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What they're going to turn it into, that will come later, but for now, the only plan that everybody has agreed to is melt it. they're calling the project sword into -- change is hard. change is often so hard that it is unimaginable. until one day, you're driving down i-65 and look, it happened. one day, you're driving through the center of charlottesville, virginia, and hey, look, it happened. it feels impossible. it feels unimaginable. it feels intractable. and then, it's done. lots to come tonight, stay with us.

Officials, have had a lot of consternation over this for the past 20 years. it's got all of these different flags from all of the various confederate states flying all around it, plus lots of confederate flags themselves. and nathan bedford forrest on his horse with a gun and a sword in the middle of it. local officials and local residents tried to persuade the state of tennessee, that the state could plant some tall trees along that part of the interstate to shield this thing from passing traffic. well, the guy on whose private property the statue sat, he said, if the state did try to occlude...

Confederate army and after the civil war was over he became the first grand wizard of the ku klux klan and that is why for the past 20 plus years, this 1998 that has been on the outskirts of tennessee this hideous 25-foot pulse that you of the founder of the klan. sitting on a piece of private property overlooking interstate 65. you really can't see it from i-65. and local residents and officials have had a lot of -- for the past 20 years. it has all these different flags from all the various confederate fleets flying around, was lots of confederate flags themselves, and nathan bedford forrest...

Council decided what to do with it. they decided that 1100 pound robert e. lee statue would be given to a local african american heritage center, that has a very specific plan for it. they're going to melt. it's the going to melt it down. ultimately they say it will become a new public artwork about what charlottesville is like today. it'll be about some new idea in charlottesville. that new idea, what exactly they're gonna put it down to, what they're gonna turn it into, those school to come later. for now, the only plan that everybody has agreed to is melt it. they're calling the project -- ...

Years, since roughly 1998, there has been on the outskirts of nashville, tennessee this, hideous 25-foot-tall statue of the founder of the klan. sitting on a piece of private property overlooking interstate 65. you really can see it from i-65. and local residents, local officials, have had a lot of consternation over this for the past 25 years.pa it has flags from the confederate states flying around it, plus lots of confederate flags themselves. and nathan bedford forest on his horse with a gun and a sword in the middle of it. local officials and local residents tried to persuade the state of...