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Campaign and certainly since the inauguration, which is the exponential rise of hate crimes in this country. we have not heard a fullsome condemnation of it from the president or from attorney general sessions. the counterprotesters who came today, those young people standing in the square last night at the university of virginia speaking out against white supremacy came out of the love for their country and stood for equality and justice. today the president signed legislation for veterans. thi...

Including with this president. >> there were attacks on members of the clergy, physical attacks, people who had bats and brass knuckles. what do you make on the attacks on the members of the religious community today? >> yes. so the clergy knew what was going to happen and they were not armed and came prepared for their faith and to the extent they came to injure them or harm them, whats what we want to hear, his preparedness to fully investigate those who came to do violence against peaceful pr...

Allow them to oppose citizens and the values. i think the president needs to say that statement. >> lieutenant jenlt general, you could not be more clear, sir. thank you very much. appreciate your time. thank you. and coming up, members of clergy stood up to white supremacists today. that is next. rethink the experience. rethink your allergy pills. flonase sensimist allergy relief uses unique mistpro technology and helps block 6 key inflammatory substances with a gentle mist. most allergy pill...

The presence of members of clergy, but there was a lot of fear placed into the hearts of clergy. lets play a moment. >> as we were closing -- >> ive got to go. >> go, go, im sorry, im sorry. there is gunfire and they are pushing me out. they are pushing me out. they are pushing me out. the security is pushing me out. security has got me. im sorry. excuse me. >> reverend barber what was happening is there were attacked perpetrated against members of clergy and there were people with -- people wit...

Counter-protesters. and two state troopers were killed in a helicopter crash. investigators are still working to determine whether that crash was related in any way to the rallies. and the university of virginia medical center said it is still treating 20 patients medical center says it is treating 20 people, including 5 in critical condition. more on the days event after the break. [ gasps, laughs ] you ever feel like... cliché foil characters scheming against a top insurer for no reason? nah....

People when we first came upon the scene. i can tell you that this is a city that has been in a state of tension for weeks. this all started back on july 8th when there was a kkk march here near the robert e. lee statue near the park and the city was looking to remove the statue from the park. fast forward a couple of weeks and we come to this point on friday, law enforcement learned lessons from the july 8th rally where you did see counter-protesters and some of the people attending the rally k...

And the counter-protesters ended up over here in it area. were actually one block off from a pedestrian mall. there is a lot of shops here and restaurants, cafes and people were here in this area. it was quite packed. now when that incident happened as of car plowed into the crowd, there was quite a force seen here. there were all sorts of first responders, police, everyone descended on the area. number one, to treat those people injured and number two, to sort of clear out of the area and begin...

Are all americans first. we love our country, we love our god, we love our flag, were proud of our country. were proud of who we are. so we want to get the situation straightened out in charlottesville and we want to study it. >> joining me now to unpack that is democratic congressional candidate roger dean hoff steader. thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you very much. i want to take people back to when a lot of us first heard about this event and myself, i heard abou...

The streets and dealing with what were seeing right now which were physical confrontations between the white nationalist marchers and counter-protesters was a light police presence. there didnt seem to be a lot of police on the street. there didnt seem to be a show of force the way weve seen in other incidents whether in ferguson or baltimore. have the police officials explained why the presence seemed to be so light and so restrained. >> reporter: well, in fact, when they had the news conferenc...

Erupted in violence late this morning. white nationalists groups attending a scheduled unite the right rally to protest the removal of a confederate statue clashes with counter-protesters including clergy and ant fascist groups and members of the black lives matter movement. the rally ended before it began when the governor and officials declared a state of emergency. before 11:00 a.m. but clashes continued into the early afternoon. the most serious violence happened when a driver plowed a car i...