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El paso wrote. and look at what the killer in pittsburgh wrote. one attacked juicews. one attacked the immigrant community. this has gotten very long and deep historical roots. we deny it at our peril and i think americans are much more wit go of what is going on. they dismiss the blinders that we see from commentators who think that this is not a threat. all they have to do, sadly, is turn on their television sets and see that this is a very real and in fact, growing problem. >> were listening ...

Like that? >> absolutely. in a time when i would say yesterday was one of the most divisive days ever on twitter this is the day this congressman shows to pour gasoline on a dumpster fire of confusion and divisiveness on the internet. this is a long history of this type of behavior by democrats dating back to naacp versus button where a democrat bigots tried to force donors to the naacp to out themselves. what we have seen here is this type of campaign finance disclosure although it is available...

Doing better? >> i dont think a single headline will affect us, but certainly a number of 2020 democratic candidates found this as a great opportunity to pile on "the new york times" which is usually the paper of the day kind of life, but i have to say about the, dana, in the wake of the mass shootings in el paso and in dayton, there is a lot of anger, and frustration, we all feel it, but some of the people, journalists as well as commentators who are now ripping president trump, even though he ...

Seems to me the shootings had produced a media frenzy in which there is no debate about how the president is promoting that, he is out right accused as if it was an undisputed fact of being a racist and it seems to me and heres the irony, some of these commentators are allowing their own very intense anger towards donald trump to lead them into the inflammatory rhetoric that they accuse him of spreading. >> martha: why did they discuss as the wall street editorial page pointed out, if you go dow...

Increasingly common that i wonder if you can help folks get some basics down. what do you think? >> thank you very much for asking that question, neil. that is really important. we can wring our hands saying what is causing it. but then we say what to do about it? flee. ive heard commentators say take cover. you get distance between you and the shooter. one thing disturbing about the dayton ohio, shooting, people were outside and they ran into a confined area where they were easy targets for the...

Thats just unsane, obviously trump doesnt want to see all the people murdered, nobody wants to see somebody like this, these are craze lunatics. i would call it domestic terrorist and white supremacist terrorism, antiimmigrant terrorism but to blame president trump, thats just -- its i logical in addition to being unfair. >> the president issued statement calling this a hateful act and act of cowardliness and at the same time i have a sense of dejav, during obama administration when police offic...

They are blocking sharing of the manifesto but it doesnt take a lot to actually find a manifesto on both Facebook and Twitter Iranian media say the Revolutionary Guard seized an oil tanker carrying smuggled fuel in the Persian Gulf 7 crew members were detained when the ship had been seized late Wednesday in tension sort along the highly militarized frontier between India and Pakistan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir India deployed more troops and ordered thousands of visitors out of ...

Its not keeping anyone safe. we also give them the bigots, beyond that, we have to be its a very small thing we can whatever, them. do as journalists. willing to tell truth. were not going to solve this. we tell people its raining in this case, this is different. outside, right? and its not, you know, prec when this is about white supremacy, weve come full circle. columbine is an odd thing. they were the first ones, precipitatingly infused -- no, modern, to take the tactics of terrorism and use ...

Domestic terror, most acts of domestic terror are shootings. that they dont feel we should were interested in that. say so directly. and also it comes from having a motivation and how did he obtain the gun are the most important lack of historical context things. it doesnt form the bulk of our themselves in order to describe. if you study the history of race conversations, though. were more focused on what bits of this story could contribute in this country, you know this to the conversation tha...

Thats just unsane, obviously trump doesnt want to see all the people murdered, nobody wants to see somebody like this, these are craze lunatics. i would call it domestic terrorist and white supremacist terrorism, antiimmigrant terrorism but to blame president trump, thats just -- its i logical in addition to being unfair. >> the president issued statement calling this a hateful act and act of cowardliness and at the same time i have a sense of dejav, during obama administration when police offic...