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I was in nevada a few days ago and the senate nominee praised president bush for his comments after 9/11 going to a mosque and saying were not at war with the muslim world. this is a different category. >> actions speak louder than words. especially when words are read off a teleprompter. come out in the more natural venue for the person. we were talking about pittsburgh. were talking about the mail bombs. we havent talked about what happened in kentucky. what investigators are looking into down...

He said. hes really kicked away that role and i think what were watching is a horrible lab experiment about what happens in this country, what hate groups feel licensed if you have a president who does that and does not try -- >> i think we need to at least establish the context of what happened here because i dont think its just about trump failing to bring the country together after the fact. in this specific -- >> he has incited violence. >> in this case with this pittsburgh shooter, this man...

For political purposes fanning the flames and encouraging the worst of us, that is a problem. >> hes not saying the things he should to warn people like that that they wont get away with it or he is coiling saying things that are intended to incite violence and encourage hate groups and somehow help him politically and i think he doesnt understand that everything a president does sends a message. for instance, about a week after the inauguration, donald trump issued a statement on holocaust reme...

Mirror and realized hes energized the radical right. theres been a 20% increase in hate groups. its going to take leadership at all levels in our churches, our school, our community groups and it would be great if it could start at the ptop. but i wonder if thats beyond him. he doesnt have a a lot of empathy. >> folks are thinking of themselves. how do we get out of this. how do we change the conversation. how do we start to heal wounds, turn down the rhetoric, turn down the volume. ruth, do you...

One more thing, this fragmentation has caused these loose cannons, these loose cherries who were previously somewhat controlled by these groups to act on their own. loners who are under the radar like this fellow are among the biggest we see today. one last thing. our right-wing extremism is the most ascendant in a rising tide of a diverse threat matrix. >> what do we do about it? >> first, tone down the rhetoric. one thing our research has shown is that sometimes, but not always, divisive rheto...

It has a relatively small user base but gabs claim to fame you can post about anything. it says its a free speech utopia where some of the kind of restrictions on twitter and facebook against hate speech, for example, dont always xifex on gab. the company says it has some restrictions and works with law enforcement but the site is a favorite of hate groups and bigots and somebody get blocked on twitter, they go over to gab and use it instead. this suspect in pittsburgh, he was posting all sorts ...

Have seen white supremacists and neo-nazis indicted federally, many here from california. we also have seen two african-americans murdered because of their race in kentucky, these pipe bombs, as well as information about right wing groups in the west coast storing weapons on rooftops around public demonstrations. and one of the things ive said in my meetings with officials and as well with the media is that dont expect to see this, you know, fisticuffs taking place at public demonstrations to be...

Conspiracy theories and hoaxes, and some end up doing awful things. i think our information environment is polluted in many ways. so how does a free society grapple with that knowing how many benefits come from the internet, how valuable free expression is free speech rights are. how do we grapple with this? lets talk about it with oliver darcy and gq correspondent julia. the company is known as being like a free speech oasis. you can post whatever you want. in reality that means a lot of hate g...

Media site, gab.com. >> never heard of it. >> apparently a site not monitored for anti-semitic or other threats, a favorite site among hate groups, i presume as a result of that. tell me about some of his posts. >> it bills itself as this website that kind of doesnt monitor hate speech, lets people have their freedom to say -- look, theres a lot weve learned about things hes said on there, certainly theres some pro trump stuff, a lot of anti-jewish sentiment. he posted minutes before he went on ...

Was influenced by possible hate groups or in any way, you know, his actions facilitated by anyone or any other influence. how will they do that? >> yeah, absolutely. the reason is twofold. first, the case at hand. they want to insure there was no one else out there who may be responsible for this incredibly deadly act, this tragedy. so that will be a key part of it. theyll find that out by talking with him and going through these other potential areas of evidence, avenues to build this case. the...