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Affairs bill and potentially talk about the violence weve been watching this morning in charlottesville. we will of course bring you his remarks live and the latest on these violent protests in charlottesville. i want to turn now to kaylee hartung who is in that area. we got reports just a few moments ago that a car had apparently run into a crowd. then we got confirmation that it was apparently a three-car accident. is it clear whether or not this was intentional, kaylee? >> reporter: boris, it...

As emotions are running high on this day theyve already seen so much violence. not just today but also in that rally you saw white supremacist leading to the university of virginia campus. and a lot of locals here having a hard time grappling with the images coming out of this otherwise quiet college town. we have seen the verbal altercations between, yes, of course, protesters and counterprotesters, in addition to the violence, but also ive seen verbal altercations between members of this commu...

Dispersed was when the car incident happened. we now have learned one person was killed when that car rammed into the crowd of people. the crowd of people who were the counterprotesters standing up to the white nationalists and we have learned a driver is in custody. we do not have an identity of that driver just yet. as we work to continue to get more information on all of this. i want to bring in former special assistant to president george w. bush, scott jennings. a trump supporter. and brian...

Violent protests in the streets there. white nationalists clashing with counterprotesters around the statue of a confederate general. and i want to bring in the vice mayor now of charlottesville, virginia. there was also a car crash where pedestrians were plowed into, what appeared to be an intentional car ramming incident. wes bellamy is joining us on the phone. we know you are very busy today, thanks for joining us for a few minutes. whats your reaction right now in your city? >> to say im dis...

Spokesperson for the hospital told fox news that they didnt have that information. were not sure when we may find out more information about the ranges of injuries. they said thats something that could potentially come from virginia state police a little later this evening. witnesses at the scene told fox news the the groups and those injured were couldnt -- were counterprotesters. the mayor tweeted im heartbroken a life has been lost here i urge all people of goodwill go home. the hospital went...

Theres a white nationalist rally expected to start in two hours from now. you can see the people already there. theyre protesting the removal of a confederate statue. and police are expecting thousands of protesters and counterprotesters we should point out that you can see already. they are gathering strong. ♪ im gonna let it shine ♪ all in charlottesville ♪ im gonna let it shine ♪ all in charlottesville >> clergy members there at emancipation park, the site of the protest, leading grou...

Responsibility for. ive had plenty of disagreements with mitch mcconnell. a lot of us conservatives have. but mitch mcconnell is the most powerful guy in the senate. he can control the presidents agenda. what is the president doing, picking a fight with his own team member? and you know who else has said that? newt gingrich. >> we need to go back to charlottesville. because were getting video now, that has justified the anxiety that weve heard from people who live there. there was a pretty viole...

Counterprotesters protesting hate and extremism. when you look at this, is that something that crosses your mind? >> yes, and jims an old friend going back over 20 years. one of the things that weve seen is when theres a tactic used by one side, it becomes dispersed across the extremist community, and we saw that in england recently when a man drove into a crowd of muslim worshippers leaving their mosque. so, while weve seen this been encouraged, for instance, initially by violent jihadist, weve...

Were just getting new video in right now. the it is graphic video. this is the video -- so, we have been looking at video of the aftermath of this incident when a vehicle plowed into counterprotesters. heres the video of the vehicle actually hitting. its obviously very graphic. were watching the vehicle back up there as mariana described. >> oh my god! people are badly hurt. oh my god, badly hurt. we need paramedics right now. >> and that is the extent of the video that we have. were looking at ...

However, when those skirmishes happened, when the clashes between both sides started unfolding, they really made no move at that point to kind of go in and separate them out. they were sort of relying on both sides to kind of keep about a 20 to 30-feet distance away from each other. they didnt actively engage. at some point, the area that we were in was deemed unsafe. we were being hit by smoke bombs, tear gas. we had to pull back from that area. when we returned about 20 minutes later, the poli...