yep, i'm a kkk vip.first let me talk to the locals and see if they know that the cue cku klux klan is still e hood. >> it's a good place to live, a good place to raise kids. about as close to a modern mayberry as you can get. >> would you recommend a black guy like myself buy a house around here? >> sure, sure you'd fit right in i'm sure. >> right in? >> yeah. >> we've heard there's still like a klan presence. has that happened here? >> years ago dawson did have kind of a bad reputation. small town, it's just totally just disappeared. >> okay. >> now there's -- >> it's been over 50 years. >> do you see black people around here ever? >> when i was growing up there wasn't a lot because the kkk's headquarters are like right down the road. i see them down when i work at dairy queen. >> you're the youngest person we've talked to. we've talked to older people in town, and they said the klan hasn't been here for years. >> they aren't open about it like they was in the past. >> what if i was to go down that road

trish: the liberal media is at it again acquitting president trump with a kkk member.rotecting our elections. ing this is integral to the health of our democracy. of course, he should cop out against voter fraud. what kind of i consult is it to -- kind of insult is it that an msnbc anchor would suggest such a ridiculous thing. the left has lost its mind. this is unbelievable. this one is absolutely preposterous. but in the world we live in somehow perhaps it's not. hear me out. peta, you note animal rights group. peta says mill many, like the milk i make my kids drink, milk is now a symbol of white supremacy. "trish regan primetime" begins right now. tonight the president insisting there are bad people in this caravan including ms-13 gang members. my next guest is on the ground with the caravan and he says the president is absolutely right. joining me live from guatemala city, chris farrell. members of the media are insisting the president is trying to employ scare tactics. they say the group is peaceful looking for a better life, these are families. what have you seen

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so the mother's gift to the cause is sending her sons to war, so in the kkk, 400,000 kkk costumes, and not one trust betrayed as the film says. and so women are praised in the film for birthing citizens, and that's how they, that's their route to citizenship, ultimately, and for their silence about racial genocide that is occurring. i will skip some of this stuff about some of the implications of the film for sake of time. but one of the key themes to take away from the film is that whites are victims of black freedom. whites, as victims, particularly of black freedom, of the franchise, and to the extent that the federal government, the carpet baggers from the north, are the agents of implementation of the 14th and 15th amendments, the government is also the enemy of the white man. so that is where these anti-statist themes can exist simultaneously with white christian nationalist themes. and we see this in the tea party. this is a good line. so i will read it to you. blacks are unfit for contracts and doomed to enact the hell of an ark cal war of person against person and the kkk save

it's celebrated by david duke, the kkk leader, and white supremacists and nationalnist. it's resentment towards this nation's racial progress over the last 70 years. so again, just to bring it home for all of you. . . . >> and at the white house having lunch you look across the table to say who's that black guy? i said that the president barack obama. different world? that's a different universe. all that change took place not just in my lifetime but in president trumps lifetime. so keep in mind he has a front row seat as a businessman and a tv personality and now as a politician to see the amazing progress we have made and sacrifice as they strive to achieve equality in the american dream. but yet he talks down the fact when he tells his white audience the blacks have nothing to lose by voting for him and the world according to trump success in america is added to the working man's white class burden that he calls the forgotten man. trump claims those over the age of 65 tell pollsters the country is changing too quickly increasing numbers of black and brown people are u

>> racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. >> and then here he is the very next day, showing his real feelings, saying there's good people on both sides. >> you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. you had people in that group -- excuse me, excuse me, i saw the same pictures as you did. >> it's a pattern because then he doubled down, blaming the media. >> they don't want to report that i spoke out forcefully against hatred, bigotry and violence and strongly condemned the neo-nazis, the white supremacists and the kkk. i openly called for unity, healing and love, and they know it. >> how dare we put his own words on television? and play them back for everybody to hear. i want to bring in now douglas brinkley and alice stuart. good evening. doug, it's really disturbing, it's a disturbing pattern, the president of the united states doesn't seem to be able to learn from his own mistakes. >> well, and

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somehow in her jibes akin to the kkk in the 1920s. what i'm saying your party and the mainstream media has been so irresponsible that there always lot of blame to go around. break right now. president trump just saying that the it in is ready if we need the military at the border. and we may need them. also we have reports of a third caravan being formed in el salvador. we are talk about three care vans. this one coming on the heels of two others. 14,000 people heading straight to our border and the left is telling us we need to be more compassionate and let them in? the former head of the cia in the middle east says there are bad actors in those caravans. state of the art technology, makes it brilliant. the visionary lexus nx. lease the 2019 nx 300 for $339 a month for 36 months. experience amazing, at your lexus dealer. and now you know.ed- jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill proven to both reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease... ...and lower a1c, with diet and exercise

>> racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkkzis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. >> and then here he is the very next day, showing his real feelings, saying there's good people on both sides. >> you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. you had people in that group -- excuse me, excuse me, i saw the same pictures as you did. >> it's a pattern because then he doubled down, blaming the media. >> they don't want to report that i spoke out forcefully against hatred, bigotry and violence and strongly condemned the neo-nazis, the white supremacists and the kkk. i openly called for unity, healing and love, and they know it. >> how dare we put his own words on television? and play them back for everybody to hear. i want to bring in now douglas brinkley and alice stuart. good evening. doug, it's really disturbing, it's a disturbing pattern, the president of the united states doesn't seem to be able to learn from his own mistakes. >> well, and there's

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and when people say, including the president, there are good people along with the kkk too, it makes people scared. and when people want to point out something that is true, which is people who call themselves anti, but those who want to immediately equate with the kkk and say they're equal scares people. with good reason. that's why there's an urgency about bringing ourselves back together as quickly as possible. >> people die for the right. get out and vote. >> you know what else happened, though? from your mom waiting at the counters, from your mom having to witness all those dignities, look where you are now. the man, only two-hour show on prime-time as you like to remind me every 15 seconds. >> the smartest and the best looking. oh, my gosh, we're dressed alike. i just noticed that. it's crazy. >> like it wasn't intentional on your part. >> please, don't flatter yourself. my gosh, your ego is ridiculous. i'm surprised it can fit in the studio. >> who wears the black suit and the black tie, everybody? one of them says let's get after it. >>> this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. yo

a swastika, and what appears to be the letters "kkk" all just days after her new sign went up on her office. >> i was shaken, i was stunned, i was also petrified. because i thought i had been targeted. but by my last name, people can very easily recognize that i'm a muslim. >> reporter: she called san jose police who are investigating what happened just before 6:00 a.m. the surveillance cameras at the office captured a man walking around the lot. at the same time wearing a patriotic shirt that says "usa." >> i'm american, my kids are american. and i'm going to do the business that i was doing. never 30 years i felt the way i'm feeling today. >> reporter: she says the only other time she felt attacked for her religion, after 9/11, a day she says left her shattered. her cousin was a victim who died in the twin towers. >> daily basis, we deal with it, something like that, sometimes it reminds you, bringing back 9/11. what we went through that day, i am going through again. >> reporter: she moved to the united states from bangladesh, eventually becoming a u.s. citizen, an identity she ho

the kkk members don't wear sheets over their face. effect is that people are out of the closet with their misogyny. out of the closest with their racism. do you see that as potentially the most corrosive impact? >> yes, it's really true. i was in the street the other day and someone saw me and saw me with my haircut and said you look like a dike. and my whole career as a gay woman -- >> no one would ever come up to you and say something to your face but the culture now is that this is what's happening. >> he has degraded the culture more impactfully, more quickly than any person in the history of this country. >> i agree. >> bar none. >> and you think about sitting in the oval office, office that winston churchill and franklin roosevelt would meet in, planning the fall of nazism and victory for world war ii or barack obama meditating before the raid on bin laden or ronald reagan or john kennedy during the missile crisis and you think about these people sitting around plotting how to insult stormy daniels? it may be the greatest single

when he fought the kkk. it was very useful on the hustings to be able to say that later. that was against the grain. the client as we know the quite useful new book. they had defeated african-americans and proceeded to attack jews and catholics but with less violence. and in the midwest. a deed in indiana. their own state it flourished alarmingly. he was constantly in a position to it. next question. >> one more question. where they appointed to any public office in his career. and then i have to ask i didn't hear it either. he have never held an elected office. as to the mission around the world. knowing the people in the places that america was can have to deal with. you will be out of the country as the midterm election approaches. this is a waste of political opportunity. you would've thought so. but he arrived in time with a radio address to the nation the largest ever in terms of volume of his listeners. and then a remarkable book. so that when the election happened the republican party benefited from the perception that he was speaking for the heart and soul of his

morale never assigned a equivalence among our leaders, y these white supremacists, these kkk, these neo-nazise is good people what the hell is happening to us? this hate will continue to grow. according to a recent study by the american psychological association, stress and america reported by what they call people is the worst mental health of any generation surveyed. our children are listening. 27% rate their mental health fair or poor. the single greatest fear of people between the ages of 15 and 25 is being shot in a school. that is a fact. silence is complicity. we will not be silent. we will not be complicit. we must speak out. urge our republican colleagues to speak out as well. this has to stop. [applause] it has to stop. there used to be a basic bargain in america that democrats and republicans ascribed to. the bargain built the middle class abby talks about. the bargain was, if you contribute to the wealthy, the enterprise you work with, you share the benefits. that bargain has been broken, folks. number,le class isn't a it is a value set. it is about being able to own your own home

we never had a moral equivalent to say the white supremacist or the kkk or the neo-nazis what the hellhappening to us? and this hate will continue to grow. our children are listening and watching according to a recent study by the american psychological association stress from generations the between 15 and 21 years old is the worst mental health of any generation. our children are listening. 27 percent rated mental health fair or poor. the single greatest fear between 15 and 25 is to be shot in school. that's a fact. we will not speak out. it has to stop the democrats and republicans that bargain with the enterprise that you work with the middle-class isn't a number but a value set. to send your kid to a park or to a high school that if they do well they will go on beyond high school and figure out somehow to get them there for your geriatric mom after dad dies hoping that your children never have to take your review. a little bit of peace of mind the middle class is shrinking no longer the wealthiest. ladies and gentlemen, as my dad used to say after everything died he was a gentle m

kkk --tionals of equals white nationalism equals kkk. that is my comment this morning. host: thank you. we are getting reaction from washington, including members of congress. mike doyle, democrat whose district includes squirrel hill, we know at this point the shooter was motivated by hate and anti-semitism. when he defined ways to keep such hate from festering in our society. there are steps congress can and should take to reduce gun violence and make this hate less deadly. soon we will need to come together to heal and ensure this does not happen again. turning us on the phone is promised and oil. thank you for being with us. guest: good morning. host: what steps can congress do that could potentially prevent this kind of hate crime? guest: we know we cannot legislate against hate, but when i said we can make hate less deadly, this gentleman who committed this heinous act had in ar-15 with him. these are weapons designed to do one thing, kill lots of people quickly. that is what he is able to do with that particular weapon. we have them in the hands of civilians. und

who was in the selma to montgomery march transporting workers back and forth and was killed by the kkk. there is plenty of examples in an organization but today i would say that the antiracism work being trained in antiracism work and going and talking toci communities about this is one of the best ways to approach it. >> it might get better. we've relied too much on the idea that at some point maybe we are already there in the democracy we know it is run by thasmall elite which tends to be rich and with more people becomingng franchised. in the majority honestly in places like the south there were literally hundreds for every one white person. the majority of members rarely translate to political or social or cultural power without a fight. >> if you haven't voted already, i hope you do and we would like to see the chapter on demographics that can shift in a country or state that if people don't turn out to vote if they don't exercise that demographic shift is irrelevant and worries me when we trust to do the work. this is not an equation that has ever happened in the united states. s

don't live in a perfect society today but i wouldn't trade the situation of an american and when the kkk was much stronger than it is today with complete racial segregation of the south. both of these stories are correct you can talk about the real injustices and they're stilll work to do but there is that struggle to make things better. >>nk this speaks to those that stereo typically talk about the donald trump i voters for those that were left out by the national narratives. what do you have to offer them? asking them to take a hit around being african-american or to be a part of this identity that and fundamentally they feel that it doesn't include them. what ^-caret are you offering? . >> with black livesesma matter t is a reality of police violence especially in american cities that's a problem and needs to be addressed with the behavior of police departments around the country but it's not either/or. and with integrated american identity. entity both of them at the samehe time. and the identity politics on the right that our legitimate in my view and also things that need to be add

he used those, what we call the kkk or enforcement clauses. in fact to shut down the klan in south carolina in the 1870's. some $3 million had been invested in the south to observe elections. people put on trial the early part of reconstruction. that's not a very good answer, but yes. there were debates, but i think that the idealism that came out of the civil war and seeing what had happened from the reports in the north made them a huge number of people were killed. how many people would run for state legislator today? i'm not sure of the number, but at least seven state legislators were murdered. can you imagine -- these were all on one side -- what it meant -- the bravery -- you know, to be a state legislator at that time as a republican in the south? and that really angered people in the north to see this. it was not the same as the civil rights movement where they were actually -- you could see what was going on in terms of the violence. there were reports and things of it. go ahead, sorry. >> you had a fascinating tease about john bingh

to the assassination of lincoln or whether it's comparing our president to adolph hit letter or the kkk1920s. what's your thought on this? >> this is pretty ridiculous. i like john, i like his books. it was heartbreaking to see this. this is click bait. this is fake news. it's fake history. and it's hysteria. abraham lincoln was assassinated. there was an attempt on the vice president and miss of the cabinet. you can't compare that to the 10 packages, nobody died, no member of government except except the congresswoman from california. trish: around presidential historian. you have the context around this. what bothered me is people are trying to in a phoney pseudointellectual way manipulate history for their own particular politics. >> it's an insult to your intelligence. donald trump of all people waltz adult in the room. he was calling for unity and said we can't allow this sort of thing in a democracy. and yet you get this kind of -- compare that to the bernie sanders supporter who walked into that baseball field in virginia and started shooting congressmen who were republican senat

suddenly, he becomes, oh, my god, he is the kkk. thought the reaction to him was just way over the top. i was wondering why? what are your thoughts? >> well, kanye west critics have a problem with how he said what he said and who he said it to. his content, when you dissect the content of what he said, what did he say that was so wrong?f even when my brother was talking about his abolishment of thet 13th amendment. there is a component thatpo legalizes slavery for criminals with blacks being disproportionately represented. >> you are wrong. >> calm down. i didn't interrupt you. with blacks being disproportionately incarcerated. i had a brother-in-law that served years in prison. he said it is turning into institutionalized slavery. they don't like that kanye west is his own man. whatever you say he is not qualified to speak on, he is qualified to have his own opinion. he doesn't try to be a condoleezza rice or anybody but kanye west. i don't like all the people that criticize the fact that he went up there. >> you are ignoring what

to cnn, especially to, trump is ebola and the kkk combined.why the c in cnn stands for cartoon. not a believer the point but we know how easy the press was under obama event has he actually targeted journalists. let's watch that clip again. >> cnn's ratings would be in the toilet without donald trump. >> you know that's not true. you are playing for laughs. >> greg: i hope that shows up on reliable sources. >> dana: it's so true. >> greg: let's go with you. ted's point. i called him ted because we know each other well. it's not just an obsession. it's a profitable one. >> dana: i don't understand why brian stelter wouldn't just say you bet your life. you're absolutely right. people are engaged and they want to watch and they can't get enough. they don't want to watch other shows. they only want to watch us. we are bringing you the story. why wouldn't he say that? >> greg: that was an uncomfortable moment, juan. >> dana: i just spilled on my water. >> juan: you just wanted to express yourself. >> dana: very excited. >> juan: you speak with your

unanimous statement that was voted on at the rnc after charlottesville that condemned all actions by kkkwhat's the goal? >> have these young people who are in college republican clubs and then get into local politics and work their way up, covertly and secretly and try to influence the republican party and turn it towards their ideals which is essentially to only have whites emigrate into this country. >> to get into congress, become governors, become senators, and then mainstream this discussion. it's remarkable. please watch. >> do you remember years and years george bush directly asked about david duke? i don't want his vote. i don't want that support. >> remarkable. anna, thank you for your great reporting on this. >>> coming up next -- >> you got to do it. i hear this -- not because the story is what it is but -- >> because i'm canadian. marijuana is now legal in canada. the entire country. what that means for the budding industry -- >> how clever. >> in this country. you're watching "velshi & ruhle" live on msnbc. on our car insurance when we switched to geico. this is how it made

remember when i showed rachel maddow comparing trump's voter fraud threat to the kkk in the 1920s, and i showed you how msnbc and "the new york times" compared trump to adolf hitler? all of these his or call comparisons are grossly exaggerated, and they are highly manipulated all in an effort to instill fear in the american public. i have a word to the wise tonight to the left and to the mainstream media, try to get creative, would ya? because the same old same old is getting a little boring. joining me right now, media reporter for the hill, joe concha. it seems like they have the same theme over and over and over again, and they've been doing this, what, since the 1980s. >> yeah. and when you say something over and over again, trish, it tends to lose something called impact. and, look, i've texted at 3:30 in the morning, and you're welcome to anybody who got to experience that poetry. that was a long time ago, before wife and kids. [laughter] in 2017 joe scarborough, who isn't a doctor but plays one on tv the, he claimed trump was in the early stages of dementia. my question is this,

>> the antecedents to trump are, well, the kkk, the america first movement is an antecedent to trump.references it. is anroughout -- nixon antecedent to trump. he slashed social spending to increase crime. .o nixon amy: we will continue the conversation after the broadcast and posted under web exclusives .t democracynow.org jason stanley, author of "how fascism works: the politics of us and them." democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!]

he was working as a pizza delivery man, he was employed driving around a van that had nooses and kkk references outside the van and delivering pizza to people's homes? >> reporter: yeah. i didn't get it either. apparently he was a very good employee. i'm standing in front of the pizza place. they made him park the van around the back. he could only deliver at night. the manager, and you'll hear her again talk about this guy. it is like jekyll and hyde. what came out of his mouth was pure venom. but at the same time he was a good pizza delivery guy. >> anti-gay, anti-black, anti-hispanic, anti-jewish. he told me more than once i like you as a manager but i hate you for being a lesbian. and if i had complete autonomy, you and all these other people would be eradicated. plain and simple. i was deformed and god made me with a deformity. >> reporter: was he threatening to you? >> no. he really wasn't. >> reporter: and yet he left good terms after they called him a great employee. this guy's social media as we've been reporting is just awful. even tweeting and posting things right up until

slaughtered -- slaughtered jews in the pittsburgh synagogue is the more traditional, neo-nazi hard-core kkk supremacist who sees donald trump not as an ally, but as a tool of the jews & his own. i think he is more on the fringes of american political life. so i think the attempt to try and blame trump or trump's rhetoric for this attack is a much harder case to make than for the pipe bomber, who clearly was motivated by trump's enemy list. nonetheless, once you start creating this atmosphere in a country where scapegoating becomes the norm and where you start encouraging people to look at marginalized and vulnerable minorities as the source of teacheses, history violence against those groups are the inevitable outcome. so i think it would be a mistake -- i would be personally cautious to draw too many lessons about the synagogue shooter. he seems to be a very familiar kind of outlier in american history. i nonetheless do think the climate, not just in the u.s. but throughout the west and democracies generally, has become one where these kinds of -- this kind of rage against marginalized gro

he was working as a pizza delivery man, he was employed driving around a van that had nooses and kkk references outside the van and delivering pizza to people's homes? >> reporter: yeah. i didn't get it either. apparently he was a very good employee. i'm standing in front of the pizza place. they made him park the van around the back. he could only deliver at night. the manager, and you'll hear her again talk about this guy. it is like jekyll and hyde. what came out of his mouth was pure venom. but at the same time he was a good pizza delivery guy. >> anti-gay, anti-black, anti-hispanic, anti-jewish. he told me more than once i like you as a manager but i hate you for being a lesbian. and if i had complete autonomy, you and all these other people would be eradicated. plain and simple. i was deformed and god made me with a deformity. >> reporter: was he threatening to you? >> no. he really wasn't. >> reporter: and yet he lowest good terms after they called him a great employee. this guy's social media as we've been reporting is just awful. even tweeting and posting things right up unt

the doctor discovered a swastika and what appears to be the letters kkk in her parking lot. it happened three days after she put up a sign in her office at camden and union. she feels she was targeted because of her name. >> i was stunned. i was shaken. i was also petrified. >> the counsel on american-islamic relations says there has been an uptick in crimes during the last two years. >>> and we're learning more about the limo company behind that horrific crash in upstate new york that claimed the lives of 20 people. new york state police are now saying that the driver should have never been behind the wheel and that limo should have never been on the road. meanwhile, police recovered the air bag controlled module, sort of a black box for the limo, and investigators hope that it will tell them whether the driver braked just before impact. nbc's tom costello reports. >> reporter: state police say they have launched a criminal investigation into how 20 people died in that horrific crash on saturday. the focus now on the limo company and its driver. police confirm, the stretch

it was revealed he had been in the kkk and the senate thought, whoa, we should have brought him before the committee and asked him about that. it's not until 1955 that it's regular in a nominees appear. since 1987 that is a television spectacle. which was really the last spectacle of the watergate hearings. but now we have this notion ever since the merrick garland situation when mitch mcconnell said the american people will decide our next justice, that's not how it's set up. it's not an elected position. it's an appointment for life that's meant to be insulated from public opinion. i think it's quite troubling to imagine that twitter is decide who go will hold the next seat on the supreme court. >> one of the themes in your work, and einstein once said it, is that in american democracy there seems to be a gyroscope just when it's tipping one way it knows how to right itself. do you think we have in our history, in our dna in going forward the mechanisms to right ourselves when we seem to become so divided? >> i do. i do. whether that will happen, i don't know. and i work pretty hard

they also had a little illustration next to the text, a guy in a hood with the initials "kkk" written on the hood. "the washington post" a few years ago dug up the coverage from the topeka state journal at the time of that leaflet drop, the way the topeka state journal covered it that year in 1922 was with this headline, quote, scared away from the polls. oklahoma city august 1, quote, following the dropping of cards from airplanes over the negro districts, negro voting has been light up to noon in today's primary. it's not like we don't have a rich history of this, right? a rich and effective history of this as a country, targeting specific voters and specific communities, that if they dared turned out to vote, they're going to maybe get themselves in trouble. maybe the law will come down on them. it's very threatening. it's very dangerous. you could find yourself in prison. we have a long history of this, but this is the time of year when we see it. 'tis the season. we're also now seeing a late-breaking swerve from the republican party and from the white house in particular on polic

among young white voters that some of the rhetoric from the past that we've seen in groups like the kkkthere are larger ideas have found themselves in the mainstream thanks to president trump, which they themselves will tell you has inspired and encouraged them to move forward with their ideas, and that's why you see them reaching out on university campuses that you would not even expect some of these ideas to gain traction like nyu in new york city and san diego and southern california. that's, in part, why donald trump won the majority of white millennials in 2016, specifically young men and continues to poll well with those groups. >> you just heard the head of identity europa there tie the president's make america great again agenda to his goals. i want to play just a few of the controversial things that president trump has said about race. >> when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until can figu

and whether or not he would disavow duke and the kkk and sort of backed away from that. the other thing to remember is he has a long history of race baiting. going back to the 1980s. during the central park jogger case. he jumped into the middle of that. he took out big page ads in "the new york times," sensationalizing race to insert himself in a high-profile moment and make hay off it by sensationalizing race and being a racist. i think now he's going into the midterms. he understands that the base that got him elected in 2016 is still the base he needs now. and that is precodominantly whi, predominantly male and non-college educated and doing racist dog whistles to it appeal to them. >> it's not a coincidence this comes as he doubles down on the hard-line immigration rhetoric. the embracing of the word nationalist, here, he's making the closing argument of the republican midterm strategy, this caravan. and coming up toward america. and trying to fortify the borders and sending the military down there and keeping the other out. and that is how, why he's grabbing nation

but they did point me to a statement that they released after charlottesville, condemning the kkk, neo-nazi, any like-minded group. so they have come out strong. but i think they really should be concerned about this, because something is shifting in america. and it has been shifting for several years, really since 2008, this alternative right has been burgeoning and growing and really sweeping up a lot of mostly young men, also young women in their early 20s now, late teens, early 20s. i talked to richard spencer for this story. he's now in his late 30s, but he's the one who coined alt-right. he was involved or influential to the founder of identity europa. he pushed nathan domingo, an army vet, who suffered from ptsd in jail, he joined a white prison gang and found david duke's books and that's sort of what put him on this path. so that's the roots of this group. and richard spencer was right there at the beginning, as soon as nate domingo got out of jail, he teamed up with richard spencer who told him, hey, you should look at these identarians in yooump. this is that cool thing, it's lik

liberty game, talking about confederate flags and suggesting they're good people marching with the kkkeft out to be the really intolerant ones, not the racists. that's what maga is about. days before all of the sensitivities and accommodations hard fought in our culture to protect certain people and reinforce certain expectations of decency. that's what make america great again is about, not forward. back. and trump will lie even when the truth is a better story because that's who he is, and because it works. so here's a question for you. not what it is or why it is. it's what will be done about it? elections are about what the people want. this is the time to test. we'll see where the people are. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight with don lemon" starts right now. >> look at that. you're done 10:00 p.m. on the nose. sometimes i'm waiting for you like, come on, chris, move it along. >> in truth, i apologize for that. >> no, i don't care. i'm joking. >> i don't want to deliver to you late. it's without question the most important aspect of the production of my show is being on time fo

you know, a couple of decades ago when i was studying these movements, you actually had to go to a kkksomeone's property or, you know, know somebody within these movements and have face-to-face interaction. nowadays people can come across this extremist propaganda and anti-government conspiracy theories in the comfort of their own home, privacy of their own home, and have anonymity. >> if you were asked to write had report today, would you change anything in it? >> i would not change anything. mine, obviously, we have had, you know, several attacks, you know, auto yeyear after year. i guess i would have a lot more examples to cite to back up the analysis. >> darrell johnson, i will leave it there. thanks for coming in. up ahead, a heated battle over civility. one of the most hotly contested senate races in the country. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ get mentally prepared... could listening to audible bring out your best? i want you to own it. go after that goal. the most inspiring stories, fitness, wellness and more. download audible and listen for a change. the full value oft fwyour new

the original projected an image of the kkk's david duke.t was a call to action for people of trump's ilk. therefore, i couldn't help but wonder isn't the fact i've never fully believed trump could be number 45 a sign that my stubbornness and naivete kept me from seeing america for what it truly is? who wrote this? i did. >> so my question as i read that section of the book, so what is america truly? >> i think america has a very complicated history and past and i think we tend to kind of brush a lot of the inequalities, whether it's racial, class, or gender under the rug, we're so great and rah-rah-rah and do the fourth of july and all the holiday stuff. there's a lot of ugliness in our past that we need to address. that's why things are the way they are currently. so i think america is a great idea that we haven't quite figured out yet how to execute in a way that i think will be representative for everyone that lives here. >> did writing this book help you reconcile your ambivalence around feminism? >> that's a great question. here's what