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Swimming display of symbolism of anyone whos not white, male, allied with a far right ultra conservative ideology and fits in with what the southern poverty law center has seen across the nation with over 900 active hate groups and white supremacist and antimuslim groups in particular. joining me now, former investigator for the southern poverty law center and carol anderson, professor of african-american studies at emory university. professor, when you look at the data coming out, again, from t...

A potential interagency turf battle, not the normalcy of hate groups. the president certainly talked up his friend carl icahn on the trail. >> im going to ask him to watch our trade deal. >> carl icahn is supporting me. >> i have carl icahn ready. >> i will put him in charge of china. >> trade with china. >> carl icahn is a great guy. theyll make a great deal. >> i have the best negotiators in the world. the greatest minds and the greatest business people and the greatest negotiators, they all r...

Those are are all active hate groups and have been for several years now, for the most part. >> black lives matter, which is a group that you helped to launch with the death of trayvon martin, has been called a hate group, be to be the an at this ti time -- an thit sis of that. do you think that thats a proper equation? >> i dont think its a proper equation, and i think whats important for people to know is that black lives matter is a part of a long history of civil rights in this country, blac...

And detainments out of all of this. last year, with the southern poverty law center releasing a map, showing 1917 active hate groups in america. alicia, where does this number stand today? is that actually the number, 917? >> yes, thats for 2016, we do an annual accounting of the active hate groups in the united states and that number 917 is for 2016. we fully expect that number to grow for 2017, when that number comes out in february. >> have you clocked now groups since february that have popu...

What is the -- if theres a singular objective that you see here by these demonstrators, what would that be? >> i think were really struggling to define who we are. this conversation started a very long time ago. i dont think -- i think for the most part -- for many white americans the idea of post-racialism was very attractive coming out of the obama presidency, the idea that we had sort of crossed a lot of these boundaries, that the days of water hostages and, you know, very, very overt racism ...

To respond. >> you do, can i respond to that? >> go ahead. >> id like to respond to that. so hes forced to say that he denounces the kkk, and the neo-nazis in 2017 forced to do that. before he said that it was a blame on all sides as if theres some moral equivalent and then tuesday he has a complete breakdown if you will. and he goes back to defending neo-nazis and other hate groups. hate speech is not free speech. i dont care what the supreme court says quite frankly. we have the president supp...

Basically inviting, quote, anybody who enjoys the right of free speech. the concern though is that that could be seen as an open invitation for some of these groups, the kkk, the group saying that they are aware of quote, rumors that this group could potentially make their way here. however, they also claim that they would -- if they are made aware of any of these hate groups to attend these rallies they will ask them to take their free speech elsewhere. theyve been at a very tough position here...

>> racism is evil. and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. >> and remarkably the next day, tuesday, the president says this. >> yes, i think theres blame on both sides. you look at -- you look at both sides. i think theres blame on both sides. and i have no doubt about it and you dont have any doubt about it either. and, and, and if you repo...

So, why dont we like flo? she has the name your price tool, and we want it. but why? why dont we actually do any work? why do you only own one suit? its just the way it is, underdeveloped office character. youre right. thanks, bill. no, youre bill. im tom. you know what? no one cares. welcome back. live pictures from boston right now, thousands taking to the streets to march against hate. president trump under fire for his response to last weeks violent crashes in charlottesville, virginia. af...

More arrests later on p in the day. they were hoping that things would end peacefully, but they wanted to make a point, a point that thousands of people showed up to fight against racism, to fight against leftism and right supremacy, and they wanted to show the world thats what boston is all about. >> i know there were concerns initially that some of the people who were at that rally in charlottesville, people connected to the kkk, white supremacy groups, and other hate groups would show up toda...