Reporter In Charlottesville Gives Her Take On Weekend Violence
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
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Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis, KKK and members of the "alt-right" hurl water bottles back and forth against counter demonstrators on the outskirts of Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
President Trump is placing blame for the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville over the weekend on “both sides,” including counter-protesters. But what is true about what happened that day?
Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Sarah Rankin (), a reporter for The Associated Press who was in Charlottesville that day.
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