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For james fields because someone in the public defenders office had a relative who was somehow effected by saturdays violence. the judge didnt go into detail on that. we reached out to the attorney general who the judge did appoint for james fields. that attorney has not gotten back to us. wolf, we have a statement in from a security firm in ohio which employed james fields. we just got this statement moments ago. they say that fields was employed with them from may 5th, 2016 until july 5th, 201...

Expected in court today. brian todd has more on the suspect and the investigation. >> reporter: important new information about the suspect accused in the car strike which killed that young woman on saturday here in charlottesville. according to our justice producer, mary kay maloney, she got this information from a justice department official familiar with the investigation. federal investigators have enough evidence to be suspicious that the suspect, james fieldser j, intended to send a messag...

Into their protective gear. once the unlawful assembly was declared, we requested the state police mobile field force to deploy in their right gear and our officers took a position behind them at that point to guard their rear. >> reporter: we repeatedly asked chief thomas questions about the suspect, james fields, about his motive, whether they have established a motive for the actions on saturday. whether fields was working with someone else and whether feelgds had been cooperating at all with...

Afford a lawyer. a picture emerging of a troubled young man with white supremacist views. >> he had radical views on race. he was very infatuated with the nazis, with adolf hitler. he also had a huge military history, especially with german military history and world war ii. but he was pretty infatuated with that stuff. >> fields mother said she knew he was traveling to virginia, but was unclear on the region. >> i didnt know it was white supremacists, i thought it had something to do with prom....

He was wearing kind of a prison jumpsuit. striped prison jumpsuit. looked drawn, sub dewed. subdued. the judge asked if he could afford an attorney. he said he could not. interesting moment. the judge said he contacted the public dendurs office and the public defenders office told him a relative of one of the public defenders was involved in saturdays violence somehow. the judge didnt go into specifics but the judge said because of that he could not appoint a public defender for james fields. he...

Fields then appointed a second public defender so he now has a lawyer. no bond set. back in court sometime before august 25th. with that we bring in ed davis. former boston police commissioner and fox news contributor tore. nice to see you as always. where does the investigation go from here? the reason they arrested fields is they saw him driving that car that crashed into all those people. thats the state charges. then we have the federal investigation for hate crimes. >> right. a little confu...

You learning about this individual? >> reporter: wolf, picking up important new details tonight about that suspect in the deadly car strike as authorities here deal with another day full of tension in charlottesville. boiling tensions outside the courthouse, the man suspected of driving his car into a crowd of protesters was charged with second degree murder. inside court, james field, 20-year-old suspect appeared by video link, now held without bond on multiple charges. new details tonight abou...

Response to charlottesville attack highlights the lefts hypocrisy. >> the same people who dont like donald trump says islamic terrorism are urging him now to say white supremacists. what we saw fanatics that dont represent this country. america is not a racial nation and its time to stop acting like it is. rob: the suspect accused of mowing down protestors will face judge this as we learn more about james fields including very sick infactuation that he had with adolf hitler.

That. we hear her mom say that. and its part of the reason why she was out here on saturday. >> lets talk about the man who has been arrested who was driving that dodge. whats the latest on him? >> so james fields made his first appearance in court today. a judge denied him bond. he told the judge he could not afford an attorney, so a public defender is going to have to be assigned to him. he does have another court date set for later this month. ali. >> all right. thanks so much, mia. good to s...

His car into the crowd, the man that resulted in that young woman losing her life, he is au accused of it, at least. >> yes, james fields did make his first court appearance today. he went before a judge. the judge denied him bond, he said he would not afford an attorney so a public defender will need to be assigned to him. there was a verbal altercation that took place. they were separated, but that is just a sign of some of the on-going tension that we have here in charlottesville. joining me ...