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Violence in doing violence to jewish people and black people and black people of color. they exchanged fantasies in plans about driving vehicles into protesters, which is of course exactly what happened, its white extremists expert and cal stages told nbc news about this case. we have to tolerate bigotry in the marketplace of ideas, because of the first amendment. but when that bigotry turns into conspiratorial violence. there is redress. well the redress that is being sought here, is by nine pl...

That is a racially motivated violent conspiracy and thats not anything that is protected by the first amendment or by any other sort of right that people have. >> reporter: the defendants are men who made themselves white power brands. richard spencer, chris cantwell, jeff scoop, matt heinbach, jason kessler, and more. theyve argued they were simply engaging in their first amendment right to speech and pro protest. and that the violence is the fault of the police for senator not separating them ...

That there was a conspiracy to commit racially-motivated violence. >> reporter: the discovery process has turned up documents that, beyond what they might mean for this lawsuit, revealed to the public how this movement worked. the exhibit list contains text messages that show extensive planning among leaders who have tried to distance themselves from each other since 2017. they show an embrace of violence and they show they werent just jokes. is there like one comment that stands out at you? >> ...

Fault of the police for senator not separating them from the counterprotestors but what made the alt right grow so quickly, the internet, has been its undoing in this case because the defendants left behind an enormous paper trail of what they say were jokes about racial violence. >> with an event like charlottesville that was national news, people may have seen the torch march. they might have seen the car attack on the news but if you look beneath the surface, there is just so much more. and w...

Out at you? >> the image that has stuck with me ever since the beginning of the case was one of the discord post pictures. it shows a tractor running people over, and its call the protester digester. theres many, many posts in this case about running over people with cars prior to the car attack on august 12th. but that one to me was, like i cant get it out of my head. >> hundreds of fascists on all sides. >> reporter: if youre saying organized violence on the one hand is not protected by the fi...

For lunch, whether to bring a flag. that is a racial motivated violent conspiracy and thats not anything protected by the first amendment or any other sort or right that people have. >> the defendants are men who made themselves white power brands. richard spencer, chris cantwell, andrew anglin, jason kessler and more. they argue that they were just exercising their right to a peaceful protest. but what made the out right grow so quickly, the internet, the defendants left behind an enormous pape...

The discord post pictures it shows a tractor running people over. and its called the protestor digester. look. there is many, many posts in this case about running over people with cars prior to the car attack on august 12th. but that one, to me, was like i cant get it out of my head. >> hundreds of fascists on all sides. >> if you are saying organize violence on the one hand is not protected by the first amendment. but speech that does talk about violence is protected, there is obviously going ...

Is redress. well, the redress that is being sought here is by nine plaintiffs who were harmed by what happened in charlottesville, including a minister who was assaulted by the neo-nazis, four people who were injured in the car attack that killed heather heyer, a jewish woman hounded and stocked by these anti-semitic thugs. their case is spearheaded by a group called integrity first for america, and they brought this suit on behalf of these nine plaintiffs against a big broad swath of defendants...

Man from north carolina turned up man from north carolina turned up with a truck full of explosives threatening to blow up explosives threatening to blow up two blocks of the neighbourhood. and a car attack that killed a capitol police officer. also they were not sure if other groups could turn up, far right extremist groups. and then you have the counter protest groups, they were kept far away, protest groups, they were kept faraway, but protest groups, they were kept far away, but still the po...

Longer than usual. but in terms of the turnout, this particular group that held this rally, they had a permit of around 700 people. the capitol police say in terms of how many actually turned up, it was about 450. and that definitely is how it felt. there were certainly more police there than there were actual protesters, and of course there was lots of media there as well. but the police were worried, because it is not just about sixth of january, of course. there have been a few incidences sin...