward the crowd. you see several people trying to get out of the way. as the vehicle got closer, many seemed to look on in disbelief. the car didnt stop. it didnt slow down. many had nowhere to run. here is the image none of us cannot forget, the photo from charlottesville that will def...

It was going to emphasize what candidate trump and now president trump had been known to emphasize, even though nazis are back is literally the easiest gimme in the history of 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...

Groups, protesters and counterprotesters. unfortunately, this is. >> reporter: regrettable in my view, a federal judge at the 11th hour on friday night, the late hours, 9:00 at night about, right before the day of the rally, enjoined, prevented the city manager from moving the rally to what he thought was that much safer area where those -- all those hundreds of law enforcement could have had an easier time dealing with people who clearly we know now came here for violence, came here for en site...

Another day of high tension in charlottesville. the organizer of the saturday rally, the white supremacist organizer, jason kessler, showed up here sunday intending to hold a news conference. he spoke for several minutes but didnt get much of a word in edgewise because a crowd of counterprotesters were making noise. people converged on him slowly. at some point he went to the ground, he fell or was pushed. the police swooped in, got him out of there, got him around the side of the building and i...

Weimer who taught him at a high school in northern kentucky. he said the suspect, james fields, had some very disturbing views about nazis, that he had an january f-- an infatuation with nazis. the organizer, white supremecist organister -- organizer, james kessler, showed up and spoke for several minutes but didnt get a word in edgewise because a crowd of counterprotesters were shouting him down, making noise. people converged on him slowly. at some point he fell or was pushed to the ground. po...

Korea and syria later this half hour. first, president trump under fire for failing to explicitly denounce the role of white house nationalists and neo-nazis in clashes with counterprotesters. the clashes in charlottesville, virginia, turning deadly. it was left to vice president mike pence, traveling in latin america, to say what the president did not. >> we have no tolerance for hate and violence from white supremacists, neo-nazis, or the kkk. these dangerous fringe groups have no place in a...

Advisors, thats bad enough in not condemning white nationalists, but if its the president himself and his interpretation is not that he should condemn the people marching through the streets with torches and hitler and nazis tattoos and chains around their neck, but he should talk about the counterprotesters, thats scarier to me. >> it seems the one area where he sees caution, white nationalists. the kkk is a layup in american politics. people like david duke are constantly inserting themselves ...