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They rallied a white supremacist rally around that. >> i believe exactly as i just said. you have to have the history of the entire individual before you so you understand what that statue means. however, it is offensive and people are taking issue with it, let's move it, let's put it somewhere where historically it fits with the area around it so you can have people come to see it who want to understand that history and that individual. >> i want to know what you think about what the president said about the statues yesterday. i'm going to play a bit of it again and then we'll discuss. here i...

Robert dilley to another name. george washington was a slave owner, was he's a slave owner? will he now lose his status? are we going to take down statues to george washington? how about thomas jefferson? what do you think of thomas jefferson? he was a major slave owner. are we going to take down his statue? >> sean: president trump yesterday addressing that removal of historical monuments in america, under cover of darkness, baltimore removed for confederate monuments. new york took down two plaques from a church property in brooklyn, new york, that honored the general robert e. lee. several ...

Place for people to land, that's what we are going to see in many more cities as we go forward in these elections because that's what donald trump wants. >> john, why are people comparing george washington and robert e. lee? what is this about? >> they shouldn't. it's an idiotic comparison. i think it scratches an itch we have seen throughout american history. just to nerd out on history, during the civil war, confederates tried to claim washington as one of their own, rebel, slave owner, some of the arguments put in the e mile by the president's attorney. it's the fundmental level that george...

Growing up in a little town segregationists saying we can't have black kids and white kids attending school together because it will destroy the culture of the south. it will destroy a way of life. >> reporter: president trump seized on the events in charlottesville to make a case that hits at white identity politics. >> george washington was a slave owner. was george washington a slave owner? so will george washington lose his status? are we going to take down status to george washington? >> reporter: president trump tweeted today you can't change history but you can learn from it. is there m...

Who wanted to gather and talk about preserving the lee statue and preserving a white majority. >> reporter: 4:00 p.m.. >> but not all of those people were neo-nazis, believe me. not all of those people were white supremacists. by any stretch. those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue, robert e. lee. >> reporter: then this -- >> when are we going to rename the capital city, washington, d.c. he was a slave owner. when are we going to write out of history the first seven of nine presidents who owned slaves? are they all going to come down? >> george w...