Rhetoric is infuszed with notions of violence and dehumanization. the messages are not lost on people like the el paso shooter. your president shares your view that immigrants and racial minorities are a scourge on america. they are not deserving of the privileges of citizenship and must be denied political power at all costs. they are animals anyway, so the use of violence is permissible. we remain 15 months from the 2020 election. 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
They actually get in the way of the government trying to deal with this? well, i have a lot of faith in the integrity of the fbi that they re going to follow the facts and the evidence of where they go. the question is resources and some of your prior guests spoke to that. if you don t have the resources and your people aren t allocated to work on these issues, then you re just not going to be looking at the intelligence, gathering the information, following the leads with as much vigor. it s the government that allocates the resources, even the congress can t really do that so much internally. it s really fbi function, and it s very, very possible that because of trump s ininclinations, resources aren t going to it that need to be. thank you very much for joining us tonight, professor. thank you for having me. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. tonight at a critical time
Not to come here. an open letter to donald trump from organizations and individuals in el paso insists that he should not come to el paso. the letter says, dear president trump, we send you this letter in the hope that in the aftermath of this heinous crime you will not come to el paso, our home. your presence would bring no comfort, no respite from the pain so brutally and callously imposed upon us. we ask instead for your absence. we say this because we recognize that it is your rhetoric and your actions that led us to this terrible moment. this shooter was inspired by your words and your attitudes. given this history of hate on your part, we ask that you stay away. in the meantime, we will lament this loss, the 22 dead and 24 wounds, our mothers and fathers, neighbors and friends without you. we must insist you are not welcome here.
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.
it s an invasion of our country. we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people. i don t care what the fake media says, that s an invasion of our country. we have right now an invasion. if you look at what s going on with the caravans, it s an invasion. stop this onslaught, this invasion into our country. people hate the word invasion, but that s what it is. the new york times reports that since january mr. trump s re-election campaign has posted more than 2,000 ads on facebook that include the word invasion, part of a barrage of advertising focused on immigration. according to data obtained by the new york times, the trump campaign had one of its biggest expenditures on facebook ads about immigration last week just before the el paso massacre. and surely the el paso mass murderer noticed when one or more trump supporters at a trump rally in florida yelled the solution to the invasion was to shoot them. the president clearly heard his devoted su