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Daniel davidson senior correspondent at the federalist. he joins us tonight. john, this does seem like a turning point somehow, not just on the right but also on the left, these events of the last two days and there seems to be a new intensity on the left. am i imagining that? >> no, you're not. and we do seem like we are at a turning point. but this has been coming down the pike for a number of years. i remember two years ago we had the 150th anniversary of the confederate surrender and had you people in the mainstream media at that time calling for the desis he creation of confederate graves...

With his car. >> president trump: i think the driver of the car is a disgrace to himself, his family, and this country. you can call it terrorism, you can call it murder, you can call it whatever you want. >> as he was pressed as to whether he was putting radicals of the alt left on the same moral plane as white supremacists, he made points about the danger of knocking down statutes, erasing our history, he seemed to undo the positive statement of his statement yesterday when he clearly denounced neo-nazis,ac e went back to his statement on saturday, somehow added that there were fine people o...

Protest a dismantling of the robert e. lee, confederate statue in charlottesville, virginia. they may have been their excuse. i don't know how significant that was, but that's become a big issue. where do you stand? where does the republican party of virginia stand on that robert e. lee statue? >> our nominee for governor ed gillespie has spoken on this and we support him. >> what has he said? >> he supports of history of virginia in all its form. you can't just eradicate the bad parts by taking down statues. i think he's right. one of the things that gets lost in this. these people were there...

Scrubbing or history. marc thiessen is here. good to see you. it's amazing, they're pulling down statues, vandalizing them of confederate generals and the question is how far are we going to take this? >> i agree with john schneider. he said can't we all just watch tv? the "dukes of hazzard" was not about race. i was about moonshine, short shorts and fast cars. what is accomplished by banning the "dukes of hazzard." quite frankly this impulse to wash away history is stalinish. joseph stalin used to erase people from pictures to erase their picture from history. why would we be following that i...

Marc thiessen is here. good to see you. it's amazing, they're pulling down statues, vandalizing them of confederate generals and the question is how far are we going to take this? >> i agree with john schneider. he said can't we all just watch tv? the "dukes of hazzard" was not about race. i was about moonshine, short shorts and fast cars. what is accomplished by banning the "dukes of hazzard." quite frankly this impulse to wash away history is stalinish. joseph stalin used to erase people from pictures to erase their picture from history. why would we be following that impulse. i'm speaking t...