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♪ 4 . what made me turn away from hate? it's the question i'm ask eed mt often, the answer is complicated and didn't happen all at once. by 1994, i was 21 years old, married with two children and still a committed neonazi skinhead. one night, as i beat up a black teenager outside a mcdonald's, his eyes caught mine and it hit me, what the hell am i doing? but i could not let go. my wife and kids left me when it was clear that i chose a violent movement over them. hatred was not giving my life meaning anymore. it was destroying it.

Had a shaved head and boots and he walked over to me and he smacked me in the head and pull today joint from my mouth and then he looked me in the eyes and he said, that's what the communists and the jews want you to do to keep you docile. he saw in me somebody that wanted to belong, somebody that was looking for a family and could be easily molded in to something that he wanted. >> this is it. white power. >> 14 years old, i went from a normal kid to somebody who was plotting to hurt other people based on the color of their skin or who they loved or the god that they prayed to. i was a mouth ...

Right track. i was willing to die for something a long time ago. that frankly was garbage. if somebody wants to hurt me now for doing the right thing, i'm okay with that. >> you can watch "breaking hate" tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern time right here on msnbc. possibilities than ever before. and american express has your back every step of the way- whether it's the comfort of knowing help is just a call away with global assist. or getting financing to fund your business. no one has your back like american express. so where ever you go. we're right there with you. the powerful backing of american...

Times over the course of the day, i can tell you the answer to that question is nothing. the counterprotesters absolutely dwarfed this message, drowneded it out. it was impossible for these white nationalists to communicate anything except that they were overwhelmed, frankly, b here, today, by an opposing message. >> all right, garrett haake, we're going to check in with you later here. i want to dig into what is behind the hate, what motivates people to march against others they've never met. joining us a man who can give us insight, because he's been there, a former white supremacist who's d...

What does that mean if we begin to normalize this type of hate and rhetoric that we see coming from the groups? what does that mean if the groups are trying to change their image to as the professor or the doctor was referencing. they're in our institutions now, so the struggle is not just protesting but in various aspects of our culture. so i think again, you look to the president to confront these things head on and i don't have the expectation that president trump is going to do that. i don't think anyone in this country should. if they do, then they're simply naive. >> we'll come back in a...