the context of white supremacist. the white supremacist groups share the internet as an accelerant to radicalization with islamic extremists. this is a more decentralized movement, the white supremacist movement as opposed to foreign extremes them -- foreign extremism. this premise is understood that. they are connected but decentralized, which makes them much more difficult to target. i think this has been evolution. we had domestic terrorism. it was a different flavor when you look at oklahoma city. this has been evolution over several administrations to what we are facing now. >> thank you, ms. townsend. secretary napolitano, from the year 2009 to 2013, what was it you were seeing in a way that constituted a domestic threat and where was the department of homeland security focused? i took over at homeland security shortly after fran. and, our initial focus was still i qaeda and al qaeda related groups with aviation being a continued threat. wasour focus initially there. 9/11 all, the attacks of where the precipitan

global connected b decentralized movementhe white supremacist movement as opposed to islamic extremes extremism and the federalization was its weakness to uerstand that which decentralized which makes him that muchoree difficult to target evolution we had domestic terrorism an it's a different flavor when you look oklahoma city this is evolution over several administrations to what were fing now. >> thank you missed townsend, me question to you from the year 2009 - 2013 wha was it whicconstituted a domestic threat and where was the homeland security focus and any resources going towards addressing the thought of the time. >> i took over at t homeland security and our initial focus was al-qaeda and al-qaeda related groups with aviation being a continued threat in our focus initially was there after all the tax of 9/11 was a percipient but for the creation of the department of homeland security, we had an intelligence analysis division that was designed to collect threat information both internationally and domestically and put into a format that can be shared across the state of local

white supremacist groups have been around for years. the oklahoma city bombing had been a few years before. where was the homeland security department focused? >> thank you very much for presiding and it is a pleasure to be both with secretary and secretary napolitano. let me just as you say set the table. we were in the immediate years post 9/11 and we continued to worry very much about threats that began manifesting overseas and stopping them before they got here. probably the biggest disruption we did was flights coming in from europe who had been targeted from al qaeda and killed hundreds of americans. those were -- defined focus was on not only disrupting them over there but identifying threats before they got to the u.s. shores. there was the patriot act. changes to fisa were changed during this time to enable those investigations. there were changes of attorney general guidelines of the fbi. the department was new in getting its legs underneath it and working to do these investigations alongside and with the fbi and enabled by so

today's focus is white supremacy an a background of white supremacist another far rht extremists have killed more pele since september 11th 2 and in any other category of domeic extremists. it is reporte that 71 percent ofhe extremists related fatalities in the.s. between 2008 and 2017, were committed by members of the white supremacist far rht groups. and for two o decades critics sy that the u.s. counter terrorism effort which is spent $3 trillion bween 2000 to 2017 alone has largely focused on - in the nature of the threat as change o the years and what can be done to combat it . jning inus have acting secretary of te department of homeld security in 2019 now the ceo. in the dhs secretary from 2009 - 2013. at the university of berkeley. and directo - homeland serity advisor since 2004 - 2008 and now vice-chairman in council and chief administration officer mcandrews and stores inc. also on the board of directors for secretary - thank you all for being here. i do want to kick up by giving each of you o a moment to set te table for a conversation. if you could give us insights in the

the context of white supremacist. the white supremacist groups share the internet as an accerant to radicalization with islamic extremists. this ia more decentralized movement, the white supremacis movement as opposed to foreign extremes them -- foreign extremism. this premise is understood that. they are connected but decentralized, which makes them much more difficult to target. think thihas been evolution. we had domestic terrorism. it was a different flavor when you lo at oklahoma city. this has been evolution over several adminisations to what we are facing now. >> thank you, ms. townsend. secretary napolitano, from the year 29 to 2013, what was it you we seeing in a way that constituted a domestic threat and where was the department of homeland security focused? i took over at homeland security shortly after fran. and, our initial focus was still i qaeda and al qaeda related groups with aviation being a continued threat. wasour focus initially there. 9/11 all, the attacks of where the precipitant for the creatio

nationals come white supremacist. do they cds as crossover in terms of strategy to message? their messaging is different but where do you see the crossovers or would you just say no, these are separate entities but we need to look at them both from the point of you how to counter extremism? >> a couple think to think about when you look at antigovernment movements in general. one is tech companies have caught up it is look at 201516 timeframe, twitter, google facebook finally the lightbulb went off and decide to do some content moderation and push these guys off to the margins. they there's nothing the same tg with white supremacist and antigovernment groups. the relative free range. as a researcher that's great. i can reach out to local member with questions. from a general question, the static rate thing to happen. the other thing that's different is that radicalization for the whites from this moment there is an online dynamic, there's a large off-line. it's easy, easier to load up a a bunch of guys in the room to

agent and a known white supremacist he lives in st petersburg where he works as a security consultant he's also the leader of one of the next most radical far right organizations the base serves to provide a bridge between groups and lone wolves. the b.b.c. obtained and broadcast a recording of right now though not sorrow talking about the group's plans. for you. there is no signal system here so the best offer for us is to see it. all requires. special. drugs for terrorists are kind of wrong for america. a few months ago a number of leading members of the base were arrested in the u.s. on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack that souray himself continues to live undisturbed in russia he's been using the internet to recruit mynahs from across europe for his group's so-called armed struggle conducting interviews for potential inductees a large number of teenage boys in europe have already been groomed by the base young people are being increasingly exposed to far right ideology online with a growing number now popping up on the radar of the authorities in many cases they still have

they just decided to name the name for white supremacists. we would say, why -- why is that? now it isn't. it also provides long overdue benefits to veteran area veterans who were impacted by agent orange. this was really important to many of us. this issue was long overdue when we passed it. now it needed to be improved and they do so in the bill. and, again, on the -- get back to the bases, it reflects our highest ideals as americans. we urge the president to sign the ndaa, which has been passed on a bipartisan basis for 59 years. this will be 60. so, again, this is very, shall we say, intensive in terms of the attention it requires. our members were constantly were working on it. that's why i wanted to take the time, to take the pride in this legislation. as you know, we are engaged in the talks on the omnibus bill. when i spoke to leader mcconnell yesterday, we talked about the possibility of putting a covid package on the omnibus bill. but he and i being appropriators know that if you're going to do that, you have to have an omnibus bill. and so we have to work through t

in new zealand, report into last year's terror attack by a white supremacist on two mosques in christchurch has just been made public. the royal commission of inquiry said security agencies were "almost exclusively" focused on the threat from islamist terrorism, as opposed to other threats, including white supremacists. it also found that police failed to enforce proper checks on firearm licenses. but the report also found no failings within government agencies that would have alerted them to the attack by the white supremacist brenton tarrant. he was sentenced to life in prison for killing 51 muslim worshippers and injuring dozens of others. new zealand's prime minister said the report would form the basis of a programme to make the country a more cohesive place. here's some of what she said. when we set up the enquiry i said that i wanted no stone left unturned to find out what could have been done to stop the attack on how we can keep new zealanders safe. today we have answers. on the matters of how the attack occurred and what could have been done to stop it, the commission found no fai

they just decided to name the name for white supremacists. i have brothers who served in many of the bases around the say,ry and we would always why is that? now it isn't. it also provides long overdue benefits to veteran area veterans who were impacted by agent orange. this was really important to many of us. this issue was long overdue when we passed it. now it needed to be improved and they do so in the bill. and, again, on the -- get back to the bases, it reflects our highest ideals as americans. we urge the president to sign the ndaa, which has been passed on a bipartisan basis for 59 years. this will be 60. so, again, this is very, shall we say, intensive in terms of the attention it requires. our members were constantly were working on it. that's why i wanted to take the time, to take the pride in this legislation. as you know, we are engaged in the talks on the omnibus bill. when i spoke to leader mcconnell yesterday, we talked about the possibility of putting a covid package on the omnibus bill. but he and i being appropriators know

they just decided to name the name for white supremacists. i'm so happy personally, because i have four brothers who served in the army and they served in many of those bases around the country, and we would always say why -- why is that? now it isn't. it also provides long overdue benefits to veteran area veterans who were impacted by agent orange. this was really important to many of us. this issue was long overdue when we passed it. now it needed to be improved and they do so in the bill. and, again, on the -- get back to the bases, it reflects our highest ideals as americans. we urge the president to sign the ndaa, which has been passed on a bipartisan basis for 59 years. this will be 60. so, again, this is very, shall we say, intensive in terms of the attention it requires. our members were constantly were working on it. that's why i wanted to take the time, to take the pride in this legislation. as you know, we are engaged in the talks on the omnibus bill. when i spoke to leader mcconnell yesterday, we talked about the possibility of pu

they just decided to name the bases for white supremacists. i have brothers who served in many of the bases around the country and we would always say, why is that? now it isn't. it also provides long overdue benefits to veteran area veterans who were impacted by agent orange. this was really important to many of us. this issue was long overdue when we passed it. now it needed to be improved and they do so in the bill. and, again, on the -- get back to the bases, it reflects our highest ideals as americans. we urge the president to sign the ndaa, which has been passed on a bipartisan basis for 59 years. this will be 60. so, again, this is very, shall we say, intensive in terms of the attention it requires. our members were constantly working on it. that's why i wanted to take the time, to take the pride in this legislation. as you know, we are engaged in the talks on the omnibus bill. when i spoke to leader mcconnell yesterday, we talked about the possibility of putting a covid package on the omnibus bill. but he and i being appropriators know

for white supremacists anders behring breivik is the original lone wolf and a major inspiration on july 22nd 2011 he killed 77 people in 2 attacks in norway after self radicalizing online then u.s. president barack obama stressed that islamic extremists were far from the only source of global terrorism the rest of that we're especially concerned over right about is the long wolf terrorist of the sort that we saw in norway recently here when you've got one person who is grange or driven by a hateful ideology they can do a lot of damage and it's a lot harder to trace those long wall operators he would be proven correct 9 years on these lone wolves and now responsible for more murders in the western world than any other kind of terrorism just as digital media is changing the world so too is terrorism with its many potential terrorists almost exclusively radicalized with the right wing propaganda from the internet and they likely are gemini's biggest threat to as governments still fail to properly understand this brand of terrorism . these lone wolves largely fit the same social profile whi

white supremacist brenton tarrant was sentenced to life in prison for killing 51 muslim worshippers. two of the biggest states in the us are warning of a worsening public health crisis as america's leading diseases expert predicts another surge in covid cases. dr anthony fauci said the christmas period may be even more of a challenge than the spike in cases following thanksgiving. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, will travel to brussels this week, in a bid to salvage a post—brexit trade deal. he will hold talks with the european commission president, ursula von der leyen.

supremacist wing of his base set their sights on attacking the black church white nationalist groups the sentinel washington d.c. over the weekend tearing down black lives matter banners and signs from 2 historically black churches in downtown d.c. they deface property and lit fires d.c. police are investigating the crimes as hate crimes take a look at some of the footage we gathered on the ground. there. was. that. according to the black lives matter organization the white nationalist groups targeted ashbury united methodist church the oldest african-american church to remain at its original site this church was founded in 836 they also attacked metropolitan amy. a series of videos of the attacks were posted by the proud boys on twitter pastor say this is reminiscent of cross burnings. you know that's of so interesting about that story of the wall a lot of it was so they heard about you know that there was these protests and they got violent you know the transporters go violent over the weekend in washington d.c. it felt like i was till you came in and told me this morning i never e

supremacist wing of his base set their sights on attacking the black church white nationalist groups the sending a washington d.c. over the weekend tearing down black lives matter banners and signs into historically black churches in downtown d.c. they deface property and lit fires d.c. police are investigating the crimes as hate crimes take a look at some of the footage we gathered on the ground. there is. according to the black lives matter organization the white nationalist groups targeted ashbury united methodist church the oldest african-american church to remain at its original site this church was founded in 836 they also attacked metropolitan amy. a series of videos of the attacks were posted by the proud boys on twitter pastors say this is reminiscent of cross burnings. wow that you know that's of so interesting about that story is that while a lot of us of heard about you know that there was these protests and they got violent you know the transporters got violent over the weekend in washington d.c. it's felt like i was till you came in and told me this morning i never even

supremacist wing of his base set their sights on attacking the black church white nationalist groups the cinema washington d.c. over the weekend tearing down black lives matter banners and signs from 2 historically black churches in downtown d.c. they defaced property and lit fires d.c. police are investigating the crimes as hate crimes take a look at some of the footage we gathered on the ground. there is. according to the black lives matter organization the white nationalist groups targeted ashbury united methodist church the oldest african-american church to remain at its original site this church was founded in 836 they also attacked metropolitan amy. a series of videos of the attacks were posted by the proud boys on twitter pastors say this is reminiscent of cross burnings. wow that you know that's of so interesting about that story is that while a lot of us of heard about you know that there was these protests and they got violent you know the transporters got violent over the weekend in washington d.c. it's felt like i was till you came in and told me this morning i never even

supremacist wing of his base set their sights on attacking the black church white nationalist groups the sentinel washington d.c. over the weekend tearing down black lives matter banners and signs into historically black churches in downtown d.c. they deface property and lit fires d.c. police are investigating the crimes as hate crimes take a look at some of the footage we gathered on the ground. there. that. according to the black lives matter organization the white nationalist groups targeted ashbury united methodist church the oldest african-american church to remain at its original site this church was founded in 836 they also attacked metropolitan amy. a series of videos of the attacks were posted by the proud boys on twitter. pastor say this is reminiscent of cross burnings. you know that's of so interesting about that story is that while a lot of us of the heard about you know that there was these protests and they got violent and you know the transporters go violent over the weekend in washington d.c. it felt like i was till you came in and told me this morning i never even k

and radicalization of white national white supremacist. do you see these as crossover in terms of a message? obviously their messaging is different. but where do you see the crossovers it would you just say no these are sarate entities but we to look at them both may point had a counter extremism? >> there's a couplehings to think about in general. one tech companies have not caught up. if you look at 2015, 2016 timeame, twitter googled the light bulb went off and they decide to content meration. they push these guys off the rgins. they have not been the same thing with antigovernment oups. in relative free rei. reach out to local member right now the other thing differt is that radicalizati which comes with movement there is an online dynamic. there is the large off-line. it is easy -- make it easier to load up a bunch of guys in a room to talk about how much you hate the michigan governor for vid larkins. you know, you try to get a dozen people in a room to tal about how good isis is, nine of them would be f units rate that does not happ

supremacist wing of his base set their sights on attacking the black church white nationalist groups the sentinel washington d.c. over the weekend tearing down black lives matter banners and signs from 2 historically black churches in downtown d.c. they deface property and lit fires d.c. police are investigating the crimes as hate crimes take a look at some of the footage we gathered on the ground. there you see. it was. that. according to the black lives matter organization the white nationalist groups targeted ashbury united methodist church the oldest african-american church to remain at its original site this church was founded in 836 they also attacked metropolitan. a series of videos of the attacks were posted by the proud boys on twitter pastors say this is reminiscent of cross burnings. wow you know that's of so interesting about that story is that while a lot of us of heard about you know that there was these protests and they got violent you know the transporters gone violent over the weekend in washington d.c. it felt like i was till you came in and told me this morning i

supremacist wing of his base set their sights on attacking the black church white nationalist groups the sentinel washington d.c. over the weekend tearing down black lives matter banners and signs into historically black churches in downtown d.c. they deface property and lit fires d.c. police are investigating the crimes as hate crimes take a look at some of the footage we gathered on the ground. there you see. it was. that. according to the black lives matter organization the white nationalist groups targeted ashbury united methodist church the oldest african-american church to remain at its original site this church was founded in 836 they also attacked metropolitan amy. a series of videos of the attacks were posted by the proud boys on twitter pastor say this is reminiscent of cross burnings. you know that's of so interesting about that story of the wall a lot of it was so they heard about you know that there was these protests and they got violent you know the transporters go violent over the weekend in washington d.c. it felt like i was till you came in and told me this morning

supremacist wing of his base set their sights on attacking the black church white nationalist groups the cinema washington d.c. over the weekend tearing down black lives matter banners and signs from 2 historically black churches in downtown d.c. they deface property and lit fires b.c. police are investigating the crimes as hate crimes take a look at some of the footage we gathered on the ground. there you see. that. according to the black lives matter organization the white nationalist groups targeted ashbury united methodist church the oldest african-american church to remain at its original site this church was founded in 836 they also attacked the metropolitan. a series of videos of the attacks were posted by the proud voice on twitter pastor saying this is reminiscent of cross burnings. you know this is interesting about the story of the wall a lot of heard about you know that there was these protests that got violent and you know the transporters got violent over the weekend in washington d.c. . so you came in and told me this morning and every remove that black churches were t

supremacist wing of his base set their sights on attacking the black church white nationalist groups the sentinel washington d.c. over the weekend tearing down black lives matter banners and signs from 2 historically black churches in downtown d.c. they deface property and lit fires d.c. police are investigating the crimes as hate crimes take a look at some of the footage we gathered on the ground. there. that. according to the black lives matter organization the white nationalist groups targeted ashbury united methodist church the oldest african-american church to remain at its original site this church was founded in 836 they also attacked metropolitan amy a series of videos of the attacks were posted by the proud boys on twitter. pastor say this is reminiscent of cross burnings. you know that's of so interesting about that story is that while a lot of us of the heard about you know that there was these protests and they got violent you know the transporters gone violent over the weekend in washington d.c. it felt like i was till you came in and told me this morning i never even kn

for white supremacists anders behring breivik is the original lone wolf and a major inspiration on july 22nd 2011 he killed 77 people in 2 attacks in norway after self radicalizing online then u.s. president barack obama stressed that islamic extremists were far from the only source of global terrorism the rest of that we're especially concerned over right now is the long wall of terrorist of the sort that we saw in norway recently you know when you've got one person who is during or driven by a hateful ideology they can do a lot of damage and it's a lot harder to trace those long wall operators he would be proven correct 9 years on these lone wolves and now responsible for more murders in the western world than any other kind of terrorism just as digital media is changing the world so too is terrorism with its many potential terrorists almost exclusively radicalized with the right wing propaganda from the internet and they likely are gemini's biggest threat to as governments still fail to properly understand this brand of terrorism . these lone wolves largely fit the same social profil

supremacist wing of his base set their sights on attacking the black church white nationalist groups the cinema washington d.c. over the weekend tearing down black lives matter banners and signs into historically black churches in downtown d.c. they defaced property and lit fires d.c. police are investigating the crimes as hate crimes. take a look at some of the footage we gathered on the ground. there you see. it was. that. according to the black lives matter organization the white nationalist groups targeted ashbury united methodist church the oldest african-american church to remain at its original site this church was founded in 836 they also attacked metropolitan amy. a series of videos of the attacks were posted by the proud boys on twitter pastor say this is reminiscent of cross burnings. you know that's of interesting about that story is that while a lot of us of the heard about you know that there was these protests and they got violent you know the transporters go violent over the weekend in washington d.c. it felt like i was till you came in and told me this morning i neve

supremacist wing of his base set their sights on attacking the black church white nationalist groups the cinema washington d.c. over the weekend tearing down black lives matter banners and signs from 2 historically black churches in downtown d.c. they defaced property and lit fires d.c. police are investigating the crimes as hate crimes. take a look at some of the footage we gathered on the ground. there you want. it was. that. according to the black lives matter organization the white nationalist groups targeted ashbury united methodist church the oldest african-american church to remain at its original site this church was founded in 836 they also attacked metropolitan. a series of videos of the attacks were posted by the proud boys on twitter pastor say this is reminiscent of cross burnings. you know that's of so interesting about that story of the wall a lot of it was so they heard about you know that there was these protests and they got violent you know the transporters go violent over the weekend in washington d.c. it felt like i was till you came in and told me this morning i

and isys in europe and with the white supremacist extremism. and those that are in their teens and in their early twenties. >> i was surprised by the case study. not only those arrested for criminal charges but those arrested for 15 in charge of material support most of the time a bunch of minor cases the agents will determine they didn't want to break up that charge through the department of justice. but to say we don't want to try a 16 -year-old for terrorism and want them to spend 20 years in jail but i think that was mildly concerning on my end. what you saw was an interesting trend particularly now was a step up state and local officials so you see terrorist charges in arizona and new jersey and new york for minor cases of 17 -year-olds in the case of south carolina a 16 -year-old was charged at state level spending two years in jail got out and then charged again charge for terrorism at 18. that is a failure of policy you see these minors going down this path and not having an option other than law enforcement it is a concern that policym

that there are reports of white supremacists infiltrating some of the demonstrations, and i think that those are things that we have to pay attention to, keep track of and try to understand, but i think we cannot dismiss in a widespread way the participation of young white people because we have to see that what has happened over the last decade has gutted their lives, too. and there has been some discussion about this with perhaps their parents' generation, with the description of deaths by despair, so we know that the life pectancy of ordinary white men and women has gone into reverse. something, by the way, that does not typically happen in the developed world. it is driven by opioid addiction, alcoholism and suicide. and so, this generation, whose lives really -- you know, if you've graduated from college, your life has been bracketed by war at the turn of the 21st century, by recession, and now by a deadly pandemic. and so, i think we're seeing the convergence of a class rebellion with racism and racial terrorism at the center of it, and in many ways, we are in uncharted territory

agent and a known white supremacist he lives in st petersburg where he works as a security consultant he's also the leader of one of the next most radical far right organizations the base serves to provide a bridge between groups and lone wolves. the b.b.c. obtained and broadcast a recording of right now though not sorrow talking about the group's plan. if you believe the. there's no signal system here so the best water for us is to shoot. all. spanish. spirits are kind of growing for america. a few months ago a number of leading members of the base were arrested in the u.s. on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack that souray himself continues to live undisturbed in russia he's been using the internet to recruit minus from across europe for his group's so-called armed struggle conducting interviews for potential inductees a large number of teenage boys in europe have already been groomed by the base young people are being increasingly exposed to far right ideology online with a growing number now popping up on the radar of the all summer to least in many cases they still haven't f

on march the 15th, 2019, a white supremacist opened fire into mosques, kipling 51 people and wounding dozens more as they got ready r iday prayers. the quiet city of christchurch beme the scene of one of the country's darkest days. more than a year and a half on, a royal commission report on the mass shooting has now been made public. >>er today we had an how the attack occurred and what could have been done to stop it. the commission found no failures within any government agencies that would have allowed the terrorists percolati to be defeated. but they did identify many reasons to be loomed insignificant areas that require change. >> the report found that security agencies were almost exclusively focusedn the threatfrom islamic extremism and failed to investigate threats by the far right. noit also said the police enforce proper checks ons, firearms licenut it found no failings within government leagencies that would haveed them to the imminent attack. representatives of the mosques said the findings showed that particular government bodies dale to protect the muslim community. the

for white supremacists anders behring breivik is the original lone wolf and a major inspiration on july 22nd 2011 he killed 77 people in 2 attacks in norway after self radicalizing online then u.s. president barack obama stressed that islamic extremists were far from the only source of global terrorism the rest of that we're especially concerned over right now is the long wall of terrorist of the sort that we saw in norway recently here when you've got one person who is during or driven by a hateful ideology they can do a lot of damage and it's a lot harder to trace those long wall operators he would be proven correct 9 years on these lone wolves and now responsible for more murders in the western world than any other kind of terrorism just as digital media is changing the world so too is terrorism with its many potential terrorists will most exclusively radicalize with the right wing propaganda from the internet and they likely are gemini's biggest threat to as governments still fail to properly understand this brand of terrorism . these lone wolves largely fit the same social profile

ton marchhe 15th, 2019, a white supremacist opened fire into mosques, kipling 51 people and wounding dozens more as they got ready for friday prayers. t the quiecity of christchurch beme the scene of one of the country's darkest days. more than a year and a half on, a royal commissiont rep on the mass shooting has now been made public. >> today we had answers. how the attack occurred and what could have been done t it. the commission found no failures within any government agencies that would have allowed the terrorists percolation to be defeated. but they did identify many reasons to be loomed insignificant areas that require change. >> the report found that security agencies wmost exclusively focused on the threats from islamic extremism and failed to investigate threats by the far right. it also said the police did not enforce proper checks on firearms licenses, but it found failings within government agencies that would have alerted them to thimminent attack. representatives of the mosques said the findings showed that particular government bodies dale to protect the muslim commu

certainly there are white supremacists who are now pleading victimhood they're being eliminated. there is a wide variety of language and disguises for this , but i think it's important to say that we have an ethic of our society that it is attention we want equality and we want freedom. freedom to discriminate against others, freedom to put ourselves above others. equality of opportunity and as long as the equality of opportunity and speech and employment and a free society is maintained, that i think is very powerful. but when we have intimidation, terrorism. in america today we are fighting a war on terror, we talk about that all the time the headlines, i wish more headlines would address the terrorism domestically. because we are dealing with the fact that our society cannot maintain itself if we have people resorting to intimidation, silencing and violence. >> you can watch this and other programs on the histories of communities across the country at c-span.org/cities tour. this is american history tv on the at c-span 3.

white supremacist brenton tarrant was sentenced to life in prison for killing 51 muslim worshippers. two of the biggest states in the us are warning of a worsening public health crisis as america's leading diseases expert predicts another surge in covid cases. dr anthony fauci said the christmas period may be even more of a challenge than the spike in cases following thanksgiving. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, will travel to brussels this week, in a bid to salvage a post—brexit trade deal. he will hold talks with the european commission president, ursula von der leyen. now on bbc news:

supremacist. brenton tarrant was sentenced to life in prison for killing 51 muslim worshippers and injuring dozens of others. new zealand's prime minister jacinda ardern said the report would form the basis of a programme to make the country a more cohesive place. here's some of what she said. when we set up the enquiry i said i wanted no stone left unturned to find out how the march 15 attack happened, what could have been done to stop it, and how we can keep new zealanders safe. today we have answers. 0n the matters of how the attack occurred and what could have been done to stop it, the commission found no failures within any government agencies that would have allowed the terrorist planning and preparation to be detected. but they did identify many lessons to be learned insignificant areas require change. let's speak to the bbc‘s shaimaa khalil in sydney. so, tell us more about this report and some of its findings, listing failures for concluding these attacks were preventable? it's quite a

certainly there are white supremacists who are now pleading victimhood, that they are being a limited. there is a wide variety of language and disguises for this, but i think it is important to say that we have an ethic in our society that is attention, we want equality and we want discriminatedom to , freedom to put ourselves above others, equality of opportunity and as long as the equality of opportunity and speech and employment and a free society is maintained that i think is very powerful, but one we have intimidation, terrorism, in america today we are fighting a war on terror. we talk about that all the time of the headlines, i wish more headlines would address the terrorism domestically because we are dealing with the fact that our society cannot maintain itself if we have people resorting to intimidation, silencing, and violent. -- violence. >> you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at c-span.org/-- cities tour. this is american history tv only on c-span3. american history tv on c-span3 exploring the people and events that tell

on march the 15th 2019, brenton tarrant, a white supremacist, opened fire in two mosques, killing 51 people and wounding dozens more as they got ready for friday prayers. the quiet city of christchurch became the scene of one of the country's darkest days. more than a year and a half on, a royal commission report on the mass shooting has now been made public. today, we have answers on the matters of how the attack occurred and what could have been done to stop it. the commission found no failures within any government agencies that would have allowed the terrorist planning and preparation to be detected. but they did identify many lessons to be learned in significant areas that require change. the report found that security agencies were almost exclusively focused on the threat from islamic extremism and failed to investigate threats by the far right. it also said the police did not enforce proper checks on firearms licenses, but it found no failings within government agencies that would have alerted them to the imminent attack. representatives of the al—noor and linwood mosques sa

there are estimates that we have about 75,000 to 100,000 violent white supremacists -- sorry, white supremacists extremists in our country and some portion of them would be prone to violence. in germany where they do better statistics it's about half that are interested in committing acts of rye lens. it's important to understand the ideology here. the ideology behind a white supremacist it usually leads one to the conclusion that you must overthrow the u.s. government so that you can establish a white nation state for the preservation of your race. so they are intentionally or inherently anti-government in their mindset so if you have 75,000 to 100,000 people in this country that already have that bent and then you add to it a pretty significant number, maybe millions of people in the country that now believe that their government -- that there has been this massive fraud, that their voice is no longer heard, that things have been stolen from them they become much more susceptible from recruitment tactics from these hard core violent extremists. we are setting ourselves up for probably a genera

the curriculum that they think is to white supremacist? what exactly is they are specific problem? >> the specific demand and this training is to get white teachers in the room and the zoom room actually and to teach them to what they called bankrupt they are privilege. t so what is basically a kind of spiritual conversion. they have to admit their complicity in the white supremacist society, shed themselves of white privilege and bow down to the new antiracism. and it is really kind of a cult indoctrination technique we have seen an institution after institution. >> jesse: it reminds me during the racial struggles this summer where they had, i guess, the white crowd and blm movements bowing down and kind of submitting to the leadership of the black lives element. -- blm movement. which was just bizarre to me. if you are into that movement, just work together. there doesn't have to be any sort of submission. that is strange to me. so our teachers actually doing this? are white teachers bankrupting their white privilege? do you have to call

curriculum that they think is to white supremacist? what exactly is they are specific problem? >speak with a specific demand ad this training is to get white teachers in the room and the zom actually and to teach them to what they called bankrupt they are privilege. so what is basically a kind of spiritual conversion. they have to admit their complicity in the white supremacist society, shed themselves of white privilege and bow down to the new antiracism. and it is really kind of a colt indoctrination technique we have seen an institution after institution. >> jesse: it reminds me during the racial struggles this summer where they had, i guess, the white crowd and blm movements bowing down and kind of submitting to the leadership of the black lives element. which was just bizarre to me. if you are into that movement, just work together. there doesn't have to be any sort of submission. that is strange to me. so our teachers actually doing this? are white teachers bankrupting their white privilege? do you have to call the bank? how does

ruth was a white supremacist but yes, i think he did progress. i agree with you and others, he does progress. 1864, he's sending a letter in which he says i think we should have at least limited suffrage for african-americans. african-american males, women did not get to vote until 1920 but still, he was really the first one publicly to come out, the first president to come out with that. >> right. the other thing that i think on this subject, despite the remarks you mentioned, i do not know and never have supported, the worst one he ever made but despite that, what lincoln had to say, he meets back on that. also what he had to say right from the beginning and in your speech, he is a man, all men are created equal and he says that over and over again. she earns from the sweat of her brow, stephen douglas. he says this over and over. the people talk about being racist, they pick one or two of these things out that are clearly driven by racism in th this. >> yes. i put him in this culture in the 1850s because the reason is that his cabin, it was a

supremacists, in some cases by design, well after the civil war. the practical responsibility to protect and defend, it is not a provision or an issue, it is a value. thank you all very much. >> the labor department reported the latest unemployment figures, the economy added 249,000 jobs and unemployment dipped to 6.7% in november. the recovery appears to be slowing as the economy sees a fifth straight month of decelerated job gains as covid-19 spreads throughout the country. >> former president barack obama campaigns for u.s. senate candidates john o s soff and rafael woreknock, against david perdue and kelly leffler. at 2:45 eastern on c-span. >> booktv has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. coming up this weekend, saturday at 8:15 p.m. eastern coverage of the 70 first annual national book awards. sunday live at noon eastern on "in depth" a conversation with author and chair of african-american studies at princeton university, the author of several books including begin again, james baldwin's america and lessons for our own exodus. d

if your conception of citizen ship is that one must be white and or one must hold to the white supremacist narrative, those not part of that are rendered uncitizens or worse. anticitizen. those who breeched our yard and tore down our side are motivated by that mythology. and they had no respect of the property. tradition. they felt as if they could do what they wanted to do. until that changes, in our politics will not be able to change. they will not be able to supersede the story that we tell ourselves about how we order ourselves as a nation. >> reverend, i recommend everyone read your op-ed. it's brilliant. thank you for spending time with us this evening. happy holidays and thank you. >> still ahetd. nearly 3 million vaccine doses are available with millions more expected by the end of the week. update on the roll out and who gets it the next. ♪ ♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first month's payment. frwhen you wash them, and theyet dajust don't loo

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you have allowed white supremacists to undermine the peaceful black lives matter -- protests, to foment hatred against immigrants and latinos, to single out and slander muslims consistently and promote holocaust denial. number one, david -- number one, we need to hold the social media companies accountable, and when their products promote hate and foster violence, we need to demand they pull them off-the-shelf, period. membership she, i think anti-bias education needs to happen. locally, on the ground, the best way to stop hate is intervene before it ever takes root. adl invests in education and other great groups that do it, as well. hate isn't something kids are born with. they are taught to hate, so we can also teach them to love. the third thing is we need to build off where derrick started, an hour ago, which is creating coalitions. i am so proud of the l.a. for good coalition we built with on the ground in southern california with african-american, american -- jewish-american, asian-american, latino, lgbtq -- we've got almost a dozen and a half at this point -- local coalition bui

. >> are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists -- >> who would you like me to condemn? >> proud boys. >> stand back and stand by. >> the president sets the tone for the nation. the tone that he set was one of anger, racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. >> fallout over the shocking video. dozens of buffalo police officers protesting the suspension of two colleagues seen shoving a 75-year-old protester. >> reporter: pressure mounts for meaningful police reform. many pushing to defund the police. >> defunding is saying, let's take money out of this place and put it in that place. let's defund the police and refund the community. >> the question becomes, who intervenes in the conflict, who responds to the harm? the police are the easiest, simplest, and laziest answer to those questions, not the best. >> reporter: major cities like philadelphia, portland, and baltimore pledging to cut or reallocate funding to support other services in the community. >> every police department right now is trying to figure out how do they reimagine what policing should be? >> reporter: chant

supremacists, people who had fought in the confederacy -- traitors to our country. purposely these bases were named for them. it wasn't as if they named it about something and upon other research it emerged they said this that or the other. no. it was intentional. so we must properly, and with the process spelled out in the bill, change that. in light of that respect for our country and the people of our country, i'm so pleased with what we did under the leadership of mr. clyburn, the beautiful diversity of america. this week, we will mark the 150th anniversary of the first african-american being elected to the congress of the united states. congressman joseph rainey. it will come as no surprise to any of you that he is from south carolina. because that was very much a part of the pride that mr. lyburn took. that he was the first african-american congressman was reason enough and he presided over the house of representatives. the first african-american to preside over the house of representatives. and he was the longest serving black lawmaker during reconstruction.

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. >> and talk about the conditions as they continue and if it is the white supremacist groups? so what exactly do we need and that has anything to do with transformation with the nationstate with those conditions what is the future about? >> that's a good question it's very different for with al qaeda. and with isis and with those divisions and what happened it with the security. and that distraction. so many things that were the collapse and then the governmen government's those to be standing up with the extremist so many things with that. and a lot of the conditions and then the islamic mother and what is happening and how we get it together to establish some kind of an area of control. and that is the only coin. and then al qaeda is shaping itself of this sectarian divide. it always existed if the world doesn't have white supremacy. so with these groups and with the external condition and specifically russia and those that are fighting against the russians and finally to have this amazing success it with a white supremacy group. and as the paris organization and then have t

>>across the country nicole fierro has that story is a white supremacist. >>and a well known advocate for pedophilia from running for office to locked up in denver pictures capture, the demise of nathan larson a man who once lived here in boulder now facing charges of harboring a minor and kidnapping this particular case is extremely disturbing fresno county sheriff margaret mims says larson met a 12 year-old girl online and flew to california convincing her to sneak out of her home and board a plane with for police caught him during a layover monday at d it creates a problem solvers track down the boulder address where larson was reported living in 2008 we found bill smith, longtime resident and former maintenance man of the complex people like that you know you kind of know is that there are a lot, but you don't say anything but hearing something like that smith says he remembers larson staying here with his older sister records show in 2009 larson was arrested in boulder after emailing the secret service threatening to kill the president he was just >>un