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Sign of how high tempers have been raised and how high the emotional fever pitch is as this nation of just over 4 million people struggles with a major, major crisis and with two terrible terrorist attacks. >> it proves emotions are running high right there in new zealand as well as over in neighboring australia. sarah james there in christ chur christchur christchurch. thank you. president trump condemned the attack while seemingly down playing the very real threat posed by the types of white...

Involving a senator, a far right senator in australia, faster anning. he had already courted controversy with things like attending a far right rally where kneeio nazis were present a few months ago and made comments which seemed to lay blame for the terrorist attacks on the immigrants and muslims in the community. thats drawing fire from the prime minister of australia. he is facing censure in parliament. it also caused a more immediate effect. a teenager smashed an egg into the senators head w...

Domestically there is an uptick in these arrests. it feels like the investigative tools we have and thank god for investigators, its not stopping this from happening. whats the solution to the uptick we are seeing everywhere? >> unfortunately it is more than an uptick. this has been noted over the last couple of years. the sort of rise of whatever you want to call it. right wing extremism. not just as an ideology but a motivation for terrorist attacks has been on the increase. we see it in the u...

Names scrolled across them in marker including the names of two masked shooters who targeted migrants and muslims. ainsley: he was there in new zealand training according to his manifesto that he wrote. he wasnt planning on doing this in christ church. he said he started visiting. so movingmosques and determinedt these individuals, basically according to this manifesto, is he a sick man. he is saying they deserves it because he was avenging the deaths of his people from other terrorist attacks. ...

The prime minister was, new zealand being such a peaceful nation, not really having a lot of problems, a welcoming nation, why do you think this specific person being an australian native went to new zealand to carry out his attacks, why do you think he targeted this city in particular? >> that is the $54 million question, why that city, why that nation. it goes to show you know nation on the face of the earth is immune from such terrorist attacks and its going -- no doubt in my mind after today...

Most people consider extremely safe. the deadliest shooting in new zealand in modern history was in 1990. a gunman named david gray shot and killed 13 people following a dispute with a neighbor. you look at that is the largest mass shooting in modern history 13, then 50 here. is this the state of the world right now? >> absolutely right. i was surprised, shocked when i heard it was new zealand, a quiet peaceful country. never hear much about new zealand but it says this, no one, no city, no town...

To do what you want on social media versus people that try to seek fame or notoriety through something like this. i mean, we remember elderly man that was killed on livestream because somebody wanted to do it and i dont know how to get ahold of this. but we have got to get to a society where people quit trying to chase this thing, this hollow fame whether its through horrible actions. be confident in how are. go ahead with your life and this is just incredibly evil. ainsley: thats why we dont wa...

Kim jong-un or someone below kim jong-un freelancing. what we do know this is a negotiation between the two principals, the president and his counterpart in north korea. so all the other statements that are being made are either from deputies on both sides, have to be filtered through that. thats why the wait to see whether or not the president is going to take any questions today, weigh in on this from the oval. ali, its also an opportunity for the president to weigh in on these horrific terror...

Value is stuff that most voters even voters that like president trump already think. and there is one other thing i would say about all of this cohen stuff going on. in the midst of whatever lies he is still telling, he is giving house investigators, democrats, a lot of information. and if you look back at benghazi hearings, one of the reasons that benghazi investigation was such a big deal is because in looking at what hillary clinton did in reaction to and during the benghazi terrorist attacks...

702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act when i was being asked about section 215 of the patriot act at the time, i just didnt understand that. >> one of the things thats noted in "the new york times" article which broke this story overnight was that it suggested no terrorist attacks have been stopped or terrorists caught as a result of this program. if that is the case, does that indicate that it might not be necessary? >> well, thats true, and i think probably at the time contemporaneo...