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Country. they are taking their cues from our president. it is not a coincidence what were seeing on the ground in america and what were seeing in the seven months since donald trump has come into power. the southern poverty law center cites donald trumps candidacy and his presidency for leading a serious increase of hate groups and hate crimes across the country. and i just want to give our viewers here just some perspective. imagine if what were seeing on the streets of charlottesville today, i...

Date for 2017. so 2016 what we saw, hate crimes increased in the larger cities, much more so than overall, but in the 25 jurisdictions that we looked at, a 6% increase and the largest cities many of them over 20% in to 2017, were seeing thin crease, as well. one other quick thing about hate groups, weve seen these member rallies where were having scores and scores of people showing up, instead of a couple dozen, were seeing much more of those in the last couple of years than we have in many year...

Equivocation, condemn -- that he condemns white supremacy, neo-nazis and hateful groups, and he missed that moment by sort of ad libbing that from many sides. it made it seem as if he was creating some sort of false equivalent, and that made people really uncomfortable. look, republicans are trying to the best they can not only to condemn this because they find be it repugnant, but they dont want these people to be seen as an aspect of the republican party. you see people like senator gardner an...

Specifically about hate groups, white supremacy, terrorism. thats what were supposed to do. the challenge that we have right now is that this president is not adelaide stevenson. hes not someone who doesnt get worked up. when hes passionate and angry, hes specific, he names names, points fingers and today it was many sides, many sides and a lot of positive admonition. i am very concerned that he is not sending a strong enough signal to people who think that this is the right way to engage in pol...

Hundreds of people saying this is a very small group of people. most communities, my community would ostracize those folks. nobody would have anything to do with those kind of people. i dont think its a large group of people. a few crazy people youll find always of different groups, but no mass group i know of thats supporting any individuals. >> i know the southern poverty law center that of course, monitors different hate groups said theres an expectation going into today that this would be th...

Screens today is so unreal, and its so hurtful, its so hard for me not to be emotional and i just want to say where is the outrage, where is the outrage from our president? i know weve had racial tensions in this country have been ongoing for hundreds of years and even in charlottesville in my beautiful sleepy, perfect college town, thomas jeffersons academic village, underneath the surface i was a student in the 90s there were things always simmering. students would self-segregate. we had somet...

Other part o the press conference around the veterans so there was no real clear message as far as i was concerned. i mean, he made a statement saying he condemns violence and certainly that was appropriate. but this is not an issue thats going away with a single statement. i mean, we have to be able to sit down and seriously address this. i listened to others earlier talking about hate crimes being enforced and so forth. domestic terrorism. i agree with all of that. we have to take a real tough...

And we infiltrated a lot of those groups. we made a lot of arrests on the klan and neo-nazis on plots to bomb synagogues, felons with guns, and thats been the history of law enforcement, you know, trying to stop these hate groups over the last 40 years. but right now, in the last couple of years, they are in a position they have never been. they have power bases in politics. they have sympathetic media outlets. they have levers to reach out where they think they can make contacts. they probably ...

Being fair and being impartial to all people, period. yes, each one of those groups had the right to be there under our first amendment. they both did, but neither one of them had the right to be violent. now, i think its important to note that this is not any kind of way a slam against the president of the united states. when youre president, when youre in that position or any political position, youre always going to be a target. it comes with it. ask president barack obama. so lets consider t...

Where is the outrage? >> what do you want to hear from this president? >> i want to hear specifics from this president. the statement that he released, the statement that he said, we could apply that to a situation anywhere. whien is coming out against hate groups, against the klan. these are not just regular protesters, they are klan members without their hoods. why isnt he speaking about neofascism, neo-naziism? we have to speak out against this. our president needs to make it clear that it is...