Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) Dylann Roof told his dad during a November prison visit, before he was convicted of gunning down nine people in a church, that he was going to do something to make it worse. 
 
 His father asked him what was wrong with him, handed the phone to his mother and walked away. Roof's mother asked what he'd said to make his father cry before his dad quickly returned and took the phone. 
 
 "Buddy, nothing could be any worse than what you've already done. You know whatever you've done reflects on us as a family. Don't be a f***ing dumb-a**," Ben Roof told his son. "I don't know what you could f***ing do to make it worse, but don't do it." 
 
 The mysterious exchange was among new details released this week as US District Judge Richard Gergel unsealed 19 documents from Roof's competency hearings and videos of three prison visits by his family. Together, they help paint a picture of the 23-year-old's mental state before and after he was imprisoned for the church massacre. 
 
 According to a transcript from November, Roof told a psychologist working for his defense team that his death penalty wouldn't be carried out because he'd "be rescued by white nationalists after they took over the government." 
 
 The transcript was included in a report composed amid Roof's trial for killing nine parishioners in 2015 at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The report also says Roof was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder "based on the presence of social-communication challenges and atypical behaviors." 
 
 Autism, schizophrenia, sociopathy? 
 
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 It goes on to say Roof was suffering or had suffered from "psychiatric symptoms that are not explained by autism spectrum disorder, including anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, disordered thinking, and psychosis (including delusions of grandeur and somatic delusions)." 
 
 Roof's somatic delusions -- which are defined as false beliefs that something is grossly wrong with one's body -- include unfounded complaints of hair loss and thyroid disease, according to reports. 
 
 "It is my impression that it is too early to predict his psychiatric trajectory," Dr. Rachel Loftin wrote in one report, "but his symptoms appear to me to be consistent with the schizophrenia spectrum." 
 
 The confessed white supremacist seemed to take umbrage with any suggestion that he was autistic, according to documents. 
 
 On November 17, an autism expert wrote that Roof seemed more concerned with his Wikipedia page and the clothes his lawyers had purchased for him for court than he was with mounting a defense in his death penalty trial. 
 
 Roof told the expert he was a sociopath, not autistic, and that autism was for "nerds and losers." He also said testimony regarding his mental state was irrelevant because he would "be pardoned in four or five years," documents say. 
 
 Document dump 
 
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 In addition to the competency hearing documents, Judge Gergel allowed journalists Tuesday to view videos from three prison visits between Roof and his family members. Most of the interactions on the videos ranged from the banal to the bizarre. Common themes were Roof's commissary account, his cats' weight and well-being, the whereabouts of a ribbed sweater he had requested for his trial and how his lawyers were "snakes." 
 
 In one discussion on politics Roof told his dad, a Trump supporter, that he wished Sen. Bernie Sanders had won the presidential election. During another visit, he told his father not to read his manifesto -- in which he wrote, "I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed" -- because it's "the worst thing I have ever written." 
 
 At times, he seemed to be toying with his parents, telling them his brain was deteriorating from syphilis and that he got a honeybun in his prison Christmas stocking. 
 
 During a December 18 visit, days after the guilty verdict in his federal trial, his sister Morgan asked if she could watch him get a lethal injection should he receive the death penalty. He responded that he was allowed to invite two people and she could be one of them. 
 
 Gergel would not permit the footage to be publicly released, but a CNN reporter was among journalists allowed to watch the videos and take handwritten notes. 
 
 'A very anxious man' 
 
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 Some of the information about Roof's mental state was contained in a December document , released in February, that showed defense attorneys sought special accommodations for their client after competency hearings indicated Roof suffered from a range of disorders. 
 
 But the documents released this week go deeper and also delve into his childhood, which was marked by normal maladies such as colds, fevers, sore throats and the like. 
 
 As a teen, however, Roof visited a family doctor who called him "a very anxious man." 
 
 In 2009, as Roof was entering high school at age 13, his mother took him to Lexington County Community Mental Health Center because he was defying her, using drugs, skipping school and engaging in "oppositional behavior." His mother told a doctor that at school, Roof's As had become Fs, according to court documents. 
 
 He also experienced anxiety in social situations, with one report saying that he "worries about it all the time" and at one point threatened to run away and kill himself because his mother had made him go to school. He later told his mom the threat was a bluff. 
 
 The report suggests Roof self-medicated with drugs and alcohol. He told doctors he had no intention of quitting his use of marijuana, the documents say. Roof was prescribed an antidepressant. 
 
 Roof maintains he doesn't need care 
 
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 Psychological and medical records from the county jail where he was held after the church massacre show Roof was removed from suicide watch in August 2015, two months after the killings. 
 
 He spent most of his time in his room sitting or lying on his cot, only coming out when "he had something to do," according to jail logs. A jail counselor reported that Roof was "doing well in general" and had stated he didn't need mental health care. 
 
 During his federal trial, Roof requested that the judge reinstate his legal team for the guilt phase of the trial. He asked to represent himself again during sentencing. 
 
 "There's nothing wrong with me psychologically," Roof told jurors ahead of sentencing. "Anything you heard from my lawyers in the last phase, I ask you to forget it." ||||| A federal court rejected a request by Dylann Roof, the unabashed white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church two years ago, to dismiss his attorneys because they’re Jewish and Indian. 
 
 Roof, who was sent to death row for the June 2015 massacre at a historically black church in Charleston, requested that the two public defenders appointed to handle his appeal be removed from his case, saying their ethnicities are “a barrier to effective communication.” 
 
 “Because of my political views, which are arguably religious, it will be impossible for me to trust two attorneys that are my political and biological enemies,” the 23-year-old said in a handwritten, three-page motion filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. The court denied the request in a one-sentence ruling Tuesday. 
 
 His attorneys, Alexandra Yates and Sapna Mirchandani, did not respond to requests for comment. 
 
 Rishi Bagga, president of the South Asian Bar Association of North America, said that requesting an attorney’s removal should be based on legal abilities. He said Roof’s comments highlight a challenge among public defenders, who often have to represent clients who don’t reflect their own views. 
 
 “It’s really part of a lawyer’s oath to represent someone to the best of their ability regardless of their own beliefs, religion or background or origin,” Bagga said. 
 
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 Roof has been on death row since a jury convicted him of dozens of charges, including federal hate crimes, for the deaths of nine parishioners who had invited him into their Bible study at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 Federal prosecutors said Roof committed the massacre to try to start a race war, and they presented as evidence his videotaped confession, in which Roof made no effort to deny the killings. The two-hour video, played during the third day of Roof’s trial in December, showed him calm — laughing at times — as he confessed to the deadly shooting. 
 
 He was nonchalant when he explained to FBI agents why he chose to gun down six women and three men. With a few swift motions of his right arm, he demonstrated how he pulled out his .45-caliber Glock and opened fire — taking 77 total shots. 
 
 “Well yeah, I mean, I just went to that church in Charleston and, uh, I did it,” Roof told agents when they asked him to explain what happened. 
 
 Roof wavered briefly when the agents asked him to describe exactly what he had done. “Well, I killed them, I guess,” he said. 
 
 He also tried to justify the killings, saying what he did was “so minuscule” to what black people are “doing to white people every day all the time.” 
 
 
 
 An image of Dylann Roof’s motion asking a judge to remove his court-appointed attorneys from his case. 
 
 “I had to do it because somebody had to do something,” he told the agents. “Black people are killing white people every day on the street, and they are raping white women.” 
 
 Prosecutors also introduced Roof’s jailhouse journal, in which he wrote that he does not regret what he did. “I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed,” he said. 
 
 Roof’s new court filing isn’t the first time he has complained about his attorneys. During his trial, he sought to drop his defense attorney, David Isaac Bruck, whom Roof threatened to kill if he got out of jail. Bruck is also Jewish. 
 
 Roof sought to argue on his own behalf during the trial’s sentencing phase, a portion of a capital murder case during which defense attorneys argue for a more lenient sentence. A judge later determined that Roof was competent to represent himself as long as his legal team was on standby. 
 
 In the handwritten motion filed Monday, Roof said Bruck’s Jewish heritage “was a constant source of conflict” despite Roof’s efforts to “look past it.” 
 
 [‘I’m just a sociopath,’ Dylann Roof declared after deadly church shooting rampage, court records say] 
 
 The “difficulties” at his trial, Roof argued, should justify removal of his public defenders serving as his appellate attorneys. He said his appeal “should be worked on and written by lawyers with my best interests in mind.” 
 
 Roof was also charged at the state level. He avoided a second death penalty trial after pleading guilty in March to nine counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder and a related weapons charge. He was given nine consecutive life sentences in April. 
 
 Court records unsealed in May provided a glimpse into Roof’s mind. Experts who examined him said he was less concerned over his own fate and worried more about whether certain family members were eating together, how his cats were doing without him, what was written on his Wikipedia page and what he was going to wear in court. 
 
 He also resisted the autism diagnosis from a psychologist hired by his defense team, saying autism was for “nerds” and “losers,” according to court records. The “state psychiatrist told me there is nothing wrong with me,” according to court records paraphrasing Roof’s statements. “I don’t have autism. I’m just a sociopath.” 
 
 As Roof sits in a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., a mural in Ann Arbor, Mich., was vandalized with racist graffiti supporting Roof. 
 
 “Free Dylann Roof, I Hate N——,” it said, according to the Michigan Daily. 
 
 Lindsey Bever contributed to this report. 
 
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 He also said he used a Glock 45 to do it, according to the video. "I didn't say anything to them before I pulled it out, not even one word," Roof said of the gun in the video. "I mean they reacted after I shot them." 
 
 FBI Special Agent Michael Stansbury, who interviewed Roof the day after the shooting, testified today at Roof's federal trial, and Roof's apparent video confession was played in court. 
 
 Roof, who is white, is accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners during a Bible study at the predominantly black Emanuel AME Church on June 17, 2015. Roof allegedly entered the Emanuel AME Church armed and "with the intent of killing African-Americans engaged in the exercise of their religious beliefs," according to the federal indictment against him. 
 
 The parishioners welcomed Roof, who was 21 at the time of the shooting, into their Bible study group, according to the indictment, after which Roof allegedly drew his pistol and opened fire. 
 
 David Goldman/AP Photo 
 
 Asked in the video when he decided to do the shooting, Roof said, "I can't tell you." 
 
 Roof's voice was mostly monotone during the interview, though it was often punctuated by laughter. 
 
 "I am guilty," he says, laughing. 
 
 Roof says he did not expect to survive the shooting because he expected police to respond to the church and shoot him. Once he escaped, he says he spontaneously decided to go to Charlotte, North Carolina, because he didn't want to go home to Columbia. 
 
 After an agent told him he killed nine people and asked how he felt, Roof responded in a monotone voice, "It makes me feel bad." 
 
 During a break from testimony, Roof, who wore a grey sweater and khakis, left the courtroom with a smile and his eyes half-closed after sitting through some of the video. None of his family was in court this morning as the beginning of the video was played. 
 
 More of today's testimony below is according to ABC affiliate WCIV, which also reported on the video-taped interview played in court. 
 
 During the interview, Roof "was sitting there eating a hamburger. He was not upset, crying, or showing any emotions," Stansbury said, adding that Roof was calm and showed no remorse. 
 
 In the video interview, Stansbury asked Roof why he had to do it, and Roof told him he believed that someone had to do something about what he said were crimes committed by blacks against white people. 
 
 "I don't like what black people do," Roof says in the video, but notes that no black person was ever violent to him or his family to prompt the attack. 
 
 Roof said no one else was brave enough to do anything, referencing the KKK and skinheads. 
 
 He said he chose Charleston because "it's a nice historic city" and "at one time it had the highest ratio of black people to white people in the whole country." 
 
 "I just like Charleston," he said, adding, "I just knew there was a historic African Methodist church." 
 
 Roof said he knew the church "would be a place where there would be, you know, at least a swarm of black people in one area. I thought about a black festival or something like that but they have security." 
 
 "I wasn't going to go to another church because there could be white people there," he said. 
 
 Roof said in the video he tries not to think about the people he killed being innocent. 
 
 "I'm not in the position by myself to go to, like, a black neighborhood or something like that, and shoot up a drug dealer," Roof said. 
 
 Roof said he drank "a little alcohol" while sitting in his car before going in the church. 
 
 He said he thinks there were "two people" in the church "I didn't shoot at all." He said during the shooting "there were pauses in between and I was thinking about what I should do." Roof said no one in the church charged him to try and stop him. 
 
 When Roof left the church, he said he was shocked that no one was outside. "I peeked out the door because I thought there would be someone there waiting to shoot me," he said. 
 
 Roof said in the video he considers himself a white nationalist and that he thinks the white race should be the dominant race. 
 
 "I didn't think I would start a race war or anything like that. A race war would be pretty terrible," Roof said, adding that he would want to reinstate segregation or "something like that," saying segregation wasn't bad. 
 
 Asked how long he had thought this, Roof said, "The first thing that woke me up would be the Trayvon Martin case," referring to the 2012 shooting death of the unarmed black teen in Florida. 
 
 He said after reading a Wikipedia page about Trayvon Martin, "for some reason I typed in 'black on white crime.' And ever since then." 
 
 Roof said he never "talked about race around other people," including family members. 
 
 During the interview, agents showed Roof several photos they obtained from his father's home, including one of the number "1488" scratched in the sand. 
 
 Roof tells the agents "88 stands for Heil Hitler. ... I support Hitler." 
 
 He says he drew in the sand on Sullivan's Island, a beach town just outside of Charleston. 
 
 When agents ask if he has any remorse, Roof replies, "I think it's too soon." 
 
 Asked if he has regrets, Roof says, "A little bit. ... I don't know how many people are killed or anything." 
 
 When an agent asks what the purpose of the nine deaths was, Roof replies, "I don't know." 
 
 Chuck Burton/AP Photo 
 
 Testimony today also addressed letters Roof wrote to his parents and a journal he kept with racist entries -- all found in his car after he was apprehended. 
 
 In a note to his mother, Roof apologized and said he loved her, and he wrote, "Childish as it sounds I wish I was in your arms." 
 
 In the journal, Roof degrades African Americans and Jews, and a state law enforcement agent on the witness stand today read the racist entries aloud. Some jurors leaned on their hands as they read the journal entries on monitors and appeared in shock. 
 
 Families of the victims were quiet, some wrapped in colorful blankets to stay warm in the cold courtroom. 
 
 Roof wrote that he was not raised in a racist place. He also wrote that after reading a Wikipedia entry about the Trayvon Martin case, it was obvious to him that George Zimmerman, the man who fatally shot Martin, was in the right, and he was never the same again. 
 
 Roof also wrote that one of his only regrets is that he was never able to fall in love. 
 
 During Thursday's court proceedings, Roof's mother was crying and trembling for hours listening to descriptions of the gruesome scene. She was then laid down on a bench and started looking up, saying, "Where am I?" and then, "I'm so sorry" over and over. 
 
 Testimony from investigators Thursday revealed pictures from the gruesome scene at the basement hall where the shooting happened. The images showed bodies with numbers labeling what investigators believe was the order in which they were shot. The images also showed streams of blood. Many of the victims were under the rickety tables. Some bibles were still on the tables. 
 
 Matthew Fortner/The Post And Courier via AP 
 
 The 33 federal counts against Roof include hate crimes resulting in death and obstruction of exercise of religion resulting in death. If convicted, Roof faces the death penalty. 
 
 Roof has pleaded not guilty. 
 
 He also faces a state trial, set for early next year, in which he may also face the death penalty. 
 
 ABC News' Anne Emerson contributed to this report.
– In nearly three hours of jailhouse video, South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof is seen laughing at his family, asking about his cats, and becoming upset when his relatives suggest he should use his lawyers. Federal officials showed the videos to reporters in Charleston on Tuesday. The videos were part of hearings that determined the white supremacist was competent to stand trial for killing nine black church members, the AP reports. Many of Roof's bizarre behaviors are evident in the videos, which are not being publicly released. He laughs at inappropriate times, shows no sign of remorse, and cries once when he insists he has syphilis even though he had been examined and did not have the disease. In one exchange, Roof's father cries after his son tells him: "I'm going to make this even worse," the Post and Courier reports. In another, when his mother argues he should keep his defense team instead of representing himself, he says lawyers "represent criminals and lie for them." CNN reports that in a transcript released earlier this week, the 23-year-old tells a psychologist that he won't be executed because he will "be rescued by white nationalists after they took over the government." Another document states that Roof told an autism expert that autism was for "nerds and losers" and he was a sociopath.