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Heard terms like white supremacy and domestic terrorism. both terms it seems to me are perfectly good descriptors of what weve seen. along comes rod rosenstein over the weekend in this new cycle, a blast from our recent past who called what happened white terrorism. what else did he share with your reporting team at the times? especially if he talked about any potential solutions. >> sure, the former deputy attorney general said we need to start treating domestic terrorism in the same way we tre...

Chatter on the internet and intervening and trying to stop crimes before they happen. thats tricky in the u.s. we have a definition for domestic terrorism. the use of violence to get a message across or change the political landscape. but we dont have a criminal statute and we have first amendment rights in the united states. if youre an american citizen, you can be a member of a hate group and you can say hateful things on the internet, but until you commit a crime, its very difficult to step i...

What weve seen. along comes rod rosenstein over the weekend in this new cycle, a blast from our recent past who called what happened white terrorism. what else did he share with your reporting team at the times? especially if he talked about any potential solutions. >> sure, the former deputy attorney general said we need to start treating domestic terrorism in the same way we treat foreign terrorism. that would mean surveillance. that would mean listening to chatter on the internet and interven...

Our goal is to provide as much safety as we can for our cities. we escaped two major tragedies in terms of a visit from a hate group back a couple months ago and we were able to escape even the, what, 14 to 15 tornadoes without any loss of life as well. and then for this to come and hit us at such a hard time, you know, were all still emotional about this in terms of how we digest these issues. and some of you know when we start talking about assault weapons, being a vietnam vet i understand cle...

Some of the kinds of things they said that help people understand our reason for being here, our goal is to provide as much safety as we can for our cities. you know, we escaped two major tragedies in terms of a visit from a hate group back a couple months ago, and we were able to escape even the, what, 14 to 15 tornadoes without any loss of life as well and then for this to come, and hit us at such a hard time. were all still emotional about this in terms of how we address these issues. some ma...

Rallies. these will be your friends at the rallies. heading in to the 2020 election. the southern poverty law center has previously designated the proud boys as a hate group. with leaders regularly spouting white nationalist rhetoric and maintaining affiliations with known extremists. >> well, eddie, there are historical parallels. none of them good. >> no. >> none of them good. in fact, some of them just horrifying that we in america find ourselves where we are right now. with extremist right g...

This individual was part of a hate group. he was radicalized online. so the government does have an ability to monitor and try to find out preattack behavior online. but think about the amount of data that they would have to monitor on an hourly or every minute. this is a big data problem. to say, oh, we need to monitor social media. that has no veracity in that statement. theres no capacity to do that today. thats something that is sort of futuristic. thats going to be bringing together the tec...

Ships, they wanted to target blacks. these people, they were not just innocent people. they werent just like roommates is what i mean. >> inside the apartment, the bomb squad also discovered explosive components, including homemade fuses and even radioactive material. arthurs claimed it belonged to a fourth roommate named brandon russell, a member of the florida national guard and the founder of atomwaffen division. >> brandons the leader of the organization. i was the senior leader at one point...

>> absolutely. thats what the influencers do is they find vulnerable people and they promise them paradise. >> yeah. >> azofs interest in a teenager from boston may seem far fetched. but for years ive seen evidence of russian and ukrainian white nationalists recruiting vulnerable americans drawn to their slick propaganda. its a frightening pattern thats confirmed by multiple sources. including atomwaffen member richard. >> these groups are approaching people to go over to the ukraine and train w...

>> when police arrived at arthurs apartment, what they found was no ordinary crime scene. inside were neo-nazi decorations, hoards of white supremacist literature, and a framed photograph of oklahoma city bomber, timothy mcveigh. they also found the bodies of jeremy himmel man and an new onuschuck, both shot at close range with a semiautomatic weapon. police had no idea theyd just stumbled on the headquarters of a newly created new owe nazi hate group called atomwaffen. >> its a terrorist organi...