Gov. Haley on Confed. Flag Debate: I Won’t Talk About Policy Now; We Need to Heal

‘Our focus right now is keeping people together’

HALEY: “At the time like this, you have to look back at what we have done. You know, 15 years ago the general assembly at the time, they had a conversation. The Republicans and Democrats and everybody came together on a consensus to bring the confederate flag down off of the dome, and put it out in front. I think that conversation will probably come back up again. An what we hope is that we do things the way South Carolinians do, which is have the conversation, allow some thoughtful words to be exchanged, be kind about it, come together on what we're trying to achieve and how we are trying to do it. I think the state will start talking about that again and we will see where it goes, what I’ll tell you right now is while a lot of issues are going to come up, my job as governor is to bring everybody back together. We’ve got to heal. This is a state that's broken and this is a state that's hurt. What you're seeing is we're trying to pull that together.”

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