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Country and then just at the end of this is remarks, you heard him going specifically after stephan bannon who will be one of the top white house advisers, the top adviser, in fact. he is saying bannon made the breitbart news site a haven for hate groups under his leadership and urging that trump rescind the appointment. he said just dont do it. those are the words of harry reid on the senate floor. lets bring in civil liberties lawyer who said he doesnt believe based on the evidence he has seen...

Crimes being committed across the country in the wake of his white house victory. the southern poverty lost center which tracks hate groups tells cnn there have been more than 300 incidents of hateful harassment since trump won. my next guest knows this all too well, bishop mary ann of episcopal diocese of washington. thank you for taking the time. >> im happy to be here. >> we wanted to have you on because of this, these pictures. this is what some vandals wrote on this church in your diocese. ...

Unless americans dont let it become normalized. breitbart, a website that thrives with white nationalist rhetoric. very, very incendiary kind of commentary. this is the type that he was running up until he joined the campaign, he said he was going to go back as of wednesday, after the campaign ended. now, of course, thats a question mark. whether he completely separates with breitbart or not, breitbart will be the media wing of the trump administration. but lets concentrate more on the importanc...

Big part of sort of mending relations near the end of the campaign after the "access hollywood" tape between donald trump and the republican party that stayed with him or on the edge, and he was instrumental in, you know, paul ryan sort of coming back to donald trump. obviously, both wisconsin republicans. paul ryan very happy about it. john kingston, to you, as a donald trump adviser. steve bannon, as weve discussed, runs breitbart news. the southern poverty law center which tracks hate groups ...

In the trump administration. lets bring in pastor mark burns of the now television network and a trump supporter to talk about this. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. >> well, pastor, first of all what is your reaction to this petition? is that a commitment trump should or would make? >> you know, president elect trump and again, i love the sound of that, has made it very clear throughout his campaign that he disavowed any form of domestic or foreign hate groups in america and i can a...

Side as a group whose stated goal is hating people like you? >> well, the fact of the matter is we -- this is america. and anyone in this country has a right to support or vote for whoever they want to, but, again, a trump administration is not a white supremist administration, not even by a little. again, theyre trying to paint that false narrative. donald trump loves americans. donald trump loves people. donald trump without question taking me on, an unknown pastor from a small town in south c...

Southern poverty law center says are hate groups. this is the kansas secretary of state talking about the wall. take a listen. >> if we want to make mexico pay for the wall, we tell them, from this point forward, after our regulation is passed, if you want to send money home, and youre an alien living in the united states, you have to prove that you are here legally before that money can be sent. well that would shut off more than $10 billion a year and tell mexico, look, would you like to see t...

When they move out of the first amendment realm if you will for assembly and speech to effect their a dee wrolg. >> i want to ask you about their training now. what are they training for. >> they have been doing this since the 80s. they dont like the federal government. they think the government is in their lives to the extreme. they think theyre protecting their way of life. part of that is guns and part of it is just other issues if you will. some of them are -- you can almost classify as hate...

Me. >> drew, as trumps candidacy actually given rise to these groups in numbers, or are we just seeing a rise in the noise theyre making? >> you know, anderson, the southern poverty law center really struggles with that question. these groups, alt-right, klan groups, hate groups, theyre not one group and theres no indication that theyre actually growing in numbers of people. but for whatever reason, trumps campaign has given them an actual voice in the political dialogue of this election. they a...

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