votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. still remarkable to hear him. that was georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger on the receiving end of that request. he and his deputy gabe sterling will be the witnesses along with two recent recipients of the jfk profile and courage award for their actions and courage during the 2020 election. georgia elections worker andrea shea moss who also came under pressure. the testimony doesn t stop there, we ll hear what one federal judge described this way, a coup in search of a legal theory. that is the way trump and his legal team in the days following his historic defeat latched on like sea urchins to a radical, unconstitutional effort to leave him in power in key swing states. in advance of that line of questioning, there is brand-new reporting in the washington post this weekend with an inside look of what john eastman was saying to his colleagues that they knew the plan was baseless and pursued it anywa
this is don lemon tonight. america is mourning after multiple mass shootings across the weekend at a grocery store, a church a, a few blocks from a nba game, and new york. this is a straight up hate crime. pure evil. the n word was unfortunately carved into one of his weapons. clearly he was bent on hate. plus major twists in key primary races with just hours to go until the polls open. in pennsylvania, a democratic frontrunner suffering a stroke and a republican candidate who marched the capitol on january 6 rising to the top of the field. and combat mission over. that is a message from ukranian forces after months of nonstop shelling at the steel plant in mariupol. we re going to have the latest on the agreement with russia that led to hundreds of evacuations. for more on these horrific shootings, though, and the motivations behind them, i want to turn to cnn s omar jimenez in buffalo, new york. good evening to both of you. omar, let s start with you. we are lea
lady also laid flowers at a memorial site before meeting with the families of the ten victims all killed while shopping and working at a grocery store simply because they were black. this hatred is what led president biden to run for president. and it s detailed in the suspect s plans. we ve learned he made multiple trips to that store as early as march. even speaking with a security guard who the shooter would later kill in this attack we are live from buffalo. joe, first to you. tell us more about the president s visit today and his message. well, this this speech, especially, was many things. it occurred after the president had private meetings with the family members of survivors of this awful shooting along with first responders and leaders from the community, but when we got to the speech, it was the joe biden we have come to expect in situations like this with his unique perspective on loss, given all the personal loss he has suffered. and somewhat of analogy to bo
and the first lady laying flowers at a memorial at the market. you see that makeshift memorial there. during his remarks, president biden blasted the surge in white supremacy that had motivated him to run for office more than three years ago and that police say radicalized a white teenager to commit that mass murder in buffalo. white prsupremacy is a poiso. it s a poison. running through our it really is. running through our body politic. it s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more. i mean, no more. we need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. reporter: more on the president s speech in a moment, but first, the latest on the investigation. online postings show the suspected gunman visited the scene of the buffalo massacre, the store behind me, three times on a single day in march and he wrote about carrying out the attack on march 15th but then he delayed several times. repo
americans dead. this morning, the president and first lady laid flowers at the tops market where, as you can see here, a make shift memorial has been growing. during his remarks, biden blasted the surge in white supremacy, and it motivated him to run for office three years ago. police say it s that surge that helped to radicalize a white teenager to commit this mass murder in buffalo. white supremacy is a poison. it s a poison. it really is. running through our body politic. it s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more, i mean, no more. we need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. moments ago, the mayor of buffalo spoke to reporters. he said that the president and the first lady met with the families individually, and the mayor condemned the hate that investigators say was behind the killings. the level of hatred in the heart and head of this individual is stunning. it s st