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Small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. we will all come together and be crowd, exclamation point. i can't believe he actually wrote those words. don't sound like him. meanwhile, horrific and shameful incidents of racism, hate speech, and even some hate crimes have been reported across the country in recent days. social media posts have depicted celebratory confederate flag waving, white supremacist graffiti, and other deeply disturbing incidents. >> parents of children at one middle school in michigan are upset after some students were heard chanting "build t...

With us now to dig deeper into what recapturing ramadi means for the fight against isis, chapman bell in london, courtney cubey at the pentagon and ron allen who is covering the president in hawaii. chapman bell, let's start with you. what have we been hearing from iraqi leaders today about ramadi? >> iraqi leaders are hayling this a victory. the spokesman of the joint operation command in iraq going on television today and calling it the happy news of victory by iraqi security forces liberating the city of ramadi from the occupation of the terrorists of isis. this was followed by flag-waving ...

Down? >> well, for one, i have identified the flag as an inflammatory, iconic symbol. i don't see any purpose to continue to have the flag waving in the air. it's just -- it needs to go. and my -- my -- you know i preface in this in a way it's time for change. time for south carolina to make a change. as i said earlier, they could be the leading pack in doing so. it's not going to eradicate racism because i believe it's like an elephant in the room. there has to be conversation. people can no longer ignore it. things do definitely need to change. and it needs to change swiftly. that is my opin...

We are, i don't know how that advances our cause. >> an interesting point. i'm curious what you think about this. this is a president who has not been perceived in the past as being so gung-ho about american exceptionalism. this is something you associate with people on the right running for the presidency. and in fact here's what emin 2009. totally different than what he said the past couple weeks. >> i believe in american exceptionalism. just as i believe the british believe in british exceptionalism and the greeks believe in greek exceptionalism. >> that's totally different than how he is t...

We had to go, it turns out that it was, as david puts it, a hoax. the case about why we had to go turned out not to be true. it was maintained to us as if it were true. and that has to be seen as an original sin for why that war ended up being a bad idea. we all respect the people who serve. we all thank and frankly love the troops who went there, because their country asked them to. but the grounds on which they were asked to go were false. and that has to be the way that we tell this story forever, so we don't do it again. >> and david, the media role in this, there was a lot of promotion, a...