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cliven bundy. >> america better wake up if we're going to live in this country with any kind of freedom and liberty. >> mr. bundy owns around 500 head of cattle. they've grazed on this plot of land in southern nevada for decades. but bundy doesn't own the land. the federal government does. and in order to graze cattle on federal land, you have to pay land use fees. bundy stopped paying those fees in 1993. he now owes the government over $1 million. you see, bundy doesn't think the federal government owns the land. in fact, he doesn't recognize the federal government at all. >> i abid...

backing down. >> when push comes to the shove when it comes to the constitution, folks aren't going to back down. >> i'll be honest, we saw what happened at waco, i'm concerned. >> right now the biggest story in the right-wing media is the face-off between federal agents and this man, nevada rancher cliven bundy. >> america better wake up if we're going to live in this country with any kind of freedom and liberty. >> mr. bundy owns around 500 head of cattle. they've grazed on this plot of land in southern nevada for decades. but bundy doesn't own the land. the federal government does...

Your group's radar for a long time. tell me about that? >> yes, we've been tracking him since the early '70s and the '80s. he's a hardcore anti-semite and white supremacist and basically his life work has been hating jews. we sued one of his groups for paramilitary activity and for harassing african-americans back in the '80s. and in revenge for that, he actually targeted our founder, morris dees for assassination. >> do you think he should be facing terrorism charges instead of just hate crime charges? >> i think that's a really good question, jake. because the fact of the matter is, when we ...

Early teenhood, he has been a committed and extremely hard line first klansman and then neo-nazi. he, in fact, was involved and ultimately went to prison, in part, for a plot to assassinate the founder of the southern poverty law center, where i work, morris dees. his klans group, another group he founded, the white patriot party. these were groups in the 1980s in north carolina which were really paramilitary in orientation. it turned out they were secretly getting training from on duty marines at fort bragg. they were also acquiring stolen weapons from that fort, so very scary group, and in p...

These views, extreme white views, neo-nazi views and anti-semitism which is what mill ser about, and these are the views that drive people over the edge, and this is not the first time that he has been involved in violent activities. he threatened to kill our founder morris dees over the anti-ra anti-racist activities, and so miller has a track record of violence a mile long, but he is symbolic of a lot of people in t the world with most of the domestic terrorist here in the kcountry come from the white supremists and anti-government extremists who live in the same world that frazier glenn mil...