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Left has its own problem. anti-fa and other groups where you saw them beating up people this weekend and beating up people at protests, others would call riots, and that the left owns them, they are on your team. do you accept that? >> what i accept is that we have to do everything we can to stop the spread of the ideology of naziism. we lost 400,000 men and women in world war ii fighting naziism. the way to do that -- and we saw it in boston and other communities all over this country, people come out in peaceful demonstrations. you have a handful of nazis surrounded by thousands of people wh...

Prosecutors say they were wearing masks, covered head to toe in black, a tactic the antifa called black block. >> people dress in black cloth for a few things. >> reporter: scott crow leading anarchist led this group for deg kade. >> people put on a masks to become anonymous and able to move more freely and do what we need to do, whether it is illegal or not. >> reporter: so some people push back on that and say the black block is to keep peep from beam identified and arrested when they break the law. >> damn right. it's a good way to avoid the ramifications of law enforcement. [ chanting ] fa...

In their midst a sometimes very violent known at anti-fa, sometiming with police and storefronts occasionally. at least two assaulted in virginia by protestors over the weekend including this cameraman from the richmond cbs affiliate. sarah gilman takes us inside and antifa and shows us the group like you've never seen it before. >> reporter: it's 6:00 a.m. in portland, oregon. we're headed to a bar with blacked out windows. >> they wanted to meet us really early in the morning because they're concerned about a lot of people being around. >> reporter: we are meeting members of the grove city a...

In the last eight months. >> reporter: but it's the violence that's got's them attention. directly confronting groups that preach white nationalist r isis rhetoric, like on inauguration day, richard spencer was punched in the face. and it was the antifa movement that caused berkeley to cancel speeches by those like michael ianknoplous. >> and nazis that go to these rallies itching for a fight. we're there to say, we'll stand in your way. >> reporter: the thing is jake, experts who i talked to say the antifa violence may end up actually hurting their cause. across the country people who are dre...

People. and we're the ones who are fighting back. they are the second coming of hitler. >> reporter: police in berkeley told us they haven't seen this kind of destruction since the 1960s. law enforcement in other cities are dealing with similar situations. like in portland, oregon wherability where antifa has been involved in tense violence according to police and the wearing on the community. >> it is new. like a rumble mentality of, i'm going to bring my friends. you bring your friends and we're going to fight it out in the park. it's not something we've seen here. it's no the good for the c...