Charlie Rose to Sessions: Should Robert E. Lee Statues in Alabama Be Taken Down?
‘This will be decided by the State of Alabama’
EXCERPT:
ROSE: "Mr. Attorney General, if there are any statues of Robert E. Lee in Alabama should they be taken down?"
SESSIONS: "Well this will be decided by the state of Alabama and the cities and counties involved in. It has been --"
ROSE: "But what would you recommend?"
SESSIONS: "My recommendation as attorney general of the United States is that the cities and counties and state have a right to decide their monuments and that nobody should use violence to stop them either way in making that decision."
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