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These alt-right groups. sir, just very basic question, do you believe that white nationalism, white supremacyists extremists or right wing groups in this country pose a threat? >> yes, i do. >> is it growing? >> based on that report issued by the fbi, i have no reason as i sit here today to disagree with it. >> do you believe that the administration is placing enough of an emphasis -- enough resources allocated, dedicated to stopping these kinds of homegrown terrorist attacks? >> i believe that we're dedicating resources to the appropriate threats that is done obviously below my role, it's don...

Sir, very basic question, do you believe while nationalism, white supremacist, extremists or right-wing groups in this country pose a threat? >> yes, i do. >> is it grow something >> based on that report issued by the f.b.i., i have no reason to disagree with it. >> do you believe that the administration is placing enough of emphasis, enough resources allocated, dedicated to stopping these kinds of home-grown terrorist attacks? >> i believe that we are dedicating resources to the appropriate threats, that is done obviously below my role, at the line and management level at f.b.i. and our other...

All threats. >> adequately addressing the threat and you mentioned of 30 conviction and hate crimes reported. >> usually they are under reported in this country. more than 7,000 hate crimes in 2017 and you have 30 convictions. do you think your allocating adequate resources towards prosecuting hate crimes. if you look at the high profile cases that we have done, charlotte or the pittsburgh situation, we previously discussed or even the case where we sent a prosecutor to my home state of iowa to help prosecute a crime. >> if you look at the number, 7,000 reported. almost 20% increased in 2017

Campaign about the swift mode attacks. >> the swift mode, veterans for truth that were created to attack your war -- >> no war heroes. >> he betrayed his shipmates. >> let me ask you about that. you wrote a little about this. you -- you risked your own life and almost lost it. you saw others die. you lost friends in that war. you won a silver star, a bronze star, three purple hearts. if i were you i would have been freaking outraged. >> i did express it. the problem is i didn't do it on a large enough stage with enough repetition. i didn't do it through the advertising, and we should have. and...

One thing that a lot of people have commented have not reflected adequately, not a criticism, just a fact, on the text of the regulations. that's the law and what those regulations say, neil, with respect to the reporting requirement, is the attorney general is going to get a confidential report and then the attorney general does his report to congress. i think there's been an inadequate understanding what the regulations, and as a final point on that, the regulations were drafted in 1999, as a response to everyone recoiling about the referrals that my investigations sent up to congress. now, ...