laughed off that this could ve been an antireligious attack, listen. that christians were targeted in the school shooting? i have no idea. i have no idea. republican senator josh hawley blasting before looking at the feds to investigate as a hate crime. that is totally beneath the dignity of the office of the presidency of the united states, this is an office that has the responsibility of leading this country, children are dead, this is a terrible, terrible tragedy, joe biden should be acknowledging the targeting of people of faith, he should be saluting the law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line and saved hundreds of kids, but you should be saying we are going to get to the bottom of this, we are going to call it for what it is, a hate crime and do a full investigation to make sure it does not happen again. jesse: and it does not end there, the press secretary for katie hobbs forced to resign this afternoon after appearing to encourage gun violen
we will bring all of the resources of the federal government to bear on this case. this is the number one priority of the department of justice and i can assure the citizens of this community that anything that we can do at the federal level with this case will be done and justice will be served for the victims. just on the hate crime issue as well, i ve already asked our hate crime task force, the new york state hate crime task force to be investigating as well. so it is being treated absolutely as a hate crime. and i ve been in touch with officials in washington and at the white house on the issue, what we re doing here so aggressively. so i appreciate the fbi s engagement as well. thank you, everyone. our coverage of the breaking news out of western new york continues this hour. police say an 18-year-old man dressed in tactical gear and protective armor opened fire at a grocery store in buffalo, just hours ago, killing ten people and wounding three others. police say
motivated violent extremism. we ll bring all the resources of the federal government to bear on this case. this is the number one priority of the department of justice, and i can assure the citizens of this community that anything we can do at the federal level with this case will be done and justice will be served for the victims. on the hate crime issue as well. i asked our hate crime task force to investigate as well. it s absolutely a hate crime. i have been in touch with officials in washington and the white house on the issue of what we are doing here so aggressively as well. i appreciate the fbi investigation as well. reporter: that s the governor of the state of new york, kathy hochul along with the local district attorney from erie county talking about the horrible news out of buffalo. an 18-year-old suspect drove from the binghampton area from the pennsylvania-new york border. drove several hours west and north to the buffalo area and began livestreaming as he got
will tell you what, i mentioned this the first or second day and i said we have to look into the issue, because you can rest assured that if this happened at a synagogue or in a mosque, there will be people asking that question in the president would be saying, well, we are going to look into that. but we live in a day and age unfortunately where the degrading of religion in our society, especially christian religion, ironically on a day when merrick garland is before the congressional committee being asked about whether or not they were properly prosecuting protesters in the dobbs a decision in the protection of supreme court justices on the issue of abortion, all of this comes together. these are not isolated incidents. they really are a reflection of what is going on in the country. in this president, he is just blabbering all the time. and he could ve said, you know, it s time for us to recognize, forget about the hate crime
you heard the mayor there just a few moments ago say, you know, you have to acknowledge that it appears the club was targeted. law enforcement officials aren t, you know, making that declaration as of yet, at this point. because things are still under investigation, but it does sound like the investigation may be moving in that direction. you have to move in that direction. and that s one reason, and when you looked that the feds are already involved with this. look, the locals can deal with the immediate issue here, the murder investigation, for example. there is a hate crime issue here, and you don t want to wait daily days until you start investigating that, if you re the fbi. if you re thinking about charges against an individual, jim, you want the locals to be investigating local charges. but early on, regardless of whether you have final information on the subject s motives, you want the feds to be involved when sure that if there are federal charges, that the feds were involve