On Monday, South Carolina lawmakers will start debating whether to remove the Confederate flag from state battlegrounds — a move that to some is tantamount to tearing down a symbol of Southern pride. But to others, like South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, it has become the right thing to do after photos emerged of self-confessed mass murderer Dylann Roof holding the Confederate flag. Roof, who is white, fatally shot nine people last month at a historic black church in Charleston. "I don't think that this is going to be easy. I don't think that it's going to be painless," Haley told "Today" on Saturday in her first network interview since calling for the flag's removal. "But I do think that it will be respectful, and that it will move swiftly." The Confederate flag has flown in South Carolina's capital since 1961.
