So give this your take what is going space. The killing that occurred at the university of maryland last week that has been linked to the alt right movement because of suspected is listed as of day Facebook Group listed as the altreich because those two people were defending defending, two teenage girls against the assailant who was showing antiislamic racist slurs at the two ofd them on a light rail trade and then they ended up giving their lives for telling him to pipe down and w to leave the girls alone. Gir so some of these episodes have been viewed as examples of rising violence on the far far right to since president s trumps election and his campaign so this is something that strikes me that when brock above was called upon repeatedly toon take a strong stand against violence and racist policies around the country. Simil president drug has a similar obligation it took him four days to respond with a tweet that held the compassion of a wet noodle. Host and for the press a News Conference or a statement to engage in a conversation of the larger issues . That would be nice but the oped writer in the Washington Post said the president ial medal of honor posthumously would be a great gesture but there are all kinds of things a president can do but what struck me as i said my column that if people were killed by undocumented immigrants or isis terrorist President Trump would have been much more prone to his response. I here is a tweed to the president did send out to say that was unacceptable the victims were standing up and our prayers are with them. What is wrong with our response . Guest it is fine as far is that those but the tone sounded rather generic. Ironclad he finally did that but it was begrudgingly to those messages he has sent out to to terrorist here in the u. S. For the undocumented immigrants and their risk of particular murderer in San Francisco theyve made a big issue outpuan of as victims of violence committed by undocumented immigrants to jindal along the campaign trail i think the contrast is rather striking and disturbing that they think should have equal treatment across the board. This is the company President Trump keeps whether he realizes it or not. Guest there have been numerous articles the about the old right movement and david duke than those who endorsed President Trump hein and his administration have distance themselves from these folks but is day slow reaction end and not in acknowledging a much benefit the campaign received and i expect to see more. Host you dont say there is a cause and effect with these types of incidents . Unfortunate with cspan and his political and visors even bright bart publicly offered i think it would be nice if he made public sight statements even at the sea pak convention and i think across the country to say we dont have day spokesman in donald trump and he did not appear to be as racist as they were hoping this all goes aroundd the turn administration and his personal reputation it is one thing for me to come out to advisee racism or antisemitism on display but it is another thing for the president to make aut statement because that has more of an impact. Host the first call comes from florida at the independent line could boarding. Caller good morning. Your lips are still moving for some reason i gave you are better than what you are portraying the were probably a good man however id think the things that you say are totally political and wish you had done a little better homework. That was tragic and comic granted so very tragic butak what breaks my heart is that in chicago over the weekend you had so many deaths that affected the poor people. It is my heartfelt wish that someone in that city will help the people that are held hostage practically by the violence that occurs there and they wish you would use your talents to help overcome the carnage in your city. You are quite right is a tragic problem and is on page one of my newspaper port about every day. In that episode that occurred in portland wassi also a tragic as a responsese and i offer that. And other publications said last week and 46 people were shot the that was the drop even from last year at the same time. It goes up and down with t the Chicago Tribune and sincerely 70s i was the assignment editor i cover the Chicago Police and the courts it used to be worse that is what is ironic in the early 70s we almost hit 1,002 years in a row. It has struck down in the mid90s. For the last three years we have had a surgeon homicide as a result of crises sam problems that have occurred mona beginning with a lack of money so my favorite particular remedy is the reduction of operations that we have in chicago at the community level. Lly thre they used to be hit hard hit financially three years ago and i riis boat spoke to that that there be a surge of violence after thatmb and there has been. Things need to be done on a number of different fronts locally and nationally toce help reduce the carnage i am still waiting for some action but he treated to send in the fed to they have been there they are working in cooperation with local authorities for years and more so recently it is a problem on a lot of different fronts but italys appears to me when i talk of problems of President Trumpt abt i get those who say what about chicago . One step ats, a time. Texas democrat line. Caller good morning. My question is why didnt he mentioned the fact the guy in portland that he wrote that for jills died who was a democrat . Guest i did mention that i am a columnist not a reporter there is a difference and i have learned the privilege to be able to express my opinion. D that is what i do. Men as they think i mentioned if there was not a doubt conservatives have made a point of the fact the fella that committed these acts in the past showed appreciation in for birdie sanders and jules stein and as the policy lost center he is all over the map politically i dont think were dealing with someone who has all of his eggs in the box he was a very angry young man whos got muslims were a number of players. Host and this morning it shows Michael Fletcher in court from yesterdays we will continue on with calls from oregon the independent line. Caller i just want to comment on the guy in portland and something that i have noticed since trumpmp was elected, i livein eugene and i and two hours away that when you see an incident like this on the news it is not isolated because we dont have people crossing that line all the time that what i can see in what we feel out here is that saving your san the prejudice has now surfaced as if these groups of people these racist groups now feel validated as if they have field and the invoice to back them up. With trump is the catalyst awful for these awful incidents that we are seeing in thisrt important that we stayt. Focused on that fact because a lot of people are going back and forth about why this is happening and it is clear why it is happening. It is happening because of a person in charge and he empowers these people to embolden them and these types of attacks are not talked about a assertively o or aggressively with action to be taken on a broader scale is kerry especially those of us that surrounded by it. Just this past week here in eugene resell large groupsps of people it sounds like i of stereotyping but driving pickup trucks flying the Confederate Flag and came into my Business Partner not harassing employees, we had to run them off the property then started harassing other t people the police had to come and i have never seen this in the 17 years i havee lived here it will pull a weapon to a major problemdont very quickly dont address this as a nation i hope people can get it in their hearts that as americans we need to stand against this strongly. Host the one that was arrested in the killing from fridays. My earlier column about university of maryland i mentioned the Antidefamation League over 40 campuses were targeted by Richard Spencer new claims to have invented the term all right albright have launched a campaign and there are a number of episodes there and from George Washington university. A numbe my son and heir a number of people first told me about that horrible episode over the eric. Younger people are much more clued in to this than us older folks unfortunately but i have been there it is a wonderful place it is a college town and a target for this sort of thing. They are recruiting and getting the word out even if they dont have direct student recruits in the liberal college town say get people who are of the french like those who committed the double homicide and injured a third person. Host the democrat line from virginia. Caller thanks for taking my call one of the best reporters in the country i live in virginia and my daughter goes to middle school i never dreamed in my 30 years as an immigrant who follows every law that date call her a tall head. Just like the previous caller said really my child is afraid to go back to the school so i sit with the principle and i get an assurance but this is getting out of control just like the previous caller said these people are sick they think it is okay to harass. We see the attorney general in this country attacking immigrants yes sometimes things happen but to tell ato muslim woman pulled back to your country. The at one point that needs to be made we found across the civilrights front that leadership passed to come from the top the government, military or the veteran in the vietnamera with more conscious of the need to have diversity orpo the corporate world so the president sets the national tone it is just not coincidentally was very public about it the proper obama said this is a boon to our recruitment and that was a very visible when the of obama was president but when donald trump to cough it was very visible with other teams we have never heard of before with episodes like these around the country we the leadership from the top even the Washington Post, the story how long Tromp Administration is cutting funds. Host and indiana goahead caller i am a 65 yearold senior but i have never heard so much ridiculous stuff coming up with the man stayed with the glasses. Stop please say about the republicans. Stop the hate coming from both sides stop the race for the we are americans. Have all of you in st. . Stop and watch the newsac every single day. Attack attack and attack. Leave the man alone. I have a democrat by a republican idea of american. Peace. I man independent i was a republican but i grew up in the republican family and only after goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act and then i said i will say becae like a belted turned against africanamericans because weat still have the senator from massachusetts at that time and of a lot of progress if mines and republicans put the party is very different are today and the democrats are not without fault either but i have not even mention of the Party Affiliations up and told how. That should not matter. There are good people in both parties and their people but i disagree withut if we talk about those fundamental principles of equal rights and justice to talk about Party Affiliations but it didnt start with Richard Nixon throughout American History we have seen people use race for political a vantage or move away from race has political the vantage so we need to be aware of this realistically. Stop the hate that is common sense how we can all get along as rodney king says. Host the democratic line from illinois. Caller with their act of violence is seems to be one of the talking points that more conservative callers are politicians to bring of the violence in chicago. Ve of i wonder my comment on your perspective diminishes any National Aspirations . Thats his they thought about rahm emanuel National Aspirations. I dont know if he still has them but what is interesting to me for everything coming out of chicago there has not then a big stampede of bankle to run against him. This as a at a time the city was going bankrupt and he was overwhelmingly elected against the diverse set of candidates very quickly. So they voted for him because they wanted somebody and i think that is what they got but on cutting funding to schools that was half utilized problem that occurred so when you start closing peoples Old Highschool is they get very upset and this happened in chicago where as well but just to try to tie thehe problem of violence in the streets and the Mayors Office is his responsibility to do with this said he is trying on a variety of fronts i have seen some marginal success so far all but stt is lower at this point that was a year ago but it still remains to be seen if that is a stepping stone toward higher office. Host as far as their responsibilities are concerned already asking about federal governments and permits so what you think about those actions as a topic of free speech . I thought he made a mistake and sari when he said hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment but it is. Ally has so traditionally the response is a good speech we have dialogue and we dont restrict peoples speech and resolve the problem by having open speech and debates but at the same timeme i understand why he wants to prevent for the problem they have had for a while nowest co where not only the far right or the altright racist movement but also the far left which is antifascism in that movement by the way p is an agreement with that i told the me know how to stay at the jail. [laughter] but we talk about polarization on this program and others around washington but also have many young people right now that radicals are getting very polarized. The those with the altright those that are linked to the policy a at inauguration time and the suspects in that case linked to the movement so there is a lot of polarization happening all the way around. The independent line thanks for calling. Caller i know you dont want to say it but trumps mano was make America Great again i have a lot of white friends they although that was cold code to make America White again so people need to bebo informed about what is going space that is to show those bullies up we did want to be that in to stop the bullying on the internet but he alliance themselves so how do we not attribute any of that . These are very good t points as far as the code words make America Great again what is interesting as candidates on both sides at of use state slogan even bill clinton and ronald reagan. They harken back to a golden age that we used to have to bring that back again it is very popular in speeches but in those surveys have shown in recent years that africanamericans tend to be focused on the future and how things need to be betterome if you really push for it but those white voters are looking at the aspect of the past that appeals to the conservative movement because of the idea that somehow we have lost those values that our important in to be preserved at the same time we dont have that golden age in the past where black people were happy but yet no better than that. But on both sides we are quite optimistic when barack