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Asked at that news conference yesterday. is george washington next. you asked is the thomas jefferson monument in washington, d.c. next? i'll ask you that question here now. >> it would seem to be. if you're following that train of logic that all of these monuments that bring up memories of racism have to be torn down and erased from american history, erased from the entire nation, then you just can't stop with the civil war. you have to go back to the founding fathers, many of whom were slave holders. many of whom were staupblg advocates of slaves. and so why not thomas jefferson? why not geo...

White supremacy. it is about confederate statues. it is about what you should be doing for the people in your city, in your communities. >> baltimore's mayor talking about the removal of monuments to confederate icons. overnight, four were taken down barely two days after the city council voted to remove them following the violence in charlottesville. joining me to talk about the history here, president trump asked a key question. if you take down statues of lee and jackson, should george washington and thomas jefferson be next. james grossman, executive director of the american historical ass...

Because jefferson and jackson were slave holders, they were also great americans in their day, something just different happened to the democratic party. >> too focus on identity poli c politi politics? >> i think the message shaped of the democratic party is shaped to identity politics, and they lost the key part of the base, the people that, you know, my family history goes back to the roosevelt democrats, people who believed regardless of the identity segments, you need to have a voice in corners of power for those who have no voice. we lost that in the democratic party. i'm not saying the ...

Now, as, you know, i'm over here with you. >> fair enough. as a writer and a journalist and it's a good place to be. >> welcome back and finish the observation. >> you know, there is a campaign going on on the hill in the media, in the academia to personally discredit not only donald trump, but the people who are around him, and you know, the end result is to slow down the process. you and i were talking about the confirmation process, slow it down so that by '18 when the democrats are vulnerable particularly in the senate there would not be a record of accomplishment that they can run against...

Going on on the hill in the media, in the academia to personally discredit not only donald trump, but the people who are around him, and you know, the end result is to slow down the process. you and i were talking about the confirmation process, slow it down so that by '18 when the democrats are vulnerable particularly in the senate there would not be a record of accomplishment that they can run against and at the same time, the democratic party, over the past five or six years has moved very far to the left. when you can't have a jefferson-jackson dinner which was the primary celebratory even...