director of jihad watch robert spencer explained to us how young people are being recruited by geodes concerted efforts to recruit young people among groups like isis in iraq and they make their best efforts to appeal to young people on the basis of a sense of religious responsibility and allegiance to the group and the idea that the group is being attacked and needs to defend itself and of course it's not that difficult to do this because they're catching these young people at a very impressionable age where you have places areas such as baek and enclaves in malmo in sweden and areas all over europe now where there is essentially a state within a state in those areas there is taught the primacy of islamic law and the superiority of islamic law over the european laws and so these people even if they're born and raised in these countries they only grow up with a contempt for the society and the mores of the country they were born. despite the young ages of the spanish terror cell a link to morocco the country where the moderate influx into spain is highest. the twelve suspects in the b

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robert spencer is the man it happened to. he will founded jihad watch. he joins us now.ere denounced as a hate group by the southern poverty law center which is a completely phony left wing lobby group posing as a right wing organization. totally disz monday nest. and what happened next? >> well, a reporter from pro-public can a which is a roar roast funded soros public foundation. via papal as well as my books for sale at amazon.com and news weeks what would you do if this was cut off, i tried reason with this reporter lauren kirchner and tell her the implications of what she was suggesting and saying that if you are allowing that people with political opinions be cut off with opinions return on you and conditions don't become unpopular in the future. led off with me denounced me. nofted the southern law center spurious claims hate group leader and within hours i was novembered by papal i could no longer use the platform. >> the lauren kirchner piece referring to that i just read. no point does it describe in any detail the views that are supposedly hateful that you hol

joining us is robert spencer from boston. robert, good morning to you. >> god morning.ging news and commentary about jihad activity. violence in the united states and around the world in all its forms and helping people to understand what is the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism. steve: so really you are about highlighting terrorism and, yet, this group that singled you out said you had extreme hostility towards muslims. is that true? >> yeah, well, there is no foundation to that whatsoever. we support any muslim who is interested in honestly confronting the elements of islam that are used by jihads to justify violence and terrorism and working towards reform. steve: okay. so you are a public awareness group essentially trying to tell people about this particular form of jihad. what is going on with, for instance, paypal? why did they single you out? what's going on with silicon valley and right leaning groups. >> often been noted that the southern poverty law center has this hate group list that contains many legitimate groups and is trying to defame those gro

>> i just this week, interviewed richard spencer who is a neo-nazi, and he and robert mcchesney, a professor at the university of illinois, completely agreed the government needs to step in and regulate, otherwise we lose free speech on the internet. unless you have access through these companies or through certain companies, you're being silent. >> i think there is a question when certain private companies start to get such square -- whether it's government or transparency through clarity. i'm the son of a journalist, one of the things i think makes this uncountry so important is the first amendment we operate in 70 countries around the world. the vast majority of them have nothing like speech protections in the united states, there is a rule of law, there is due process, that requires transparency that we haven't had previously. what kind of reactions are you seeing from your employees and what kind of conversations are you guys having? and what kind of hate mail are you getting? >> inside cloud flair this is a discussion we've been having for six years, our question was, how do we take th

robert e. lee's nieces. >>> the university of florida is blocking white nationalist richard center from appearing on that campus. an e-mail was sent to students today saying the administration had major safety concerns surrounding spencer's visit anhe says he finds the racist rhetoric of white national repug nant and it encounters everything the university and the nation stands for. the group says they'll be filing a legal challenge. >>> organizers have cancelled rallies at goggle locations around the globe. the move reportedly comes after threat from left wing terrorist. the demonstrations were organized by the same alt right activist behind the pizza gate conspiracy here in washington. he claimed hillary clinton and her campaign chief -- that was a big falsehood and it led a gunman to fire an assault-style weapon in that pizzeria. >>> former president barack obama holds the title for the most light -- with nearly 3 million likes. after that white supremacist rally in charlottesville, he tweeted, part of a nelson mandela quote saying no one is born hating another person because of or his religion. >>> president trump is feeling the backlash following his comments that white nationalist groups and counter demonstrators w

robert lee stay up. even after this he council there voted to take it down as neo nazi richard spencer who was present in charlottesville over the weekend is scheduled to speak at the university of florida according to the university and after the weekend it's clear confederate symbolism is only a focal points in a worsening racial tensions across the country with no end in sight. but much of the mainstream media criticize president trump for his delayed response to the charlottesville protests leading him to tweet that the quote fake news media never be satisfied then went to new york where he was met by crowds of protesters outside trump tower trump accusing him of racism artie's kaleb mop and takes a look at how america's political debate is now all about labeling and warning his report does contain violence in one of the chants most frequently used at the protests is no trump no k.k.k. no fascist usa essentially trump and his supporters are being tarred with the same brush as white supremacy. that there was. a suspect in the horrific charlottesville car ramming was himself a member of the far right b

to be principal deputy under secretary of defense, robert dagel -- robert hood, to be assistant secretary of defense, richard spencer, to be secretary of the navy, ryan mccarthy to be under secretary of the army, l uciean to be secretary of defense, matthew donovan to be under secretary of the air force, allen lord to be under secretary of defense for acquisition. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the senate vote on the nominations en bloc with no intervening action or debate. if confirmed the motions to consider be considered made, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, that no further motions be in order and any statements relating to the nominations be printed in the record. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. mcconnell: mr. president -- the presiding officer: the question occurs on the nomination en bloc. hearing no further debate. all those in favor saya. opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it, the ayes do have it. the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. mcconnell: for the information of all senators, we just confirmed eight nominees for the defense departm