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Caused injuries, and, you know, rapidly backed out, squealing and smoking tires, tried to evade the scene. so this could be a homicide case. it could definitely -- an assault case. its definitely a hit and run case and charlottesville pd was on their heels, so well have to find out if that driver and the occupants in that dodge charger were apprehended. looks like counterprotesters were assaulted. >> the counterprotesters, thats right, jim. mariana, at the time that this incident took place, wha...

Counterprotests over the removal of a statue of confederate general robert e. lee have turned very violent and indeed, over the course of the last several hours, a second incident has developed with a car plowing into a group of counterprotesters. we have video, graphic video, of that moment actually happening this afternoon. were going to show it to you right how. aga again, a warning, it is very graphic. take a look. this is, again, on the streets there of charlottesville, virginia. after the ...

These people who may call themselves either republicans or conservatives, how would you classify them, are they extremists? are they not welcome in your party? >> hatred, racism and intolerance are not welcome in our party. i havent heard any of them calling themselves republicans. its not even conservative. what theyre doing conservative. i just think thats pretty far -- pretty farfetched of a question that ask that somehow theyre associated with us because i just havent seen that. those marchi...

This country that i totally oppose these groups, i find them to be deplorable. and they are not what i stand for in this nation to stand for. this was not even a good middle of the road speech quite frankly. >> you think it was that bad? >> it was not a good speech. were talking about evidence that were looking at every time you turn on your television of these hateful acts. >> he did say -- i condemn it in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. >> t...

>> at the moment the white nationalists are off on their side and others off -- theres not clashes were showing live right now, but this is ongoing. its going to get dark tonight, folks are going to drink, theyre going to go out and probably continue this kind of chaotic behavior. the president has an opportunity here to be a calming influence. and im sure the virginia governor and the charlottesville mayor would greatly appreciate the president showing that kind of leadership in this moment. as...

Im jacob soboroff, youre watching breaking news on msnbc. we are awaiting a statement from the president of the united states about the ongoing situation in charlottesville, virginia, where earlier today, protesters protesting the removal of the confederate general robert e. lee statue in charlottesville, virginia, from the alt-right and white nationalists groups clashed with counterprotesters from organizations as diverse as the clergy to black lives matter to anti-fascist protesters, violence ...

Vehicle into a stream of counterprotesters. this happened in charlottesville after white nationalists were scheduled to have a rally in the emancipation park, they were protests over the pookt pfact t statue of robert e. lee would be removed after it was voted of that statue remooved. we watched a lot of dichbt vie lentz scenes today with these plo testers mingling anding in some very violent fight, police were on scene. clergy were on scene and had to be escorted away. the most heartbreaking vi...

Plowed into these counterprotesters is neither of the cars that were looking at right now. those are the vehicles of innocent bistaystanders. a silver dodge charger, is that right, marina. >> reporter: correct. and the front of it was completely torn off and smoke was billowing out of it. we dont know where it is now. what i witnessed along with my video crew here is that the car sped off and right after it, there was police officers in their own police cars that started chasing after it. but we...

Rodriguez on the scene. i want to reset for everybody what youre looking at is pictures out of charlottesville, virginia, where all day, protests have been playing out between white nationalists, members of the alt-right, and counterprotesters over the removal of a statue of confederate general robert e. lee. the group that organized this protest initially was unite the right. jason kessler was the organizer of the rally, filed a successful lawsuit against the city in seeing that his first amend...

Race in this country, seeing the ku klux klan, various white nationalists and alt-right groups on the street, you know that tensions are going to be very high. again, we are monitoring the second time in six weeks charlottesville, virginia, has spaced a protest from white supremacist groups over the removal of the statue of the confederate then robert e. lee. we have been monitoring a second incident where a car plowed into a group of counterprotesters. we do not know if this was intentional or ...