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CNNW Inside Politics October 28, 2018

To our viewers in the United States and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. Hate and horror in pittsburgh. A gunman with a history of antisemitic rants burst into a synagogue and killing 11 and wounding six. This is the most horrific crime scene ive seen in 22 years with the federal bureau of investigation. Members conducting a peaceful service in their place of worship were brutally murdered by a gunman targeting them simply because of their faith. Plus, the manhunt is over. An angry trump supporter now charged with mailing explosives to former president s, senators and other prominent president ial critics. We not tolerate such lawlessness, especially not Political Violence. Ieds were sent to various individuals across the country. These are not hoax devices. President trump in the spotlight. Strong condemnation of antisemitism after the pittsburgh massacre, but in the case of the Political Violence, his tweets and unscripted moments veer into Conspiracy Theory and blame. We have seen an effort in recent hours by the media to use the sinister actions of one individual to score political points against me and the republican party. The media has tried to attack the incredible americans who support our movement to give power back to the people. We begin this sunday once again in a place people, politicians around the states coping with what we used to call the unthinkable. 11 People Killed inside a pitburg synagogue believed to be the deadliest attack on the u. S. Jewish community. A 46yearold man with a history of antisemitic posting on social media. After his arrest, he told a s. W. A. T. Officer he wanted all jews to die. To honor the victims of this massacre. Last night mourners turned out for candlelight vigils across pittsburgh despite the raw weather. Also a moment of violence before saturdays hockey game for the pittsburgh penguins. The team was playing away from home in canada. People also took to social media to suggest changing the logo of the steelers football team, adding a star of david and the words stronger than hate. Political leaders thrust into the role of mourners and comforters. Heres tom wolf speaking of his grief. My heart breaks for the members of the jewish community. Today all of pennsylvania mourns with you. Antisemitism has absolutely no place in our commonwealth. Any attack on one community of faith in pennsylvania is an attack against every community of faith in pennsylvania. On several occasions yesterday, including a rally last night in illinois, President Trump calling on the nation to come together. This evil antisemitic attack is an assault on all of us. Its an assault on humanity. It will require all of us working together to extract the hateful poison of antisemitism from our world. We must draw a line in the sand and say very strongly never again. Lets go live to cnn correspondent jessica dean on the scene at pittsburgh. Jessica, youre at one of the vigils last night. Now were waiting for authorities to hold a News Conference. What are we expecting to hear from them this morning . Good morning to you, john. Yes, the News Conference will happen in about an hour. Were expected to learn the identities of the 11 victims we now know from the criminal complaint that eight of them were male, three of them female. We should learn more about them today. This as they are there are now formal charges filed against the suspect in this case 29 federal charges, including hate crimes. In this case that has really rocked pittsburgh and just broken its collective heart. We were at that vigil as you mentioned last night in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood. We were just down the way from where that shooting happened yesterday morning. And what we saw was a community that came together so often in tragedy and when people are grieving and mourning. They simply want to be together and share in that. That was certainly the case last night. We were at the Sixth Presbyterian Church where they gathered. It was overflow before the event started. People pouring out on to the sidewalks. They had a candlelight vigil. You heard some of the singing they were doing last night. I talked to a lot of people. Many of whom who lived in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood all of their life. A lot of people grow up here and raise their own families here. This is a place where people know each other and their children. They go to school together. Its a Diverse Community in terms of religion and also race. We saw that last night, john, again as we learn the identity of the victims today, this community bracing for more mourning and more grief. Jessica dean on the scene for us. Appreciate that reporting. Well keep in touch throughout the day. The gunman attacked people at the synagogue and the police and the s. W. A. T. Team. This captured on radio dispatch calls. Contact, contact. Shots fired, shots fired. We got a guy barricaded. Got one operator shot at this time. Evacing one right now. Still alive. We have at least four down in the atrium, doa at this time. Now Law Enforcement analysts, James Gagliano and former assistant director the u. S. Marshals office. Art, let me start with you. Amen to the First Responders once again. You hear people on the scene talking about the s. W. A. T. Team running in, running in during an active shooting. We do not say enough thank you for the people who keep us safe from an investigative standpoint. One of the questions this morning, they have a suspect in custody. He told the s. W. A. T. Team he wanted all jews dead. They believe they have their guy. What are the questions this morning . The main question is, is there anybody that might have helped him out. You know, john, first of all, our thoughts and prayers go to the victims but also to the Law Enforcement officers, one of them is my understanding is critically wounded. Our thoughts and prayers are with them and his family. You know, this particular psychotic individual, you know, theyre going to peel back layers of this guys life and figure out exactly how long hes been ranting and raving with these antisemitic, antiimmigrant type tones. You know, theyll check with the neighbors and family members. Apparently, he doesnt have a wife. He seemed to be quite a bit of a loner. So theyre going to look at his weapons purchase history. Going to look at his digital footprint. Apparently theres a lot of information out there on the digital footprint. Theyre going to put that all together and i think basically what were going to look at here is more than likely a Death Penalty case eventually when its all said and done. The digital footprint is rich. We have this conversation too often. You look and you see a man whose postings are full of hate. Hate about jews directly. Hate directed at the president of the United States. He doesnt expect much from President Trump because hes r surrounded by and uses a derogatory term. You search somebodys house, you look for notebooks and writings. You ask the neighbors and family members. Here it all is. Is there anything that Law Enforcement agencies can do in advance when this stuff is there but obviously he doesnt say until just beforehand, he doesnt say im going in. John, in hindsight its always 20 20 for us. Lets make a distinction between the hate crime that the shooter was charged with. The hate crime is a crime motivated by prejudice, bigotry, racism. Youre attacking somebody because of their faith, because of their race or ethnicity or sexual orientation. Theres attendant violence. The difference between that and hate speech, a hate crime is illegal. Hate speech is not necessarily illegal. We enjoy First Amendment protections, right . 1791, it was ratified. It allows us to speak anyway we want to. As long as youre not insur he can shonn or anarchy or riot. I looked this up. Its very difficult to charge somebody with hate speech. Now to your point about the internet. The internet is ripe with dark corners, this gab site where people can express these hideous, vile bigoted racist ideologies there. If someone feels that theyve been threatened and look, Law Enforcement has to do a triage here. Theyve got to determine whats a credible threat versus a noncredible threat. Theres a fine line there. In hindsight, we can look back and go, how did you miss the signs. But we dont have the resources every time somebody says something stupid, asinine or hateful on the internet to send Police Officers there. One thing the fbi does do is sometimes something called a knock and talk. We hear something that could border or tinge on action, we knock on the door and present ourselves. Art, quickly as we close, three handguns, ar15 apparently. Again, we had this conversation too often. Anything jump out to you or is that something we talk about too much . I think we always end up talking about it. In this particular case, the initial indication is that more than likely those weapons were purchased legally. You know, this is all going to be part of the case thats put together. Atf will track the weapons, the history of those weapons, find out when exactly he purchased them, how he purchased them and im sure well have a conversation here in the coming weeks about any type of loopholes or gun control. You know shall thats going to be well see that in the future. This is going to be part of a case that fbi puts together. All right. Roderick james i appreciate your insights on this sunday morning. Thank you. To echo what art and james said, our thoughts and prayers with everybody involved. The victims, Law Enforcement, the community. Julie pace of the Associated Press is here with me. Jana johnson of the Washington Post and elian a johnson. Inevitably, it used to be lets not talk politics on this day or the next day. That doesnt happen in this world anymore. Understandably so. The rabbi of this particular synagogue just days ago posted about the midterm elections and his call for gun control. The sad irony there that his synagogue listen to the president of the United States dwred who good for him, condemned antisemitism and was asked a question about guns. If they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him immediately. So this would be a case if there was an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him. Maybe nobody would have been killed except for him, frankly. We should stiffen up our laws in terms of the Death Penalty. When people do this, they should get the Death Penalty. I dont mean this in a negative way. It is a predictable reaction in that gun rights proponents say arm the guards, at the school shootings, have armed personnel in the schools and those who argue, there are too many guns on the streets immediately say they want gun control. Is anything going to move in this debate or are we going to keep having it . Its likely well keep having the debate. The reaction is predictiablepre. Nothing happens lelegislatively. You wonder how long that can continue. While thats happening, the other predictable thing is that the shootings keep happening. We continue to have Mass Shootings and these shootings where we say this is the most number of deaths, the most number of deaths against the jewish community. We keep setting these horrible records as nothing changes in the political space. We say never again far too often. What was interesting by the president s response, oftentimes youve heard after the Mass Shootings, particularly the opponents of gun control will say its too early right now to have a policy debate. The president immediately after this horrific shooting opened up a policy debate about what exactly needs to be done and youve seen the white house react to some of the massacres by putting o of that policy debate. They have that commission to study what should happen after that parkland shooting. Nothing materialized from that. Its a difficult and divisive issue. You saw the president last night, while condemning what happened, also making it very clear that theres a Campaign Season going on, going after democrats as well. We appear to be in similar patterns that weve seen in the past shootings. I think particularly now, three weeks out from an election, nothing is likely to change and the president gave precisely the same response that gave to the parkland shooting when he said we should consider arming teachers. He did say that the administration was going to look into a proposal for that. The congress, they can debate and vote on things. They dont actually have real debates or votes about things. You can see where the chips fall. Maybe thats asking too much. Up next, a trump supporter charged with mailing bombs to democrats. He said its wrong to blame his incendiary language. One of the targets disagrees. I would like to think that everybody in america would think its wrong to spend all your time from a position of power vilifying people, questioning their patriotism, calling them enemies of of the people and then pretending that youre concerned about civility. Is mealtime a struggle . Introducing oreida potato pay. 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Let this be a lesson to anyone, regardless of their political beliefs that we will bring the full force of law against anyone who attempts to use threats, intimidation and outright violence to further an agenda. Amen to that. It is an a unavoidable fact that this played out in the final days while sayoc deserves a day in court, its an unavoidable fact that hes angry. Its around the president s grievances. The rage of his social media and his eager cnn bashing as part of the trump rally course. We look to a president at such anxious moments and theres no arguing with this. We must never allow Political Violence to take root in america. Cannot let it happen. Im committed to doing everything in my power as president to stop it and to stop it now. To stop it now. The problem is the president s unscripted thoughts and tweets undermine the calming words his aides feed into his teleprompter. Not long before he read that script on friday, a tweet with bombs in quotations channeling right wing conspiracy chatter about a liberal hoax. In that same tweet, other unscripted remarks, complaints that Late Campaign attention is being diverted from the migrant caravan. The facts are obvious here. But the real plot in the president s thinking is somehow against him. The medias constant unfair coverage, deep hostility and negative attacks, you know that, only serve to drive people apart and to undermine healthy debate. For example, we have seen an effort by the media in recent hours to use the sinister actions of one individual to score political points against me and the republican party. Were is the difference . Pitch perfect about pittsburgh. Here some of his remarks Pitch Perfect but then is it because it is a prominent trump supporter. That doesnt mean the president is responsible. But it is a prominent trump supporter who is a suspect. Is it because he truly thinks this is a plot to hurt the republicans. We cover the news. Mailing bombs to for

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