HE REPORTEDLY MADE WHITE
>> DID THE -- I’M SORRY, GO
AHEAD MIKA.
>> OKAY.
HE’S BEEN THE MAN BEHIND SOME OF
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S MOST
CONTROVERSIAL POLICIES AND
SPEECHES.
NOW A NEW BOOK THE TAKING A
CLOSER LOOK AT STEPHEN MILLER
AND HIS IMPACT ON THE
ADMINISTRATION.
JOINING US NOW INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GENE GARARA, THE AUTHOR
REPORTER GENE GARARA, THE AUTHOR
OF THE NEW BOOK ENTITLED "HATE
MONG
MONGERER".
>> EVEN THE TITLE IS HARSH BUT
IF YOU DO A BASIC GOOGLE SEARCH
YOU SEE THAT DAVID DUKE PRAISING
DONALD TRUMP TIME AND TIME AGAIN
FOR HIS POLICIES AFTER
CHARLOTTESVILLE.
AND YOU SEE STEPHEN MILLER AS A
SENATE AIDE PASSING AROUND
ARTICLES WRITTEN IN WHITE
NATIONALIST PUBLICATIONS AND
EVEN BEING PRAISED BY WHITE
NATIONALIST RICHARD SPENCER.
WHAT DID YOU FIND OUT IN
RESEARCHING YOUR BOOK?
>> STEPHEN MILLER IS A CASE
STUDY, IN MY BOOK I SHOW HOW HE
WAS INDOCK TER-NATED DURING A
DIFFICULT TIME IN HIS LIFE.
HIS FAMILY HAD LOST A LOT OF
MONEY, HE WAS FEELING DISPLACED
AND THIS IS WHEN HE MEETS A
CONSERVATIVE WRITER THROUGH HIS
HIGH SCHOOL NAMED DAVID HOROWITZ
WHO INTRODUCES STEPHEN MILLER TO
THE FANTASY HE NEEDS TO SAVE THE
UNITED STATES FROM THE
DESTRUCTION IN THE FORM OF TOO
MANY BROWN AND BLACK PEOPLE
COMING HERE.
THIS IS THE MAN WHO BECOMES LIKE
A FATHER FIGURE TO STEPHEN
MILLER AND BELIEVES THE
RACISM -- THIS IS SHAPING
STEPHEN MILLER’S CLEAR FEEDING
EXPLOSIVE TALKING POINTS FOR THE
TRUMP CAMPAIGN, FEEDING POLICIES
THROUGH MILLER THAT YOU SAW
TRUMP ADOPTING THEREAFTER.
SO MILLER, WITH HIS HELP AND THE
HELP OF OTHER EXTREMIST MENTORS
LEARNED HOW TO LAUNDER WHITE
SUPREMACIST VIEWPOINTS THROUGH
THE LANGUAGE OF ECONOMICS AND
NATIONAL SECURITY TO MAKE IT
PALATABLE THROUGH THE MAIN
STREAM.
THAT’S WHAT I SHOW IN MY BOOK.
>> SO STEPHEN MILLER HAD A
REMARKABLE RISE FROM A
CONGRESSIONAL AIDE WHO WOULD
PEPPER REPORTERS INBOXES WITH
TALKING POINTS ABOUT
IMMIGRATION.
TO A TOP ADVISER TO JEFF
SESSIONS AND NOW BEING A
POWERFUL VOICE IN THE BUILDING
BEHIND ME.
SEE HOW YOU SEE THOSE IDEAS
YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT BEING
ENACTED IN POLICY, WHAT IMPRINT
HAVE YOU SEEN?
>> I TRULY BELIEVE, YOU KNOW,
AFTER REPORTING FOR THIS BOOK,
IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE
DISASTER THAT WE’RE LIVING
TODAY, IN 2020, YOU HAVE TO
UNDERSTAND STEPHEN MILLER.
STEPHEN MILLER IS A PUBLIC
RELATIONS FLACK WHO AT THE AGE
OF 31 WITH LITTLE POLICY
EXPERIENCE WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF
MAKING POLICIES FOR THIS COUNTRY
AND FROM DAY ONE IN THE WHITE
HOUSE HE BEGAN TO NARROW THE
FOCUS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
HOMELAND SECURITY AWAY FROM ITS
FOCUS OF PROTECTING THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE FROM A BROAD MANDATE OF
PROTECTING THEM FROM TERRORISM,
FROM PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS LIKE
THE PANDEMIC INTO SOMETHING
LASER FOCUSED ON SOMETHING LIKE
KEEPING BROWN AND BLACK PEOPLE
OUT OF THE COUNTRY, PEOPLE THAT
WERE ASYLUM SEEKERS, PEOPLE THAT
DIDN’T BREAK LAWS, TRULY
FAMILIES.
AND FOR STEPHEN MILLER IT’S
ABOUT REENGINEERING THE
DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE COUNTRY.
IN THE BOOK I CONNECT THE DOTS
BETWEEN EVERYTHING THAT MILLER
DOES AND HIS WHITE SUPREMACIST
INFLUENCES.
MILLER PULLS POLICIES FROM THINK
TANKS CREATED BY WHITE
SUPREMACISTS WHO BELIEVE IN
POPULATION CONTROL FOR NONWHITE
PEOPLE.
HE PUSHED THROUGH HIS WHITE
NATIONALIST AGENDA AND AS A
RESULT OF THIS, FROM MY
CONVERSATIONS WITH OFFICIALS
FROM THE BOOK, AMERICANS HAVE
BEEN LEFT VULNERABLE TO A RANGE
OF REAL THREATS, INCLUDING THE
PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS WE’RE
SEEING TODAY.
>> THIS IS MICHAEL STEELE, TO
PICK UP ON THE REENGINEERING
PART OF THIS NARRATIVE IN YOUR
BOOK.
HOW HAS HE BEEN ABLE TO GET THE
REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT, WHICH
HE PRESUMABLY BEEN OUTSIDE OF,
TO SO CONFORM IN SUCH A SHORT
TIME TO THIS SORT OF WHITE
SUPREMACIST NARRATIVE?
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT’S SORT OF
BAKED INTO THE PARTY?
SO IT WAS AN EASY TRANSITION?
WHAT’S YOUR ANALYSIS AND WHAT
DOES YOUR BOOK TELL US ABOUT HOW
HE WAS ABLE TO BROADEN THE SCOPE
OF THAT PHILOSOPHY TO NOT JUST
POLICY BUT TO THE BODY POLITICS
AS A WHOLE?
>> THAT’S A GREAT QUESTION.
AS I SHOW IN THE BOOK, STEPHEN
MILLER WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN
TRUMP’S WIN IN 2016 BECAUSE OF
HIS ANTI-IMMIGRANT AGENDA.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY REALIZED
THE HOSTILITY OF ANTI-IMMIGRANTS
WAS SPEAKING TO VOTERS.
BEYOND THAT A BIG PART OF THE
REASON HE’S BEEN SO INFLUENTIAL
IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS THAT
STEPHEN MILLER GETS DONALD TRUMP
IN A WAY I BELIEVE NO ONE ELSE
IN THE WHITE HOUSE DOES.
PART OF IT HAS ROOTS IN HIS
CHILDHOOD, STEPHEN MILLER’S
FATHER WAS A REAL ESTATE
INVESTOR DESCRIBED TO ME AS
BEING TRUMP LIKE, PLAGUED BY
BANKRUPTCIES AND LEGAL DISPUTES.
HE GREW UP IN A SIMILAR FAMILY
IS PART OF IT.
THE OTHER THING IS THAT STEPHEN
MILLER, AND THIS IS IMPORTANT,
STEPHEN MILLER ALWAYS ENCOURAGES
TRUMP’S MOST AGGRESSIVE AND
VIOLENT IMPULSES, WHICH TRUMP
APPRECIATES BECAUSE EVERY TIME
HE LISTENS TO A MORE MODERATE
ADVISER HE GETS PUMMELLED AND
RIDICULED BY HIS BASE AS WEAK.
HE WANTS TO BE SEEN AS A KILLER
AND STEPHEN MILLER SHARES HIS
INSTINCTS FOR VIOLENCE.
HE HAS HIS FINGERS ON THE PULSE
OF HIS MOST VIOLENT VOTING BASE
TO SEE THESE REALLY HOSTILE
POLICIES SEPARATING CHILDRENS
FROM PARENTS, TURNING AWAY THE
MOST VULNERABLE, MOST DESPERATE
PEOPLE AT THE U.S./MEXICO
BORDER.
SO ALL THESE CRUEL POLICIES, HE
NEEDS THE, YOU KNOW, HATRED IN
ORDER TO RALLY PEOPLE AROUND THE
POLICIES AND HE’S BEEN EFFECTIVE
OF GETTING THAT HATRED THROUGH
SYSTEMIC DEMONIZATION OF
IMMIGRANTS AS WELL AS THE PEOPLE
WHO SUPPORT THEM IN THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
>> YOU KNOW WHAT’S FASCINATING
IS YOU ARE SO RIGHT.
ALL OF THE AIDES THAT HAVE COME
IN AND OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE,
THERE HAVE BEEN A STEADY STREAM,
AN UNPRECEDENTED STREAM, THE ONE
PERSON WHO HAS HELD ON IS
STEPHEN MILLER BECAUSE STEPHEN
MILLER ALWAYS PLAYS TO THE
LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR WHEN
IT COMES TO ANTI-IMMIGRANT RACIST RHETORIC.
RACIST RHETORIC.
THE BOOK IS "HATE MONGER".