'BradCast' 8/14/2017: (Guest: Former neo-Nazi Tony McAleer of Life After Hate)

Published: Aug. 14, 2017, 11:56 p.m.

b"With the weekend's tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the leaders of North Korea and the United States are still promising annihilation at one another and, as discussed today, should the U.S. shoot first, China has a longstanding treaty obligation to side with its ally North Korea. So, yes, we remain on the brink of what could quickly become another World War under the deft leadership of President Donald Trump today. Also today, an alleged anti-government militant in Oklahoma attempted to set off a bomb at a federal reserve bank in the fashion of Timothy McVeigh's 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, according to the FBI, which charged the man over the weekend. And, speaking of aggrieved white men, we have the latest developments in the wake of the white supremacist march that led to violence and death on Saturday, Trump's refusal to declare any of it a terrorist incident or single out the armed and dangerous white nationalist neo-Nazi groups, as well as the condemnation of both him and Rightwing hate groups by other officials, including top Republicans. All of that before Trump's 'mulligan' remarks today, in which he finally condemned the movement by name -- sort of. For perspective on all of this, we're joined by Tony McAleer of LifeAfterHate.org, a non-profit group formed by ex-members of the violent American far-right extremist movements, with the goal of "countering the seeds of hate" they once planted.\\xa0 Life After Hate was promised federal grant funding by the Obama Administration, as part of their anti-extremist efforts targeting both domestic extremism and Islamic terror, but their funding was canceled by the Trump Administration's DHS in June. McAleer, a former skinhead and organizer for the White Aryan Resistance (WAR), explains what those rather well-to-do white nationalists parading in Charlottesville are actually angry about (it doesn't have much to do with Confederate statues), and why it is that their message is so appealing to some. He discusses his own journey into the dark world of neo-Nazism and how he eventually was able to both pull out of it and co-found his organization to help others do the same.\\xa0 Finally today, Trump had no problem quickly condemning, by name, an African-American CEO today, after he withdrew from the President's Manufacturing Council in response to Trump's failure to condemn the racists groups on Saturday -- along with more breaking news on still more dangerous saber-rattling between the US and North Korea."