Michigan AG Incorrectly Claims ‘White Supremacy’ Behind Texas Synagogue Hostage Crisis

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Saturday suggested that White supremacy might have been behind the attack on the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue.Show more

Nessel was already scheduled to speak with MSNBC’s Yasmin Vossoughian on another subject, but due to the breaking news, the anchor interviewed the AG on the subject of the attack, which at the time was still a developing story.

Vossoughian asked the attorney general about what were her “biggest concerns” watching the news unfold, and Nessel responded by speculating about it being a domestic terror incident, possibly by someone affiliated with or influenced by extremist White supremacist groups or rhetoric, including from some of “our nation’s leaders,” and enabled by lack of strict gun control.