BLITZER: Got some breaking news coming out of Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia. Take a look at these pictures -- live pictures. City workers have just placed a black shroud over a statue of Robert E. Lee. This this the same park where white supremacists held what they call their Unite The Right Rally just, what, 11 days ago. That rally, as all of us know, led to violence. Some deadly -- and a deadly clash with counter protesters. But there you see that black shroud over the Robert E. Lee statue on the campus of the University of Virginia. I want to bring in Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania. He's a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. But let me get your quick reaction. What do you think about that black shroud now placed over that statue?</s>REP. BRENDAN BOYLE (D), PENNSYLVANIA: Well, thanks, Wolf, for having me. I haven't had a chance to see it. You know, we're 241 years into now the great American experiment. And I think one of the key questions we face as a country that's borne not out of one race or one ethnicity or one religion, but out of a commitment to a certain set of ideals is how we deal with our history when we, as a people, fail to live up with those ideals. Do we have -- do we keep these statues. Do we instead put plaques right next to them to explain that many of them went up actually during the civil rights era and were put up to protest the federal government's attempt in that era to end segregation? How do we handle these and grapple with these moving forward. So I think that this is a tough time in our nation's history. It's a certain amount of growing pains about our checkered past where in the areas of race we haven't lived up to our nation's founding ideals.
Charlottesville Covers Statue; Interview with Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA).