garland put out a statement that the justice department is investigating this attack is a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism. adding that one of the justice department's first priorities upon its founding in 1870 was to put bring to justice white supremacists who brought violence to black americans. that remains our urgent charge today. the problem is though that it has not been an urgent issue, even as white supremacist violence and mass murder has been on the increase. it has not been urgent enough, not just for the justice department and law enforcement, but for federal and local. and also for the democratic party as a whole, for the media as a whole, for the american people as a whole. we have not taken this issue seriously enough. even as a black and brown and jewish and muslim bodies pile up, both at home and abroad. as a direct result of white supremacists and racists violence. we did not take it starts -- after the charleston massacre in june 2015, when a hate filled sociopathic gunned down nine african americans during a bible study. we did not take it seriously enough after the pittsburgh synagogue massacre in october