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Bowers streamed and he had a loud noise that sounded like a steel coat rack falling. but when he saw people running and heard pops, he knew it was gunfire. >> i instructed my congregants to drop to the floor, dont move and be quiet. i took some of the people in the front end it tried to get them out of the sanctuary to the front of the sanctuary to some of the doors that we have there to either an exit out of the building or to closet someplace to hide. >> rabbi myers then hit in the bathroom an...

Deadly attack on a pittsburgh synagogue posted the vile views on social media from the man who did the shooting but not a service you likely heard of before. gab.com founded in 2016 by a man named andrew torba, a programmer that felt that the social media companies were censoring conservative voices. a post announcing the launch claimed that free speech and free thought are under attack blaming political correctness as, quote, cancer on discourse and culture. gab attracted alt-right figure who i...

Massacre inside of a pittsburgh synagogue wrote multiple postings online spewing hate against jewish people, blaming them for helping refugees, criticizing president trump for surrounding himself with too many jewish people. with me now, samantha venegrad, cnn national security analyst. lets start with these postings on gab.com, something i hadnt been familiar with, apparently a popular spot for -- >> bigots. >> exactly. talk about his postings, specifically what he said about hias. >> one of th...

They build out a timeline. they go back days, weeks, months, maybe in this case years to see what happened here, where did this person turn? and most important, what was going on in the last few days? we see this a lot in terrorism cases, where they go back and they want to know, who was he communicating with? who was he talking to? whether cell phone, e-mail, who was receiving that? what did someone else know was going on? that really goes also beyond just this case. you know, there are always ...

Pipe bombs. obviously these people targeted, many of them for their political views, critics of this president and now members of the jewish faith clearly targeted because of what they believe. just sit on that for a second. lastly, his beliefs. gab.com. for people, again, who are just sort of tuning in and learning about what has happened today, who this individual is, tell us more about liz anti-semitic rants online. >> clearly anti-jewish. he had issues with the caravan. he had issues with pe...

Media site, gab.com. >> never heard of it. >> apparently a site not monitored for anti-semitic or other threats, a favorite site among hate groups, i presume as a result of that. tell me about some of his posts. >> it bills itself as this website that kind of doesnt monitor hate speech, lets people have their freedom to say -- look, theres a lot weve learned about things hes said on there, certainly theres some pro trump stuff, a lot of anti-jewish sentiment. he posted minutes before he went on ...

Understand and law enforcement to understand what his mindset was, what he was thinking and how he was thinking. and also the post, he made a post just minutes before. he posted just minutes before the attack like it was go time, im going in. its an interesting sort of platform for people to communicate on. they protect -- they tout themselves as protecting free speech and -- >> they dont monitor. unlike twitter and afghanistfac other sites, if you put hate speech out theyre going to yank it dow...

Increasing patrols of or attention to synagogues. how susceptible are synagogues or places of worship broadly to copycat threats of a crime like this? >> reporter: every place is susceptible to it, whether its a shopping mall or a school or places of worship. but in this particular case with individuals with a tremendous anti-jewish or anti-semitic attitude then obviously synagogues are going to be vulnerable. theyre going to continue to be vulnerable if this kind of attitude is prevalent, but i...

Me. >> absolutely. tom, thank you so much. gab.com has condemned the comments, the sentiments made by robert bowers, but their website and others will be a treasure-trove for investigators. >> thank you so much. we do speak to chuck dom, a rab bi at tree of life synagogue. >> its against the humanity and what is good. ♪ the new capital one savor card. earn 4% cash back on dining

During the course of that press conference. he talked about what the gunman screamed when he went into that synagogue. that is something we saw in that criminal complaint locally this morning, cal. youve been looking at the toxic soup of commentary that he left behind. >> yeah, garbage, mostly, and if not entirely garbage. bier goi were going to be putting this on a website, gab.com, a lot of this is where this came from. a lot of users on this site have been kicked off of sites like twitter and...