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Join energy upgrade california and do your thing. welcome back. over the weekend the debate over free speech rajd on. a conservative group called boston free speech organized a rally in the city. ali organizers say their event was not intended for white supremacists, neo-nazis or the kkk, and while dozens turned out for that event, an estimated 40,000 counterprotestors swarmd boston common and spilled out into the streets. the counter demonstrations believe the free speech event was a thinly v...

Criminals with bats and pepper spray for the purpose of committing acts of violence targeting anyone who was part of the protest against charlottesville bringing down the statue of robert e. lee, whether associated with the kkk or nazism were neither. there is an element of our country that has pledged to resist and oppose and obstruct this president on entirely on absolutely everything. that they wont criticize as long as he is in the office. he was to serve in last november. the protests in ch...

And other hate groups that are repugnant to everything that we hold dear as americans. i think theres blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you dont have any doubt about it either. >> that was president trump the past week, two different days, first on monday and then on tuesday, explaining his point of view on the attacks in charlottesville. charlie, bob, jillian, juan, happy sunday. there are those in this town that said it was the worst week yet for this president. i remember t...

More about what say those hate groups represent or wanting to have some type of ethno-state and specifically targeting members of the jewish faith, we think about the fact that the presidents daughter had converted to judaism. his grandchildren are being raised in the jewish faith. so dont you think this would be a slam dunk for someone in that position to be able to address what this really means? the basis of what it really means. >> its baffling that we have jewish grandchildren running aroun...

And other hate groups that are repugnant to everything that we hold dear as americans. i think theres blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you dont have any doubt about it either. >> that was president trump the past week, two different days, first on monday and then on tuesday, explaining his point of view on the attacks in charlottesville. charlie, bob, jillian, juan, happy sunday. there are those in this town that said it was the worst week yet for this president. i remember t...

Going to be a really interesting period, victor, to have trumps chief strategist now on the outside at breitbart without being in the white house any more. >> we will watch that. brian stelter, thanks so much. >> thanks. the man who inspired the movie "american history x" is with us as hate groups gain traction in the united states. we will ask this former neonazi, can they be stopped? we look back at the life of the pioneering comedian and civil rights activist dick gregory who died saturda...

Why does it take tragic events like charlottesville to get the media to focus on issues of racism, the rise of hate groups and white rage. what do you think of this video from vice? they got right in the faces of the neo-nazi, kkk members on the campus of uva back nine days ago, that friday night. this video, so vivid, you heard the hateful chants up close and personally. became a sensation on you tube, facebook. it was all over television because cameras went there and got right in the center o...

Legitimizing that. first through dog whistles, such as welfare queen, thug, law and order, and then with the birther movement, and then seeing that person who is championed the birther movement then coming in to being the president of the united states because his racism was so virulent that it spoke to a broad base of american citizens. and that legitimacy is what we see. >> when we look at the map of hate groups in the united states, were they existent prior to some of the themes critics will ...

Welcome back. im joined now by two gentlemen with very different views on how to respond to white supremacists when they take to the streets. mark bray is a dartmouth professor who has studied the antifa anti-fascist movement. they argue its necessary to confront hate groups sometimes with force. professor bray is the author of "antifa, the anti-fascist handbook." and richard cohen is the president of the southern university law group. he is an expert in hate groups. and he said direct confronta...

African-americans advance, as they get access to their citizenship rights, there has been a wave of uprising in terms of policy and judicial decisions in order to undermine that, and, i mean, ive tracked it from the end of the civil war, to the great migration, to the brown decision, to the civil rights movement, and then to the election of barack obama. and at each of those key major moments what we see then are policies that are designed to just erode, for instance, the right to vote. so just ...