"You can’t wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying I’m sorry.” The mother of Heather Heyer on why she didn't talk to President Trump. And won't.
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00:00President Trump has reached out. Have you talked to him directly yet?
00:07I have not, and now I will not. At first, I just missed his calls. The first call,
00:15it looked like, actually came during the funeral. I didn't even see that message. There were three
00:21more frantic messages from press secretaries throughout the day, and I didn't know why.
00:26That would have been on Wednesday, and I was home recovering from the exhaustion of the funeral, and
00:35so I thought, well, I'll get to him later, and then I had more meetings
00:38to establish her foundation. So I hadn't really watched the news until last night,
00:45and I'm not talking to the president now. I'm sorry, after what he said about my child,
00:53and it's not that I saw somebody else's tweets about him. I saw an actual clip of him at a
00:59press conference equating the protesters, like Ms. Heyer, with the KKK and the white supremacists.
01:08You can't wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying I'm sorry.
01:12Is there something, though, that you would want to say to the president?
01:16Think before you speak.