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Whole." but you must remember back in 2021, defense secretary lloyd office ordered to be addressed because some veterans participated in the riot and hike magnets, boy, did the media eat it up. heres msnbc, extremism in the military is a series national security threat. the gop needs to act like it. heres cnn. the military has long had an extremism problem. i guess thats called winning wars. what will it do now to finally solve it? and npr, the military confronts extremism one conversation at a ...

Is disproportionate to the a number of extremists in the as a whole. >> but you must remember, back in 2021, defense secretary lloyd austin ordered, military leaders to address this supposed extremist problemd after june six because some veterans participated in the rio order tt and like ont bone. here. >> heres msnbc. msn quote, extremism in the militarybc is a serious national security threat. the gop needs to act likp neede. the military has long had ang ha extremism problem. i guess thats ca...

Doing a disservice. our latium ship with the anti-defamation league goes back 20 years. -- my good friend started this connection over 20 years ago. this is a natural evolution of what adl has focused on what we need to focus on more in the region. atl obviously focuses rightly on the increased antisemitism in the u.s. and around the world. we have the same problem when it comes to extremism, hate speech, and incitement. we do not think enough is being done to manage it. until it becomes a tarif...

Record. the house panel has some people on videotape, transcripts of others, but the department will want to pause all of this ts and dot all its eyes to make sure it knows every single thing. there has never been a prosecution of a president, or a former president. this will be historic. the justice department will want to make sure, again, that they win the case, if they actually bring it. >> well, thank you so much. it is good to see you in real life. a former federal prosecutor and msnbc leg...

That would play in this midterms, 60% of voters in tuesdays election said abortion should be legal in most cases, democrats won those voters 73% of those voters voted for a democrat on the ballot. so it had an impact. >> it definitely had an impact. i think -- democrats had an inflation problem. and that hurt a lot. but republicans broadly had an extremism problem. and part of the extremism point number one was the supreme court ruling throwing the whole issue back to the states. but then it all...

Much. im joined by arizona congressman ruben gallego, he serves on the house armed services committee, a veteran himself. congressman, thank you for taking the time this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> you served in iraq. you are aware of the pentagons efforts here in response to extremism. does the u.s. military have an extremism problem in your view today? >> i dont think it is a severe problem, but we cant deny there is a lot of veterans coming out, becoming more extreme through one...

Extremism, but they continue to say at the pentagon its relatively small numbers. now, that said, they have made a big effort here to try and put some precision on the extremism problem and say exactly what is allowed and was not allowed without impinging on free speech. look at some of the things that this new policy says. you cannot take extremist actions which would include recruiting, training, fund-raising, organizing, demonstrating or rallying. no active participation in extremist organiza...

Or being cut off by other members of international community. but beyond that, the terrorist groups are not all -- isis-k is fighting the taliban and the taliban may be a little surprised to discover that theyve got an extremism problem that they have to deal with to protect themselves. so i think we have to see how it plays out in terms of how these various groups and factions wind up either aligning or becoming antagonistic to each other. >> in terms of capabilities, do any of those groups, in...

These mass shootings with these ties to white supremacist groups, how do we prevent ourselves from encouraging and empowering others who want to do something similar in how we cover and talk about whats happened here? >> well, thanks, kasie. i think the first thing that we need to do, and its very important, is that we need to call it by its name. we have a domestic extremism problem in our country. there isnt anybody focussed on it in the government. programs have been defunded over the last fe...

Weve also had just about the same number, again, dont quote me to the exact digit, on the domestic terrorism side. a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that weve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence. >> hes not saying its the only extremism problem but ist certainly is an extremism problem. the center for hate and extremism cal state san berne dino, 17 of 22 extreme homicides were committed by white supremacist, 18 of 34 by domestic e...