to this alt-right white supremacist side group? what you have to understand from the fbi s perspective, this is going to be worked as a civil rights violation. civil rights violations are salient to the particular area. in the new york office of the fbi, there s a focus on a lot of international terrorism. not so much on the domestic end. in the areas of the country, the more rural areas out in the midwest, out in the west and say down in the deep south, that s more where you have domestic terrorism incidents. in this situation, the reason why the fbi and the department of justice was able to take this over as a civil rights violation kroorks you ve got three things it look at with the violations. first of all, migrant worker exploitation, law enforcement misconduct and the third hate crimes. this is going to be worked as a hate crime. you ve already got the interstate nexus because this subject drove from ohio on his way to this area to conduct this. to be part of this rally. there
now you have to derp what his mind-set was. therein lies the difficulty, what was his mind-set. you have to find out whether or not his intent was to injury or to kill somebody which he obviously did. this guy came from out of state. they believe a lot of people participating in this white supremacist rally weren t from there, weren t from there locally. now these people disperse. they go home and go elsewhere. are investigative or intelligence looking into hate groups, tracking some of these? how does that work? sure with well, with the 21st century, we all love globalizationings in connecticut or india, you can talk to people in realtime. these hate groups can do the same thing, whether or not it s radical islamism. let s not say white nationalism because that s a benign organization. the neo-nazi and obviously this alt-right group here.
trump. what s your reaction? well, first off, we realize now that we re missing some steps. if in fact the teacher knew there were problems there, this individual law enforcement needed to be notified. maybe they were. i don t know. but if they were notified then we ve got to get better at catching these folks that are absolutely in that mind-set where they want to invoke outrage or chaos and we got to make sure we have the resources to go after these folks to try to stop these things before they happen. if in fact. hold on. he was at the rally representing many others viewpoints at that same rally. nobody could have predicted he was going to drive his car necessarily into a crowd of people. but he was very clear, and those who were at the rally said they were there to express themselves and their neo-nazi white extremist views. they weren t trying to hide it. i m not sure what you re
nationalist rally there. james fields former high school teacher tells cnn fields had a fondness for adolph hitler and bought into white supremacy. here s what he told our affiliate, as well. i mean, he had some very radical views on race. he was very infatuated with the nazis, with adolph hitler. he also had a huge military history, especially with like german military history and world war ii. but he was pretty infatuated with that stuff. cnn s brian todd is live in charlottesville, virginia, where some protesters were back on the streets today. brian, how are people responding to this people that the suspect behind the deadly crash was there to take part in the white nationalist rally? reporter: they re pretty angry about that and angry about a lot of things. they re angry that the white supremacist leader who staged that rally yesterday, jason
suspected of driving the car into that crowd of people that resulted in the death of a 32-year-old woman. and my broader question, the direction i was hoping to get into with you in this discussion is the fact that this individual who is accused of this horrific act apparently thought he was going to some rally that was connected to politics in some way. does that bother you? well, as a 20-year-old, i know that even being a 20-year-old one time myself, just because i told my parents something that didn t mean i was going to do that. he probably told his mother that because it was an easier thing for her to digest than saying i m going to some crazy rally for neo-nazis where she would have said no, you re not. i don t think he identified himself in the school, he didn t tell the teacher he was a trump supporter. the teacher said he was a neo-nazi supporter. just because he told his mother