From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the date.

Today, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia is transformed into a battleground

in one of the bloodiest fights yet over the removal of Confederate monuments across the south.

And the president condemns the violence, quote, on all sides, but does not take special aim

at the white nationalists. It's Monday, August 14th.

Cheryl Gastelberg, you were there in Charlottesville this weekend as all these events unfolded.

Start us at the beginning. What was supposed to be happening this weekend?

Well, what was supposed to be happening was a noon rally, so-called Unite the Right Rally,

hosted by white nationalists at a mancipation park, formerly called Lee Park. A mancipation park

has a statue of General Robert E. Lee in the middle of it, statue of him riding a horse.

The city wants to remove the statue and white nationalists are protesting the removal.

So what actually happens is we can start us, Cheryl, with Friday night.

So Friday night, after dark, a band of these white nationalists came onto the University of Virginia campus,

carrying torches. And-

You do not replace us.

They were chanting, you will not replace us. Jews will not replace us.

You do not replace us.

We will replace us. We will replace us. We will replace us.

This is just such an intimidating moment, Michael. I mean, the torch at night in here in the south,

just evokes memories of the KKK. And there was a scuffle there. There were some arrests.

A police officer was injured. That was kind of the precursor to the events of Saturday.

So let's talk about Saturday. There was at 6 a.m. a sunrise service at the first Baptist Church

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