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Come up malcolm. malcolm. malcolm, my friend. you must let the other guest speaker. it is rude. please let thomas speak. thank you. >> okay, so malcolm said that these statues represent white supremacy. im not in a position to tell malcolm what he should think about these statues. these are pieces of art. folks are free to make their own interpretation of what they mean or dont mean. there are a variety of different ways of looking at these pieces. for him to say that these are this way and that...

Who else is left? is madison okay? james madison okay with you? >> no, he is not okay. he was a slave owner. he is not. >> laura: okay. so we need to rename washington, d.c., correct? >> yes, i would do that. >> laura: okay, rename washington, d.c. >> thats not for me to determine. >> laura: no, we need to know, malcolm, where you are coming from. and we just established it, thank you very much. lets move on to thomas, thomas, time for you to talk on. white supremacy, we got it. thomas, what is ...

Himself said, when he was challenged to take down the statues, mitch said, what are you talking about? i dont know what you mean. statues mean white supremacy? the reason that mitch did not understand that, a lot of folks in this city do not see the statues that way. >> laura: lets go back to malcolm. malcolm, malcolm, hold on. malcolm -- >> when these statues -- >> laura: malcolm, until the last, i dont know, two, three years -- ive come to new orleans on and off for the last two or three years...

Be eradicated, we have to rename every federal building, we have to completely reach change history and we have to get rid of it all. had never heard it. >> this is the fundamental problem. because what is happening in the city is that one group of people is deciding for everyone else how we should think about a piece of art. this is, to me, the most frightening occurrence of this whole thing. >> laura: okay, talking over each other. >> they put them up without any input whatsoever from the blac...

Going to happen to them. one of the things that is so shocking about the whole process is that the city council never had any plan in place for what happens to the monuments. >> laura: we are all against the white supremacy but we offer history as well. malcolm and thomas, will have your back, thank you so much. and president trump, by the way, has made remarkable transformation into, believe it or not, a powerful voice for faith. franklin graham is up next to its easy to think that all money ma...

Send a strong message to all who walked in the shadows about who was still in charge in this city. >> laura: new orleans took down four confederate statues last may after the city council declared them in a public nuisance. there was no vote of the people. landrieu called the effort a move toward healing. lets discuss statues, the mayors priorities, and what is next with the coordinator with the group called "take em down nola" and the leader of the robert elite monument association. malcolm, le...

Down nola, and we want to take them all down. there are 20 more statues that are dedicated to white supremacy in the city of new orleans. we have hundreds of streets named and parks named for confederate and white supremacists, and we want to wipe the slate clean, and we have challenged the mayor, from the very beginning, dont do a half job, lets do the whole job. >> laura: malcolm, i want to jump in here, because jackson square, that is new orleans, jackson square, do you say that jackson squar...

Be eradicated, we have to rename every federal building, we have to completely reach change history and we have to get rid of it all. had never heard it. >> this is the fundamental problem. because what is happening in the city is that one group of people is deciding for everyone else how we should think about a piece of art. this is, to me, the most frightening occurrence of this whole thing. >> laura: okay, talking over each other. >> they put them up without any input whatsoever from the blac...

George washington has to go? who else is left? is madison okay? james madison okay with you? >> no, he is not okay. he was a slave owner. he is not. >> laura: okay. so we need to rename washington, d.c., correct? >> yes, i would do that. >> laura: okay, rename washington, d.c. >> thats not for me to determine. >> laura: no, we need to know, malcolm, where you are coming from. and we just established it, thank you very much. lets move on to thomas, thomas, time for you to talk on. white supremacy...

>> and we dont know what is going to happen to them. one of the things that is so shocking about the whole process is that the city council never had any plan in place for what happens to the monuments. >> laura: we are all against the white supremacy but we offer history as well. malcolm and thomas, will have your back, thank you so much. and president trump, by the way, has made remarkable transformation into, believe it or not, a powerful voice for faith. franklin graham is up next to give us...