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Together. finally, we have to deal with issues of culture in america and american identity and broaden american identity so that we actually address the founding ideals of our country, breathe life into them, and make this a country for everyone who lives here and deconstruct the issue of -- and the myth of american supremacy and entitlement that led to what happened yesterday. what makes america great is also something that's quite fragile. it is the american idea of individual rights and liberties, and we have to today go forward to protect that but also to breathe life into it. >> rick, is ...

People who are anti-immigrant, anti-semitic, anti-black, what some might call anti-american. these racist protesters were there to pose the removal of a confederate monument. the events ended with a terrifying scene as a car drove into a crowd of counterprotesters injuring many and willing one. the president responded but disturbingly didn't single out the racists, instead condemning, quote, hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides, unquote. let v let's bring in a panel. melody barnes was director of the white house domestic policy council under president obama. she's now a visiting profess...

Supremacy and entitlement that led to a young woman being killed yesterday, but it is a scene we have seen over and over and over in our country through slavery and through lynchings and through the civil rights movement that led us to yesterday. and until we have a cold, hard, honest look at our american history and the dna of america, we will not be able to deal with these issues. believe, as people reacted and responded to president obama's election in 2008 and re-election in 2012 and certainly president trump has created an enabling environment through his statements over the last many yea...