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Been leading the charge on putting out this rhetoric to try and say something that will calm the situation down. you know, we've discussed it before. this is a very difficult genie to get back in the bottle. it is one thing to pump people up and quite another to say i was only just kidding. this was rhetoric. let's calm it down and return to democratic discourse. the upshot though is real damage is being done to our democracy and to the democratic process. >> and to the individuals involved as well. mark potok of the southern poverty law center. as always we appreciate your insight and your ti...

And so there is an angry din out there. and i think that, you know, this man seems to have absorbed some of that. >> mark potok, thanks for your time this afternoon. still ahead, a light at the end of the tunnel for progressives pushing the public option? why some say it could get a presidential push. and fewer and fewer people losing their jobs, but republicans let no silver lining go untarnished. u.s. commerce secretary gary lock joins me just ahead. and talk about a rough day at work. "while you were working," some people were taking office conflict to a whole new level. and we want t...

>> your organization has listed three strands of the radical right. that's hate groups, extremist groups and also anti-government patriot groups. you just mentioned a 9/11 truther would come from, you say, the left. have they shown in your research any sign at all of being somewhat of a violent group? >> no. i haven't seen anything like that. and let me clarify that, you know, the 9/11 truther ideas exist very much on the right as well as the left. i just think that they originated a little more on the left. but bedell was also very critical of american involvement in both vietnam and iraq. yo...

Atrocity and trying to ramp up racial hatred to boot. and rutgers puts that person in the classroom? and then there is mark potok from the southern poverty law center he blames the killing on internet sites where frustrated men vent about women. >> there is whole world known as the manosphere. there are scores and scores of these sites if not hundreds of them. the think that is most prevalent and noticeable about them is they are often extreme misogyny. this is a world that in fact has produced a number of mass killers. >> my misogyny being hatred of women. internet site promotes rodger into g...

Atrocity and trying to ramp up racial hatred to boot. and rutgers puts that person in the classroom? and then there is mark potok from the southern poverty law center he blames the killing on internet sites where frustrated men vent about women. >> there is whole world known as the manosphere. there are scores and scores of these sites if not hundreds of them. the think that is most prevalent and noticeable about them is they are often extreme misogyny. this is a world that in fact has produced a number of mass killers. >> my misogyny being hatred of women. internet site promotes rodger into g...