rhetoric is infuszed with notions of violence and dehumanization. the messages are not lost on people like the el paso shooter. your president shares your view that immigrants and racial minorities are a scourge on america. they are not deserving of the privileges of citizenship and must be denied political power at all costs. they are animals anyway, so the use of violence is permissible. we remain 15 months from the 2020 election. it s staggering to imagine how much more violence this president may motivate if he continues down this deeply disturbing path. joining our discussion now is professor david schanzer. he is the director of duke university s center on terrorism and homeland security. professor, establish for us what you see as the link between donald trump s rhetoric, donald trump s hate speech, and what happened in el paso. you know, lawrence, the way
president accountable is whether future presidents can be held accountable. if this president can show that congress oversight function is a paper tiger it means that any future president can be as corrupt as they want and presid corrupt as they want and know they can t be held to account. chairman adam schiff, thank you for joining us tonight. i appreciate it. thank you. up next, trump inspired terrorism. that s what one expert calls the massacre in el paso. that expert, professor david shanser. he will join us next. he will joins unext ng ] what about him? let s do it. [ sniffing ] come on. this summer, add a new member to the family. hurry into the mercedes-benz summer event today for exceptional offers.
witness testimony that was summarized in that report and the documents that were summarized. that s exactly what we re trying to obtain. if we liken this to a criminal proceeding, i d like to bring these witnesses before the grand jury and hear what they have to say directly, not rely on the fbi 302 summary of what they had to say. but if we re deprived of that, if the administration games it out and deprives us of the ability to do that then we may have to think about whether the obstruction itself is an offense, an impeachable offense. but what is really at stake here at the end of the day in addition to holding this president accountable is whether future presidents can be held accountable. if this president can show that congress oversight function is a paper tiger it means that any future president can be as corrupt as they want and preside corrupt as they want and know they can t be held to account. chairman adam schiff, thank you for joining us tonight. i appreciate it. tha