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Peaceful people who have an affection for robert e. lee statues. >> i mean, for me, what is remarkable is i just spent several hours talking to republicans who are just so upset. and i think that what is gok on here is you have a party trying to give donald trump the benefit of the doubt. i talked to someone today about the idea that this republican kind of as soon as donald trump came down from the escalator and started calling mexican rapists and criminals he said i couldn't be part of this any more. but i understood my party would still back him. and i don't fault p people who gave him the ...

And her son, joined the union army. general lee did not just fight for the confederacy. he fought for slavery. he believed in it. he believed slavery should be allowed in the new territory of the united states that slavery should be forbidden. he went to court to personally fight to keep slaves. who had been proomissed their freedom in his father-in-law's will. some people want it keep robert e. lee statue standing because they don't know these things about general lee and others want to keep those statues standing because they do know these things. about general lee. they do know the general ...

Emancipated slaves, including the slaves of robert e. lee. and you this titan tick battle of reconstruction which ended up granting civil rights to the african-americans. robert e. lee opposed that vehemently. but i think, you know, treason trials were really not a major factor in the agenda of the post civil war period. it probably wouldn't have made a heck of a lot of difference. maybe you would have had fewer statues of robert e. lee. but there were hundreds of statues like him of confederate generals all over the south. >> and the history of those is more likecentury. wasn't it sort of a n...

Take down a stat you've martin luther king, jr. i would be called a racist. so why isn't a racist that people want it take doto take d stat i statues of the confederate? by have the president of the united states actually saying it. and it is shocking. >> jarvis, given that we've all been watching donald trump as a politician in effect for about six years, when he first started talking about president obama's birth certificate, i think this is a new donald trump. not the guy from the game show. someone trying to get into our politics. given that we've had that six years before today, were you ...

Conditions as they look the other way it look out for their own reelections and interest. gop leaders across the country are just as responsible for where we are tonight as donald trump is. time to stop trying to teach this president a 71-year-old e man who knows better and it is time to start denouncing him. >> jarvis, you have been covering this the to story that underlies all of this for quite a while. that's the issue of confederate monuments. some in new orleans and controversy surrounding them. whatever that decision is made it is time it take one down. >> oh, yeah. and it's been a big, ...