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First lady melania trump tweeting our country encourages freedom of speech but let's communicate with hate in our hearts and keep away from violence. mark levine, of the virginia house of democrats and a good friend of the governor. we heard him declare a state of emergency less than an hour ago. this is your state, this is where you live, you represent folks in virginia, especially charlottesville, being a beautiful historic college town. a lot of history there. the protest we are seeing today initially planned around the historical artifact, a statue of robert e lee. when doug was talking to...

Charlottesville. they're tried to strip things. they bring teargas, they're attacking the counter protesters. we, all americans, we need to stand together against this hatred. thank you for your words josh. >> and what are your thoughts on the presidents words? >> he needs to say that in the days to come. we need to condemn this violence and racial bigotry. the reality is, there is no room on the right or left for racial politics. people have said this is about a statute of robert e lee. we had a debate about the confederate flag in our state house grant. we did not have this kind of racial pr...

Elizabeth: looking at pictures of charlottesville, virginia where state of emergency has been declared. i want to bring in mark levine from the virginia state of delegates, the commonwealth of virginia. when you look at these pictures, the whole point of the protest as we have been talking about for five minutes was to protest the removal of the confederate statue from emancipation park. the argument, they didn't want statue to be removed. in your opinion, are there places in the commonwealth of virginia where there should be statues where we remember parts of our history? >> i don't think the...

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