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Attack in u.s. history coming nearly two months after the jury found bower guilty for hate incrimes for the murders of 11 worshippers at the tree of life synagogue in 2018. bowers hardly reacted to the verdict while survivors and family members of the victims say this day brings a measure of peace. i feel like a weight has been lifted and i can breathe a sigh of relief. reporter: in the same room where they waited for updates for loved ones on the day of the shooting, the group reunited again and found comfort in each other. we re all members of a club we never chose to be members of, but we re all bonded for the rest of our lives. reporter: carol black survived the bloodshed by hiding behind a metal door but lost her brother in the attack. if you can sum up in one word your emotion when the verdict was read what would that be? relief. they came to the proper decision in my opinion. reporter: bower s defense team pointed to his troubled past, but prosecutors reminded ....
Call from a u.s. president. but that s what happened to arizona speaker republican rusty bowers after the 2020 election. came home from church. my wife and i were sitting in the driveway. the white house popped up on his screen. so i take the call and my wife steps out and goes in the house. i sat there in my little prius and had a chat with the president with bad phone reception and backed out of the house where i get better reception. rudy giuliani was on the line, too. and bower says it was giuliani who began making crazy claims about voter fraud in arizona. i can t give you the exact numbers but i ll throw out numbers but they re kind of of the audacious numbers like 200,000 illegal aliens voted. 6,000 military ballots were stolen and used. bowers says giuliani wanted him to hold an official arizona house hearing to air these claims publicly. and then i said, but what s the whole purpose of this? what are you trying to achieve? and he said, well, we ve heard there s ....
Need to die. the rabbi described the scene days after the shooting. i heard gunshots, i heard screaming. i could tell that the shooting was going on in my chapel and my congregants were being mowed down. rvlg bofrpz lawyers conceded most facts in the case. but they disagreed on the motive and are asking the jury to spare their client s life. in closing arguments, a defense attorney said bower was driven by nonsensical and irrational thought. in the wake of the shooting, pittsburgh passed three new gun control laws, including a ban on assault weapons. but a pennsylvania judge ruled that the city did not have that authority. today, president biden calling for tougher gun laws nationwide. we will beat the gun industry. we will beat big money that sits behind them, and the politicians who refuse to stand up and act. reporter: as for this case, it enters the penalty phase, which could last weeks, lester. the same jury will decide whether bowers should be sentenced to death. stephan ....