a.c. thompson. is it then the military and the federal government, its counterterrorism e efforts, plps suchch little attention of the billions of dollars they spend in dealingerrorists with home-grown,n, right-wingg extremist terrorists? >> that is a great question. i don't think anyone really knows the full answerer to that. one thing wewe should say, there is been more aggressive action from the fbi and the department of justice recently on this front. so we saw a wise up or involved in the rise above movement who werere active in n charlottesvie and other protesest recently get arrested on writing charges. we see the fbi looking at this connection between atomwaffen in the pittsburgh massacre. i think in general, there is been this massive turn towards focusing on 9/11-style terrorism and the sort of sense that the white supremacicist, antigovernment terrorism embodied by people like timothy mcveigh, embodied by people like wade page -- eight neo-nazi who went into a sikh to buy wisconsin and ki

a.c. thompson, "propublica" and utrontline." lottesville last year. >> uh, sorry, i don't know anything about that, man. >> thompson: b 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 you're involved with the rise above movement?ot >> gta go, man. mp >> thoson: we identify michael miselis in a follow-up story. and the next day, northropgr man announces its taken action, and miselis is no longer an employee. ♪ >> in new york city, an army veteran, who police say is ante admitted wupremacist, has been charged with murder as a hate crime. >> portland police say late yesterday 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 supremacist violence hit the country. >> the brutal killing was motivated by prejudice after police found urbanski belongs to cebook group "alt-reich nation." (keys clacking) >> thompson: police departments across the country

a.c. thompson investigate... about what you were doing in charlottesvie last year? >> narrator: who was behind the viont rally? >> there's video of you launching yourself into that crowd. >> you could feel how angry they were, but also how happy they were to be intimidating people like this, and it was just this happy rage.

a.c. thompson from propublica and "frontline."s and still interested in talking to you, so... h when i reachsky, he'd been banned for liffrom front sight. he tells me he left atomwaffen and has renounced nazism. he won't gon camera for an interview. but using informatioom the chat logs, i'm able to identify other hate camp participants. one ofhem agrees to talk to me. he's a twenty something army veteran who asks me to call him jeremiah. he came back from a combat tour damaged and angry. >> (distorted): there were a lot of people that were disenchanted with the mission. i'd say about half the guys in my un. i think a lot of guys, they're lost and they want hope. r they're looking swers. >> thompson: how big would you say the white nationalist movement is within the forces? >> (distorted): there's a good amount of them. they keep quiet about it,ly especihen they're in. you can get in a lot of trouble. going onto facebook, i never mentioned the military. >> thompson: how did the group regard combat veterans and service members?te >>

a.c. thompson investigate... w anted to talk to you about what you were doing in charlottesvie last year? >> narrator: who was behind the viont rally? >> there's video of you launching yourself into that crowd. >> you could feel how angry they were, but also how happy they were to be intimidating people like this, and it was just this happy rage. >> we're dowisto die for than. >> narrator: and uncover a network of white supremicists across america. >>g eah we think he's servinin the marines now. >> ...the news orginization propublica... >> narrator: tonight on frontline, the film that led toa of prosecutions- "documenting hate: charlottesville". >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. ank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major supporis provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more informati is available at macfound.org. the ford foundation, workinges with visio

a.c. thompson reports and contributes to frontline. he spoke to our hari sreenivasan about this. >> a.c., this is the second in a series of films that frontline is publishing about this. >> basically back at the end of 2016 we started building a coalition of news rooms that were going to report on hate crimes, acts of bias and bigotry, and track the resurgent white power movement. that's what we've been doing with news rooms across the country, about 160 different organizations. the documentaries are sort of one of the most high-profile products we put out. in that series, but they're part of a broader series. >> last year you took a look at charlottesville and what happened there. let's take a listen and a clip from that documentary. >> jews will not replace us! >> charlottesville, virginia, august 12, 2017. i've been tracking hate crimes since the 2016 presidential election. and i can see that something was happening in this country. the charlottesville rally was supposed to be about a confederate monument. but anyone paying attention