this does not make white supremacist terror groups unique. al-qaeda also recruited members of the egyptian and saudi military's. so there are several warning signs that individuals white nationalists and white supremacist tendencies are in fact serving in our military. recent high profile examples include a marine attending it to thousand 17 charlottesville rally, i coast guard officer arrested with a cachet of weapons and a west point grab espousing hit on social media. a survey showed that a number of troops who had witnessed white supremacist and racial ideology in the military increased from 22 to 36% from 2018 did 2019. like in previous decades, as supremacist activities, backed by events such as charlottesville, have increased in recent years, it is likely increased in the military as well and supremacists in the military put service members safety, recruitment and retention at risk. third, i am concerned that does not take the military -- i'm concerned that the military doesn't take this threat seriously enough. has the tools it needs,

and white supremacist activities. three, that once the region impacts the white nationalism and some christmas is ideology for offering support services that were to de- radicalized active-duty service members and veterans exposed to violent messages. we are to use the powers to fall from a strengths those that were marked the reputation and create work are dedicated u.s. service members. thank you. >> you must looks pretty thank you for your testimony. it's jarring to send a very list. it is very important wake-up call for all of us. you've offered a number of recommendations. i would like to be be used lt. hassan to the extent that we can that there is public information. was that their social media. maybe i should ask this to the next panel actually. let me ask you this. we got the dark web. so individuals can write gravitate towards the dark web two engage in their social media if they are so inclined. how would you recommend this military do the kind of monitoring that is necessary. doctor reed. >> honestly, often

timeseek, a military survey showed the number of troops who have witnessed evidence of white supremacistnd racial ideologies in the 22 tory increased from 2018 two 2019. previous decades, as supremacist activities, marked by events such as charlottesville, have increased in recent years, they likely increased in the military as well. members, safety, recruitment, at risk. i am concerned that it does not take the military -- i'm concerned the military does not take the threat seriously enough, has the tools it needs, or dedicates sufficient resources to the threat. our vetting and protection enterprise lumps white supremacist activity in with gang affiliation rather than treat it as a national security issue on par with foreign terror. urgency and focused trickles down to leaders who do not appear to be sufficiently apprised of the threat or taught how to deal with it. are dealing with it, the military lacks statistics to prove it in part because the absence of a standalone extremism article. this raises hard questions about whether the military law enforcement needs additional authoritie

they consulted with the leaders of the wilmington coup to find out how to do it, now the white supremacist governor who got elected was hope smith and here is a direct quote from him, quote, we can handle the black the way they handled them in wilmington, hanging carcasses, close quote. white republican officials were -- the black vote was what helped put republicans and populists in office under a government that was called fusion at the time and some whites helped the black neighbors escape the white gunmen on the day of the coupe. but that made them targets, during the summer of 1998 white republican who is were prominent and seen as working too closely with black officials received some postcards in the mail and they were called quote remember the six and they had a skull and cross bone and pistol on them, it was a death threat and on the card it said, the 6 men, the 6 leading white republicans of the town, they called them, quote, degenerates sons to have white race and they said, the day was coming when they would pay for putting blacks in office and they would be vanished from the t

tobacco company, he was a very vocal supporter of the white supremacist companion. a champion to white supremacy. in 1913 he delivered it speech and inaugural. it was portrayed as a tribute to the students at the university. it was because of a lot of them fought norbert he made it clear that could beat white supremacy. save the very life of the anglo-saxon rates in the south. and to preserve the pure strains of the anglo-saxon. in his speech he also bragged about raping a black woman when he returned to campus from civil war. he said i forced the negro because upon the streets of this quite spreadsheet publicly insulted another. he said it was his duty. this is an ancient history this is very much alive today. it still stands. >> wilmington happened, you mentioned georgia, and we had tulsa, you comment about the interrelationships of wilmington happenings, and subsequent white supremacist massacres. >> i can only assume the so-called brides would've happened regardless of wilmington. but as i pointed out before, wilmington was unique in that it was this outburst of

they sent back so the nation got this whole story that was basically the talking point of the white supremacists through the white press. now, for a century or more, this was called the race riot. it was a racial massacre. iit is was a planned murder spr. in the nations history on the centuries there have been many race riots and almost all of these were spontaneous outbursts and in many cases that involved real or supposed to contact between a black man and in a we woman. but what was unique and different as it was premeditated and that is a carefully racial revolution planned well in advance and the most successful by an overthrow. life is at such a threat? i think because it was a bold experiment. one of them was an outlier in the 19th century. it was a rarity in the south. first of all it was a majority black city, 56% black. very, very few big cities headed for the majority but more importantly it had a multiracial government they were in the positions of authority. ten of the 26 police officers were black, three of the ten city officers were black, the public magistrates, lawyers, merchant

we have growing white supre supremacist groups in the united states and abroad. this is significant tlets hreat our troops. the armed services know that white supremacy is a problem. it's already been cited. there's been a poll three years in a row that shows between one and four and one in three soldiers are aware -- have encountered white nationalism and racism in the armed forces. here are my to level recommendations to deal with white supremacy in the armed forces. it's very clear that screening measures need strengthening. the military doesn't have a tattoo database to show tattoos. it doesn't monitor social media accounts. it might be wise to see how the active duty troops online activity. a coast guard who has all this horrible stuff online tells us what this could lead to. they fill out questionnaires that ask if they were a member of an organization dedicated to terrorism but this relies on self-reporting and it's unclear how much that self-reporting is verified. there's need for more rigorous enforcement procedures and data. there's little data in the pu

why aren't we doing the same for these white supremacist groups? .. the guideline speaks to the behavior that denies others their basic constitutional rights. any involvement with the group of those views in membership involvement with the group although maybe below the level of a criminal code violation would be a disqualifier for decision by an adjudicator on the continue eligibility of the individual. >> so somebody is a member of the group, one of the white supremacist groups are not eligible to serve. >> they can be disqualified based on their participation, the front and questioner asked questions are you a member of those groups, if they withhold information, they falsified the form which is a criminal federal offense but also goes to royalty and honesty which are guidelines. there's 13 guidelines and they crisscross in many instances where i mentioned, criminal conduct, legions are the main categories, there's other categories, terrorism categories alignment with any of those activities would be an element of an investigative file. i know you'

but i'm reminded of charlottesville where people said in charlottesville it was a gathering of white supremacist it wasn't there was lots of people going this was a white supremacy i'm not i'm not trying to save the people that were that's what ha that's what the white privilege is that is that is the trick box we're down again i think the american people right now are reacting and that's why i think your show is so important to the fact that we saw the f.b.i. be unfair to all americans used to be they were just unfair to martin luther king jr and his family there unfair to all americans we have a problem with the deep state we have a problem with walt law enforcement so when you say you're going to limit my 2nd amendment right none of those people were talked about were arrested for misconduct no no no they weren't in richmond so let's go to chicago and see where they're going to see if there was a group of those people are glad it was i don't but i. haven't gotten through a couple of doors have been folks of a different color that's not that or that well that's your library or not i mean i don

you see these white supremacists coming out from under the rock. he's yet once to condemn white

why aren't we doing this with white supremacist grooupups? -- groups? i believe we do have a policy. your eligibility for services hinged to the federal adjudicative guidelines. one of the guidelines speaks to engaging in behavior that denies other others their basic constitutional rights. so any involvement with a group , that espoused those views and membership and involvement with that group, although may be below the level of a criminal code violation, would be a disqualifier for a decision by an adjudicator on the eligibility of that individual. -- the continued eligibility of that individual. >> if somebody is a member of so you're saying that that group, one of these white supremacist groups, they're not eligible to certain in the u.s. military? >> they could be disqualified based on their participation. the front end questionnaire asks questions are you a member of any of those groups. if they withhold information, they falsified the form which is a criminal offense. it also goes to loyal and honesty which are adjudicative guidelines. there are

promotional video made by a white nationalist group as it spreads its propaganda. >> we saw white supremacistnda distributions last year in 49 states. >> reporter: according to the anti-defamation league's new report, in 2019 white nationalist or supremacist propaganda exploded across the united states. >> the a.d.l. has been tracking extremists for decades and decades, and this year was the highest number of propaganda distributions we have ever seen in our hundred-year history. >> reporter: c.e.o. jonathan green blatt said they found supremacist groups putting up fliers, stickers, banners in public places has more than doubled from just over 1200 in 2018 to more than 2700 in 2019. >> i think this is a charged political environment and they're trying to capitalize on the division that is so pervasive throughout society. you've seen elected officials literally adopting some of their language, using their memes, and injecting their poison into the political conversation. >> reporter: last year the president of the united states attacked progressive congress women of color tweeting, why don't t

going to have this purity test, right, in the democratic party right now, when we clearly have a white supremacist in the white house that won't serve us and primaries are have you have debates and conversation and decide to choose the best candidate for the job. i thisnk this discussion we should be but after supertuesday i want us to talk about one thing which is getting donald trump out of the white house. >> do you believe that will end?

system and in particular governor the governor at the time james vardaman who is an unapologetic white supremacist actually runs on a campaign of white supremacy. believes that the problem with comic leasing was not really the sort of. human rights abuse that it was but rather that he saw it as sort of lining the pockets of the plantation class that he was a white supremacist populist and believed that this sort of state run plantation style prison would instead be a way of sort of socializing african-americans to their place which he saw as. manual labor the reform that led to the establishment of parchment was also white supremacist in its intent. as i mentioned james james martin is the person who established. parchment and he used to actually incarcerated people on the grounds of parchment with bloodhounds for sport so if you think about that kind of context in which this place is born there's really no segregating white supremacy. an issue with. just the timeline of so there were about 4 or 5 it's within 3 or 4 days between december 29th and jane where 2nd either on january 2nd in the o.c. is

online white supremacists praised the president's comments.ook innocuous, but there's a website that leads you to the true hate-filled intentions of the group. the messages have shown up in banners being dropped in public places to stickers outside a politician's office to posters on college campuses. last year we visited chatman university in orange county, california after white nationalist stickers were paes pasted over school fliers about an education project. >> they're flying all over the country, doing this on college campuses, really focus on college campuses. >> reporter: associate professor dr. peter simi has studied hate groups for decades, living with members of the groups to get deeper insight. he says the groups are working to intimidate groups of people they hate and entice like minded people to join their ranks. >> right turn. >> reporter: patriot front is one of the groups spreading large amounts of propaganda. at times its members come out from behind their computer keyboards and onto the streets with their hate-filled messag

manual labor the reform that led to the establishment of parchment was also white supremacist in its intent. as i mentioned james james martin is the person who established. parchment and he's actually incarcerated people on the grounds of parchment with bloodhounds for sport so if you think about that kind of context in which this place is born there's really no segregating white supremacy. an issue with. the timeline of so there were about 4 or 5 it's within 3 or 4 days between december 29th and jane where 2nd either on january 2nd in the o.c. issued a statement stating that everything was under control however on january 3rd 2 more people died as a result of the incidents have occurred with. one of the indio see it was still a tease throughout the state we did a timeline breakdown of everything that was occurring once we did that time last week we deployed the article on twitter facebook all of our platforms and certainly it began to go really viral we posted a video image of that was sent of several mean being housed in unit 32 of parchment unit 32 of question has been condemned

but i'm reminded of charlottesville where people said in charlottesville it was a gathering of white supremacist it wasn't there was lots of people on the side of the white supremacy i'm not trying to say that because that's where that's what that's what the white privilege is is that is the trick box we're down again i think the american way they're unfair to all americans we have a problem with the deep state we have a problem with want law enforcement so when you say you're going to limit my 2nd amendment right none of those people were talked about were arrested for misconduct no no no they weren't in richmond so let's go to chicago and see where they're going so if there was any group of those people are glad it was nobody ever got in through the capitol doors had folks of a different color that's not right out of that well that's your library or not you know i don't really i don't know if i'm. going to say i dare you because i am going to actually i don't because i don't want to see anybody getting forgotten who goes to the mess that we're going to the next thing all right we are here. by

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i've threat history white supremacists have espoused to the detriment of many others of their race andthnicity religion point of national origin or family background. as we all know white supremacy can lead to a tragedy such as genocide of native americans the holocaust slavery lynching segregation and a whole host of other horrors. we successfully fought back against some of these s terrors the loss that the hate crime matthew shepard hate crimes prevention act yet wesh can and should do more. we must be ever vigilant. to begin naacp strongly supports a bipartisan bicameral national opposition to hate assaults and threat to equalityio act. this important legislation addresses the problems of underreporting to the fbi under the hatend crimes citizens accet allows courts to require the defendant participate in educational programs for community services as a condition of supervised release. we must also address the problems associated with on line hate yet i'm quick to note a word of caution. the hate speech and first amendment rights of free speech is extremely narrow. the stronglyth e

delivered it right and so and the issue and the question to him to him playing footsie with white supremacists you know even paletta fact has fact checked this notion that he. you know we keep saying he hasn't denounced david duke he hasn't announced the spencer guy he hasn't announced people in the. political is that he actually has announced an even 10 you know decades of bad in you but in a strange but that's about a decade and decades decade i want to ask this question sincerely dee and i don't mean to interrupt you but i think the bigger thing is the calm in particular in charlottesville that there are very fine people on both sides you know 1st of all i will say that i think that that was an impala to think i don't think that he i don't think it made any sense but if you but if the idea is that and this will outrage people and it will probably outrage my sisters on this panel but if you're going to say that there were that there were there were people on the wrong side of that issue who were there because they didn't want confederate statues to be down to be torn down so there were some

thee got to get a hold on white supremacist violence. we must pressure the federal government to devise a strategic plan to combat white supremacy and mystic terror. today, we can focus on mr. should fear. ir.shaf he was the only survivor known to scale mount kilimanjaro. a feet he accomplished -- a feat by keeping in mind what his father told him which was never give up. we are honored by mr. shapiro's presence. we are honored to have you. congratulations on your achievement. we look forward to your testimony. we are fortunate to have brad orsini. the national security advisor for the secure community network and the former director of community security for the jewish federation of greater pittsburgh i want to thank representative doyle for putting us in touch with him and we look forward to his testimony. welcome dr. edna friedberg who is a historian the united states holocaust memorial museum. jonathan greenblatt is the chief executive officer for the antidefamation league. hillary shelton is the director of the washington bureau and

not part of his base in part because he has a race issue in particular playing footsie with white supremacist is not a good way. it sort of builds your to right and expand your thinking that a good step for the president to take i mean if you think you're not going to be is that enough no i mean you cut me alice johnson i'm sure has a transformative experience under this presidency but i like that is a fact to dana's point however al is johnson is a person she is not everybody and i think when you think about what other things that people care about in addition to say criminal justice reform they also care about health care they also care about what people see as sort of some ethical lapses in the way we do immigration enforcement so people care about a lot of things and if you looked at the black women's roundtable one of the things that they found that black women cared about was racism and sort of this trend what they see as going back to the bad old days right where we were not even 40 and 50 years ago so there's more on the table than just being able to point to that one person in the ga

get a hold on rising white supremacist violence and gun violence. we must continue to pressure the federal government, as we have been doing, and create a plan to battle white supremacy and domestic terrorism. safirwe can focus on mr. west dear, that 82 years old, he became the only holocaust survivor known ever to skilled mount kilimanjaro. the feet he accomplished by keeping the words in mind of his father that he spoke to him, never give up. but you back to you. honored you and we are to have you. congratulations on your recent achievement. we look forward to your testimony. we are also fortunate to have , he is former director of community security for the jewish federation and writer pittsburgh. resident --ank representative doyle and we look forward to his testimony. he may be able to join us later. edna.o welcome dr. jonathan green plant is the chief executive officer for the anti-defamation league and hilary shelton is the director and senior vice president for advocacy and policy for the national association for the advancement of colored p

they're not all coming from white supremacists or white nationalist they're also coming from street attacks york. by young african-americans they're coming from black hebrews what seems to be constant is the sense that there's a copycat phenomenon now it's become sort of more involved. to go after jews who are right that the fireball on the streets. back in training heights grayness friends they will back down they trust that you hate this stronger in the hatred of their it tempers. tomatoes could be going as red gold the country soil is fertile but many of ghana's tomato factories are standing idle and evermore farmers are giving up their land. benedicta everything is a tomato farmer into badon and ghana central farming region. she grows tomatoes on about i think there of land but even though the harvests are good she's barely getting by. will they be asked we've had to buy water every day for about one and a half months that'll continue until the rainy season starts we have lots of problems that's why it's so hard to survive in ghana at the moment. because all of the domestic tomato proce

>> the reme cases are by and large involving white supremacists and neo nazi groups to date. what we see is a trend that that activity is rising. what we also see, it's dynamic in that you have organized groups, some of them to answer the core of your questions, have overseas connections with foreign groups of the same ideology. others are purely domestic and beyond that, part of the groups that follow them on-line and act out as lone actors. we encompass all of that. it is disturbing when you see people who are part of supposedly domestic groups, who are training overseas, and domestic groups that are planning actions that, if they were doing the same action on behalf of isis or al qaeda, would be squarely within the terrorism statutes, even though those actions are political driven and using violence and the fear of violence, are not considered terrorism under the statutes as they stand. >> do you think that we can seriously take on this fight against anti-semitism without interesting fto designations for global neo nazi organizationses? >> i don't understand why we're tort

the group is able to unintentionally shred this portrait of an arch white supremacist.ollege at yale was renamed a couple years ago. it definitely went off it was a sophisticated device it was powerful at first they issued a communiquc using the name of the army resistance unit and they always had a communiquc after one of their actions and they used a variety of different names so read guerrilla resistance, armed revolutionary unit, that was for two reasons i think to try to throw off the authorities to make them think there were multiple groups but it was also to as a peach of abject prop to suggest there is a bigger movement out there to the general public. and it was only through the meticulous work of the fbi, lab down in quantico that they were able to figure out that they picked up the scraps from all these bombs and eventually figured out there was a signature. i had to learn more than i ever want to know about explosives in writing this book. bomb makers have signatures and they figured out the fbi was able to figure out that basically one person had made all t

about signification it's all about subtlety and about giving a nod to people who do have those white supremacist views that were on your side well of course in fact it was the blairite and the blair and labor body the broadly in the 20 or 7 act gordon brown the labor prime minister brought in legislation that allows deportation of people of color in the 1st place so it was a labor prime minister in 1945 clement attlee who described the west indian people people come from the colonies as an incursion so there's a long history of the labor party being complicit with tacit racism so i always want to get straight to the also and just tell me about the likely role of why it has something to do with 919 and how it tells us something in 22 went absolutely the black peril is based on a very real history of race riots that was called race riots that took place 100 years ago in 1900 from liverpool to glasgow cardiff south shields whole areas that i didn't expect enough black people to even have a race riot in my history book what's interesting to me about this moment in 2020 and how it relates to the. 100

if you like black and brown washing was still empirically the most racist in the phobic and white supremacist cabinet that we've ever had in this country again the government would deny that never said that you said but as to administrations it was in venice to resume not boris johnson took on an old style of course and you have to i mean this might seem quite tender gentle here but what the klu klux klan where hoods they don't walk around with a badge saying a member of the klu klux klan and this is all about signification it's all about subtlety and about giving a nod to people who do have those white supremacist views that were on your side well of course in fact it was the blairite and the blair labor body the broadly in the 20 or 7 act gordon brown the labor prime minister brought in legislation that allows deportation of people of color in the 1st place so it was a labor prime minister in 1945 clement attlee who described the west indian people people come from the colonies as an incursion so there's a long history of the labor party being complicit with tacit racism so i always want to

that's a quote white supremacist. by this point you are beginning to wonder are we making this up?e not making it up. in fact, we are barely halfway through the bill. the legislation doesn't just make it harder to deport illegal immigrants who commit crimes. doesn't make it just easier to let criminals move here illegally it does both. the bill would abolish all existing enforcement against. they would have to prove they are dangerous or a flight risk. of course ice wouldn't be able to use prior behaviors proof of danger. that's banned. ice would have to overcome even more hurdles if a detainee claims to be gay or transgendered if they are under 21 and can't speak english and interpreter isn't immediately available they would get a pass. in other words much easier to arrest illegal alien in this country than it is to arrest you. they're the protected class here. you are just some loser who is paying for it all. believe it or not, we saved the nuttest part of this legislation for last and here is what it is. what could be more destructive than changing u.s. law specifically to allow