Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170814:08:25:00
>> i've been skeptical of the rush to tear all these things down. there's a distension between robert e. lee and nathan bedford forest. if these monuments are going to be rallying points for neo-nazis, maybe they have to go. >> why would you erect a monument -- the confederacy waged war on the united states. so the idea of putting up those monuments didn't happen right after the civil war. it happened during the 1960s. it happened over the fight for desegregating schools. these monuments immediately -- in the immediate aftermath of the civil war, no one would have thought of putting up the fla...