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Officials in any government to speak out after charlottesville and after the tuesday statement. >> when you represent the united states overseas, as a lot of people have, including myself, you understand that countries respect our military and economic and political power but they respect the big idea at the center of the creation of the country, which is human equality. and we're a diverse society, we're welcoming to people of all faiths and religions. if the commander in chief, the president, the most visible american at the top of our government begins to say that he sees positive aspects t...

Wrote of course that extraordinary founding document that said we take it as self evident that all people are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights and if if there was any self evidence on the mountain in 1776 than the fundamental human equality and so we see in king drawing on his ak sem i can self and a moment of african-american american woman dom preacher dom and the great historic document. >> we talk about the historic speeches and you can see tens of thousands getting ready to start. >> the sheer number of young people we have seen matching today, lo...

In period is a bad idea. >> okay. van jones, this sort of reminds me of conversations in america in the '50s and '60s, which would go along the lines of i don't mind having thought about this quite carefully, black people using the same bus as me but i'm not really ready for them to come to the same school. is it that kind of repositioning? >> it's sad. first of all, we are on the verge of one of the great breakthroughs and achievements in human freedom, human equality. i can't tell you how proud i am to be in a country where people, where the freedom to marry is going to be available to every...

Of the sacrament. so i don't think that government should be involved in marriage, either. i think bringing the government in period is a bad idea. >> okay. van jones, this sort of reminds me of conversations in america in the '50s and '60s, which would go along the lines of i don't mind having thought about this quite carefully, black people using the same bus as me but i'm not really ready for them to come to the same school. is it that kind of repositioning? >> it's sad. first of all, we are on the verge of one of the great breakthroughs and achievements in human freedom, human equality. i ...

They used him in a run up to the civil war and lincoln used him to articulate the experience of the human equality saying the honor to jefferson. fdr needed him wonderfully. i love the story about washington. fdr was intent on getting the jefferson memorial built and dedicated in parts of the democrats to compete with the republicans and lincoln. the lincoln memorial. >> everything is political. >> it's all local and legacy and things change of course. >> and they don't. >> and they don't. >> john meachem, a wonderful book. something everybody should have performed and stuffed under the hanukk...