'...White supremacy is a global terror threat. There is a link between the white supremacists here in the US, those in Europe and what we’ve now seen in New Zealand,” says Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.
Washington Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who previously served as the first Muslim member of Congress, said Monday that"the objective evidence" demonstrates President Donald Trump is sympathetic to white supremacy.
"I think sometimes you simply have to yield to the objective evidence, and that is -- that points to him being sympathetic to that point of view. Whether it's Charlottesville or whatever it is, I mean it all seems to point back to he has some sympathy for that position and is not willing to condemn it," Ellison, who served in the House from 2007 to January of this year, told CNN's John Berman on"New Day." "He wouldn't condemn David Duke.
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