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Monitoring of the white nationalist, neo-nazi rally there in charlottesville. helping the police try to get a better idea of exactly the way things were spreading and going on at the time. when it crashed near a golf course on saturday afternoon. a week ago today. trooper bates was buried yesterday. you mentioned of course, governor mcauliffe attending that funeral, he and other state officials, such as senator tim kaine are expected to be here today as well. governor mcauliffe mentioned how dee...

Killed on saturday in the charlottesville area. to be buried, heather heyer having her memorial earlier. trooper bates, things are expected to get under way, not too different from now, were seeing some of the honor guard come in at this point right now. underneath that flag. that they have here, to honor lieutenant cullen. were expecting this to last at least a couple of hours today before the burial at this point. to sort of avoid and let virginia and especially charlottesville heal and get to...

Mcauliffe was among those who attended the service, cnn correspondent diane gallagher is in chesterfield with more and i can see behind you the legion of officers who are coming there. >> thats right, victor. ill step out of the way so you can see theyre starting to gather here a few moments ago. many of those officers and troopers on the motorcycles came through. they were escorting in a sort of blacked-out bus, which we believe had the loved ones of lieutenant jay cullen. this man donated more...

On who they are just yet. this very minute president trump on his way to camp david. there he is boarding air force once. set to get a briefing with the national xoubs. security council. the white house says theyll discuss strategy on afghanistan and north korea. there he is. city leaders across the country are preparing ahead of a planned nine city protest by the alt right groups, authorities in boston are making final preparations for pay a rally to held on boston commons. they are hoping to p...

Friends of mine who are african-american or hispanic or gay andle lesbian, they ask me y i should support the republican party, i cant answer them about policy. >> on the republican party, heres the point on a lot of these, you know, members of senior leadership. they are denouncing racism, which, frankly, is easy to do. its a political lay-up, as zerlina just said. the only one whos actually called out the president is john mccain, who said there is no moral equivalency between racists and amer...

Served this country, an iraq war veteran. good to have you on the show. >> good morning, chris. >> frankly, the silence is deafening. there have been tweets. we saw senator cory gourder in at a town hall talk about this in strong terms, by and large, your colleagues in your party silent about that. its not time for that type of leadership or lack thereof. what do you think needs to be said to the american people about what they heard from their president yesterday? >> let me first give my sympat...

Investigators expect to have a preliminary report within the next two to three weeks. today, the president said the flight crew embodied the goodness and decency of the country. lieutenant hr.j. cullen was 48. trooper bates was just 40. the governor of virginia said he and the first lady considered both men good friends. jade, he said, has flown with us for more than 3 1/2 years. just ahead, two views of the presidents handling of this incident. and later, ill speak with a photographer who too...

Some new details now on the chopper crash that took the lives of two state troopers. according to the ntsb, there was no distress call before the chopper went down. the helicopters vertical flight path was about 45 degrees when it descended into trees. there was a postcrash fire. investigators expect to have a preliminary report within the next two to three weeks. today, the president said the flight crew embodied the goodness and decency of the country. lieutenant h.j. cullen was 48. trooper ba...

At the same time, i had raised her to be strong and independent, and you cant have one without the other. it doesnt do any good to be strong and independent if you cant speak up when its needed. >> i want to bring in mia rodriguez. shes at the memorial in charlottesville. set the scene for us there. >> well, ali, this is a place where people are coming to mourn healther and trooper bates and lieutenant kullen. they have set up a makeshift memorial here. you can see that people have put kalgds z ...

>> leland: we have heather heyers death. people injured at the rally and two straight troopers who died in a helicopter crash as well. what are we learning about them, their families and that crash? >> another tragedy associated with this. those two troopers were assisting local law enforcement monitoring the riots this weekend. they have been identified as lieutenant cullen and trooper bates, a deadly and violent weekend and somber monday add we await for the defendant to appear in court. >> le...