White supremacist leanings. in los angeles a man was arrested on suspicions of possessing parts to make a bomb. he allegedly supremacists and wanted to attack jewish residents. a 20-year-old white nationalist threatened a jewish community center. they confiscated a number of weapons at his mother s home. joining me now founder of the free radical project. he is back with msnbc s breaking hate and the author of a new book called breaking hate, confronting the new culture of extremism. thanks for being here. i want to start with what we re seeing now with these additional plots that have been foiled.
Birth control, pregnancy tests, std screenings and more. tonight four cities stopped mass shootings or bombing attacks. two suspects had white supremacist leanings and two were obsessed with mass shootings. nbc s pete williams now with the details. reporter: in a florida supermarket, authorities arrest a man 12 hours after getting a tip he was making threats. the county sheriff says 25-year-old tristan wix of daytona beach sent disturbing text messages to his exgirlfriend including, quote, i want to open fire on a large crowd of people. investigators say he was fascinated with mass shootings in connecticut, brandon wag shaw was arrested after a tip said he bought high powering magazines out of state he too was interested in mass violence he signed a statement saying he did not have intention of committing mass shooting in ohio, a search turned up four weapons after social media posts
His 1% permanent tax cut and not for the rest of us? is he is he kind to minorities? he doesn t comment on the brother that saved folks in the waffle house. he says there s an equivalency between folks that have white supremacist leanings and protesters protesting that. he makes a moral equivalency between the two. so i think the unfortunately, this guy is a little insecure. he seems to have more issues than sports illustrated. that s what i see. i ve never met the guy. he might be a nice cat, but he s leading us in a way that makes it okay for this kind of behavior to go on. and when you re in that oval office, you set the tone. you have to be the adult in the room. and sometimes it seems like we have a drunk driver in the oval office. mario, curious here, sort of what all of this says about the relationship that hollywood, the entertainment industry, has to this country. i know that after that tweet and the reaction to it, there were a lot of people who said,