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Citizens. >> mm-hmm. >> it's, to me, very scary development and particularly given its magnitude and the speed with which this radicalization process can happen. >> director, we've discussed this before, but considering, you know, today with the director of the fbi is saying, director wray testified of that the biggest chunk of racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism the fbi tracks is now favoring white supremacy. what is going on with that? what is driving that? >> well, i think, you know, our last president, i think, had a lot to do with this. i think the dog whistling that went ...

>> so director, we know social media was used to help organize the january 6 attack. are officials focusing enough on what is happening online? >> i believe the fbi certainly is. i dent know if people appreciate what a weapon social media can be. this is something i saw very dramatically in the run-up to the 2016 election and how the russians use social media to exploit the divisiveness and polarization in this country. and of course we used to worry about foreign terrorists radicalizing people here in this country. now we have our own people radicalizing other u.s. citizens. it's to me a very...

Arrested so far. they'll get to the bottom of it. but it's not for public consumption, right? it's criminal. it's grand jury. they're going to be looking for individual accountability. what a public nature commission would do is tell all of us as a nation, here's what really happened, here is how we got here, here are the responsible parties, even in leadership. that is going to quell and mitigate the damage of the big lie and the radicalization process. >> absolutely, something that people could read in total or at least get these bullet points which would be certainly digested by the media a...

Director of Turkey Program and Senior Fellow, Frontier Europe Initiative Gönül Tol is the founding director of the Middle East Institute’s Turkey program and a senior fellow for the Frontier Europe Initiative. She is also an adjunct professor at George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East Studies. After three years of field research in Germany and the Netherlands, she wrote her dissertation on the radicalization of the Turkish Islamist movement Milli Gorus in Western Europe.  She was also an adjunct professor at the College of International Security Affairs at the National...

Are as frank said going through a radicalization process in this country that is appealing to more and more young people like the el paso shooter. what is being done right now to try and tone down if possible or maybe restore a sense of security like the mayor of portland was saying because of the fact we have fear sweeping through this country? >> it's a great question and thanks for having me in this morning. on the question about ideology, this is tough one and we've wrestled with this question for the past almost 20 years in the counter terrorism community when dealing with the overseas th...