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Segregation. we have forgiven for inhumanity associated with slavery and our willingness to forgive should be the means and motive by which we continue to move forward to heal the country. the confederate flag is not a symbol of love. it's not a symbol of liberty and justice for all. i intentionally wore this tie today because this tie has -- is representative of the american flag. it represents the american flag. this is the flag we unite behind. it's the flag we all stand for, liberty and justice for all when we salute it. so we need to move forward. i think we have a seminal moment in time,...

Sousse. and that is it for me. thanks so much for watching. i'll be right back here at 5:00 eastern on "the situation room." for our international viewers, amanpour is next. for our viewers in north america, "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right now. brianna keilar thank you so much. happy friday to you all. i'm brooke baldwin. we all know that dylann roof the 21-year-old who walked into the church in south carolina should never have had that gun he used to kill those nine innocent victims. we are just getting this information coming in to cnn from the fbi. it has been more than thre...

Heard, that did it. i want to ask you -- i found it interesting when i was watching the removal this morning and we foe that the governor indicated this would be the case you have these uniformed highway patrol officers really delicately white gloved respectfully removing the flag folding the flag very carefully. with all of these cries on both sides of the aisle to remove this flag it was important, clearly to note the respect that was paid to this flag. and i was just wondering, representative why was that still so important? >> well you know it's important because -- and i'm speaking person...

It's in this separate measure. vote for that. when republicans wouldn't vote for it, then the game was up. it was clear a lot of republicans just did not wan to get rid of that flag, period, period, period. it really what us a filibuster. that's when you started to see exasperation particularly from african-american members. look, our heritage is that that flag flew in front of a home you had to stay away from an be afraid of they told stories of their family separation through slavery and what that flag meant to them. you started to see democrats get upset. behind the scenes working parliamen...

Responded to that terrible terrible shooting where there were no riots and you had 15,000 young young feem on the bridge that 3-mile long bridge, white and black altogether says a lot about the future of the state and the future of the south, i think. these people these are people who know each other. they have gone to school together and the north, the schools today are far more segregated as a result of chief justice john roberts' decisions a decade or so ago on school segregation in the north and so i think you've got a different south that's begun to emerge and i think this whole aspect ab...