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Mississippi named em it till, being dragged out of his bed and getting killed, that was terrorism, so i think americans need to understand what were witnessing here, its okay to call it terrorism. >> thank you very much. stay with with us. were going to continue with our kovrnl here, but if youre just joining us, our breaking news coverage continues as weve been following now from charlot charlottesville with one killed and 19 others injured after a car plowed throw a street of protesters on foo...

Youre watching msnbc and we are following breaking news. after a protest between white nationalists and the -- members of the alt-right in charlottesville, virginia, this morning and counterprotesters, a car has crashed into a crowd of those counterprotesters in the aftermath of this protest, which was dispersed after the assembly was deemed unlawful by local police and state police there. the governor of virginia has declared a state of emergency in his state. you can see, moments ago, first re...

And we hear reports that a virginia state police helicopter has now crashed near a protest site to make matters even worse, were working on details into that situation and if there are any casualties or what the latest is on that. when we get that information about the police helicopter, we will give it to you. we expect a news conference by the governor, terry mcauliffe momentarily. so we are also standing by with that. a lot of moving parts to report to you tonight. ellison barber is live at t...

Of those people were treated at ems treatment centers. again, 20 brought to the hospital where i am here. all of them related to that car crash earlier this evening. as for the 19 that are still being treated, there is no word on their injuries. a spokesperson for the hospital told fox news they didnt have that information at this point and any updates would likely come from police. we think we may figure out a little more about the 19 people who are still here, their conditions at that press co...

Stopped by a security guard, and they say they are only allowing paramedic vehicles, emergency vehicles, and vehicles carrying patients inside. eric? eric: ellison, thank you very much. laura? laura: meanwhile, president trump strongly condemning the hate bigotry and violence in charlottesville virginia earlier today just moments after it was confirmed one person died in the violent clashes. kristin fisher is live for us from bridgewater new jersey near where the president has been vacationing a...

Hold up a sign, pieces of wood that were the size of a baseball bat, for example. the same goes for the counterprotesters, many of them were wearing helmets and shoulder pads and knee pads, also carrying signs with out of proportion sticks holding them up. so both sides appeared not to be coming for peaceful protests today. they appeared intent on violence. one wonders why the police didnt crack down on it when that became available to them as it did to me. as they did ultimately rein in the ear...

Contributor and columnist for "the new york post." david to you first, whats your response to seeing something like this? it seems like a microcosm of the tension and divide were facing in this country right now. >> boris, what i see from some of that footage you played earlier in the hour, people throwing punches and swinging at each other is a failure to understand the democratic process, right? you have a situation where you have heated opinions on both sides. but you have a duly elected city...

They want to address that. so, someone in a speech-writing capacity is having to help the president craft this message, and how far do they want to go in labeling these events while they are still unfolding and before official assessments of what has taken place can be fully evaluated. observers have described the racial strife that played out in charlottesville today. this had been an event that was, in some ways, previewed and there was a build-up toward it, which of course attracted protester...

When theyre dispersed, and you have these amorphous pockets of crowds going in different directions, its very difficult to police. usually, you have it set up in a grid pattern and people are separated by whole streets. here, because the streets are small and because the protesters and counterprotesters were scattered, you had numerous potential flash points that could take place where there were vulnerabilities. one last thing. a lot of these folks look for raising a flag and planting a flag fo...

Names. when it comes to african-americans and latinos, he has no problems using a one without thought, he seems able to use an acronym, kkk, three syllables, or five syllable phrase white nationalist, he did not say their names, number one. number two, he asserted a kind of moral equivalence. he said that there was too much -- suggested too much hate or violence on all sides, as though the protesters and counterprotesters were on the same moral plain. the fact of the matter is the kkk, the nazis...