outnumbered islamist incidents 2 to 1. america has seen white nationalism rise at a faster rate. last october 11 people were shot to death in a pittsburgh synagogue and a man was sending a dozen pipe bombs in the mail to well known critics of the president. in 2017, a protester was hit by a car and killed during a rally of white supremacists in charlottesville, virginia. president trump down played theish up of white nationalism then, too, after the vie lns in charlottesville. you might recall he said there were, quote, very fine people on both sides. steph? joining us now director of cal state s center for the study of hate and extremism, brian levin and washington post columnist and assistant professor of global politics at university college london, brian class. mr. levin, to you first. one study your center has conducted found that hate crimes in 30 major u.s. cities are up for the fifth year in a row. those who are saying hate crimes aren t going up, i turn you over
no, i told her how to do it. that will be up to her to say. but i told her how to do it. she wanted to go a different route. so you would be prepared to walk away if they didn t give you the right terms? oh, absolutely. i think what s going on is very unfortunate. i didn t criticize the prime minister. i have a lot of respect for the prime minister. it s called fake news. we want to trade with the u.k. and the u.k. wants to trade with us. brian, which version of the u.s. president do european leaders think is telling the truth? the one where he insults them. and the problem is that these alliances take decades to build. they literally take decades to build the trust and they can be destroyed much more quickly. and donald trump is acting like a wrecking ball coming into these alliances and then standing over the rubble and saying, i didn t mean it, and getting back on air force one. and the problem is that the reverberations from these attacks are still rippling through u.k. p
bash. politics reporter for the daily beast and msnbc contributor betsy woodruff. the man who puts memo, nbc news national reporter mike. joining us from london, london school of economics brian class. and from helsinki finland, chief correspondent affairs, host andrea mitchell reports nbc, andrea mitchell. it s such an honor to have you here. thank you for staying up with us. thank you. absolutely. i have watched so many of these meetings, dozens of types of meetings with foreign leaders over the years. this seems like everything this president does, stunning in a way that is extraordinarily difficult to kind of understand and explain. what s your latest reporting going into this summit? and can you put it in some historical context? what do you think is important here and different than what you ve seen before? sure. i think this is unique because we ve never had a summit with a
mugabe. he said in his daily mail editorial, this appalling decision doesn t make america great again, it makes america cruel again, it also makes america less safe, shame on you, mr. president. as zimbabwe grapples with a political crisis, take a listen to this on australian radio. we ll get the coup that s just happened in zimbabwe. there s not enough stability there to guarantee that this that these imports will enhance survival of the species. trump s sons hunting has been its also coming under scrutiny. don jr., knife in whaund and a severed tail in the other hand. all that leading to trump s change of heart for now, at least. we want to delve deeper into this issue and i m joined from al roberts and brian class, donald trump s attack on
bashar assad is the largest mass murderer on the face of the planet. he s killed many more people, many more muslims than isis has killed and people don t realize that and this idea that we can be pals with russia when they re supporting a mass murderer like this is just something that s against american values. why is it that the white house or the u.s. embassy are not on the same page on this issue? how do you read that and say why are these guys why they are striking two different tones? the president saying he can work with russia and ambassador hailey saying they can t? we had two years now where president trump has not said a single bad word about vladimir putin and vladimir putin s support for a mass murderer. healey is saying something that cohere s with american values and i support that. brian, let me ask you about president trump touting the russia s role on the world