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Years? there is something to learn from them, and what you learn is something that's ugly. our country continued to romanticize the confederacy and in fact turn these people into national heroes in many cases. it's just recently that that has begun to change. >> do you think that in terms of that conversation changing, i wonder what your sense is of where we are now. i think after the events of 2017, the protests in charlottesville, the death of heather heyer and president trump's ham-handed back and forth and basically saying what are we going to do, write george washington out of the history...

Is the purpose of keeping them up, if you're saying you want to keep them up to idolize men who fought against our union and fought to secure human bondage, for matter what those personal feelings were, that is what they did by fighting for the confederacy, i don't think anybody in the confederacy could pass the test of preserving a memorial. the question is what do you do with these statues that have been standing for a hundred years? there is something to learn from them, and what you learn is something that's ugly. our country continued to romanticize the confederacy and in fact turn these ...

If anything he might bridge the gap to get the conversation changing. democrats have been largely struggling on messaging to get on the same page in the last several weeks. >> that is wishful thinking, our messaging is clear. you have a lawless president in the white house. what democrats are talking about -- >> a lot of your candidates ran on getting rid of the second amendment. >> this is not about the second amendment. this is about ensuring -- >> from any of your candidates it was. >> lowering the cost of prescription drugs for senior citizens. >> none of them have been able to do. >> pare...