"If you don't think there was an honest fear of violence in that very hot period of around 2010, it was real. I think there was a real fear on the part of security people that it might get out of hand," he added.
"There is a real level of national hatred of the president that I hadn't seen before, certainly not under Clinton, or under Dubya," he said.
"The hatred, the Hitler mustaches, all that stuff. I haven't seen that before," he insisted.
When WMAL hosts Mary Katherine Ham and Bryan Nehman challenged Matthews, asking him if President George W. Bush had not faced a similar level of rancor, Matthews stood his ground.
"You guys have a point of view," said Matthews, "and I'm trying to look at this objectively."
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