all right. daryl, you heard what shimon reported about, the shooter in ohio, his social media history part of it, at least. six of the nine people killed, though, were black. the police chief there said they haven t seen any indication that race was a motivation but they re still going through the evidence. what s your thinking here? we re going to have to let the investigation take its course. i mean, i ve heard references in the news that he had a, like, a hit list of people at school, particularly girls that he wanted to sexually assault. so that may point to some sort misogynistic motivation. then we got the twitter feed that shows he may have embraced some sort of anarchist-type beliefs. we ve got the victims being all black could point to a racist belief. one thing that i think is very interesting in this day and age of the internet is oftentimes these troubled individuals will grasp on to any type of extremist ideology and don t realize that these are opposing
subsequent material revealed an orientation toward violent ideologies which elevate this case to one of federal interest. you re a former fbi special agent. what does that tell you? a couple things, wolf, it says it rises to federal interest so what that means now there is a room in the fbi building, the j. edgar hoover building, where agents are working around the clock analyzing evidence from all of these scenes gilroy, dayton and el paso and linking different pieces of evidence and are identifying additional actors and groups that may be involved making it a federal effort brings the full resources of the federal government to bear and allows the u.s. government to work across state lines. a couple other things to note here, we talk about this extremist ideology. was it done in the privacy of his own home, of friends? regardless, they re clues.
unclear. yeah. all right. daryl, you heard what shimon reported about, the shooter in ohio, his social media history part of it, at least. six of the nine people killed, though, were black. the police chief there said they haven t seen any indication that race was a motivation but they re still going through the evidence. what s your thinking here? we re going to have to let the investigation take its course. i mean, i ve heard references in the news that he had a, like, a hit list of people at school, particularly girls that he wanted to sexually assault. so that may point to some sort misogynistic motivation. then we got the twitter feed that shows he may have embraced some sort of anarchist-type beliefs. we ve got the victims being all black could point to a racist belief. one thing that i think is very interesting in this day and age of the internet is offtitentime these troubled individuals will grasp on to any type of extremist ideology and don t
was it a target of opportunity when he got to town looking for something to eat? that is something we are still waiting to find out. pete williams, our thanks. pete williams joining us from our washington bureau. just weeks before the deadly mass shootings this weekend, in july, fbi director chris wray was asked in the u.s. senate about the current threat of domestic terrorism. white supremacists were responsible for more homicides from 2016 than any other domestic terrorist movement. there is a concern that this is not being taken as seriously as it should be. our focus is on the violence. we, the fbi, don t investigate ideology, no matter how repugnant. we investigate violence. any extremist ideology, when it turns to violence, we re all over it. fbi director chris wray saying the fbi doesn t investigate ideology, except when it turns to violence. he went on, of course, to say at that hearing that a majority of domestic terrorism cases the fbi has investigated are, in his
repugnant. we investigate violence. any extremist ideology, when it turns to violence, we re all over it. fbi director chris wray saying the fbi doesn t investigate ideology, except when it turns to violence. he went on, of course, to say at that hearing that a majority of domestic terrorism cases the fbi has investigated are, in his words, what you might call white supremacist violence. after the violence of this past week and this weekend the question is fully open as to whether the federal government right now is doing all that could be done to prevent these shootings, particularly shootings fueled by right-wing terrorist ideology. six former senior directors for counterterrorism at the national security council, directors that served under both democrats and republicans as president, they have now issued a statement calling for urgent reform in terms of the way the nation handles this kind of threat. these six counterterrorism directors are calling for, quote, a significant infus