who successfully sued white supremacist organizers of the deadly 2017 unite the right rally in charlottesville. plus, we speak to former buffalo mayoral candidate india walton. >> if we are going to begin to heal as a country and really beat back what is systemic racism that caes these extremist ideas and homegrown terrorists, our people have been terrorized for generations under this country, our existence in this country comes from a place of tear. amy: and we look at the fight for reproductive rights as oklahoma lawmakers approved the most sweeping abortion ban in the country. we will speak to the nation magazine a portion abortion -- access correspondent amy littlefield. >> with this total abortion ban, i thin oklahoma is really beming harbinger of what we're going to see across huge regions of this country and coming weeks andonths when entire regions go dark in terms of abortion access. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the united states senate has approved a $40 billion aid package for ukraine, prom

we've heard the chants, you will not replace us in charlottesville virginia . i wasn't going to run as the senator knows for president but when i saw those people coming out of the woods and the fields in virginia, in charlottesville carrying torches, shouting you will not replace us helped by white supremacists and carrying nazi banners, that's when i said no. number and i honest to god those who knew me i wasn't going to run for certain. but i was going to be darned if i was going to let that get going. look, we've seen the mass shootings incharleston south carolina , pittsburgh. last year in atlanta, this week in dallas texas and now in buffalo. buffalo new york. white supremacy is apoison . it's a poison running through. it really is. [applause] running through our body politic and it's been allowed to fester and grow right infront of our eyes . no more. we need to's say as clearly and forcibly as we can at the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. none. and look, it's fair for us to say nothing is complicity. silence is complicity. we cannot

so what we're seeing nearly five years after unite the right is that what happened in charlottesvilletactics that they used. >> amy, look at this and say this shooter acted alone but you say it's wrong to look at this as an isolated matter. why? >> there is a cycle of violence in which each attack is used to inspire the next. we call the shooters lone wolves but they meet and connect and inspire each other to action on line. you see that through the planning of the violence through social media, the ways in which this shooter's diatribe reflected so many prior die tribes of the extremists, the connections between attacks in which charlottesville seemingly inspired pittsburgh which seemingly inspired christchurch, po poway, el paso. i think that's concerning when the conspiracies that fuel the shooters are seeping into the mainstream of our politics and society in a way that normalizes this extremism that felt fringe just five years ago. >> what do you think should happen forward? people feel so exhausted seeing this time and time again in situations like this there were warning signs,

we've heard the chants you will not replace is come in charlottesville, virginia. i was not going to run again for president. when i saw those people coming out of the woods of the fields in virginia, charlottesville carrying torches, shouting you will not replace us, accompanied by white supremacists and caring nazi banners -- carrying -- that's when i said no, no. i honest to god, those who know me, wasn't going to run for certain, i was going to be darned if i is going to let evil when. look, , we've seen the mass shootings in charleston, south carolina, el paso, texas, in pittsburgh. master in atlanta, this week in dallas, texas, and now in buffalo, in buffalo, new york. white supremacy is a poison. it's a poison running -- it really is. [applause] running through our body politic. it's been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more. i mean no more. we need to say is clearly and as hoarsely as we can have the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. [applause] none. [applause] look, the failure of thing that will be complicity.

the president ran on the issue of the soul of this nation, charlottesville. he speaks now of equity and inclusion. he's strengthened civil rights in the d.o.j. strengthened civil rights in other departments in this white house. but where are the teeth when it comes to changing the hate that has been plaguing this nation since the inception of this nation? where is the teeth from the president people are speak approximating on the -- speaking on the summit issue. what bill clinton did, having the race initiative, we want people from all walks of life together to discuss race. is the president looking at that? i have another question -- karine: oh, ok. stop. you know, this is a president that has been very clear about race in this country. when he walked in, he talked about the multiple crises that were facing us as a country. he talked about covid, the economy, climate, and where we are with race. and he's called it a crisis. and he made it a point in his administration what he can do on the federal level to really deal with that in a way that we've not seen b

all of these small spaces have set the stage for huge explosions. >> the battle in charlottesville seem to be over a single statue. and it is a battle that has been repeated in cities across the country. but more than 1500 monuments to the confederacy remain. honoring those who fought and died to keep black america, like my ancestors, in bondage. so i drove down there to learn for myself just how deep these roots are buried. i'm looking for understanding. for something that will make sense in this moment. along the way, i visited monuments. those are that are not so easily removed. artifacts, small enough for some to ignore. landmarks, too big to take down. that reside in our memory, and in our blood. because the fight was always more than just a statue. beautiful morning in frederick ville, virginia. i didn't want to take this journey alone, so i asked my friend, a reporter from the new york times to join me. to help me process what it all means. >> what is going on? or >> good to see you. >> we talked about race in history, how his people came from trinidad. and mine from the slave tr

we saw charlottesville didn't help. saw the las vegas shooting amanda. leban, october 1st fall just a few months later by the parkland shooting on february 14th and rather than turning away. i saw the beginning of this generation stand up take responsibility for their own future but challenge us and every time those students and those activists were travel whether it's a suburbs or rural america or an urban centers. people fall only do they follow but they're registered to vote. only do the register to vote. they began to turn out. so i really decided that i had to do this book now the day after the 2018 midterm election when we we noticed that all jen's ears broke, i mean young young voters broke the historical records of turnout when baby boomers and my generation gen x and when millennials were in their teens and twenties only about 15 or 16 or 17 percent vote in midterm elections. so baby boomers actors millennials 85 out of 100 stayed home and in 2018, we saw twice that number still plenty of room for improvement, but we saw about 34 35 percent of y

fringe white supremacist groups, i would ask you, with are were you when they were marching on charlottesville and chanting you will not replace us. that's what they said, you will not replace us. >> where were you when thousands went into the capitol and where were you during any trump rally where the republican standard bearer goes on and on about undocumented immigrants stealing the 2020 election. parroted by countless maga candidates across the country. and where were you when a white supremacist shot up a walmart, synagogues, a black church in charleston or at a grocery store in buffalo, new york. it would be the easiest thing in the world to denounce something as evil and vile and un-american as replacement theory. to its credit this week the wall street editorial board, politicians and media figures have an obligation to condemn notions as white replacement theory. while that's necessary, it's hardly sufficient and too many maga republicans refuse to do even just that. and last night, tucker carlson did not do that either. he deflected and refused to acknowledge that a clear connection

where were you on the night that thousands of white supremacists marched openly on the streets of charlottesville bearing torches and chanting, you will not replace us? that's what they said -- you will not replace us. where were you when thousands of insurrectionists stormed into the halls of this capitol, waving confederate flags and donning sweat shirts about the holocaust? where have you been during any trump rally, where the republican standard-bearer goes on and on about undocumented immigrants steeling the 2020 election, a message parroted by countless maga republican candidates across the country? and where were you when a white supremacist shot up the walmart in el paso, a synagogue in pittsburgh, spas in atlanta, and a black church in charleston? or at a grocery store in buffalo , new york? it would be the easiest thing in the world to denounce something as evil, vial, and un-american as replacement theory. to its credit, this week "the wall street journal" editorial board acknowledged that, quote, politicians and media figures have an obligation to condemn such conspiratorial notions a

it's the same white supremacist conspiracy theory that inspired the neo-nazis to march through charlottesville virginia chanting jews will not replace us. i remember that group. president trump set at the time he wasn't sure that they were out of line. and they've inspired multiple mass shootings including the attack of jewish americans at a pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 when hispanic americans at a walmart in el paso in 2019 and muslims as new zealand mosques in 2019 as well. a conspiracy theory the so-called great replacement theory has been dragged into the mainstream by media personalities like fox tvs tucker carlson. according to "the new york times,"on more than 400 episode, 400 episodes of tucker carlson's news program on fox tv which attracts more viewers than any other show in the history of cable news eluded to the great replacement theory. tucker carlson is a leading ideologue in the white supremacisthe movement. he's even introduced racist terminology into america's conversations like the phrase legacy t americans which referso the idea that immigrants are not real americans. the ph

they tried to do the same thing after charlottesville and january 6th. it doesn't work.y keep trying it meanwhile people keep saying 38%, 37% approve of bidenens performance in office. so i guess they could keep doing this the answer for them is always less freedom for you and me. >> jesse: right. >> less freedom of speech, freedom of assembly. second amendment rights, all of it has to go because joe biden is in political trouble. well, that's just not going to fly. >> jesse: do you think people do feel guilty january 6th. the into this caldron. you own this, you are guilty of association, ultra maga caldron. >> i think people are insulted by it: i think they are insulted by it. it has the exact opposite effect of what perhaps they think it will do. not like a mom in detroit who is choosing between medicine or fuel for her car is going to suddenly say okay, wait a second, this horrific shooting happened in buffalo, i must -- biden must be doing a better job. it doesn't work that way. again, this is -- what else do they have? >> jesse: they have nothing. >> their agenda i

they replacement theory, they are concerned and taking to the streets in places like charlottesville, motivated by this idea that emigrants and jew s and blacks replacing whites. in is to be monitored and shut down the second these words are out there -- it needs to be monitored and shut down the second they words are out there. look behind me, the military execution, this could result in other replicating -- >> how do you stop? >> there is not enough what a trait, this information is out there -- there is not enough monitoring, the information is out there. these companies have technology, key words show up, they need to be identified, someone needs to watch this and shut it down. we will protect the rights to free speech, there is a limit to what you can do and hate crimes is not protected. >> starting off the program, we are interested in your reaction to the murders in buffalo. particularly the role in extremism. the lines are 202-849-8000. the opinion of eugene robinson, buffalo's individuals were killed by white supremacy. he writes political leaders from far right and for level

it's the same white supremacist conspiracy theory that inspired those neo-nazis to march through charlottesville, virginia, chanting jews will not replace us. you remember that group? president trump said at the time he wasn't sure they were out of line. and they've inspired multiple mass shootings, including the attack of jewish americans at a pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, on hispanic americans at a walmart in el paso in 2019, and muslims at two knew -- new zealand moskedz. the so-called replacement theory has been dragged into the mainstream by tv personalities like fox tv's tucker carlson. according to "the new york times," more than 400 episodes of tucker carlson's news program on fox tv have alluded to the great replacement theory. tucker carlson is a leading idealogue in the white supremacist movement. he's even introduced racist terminology into america's conversation, like the phrase, quote, legacy americans, which refers to the idea that immigrants aren't real americans. the phrase was first used on white supremacist forums and websites. tucker carlson is right at home with it. but here

where were you on the night thousands of white supremacists marched openly on the streets of charlottesville, bearing torches and shouting -- and chanting, you will not replace us. that is what they said -- you will not replace us? where were you when thousands of insurrectionists stormed the halls of this capitol, wearing sweatshirts about the holocaust? where have you been during a truck rally where the republican standard barrier goes on and on about undocumented immigrants stealing the 2020 election, a message. it by countless mega can -- maga candidates across the country? and where were you when white supremacist shot up el paso, pittsburgh, charleston, or a grocery store in buffalo, new york? it would be the easiest thing in the world you denounced something as evil and vile and un-american as replacement theory. "the wall street journal" editorial board this week acknowledge that politicians and media figures have an obligation to -- such notions as white replacement theory. but that is hardly efficient and too many maga republicans refused to do even that. and last night, tucker car

live in charlottesville. so we started in early august of 2017 and moving into 2020. so, i think what it really told us was that we have been, all this work we've been doing since the late 90s, we've been, you know, we've been sort of moving to a moment, and what we saw was that the future of historic sites can be a future of the kinds of conversations that this country needs to have. >> yeah. >> and that these sites where the -- has lonnie bunch calls it, the unfinished business of the american revolution -- where we can sit down, we can think of ways and be the change and be the places where these conversations can happen. and i also want to say for the future of the field that the field has to diversify or we're just not going to be here. >> yes, yeah. true. >> i think, i think that crystallized for us the importance of what we can do. >> yeah. i'm curious how your organizations define the sentence. >> so, at montpelier, they're absolutely descendants of people whose names we know and they occur in written

. >> biden says the attack in charlottesville led him to declare his candidacy and he was not going to democrats, or civil rights groups across the country that you've been speaking to, do they feel like he does enough to address the sources of this hate, these ugly hateful things that from many places came out from the shadows during the predecessor's time in office? >> charlottesville was an important moment in biden's life, in which he decided he was going to run for president. and while he was running for president, we saw the murder of george floyd, which led to people taking to the streets and activism happening on a new level, on a broad swath of the public, essentially saying that we're not going to stand for this. and that is propelled by his office and it propelled vice president kamala harris into office as well with the activism they were able to use and now looking back on it, there are activists wondering if there is enough that is done. and quite a lot has been done. and when we look at the supreme court nominee. and when we look at the vice presidential nominee. and the

he referenced charlottesville again today. >> when i saw those people coming out of the woods of thenia in charlottesville carrying torches shouting you will not replace us accompanied by white supremacists and carrying nazi banners, that's when i said no. >> and he called saturday's attack venom. >> white supremacy is a poison. it's a poison. it really is. [ applause ] running through our body politic. it's been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more. i mean, no more. we have to refuse to live in a country where black people going about a weekly grocery shopping can be gunned down by weapons of war deployed in a racist cause. we have to refuse to live in a country where fear and lives are packaged for power and for profit. we must all enlist in this great cause of america. >> that wasn't the only goal of biden's speech. the consoler in chief also spoke about the victims of the shooting help. talked about former buffalo police lieutenant aaron salter who worked as a security guard at the tops supermarket and died trying to stop the shooter. he's talked about a

we heard the chance you will not replace us in charlottesville, virginia.tor snows again for president. when i saw those people coming out of the woods of the fields in virginia in charlottesville, carrying torches, shouting, you will not replace us, accompanied by white supremacists and carrying nazi banners, that's when i said no, no, and i honest to god, those who know me, i wasn't going to run for certain. i was going to be darned if i was going to let -- i won't get going. look, we've seen the mass shootings in charleston, south carolina, in pittsburgh. last year in atlanta. this weak in dallas, texas, and now in buffalo. in buffalo, new york. white supremacy is a poison. it's a poison. it really is. running through our body politic. and it's been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more. i mean, no more. we need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. none. look, failure to saying that is going to be complicit. the silence is complicity. it's complicity. we cannot r

work at montpelier live in charlottesville. so we started in early august of 2017 and then moving into you know, 2020. so i think what it what it really? told us was that we had been all of this work we had been doing since the late 90s. we've been you know, we had been sort of building to a moment and that what we saw was that the the future of historic sites can be a future of the kinds of conversations that this country needs to have and that that these sites where the aslani bunch calls it the unfinished business of the american revolution, you know, we can sit down we can think of ways and be the change and be a place where these conversations can. and i also want to say for the future of the field that the field. has to diversify yes, or we're just not going to yep be here. i think i think. crystallized for us the importance of what we can do. i'm curious hope. your organization's define descendants so at montpelier they're absolutely are descendants of people whose names we know and who occur and written documents. of pe

because when white supremacists and neo nazis marched into charlottesville, virginia, and were shouting, we will replace you, meaning all non white americans. that was obviously the reason why president biden rent for presidency because he wanted to fight this ideology, which basically is just in support of a white male, heterosexual of a white male, heterosexual a culture. it is also very interesting to understand. so understand the political context. you feel that republicans use this idea to blame democrats that they just bring in migrants to get re elected or to keep their power. basically saying this country is only here for white americans, not for americans is another skin color. so this is a deeply rooted, highly political issue. thank you for that. i think of is washington bureau chief in us. paul. thank you. on the 75th, i can. the film festival has opened on the french riviera after i cancelled a 2020 addition and a scaled back event last year. it's the 1st time since the pandemic began and is being held without any restrictions, even kisses on the red carpet. i loved it, she

biden referred to in his speech, recalling the white supremacists and neo nazis marching into charlottesville, virginia shouting, we will replace you and with you, they mean non white americans, and that was the very moment when president biden decided to run again also to fades this ideology ideology which was actually founded by a frenchman some 10 years ago. i mainly kind of saying that only whites are christians, have the right kind of to live here and everybody else should be excluded. and this is highly political here in this country. why? because republican use that argument to say that democratic lead, for example, immigrants into the country just only for the reason that they would get reelected . so all in all, a very hateful and a very political ideology, t w's bureau chiefs in the u. s. e. s poll. thank you very much. you coverage to the south of france, where the con film festival opens today. it's the 1st time since the start of the pandemic that the festival is being held without restrictions. dw scottsboro and adrian kennedy have been watching some of the films and offer ah, t

as you all know watching what happened in charlottesville was a major factor in the presidents deciding to run and back in 2017. many of those dark forces still exist today and the president is determined as he was back then and he is determined today to make sure we fight back against both forces of hate and evil and violence so that's whatwe're going to keep doing. that's what were going to continue to call out but we reject hatred and extremism ideology . >> but are there elected officials this administration views as threatening? >> what it's what we're going to continue to do, any one person. it doesn't matter who they are who spews this type of hate, hatred, we are going to call out. we're going to condemn that. i'm not going to speak or call out anyindividual names . i'm saying this is something we need to call out and so this is what the president has been doing and will continue to do that. he saw him say that in his statement over the weekend and now he's going to go to buffalo and visit with the victims that were affected by this violence that we saw on saturday . >> presiden

we can't forget what happened in charlottesville. everyone. it's 5:00 in new york. it was the foundation of now-president biden's candidacy for the white house, the fight for the soul of our nation. sadly, a year and a half into his time in office, it's a fight that is very much being waged. we continue the see hatred and division spewed, key tenets of our democracy threatened, in some cases taken away. and the hope voiced by dr. martin luther king jr. that all americans would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character challenged day after day after day. like this weekend's horrific and tragic mass shooting at the supermarket in buffalo where ten people were killed after the shooter traveled hundreds of miles to a predominantly black neighborhood and opened fire there. buffalo's police commissioner said the suspect planned on continuing his rampage beyond that grocery store and described the shooting as an absolute racist hayes crime, saying this about the shooter, "this is someone who has hate in

in the middle of a spate of white supremist violence, including the lethal attack at the 2017 charlottesville united right rally in the 2018 tree of life synagogue shooting and also after a may classified joint intelligence bulletin from the fbi to the department of homeland security that found, white supremist extremism poses an athlete of lethal violence and white supremists were responsible for 29 homicides from attacks in 2016 more than any other domestic extremist movement. i'm not making this up. people are dying because of these extremists. we are asking the fbi and other agencies to identify the incidents of violence, so that we can track them, find if they're growing or receding. train local law enforcement to recognize them. this bill does not require collecting data on first amendment protected speech at all. no matter how vile that speech may be, it only provides the fbi to provide a report for congress on violent, domestic, terrorist activity, that the fbi is already investigating. in fact, this bill does not provide any new law enforcement for those in the government. it does no

you also remember the rallying cry in charlottesville 2017.not replace us. >> according to a recent poll, when presented with the statement there is a group of people in this country trying to replace native born americans with immigrants who agree with their political views, 32% of americans agreed. on most of the big social platforms hate speech directed at a specific group and related threats of violence are viewed as a violation of terms and service, this week the "washington post" reported that the buffalo shooter set up a chat room on a social media platform before he live streamed and 15 people had joined when the shooting began. a new texas law calls into question if platforms can moderate at all. and in the name of free speech, house bill 20 prohibits companies from blocker, banning user accounts and enables texans to sue the platforms if they believe they have been silenced. it must be up to the supreme court as to whether the law violates tech platform's first amendment rights. is it desirable, is it possible to scrub the, quote, re

coming out of the woods in virginia and charlottesville carrying torches.ompanied by white supremacists and carrying nazi banners. i said, no. those who know me, i wasn't going to run for certain. i was going to be darned. i won't get going. we have seen the mass shootings in charleston, el paso, pittsburgh. last year in atlanta. this week in dallas, texas. now in buffalo. in buffalo, new york. white supremacy is a poison. it's a poison. [ applause ] it really is. running through our body politic. it has been allowed to fester and grow in front of our eyes. no more. i mean, no more. we need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. none. [ applause ] look, failure saying that is going to be complicity. silence is complicity. it's complicity. we cannot remain silent. our nation's strength has come from the idea -- this is going to sound corny but what's the idea of our nation? we are all children of god. life, liberty, universal goods, gifts of god. we didn't get it from the government. we got it

you knew this was i'm sure scott acquired about a couple of properties. charlottesville, steve lee, pretty the radicalization of my down is proceeding apace. barricades appearing all over the central key. my dance, self defense activists seize and control government buildings. confrontations with the police are no mere skirmishes. any more real battles. arranging in the sickly old iron vase, improvised batten's, stones, and stacks of knowledge of color. i talked with journalist roslyn kat cinema kelvin. the events on my down in 2014. he saw what was happening in the intro ki, with his own eyes and is still trying to understand who was interested in keeping my down going. and why. this is why would you go to it or would you mind if you see the one that you, if you didn't get pretty, you almost hooked up with you was really got hope. could be cutting, you know, all that was of, i mean switch neither was, was broadening. if you miss, i'm, is, is really you need to bring money. breadth already has a what between the awesome of short, a serial mr. saw for the says, social is 323, no abuse of th

when he was a 15, charlottesville happened.resident of the united states at that time said there are good people or fine people on both sides. this gives him comfort. that's why joe biden, who i believe is a decent and good man, needs to set a different tone and we need to deal with guns because the tone was set while this guy was a kid. being impressionable. that this is all right to be marching, saying jews will not repraise me. and he saw it from the white house. >> there's something particularly devastating about the fact joe biden said he was impelled to run for president because of charlottesville. and it seems to me that was sincerely and look at what's happening and feels like nothing has changed. the culture is the exact same. >> it does seem, matt and susan, that every time there is an attempt to sort of deal with, particularly deal with domestic terrorism, this white supremacy issue. all of a sudden, there's a whole bunch of republicans in congress to start screaming speech. >> free speech is important. free speech i

he pointed to the vitriol, the racism, the bigotry on display in charlottesville, virginia, back in summering factor for entering the race, to become president. and since then, he's been consistent that we are in the fight for the soul of this country. that we have a path forward that we believe is better, is more equitable, is good for public safety, is good for national security. and we keep expressing that and doing what we can to make that real through our actions and our policies. >> and when he often talks about what happened in charlottesville, he doesn't hesitate to talk about and invoke the former president. i do wonder if the president will answer the calls of those in his own party to name names directly in the remarks? >> you know, i'll let the president speak to that today. he's far better at that than i could be. i will emphasize and others in this administration have not hesitated to point to those who can contribute to polarization, and even what becomes the justification in some quarters for violence that communities should not have disscenter the way we saw saturday. >> a

coming out of the woods, other in virginia in charlottesville, current torches. the company by white-supremacist and kerry, not 2 batters. so i said no. no. and i honest to god. those who know each of, you know, i wasn't going to run for certain. going to be darned if i'm going to let any way. look, we see the mass shootings in. charleston, south carolina, el paso, texas and pittsburgh are. last year in atlanta this week in dallas, texas. and now in buffalo. buffalo, new york. white supremacy is a poise. it's a poison. >> running really is. >> through our body politic. it's been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more. >> i mean, no more. >> we need to say is clearly an forces. we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. fairly for us to not say that saying that. he's going to be complicity. silence is complicity. its complicity. we cannot remain silent. our nation's strength has always come from the idea this can sound corny, but think about it with idea our nation. we're all children of god. all life. liberty. our

those neo-nazis said it in charlottesville. you will not replace us. jews will not replace us.t. and we come back and we say, replacement will take place in the name of fairness. >> right. >> and when it's fair to have black people, fair to have jews, fair to have arabs, fair to have palestinians, fair to have muslims, women, gays, yes, it's going to be fairness. but we have to let them know that it's not a trashing of them. >> mm-hmm. >> it's in the name of a fairness because change is what it is, and we have to make sure it bends toward fairness. neofascism comes along when fairness is given up on and is simply a class of hatred and greed and power, and there's always going to be more right-wing vicious forms of hatred and greed than there's going to be love, justice, and fairness. that's just the way human history is, my brother. >> let's talk about something because you mentioned the president and the vice president, kamala harris and joe biden. and you have an opinion piece in the guardian. you say the biden administration and democrats in power have dropped the ball on ra

it's been referenced a lot, like at charlottesville and these white supremist lies influence others like 51 dead at a new zealand mosque 23 dead at a walmart in el paso or just this weekend in buffalo. ten people dead, killed because they were black. a theory once seen as fringe now alluded to in mainstream conservative circles like fox news. >> democrats plan to change the population of the country. >> reporter: to one of the top republicans in the house congressman elyise stefanik her comments are facing push back from some republicans like liz cheney who calling on others to reject those views and those who hold them. >>> more details are emerging about the suspect in the deadly c church shooting. miguel almaguer reports the heroic act of one victim likely prevented a greater tragedy. >> reporter: investigators say the mass shooting on a taiwanese congregation, the gun-hadman ha sealed some locks with super glue the suspect a u.s. citizen born in china who authorities say sought out the taiwanese group specifically, calling it a politically-motivated hate incident during the attack. 5

you knew this was, i'm sure it's high quality about a property or charlottesville. you knew you were with, here we go, go to somebody, present the radicalization of my down is proceeding apace. barricades appearing all over central key. my dad's self defense activists, seize and control government buildings. confrontations with the police on new mir skirmishes anymore. real battles are ranging in the city streets, protested wheels, iron bars, improvised batten's, stones, and stacks of molotov cocktails. i with, ah, journalists, ruslan cut saba covered the events on my down in 2014. he saw what was happening in the center of cape with his own eyes and is still trying to understand who was interested in keeping my down going. and why this is, why would you go to it, or what would you mind really if you see the one that you knew of a didn't get pretty young of thomas it hooked up. what you really got hope, a cookie cutter. you took him off. it was why me so push neither liberal of me you do you miss i'm is, is really beside me to bring money. bretheren is a what junior

or as one black activist put it about the removal of a confederate monument from the charlottesville courthouse, quote, we are making the hot courthouse look more equitable without reckoning about the institutional racism to takes inside. for you so for your research for the work that you find out the removal of statues served as a quick, cathartic release that substituted for real change? where did you find that these takedowns helped launch more sustained forms of collective action? >> well first, just to challenge something you said at the beginning, i don't think that debates about monuments of the past are particular of a particular feature of the present. i just think they are able to happen when public, because one side is not winning so heavily. so, you know, i quote a letter that frederick douglass wrote to a washington newspaper after, the day after the dedication of the, complaining about its representation of a black man as more like an animal that a man. so people have been spotting the issues in problematic statues since they went up. it's just that those voices have be

in 2017 modern day nazis took to the streets in charlottesville chanting, jews will not replace us.ly is what spurred joe biden to run for president against donald trump calling it a battle for the soul of the nation. president biden referenced charlottesville again as he comforted those families in buffalo and later in the afternoon while attending an event to celebration asian american native hawaiian and pacific islander month, those who also saw upticks in hate crimes he called out to the great replacement theory and those who peddle it. >> we have to not only talk about how we're going to end the hate but who is responsible for generating it? who is responsible for generating it? look, i've said many times, hate can have no safe harbor in america and every person deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. but, you know, you have folks on television stations talking about the replacement theory. scaring the living hell out of people who don't have a whole lot of emotionalable taken advantage of on the internet and other means about how we'll be overtaken. >> biden is alone

after dylan ruth's massacre and charleston in 2015 and after the deadly unite the right rally in charlottesville in 2017, and those also were periods in which debate focused a lot around naming and flags. so you saw a lot of removal of images of confederate battle flags from state flags. but the statue still stayed in place or were even more protected so there was a sort of backlash to protests of the enactment of laws to protect monuments from being moved. so this is something that in quantity is unprecedented, but again, not in human history just in america and also if you want to talk about statute removal, it's it's happened all along. so one of the things that i am happy to have written about in the book is a number of instances in which statues were removed because they offended people with the power to remove them from the halls of congress etc. but also i start with the book with the fact that the very first metal statue put up in america the very first equestrian statue lasted only seven years before we tore it down. it was a statue of george the third put up in 1770 in downtown new yor

as you remember, the rallies in charlottesville was one of the reasons he decided to get into the race in 2020. he reminded people of that today, calling the attack on saturday a murderous, racist rampage and calling it straight forward terrorism. so, this is something that he acknowledged, something that can be done, work that can be done, focused on getting assault weapons off the streets. you and i know, hallie, gun legislation has not made its way through congress, and it's doubtful it will. but he also wanted to focus on the fact that hate and online extremism is so rampant on the internet, and not just in corners of social media or efforts like 4 chan, reddit. but it has infiltrated more popular sites. that's something biden and local leaders feel resolve around in pushing for change. but they're working to connect the dots after what happened here in buffalo. >> alex, before i let you go, there's this domestic terror bill that democrats are trying to quickly get passed. cory bush has just come out and said she would support that. it is notable that that is the kind of bill democ

the strong connection, those people in charlottesville chanting, you know, jews will not replace us.his alleged gunman was a devote anti-semite, in addition to being a racist, there is a through-line here in american politics, no question. >> we have to look at what the ideology of white supremacy teaches, it's conspiracy theoriry, but people like this believe there's jewish people who are purposely sabotaging the white race, bringing immigrants in, bringing migrants in to exterminate their race. when we understand that, it starts to underscore how dangerous so much of the rhetoric is in our politics as we see how closely it veers towards these conversations that are happening, often in the fringes, but increasingly in our mainstream politics. >> right, there is, you know, there's a question about how much should this be regulated, but i think just from a decency perspective, there's an expectation, i think, that our political leaders will step up and say something about this. coming up next for us, we'll focus on this week's midterm primary context, and what they will tell us about

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