question. i do not. no? go ahead. mr. president thank you, sir. we d all love 0 have more of these if you re willing. in 2017 shortly after you took office, your homeland security department shuttered a program to encounter homegrown right wing extremism, white supremacism and related terrorist groups, domestic terrorist groups and redirected that funding towards fighting islamic terrorism. do you believe that white supremacist terrorists, right wing terrorists, these homegrown terrorists on that side of the spectrum are a problem, sir? yeah. what is your administration doing about it. i believe all hate is a problem. but i do believe that is a problem. what are you going to do. it s a problem we want to solve. how, sir? what are you going to do about it, sir? what are you going to do about it? cut off the funding. mr. president
reporter: i think we d all love to have more of these if you re willing. in 2017, shortly after you took office, your homeland security department shuttered program to counter homegrown white right wing extremism, and related domestic terrorist groups. and redirected that funding towards fighting islamic terrorists. do you believe that white supremacist terrorists and right-wing terrorists, these homegrown terrorists on that side of the spectrum are a problem, sir? and what it is your administration hope to do about it? president trump: i do believe that is a problem. it s a problem we want to solve. reporter: what are you going to do about it? you cut off the funding.
i m surprised you asked that question. i do not. one more. reporter: thank you, sir. i think we d all love to have more of these if you re willing. in 2017 shortly after you took office your homeland security office shuddered a grown to and related terrorist groups. domestic terrorist groups. and redirected that funding toward fighting islamic terrorism. do you believe that white supremacist terrorists, right wing terrorists, these home grown terrorists on that side of the spectrum are a problem, sir? and yeah, i do. i do believe that s a problem. i believe all hate is a problem. but i do believe that is a problem. reporter: what are you going to do about it? it s a problem we want to solve. reporter: sir, what are you going to do about it? cut off the funding.
they voted forward from, it is not a guess, it is actually statistically proven, that they overwhelmingly supported the republican candidate for president. ed: antifa is clearly more on the left. correct, although, eda, if we were to guess, if we had a little chalkboard up here, right, and they put a line down, and i said what to domestic group are on the left? antifa. what domestic terrorist groups align themselves with the right? there is a longer list, it doesn t make it right or wrong, it is all wrong. the condemnation has come out from the left, rachel, i would strongly disagree with that, speaking of kudos to the fbi, if you look at the airport, they also talked about the rhetoric that the president that s came out of the president s mouth is that they felt strongly marked to this type of violence. i just have to say, as soon as charlottesville happened, the
year anniversary. democrats are not doing a good jofb making it clear this can t be politics as normal in our nation. and i should note for our audience that bennie thompson who s the head of this new commission was on with ally this weekend. he was asked when he was prepared to subpoena the former president. he s prepared to subpoena anyone. jim clyburn who is the house majority whip has said that he wouldn t like to see a former president testify but if it comes to that he would be down with it. let s go back i want to end on the legal cases with you, scott. what should we be looking for. you noted 516 total cases. is there a commonality that gives us a sense of where they re going. my question is flipping people to what end? are we talking now about essential naming these three groups, the oath keepers, the proud boys and the three percenters in essence as domestic terrorist groups because they seem to be the