U.S. Senator
Elizabeth Warren said on Tuesday if elected to the
White House she would use "every tool" at her disposal to combat white nationalist violence, beginning with directing the
FBI and
Justice Department to put a renewed focus on domestic terrorism. Warren, one of 18
Democrats vying for the party's nomination to take on President
Donald Trump in November 2020, said U.S. law enforcement agencies have prioritized investigating international terrorism since the September 2001 attacks, even as the FBI logged more than 7,000 hate crimes in 2018. The Massachusetts senator said recent racially motivated attacks at a South Carolina church, a white supremacist rally in
Virginia, a
Pennsylvania synagogue and a Walmart in
Texas, should have been prevented.