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Removal? when you were doing your doc, 25 years ago now, did you think that the removal of this flag would ever happen in a state like south carolina? >> no i didn't brooke. this is a really good day. but it's only a first step. i think the president said that. i think that governor haley also implied this. we have a lot of work to do to heal what is -- symbols and symbolic gestures are hugely important and this is clearly a powerful symbol and gesture is powerful and we now have to work to change the hearts and minds of people who obviously have inherited a legacy of racism and it's a more re...

South carolina called roseville we were in the process -- i was between 5 and -- about 5 years old and what happened was, we were on the side of the road a two-lane road a very narrow and a truck came by and in the back of that truck hung the confederate flag and some white youth on that truck. they called us the "n" word which i won't repeat for national tv. i turned around and looked because i heard the people yelling and screaming at us and i happened to turn around and looked and a bag of nails was flown and hit me in the face. and as a result of that and an infection that resulted as a re...

>> there's nothing to apologize for. >> good evening from york. i'm chris hayes. tonight is the last night that the confederate battle flag will fly above the grounds of the carolina state capital. after a last ditch attempt by house members to preserve the status quo, resulting in an intense and impassioned floor debate lasting into the night governor haley signed the law today. take the flag down from the state grounds and put it in a nearby museum. >> tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m., we will see the confederate flag come down. we are a state that believes in tradition. we're a state that bel...

100 years. >> what set off finally democrats came out and expressed disgus when it looked like their moves would fail. they ended up taking an amy republicans attached to a bill it was starting to get vote support, they were worried that bill might pass amendment might pass. they came up with this unique parliamentary idea which was to take the language in the amendment and put it in its own bill, own resolution. >> cordon it off. >> here is exactly the language you want in the amendment but it's in this separate measure. vote for that. when republicans wouldn't vote for it then the game was u...

And that's probably going to be welcomed by people very worried about the direction that things have taken over the course of the last three, quite crazy weeks here. >> it has been a roller coaster ride. perhaps not over yet. ivan watson keeping an eye on what is happening there from shanghai in china. now to the u.s. state of south carolina where a confederate flag may be one step closer to being removed from the capitol grounds. the state house of representatives has voted to remove that battle flag surpassing the required two-thirds majority. these are pictures from the state house floor ...