president accountable is whether future presidents can be held accountable. if this president can show that congress oversight function is a paper tiger it means that any future president can be as corrupt as they want and presid corrupt as they want and know they can t be held to account. chairman adam schiff, thank you for joining us tonight. i appreciate it. thank you. up next, trump inspired terrorism. that s what one expert calls the massacre in el paso. that expert, professor david shanser. he will join us next. he will joins unext ng ] what about him? let s do it. [ sniffing ] come on. this summer, add a new member to the family. hurry into the mercedes-benz summer event today for exceptional offers.
fbi director chris wray recently testified last month that almost as many domestic terror arrests occurred in the first three quarters of this fiscal year as there have been arrested connected to international terrorism. the number of domestic terrorist arrests, about 100. and christopher said the majority were motivated by some version of white supremacist violence. importantly, the one issued by the white house where it mentions domestic terrorism twice. it does not mention white supremacy. so dhs officials we ve learned have been pushing for the white house to make this more of a concern. to make this a greater priority for the administration. to focus in on domestic terrorism. tonight, a senior administration official from the white house defending the final strategy report, saying that it was the first ever to include domestic terrorism in the report. and the senior administration
and go see, fast & furious presents, hobbs & shaw. now playing. in an essay for the guardian entielted we must call the el paso shooting what it is, trump inspired terrorism, professor david schanzer writes while trump does not overtly call for his supporters to use violence to further his agenda, his
it s staggering to imagine how much more violence this president may motivate if he continues down this deeply disturbing path. joining our discussion now is professor david schanzer. he is the director of duke university s center on terrorism and homeland security. professor, establish for us what you see as the link between donald trump s rhetoric, donald trump s hate speech, and what happened in el paso. you know, lawrence, the way terrorism works, there are a lot of angry people. there are a lot of id logically motivated people out there, but it takes the a piling on of grievance, an grievance. in order to take somebody who is angry and politicized and have them mobilized and cross that threshold to violence. i think that s what we ve seen in the last couple months with this beating the drum on this whole issue of invasion, but also the comments about the four
seem to care. so what should the president, the white house, the administration be doing to deal with this terror threat emanating from white sprem siffs? well, first you have to start throwing fuel on the fire. the president is daily throwing fuel this fire. he can t even for 24 hours after a speech yesterday in which he tried to pretend that he s against hatred and bigotry, hold his fire and act dignified long enough to visit the scenes of these terrible tragedies. we need leadership and steadfastness in the white house of the sort that i m not sure this president knows how to deliver. beyond that, we need justice department and the fbi and our intelligence community, hoke law enforcement, all fixated on this as an e-americaning serious threat to our national security. and we don t have that. just as we work to combat terrorism abroad, where it