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But it can make jews feel that way. Brynn gingras is on the scene in new york. Officials offered details on some of these handwritten journals they found in the suspects home. What can you tell us about that . Its a bit of the evidence that investigators say they found not only in his home, but also in this suspects car. Hes in federal court on those hate crime charges. Let me give you more details about that evidence they uncovered. The journals, there were writings on them, had nazi symbols, writings about adolf hitler, according to investigators, there were internet searching they say they found in his home as recent as the 27th or 28th, rather which was the night before this attack took place. Some of those searches were German Jewish temples near me, for example. If you talk to his family who did give a News Conference not long ago. These are all the ramblings of someone with a mental illness, there was no antisemitism behind this attack. Investigators other than what was in this complaint havent pointed to what the motive was behind this attack or how this suspect came about this house on saturday night. Here about 30 minutes from his own home. So were still trying to learn details about all of that, but certainly a lot of information coming out in that criminal complaint, including more details even about the attack. Investigators say that thomas walked into the house, he had his face covered and he pulled out a machete, and started attacking people saying no one is leaving. So really disturbing details coming out in this federal complaint. Brynn gingras thank you for that report. This stabbing is the latest to occur in new york. In the last three weeks, a totaling of 15 different attacks have happened. Cnn has been able to confirm 11 of them. Joining me now, a National Security analyst. The leaks say new york has a growing problem the new york incidents following the tree of life shooting. Can you point to a specific cause or is it too hard to quantify . Its clear we have an antisemitism problem in the country. Its clear that we are attacking the problem piecemeal, and thats whats so difficult for me to understand as a security analyst. Antisemitism is not a new phenomenon, ask any jew about their familys history. And they can name far too many instances of antisemitism. They were forced to ask a tough question, which is, should i downplay my faith, because im worried about my security. Were seeing that scenario unfold right now as jews of all ages are being forced to answer whether they should hide their y yamakas or stars of david. We are not bringing the full resources of the u. S. To bare to address this problem. Were seeing various action at the sete and local level. Mayor cuomo said he was looking at integrating more educational aspects into their curriculum. We have not seen the u. S. Government address the lessons of countering extremism in really a strategic way. And i do not understand why. President trump has the authority and the ability to call together a government approach on this issue, and has failed to do so while concurrently unfortunately, propagating antisemitic narratives. I want to go back to what you said about jewish people needing to hide their faith. It real letter struck me. Take a listen. There are those who have literally gone into hiding as the jews have done over the centuries. Did you say youve had friends and others who feel like they should go into hiding recently . Yes. People who did not light their hanukkah men other ya, because particularly after this attack, they were afraid to show their jewishness in the window. What does it say that in 2019 members of the jewish faith feel they cannot display their faith publicly. This echos what happened in the 15th century in spain where they pretended to convert to christianity. Or during the holocaust all the way forward to today, where i was born in a country where i have freedom of religion and now jews of all ages are being advised or thinking for themselves whether to hide what theyre doing. Our system is failing us if jews have to ask that question in this country. There is no easy solution, but at a minimum, it is clear we need to do more. This is not going to be solved by one person or President Trump alone is not going to address this problem. It is clear we need to do more. The federal government needs to step in and apply lessons from the past so that zhus dont have to have Armed Security at the synagogues any more. To that point, Chuck Schumer calling for a 250 million increase in federal grants to help houses of worship. Were not just talking about jewish houses of faith. We saw a similar problem at a Christian Church in texas, do you think that would go to help this problem, to increase the safety at these places of worship. I would like to think a place of worship is a place you could go and not have to worry about this kind of thing. According to fbi statistics is not just against jews, its against muslims and against christians, but hardening these facilities is not going to address the problem. It is important that we protect people in their places of worship. We need defense against attacks. We needed indication about tolerance. And religious freedoms. And we need a Public Private partnership to focus on deterrence, defense and fostering understanding. There is no Silver Bullet in this case, and i applaud efforts of the Law Enforcement community. But that alone is not going to do it. We need to stoppic nooring it. Its interesting, because these incidences are very well publicized. Right. And my biggest fear is, that they become normalized. We are all sickened by them. But when we see them on our tv screens every day, this becomes more normal. We cannot let it get to that point. Thank you, appreciate it. Thank you. Another Faith Community rocked by violence this weekend. Congregants at the west Freeway Church of christ preparing for communion, when a gunman stood up and opened fire. What you are about to see and hear is disturb iing. [ gunfire ] last hour, i spoke with a woman who was sitting right in front of the shooter. She described the chaos that unfolded. We were getting ready to start communion, and this gentleman came in and sat the row behind us, it seemed weird, i got up one time and said something to tony as he was passes the first tray of communion and is whispered something in his ear and sat back down. I noticed him getting back up when we were doing the second part of our communion. Thats when he pulled out his shotgun and all i heard was one shot go off and i hit the floor. And i then heard another shot from the same gentleman shooting. All i could do was just try to cover my child, my husband we were just in a panic. Lets go lucy kafanov. This entire incident lasted six seconds as members of the churchs Security Team who were also parishioners returned fire, striking and killing the shooter. In the last few minutes, weve confirmed the identity of the gunman. What can you tell us about that . Cnn can now confirm the identity of the gunman as keith thomas. His identity was confirmed by a federal Law Enforcement official as well as his sister. She said keith and another one of their siblings, a younger brother had been living on the street for a long time. She said the sibling took his life in 2009 and yesterday was that siblings birthday. Was that related to the shooting . Unclear. Thats a piece of information she shared with us. She last spoke to keith in november and does not believe this shooting was political. This information does mirror a little bit of what weve heard from the fbi. They described him as a franz current individual, whos had numerous run ins with the law, a criminal history. We heard from the attorney general here in texas, take a listen to how he described keith thomas. At that time, he was not named. He had been here several times. They were open to helping people that were transient, homeless or need help. They welcomed those people into their church. And they welcomednt their church. My understanding is more of a loner, and probably going to be difficult to determine exactly what his motivations were, other than mental illness. Reporter it appears he had gone to this church on at least one occasion. Were learning the identity of two victims, Richard White 76 years old, and tony wallace, you heard your previous guest refer to him. 64 years old from ft. Worth, his daughter told cnn he worked very hard as a nurse, she described him as a perfect man who loved to care for the community. He was apparently standing in the back of the church with a plate right before communion started when the gunman told him to drop the plate and shot him, killing him. 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Hard to believe it, five weeks until the iowa caucuses, and a clean bill of health just in for Bernie Sanders. As he campaigns across the state today. The vermont senators campaign releasing letters from three different doctors who are all in agreement. Sanders is recovering well after his heart attack in october. One doctor writing, Mister Sanders is it more than fit enough to pursue vigorous activities and occupation that requires stamina and an ability to handle a great deal of stress. Lucky for him, hes up for one of those jobs, president of the United States. May joins me to talk about this and more. In one of those letters, the doctor went into specific details about sanders weight, Blood Pressure and stress tests. You could really see that this morning at Bernie Sanders event. Hes been on the campaign trail doing lots of events. The energy is high up there, as it always is. He talked this morning for almost two hours, taking questions from voters, hes going to be have a big new years bash here in iowa, i think that these letters from doctors will be really important for some voters to aswage concerns they have. After bernies heart attack, one voter told me that she scratched him off her list. His campaign promised us the information was coming, now its up for the voters to guide whether or not its enough. Lets shift and talk about some of these policies . Medicare for all. A unique situation happening on the campaign as of late. Hes been kind of pushed a little bit by folks from the Health Care Industry who may be worried they would lose their jobs because of his medicare for all plan. I work for a health Insurance Company, thats all i know. Youre going to take away my job. Im not going to take away your job. I need a new job. Were going to transition you, give you the job training if your job is lost. What does our job look like, what are we are we unemployed . Will there be job loss . Yes, there will be, what i want to tell you is, we are putting into medicare for all, what we call a Just Transition program which will help everybody in the industry. For a fiveyear period maintain their income. Get the job training that they need to get another job. I think thats the fair and right thing to do. This isnt new. Hes conceded that there will be job losses in the Health Insurance industry. Do you think the campaign is confident that voters are understanding this . I think that what is new here is that you are seeing voters putting Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren through their paces on this issue. Weve seen them getting qu