a.c. thompson.alk about his response and the effect to believe it had. >> for members of the white power movement, this was a sort of opening. they said, hey, the president is basically lending us some support. he is not totally condemning us. are fineing some of us people. the folks i talked to in that movement took heart in that. they felt inspired and excited about that. they thought, this guy is on our side. amy: so you decide in charlottesville, you are trying to figure out who the people are who are caring the torches. who are the people hitting, thoseg, going after bystanders, also a smaller group of protesters who were directly confronting them in the thousands that were also there. >> right. what we saw there was a police failure on the day, but we also saw what seemed to be a sort of ongoing, slow-moving law enforcement failure to bring the people who have been involved in these incredibly vicious altercations to justice and hold them accountable. we wanted to figure out, who were these pe

a.c. thompson, "propublica" and "frontline." ng in charlottlle last year. u >>h, sorry, i don't know anything about that, man. >> thompson: but you were there, you're on camera, you're on photos. >> no, i, i think you got the wrong guy. >> thompson: hey, do northrop and ucla know u're involved with the rise above movement? >> gotta go, man. >> thompson: we identify michael .selis in a follow-up sto and the next day, rthrop grumman announces its takenmi action, and lis is no longer an employee. ♪ >> in new york city, an army veteran, who police say is an admitted white supremacist, has en charged with murder as a hate crime. >> portland police say latest day afternoon three men were stabbed by a man yelling ethnic and religious slurs. >> thompson: over the course of my reporting, i've seen a wave of white sremacist violence hit the country. >> the brutal killing was motivated by prejudice after police found urbanski belongs to facebook group "alt-reich nation." (keys clacking) >>shompson: police departme across the country have re

a.c. is this vasilios? >> thompsonn charlottesville, but i have found photos of you there, and messages in different discord chats where you're talking about assaulting people and assaulting emily gorcenski. >> hompson: yeah, but there's photos of you there. >> thompson: i guess that's it.n yo, you say you weren't in charlottesville. you're starting new. you don't want to talk. >> thompson: there's video, man, of you there you know, there's video of you launching yourself into that crowd. doesn't seem like a joke. it doesn't seem like (bleep) posting. seems like something el entirely. >> thompson: okay. all right, m. ♪ we published stories on pistolis that reveal his identity and his acts in charlottesville. ♪ ur in response to oeporting, congressman keith ellison issues a formal letter to secretary of defense, james mattis. ellison asks him to look intond the case a the presence of whe supremacists in the military. have you heard anything from the marine corps or from naval criminal investigative services sbout this?

a.c. thompson document was a ucla grad school working for northrop grumman. >> it is not about ideology. the pre radicalization starts early for that. it is about a search for identity, community and purpose. if we hit what i call potholes in our journey of life, sometimes it detours us. and there is a savvy recruiter waiting for a vulnerable people. we would stand outside of a punk rock concert to do that. today it is the internet that is that punk rock concert. so many people online that can live there. >> does it help recruiting to have a president of the united states who says, you know, there were blame on both sides. >> right. >> who, you know, uses all sorts of tropes of white supremacy and racist language and behind the scenes calls african countries s-hole countries. does it help the movement? >> absolutely. 30 years ago we recognized the language we were using was putting off the average american white racist. so we were going to massage the language. go from boots to suits which david duke did in the early '90s. that is the m.o. they are trying to massage this and normalize it

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