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Generation, he called it a filthy international disease that has reached new zealand. >> alexandra field. thank you very much. joining us earlier was former fbi supervisor special s agent. what was your reaction when you heard of this attack and who was behind this? >> it is a horrific attack. the person behind it will be a white supremacist. this is not the first one against an ethic minority conducted by white supremacist, we have seen that against christians in charleston and jews and pitts...

A lot of pictures at christ church new zealand. memorial is growing by the hour as people come to express take outrage and sadness. the mourning and grief and shock of what happened. its not how rare they were but how common such acts have been elsewhere. hate has gone global. the impact from each terrible incident is so intensely local. its to local it tears communities apart. thats the horror. the blessing is how it can also bring neighbors together. we saw it far too recently. the tree of lif...

Political opponents. how we have them is very important and all of us just as we challenge the language of jihadist and just as president trump used to say that we were unable to name that ideology. he pouring praise to the same problem and the language of his supporters should not be scrutinized. >> is there a way to turn this around? >> i think -- it is sad for me to say this. it is going get worse before it gets better. the violence is increasing and people could not believe that in the middl...

>> it is hard to draw a straight line to what our president has said to blame him if others choose to use his words in ways hes not explicitly saying. today just as hes talking about this and on this day when the new zealand and people around the world mourning and this person in new zealand did this talking about invaders, the president is talking about invaders. >> right. >> certainly they share concerns, right? thats fair enough to say. i dont think you can blame donald trump for this attack....

Faith, what goes through your mind and your heart? >> well, this morning, you brought me back to october 27th all over again. complete repetition. i think it was george carlin that called it repeating an event that you dont want to have to repeat. it was like it just played the entire day straight through all over again. >> you taught me when we spoke i remember in the hours after the attack that it wasnt the time to be angry, that it with was the time to focus on the victims. im wondering how i...

Was under attack because she wrote a critical piece about melania and she was getting death threats and all these anti-semitic attacks. they were heinous. he was asked about it. he said, "i dont have a message for my fans." so you know he had an opportunity there to condemn it and not only did he not condemn it, he accepted that these people are his fans. so i think that you are right, if he wanted to do that, he would do that. he understands whats going on. this is not -- hes not just some clue...

Well speak broadly to our experts. first though, how this terrible morning unfolded in christ church. >> reporter: 1:40 p.m. in new zealand in the community of christ church is under attack in the middle of friday prayers. >> the shooting last 10 or 15 minutes at the first mosque. >> he continuously shooting and coming inside slowly because he was killing all the people who were at the entrance. >> reporter: after 2:00 p.m., schools in the area are on locked down. residents are told to stay in d...

The fbi is taking action here in the u.s. after todays attack in new zealand. the growing memorial has been growing by the hours. joining me now, josh, what are you learning, josh? >> we are learning of the fbi, the fbi is scrubbing its intelligence databases in order to find any u.s. connections to that attack and we are told that the fbi headquarters officials are directing field offices to scrub their case files to go through these systems to determine whether their subjects here in the unite...