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German, german, german down, was german catholic and german lutheran was the distinction and then a bunch of vietnamese refugees came to town adding value. and i remember as a kid hearing a republican politicians saying americans aren't against other people, we are other people. america is a nation that believes a bunch of stuff about human dignity. it's true of 7.8 billion people but for the 330 million americans what we want to start with is an idea that says we don't believe that government comes first. what comes first is the rights, first amendment speech, religion, protests. these rights...

What was a credible claim versus first amendment speech. that makes no sense to me. why didn't they think what they were seeing on social media as being credible. clearly it was because it manifested itself in a dramatic and horrible fashion on january 6th. but we want to know what they knew and when they knew it and who did they communicate it to or not communicate it to. we're still waiting for that information and we're going to continue to aggressively pursue it. >> having conducted these interviews and looked at all this evidence, senator, what is your read on why the capitol police were ...

>> reporter: as far as we know, he has not. we spoke to him a couple of times today. he said he has not been contacted by the fbi. he says that that is clearly a sign that he didn't commit any crime, that what he said is protected first amendment speech. >> this isn't the first time that this topic has kind of -- or this kind of rhetoric has come up. >> reporter: yeah. you know, it's really been interesting here, anderson. over the course of the last month and a half with the two shootings in el paso, in odessa, after the odessa shooting there was an east texas state lawmaker who basically cam...

Tweet? >> he does not. he told us that any kind of suggestion that this, his comments were a death threat is simply trying to manipulate the issue. he says that he was trying to take a modern twist on the old texas revolutionary battle cry of come and take it, and that was the spirit in what he said. after beto o'rourke had tweeted back at him he shouldn't own an ar-15, he fired back at the former texas congressman calling him a child. >> and beto o'rourke's campaign said had was reported to the fbi. has he been contacted by authorities? >> as far as we know, he has not. we spoke to him a coup...

Not supporting this. the country wants it and i think it would be politically disastrous for any person in the republican party not to vote for this at this point. >> and the white house organized an event today on the rise of violent online extremism. you represent silicon valley. do you think anything productive will come from this? is silicon valley doing enough on all of this, do you think? >> we need to do more. certainly, there are some sites such as 8chan that clearly need to do more. i mean, they have propaganda on there that incites violence. they need to be regulated and that type of...