counterintelligence at the fbi, frank figliuzzi is here, and with us today the piece we quoted, white house bureau chief for the washington post, phil rucker. phil rucker, i will out myself. i emailed you last night and said i thought your reporting was some of the best and distressing of trump s presidency and i want to read what you wrote. this gets to the heart of the matter. the overlap of the killer s manifesto in donald trump s language. portions of the 2,300 word essay titled the inconvenient truth closely mirror rp s rhetoric as well as the language of the white nationalist moment, including the warning of the spanish invasion of texas. the author is so aligned with the president he decided to include in his manifesto by
loss to deal with. he goes away for a long, long time. now you make him a white guy from texas and we don t know what to do with him. we got to change legislation e. policy and thinking. brian and frank, thank you for your time today. on the other side of the break, we will go back to the table and live to el paso. hiv controlling, joint replacing, and depression relieving company. from the day you re born we never stop taking care of you.
divisions in this country. and perhaps the very carnage we saw in texas. the words that i can hardly believe as they come out of philip rucker s mouth, frank figliuzzi, but you predicted this. you so much as predicted that the tinderbox that phil and peter baker of the new york times have written about, this country s sort of state of play when it comes to questions of race. so amped up by the president s rhetoric, colliding with this rise in white supremacy and domestic terrorism. talk about what you predicted, what you feared, and what has come to pass. well, i have never felt so badly about being right before. i wish i were wrong. but i had to put pen to paper because it was instinctive. this isn t rocket science. if you have been in the intelligence community, you have an instinct to identify a threat, push it out and get the
look, i tried to move the needle within the party and i failed. it s important in this moment to acknowledge it. i find myself today offering the same insight i did at the night of the parkland shooting a few hours from our home in florida, which is this, republicans will never do anything on gun control, nothing, ever. they won t. think about las vegas. they did nothing when 500 people were injured. the pulse nightclub, 50 killed. the question for the nation was, do we allow suspected terrorists to buy firearms? republicans did nothing. parkland, they did nothing. south carolina, knock. go to sandy hook in connecticut, nothing. jewish temple in pittsburgh, nothing. jewish temple in san diego, nothing. southerland springs, evangelical church in texas, nothing. now texas and ohio in the same weekend and all we get is silence. i say that because if this is the issue that forms your ideology as a voter the strength
griffeth, my old friend. we will see you back here tomorrow. thank you for watching. can you watch or listen on sirius xm, tune in, msnbc.com/now, msnbc app and apple tv. find me on social media, twitter, facebook, snapchat and linkedin. deadline: white house with nicolle wallace starts right now. hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. and today 17 years and about 335 days after terrorists declared war on the american homeland in the attacks of 9/11, we woke up to the same language of war from some of our government officials. this time the enemy is domestic terrorism. according to fbi director chris wray, it s largely puyoled by white supremacy. in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend in texas and ohio that together killed 31 people and wounded 45 more, there s an open question