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Your words -- if you're the president of the united states, your words have consequences. >> reporter: and that is the message we see in this crowd tonight. your words have consequences. there is great concern that what the president brings to this town will be something that is completely unwanted and that there will be -- i hate to say it -- but there will be an embarrassing moment for pittsburgh, where the president is protested and it will not be what they want to see today. people are being laid to rest today, and they didn't want to see this sort of protest. and it's just -- it is not cl...

We always welcome the president in our house of worship. i think that's an appropriate thing to say. it's appropriate for the leader of the congregation to say. on the other hand, and i guess i would have that attitude. on the one hand, i would welcome him. i very much agree with simone. i would not want cameras there. and i myself might not attend. i wouldn't protest. i wish the president hadn't gone, honestly. but i would hope the whole day goes off with a certain amount of dignity and decorum and doesn't just make this terrible site of a tragedy become a spectacle. >> there's a lot of peopl...

On jews in american history. the president says his visit is to pay his respects to a grief-stricken city and community. but the trip has become controversial, because of the timing and frankly because of the president's incendiary rhetoric. all four top congressional leaders, along with pennsylvania's republican senator, pat toomey, were invited to go, according to cnn sources, but all declined, offering a variety of excuses. pittsburgh's democratic mayor and allegheny executive both refuse to appear with president trump. they say the attention today should be focused on the victims of saturd...

Family. >> reporter: allegheny county executive, rich fitzgerald, says the white house was in contact with him, the mayor and governor about attending an event with the president. >> in any other case, you would want perhaps the president there to console people, to show that this is of national importance and that the entire nation is grieving. why not now? >> well, i think it's a time for this, and i think certain people need to heal a community. and i'm not so sure that would be the case in this circumstance. >> reporter: cathy wolf lives across the street from the synagogue. she's preparin...

Not seen a person with a dry eye in this neighborhood all day. people walking their dogs, moving around the neighborhood, and now this. that sadness, that absolute shock at what has happened has turned into anger with news of the president's visit. there are several hundred people here at this protest getting ready to march, just as the president is expected to land in pittsburgh and move around the city. there is a second protest in the neighborhood. president donald trump in this neighborhood tonight is definitely unwelcome. >> i'm just going to pay my respects. >> reporter: the u.s. preside...