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Violent in nature. it was premeditated. we knew that the night before. there was very negative violent rhetoric going on that led into todays episode. what i would strongly suggest to the governor and to the local representatives there in charlottesville is that they request from the president and from the attorney general, jeff sessions, that an investigation be opened, because you have some very evident hate crimes that took place here today in number, regardless of what side it may have occur...

Its important to look at the context in which the president failed to condemn this and it was disappointing. the anonymous statement today from the white house. we need to hear from the president of the united states to say it is wrong, despicable. the group, the kkk, the neo-nazis, are not welcome in this country. this kind of behavior is not welcome. >> congressman, citing those issues of context that youre putting right there, do you think that the current political atmosphere, and that would...

The streets where the alt-right gets their megaphone and gets their message heard through the media. >> we were talking about how the president reacted to the violence. his opponents and republicans too are ripping apart some of those comments today no matter where one land on the political spectrum randy, is there a correct way to talk about these hate groups? >> there is. i mean, the fact is that they are responding to the changes, but the changes are about creating a society thats more just a...

The programs that deal with domestic terrorism. >> that fight domestic terrorists and some of these hate groups. exactly. this morning on "state of the union." the mayor of charlottesville accused the president of emboldening some of these hate groups. >> look at the campaign he ran, look at the intentional courting both on the one hand of all these white supremacists, white nationalists, anti-semitic groups and look on the other hand the repeated failure to step up, condemn, denounce, silence, ...

And violence on many sides, those are the words he used, he has an inability to call out certain hate groups like the ones i mentioned. how much is he skull culpable and what will be the legalcy of this? >> he has no credibility with the majority of the country when talking about race. he built his campaign stoking white supremacy and allowed them to feel this was an okay place to be. it is already his legacy. the piece of the country that he was talking to at all that would be interested in his...

Now you have to derp what his mind-set was. therein lies the difficulty, what was his mind-set. you have to find out whether or not his intent was to injury or to kill somebody which he obviously did. >> this guy came from out of state. they believe a lot of people participating in this white supremacist rally werent from there, werent from there locally. now these people disperse. they go home and go elsewhere. are investigative or intelligence looking into hate groups, tracking some of these? ...

Specific hate groups. the white nationalists who bear the blame for starting the trouble in charlottesville. california democratic congressman ted lieu is joining us now. prominent republicans like ted cruz, marco rubio, they are all criticizing the president over his response that they say should be stronger. is this issue bringing democrats and republicans together? >> yes, it is. what america witnessed yesterday was not a partisan issue. it was an american issue. and americans from all whaalk...

Welcome back. in 2017, are we seeing some of the hate groups become mainstream, part of the conversation we were having? there are 917 active hate groups in the united states. between 2015 and 2016, we saw a 197% increase in anti muslim hate groups. that was a tripling of its number and a 23% increase in the neo-confederate groups. here is the map of all the active hate groups around the country. amy walter, look, it is not new to have this fringe and this -- the republican party for a long time...

Torches out there on uva. speak to what brian stais talki about. i know you have this map of hate groups spread across the united states. how many of those -- here it is, how much of those are white extremist groups such as neo-nazis, members of the kkk? >> 917 hate groups, every one is a extremist group extremi, a ha. in terms of intimidation and harassment across the country, that number has since risen. since election day, we are looking at more than 1,800 incidents of hateful intimidation an...

Forms of violence, bigotry and hatred and of course that includes supremacists and kkk." joining me now is the ceo and best-selling author. wes, thanks for joining me. >> great to see you. >> what were you thinking when you saw that unfold in charlottesville? >> i think what were seeing is that hopelessness and tolerating this type of language has consequences when were silent, were watching a 20% of increase and close to 1,000 organizations in this country that are hate groups and we cannot be ...