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Flames of white supremacy in this nation. do you agree with that assessment? absolutely. it is a horrible thing to have to say about the man who is leading the united states and is our current president but it is absolutely true. jake tapper has been reporting that the white house actually rebuffed efforts by the department of homeland security to make domestic terror threats a greater priority, one source saying the white house said major ideological blinders. how concerning is that with someone who used to deal with these issues when you were president obama s national security adviser? it is deeply concerning. we ve had the fbi director repeatedly if he was the white supremacists, nationals threat is now much more frequent and likely to occur in this country and manifest itself in the form of terrorism than any other form of extremism. ....
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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 ....
Paso shooting what it is, trump-inspired terrorism. i didn t say that, those are the words of professor david shanzer. he is the director of the center on terrorism and homeland security at duke university. he s a former high-ranking staff member in the house homeland security committee. and professor shanzer says it is staggering to imagine how much more violence this president may motivate. professor shanzer will join us at the end of this hour tonight. we ll also be joined tonight by congressman adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee. congressman schiff told his california constituents yesterday that he blames republican opposition to every form of gun regulation on what congressman schiff says is, a contagion of cowardice in the congress. we begin here tonight with the words of another member of congress, a freshman. i met her in texas last year when she was running for what ....
Felon and go out and buy that same gun off the back of someone s truck perfectly legally. they understand the same facts that we do, but they re unwilling to speak out. they re unwilling to risk an angry tweet. they re unwilling to risk the ire, not even of the nra members, but the nra leadership. getting a bad grade from the nra. i don t know how to describe that other than a contagion of cowardice. i don t know why they re there, faced with thee tragedies if they re unwilling to do something about it when they know what s right. i want to ask you about this as a former prosecutor yourself. what changes in law other than gun regulation, other than banning assault weapons, as california s senior senator was able to do during the 1990s. dianne feinstein got that pushed through. what about in prosecutions of cases like this? well, i think we should think about having a domestic terrorism statute that parallels the statute basically that bars international terror, the kind that we re ....