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To be a force to bring people together, and everybody has it in their power to be a force to bring people apart. thats up to the president of the united states. >> she echoed a sentiment that a lot of people have about this president which is that he delivers one message and then muddles that message with an off-the-cuff comment thats often divisive. i want to play a couple of examples of that kind of behavior after national traditi tragedies. >> racism is evil, and those who cause violence in i...

From the presidents statement was a declaration that domestic terrorism would be a crime that the federal government could prosecute. ill give you an example. right now, people in the united states, if youre a white sfrem cyst or youre part of these hate groups, the federal government cannot prosecute you for that reason. you have to have a weapon, a bomb, something like that. compare that to international terrorism. when i was an fbi agent i could prosecute someone for merely associating with i...

8chan and gab and that is for any of you? yall have any suggestions for us? that is scary. >> reporter: that is scary. and a lot of people are talking about what to do next. we do have to mention, obviously in this country, jake, that hate speech has been by the supreme court protected as free speech. what is not protected is inciting people to violence and that line is blurred on places like 8chan. what has to be talked about, if you talk to law enforcement, is a multi-faceted approach to deali...

Intel and prediction out. what i saw happening was the theme of the president attacking the so-called squad, the elected congress members of color, telling them to go back where they came from and the attack on elijah cummings and the city of baltimore where no human, quote, would want to live. i saw that resonating among the white hate groups, the white supremacist movement and i saw them being encouraged and boldened by it. that kind of was a trigger that i saw developing that i needed to talk...

Chris, "the washington post" reports that counties that hosted trump rallies in 2016 saw a 226% increase in hate crimes. is 226% evidence that words do actually matter? >> stephanie, you only need to compare whats happening here in the united states with what happens in other countries. other countries have hate groups. they have the internet for spreading hate groups. they have mental health challenges and video games as well. in no other country do you see the kind of violence we have in this ...

Treating this as domestic terrorism. remember, the fact that they even have to make that choice shows one of the problems with the resourcing, the responsibility and the law here. so what do they need? legally they need confirmation, proof that the suspect wrote a racist anti-immigrant manifesto in this case that they believe he posted online just minutes before the shooting because that would show that this violence was motivated by the furtherance of a political agenda, and that is how our law...

Better go up right now. >> creating the crisis. >> so he creates the crisis. and then he talks about invasion to his people and then he inspires with his words and his actions, his deeds, his policies the white supremacists to do what was done this weekend, certainly if you dont believe us, you can certainly believe what david duke says and what neo-nazi leaders are saying. >> hate groups. >> what hate groups on the far right are saying. theyre saying that donald trump is the most racist preside...

Voice of the latina community in the united states. and so as you can imagine, the news of this tragedy hit this community and everybody at our conference very, very hard. >> i want to get back to that in a moment, you say of increasing the voice of many of these communities, but at the same time we are hearing from a lot of politicians who are pointing to the inflammatory rhetoric around immigration as a major cause of emboldening hate groups. what more do you think can be done about tamping do...

Would you rather have him? number two, maybe they make a point on that. however, it happened in the united states, and american citizens were killed. we have custody of him, so we have primary jurisdiction. just not to put too fine a legal point on it. >> right. and then given whats happened here, steve, look, its been a deadly weekend. the fbi director -- >> unbelievable. >> offices -- ordered offices around the country to basically do a threat assessment to identify risks to possibly prevent f...

What he called racism and white supremacy. he made no mention of his own rhetoric that you just heard, race baiting, invasion, et cetera. it comes at a time, though, when experts say that the number of hate groups is growing, from 784 undocumented in 2013 to over a thousand nowadays. im joined by an expert in extremism and jason johnson, politics editor for "the root." heidi, how much does what we have observed over the weekend fit in with the larger patterns and the rhetoric we heard on the scr...