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you're live in the cnn newsroom. tonight be begin this broadcast with the names. the names of 11 innocent people who lost their lives because of a gunman who took out his hatred at a peaceful place of worship. just one day after the unspeakable events the victims are being remembered not just in the incity but around the country and around the world. these are their names. joyce fineberg, 75 years old, richard, 65. ber nice simon, 84 and her spouse sylvan simon, 86 years old. daniel stein, 71, melvin wax, 88. and finally irving younger, 69
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years old. take a moment to consider what we just witnessed this past week in america. a suspected mail bomber was arrested for targeting politicians and others who president trump has singled out in the past. and a white gunman in kentucky who killed two african-americans after he failed to barge into predominantly black church. and that was all in the days before this deadly attack on jews in the history of the united states. three crimes and one common factor, hate. but the silver lining if there's one thing we can take away from this week is there will always be people willing to stand up to that kind of hatred. a few minutes ago i spoke with the head of the hospital in pittsburgh where that gunman was taken afterward and is now being treated. a dr. jeff cohen told me he made it a point of going to see the gunman himself with his own eyes and spoke with him. listen. >> i went to see the shooter and the cops that were guarding him,
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i looked at him and i wanted to try to understand why did he do this. and i have no answers. i asked him how are you feeling and he was sort of groggy. he said i'm feeling okay. and i introduced myself as dr. cohen, president of allegheny general and i left. one of the nurses that came in and responded to the mass casualty event, his father is a rabbi in the south hills. he took care of this guy, he was extremely professional. i can't tell you how proud i am of the people at agh and elsewhere. they took care of each other and ran to people to solve their problems. what went on yesterday is awful.
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>> reporter: dr. cohen is both jewish and a member of the tree of life synagogue which says so much about him and that community. and sarah snyder just a short time ago in that building behind you witnessed the people of pittsburgh of all faiths rallying around the community of squirrel hill in a show of support and faith. you've been speaking with the people there. what do they tell you? >> reporter: every person we've spoken to in squirrel hill where all of this happened have told us unequivocally they never thought it would happen here. and then it did. and what they want the world to know, not just those in their community but the world to know is they do not want anyone to ever forget the victims. >> 75-year-old joyce fineberg of oakland, 65-year-old richard t gottfreid. >> reporter: the names of the
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victims read out. >> i have no words. i'm shaking, i'm shocked. >> reporter: susan knew three of the dead. >> the victims need to be talked about a lot. they can't talk for themselves anymore. cecil was tall, david was small. they stood proud at the front door, whichever sanctuary it was, they just stood there, hello. they gave you a book or they said hello and they were like the ambassadors. >> reporter: she and susan blackman also lost their family doctor. >> i can't imagine the worlds without him. dr. jerry was just somebody who when you see him your eyes light up, and he's gone. >> reporter: robin bloom freedman is a member of the treel tree
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of life synagogue. she cannot remember a time when 97-year-old rose was not there. >> spry, vibrant. just you look at her and she had a lot of years left. and, you know, to have this happen is -- i heard the age this morning and the tears came. she and her daughter went that morning maybe expecting to go home and have lunch afterwards together. and it's not something we'll ever be able to wrap our heads around. >> reporter: each of them had come to pray and sell pretty together on the sabbath when hatred entered their synagogue. >> tall white male, short hair, light blue shirt, jeans. >> reporter: the police dispatching a suspect's description as they geared up for a gun battle. >> we have four down in the atrium, doa at this time.
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we need armor. >> reporter: the suspect had walked into a place set aside for peace with guns and a mission to kill jewish people and succeeded. >> this is the most horrific crime seen i've seen in 22 years with the federal bureau of investigation. >> reporter: the suspect telling police later he wanted to kill all jews according to the court documents. in the end it would be the deadliest attack of jews in america according to the anti-defamation legal. more dead than you can count on two hands, and six wounded including four police officers. >> you know, you have a situation here where you have disturbed minds with hate in their heart and guns in their hands. >> reporter: the deadly shooting sending a wave of sorrow across pittsburgh and the world, drawing thousands together to mourn. >> we are like a hand. >> we are like a hand. >> with various fingers
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connected. >> with various fingers connected. >> so when one finger hurts. >> when one finger hurts. >> we all hurt. >> we all hurt. >> reporter: and we are hearing from people around the world including benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister of israel. and he said in part after the holocaust that many hope that anti-semitism would finally be regulated to the dust beebins o history. but it hasn't. stark words from someone mourning the deaths of all 11 people just like everyone in this community. >> yep. and the prime minister actually sent his ambassador ron dermer from washington to pittsburgh to offer his condolences and to see how he could help. sarah snider, thank you very much for that touching piece. all right, well, a woman who lives right down the street from the synagogue knew one of the victims dr. jerry. and she found out last nights at the vigil that he was among
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those killed. >> well, our physician was the person who we knew best who was killed. and he was a wonderful guy, a family physician, took care of our family for many, many years. one of the nicest people, most generous people, and most peaceful people that i've ever known, and it's just awful. >> he was just 66 years old, gone far too soon. joining me now is republican congressman keith, representing pennsylvania's 12th district. now, the tree of life synagogue borders pittsburgh. i first want to ask you, it's been almost 36 hours since this horrific massacre. how is the community there coping with everything? >> reporter: the community is numb. everybody is grief-stricken,
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heartbroken. one of the dead came from my district, one of my constituents. all of western pennsylvania's grieving, and it means so much to western pennsylvania that the world is reaching out. to have people from israel come today, the minister of the ds4 here, the ambassador ron dermer mooch to see the support from around the world has been very helpful to people here in western pennsylvania, particularly for the people in squirrel hill. >> congressman, in addition to discussing the investigation, we've also been talking about the rhetoric, the dangerous rhetoric has consumed this country. and i want to read a quote to you from a group of progressive pittsburgh jewish leaders who wrote a letter to the president. they are demanding he stay away from the city unless he meet their demand. this is what nebendi ark pittsburgh wrote. for the past three years your
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words and your policies have emboldened a growing white nationalist movement. president trump you are not welcome in pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism. now, congressman we heard just recently in this past week the president in fact call himself a nationalist. we know that in the past he has failed to condemn the violence and the death in charlottesville. do you believe that the president's rhetoric since the campaign and into his presidency has contribute today the rise in hate crimes? >> reporter: you know, i think the condemnation that the president had just yesterday was unequivocal. and we have to stay focused on what this was. this was an act of hatred. it was anti-semitism, anti-semitism that has been around for 2,000 years. and it has to be called out. it's around the world. it's happening in western europe. it happens in the middle east. and to see it rear its head here
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in pittsburgh, we have to confront it and call it out. >> but when the president talks about george soros trying to buy the election and when there are allegations that soros is funding this caravan of migrants, which we now know rob bower has posted about, you don't see any connection there with this darkening language, this dangerous language? >> no, you need to stay focused on what happened here. we had an individual who was spewing hatred on social media. he said he wanted to kill jewish people. you know, i was in jerusalem about a year and a half ago visiting the holocaust memorial. and i remember seeing a picture thereof a woman holding a child about to be murdered, about to be shot. that's the kind of hatred that we saw happen here in pittsburgh yesterday. this is an individual who put this information out. we have to call it out, and to start drawing any kind of
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inferences from anything other than what this was -- this was an act of hate, an act of semitism -- anti-semitism that we need to call out around the world. >> congressman, as you know all too well after these incidents we as a country ask ourselves how on earth could this have happened again? there's an argument we shouldn't be talking about politics during a time of grief. we shouldn't be talking about what should be done in terms of gun control. we heard the president yesterday talking about how this tragedy could have been avoided if that synagogue had had an armed guard. and there are several, many critics of the president who have come out saying that essentially that is victim blaming. do you agree with the president that that's the measure that should be taken, that there shouldn't be any sort of discussion about gun control now? >> anything that takes the focus off of what this was, an act of hatred, an act of anti-semitism, that's what the focus should be on today. we have to call it out where it happens. we have to be -- people have
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been told see something, say something. somebody may have seen what this person was doing, and we have to have a culture of accountability where people do call out this kind of rhetoric or whatever he was putting out. to say that there should have been armed guards or call for gun control, takes away the focus of what this should be. this was an act of hate. this man went to that synagogue. he wanted to kill jewish people. he was going to find a way to kill jewish people whatever way he could. and the root of it is anti-semitism. you see it around the world, and we have to stay focused on what this was. >> all right, congressman, i think you agree there should be a conversation going forward about anti-semitism, about the hate and about the division that is growic in thng in this count. congressman keith our thoughts go out to you, everyone in this district. cnn's special coverage from
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now, this is one of the most chilling details from yesterday's mass murder at the pittsburgh synagogue tree of life. now just five minutes before the gunman opened fire he posted this online. hias likes to bring in invaders that kill our people. i can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. screw your optics, dwrii'm goin. for a few weeks now several high profile conservatives including president trump have suggested a similar theory. they're accusing george soros, the prominent billionaire jewish democratic donor of funding a caravan of migrants that is currently heading towards the united states. so here to discuss all this is cnn global affairs analyst max boot, the author of "the corrosion of conservative, why i left the right." max, very simply do you see a connection between what president trump and other
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prominent conservatives have been saying and what may have triggered rob bowers? >> i think there are some disturbing connections you can point to. i think there's this whole climate of crazy rhetoric which razz created the environment in which right wing extremists can be radicalized and turn to violence. the rhetoric itself is so violent over the top that someone who's already unbalanced like a cesar sayoc or a robert bowers can be moved into violence. and the level of intemperate rhetoric you hear from trump and the republicans have just been over the top whether it's denouncing democrats oz traders and evil or the caravan which appears to be the immediate force for the massacre in pittsburgh. republicans are really and trump in particular and his enablers in fox news and elsewhere, they have have really bine playing with fire. >> politicians have often accused of talking out of both sides of their mouth.
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president trump yesterday very clearly and quickly came out condemning this, call ing it an act of hate, and anti-semitic attack in no uncertain terms. and then over the course of the weekend has proceeded with his regular attacks against the media and against liberals and democrats. do you think the president understands that you can't really do both, and his words have real impact sph. >> i honestly don't know what he understands. i don't think he understands how a president is supposed to act in a situation like this. i don't think he understands that a president is supposed to bring americans together in a time of crisis to heal our wounds, to overcome a crisis, to unite the nation. that's not what he is doing. he is disuniting america. he's exacerbating partisan divisions for his own political gain. and yes, occasionally he can say the right thing after a tragedy like this. often when he reads from scripted remarks and condemns violence. but then within minutes he's back to his regularly scheduled
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programming which is nonstop diet of divisive hurtful rhetoric. even just today he was attacking tom steyer who was one of the targets of the maga bomber saying that tom steyer is a crazed and tumbling lunatic. we have never heard a president of the united states talk like this. and with trump it has become routine. and he can't bring himself to stop even when me see the dangerous consequences of creating this climate of opinion in america. >> there was a remarkable tweet yesterday about kevin mccarty, the house majority leader, where he mentioned tom soros michael bloomberg shouldn't be allowed to buy this election. mccarthy then took that tweet done, which seemed to be tacit acknowledgement after that shooting it's really going to come off anti-semitic. he must recognize those are dog whistles. >> that's exactly right. and fox news and that crowd,
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breitbart, and info wars and the republican congressman they have been vilifying george soros for years. and they're talking about a rich jew who's in control of everything or when they talk about globalist, which is the term trump prefers, right wing extremists here, jews, this is the repugnant dog whistling going on. and it's not just trump. it's a lot of republicans at fox news. they need to do some serious soul-searching here. >> globalist, soros, international banks, corrupt media, all things that anti-semites associate with jews. president obama has commented on this. so let's take a listen to that quickly. >> i would like to think that everybody in america would think it's wrong to spend all your time from a position of power vilifying people, questioning their patriotism, calling them
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infamies of the people and then suddenly pretending that you're concerned about civility. >> can we talk about this debate that crown both sides are guilty of fomenting this division. do you think this is false equivalency? >> yes, i do think it's a false equivalency. i've been critical of democrats on some things. i don't think it makes sense for progressives to hound officials in restaurants. i don't think we need hillary clinton saying we nedon't need civility. you can't speak about these in the same breath where the president is encouraging violence, when he's talking about immigrants as being animals, when he is embracing nationalism in america first. this is an entirely different category. this is not just getting upset and protesting. this is going to a much darker place, and republicans, you know, are trying this false equivalence after years of condemning false moral
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equivalence. that is exactly what they're engaging in right now. >> max boot, thank you so much for joining us. coming up, the suspected gunman in pittsburgh set to be in court tomorrow. he faces 22 charges as police search for surveillance video to help them piece together the moments before and during the attack. we will get an update on the investigation. that's coming up next. te, the sleep number 360 smart bed is my competitive edge. it senses our movements and automatically adjusts to keep us both effortlessly comfortable. so i'm at my best for this team... and the home team. sleep number proven quality sleep, from $999. but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers.
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we're getting new details about the suspected gunman in the pittsburgh synagogue shooting. sources telling cnn that robert bowers legally purchased three of the handguns used in the attack. but there's a fourth weapon, and it's not clear if that weapon an ar-15 assault style rifle was legally purchased or not. bowers faced 29 charges including hate crimes. for more we go to miguel marquez in pittsburgh. we know the fbi is looking into these guns, specifically that ar-15, but they're also looking for surveillance video. >> reporter: they're looking for a lot of things, and we now know an official telling us that mr. bowers had 21 guns in total registered to him. it's not clear if he still owned all of those guns, but it is a very large number of guns, obviously. they're looking at surveillance video. they're looking at his house. they were in home for many, many hours. computer, phones, his car, they went through that with a fine tooth come, and they're looking
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for surveillance video trying to put together a picture not only for evidence in this case but figuring out what it was that drove this guy to this horrific act. and we spoke to people not only neighbors but people who have known him for many, many years. one woman calling him just a lost soul, someone who couldn't hold a job, went from job to job and couldn't quite figure out life. this is someone from what we understand had a pretty difficult life as well, but he never expressed the sort of hatred, the anti-semitism, the -- this deep well of hatred that he had for jews. none of that was apparent in his public life. privately and underneath, clearly that was going on in his life. if you knew where to look online, not on twitter but other social media, who knew where to post this horrendous stuff on jews. particularly on hias, a group
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that resettles jews and people from all countries and immigrants, 17 days ago mr. bowers posted about that group saying that they were responsible for bringing in invaders up from central america to come slaughter our own people. when he went into that synagogue he said he didn't care about the optics of what he was about to do apparently. he was just going in. so now investigators try to put everything together to try and understand how somebody who seemed to not cast a shadow in his own life could be capable of something so hurenld s. >> he also posted how president trump had too many jews around him, using a horrible racial slur and how trump couldn't make america great again until there were fewer jews around him. miguel marquez in pittsburgh, thanks very much. all right, well the city of pittsburgh is in mourning of course and understandably on
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edge after this weekend's mass shooting. the jewish federation of pittsburgh is telling cnn it is way too early to say whether the community will push for adding permanent security to pittsburgh synagogues as was suggested by the president. for more on that i want to bring in cnn national security analyst lisa monaco. you were assistant to the president for homeland security and counter terrorism. are you surprised the authorities have filed hate crime charges? we always talk about in the wake of these things whether it shouldn't be classified as domestic terrorism. >> good to be with you, alex. no, i'm not surprised at all that they filed hate crime charges. actually, the specific charges thus far filed in the criminal complaint have to do with obstructing the free exercise of religion and doing so in the course of committing a crime with a firearm. those are initial charges, alex. it's very important to understand that what we'll likely see from the federal prosecutor in this matter is an
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indictment subsequent after some further investigation. and we're likely to see additional charges, i would imagine. but when it comes to the federal criminal code, alex, what folks should understand, there is no crime that he could be charged with called domestic terrorism. there is a definition of domestic terrorism in our criminal code. but there is no charge for domestic terrorism that he could be charged with. the definition, of course, of domestic terrorism is violence perpetrated upon a civilian population for political reasons or in order to coerce a civilian population. and if it's done here in the united states it constitutes domestic terrorism. but again there's no federal criminal charge labeled domestic terrorism. >> very important to make that point. 29 charges so far, as you mentioned there could be more. lisa, we learned a lot about the suspect very quickly. investigators seizing or finding his weapons, delving into his
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social media posts. they have said that he acted alone and wasn't linked to anybody else. at this point what more are they going to be looking for? >> so they're going to be looking at his entire digital footprint. all of his social media history, looking at e-mails. they'll be talking to people who knew him, people who he was engaged with in the community, relatives, friends, et cetera. so they'll be getting a very, very full picture of him and then of course in this instance unlike in other mass shootings where we've seen the perpetrator also dies in the event, he of course was wounded as i understand it based on the reporting. but investigators will be trying to learn as much as they can from him down the line based on what people -- what people have said about what he has said to them and looking at his entire, as i said, digital footprint. >> one of the first reactions
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that we heard from the president shortly after this -- this horrific massacre took place was that perhaps things could have been a little bit differently if there had be security inside. let's quickly take a listen to what he said. >> this is case where if they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him immediately. maybe there would have been nobody killed except for him, frankly. so it's a very, very -- very difficult situation. >> now, we now know that rob bowers used an ar-15 assault-style weapon. in the past after mass shootings like this we've heard cries for renewed debate over gun control. the president there presumably not leaving any room for that debate. how do you respond to this notion that we should have more armed officers inside places like synagogues and in the past
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as has been mentioned for schools as well? >> look, i think these types of responses ought to be informed by law enforcement experts and homeland security experts. and they ought to be dricven by what the law enforcement experts say would be a help in this type of situation. and so i doubt very highly that any of those comments -- that those commentaries have been informed by law enforcement experts. the other thing i would say, alex, that is very important to understand as this investigation goes forward, the investigators and the prosecutors are going to be looking very hard at how it is that this individual came into possession of 21, as i understand it, 21 firearms including an ar-15 as you you mentioned. the so that will be a very important part of this investigation. what were the circumstances of his coming into possession of those firearms?
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were they all legally purchased? were there any circumstances in his background that should have indicated he was a prohibited purchaser? so that's going to be a very important part of this investigation as well i imagine. >> this is obviously a very heated political environment. we're just over a week from the mid-terms. we've seen so much of this divisive heated political rhetoric on display, hatred of different religious views, different political views. how do aiochanyou change the te rhetoric? >> i'm not a political commentator. that's not my expertise. i do know in the wake of these horrific, horrific acts of violence as we saw in pittsburgh, in the mail bombings that occurred earlier this week in an unprecedented attempted assassination of two presidents and other individuals who have been critical of the president, i think it's incumbent upon all leaders including the president,
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but all leaders to try to appeal to the better angels of our nature, to try and unify and bring the country together in the wake of such horrific violence. that's what i think we should be helpi hoping for. >> sadly, no sign that is going to happen at least for now. lisa monaco, thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. all right, coming up from pittsburgh to the western wall in jerusalem. how the synagogue shooting is being felton the other side of the world tonight. foundation by l'oreal. matte without the flat. up to 24 hours. resists, sweat heat humidity now available in even more shades. infallible pro-matte foundation by l'oreal paris.
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i want to show a powerful moment from pittsburgh from earlier tonight. it's at the end of the interfaith vigil. these are three rabbis from three different congregations. these three rabbis together lost 11 members. and the heartache is mpalpable n jerusalem. some 500 grieved tonight at a vigil. we go orrin leiberman, our jerusalem correspondent. tell us about the scene there, how the victims are being honored and remembered. >> reporter: zion square is one of the central squares of jerusalem halfway between the
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old city. and as i walked by that there were scores of people inside zion square, many holding hands, some of them singing. but that gives you an idea how quickly and how powerfully the impact was felt from the shooting at the treel of life n dpa synagogue and you point out thousands of miles away. alternating between the two of them to show israel stands with solidarity with the u.s. and especially with the community of pittsburgh as the community mourns the life of these jewish lives in this horrific shooting. it was that impact felt so quickly as we saw politicians and as well as jewish community leaders here issuing and letting the community of pittsburgh know they have support here and offering condolences and saying the whole country mourns the loss of lives there. earlier our crew went to the western wall, one of the holiest
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sites of jews to speak with the people there to get their sense of how they feel after this shooting. here is what some of them said. >> always it's an illusion that jews in america can feel safe. actually we were jealous in jerusalem to see the successful and safe community in the states, and now it seems all over the world jews are not so safe. it's also in america. >> we feel their sadness, and we are all one people. we're americans, and we believe in being able to have your own religion, whatever you want to do, and to have somebody be so, so much full of hatred it's not america. >> we're all one nation and what makes us different is we're all one spirit, we're one soul. so when someone gets hurt in america everyone feels it in israel to their soul because
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we're one connected soul. >> and that last point is worth re-emphasizing because it's been at the heart of so many messages we've seen, the idea that the jewish people no matter where they are, are one connected soul. and alex, that was at the center of so many of these messages that an attack on the community anywhere is an attack on the aenti entire jewish community. >> reverberating in jewish communities all around the world. joining me now is jeremy papas. i want to share with our audience something you tweeted earlier today. you said, quote, i'm walking the streets of pittsburgh. this is the conversation i heard next to me of a little boy and his mom, quote, mommy so this is where the people were killed just because they went to shul,
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silence. >> it's really an unfathomable conversation we're having here in 2018 as we're mourning the most destructive attack on the jewish community, the largest anti-semitic attack on the jewish community in our history. there are no words. and i think about it all the time what would i say if my son were no older than 2 ears old, what wou and there are no words. when something like this happens we mourn and we show up for the community. and that's why 5,000 people, how many thousand were here today, we just show up. that's what we do. >> how does a community like this begin to start healing? i mean we've seen these vigils, but going forward, do they lean on each other? how do they heal? >> we continue to show up.
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people continue to show up and they attend -- they go to services at their local congregations, report incidents that happen in their community. just last night in ohio that was a swastika saturday night party that took place in rural ohio. and i received over 100 reports of that incident. and that happened last night after the attack here in pittsburgh. and what gives me hope is that people are reporting those incidents. so what do we do? we move forward, continue to show up, we don't give in to hate, and we take an active part in our daily lives to ensure anti-semitism can be rooted from society. >> so why have these incidents and these people essentially been unleashed? we've been quoting all weekend this figure from our organization, the anti-defamation league, that just last year in 2015 the number of anti-semitic incidents
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rose 50%. that's the largest increase since your organization has been keeping track. so what do you think accounts for this spike? >> it's unbelievable to have a 57% rise in anti-semitic incidents last year in loin and knowing that so many of those incidents took place on k through 12 schools and college campuses, it's really incumbent on leaders all across the political spectrum to speak out. we cannot give platforms for anti-semites to be out there speaking, whether that's on the internet, on social media platforms or in the public sphere. we need to call out hate and anti-semitism when it comes. no matter who says it and no matter where it comes from. >> i think a lot of non-jews in this country are not aware how much precaution jewish people have to take, whether in
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classrooms, at synagogues. we heard the president say that maybe this might not have happened if there had been an armed guard at the tree of life synagogue, which wouldn't have happened normally on a normal saturday morning. how do you think these jewish organizations, buildings, schools, synagogues, museums are going to react to this going forward? >> it's -- it's a serious question that we need to address. and obviously we work very closely with law enforcement across local and state and federal levels to ensure that synagogues and the jewish community has the security that they need. and there needs to be a conversation, and we need to continue monitoring anti-semitism across the board to ensure that incidents like these can be stopped before they occur. and it's -- we work very closely with local jewish federations to really ensure that we do have a monitored situation.
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what we do moving forward is a real question we needs to address. but our view and the view of many is that we're safest and we're strongest when we're working in close connection across the jewish community, and we're working in close concert hand in hand with our law enforcement partners to ensure these incidents can't occur. >> very sad that reassessment needs to take place at all. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. as we go to break i want to share some more information about one of the victims of yesterday's synagogue massacre. this is dr. richard gottfried. rich's wife was catholic and they prepared couples for marriage at their catholic church. he was 65 years old. >> tech: at safelite autoglass, we really pride ourselves on making it easy to get your windshield fixed. >> teacher: let's turn in your science papers. >> tech vo: this teacher always puts her students first.
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criticized trump. joe johns joins me from miami. you have been following the story closely. what's the latest o on the investigation and what we expect to see in court tomorrow? >> reporter: let's start with what we expect to see. he is expected to appear in court here in miami tomorrow afternoon. he's expected to be advised of his rights, advised of the complaint that was filed against him in the southern district of new york. asked if he needs an attorney. we have gotten conflicting information on that. there's a report in the "new york times" suggesting his family wants him to hire an attorney. however, the family attorney on friday said that he was suggesting that he should hire a public defender. we do know he's essentially homeless and has been sleep iin in his van. the most important information probably out of all of this is that the federal authorities will be seeking to get sayoc out
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of miami and back in new york where the complaint was filed against him and stand charges. the other issue is whether he's going to plead guilty or not. it's not clear what he's going. to do if the magistrate asks him if he's going to plead guilty or not guilty. that's very important. the evidence against him does seem to be overwhelming. our colleagues here at cnn have reported that once the authorities got inside his van, they discovered, among other things, stamps, paper, printing equipment and so forth. even some powder. all of that could play into this case. we have to see what happens tomorrow afternoon. back to you. >> yes, we will. joe johns in miami, thank you. now coming up, words of wisdom from a legendary tv figure on how to cope with all the troubling headlines in the news these days.
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the pittsburgh community and country are in mourning after a gunman killed 11 people worshipping in a synagogue on saturday. tributes are pouring in. here in new york city, there's
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an orange halo. orange is now often a color associated with gun violence. that is in tribute to the victims of the synagogue massacre. the massacre took place in squirrel hill, a neighborhood in pittsburgh which was literally mr. rogers neighborhood. so to that end, we end with the words of the american icon about how to cope with tragedy. >> when i was a little boy and something bad happened in the news, my mother would tell he to look for the helpers. you'll always find people helping, she'd say. and i found that that's true. >> that's it for me. up next is the parts unknown
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special under the tarp. have a great night. anthony: you notice something unsual about this scene? what is odd about this scene? >> jose: holy cow. this is a deep question. >> anthony: it's not a quiz question. it's not hard to solve. look where we are. we're at the most spectacular view overlooking this incredible lake and these mountains, and yet strangely we're pointed in the direction of the lavatory. [ laughter ] i mean, i don't know what view is, mine's just three butt-ugly cameramen. and a [ bleep ] bathroom. >> jose: you are amazing.

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