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Also federal investigators are pursuing perhaps federal hate crime charges as well. thats another avenue of this ve investigation that will continue in the weeks ahead. thats significant development on the gunman today. >> in terms of the so-called manifesto that this person posted, can you talk about what was in that? >> reporter: this was a hate-filled diatribe, talking about his anger toward what he described as the hispanic invasion of texas. he wanted to come here and target hispanic americ...

Hispanic invasion of texas. as "the new york times" points out f the essay is linked to the el paso gunman it potentially underscores the global spread of white supremacist ideology in the age of social media and at a time when immigration in america and elsewhere has become a divisive political topic. joe, its also become something the president has been fanning the flames of for quite some time. >> well, and, you know, we have talked about it over the past several weeks. its only been heating ...

California and others spread their racist agenda. as sara sidner reports, law enforcement is struggling to keep up with and regulate the dark online communities. >> reporter: minutes before the kayot and terror unleashed on families shopping at walmart in el paso, the accused gunman may have spelled out why he waged war on innocents. a hate-filled manifesto railing against immigrants, calling it the hispanic invasion. the post praises ideas set forth in another manifesto written by the person id...

The four-page publication posting on 8chan 20 minutes before the shooting and the author opposes race mixing and asking them to return to their home country speaking of hispanic invasion and say it began in the parking lot of the walmart and the shooter then entered the store. [ sound of gunfire ] >> reporter: panicked shoppers slid under tables, others ran for their lives. and a heart-wrenching story of two young parents who were killed saving their infant child. 24-year-old jordan anchondo was...

I wish i could be talking to you under better circumstances. it is so heart breaking right now. police have said that there is a manifesto they think may be linked to this shooting suspect. what did it tell us about the potential motive? >> if this is indeed the el paso shooters manifesto, it tells us he was filled with hit and ultimately fear, fear of immigration, fear of as he put it being replaced as a white person in this country. fear of black and brown people, particularly fear as he put i...

New york times." now, in a new op-ed he writes this. heres part of it. the el paso massacre, and thats what it is, its not a mass shooting but a premeditated massacre, was the inevitable by-product of the trump eras anti-immigrant and anti-latino invective which has poisoned our nation. el paso-juarez is a big, bustling desert city of over 2 million, straddling the u.s. and mexico. my hometown has virtually zero modern history of ethnic strife. el paso alone is over 80% hispanic. we switch from ...

The crowd laughed and the president smiled. when a gunman killed 51 muslims in new zealand after complaining about invaders, president trump said this the same day about our southern border. quote, people hate the word invasion. thats what it is. its something hes said more than a dozen times atrialies and tweets. this is strategy. president trump says its critical to stop the invasion. this rhetoric resonates with white supremacists. weve used the same language as invasion massacres at tree of ...

Her husband and sop were waiting for her in the parking lot and the grim reality of families brought in to identify the victims. all while police, the last word we have from them, is that the suspect is continuing to cooperate, but one of the things i hear a lot from folks is the phrase that he railed against hispanic invasion of texas and even as they come out to pay their respects here at the memorial and last night at a couple of different vigils, many people have acknowledged to me that they...

Hatred, mentioning a spanish invasion of texas. it draws direct inspiration from the mass murder at two mosques in new zealand that left 51 people dead. in the attack, the suspect published a manifesto online, a white supremacist, the manifesto potentially linked to the el paso, in general i support the christ church shooter, this is a response to the hispanic invasion of texas. as "the new york times" points out, if the manifesto is linked to the el paso gunman, it und underscores the spread of...

By themselves. >> but a president can certainly lead the charge, and the president right now as a candidate can run on it. i will do everything i can by executive order, but i will also lead on the argument of getting rid of the filibuster so that by a majority we can do what the he american people have sent us there to do the filibuster is blocking action on guns. its part of the way that the gun manufacturers hold congress enthralled, and weve got to stop that. i want to also talk about this...