Anything to say about it. They are always completely blindsided. They always have had no clue as to what it is that David Fahrenthold is about to report about them next. He is going to be with us here live tonight to talk about his latest scoop, which again both the Trump White House and the Trump Organization appear to have no response to whatsoever, at least thus far. Today in el paso, texas authorities publicly released the affidavit filed by an El Paso Police detective about the arrest of the shooter, who killed 22 people this week in el paso after apparently posting online a diatribe about why he was doing it and how he wanted to stop what he saw as a hispanic invasion. He wanted to target immigrants. He wanted to target the Hispanic Community because he thought he was, you know, saving the white race or whatever. I say that man apparently posted that diatribe online because while it appears to be sort of statement of purpose from this mass murderer, no Law Enforcement authorities have def dedefinitively said it was he who posted it online though it seems like it probably was. If there was any doubt as to the motivations of the el paso killer this Police Affidavit about his arrest that was released today would seem to lay any such doubts to rest. This is from the affidavit. Agents and Police Officers at the intersection observed a male person, the defendant, to exit out of the vehicle with his hands raised in the air and stated out loud to the agents, im the shooter. The defendant was placed under arrest and transported to police headquarters. The affiant, meaning the detective filling out the affidavit, and another detective, met with the defendant inside Interview Room number four. They read him his miranda rights. He waived his right to remain silent. He agreed to speak about the incident. Quote, the defendant stated he drove to the listed location in el paso from allen, texas which is like nine or ten hours away. He entered the store with an Assault Rifle ak47 and multiple magazines. The defendant stated once inside the store he opened fire, using his ak47 shooting multiple innocent victims. The defendant stated his target were mexicans. Mexicans. There has been a little ripple you can start to see growing on the right. A little ripple of denialism about the el paso attack. Antiimmigrant groups in particular have been sort of softly, softly suggesting that maybe race and immigration wasnt the motivation for the shooter at all. Maybe he was just some crazy kid. I mean, beyond what appears to be the online statement from the shooter explaining his motives and now what the el paso detectives say he said to them as soon as he was arrested, having volunteered that he was the shooter, it does seem like his motive, the racially specific nature of his motive should now be considered a settled issue. This weekend will mark the twoyear anniversary of what is now just short handed in this country as charlottesville. The neo nazi, white supremacist gathering in charlottesville, virginia in august, 2017 during which neo nazi and white supremacist protesters marched around holding torches saying things like, you will not replace us. Another paranoid white supremacist theory cited by the el paso gunman this weekend incidentally. The day after the torch lit antisemitic white power rally in charlottesville, a selfproclaimed neo nazi who had driven to charlottesville from ohio specifically for this racist rally killed a counterprotester named heather higher and injured dozens more people when he deliberately drove his car at speed into a crowd of antiracist protesters in charlottesville. This weekend being the anniversary of that murder and that big, proud racist white power display in an american city, that anniversary coming this weekend so closely on the heels of our countrys worst ever terrorist attack targeting latinos and immigrants. This selfproclaimed racist massacre in el paso just this week. You know, if the president of our country were so inclined, because of the anniversary and because of what just happened in el paso this week, this would be kind of the obvious moment. This would be a good time one might imagine for the president to finally take back what he said about charlottesville in the immediate wake of that riot and murder. As you no doubt recall the president described people on the neo nazi side of those protests in charlottesville two years ago as very fine people. If the president wanted to, this weekend might be a symbolically appropriate time if it is ever going to happen. This might be the symbolically appropriate time for the president to say, he didnt mean to say that. He takes back what he said about there being very fine people on the neo nazi side in charlottesville. He could do that. Its interesting. As we head into this weekend, i have felt the charlottesville anniversary looming more than i do most things. And as that has been approaching, i have been stuck all week on something sort of big hearted and i think wise that was said by the congresswoman from el paso. The congresswoman whose district includes the site of the massacre this past weekend. It was said by Veronica Escobar, actually here on our air on msnbc, in the immediate aftermath of the el paso massacre, on monday night after the massacre happened on saturday. I didnt expect congresswoman escobar to say this at all or anything like it but since she said it on monday night i have to tell you, i have not been able to get this out of my mind all week long. We need the president to accept responsibility, apologize, and take back those words. So that his followers, the people who cling to his every word, who follow his rallies, who get riled up and excited about the bigotry that comes from his speeches at those rallies, they need to hear that the president acknowledges that he was wrong and that his words were wrong and that every human being has value. That was congresswoman Veronica Escobar on monday. The congresswoman from el paso. So soon after the el paso massacre in her district and community. She was answering a question there about why she said she didnt think it was appropriate for President Trump to come to el paso in the wake of the massacre given his own words about an invasion at the border, words that were echoed if not quoted by the shooter. The way he had talked about immigrants. The way he has talked about people from mexico in particular. The way he has talked about border communities including el paso. She was asked to explain why she thought given the president s remarks of those kinds he shouldnt come to el paso after the shooting. But that idea that she expressed in sforesponse to that question that the president actually could do something here, that he could help, that he could redress some of whats wrong, that he could apologize for his hurtful words, he could take them back, he could say he knows those words are wrong and they caused harm and heres why theyre wrong and heres why i take them back. I mean, that is not a huge and unimaginable thing to ask for from a National Leader at a time like this. Especially if you are in a position of moral if youre in the kind of moral position that the congresswoman from el paso is in after what just happened in her town. I dont know that congresswoman escobar expects that from President Trump. You know, that hell, you know, take back the things he said about el paso, that hell take back the things he said against immigrants. But this weekend on the anniversary of charlottesville, on the twoyear anniversary of charlottesville, on the oneweek anniversary of el paso, if the president wanted to, this would be his chance to take back his words, to apologize, to express he understands the hurt caused by, among other things, his compliments to the very fine neo nazis who among other things killed someone in charlottesville immediately before he made those praising remarks. Not holding my breath. Im just saying. One of the things we have been keeping an eye on this week as we approach this charlottesville anniversary this weekend is an effort by the victims of the neo nazis and White Supremacists in charlottesville to try to get justice for what was done to them. Ten people who were hurt by these violent, White Supremacists in charlottesville two years ago including three people who were hit by the car that killed Heather Heier are now plaintiffs in a lawsuit designed to go further than the individual criminal charges that were brought against individual rioters and killers among the White Supremacists from that weekend. This lawsuit by the victims from charlottesville targets the leaders of white supremacist organizations and, in fact, targets the organizations, themselves, and the websites that they run, basically to try to dismantle them, hold them to account for not having just organized that white power event but specifically for having planned and organized the violence that took place at that white power event. So weve been watching that suit by the charlottesville victims really closely. And today, as we head into this weekends anniversary of charlottesville today a federal judge decided to hand down a little bit of an anniversary present. Today a federal judge ordered sanctions against some of the primary organizers of the white power violence that took place in charlottesville two years ago. One organization, a group called Vanguard America, the guy who killed Heather Heier was seen at the charlottesville riots holding a shield that had the Vanguard America logo on it. That organization and two other white supremacist leaders who took part in organizing the violence in charlottesville, today they were all that organization and those two people were ordered by a federal judge to pay the attorneys fees of the plaintiffs. To pay the attorneys fees of these ten victims who were injured by the violent White Supremacists in charlottesville. That organization and these two white supremacist leaders are among two dozen individuals and groups who are defendants in the charlottesville lawsuit. They have been flouting court orders and ignoring the judge in this case from the very beginning. Well, today the federal judge hearing the case had had enough, saying, quote, defendants have continually failed to fulfill even their most basic obligations to this court. Their behavior has, quote, stalled the litigations progress for months on end. The judge said today, quote, this behavior is unacceptable and will be sanctioned. Quote, ordinary defendants must participate in the ordinary process of litigation. Even if they do not want to. According to the Nonprofit Group that is supporting this litigation against the neo nazi groups and the white supremacist groups that organized the violence in charlottesville, theyre called Integrity First for america, they see these sanctions today as basically a wholly appropriate way to mark the anniversary of what happened two years ago in virginia. Quote, excuse me. Quote, over and over again these defendants have defied court orders in an attempt to avoid accountability for the racist violence they planned and caused in charlottesville. These sanctions make clear that time is up. Today marks one more important step forward in holding these neo nazis, White Supremacists, and hate groups accountable for their actions. So like i said right at the top there, happy friday. Just a Little Something to hold in your heart this weekend. Literally, the neo nazis and the White Supremacists who did what they did in charlottesville, not only are they being sued by the people who got hurt there, but those White Supremacists have just been ordered by a judge to pay the victims attorneys fees which means the neo nazis are now being ordered by a court to pay for the privilege of themselves being sued and to pay the costs of the attorneys who are suing them. Hold that in your heart a little bit. Let that keep you warm this weekend. Because of President Trumps attitude toward this particular type of violent ek tremism, because of his public indifference or even indulgence of this type of extremism and even this type of violent extremism, there is now this super unsettling prospect were confronting now as a country particularly in the wake of el paso that the federal government which donald trump controls might not be the best place to turn to for our country to try to address this specific type of terrorism. Because of that, because of the president s alliance with White Nationalism in this country, it has been interesting to look at these civil cases where its not the Justice Department. Its the victims, themselves, taking it upon themselves to try to identify the terrorist groups that encouraged and organized this violence, finding them out, identifying their role in promoting this stuff, and through these lawsuits disrupting them as organizations, potentially bankrupting them as organizations. It is a really interesting tactic right now in large part because it doesnt depend on Donald TrumpsJustice Department doing the right thing about these kinds of crimes and this kind of organized terrorism. And as we head into this weekend and this anniversary, i think its worth noting that these types of cases are really on a roll right now. Its not just the charlottesville case where they got that bang up order just today from that federal judge. Its also a new ruling today from a different federal judge involving the countrys most long standing and frankly most putrid online neo nazi gathering place. Its a website called the daily stormer. Its named as an homage to a nazi newspaper from the third reich. You might have heard over the last couple months that the daily stormer has been on the receiving end of some really expensive lightning bolts thrown at them in court by some of their past victims. In june, it was comedian and commentator dean obeidallah. A couple years ago he wrote a column for the daily beast in which he described a bunch of murders committed in the first year of Donald Trumps presidency by killers who expressed white supremacist beliefs or motives. The column said in part, quote, trump refuses to call these acts what they are white supremacist terrorism. Well, the neo nazis at the daily stormer, a website that should be noted endorsed donald trump for president , they did not like that criticism against President Trump and that column and they responded the following day by making up some fake tweets that they attributed to mr. Obeidallah and published those online which made it look like mr. Obeldallah was actually a terrorist, these fake tweets where he appeared to be taking credit for various violent terrorist attacks around the globe using this false information they put online. They then directed white supremacist trolls and neo nazis arountd wor around the world to go get mr. Obeidallah and threaten him. You cant necessarily do that. In june a federal judge handed down a 4. 1 million judgment against the daily stormer, that neo nazi website and the guy who runs it ordering the webb site and publisher to pay 4. 1 million to dean obeidallah. It is a good question as to if theyll get the money and how but he told the New York Times in response to the judges ruling he full on plans to pursue all of their assets in the United States. Quote, we want to collect some money because thats a more powerful message than just a judgment on paper. Were going to give their money to organizations that fight White Supremacy, run by the very people these guys hate, like muslims, africanamericans, jewish americans, and the lgbtq community. That was june. Then in july, last month, happened again. The same neo nazi outfit and its same publisher was hit this time with a 14 million judgment for having directed an antisemitic Terror Campaign against a jewish woman in montana who ran a business in the hometown of white supremacist leader richard spencer. That 14 million judgment was ordered by a magistrate judge. It is now being reviewed by a Federal District court judge. But youre starting to get a sense of how these things are going. If you are ever motivated in your life, god forbid, to make a donation to the daily stormer, your donation will now be garnished, will now be taken by the court and instead given to these victims of online racist and antisemitic attacks waged by the daily stormer and its adherents. Its nice. And now today, again, happy friday, its happened again. There is a new one. Again, this just happened today. Been kind of a bang up day. This time it concerns this young woman, seen here in this footage were about to show you in a very happy moment after winning an election. This is footage from the on campus tv station at her school. President taylor crowds cheered when taylors name was announced. We caught up with taylor and heres what she had to say. I dont have words for this. I just dont have any words. I am shocked. Im so ecstatic. Honestly, i cant help but thank god for this. Her name is Taylor Dumpson and in the spring of 2017 she won. March, 2017 she was elected student body president at American University in washington, d. C. The first africanamerican woman to ever be elected to that position. Great day. The day after she actually took office as student body president , though, somebody on campus took it upon himself t