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Seen the torch march, the car attack on the news, but if you look beneath the surface, there's just so much more. what that evidence shows is that there was a conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence. >> reporter: the discovery process has turned up documents that, beyond what they might mean for this lawsuit, reveal to the public how this movement worked. the exhibit list contains text messages that show expetensive planning among leaders who tried to distance themselves from each other since 2017. they show an embrace of violence. they show they weren't just jokes. is there one comme...

That there was a conspiracy to commit racially-motivated violence. >> reporter: the discovery process has turned up documents that, beyond what they might mean for this lawsuit, revealed to the public how this movement worked. the exhibit list contains text messages that show extensive planning among leaders who have tried to distance themselves from each other since 2017. they show an embrace of violence and they show they weren't just jokes. is there like one comment that stands out at you? >> the image that -- um -- has stuck with me ever since the beginning of the case was one of the disco...

Out at you? >> the image that has stuck with me ever since the beginning of the case was one of the discord post pictures. it shows a tractor running people over, and it's call the protester digester. there's many, many posts in this case about running over people with cars prior to the car attack on august 12th. but that one to me was, like i can't get it out of my head. >> hundreds of fascists on all sides. >> reporter: if you're saying organized violence on the one hand is not protected by the first amendment but speech that does talk about violence is protected, there's obviously going to ...

The discord post pictures it shows a tractor running people over. and it's called the protestor digester. look. there is many, many posts in this case about running over people with cars prior to the car attack on august 12th. but that one, to me, was like i can't get it out of my head. >> hundreds of fascists on all sides. >> if you are saying organize violence on the one hand is not protected by the first amendment. but speech that does talk about violence is protected, there is obviously going to be a question of where, along that spectrum, can you say the law should step in or the first am...

To echo both their words, it seemed like a dream. at that time, there was no out ward indication of travel. in sign that something may have been very wrong. how did their trip go from this to this? >> he didn't like hit me in the face. he didn't punch me in the face or anything. >> did he slap your face or what? >> he grabbed me with his nail. i can feel it. it burns. >> that's police body cam footage from utah on august 12th. six weeks after gabby and brian started off on their trip. w we'll come back to that later. we know gabby and brian checked out of this hotel in salt lake city august 24...