The first few months of President Trump's second term, including some selections for key jobs in his administration,

have sparked new questions about his complicated history with elevating extremist views.

Our White House correspondent, Laura Barone Lopez, takes a closer look.

President Trump has a long history of amplifying messages and figures embraced by white supremacists and other

domestic extremists, from spreading bertha conspiracy theories about former President Obama's citizenship,

to lying about the outcome of the 2020 election, to pardoning the rioters who violently stormed

the Capitol in 2021. Now, in his second term, he's doubled down, staffing key positions with people who have spread

racist conspiracies and defended January 6th insurrectionists who assaulted police. Joining me now to

discuss is Jacob Ware. He's a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations studying domestic

terrorism and counterterrorism. Jacob, thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Let's start with how the president's second term compares to his first term,

specifically when it comes to who he is elevating in his administration

and the ideological views that they promote and they're known for.

How would you compare the two terms?

Well, I think we had an expression during the first term. We said there were adults in the

room, serious long-term professionals in national security and another field, who staffed the

administration and who kept the trains on the tracks. This time, there are far fewer of those

individuals, and I think that's

encapsulated actually in the January 6th legacy, where this time President Trump basically

has surrounded himself with people who either believe or are willing to lie to him in saying

that the January 6th election riots was legitimate, was legal, and that the election

was stolen.

So immediately you have people who cannot look at a truth and see it for what it is

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