Heather Heyer was murdered in Charlottesville, Virginia when a white nationalist terrorist drove through a crowd of counter protesters on Saturday. Her mother Susan Bro, who has vowed to carry on her daughter’s mission, appeared on MSNBC Live on Thursday to have an interview with host Katy Tur. If you thought the interview would be about Heather or how her mother planned to continue you’d be wrong.

Out of the seven questions, Tur asked in the aired portion of their taped interview, five of them were about the President.

Tur’s first question was indeed about Heyer, but that was all. “I'd love if you could tell us a little bit more about your daughter. What moment are you going to hold on to,” she inquired. But from there, she went right into five straight questions about Trump:

He also told reporters that he would be reaching out to you. Have you had a chance to speak with the President?

Bro explained that ever since her daughter’s untimely death, her schedule had been really full. “When we got home from the funeral and reception I was completely drained, and we had family gathered around. I had my phone turned off,” she said, noting she had three phone calls from him. “And so it feels awful, but I just haven't had time to talk to the President, but yes, he has reached out.”

Oftentimes in public tragedies like this, the President will be invited to speak at a memorial service. Was President Trump invited to this one?

According to Bro, she allowed no politicians to speak at her daughter’s memorial service. “I just felt like there will be plenty of time later for political speeches, that sort of thing, but this was all about my daughter and her life and her legacy, and that was totally my focus,” she told Tur.

You said yesterday that you're speaking now because your daughter cannot speak now. When you do have a chance to speak to the President, what are you going to tell him?

“My daughter had a mission to make things fair and equitable for everyone, and I'm going to continue that mission,” Bro reiterated. “And anything he can do to further that mission; I'll be behind him.” The answer may not have been enough for Tur, because she quickly followed up with: “What would you like to see him do?” Bro didn’t know and didn’t want to “presume to know what the President does or how he does it.”

Unironically, Tur prefaced her last question about Trump by claiming “I don't want to make this about politics.” She then proceeded to call into question the President’s comment that there was violence “on all sides” that day.

Surprisingly, Bro sounded almost like the President, saying: “I did not because I'm a person who believes: Have all your facts before you make a statement, and I did not watch the rally.” “And so whether there was violence on both sides or not is irrelevant. The guy mowed my daughter down. Sorry, that's not excusable,” she added.

The last question to be aired by Tur was her asking Bro about the other white nationalist marches that were coming up, and wondering: “What does it say to you about where we are as a country?”

Bro’s answer was stunningly beautiful and really brought a humanizing aspect to the conversation:

What that says to me is that there are people who feel marginalized, there are people who feel their voices are not being heard, and I think that everybody needs to sit down and have an honest and painful discourse. We need to listen to each other, stop the name-calling. Once you put somebody into a name, you put them in a box and then you can put them on a shelf and you don't really have to look at them. But people are much more complicated than that.

“So as much as I detest what the nationalists seem to be trying to say, they have a voice that they're trying to express and somebody needs to find out what it is that's bothering them, in the same way,” any group wants to be heard, she added.

(H/T The Washington Free Beacon)

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