host: cynthia miller-idriss, your thoughts on his comments? guest: what is important to understand here is how much we have underestimated until recently, the portion of domestic extremism and terrorist violence him that is -- violence that is perpetrated by white and that typeoups of testimony is showing that and that type of testimony is showing that clearly. i really think there has been a seat change in how the government is responding to this in the u.s. and abroad. host: cynthia miller-idriss, professor at american university, a senior fellow at the center for analysis of the radical right. you can find that group on the internet at radicalrightanalysis.com. we are having this conversation for about the next half-hour. phone lines split up regionally. in the eastern or central time zones, (202)-748-8000. in the mountain or pacific time zones, (202)-748-8001. we are having this conversation about white supremacy in the u.s. almost two years to the day of the neo-nazi march in darla saville. taking your phone calls. sandy is next in youngs

host: cynthia miller-idriss, your thoughts on his comments?st: what is important to understand here is how much we have underestimated until recently, the portion of domestic extremism and terrorist violence him that is -- violence that is perpetrated by white and that typeoups of testimony is showing that and that type of testimony is showing that clearly. i really think there has been a seat change in how the government is responding to this in the u.s. and abroad. host: cynthia miller-idriss, professor at american university, a senior fellow at the center for analysis of the radical right. you can find that group on the internet at radicalrightanalysis.com. we are having this conversation for about the next half-hour. phone lines split up regionally. in the eastern or central time zones, (202)-748-8000. in the mountain or pacific time zones, (202)-748-8001. we are having this conversation about white supremacy in the u.s. almost two years to the day of the neo-nazi march in darla saville. taking your phone calls. sandy is next in youngstown

coming up on today's washington journal, american university professor cynthia miller-idriss

host: cynthia miller-idriss taking your calls. for central time zones, (202)-748-8000.r mountain or pursue for -- pacific time zones, (202)-748-8001. caller: good morning. argument refute her that white supremacy is the problem in the united states. i would refer someone -- i would refer people to look at heather mcdonnell book, diversity delusion. the numbers just don't add up. trying to hide from you, she talks about the extreme left as being animal-rights activists. she leaves out black lives matter and antifa and purposely leaves out that the dayton, ohio shooter was documented as a far leftist. this is not what they want you to see, the truth. if you look at what miss mcdonnell said, she was on the news the other day. blacks for example represent 50% on actual hate crimes and you have to look at that as a ratio. to put in perspective, look at world war ii. the coast guard lost more people per capita than any other branch of the military. if you look at the ratio of numbers of people in the united states, you look at the number of people by race and ethnicity and yo

host: cynthia miller-idriss joins us for a discussion on white supremacy in the united states. y in the united states. she is a professor here in d.c., a senior's -- a senior fellow at the center for analysis of the radical right. explain some of the terms we hear in this discussion, white supremacy, white nationalists, neo-nazi. what is the difference? guest: everyone is confused about this. no one has a complete agreement on it. your question is well-placed. refer to the far right as a spectrum of ideologies that includes white supremacist extremism but also a range of other kinds of systems oneliefs and