president grant led a concerted battle to protect black voting rights from the violence of white supremacists, successful prosecuting hundreds of cases against members of a ku klux klan. the insurrections did not wear white robes and hoods. they might as well have. they are the latest incarnation of violent white supremacist movements that has terrorized fellow americans on the basis of their race, religion and national original for more than 150 years. i've said this on many occasions and it bears repeating, i condemn all violence, regardless of ideology. i open my republican colleagues will join me today in acknowledging as the department of homeland security found last october that violent white supremacy is, quote, the most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland. i hope they'll join me in unequivocally condemning the big lie that the november 3rd election was stolen, a falsehood which the former president continues to spread which helped to provoke the january 6th insurrection. our federal government has failed to address the growing terrorist menace in our own backyard. in 2012, i

president grant led, quote, a concerted battle to protect black voting rights from the violence of white supremacists, successfully prosecuting hundreds of cases against members of the ku klux klan. the insurrectionists who stormed the capitol on january 6th did not wear white robes and hoods, they might as well have. they were the latest incarnation of violent white supremacist movements that has terrorized fellow americans on the basis of their race, we will john and national origin for more than 150 years. let me be clear at the outset, i have said this on many occasions and it bears respeegt, i condemn all violence regardless of ideology. i hope my republican colleagues will join me today in acknowledging as the department of homeland security found last october that violent white supremacy is, quote, the most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland. i hope they will also join me in unequivocally, unequivocally condemning the big lie that the november 3rd election was stolen, a falsehood which the former president continues to spread which helped provoke the january 6th insurrection and thre

pointed by president graham led a battle to protect black voting rights from the violence of white supremacists, successfully prosecuting hundreds of cases against members of the ku klux klan. the insurrections who stormed on january 6th did not wear white robes and hoods. they might as well have. they have the latest incarnation of violent white supremacist movements that have terror rised on basis of race, and religion and national origin for more than 150 years. let me be clear at the outset, i've said this on many occasions and it bears repeating. i condemn all violence regardless of ideology. i hope my republican colleagues will join me today in acknowledging as department of homeland security found last october that violent white supremacy is the biggest threat in the homeland and joining me in condemning the big lie that the november 3rd election was stolen. a falsehood which the former president continues to spread which helped provoke the january 6th insurrection and threatens to incite future attacks. as the january 6th attack on the capitol demonstrated for too long our federal gover

. >> do you standby your previous testimony that white supremacist extremism is the dominant most persistent source of domestic terrorism threats we face today? >> i would certainly say as i think i've said consistently in the past that racially motivated violent extremism specifically of the sort that advocates for the superiority of the white race is a persistent evolving threat, a biggest chunk of our racially motivated violent extremism cases for sure. and racially motivated violent extremism is the biggest chunk of our domestic terrorism portfolio overall. i will also say the same group of people we're talking about have been responsible for the most lethal attacks over the last, say, decade. >> and when i look at what happened on january 6th it appears that right-wing white supremacist groups play an instrumental role in the violent assault. is that your conclusion also? >> well, let me answer that this way. i think we're basically saying the same thing. we don't tend to think -- we at the fbi don't tend to think violent extremism in terms of right, left. that's not a spectrum that we

with lethality, the kind of violence they're seeing from white supremacist groups. but here's the challenge. we're 25 years after the oklahoma city bombing. pulled off by two white guys, two domestic terrorist and here we are still without all the tools and the domestic terrorism law. now today armed with the knowledge considers what happens on january 6th to be an act of domestic terrorism because we define domestic terrorism in the law but don't outlaw it. is this senate or congress the one to make a difference, i'm asking a rhetorical question, do we see any indication they're going to support a hard pledged terrorism effort, or support regulation of social media fuel and fan the flames of how we got here or are they going to denounce their own base that is as chris wray described in terms of the people who committed this, white supremacists? i think not. i think we're still on a journey to almost nowhere. i don't think we've improved much since the oklahoma city bombing and in fact, i think we may be in a worse position. >> frank, let me follow up on that. we do

unfortunately downplayed the threat by white supremacists. the trump administration never set up a task force to combat the numerous incidents of deadly terrorist violence by white supremacists and other extremists. only after the black lives matter activist protested last summer against police misconduct that the administration found the need to establish a task force to address and i quote, anti-government extremist. in a recent report in the "new york times," details how the trump administration's baseless efforts to paint the far left as the real domestic terrorism threat, quote, diverted key portions of the federal law enforcement and domestic security agencies at a time when the threat from the far right was building on ominously. to put this challenge in context, even conservative writers believe we are now facing a constitutional crisis. for the first time ever, we have failed to have a peaceful transfer of power and many are questioning the legitimacy of the current administration. the fact that this divisive political force is hatef

that that's the white supremacist backlash i'm talking about.tting the nail on the head. and the question is once you make that point, then how do you engage in the kind of organizing, which she has been doing for a good while. but she coming together with william barber, sister thea harris, coming together with all citizens of good will who want to push back this white supremacist backlash coming at us. >> don't forget latosha brown, too, black voters matter, who has traveled around in an r.v. registering people to vote and educating them about their power at the polls as well. >> absolutely. >> dr. west, we have seen, you know, what senator ron johnson is saying, that he would have been scared if it was black lives matter or antifa protesters there on january 6th. but the insurrectionists, he was, you know, he wasn't worried about them. we had senator tim scott saying that woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. can you put these comments into context of our history and where we are now? >> well, he becomes one of the voices as part of th

all i've heard him talk about so far is white supremacist. i've never heard him say it -- anything about antifa, the blm movement, everything. i was born and raised in chicago for 15 years. i went through all of the integration of schools up there. then we moved south and i have lived south fork 28 years. you guys like to throw around this expression, systematic racism. that definition only came about a year ago. somebody made this request. when we were growing up -- everybody in america has prejudice against each other. you have prejudiced amongst the african-americans that are against other african-americans. the same thing with hispanics and white people. everybody looks down on everybody. identity politics has been a part of this system for probably over 25 years. it is been portrayed by the democrat party predominantly. you had president obama that say republicans want to put you back in irons and chains. host: since you brought up a couple of points and then you made a direct statement there, we will let our guest respond. guest: one of

intelligence agencies have warned the white supremacists not pose a transnational threat alarm bells had already been rung on a domestic level following the storming of the capitol back in january. us racially are authentically motivated violent extremists who promote the superiority of the way it race other actors with the most persistent and concern in transnational connections we assess that a small number of us racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists have traveled abroad to network with like minded individuals this week the u.s. city of atlanta saw 8 people killed by a gunman in shootings over a trio of speier complexes 6 of whom were asian a number of high ranking democrats including former president barack obama tweeted about the alarming rise in asian violence or police boarded the suspect they're saying there was no racial motivation to the attacks. let's welcome on to the program lauren chairman lauren a source of the pseudo intellectual podcast great to have you on the program so know we have this warning about trans national connections u.s. intelligence seems

white supremacists, and far right extremists. that's who it was. republicans trying again and again to blame somebody, anybody, other than trump support ers, trump supporters, perhaps they didn't hear, that's why i'm saying it, and white supremacists. and wray knocked down the big lie again and again. i want you to listen to what he said about violent chatter on social media. >> there's so much chatter, often unattributed to a person in a neatly identifiable way, where people are saying unbelievably horrific violent ways, talking about beheading and explosions and all kinds of things like that. and separating out which are getting traction and which reflect intention as opposed to aspiration is something that we spend an enormous amount of time trying to do. >> i think we all remember prime examples of chatter. about beheadings and shootings. and let's not forget the qanon congress woman who in january of 2019 liked the comment that said, quote, a bullet to the head would be quicker, to remove nancy pelosi. is let's not forget the rioters who put u

they were white supremacists. this was true of lincoln as well who repeatedly stayed that he felt white men superior to blacks. however, lincoln turned back to jefferson's understanding of equality to reframe the issue. he argued that jefferson had put forth a simple understanding of equality. that entitled everyone to the natural rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. lincoln thought it reasonable and right to let black americans decide for themselves how to live for the declaration to put forth the radical notion that each individual is best able to determine his or her own happiness. most northern whites seem to have shared that simple and minimal understanding of equality at the start of the civil war. there was a general feeling that everybody deserved to write to decide for themselves how they would live given what they perceived as natural limitations of age ability race and gender but as the war progressed white people from the free states began meeting blacks and discovered that they were peo

i know you are not calling senator johnson a white supremacist. but the kind of language he is using it certainly is, if not a dog whistle to them. it's certainly a -- a -- a hat tip. >> yeah. well, it's -- it's -- it's -- it's an amazing set of circumstances. we all know what happened here, on january 6th. we saw the consequences. the nation saw it. and, you know, this is like some of the house members, who want to honor the capitol police. but don't want to recognize, you know, the insurrectionists that caused them to have to perform their duties, risk their lives, and get injured. >> yeah. you're talking about louie gohmert. you are talking about louie gohmert. "politico" is reporting today that louie gohmert is a texas congressman. circulating -- circulated a version of the bill meant to honor capitol police but removing any reference to the thing they're being honored for, which is defending the seat of democracy against the insurrection. >> absolutely. that's exactly what i'm referencing. and -- and so, you know, what -- what is -- what is t

these white supremacists, they told us what they were going to do. then they did it. you need to listen to these people and take what they say seriously. when the capitol hill police uncovered a plot to attack the capital, it is in their interest to take it seriously, require legislators to leave the building. it underscores the threat of the mastic extremism and their pension for violence. host: going forward, what happens to work on the capitol if these events impact what they do day today? guest: the secret service could neutralize those threats. i think we will have to see fortunately or unfortunately, a perimeter unfold around our government buildings like the u.s. capitol to prevent these kinds of attacks from obstructing the day-to-day process of government. host: a perimeter like we are seeing now or harder? guest: i would venture to guess it would be harder. you might not need the tall chain-link fence with barbed wire on top, there are different ways you could harden the perimeter. domestic extremism is a clear and present danger. what we have seen is these

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uses and white supremacists and our military needs to be laser focus on making certain that no one votesese people do can ever serve in the armed forces again. >> we absolutely need to look at any type of white supremacists that are still members of the military and how they are being targeted for recruitment by white supremacist groups and we need weed this out. this whole idea of police officer on police officer violence with those officers who have been turned by white exextremists is really scary to me. i know it's got to be scary for the other police officers. >> i am considering legislation to create a stand alone punitive article in the uniform code of military justice to address violent extremism in the ranks and to send a message of deterrence that this kind of conduct will not be tolerated in the military. >> we have seen a lot of reports highlighting how many of the attackers were veterans. and there has been really a growing recognition that the military has to do more to address extremism in it ranks. >> tucker: really an amazing clip. the first two people you saw speaking h

the investigation. >> and is there any doubt that the people who stormed the capitol included white supremacists and other far-right extremist organizations? >> no doubt it included individuals we would call militia violent extremist and in some incidents violent extremists who advocate for the superior of the white race, but the militia violent extremists are probably at the moment trending the biggest bucket if you will. >> you face challenges we as a nation face challenges with extremists of all types, backgrounds, motivations. as the new chair of the subcommittee on privacy and technology law, i'm concerned at how extremists have used social media platforms to incite violence and in some ways how social media platforms work to accentuate or accelerate those who have extreme views and to potentially ral caddize those who don't hold those views. i led a letter with 14 colleagues to facebook raising concerns about the adequacy of their enforcement of their own policies against violence and incitement. can you speak to the extent to which the january 6th attack on the capitol was organized throu

this marks the highest number of white supremacist incidents of propaganda ever recorded.ng me is national director, jonathan greenblatt. thank you for coming in. i saw this report, so sad denning, though not surprising. i'm wondering from this, are existing hate groups more emboldened, are there more of them, a combination of both? tell me what you found. >> it's a great question. i appreciate you giving me the chance to be here today to share what we've seen. adl is the oldest anti hate group in the world. what we've seen in the past year is unlike anything we've tracked before. indeed, we saw at least 30 different hate groups spreading thousands of messages -- i'm talking about off-line activities, pamphleting, leafletting, fliers, banners, flash mobs, you name it. this happened all over the country in 49 states. the only one exempt was hawaii. we have indeed seen not only this surge over the past year, but it fits into this bigger pattern which gets to your question. these white supremacists, they don't just feel, if you will, emboldened in this environment. i will say

attacks political commentator lauren chen believes the media has been inflating news about white supremacists more than the actual reality on the ground. well i think it's very concerning over the past few years how we've seen the definition of white supremacy get watered down to the point where now the term is essentially meaningless is that unfortunately people are very very liberal in applying the white supremacist label label where it simply does not belong and what that actually does it is it makes it harder to combat real threats there was the recent shooting where asian women were killed that is an unfortunate tragic incident yes but there is a big difference in terms of how we prevent these attacks from happening when we say that someone was attacked and they happened to be asian versus they were attacked because they were asian and sadly that is a distinction that it seems the media is increasingly unwilling to make it's gotten to the point in terms of media coverage where you would assume that there was an anti asian or white supremacist shooting every week based on how much the med

got called ou for that, she doubled down and later accused him of allegedly plotting with a white supremacistn clubhouse to tak her down. something that didn't happen because not only did he not speak in this particular conversation, he certainly didn't bring anything up about white supremacist. what happen is when these littl totalitarians get mad at you in a accuse you of harassing them are being violent, what they want is to avoid any accountability for their own action. they use their identity as a sword and shield. i can say things you, but you because of my identity, but you can't come after me because of my identity. >> they are not aggressive, the are passive-aggressive, they're not canine, their feline. if you are tweeting out that your life is being destroyed, you need to take a break. seriously. you need to take a break and step back may be from your job or whatever it is because healthy people don't write things like that on the internet , do they? >> i don't think adults do. people saying mean things about you on the internet, it may be should be an adult and just ignore it. >> w

the destruction, scores of people killed, 700, 800 police officers shot, blamed on the phantom white supremacist. the narrative is false, the media is complicit in a narrative and 13, 14 years ago gallup had rated race relations in this country approximately 72 percent-73% of blacks and whites but relations were good or very good, more blacks on race relations were good but after the drumbeat of false narratives not just with respect to george floyd but going all the way back to before that, michael brown and treyvon martin, it it plummeted during 30 points much during the obama administration with the first black president. continuing to hammer this a falsehood is only dividing americans, not solving any problems. shannon: they spent a lot of money trying to secure that area. mike tobin was there for days, weeks on the ground as we watch distraction that affected people of every race and backgrounds, business owners who were devastated by what happened. today this is what we hear about the area. washington examiner says black lives matter and antifa allied activists shutdown several streets sur

intelligence agencies has found that the threat posed by white supremacist groups has increased significantly this year and that their influence spreads far beyond the borders of the country now it does come in the wake of a shooting in atlanta and which 8 people died including 6 asians the mass media was quick to label the incident as racially motivated. let's talk about motive police say that the suspect claims he had a sex addiction but there's also concern that the killings were racially motivated and several advocacy groups warn that these shootings are likely to heighten fears among all asian americans that is just textbook i don't even understand why it wouldn't be charged as a hate crime however police said it's too soon to say if the shootings were indeed a hate crime and the suspect himself as you just heard blamed it on his sex addiction and the incident took place earlier this week when a gunman opened fire at 3 sponsors the rights group in atlanta now representing asian americans has linked the massacre to the rise of white supremacist but the political commentator lauren chan be

just all-out association with white supremacists first, what do you do about that?well, that's a great question, nicolle. i don't think we have an answer to that. first and foremost, we start off by condemning it. you know, if you step back, this is not surprising, unfortunately. so what we need to do is make sure this isn't becoming normalized and not accepting this as a regular part of our american discourse, while pushing back while we secure the complex, we secure the government and prepared to address violent extremism that's on the rise with america. >> i guess what is so shocking about it, is there is a current threat warning issued by the department of homeland security, and the joint terrorism task force against white supremists who believe donald trump's big lie. this has been identified by law enforcement as a current and urgent domestic terror threat and still furthering their message inch imagine your place of business, where you work, imagine that workplace coming under a violent assault by thousands of people that murdered a police officer, and tried

and telling you it's white supremacists, show me white supremacists. >> it was not an act of racism. it was not an insurrection. it wasn't an armed invasion by a brigade of dangerous, white supremacists. it wasn't. those are lies. >> well, you know, on the day of the insurrection, there was this guy walking through the capitol building with a giant, confederate flag. and, well, there was, also, this guy, with a t-shirt that said, camp auschwitz staff. most people at the capitol were not quite as explicit about their feelings but an awful lot of them invaded the seat of american democracy. again, violently. under this banner. chanting, america first. then, friday, the d.c. u.s. attorney released these photos of timothy hill cucanelli. an active sergeant in the army reserve who say they and i quote them here, recorded video of themselves screaming at police officers, climbing scaffolding, through doors that the been kicked open by rioters. and chanting stop the steal with other protestors. this gentleman, who according to interviews with his co-workers, was a well-known white supremaci

i want to ask about the threat of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. it isn't new, but it is gained a lot of attention within an intelligence circles in recent years. and it is the biggest domestic terrorism threat, i understand. last year you testified before the house homeland security committee that, quote, the most lethal of all domestic extremists since 2001 have been racially and ethnically motivated. similarly, the former acting dhs secretary testified before the soen senate, that quote, white supremacist extremist from a leithality standpoint over the last few years, particularly when you look at 2018 and '19, are the most persistent and lethal threat when we talk about domestic extremists. why is the threat of white supremacists terrorism so prevalent in this country? >> you know, i think that is a -- some of that is associationio logical question that i'm not sure i'm the right person to address. certainly as you say, it has been the biggest chunk of our racially motivated violent extremism cases and itself the biggest chunk of our domestic t

just all-out association with white supremacists first, what do you do about that? >> well, that's a great question, nicolle. i don't think we have an answer to that. first and foremost, we start off by condemning it. you know, if you step back, this is not surprising, unfortunately. so what we need to do is make sure this isn't becoming normalized and not accepting this as a regular part of our american discourse, while pushing back while we secure the complex, we secure the government and prepared to address violent extremism that's on the rise with america.

it is basically white supremacists are on the rise. not just on january 6th. they're driving -- it is now becoming mainstream. you see fox news personalities increasingly talking about the fight for traditional america. so i think a lot of them are saying the quiet part out loud. so we need everybody who may disagree on a whole bunch of issues but believes that our democracy and voting rights should be sacrosanct and winners of election should govern, that racism is structural and is a continual battle in this country, we all need to stand together because the dividing lines could not be clearer. and i think some of these things that we thought would fade into the shadows of history are right on our doorstep again. and by the way, ron johnson, he says maybe he'll retire, maybe he'll run for re-election.

. >> tucker: white supremacist status, it's such a log. n-americans do suffer quite a few violent attacks in this country unfortunately, but there is zero evidence of a rising white supremacy is rising with the attacks. if we don't have to guess about this because the justice department keeps the numbers. according to federal statistics, african-american perpetrators are more likely than any other group to attack asian-americans. it happens quite a bit. most racial violence in the country, of all kinds of accursed within racial groups. white's most likely tech whites, blacks to attack blacks, et cetera. the only exceptions were inside the asian-americans. why is that? we can say for sure and we're not going to speculate about it. unlike the other cable news channels we won't draw grand the divisive conclusions from this or any data about race. it's always wrong to blame an entire group for anything ever. tree peoples as individuals first, that's the whole point of america. we can say that this has been going on for a while as anybody who li

intelligence agencies have worn the it's white supremacists not pose a transnational threat are on bells already being rung on a domestic level following the storming of the capitol back in january. us racially are authentically motivated violent extremists who promote the superiority of the whites race other actors with the most persistent and concern in transnational connections we assess that a small number of us racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists have traveled abroad to network with like minded individuals this week the u.s. city of atlanta saw 8 people killed by a gunman in shootings at a trio of spar complexes 6 of whom were asian a number of high ranking democrats including for president barack obama tweeted about the alarming rise in violence or police quote of the suspect are saying there was no racial motivation to the turks the little commentator lauren churn however believes the media has been inflating news about white supremacy as more than the actual reality on the ground. well i think it's very concerning over the past few years how we've seen the definit

the point in terms of media coverage where you would assume that there was an anti asian or white supremacist shooting every week based on how much the media focuses on it and unfortunately what we have is people like my father who is asian now even scared to visit large cities because he thinks that anti asian sentiment is that bad which is not the case f.b.i. statistics show that asian americans are the least likely group to have hate crimes committed against them a lot is our lot for not from the news to do here in moscow both scobee know this standing by in washington with another slice of news views hughes that starts off in moments. same wrong rules just don't. let me. get to shape out just because the ticket and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. always be polite never engage with the negs baited or constitutional. don't get into any conversation or start answering questions just ask or in the church. irrigation. definitely don't want to go on a trip. you're more likely to walk if you're rich. if you've. got 2 eyes 2 e

like you said, they don't quite look like white supremacists. rs or trump voters. many of these attacks have occurred in heavily democratic cities where they did not vote for trump in 2020 or 2016, so what the democrats are the far left have done, actually quite effectively, in the past year or so, is to libel former president trump for something the democrats themselves actually are very much guilty e of, and what is that? that is their silence and their cowardice before black on asian attacks that often occur in america's urban areas. these are attacks i have written about for decades. the past two decades, at least, and i've written about them in my book, "chinese girl in the ghetto," and i know that they have occurred frequently,ea well before president trump came onto the national political scene, and we are not talking about racial animus between the two races, but what we are talking about is that we must be honest. >> tucker: i don't think you are allowed to be honest. i think that is the most severe crime you can commit right now. but i'

whether it be from white supremacists or other actors? is it just about providing the agency with more money? are there laws that should be passed that could enhance capabilities even if there are civil liberties with that? what do you see with the role of congress in all this? >> i would like to be assured that the fbi, which is not unlimited in its resources, sets the right priorities. what they should be going after are the ones the extremist groups and individuals at the high end of a terrorist threat. that means that what happened after january 6th where there was a narrative of misinformation saying that trump supporters or antifa were the planners of the january 6th insurrection. that is not the case. so we should be going after and the fbi should be prioritizing who they should be going after, where they should place their resources, and at the same time, they obviously need to work with the state and local law enforcement agencies as well as the community and obviously, social media. >> let me ask you about something that is unfo

>> yeah, not the white supremacist part because that's been very clear from the beginning as the fbi began to file these charges, and they're now up to well over 200 cases that have been charged -- i'm sorry, approaching 300 cases that have been charged and many more under investigation. the 2,000 number was a revelation. that's double what it was a year ago. and that's a huge increase. that's an enormous commitment of manpower. so i think for the fbi director to say, look, we were, you know, we were warning people, expect violence around the election, it could be around the election, or something afterwards, or the inauguration, and then we had this specific one specific piece of intelligence from norfolk about the possibility of attacking the capitol. he did say that it's clear that people were engaged in planning but chuck, i have to say, having looked at all the court documents the fbi says in criminal complaints and in affidavits, and in indictments in the sort of narrative section that there were plans to attack the capitol on january 6th. i have yet to see a specific piece of

white supremacists, tim scott! what are you doing? the only black republican where the woke supremacist carrying confederate battle flag in the nation's capitol, tim scott? tim! tim! i had to, i know you don't want me to yell, but this is ridiculous. you are gaslighting people. you are giving people misinformation. what are you doing, brother? what are you doing? what are you doing? you're not helping. and then there's lindsey graham. of course, lindsey graham. $5 million -- 5 million in aid to black farmers in the covid relief bill. he's calling that reparations. >> if you're a farmer, your loan will be forgiven up to 120% of your loan, not 20%, but 120% of your loan if you're socially disadvantaged, if you're african-american, some other minority. but if you're white person, if you're a white woman, no forgiveness as reparations. >> this is 2021. please tell me we're not going to fall for this. why are we allowing people to do this? why are people doing this? lindsey graham, why are you doing this? it's not helpful to the country. se

(metal scraping) this was an incident that was clearly the tale of these far right, white supremacist powers emboldened and out of control. >> panic and horror in charlottesville: a car slams into a crowd of counter- protesters at a white supremacy protest... >> ...woman was killed when a man drove his car into a crowd, injuring 19 others. >> ...when a driver plowed into the crowd, killing a young woman... >> narrator: in the face of that horror, donald trump would send a message. >> excuse me, what about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? do they have any semblance of guilt? >> he's so fiery, he's so angry, and he's really getting a personal back and forth with members of the press. >> so, you know, as far as i'm concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day. wait a minute! i'm not finished! i'm not finished, fake news. >> you have a president of the united states who is willing to give tacit approval to some of the darkest elements of american politics. and even when it goes wrong, even when it turns ugly, he's unwilling to denounce it. because these w

intelligence agencies is found the threat posed by white supremacist groups has increased significantly this year and that their influence spreads far beyond the borders of the country comes in the wake of a shooting in atlanta saw 8 people killed including 6 asians the mass media was quick on this incident to label it racially motivated let's talk about motive police say that the suspect claims he had a sex addiction but there's also concern that the killings were racially motivated several advocacy groups warn that the shootings are likely to heighten fears among all asian americans that is just textbook i don't even understand why it wouldn't be charged as a hate crime. or the police have said that it was too soon to say if the shootings were actually a hate crime the suspect himself blamed the attack on the sex addiction incident occurred earlier in the week when a gunman opened fire at 3 spars a number of high ranking democrats including former president obama tweeted about the quote alarming rise in asian violence political commentator lauren chan believes that the media should be

chairwoman klobuchar: does it involve white supremacists? >> some? chairwoman klobuchar: but the other end not planned by antifa -- was the event planned by antifa? >> at this point we have not charged an individual associating with antifa. chairwoman klobuchar: which all agree that what happened was a highly dangerous situation but had the potential to be much worse? >> yes. chairwoman klobuchar: general walker. the chief said he was stunned at the response from the department of the army when the former police chief requested assistance from the guard. what is your reaction? where you frustrated on the call as well? >> yes i was. i was just as stunned as everybody else on the call. chairwoman klobuchar: i understand, correct me if i am wrong, with the national guard it is much better to prepare them and call them into action and have a plan, which i heard from from the other witness, they called the chief, call people and said we want to have the guard mobilized. there was a discussion leading up to january 6 and this was discussed. you did not get

not just that one about white supremacists rising essentially in the last decade, but there was also one about former military potentially joining extremist groups. the department of homeland security put out a report and they essentially had to retract it because the republican party did not like hearing that. but we saw how this unfolds here today. i think what we will see, there's really three things that will unfold, i think, as we head into summer. one, president trump has been fairly quiet. if he is to enter back into the stage, if he gets a platform again, when he starts talking, that's when these people start moving to whatever the targets are he designates. that's why governor whitmer and that plot with the wolverine militia, which the fbi foiled thankfully, that's why they were going there. i think the second part is the pandemic will come to a close to some degree. and as the country opens back up, there will once again be targets available. that's one of the things that's kept a lot of this on the lid is we've been able to fight this domestic terrorism because there's no

of notifying someone you know or suspect of white supremacist extremist seek out connections? a.g. ford: thank you so much for your question. what i indicated in a couple of responses ago is the public does not recognize or know about our different jurisdictions. we offer community outreach and community engagement. when we receive a complaint, if it is not within our jurisdiction we can relay that to the appropriate entities and we utilized indications of that sort. the bottom line is if there is ever a concern, you can always reach out to my office and we will find out where that type of information needs to be directed to. rep. langevin: how do you think it changes the threats posed by this group -- by these groups? how do you think international coordination changes the threat posed by these groups? a.g. ford: i think it presents a unique problem. at the federal level terrorism is defined less broadly, if you will, so internationally we are able to utilize a definition that is different from a domestic terrorism perspective. the joint terrorism task force is designated in