why can t president trump? i don t know. normally look, i the shooter. everybody should. obviously. but i also blame president trump, and i tay it this way. when you havespeak, your respon about what you say, and the president has consistently said things like invasion, he laughed at one of the supporters who said, you know, shoot them, when he talked about immigrants coming over the border. that s a responsibility. so if you want to tweet out racist tweets and laugh at shoot them and cull 2 an invasion, guess what? you own it. this is yours. there s a link. the president now justifies it. he has now legitimized it. so you have young white men, white supremacists being radicalized and when the leader
links to a document posted us phrases like hispanic invasion. where have we heard language like that before? the country puts the name in the bbasket and you pick people out of the lottery. let s see, this one is a murderer. this one robbed four banks. this one, i better not say. this one, another murderer. ladies and gentlemen, another murderer. think of this, do you think they re going to put their great citizens they have great people like we have great people, do you think those people are going into a lottery? no. this is an invasion. when you see these caravans starting out with 20,000 people, that s an invasion. i was badly criticized for using the word invasion. it s an invasion. but how do you stop these people? you can t.
the el paso shooter, posted just minutes before the shooting unfolded at walmart that talks about warning of a hispanic invasion, using a lot of other extremist, racist rhetoric that was posted on 8chan, which is a message board that seems to foster a lot of this. can you walk us through what happened here? what is this place online, and how are shooters across the globe seem to be collectively drawing inspiration from this place? sure, it s a totally anonymous place and that s a big deal for people who want to root on mass murder and tell people to go read white nationalist manifestos and do thing thats are quasi legal in other countries and totally legal here. that s what happened. this guy followed the path of the christchurch shooter who posted a manifesto on this website shortly before he went and committed a terror attack. and that s what happens on this site too.
do you think president trump is a white nationalist? yes. i do. i think all of the evidence out there suggests that we have a president who is a racist. who is a xenophobe. who appeals and is trying to appeal to white nationalism. i know he s a racist. there s no question in my mind. i think that s pretty well defined at this point. while president trump did not actually tell anyone to commit a crime, some say that his racist vitreal has sparked something in the minds of white nationalists. the shooter in el paso ranted about a, quote, hispanic invasion taking place in the u.s. quite similar to words used by
were killed. msnbc correspondent joins us from mexico city. i follow you on social media. i saw the post you put of the post. that says a lot about how the country is reeling. what are you hearing and seeing over there? we talk about this essay, it s from page news here. hispanic invasion. a hate crime against mexicans. that s how people are viewing yesterday s attack. we heard from the president mexican president who said that el paso is an otherwise safe city. el paso and juarez really in the same city. 20,000 people go back and forth between the two cities. a close relationship there. there is a consulate member