host: william yeomans. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption contents and accuracy. visit ncicap.org nick thank you. thank you. well, let me begin by thanking robin for that wonderful introduction. let me think all the folks at the atrium. let me thank the many hundreds of the field. thank you very much for being here tonight. this is an extraordinary turnouts, and i think all of you for being here. a few weeks ago -- if you weeks ago we decided we were going to do an event in l.a. and i said to myself, we are going to l.a., what of received we can get a room in denver -- why don't we get a room and denver and see if we can bring a couple hundred people together see if we can find some supporters, and after about 10 minutes after the e-mail went out we knew we had to change the venue. . and here we are tonight. so thank you. let me begin b

john mcardle: william yeomans is our guest. we're talking about the history of federal hate crime law. if you want to join the conversation republicans (202) 748-8001, (202) 748-8000 democrats, independents (202) 748-8002. william yeomans is a law and government fellow at american universities washington college of law. we appreciate your time. we will start with muriel in florida. for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning. i just want to say this person was just evil. he is just evil. i hope people control themselves. i hope it doesn't make it worse by people taking it out on everybody and things happen after this. i just hope people keep calm. people like this boy should be put to death. people like that -- our tax money should not be pay for him to go to trial. like all the others that went into schools and all of the rest of the places that they killed so many people. they should be put to death instead of having a trial for them. and another thing. why was this person thinking of going into a place where he knew