at some point as president you have to take a stand on these things. he he has been notably slow in this case, you re absolutely right. ellis, i want to show our viewers, i ll ask our director if we can pwrupbg up the video that took place in charlottesville, when you see the video it paints the picture of the question that i ll ask here. many are questioning the president s term or use of the term many sides. is that creating a false equivalent here? does that legitimize this group of hatemongers? reporter: it does. when you say all of god s children are sin, that does not shine new light on what most agree is a pressing reality. there are some people in our country, some people in our
people support. where have things gone that we would even have this going on in the 21st century? 54 years ago in the city where he said, doctor king longed for a society where we judge people on the content of their character not the color of their skin. these clowns didn t get the memo. who we are as a nation is a melting pot. my wife and i did dna test, i happen to be 10% spanish and north african, who cares, i m an american. i don t know where this came from. i do think it we have tried to ignore the clowns because i have to believe rubio is right. they re a tiny fraction of the minority of hatemongers and they feed on attention like feeds on oxygen. it can t be ignored. in the city were thomas jefferson lived when he drafted the declaration of independence and observed all people are created equal. kelly: i want to ask you about your town. tell me what you love about it and what the united states should know about it other than this ugly situation today.
and the hatemongers out there take that as acceptance for what they re doing and what they re saying. this doesn t happen in isolation. it happens in an atmosphere in which the entire internet is a cesspool of anti-muslim hate. it happens when school board officials in minnesota and virginia post anti-muslim statements on facebook. it happens when all of these things happen, and they need to speak out and push back against this islamophobia. all right. ibrahim hooper, thank you very much for that. and we d like to tell our viewers that ahmed mohamed will be chris hayes s guest tonight on all in at 8:00 eastern right here. so you don t want to miss that. coming up, jon stewart takes to capitol hill, explaining why he s embarrassed by congress s treatment of 9/11 first responders. plus, the second presidential debate is just hours away. how specific will donald trump get on his policies, and will he be attacked for it?
their streets and over their people that we are used to from their predecessors. and it makes these countries very vulnerable to the hatemongers that your father referred to, the kinds of people not just in the middle east but here in this country who take advantage of the situation, who provoke, who give offense, take offense and then stoke this industry of outrage that sort of raises the temperature everywhere. and it eventually leads to endangering and taking american lives. and andrea mitchell in washington, this is one more reminder of how careful we have to be when we see events unfolding in the middle east. it gives us reasons, we feel, to be optimistic about an arab spring. i remember in 2005 how joyous many people in the west were about things in lebanon. hopes were dashed there. the elections in the palestinian territories led to hamas and of
are we going to be sucked into two wars? one in syria, the other in iran? i think we need solid, responsib responsible intelligent leadership on this issue, and there s a domestic issue. are we going to allow hatemongers to wage a campaign in the united states designed to provoke the muslims? that is a serious issue which involves, of course, also civil rights. so there are a lot of issues to think about. david ignatius, a lot of concern out of washington about the fact that egyptian leadership and the muslim brotherhood in egypt remained silent for 24 to 48 hours after these attacks. is that a lingering problem as we move beyond this crisis and the streets clear? yes. it s crucial in this situation, as dr. brzezinski described it, that the united states have cof