Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170816:01:05:00
Home. i guess i want to -- the good people that were just upset about the statue coming down, robert e. lee was a general of the confederacy. he talked about thomas jefferson and george washington. george washington took up arms against the british to enslave people, but he freed his slaves at the end. robert e. lee was fighting to preserve the america that george washington and founding fathers created. by the time robert e. lee popped up, it was no longer socially acceptable. slavery wasn't. america had decided who we wanted to be. we fought the civil war. the union won. i think we also deci...