especially anders behring breivik, who killed 77 in a gun and bomb attack in norway eight years ago. last month the fbi arrested a coast guard officer in maryland, accusing him of amassing weapons and plotting attacks on members of congress. also inspired by breivik, prosecutors say. security experts say a common thread of white nationalism is fierce opposition to immigration, calling it invasion. in a document the new zealand attacker appears to have posted online, he said he president president trump quote a symbol of renewed white identity, though he was also critical of the president. the president today condemned the attack. >> i think it's a horrible, disgraceful thing and a horrible act. >> do you see today white nationalism as a rising threat around the world? >> i don't really. i think it's a small group of people that have very, very serious problems. >> reporter: ali sufan, a former top fbi counter terror agent who investigated the 9/11 attacks, says right-wing extremism is not

the suspect is said to have been inspired by unders behring breivik the norwegian far right terrorist who killed a total of seventy seven people in two separate attacks in july of two thousand and eleven eight people were killed when breivik set off a car bomb in central oslo hours later he shot and killed sixty nine people at a youth summer camp. were these simply lone wolf attacks. is it correct to describe him as a lone wolf attack or a was there an ideological hinterland since it is being described. well there might be an ideological hinterland it's all very confused i think this is part of the problem here is that it's very difficult to identify you know a specific ideology i mean it's you know these people tend to be psychopaths to begin with you know they're not cystic and so forth and they each find an ideology to kind of suit you know their particular sociopathy so you know this person might have done something like this anyway or might have you know turned to violence for it for other reasons but i don't think that it's a coincidence that the political discussion that we hav