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Much. i'm joined by arizona congressman ruben gallego, he serves on the house armed services committee, a veteran himself. congressman, thank you for taking the time this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> you served in iraq. you are aware of the pentagon's efforts here in response to extremism. does the u.s. military have an extremism problem in your view today? >> i don't think it is a severe problem, but we can't deny there is a lot of veterans coming out, becoming more extreme through one area or another. it is a reflection of the overall society. however, more importantly, you know...

Extremism, but they continue to say at the pentagon it's relatively small numbers. now, that said, they have made a big effort here to try and put some precision on the extremism problem and say exactly what is allowed and was not allowed without impinging on free speech. look at some of the things that this new policy says. you cannot take extremist actions which would include recruiting, training, fund-raising, organizing, demonstrating or rallying. no active participation in extremist organizations. now, the pentagon does not name any particular organizations, but what it really focuses on ...

Or being cut off by other members of international community. but beyond that, the terrorist groups are not all -- isis-k is fighting the taliban and the taliban may be a little surprised to discover that they've got an extremism problem that they have to deal with to protect themselves. so i think we have to see how it plays out in terms of how these various groups and factions wind up either aligning or becoming antagonistic to each other. >> in terms of capabilities, do any of those groups, including what remains of al qaeda there, have the capability to plot and carry out attacks on the u....

These mass shootings with these ties to white supremacist groups, how do we prevent ourselves from encouraging and empowering others who want to do something similar in how we cover and talk about what's happened here? >> well, thanks, kasie. i think the first thing that we need to do, and it's very important, is that we need to call it by its name. we have a domestic extremism problem in our country. there isn't anybody focussed on it in the government. programs have been defunded over the last few years. and even programs focussed on the far right. the first step is we need to ensure there i...

We've also had just about the same number, again, don't quote me to the exact digit, on the domestic terrorism side. a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence. >> he's not saying it's the only extremism problem but ist certainly is an extremism problem. the center for hate and extremism cal state san berne dino, 17 of 22 extreme homicides were committed by white supremacist, 18 of 34 by domestic extremists in 2017, according to the government accountability office 23% of all domestic extrem...