Todays hearing topic, the ongoing battle against hate, is really personal for my community in orange county. According to the San Diego County sheriffs department, the shooter posted an antisemitic message on 8chan before he went on his rampage. And samuel woodward, the man accused of killing 19yearold blaze bernstein in lake forest was a member of a neonazi group. Investigations found that woodward openly described himself as a nazi. I want to take a few minutes to focus on the role of social media in online chat rooms and messaging applications and their potential use as a platform for White Supremacists to spread hate. Did social media play a role in the planning or execution of the attack at the tree of life synagogue . Unfortunately i cant answer that question. That case is still under prosecution, and ive made an agreement not to talk about anything about the shooter himts. I appreciate your professionalism. Mr. Greenblatt, at a more general level, could you comment on what the r
Good morning. Key committee will come to order, and without objection, the chair is authorized to. Eclare a recess at any time worldys ago, the entire came together to mark holocaust Remembrance Day. In january of 1945, the auschwitz birkenau concentration camp was liberated from the nazis. It was one of the most infamous sites of the nazi genocide. The purpose of todays hearing is to commemorate these grave anniversaries, term member those we have lost, and to honor those who are with us. But it is not enough to simply recognize these dates but we must contemplate what led the atrocities we must combat bigotry, hate, and violence of all kinds day. I am so pleased to have our distinguished panel that have asked them to come together on helps solemn occasion to unify red, hope and inclusion. That. We can all do the best way to help remember is to hear from those who lived through it and we will do that today. Ae block from here is gripping institution dedicated to remembering the holoca
Cspan3, American History tv. Patrick thank you, steve. let me begin with the origin of the National Rifle association. How did the organization come about and why . Patrick it came about during the civil war. There was poor marksmanship, so two officers decided to form the nra based out of new york with two purposes. Facilitate, build, and grow longrange rifle ranges , and the other was to assist the state National Guards in marksmanship. The nra initially, just so you know, was kind of working to get appropriations from the government and they started off with one organization. They grew to 1700 by 1929. They also are, just so you know, built on, there was an english National Rifle association. In 1859. A predecessor this is supposed to be the american version. The only thing that differentiated the two to start off with was the franchise like model where you could build a rifle club, statewide and you were a nra affiliated rifle club and those rifle clubs within compete in state, loc
Come to order. The hearing today is to discuss one thatportant issue, will hopefully get some important answers. Could not be more urgent. Three weeks ago, a New York Times article revealed the ei had arrested Seven Members of an base, ation called the dangerous white supremacist group. Neonazis. The base is acceleration us, groupmystic, anarchy whose name speaks to the admiration for al qaeda and isis. And hate jews africanamericans but they do not like President Trump or the United States. The goal is to use terrorism to start a race war and collapse the United States. It may be a sick fantasy but domestic terrorism has claimed more rise lives than International Terror since 9 11. Last week, the fbi director told the Judiciary Committee that he was, elevated, racially extremism to ait National Threat priority. With the same band with homegrown violent extremism and isis. Enemies, especially russia, exploit these racial tensions to divide and we can American Society. The head of the b
Each other with praises india rolls out the red carpet for the u. S. President. But away from the pomp and pageantry more violent protests over indias new citizenship. Thank you for joining us the World Health Organization says the sudden increase in coronavirus cases outside of china is deeply concerning Irans Health Ministry says 12 people have now died and rejected reports from an m. P. In the city of quam that the figure could actually be as high as 50 the speed border is being closed and flights grounded the outbreak is spreading across the middle east kuwait iraq by her ain and afghanistan have all confirmed cases meanwhile in europe 6 people have now died in italys north which has more than 220 cases thats the highest concentration outside of a ship asia meanwhile outside of china itself south korea has the highest number of confirmed cases passing 800. 00 in the last 24 hours. And at least 8 people there have died its raised its Infectious Diseases warning to the highest level