happen if you don't do something. start cpr, donate blood, stop the turnicate. >> thank you. the news continues. i want to hand it over to chris cuomo. cuomo prime time starts right now. >> all right. thank you. welcome to prime time. pittsburgh in 2018. i could never imagine it kwould mark the largest targeting people on american soil ever. 11 people slaughtered because they were jewish in america in this day and age. jews, blacks, media, migrants, three of these groups have been the target in the last week. all are cast as others in our current toxic politics. it is done in a way for those who feed on it. how do we stop this?

that's our focus tonight, tomorrow and as long as it takes. here is what we know. what you give attention to you fuel. our president is setting all kinds of fires talking about invaders and enemy of the people. we will dive into all of it with some of america's most inciteful voicing. we'll look back to history as a reminder that we should never go down again. my friends, let's get after it. the synagogue attack, historic. the question is this the bottom? no. if we don't stop seeding hate. president trump condemned the synagogue massacre but i say that is the minimum to be done.

the president did not commit the crimes or direct others to do so explicitly. saying otherwise is untrue. the truth is equally damg. the president is responsible more than anyone else for fixing the prosition in this country. he is not trying, not even a little. proof, look at how little he says about how to be better and how much he spends on whom to blame. we know those on the left and some on the right have been struggling with how to counter or unable to do better or worse. they decide to do better. trump and his proxies and media feed the division.

the proof is in the preference. trump chooses to talk more about the media than the murders. fake news he says is the cause of our problems. the fake news media is the true enemy of the people. then he tries to clean it up with this nonsense tweeting that's difference between him calling out the media and fake news media. don't insult our intelligence on top of all of the things we are supposed to value. you use them interchangeably. we know it, you know it. don't hide, just own it. the kind of message trump is giving out is too often the kind you see hooted and hollered about at the rallies including the bomber who was at the rallies hooting and hollering about those messages. the stay to play is broader. house majority leader posted this tweet suggesting that democratic donors were attempting to buy the midterm

elections. untrue but it plays nicely into some tasty bigotries. earlier this month iowa congressman endorsed faith goldie, a white nationalist for mayor in toronto. the left does have its own words and actions to own. the thugs and meetings by march organizers and members of the congressional black caucus. big named democrats, adopting the aggression of their adversaries. none of it helps. when you have this kind of rhetoric on the left and right even if for the sake of the argument it were an even blame share and i would argue to you it is not even close. even if it were the nation would still turn to the man at the top. the captain many this case likes to steer as close as he can get to the rocks. to what are we going to do? listen to what the president

says. >> what about the all the left? i think there's blame on both sides. i have no doubt about it. >> we have no doubt about where it is leading us. moral equivalence puts a bad taste in your mouth. touting fear about migrants at the border, it all feeds to same appetite for the ugly and it's not just trump. remember, he's got favorite mouthpieces. >> this invading horde is calling it a caravan is misnomer. >> i don't want to see our country invaded by 14,000 people. >> you can tell the democrats and angry mob that's coming here, you either come the right

way or be ready to face the military. >> 22 million all of them using fake federal documents here illegally. why would it not be an invasion? >> look, the talk is intentional. they want to divide. they want us versus them. if pushed about they will say we are enforcing the law. nobody wants fer people to come in and flout the laws. >> they have not like you and me. they will bring disease. >> what about diseases? there's a reason why you can't bring a kid to school unless he is inoculated. ? i'm not a doctor. i had an uncle john once. what does that mean? are they a different species? you believe that he has people

have some type of biological agent? that's what they said about our families not too long ago, the delousing treatments, they consider unclean. we have seen this move. it is an ugly movie. it ends badly. make america great again, america first, enemy of the people. they didn't even create any of them. they are all replays, redos back to the days of division and ugly acts in the name of us versus them. one of uncle sam's. the writing on their hats, mafia as they wear bandannas, masks and knives. when you get to be older you know that it's happened before, this image, america leading the hats of the black hand out of

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this was clear after charlottesville. the president went off script with that both sides nonsense. it wasn't what was written for him. it was quickly followed by those he sees to blame. it is good to have you. >> good to be here. >> thank you very much. when that happened i remember the pain in your voice. you the proxy for the people in that moment. there was a feeling that all right. we know this is wrong. we know this is bad. we can all condemn this but then that didn't happen. >> let me tell you that day, i have never seen anything like it. several people marching down screaming the worst obscenities i had ever heard in my life against members of the african american community, pointing to the synagogue saying they were going to burn it down. people in our country used to

wear hoods because they were embarrassed to say and do things in public. they didn't feel like they needed them in charlottesville or in our nation. i talked to the president that afternoon. i was his toughest critic. i was a harsh critic. i called and explained what i had seen and heard. alt-right and neo nazis. he was going to do the right thing and condemn this hatred that occurred in virginia. press conference got delayed and i don't know what happened. he came out and blamed both sides. i can tell you heather was a 32-year-old woman killed that

day. injur injured 19 people and injured heather. i lost my pilot and a person that had been on my executive protection unit. it wasn't both sides. it was neo nazis with hitler t-shirts spewing hatred and i told them the right thing, to get the heck out of virginia, to get out of our country. you pretend you're patriots. they are not. they are cowards. >> do you believe the white pre supremacists? >> not what i saw that day. i have seen it in my years of politics. i have never heard or seen what i saw that day. it was a disgrace the our nation. we are the greatest nation on earth. they came spewing their hatred. this was an avenue to prance around many of them with

weapons. >> he didn't know there were good people marching along. he meant on either side of the debate. do you believe that? >> no. i don't believe that at all. i think he was going back to his base. there is no way that as a moral leader of our country, you have circumstances when you're president. we saw with president obama and president clinton and president bush. when tragedies occur let it be oklahoma city or after 9/11 presidents rose to that occasion to bring people together. this president saw the most vile acts by individuals and he basically praised them and basically dised the people that were protesting. >> are you surprised at how mild the reaction has been to the synagogue murders? it is the largest murder of jews

on american soil with them being targeted. >> absolutely. >> we are covering it. the country is not on its knees. maybe it's too close to me. maybe i have so many that i can't see clear to anything else. but i feel like we are not devastated by what's going on. do we expect it? is it like we are not shocked by anything anymore? what is it? >> i think the outrage is much more than it is. so many people were impacted. we hit them 48 hours before that. it is all of this going on in our country today. >> the guy at kroegeger, we wer barely covering it but that's three in one week. >> you will not blame the president for specific acts but

you will blame him for rhetoric and deviciveness going on in our country today. it is a tactic to try to get his base out in the midterm elections. chris, he cannot talk about health care. premiums have gone up. it is to take away the individual mandate and cost sharing subsidies. he can't talk about the tax cut. it hasn't gone onto help any of the working families in our country. he can't talk about infrastructure. he can't talk about policy and accomplishments. all he can do is double down on the fear that he created in our country. >> i would argue he went the markets giving back the gains but he chooses the immigration. he chose that caravanment . he says this is perfect for us. you have many days and weeks. >> they a thousand miles away.

it is several weeks. by the time they get here. here is the point. he did his big show today to deploy the army down there. this man has now politicized the military. he is using it for political purposes. it is wrong. i have a son in the mar reens today. i can tell you as parents of children wearing the cloth of our country to protect their country the president should not politicize them. the border patrol deals with this every day. there is nothing unique about what is happening with this particular caravan. why is he doing this right before the mid-terps? he is politicizing our military. it is a disgrace. >> it is a show of strength. my last question for you is this. what makes it better? we know what the president is supposed to do and we know what he is chosen to do. he will be judged. his party will be judged. on the left what should they do? i do say it is on both sides.

i think the way that the left decides to interact with the president, what they try to work on and not, how they try to work with him in terms of their level of rit rihetoric, he is still t president. meetings, it's not good for you guys. who steps up on that? >> there is one answer to your question. we have a midterm in severn day. we have to pick up eight or nine. that is the future of our party on the line in about seven days. >> why should people give you that mandate? >> number one, a check on trump. number two to get out and listen. we will protect preexisting conditions. you vote for democrats in virginia. we had tremendous success. making virginia number one for cyber security.

we have to go in and clean up the deficits. people have to come out and vote. thousands did not vote. they woke up and said how did this happen? it happened because they didn't think their vote mattered or they were plain lazy. i can't give you the answer to that. there is a big percentage. we won 15 house of delegate elections. that's the most since 1880. that's reason to come out and vote. we have to get folks out there. a big percentage says we have to get out there and vote. that's the answer, get out there, make sure you vote, do your early vote and send the message we are not going to tolerate this anymore. it is time for people to stand up and take our country back. we have had enough of it. >> we'll all be watching.

nobody will be covering it more closely than we will. all right. we'll have more tonight to kind of make sense of what this means. you know, i can't get past what happened in pittsburgh this weekend. not only is it historic but man does it hit to the core of what we say we will protect. the two people we will have on, one shares a personal story of his family's own persecution. you know bill crystal. they are worth listening to tonight. that's next. ♪ that's gillette clear gel. it goes on clear and keeps you fresh all day. and it doesn't leave white marks on your shirt. gillette clear gel antiperspirant.

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unification on one end and separation on the other. let's get perspective from some of our true elders in this area. david axelrod and bill crystal. i wish we were talking about anything else than what we really must address tonight. i can't get over that in 2018 we have this kind of mass murder of jewish people in america. i just, i can't believe it. david, what does this mean to you about where we really are versus where we were? >> first of all let me say it means a lot to me and a lot of other families like mine. they came here from eastern europe fleeing this kind of stuff. their home was blown up. they were the subject of persecution and violence. they came to america because

america was a refuge from that where you could worship freely and be who you were. this is a stunning thingment . u you think it was almost 100 years ago. you would think we would not be where we are. particularly at a time when people are kind of hunkering down and there's all of this talk of the other, you know, these kinds of things activate lunatics in our society to do what we have seen. it is deeply distressing especially because we have seen these on the rise for the last cou couple of years. >> i don't know where we go with this. i have to tell you, i'm a little shocked by the lack of shock by people. it is getting attention but not the kind of attention i would have expected in this situation. is he saying the right things?

yes. but he is largely reading somebody else's words when he is talking about unity or at least they sound that way. he goes right back onto message. my opponents are the real bad guys, invaders on the march coming from the south. he goes to it like a beat later after what we just suffered this trauma of historic proportion. how do you make sense of it? >> the president is more part of the problem than part of the solution unfortunately. he was able to murder 11 people. you really see it on the refugees where he and the allies and the media have been unbelievable dehumanizing these people referring to the invaders and using animal terminology to refer to them. whipping up fear and frenzy.

they would presumably come and apply. most might not get it. it is in the a crisis for this country. it is totally cynical attempt to use the issue for the election. that for me is really rep henceable. you tie it together and it is the classic sort of demagogue's message. they were manipulating everything. that's the kind of clever kind of people bethiehind the scenes. >> they were saying we bring diseases with them they never even heard of. >> think about that. >> on this day, two days. >> not last week when you could be irresponsible. that's today. for me that's really terrible. that's what trump has said since

the murder in pittsburgh. >> he called him out for what they were doing. it is something to think about. here is the bigger consideration. what do we do and who needs to do it in an environment like this. the need is real. the anger is real, so is the need. who steps up on the right? who steps up on the left? what makes this better? >> look. first of all, we should really step back and ask why is the president, why are his allies doing what they are doing? the president told us in a tweet a week or two ago that he thought this caravan issue was a great issue for republicans. >> and this, we should note that this is exactly what bowers the shooter in pittsburgh was

railing about about the invaders, about this caravan and the jewish refugee organization that was aiding and abetting. it goes along with this on the right that some how george was funding all of this. it is being done because they feel there's political reward in this, that if they push this issue they will aarouse their base and they will win. the thing to do is to not reward that behavior by supporting those that propagate it. we'll see next tuesday what happens with that but in a larger sense everyone needs to take a step back, every leader and say those on the republican side and those on the right and say do we want to associate ourselves with this knowing where it leads. those ton leon the left that ha

impulse not the react angerly and bitterly to this and it becomes a mad cycle of hatred. >> and you're acts talk more about trump's connection. >> i can barely get past this. you know, i have brothers in law. i have niece that is have jewish blood in their veins. i has a daughter that converted, a son-in-law he loves like one of his own. he has grand children. you would think that is all he would be talking about is is that these people are my people. if they weren't my people they are my people because there is america and here is what i will do. here are acts big and small. here are the words you need to hear. i will be better therefore you must. i don't hear any of it. >> look, you know, it's not that hard. you eloquently outlined what

such a set of remarks would look like. others have made those remarks. he is not going to. he wins. he thinks he wins by dividing. he is irresponsible in a way that i think no other president in modern times has been. it puts a burden on everyone else to try to step up and say what he is not saying. he got early votes. he was running out in a bigoted campaign. the nominee stood up and he didn't just not sound like that. he said if there are any big gots in this room i don't want think their votes. that is what others need to say. it's not enough to not sound like donald trump. they need to reputuate this rhetoric and this kind of prejudice and this kind of bigotry. on the positive side the degree

to which community leaders would come together does show that this is a decent country. i think donald trump has done some damage. thank god maybe not too much damage yet. people do need to step -- we have to stop and take responsibility all of us really. >> thank you very much. i appreciate you being with us tonight. >> thank you. when you talk about anti semitifrm one of the people that come to mind is louis. we'll bring there one democrat that did recently denounce him, congressman gregory meeks. does this fit into our understanding of what needs to change next. on choicehotels.co. touchdown. earn a free night when you stay just twice this fall. or, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com

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>> here is something that we have learned in realtime. there is hate and it lurks in political extremes. neither party can truthfully claim clean hands there. i know you don't like when i say this. my job not to say things that you like, all right? there are show that is cater

only to that. this is not one of them. the unwillingness to denounce works on both sides. it is a window for the that corrodes our ability to anything of substance. for democrats thugs and meeting, these are problems. they are. new york congressman knows the political at play here. he joining us here. good to have you. >> good to be with you. >> let's talk apples to apples here. what we are dealing with in the country, i understand the president is at the front of the hate parade. i know what he is about. i know what he is betting on. can't get half the country to back him on it but i get it. what do you think needs to change overall to make the dialogue decent again, to give you guys a shot at working with the other side to do something for the rest of us? >> i this i that politically we need to come together. i wish we were in session so

that a group of us, democrats and republicans could hold a joint press conference not about politics, not about elections but about the fact that we do not want hate in this country. what makes america the country that it is today, that we overcome a lot of individuals, no matter what your religion, no matter what your background is to become a more perfect union. we are not there yet but we have to say collectively that's where we want to be. we have to make sewer ure we sp out against those that want to be there. >> how do you take saying and doing the things no reduce the heat and reduce the tension and increase the peace among different parties and get something done? >> i would admit it is hard to do with this president.

if george bush was the president i think we could get it done. i could think of almost any other past president we could get it done. so for some of my colleagues who are republicans, i think they need to not think of this in political. they think we need to get the supreme court or we need to make sure we maintain the majority. what is at stake now is bigger than that. it is the moral standing of our country and trying to work together so we don't go back to some of the ugly times we have had or we try to become a more perfect union. >> i have known him most of my adult life. i know you'll be straight with me. i am not saying that the left owns equal blame for the level of hate in our political discourse. i don't believe that. i attack falts equivalencies all of the time. i can't get past what happened in pittsburgh. i believe we have our eyes open to the fact that it is not gone.

we know that there was an increase but to have the largest taking of jewish life on american soil just happened this saturday when we thought there had been progres, i think we have to rethink everything. and you stepped away and you said i get the political calculus. i get that he has a big constituency. i don't want it even if there's a cost. took you a while but you did it. others in the congressional black caucus have not done it. the organizers of the womens march met with him. why? the man is an anti-semi. >> he has made anti-semitic statements. you cannot have the moral equivalency of what i get on my telephone and my office when i get off this show of individuals who are threatening my life, my

family's life and others as what happened with the pipe bomb and clearly what took place in pittsburgh. so it is talk about issues on one side and by talking about violence on another side. we cannot condemn individuals who are talks about violent actions. i mean it's hard to deal with this president when he was just a few days ago saying that it was good that a reporter was slammed by now a member of congress. >> right. but i'm saying that i just -- i'm talking about in terms of high graund. the president couldn't make it any easier for you in terms of being decent, right? he makes that pretty easy. we know who he is playing to. i'm not wrong when i say we made a distinction. you say he says anti-semitic things. we grew up in a time when we

didn't care what you called us. we used to forgive a lot now we don't. and that's okay. i'm saying i don't know how you get the upper hand and say we are not like him. when you have people who meet with him. you have them that haven't been denounced the way i would. how do you claim high ground if you don't do those first steps? >>. >> they have said that the statements is statements that we cannot condone. they have said and moved in that direction. i agree with you that one, you are what you say. i say that about the president. we hear what he says. he gives certain signals to

certain folks. we have to make sure we stand up and it's not given on the other side. the only thing is i don't see the moral we give len equivalen. it is the individuals -- as the individual who shot up the synagogue. >> i'm not fighting you on that. >> i'm not fighting you on that. >> i don't think that you could make that equivalent. it is different. i still agree with you that your voices have to be heard and i know that at the time there were various statements. i know several members of the congressional black caucus that did stand up and make statements against, you know, and here is why you have to do it even though you know there will be some in your congressional district that is going to be very upset about it. >> yeah. they will. >> you got to go stand up for what's right. >> yeah. >> i always say that dr. king,

you know, his statement was when someone was doing something wrong, the silence of good people is worse than the actions of bad people. and so if you're a leader then you have to step up. i think that's what we have do do democrats and republicans left and right. we should have the political debate. the political debate, you know, you different issues. it should be the political debate chl debate. >> i hear you. it's not about putting rocks on different parts of the scale and see what part is higher. think it all has to go. we are not going to mover past the place we are at right now. i have seen a lot of things. i spent most of my time going around the world to the situations humanity has to offer. i did not expect that and i don't think it's because of the death penalty which exists on the federal level. i am just shook. we want to see better from our

leaders. i understand what you're saying as well. i appreciate you coming here to have the conversation. >> thank you. all right. we'll turn to another apparent hate crime in america that got a lot less attention. there was another one doing horrible things and it's a story everybody should know, next. ♪ a moment of joy. a source of inspiration. an act of kindness. an old friend. a new beginning. some welcome relief... or a cause for celebration. ♪ what's inside? ♪ [laughter] possibilities. what we deliver by delivering.

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(intel chime) it's not just pittsburgh. it's not just the bomber. there was another hate filled criminal just last week in kentucky. another white man, history of violence, custody for shooting and killing two african americans at kroger's. he tried to barge into a predominantly black church and failed and he chose a second target. we barely have time to cover it. it was doing bad things. >> yeah. and then now another one. you all of them in a row. we keep thinking that the biggest terror threat is something else. some people who are marching

towards the border like it's eminent. a couple of hundred people came and they, most of them did get into the country. most of them got tuckered out before they made so we have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them. there is no travel ban on them. there is no ban on -- you know, they had the muslim ban. there is no white guy ban. so what do we do about that? and first of all, let me just say this. maurice stollard is the name and vicki jones. they have been lost in all of this. two people killed on wednesday that you talked about. they have been lost in this, and i know that people feel this story has not gotten enough coverage, and we will honor them tonight in our program. go on, chris. sorry. >> good. no, no, no.

i'm going to do it in the closing. you're covering the right story and i appreciate you for that. >> all right. see you soon. i found something that i want you to look, and i'm going to show it to you after the break, all right? it is a point of historical comparison, but it is frighteningly familiar. and then i've got an argument for you next.

friends, i'm just an average

american, but i'm an american american. and some of the things i see in this country of ours make my blood boil. i see people with foreign accents making all the money. i see negroes holding jobs that belong to me and you. i ask you if we allow this thing to go on, what's going to become of us real americans? >> i've heard this kind of talk before, but i never expected to hear it in america. >> the fellow seems to know what he's talking about. >> yes, he knows all right. >> without negroes, without any foreigners, without catholics, without free masons. >> what's wrong with the masons? i'm a mason. hey, that fella is talking about me. >> and that makes a difference, doesn't it? >> don't be a sucker. that's the title of that movie made by the united states government in 1943. uncle sam was so worried about

the spread of hate for purposes of political dwilgs that they made a movie about it. 75 years later today, doesn't that sound way too familiar? we are in a bad place, and unlike other tragedies that i've lived through, it's not clear whether we will fight the actual problem. any way you look at it, this is really a bad time. have you processed yet what it means that today, 2018, someone feeding off false talk about migrant invaders murdered the most jewish people on american soil ever. what does that tell us? the anger is real. freedom is fragile. unity is hard won and easily lost. three attacks in one week against three of the groups that trump targets. coincidence? nope. is he responsible for the crimes? no. the men who did it own it. but he owns the fix as

president, and clearly our president has no interest in that occupation. a guy hunting jews, another hunting blacks, the president targeting us at the same time one of his devotees sends us bombs. he never apologizes to us. he never reaches out, not once. and this isn't ego. this isn't about us. the immediate wmedia is a repref you and the president's respect for the institutions that support your democracy. he thinks the weaker everything is, the stronger he is. he is wrong. two reasons. one, we've always had hateful people here. when all are welcome, you get all times. yet today they do seem to be newly emboldened. three attacks in one week shows us this. and then there's what may be contributing to their temerity. the increase in ugliness in how our leaders speak. and, yes, i mean all of them. but more so and mainly trump and

those around him encouraging extremism, xenophobia, division, nationalism, and jingoism, which is what it really all is at its core. he has almost an entire cable outlet committed to parroting poison about others. today fox spoke about migrants bringing diseases like they were another species. they pound his message and they pound on those of us that call it out and correct it. they get huge ratings relatively, but they should know for all their efforts, they still can't get even half the country behind them. and here's why. maga, america first, enemy of the people, i am a nationalist. trump created none of them. they all hearken back to poison that trump is trying to remake. it's not new. none of it is. he is trying to return to a time that passed and should stay passed. these attacks are a good

reminder of what we escaped once, and we did it together, and it's a point right now that we have to gather and understand that we must ensure we never return. and the best proof of the president's inten president's intentions is his solid resistance to doing what every other president has done in positions like this. all pittsburgh, all the time. bringing the jewish community close, talking about his own family that is jewish, making gestures to opponents and supporters to be better, specifically pointing out his own role and regrets, charting a better path by initiating acts big and small to reinforce the rightness of taking this country back toward decency. but not trump. not trump. more unity. more guns. more death penalty. fyi, the feds are prosecuting this case. there is a federal death penalty. there is nothing to bring back. how does he not know this? it's embarrassing. in fact, all of this is.

those jewish people in pittsburgh, they weren't young. now, some say that's one reason it's not getting covered as much. there are no kids to kind of grab on everybody's heartstrings about a future. i say losing that generation hurts worse. these are people who knew the sting of bigotry. their families fled here. i've heard their stories my entire life. america was seen as the safest place to be, and now you have to wonder and they are wondering is that still true after saturday? it is only if we are all about keeping that promise to fight hate everywhere we see it, like the film said. don't be a sucker. don't forget who we are. don't be a sucker. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight with don lemon" starts right now. >> okay. i have a question for you. i thought about it as you were saying this. first of all, he's not going to do what you said. it would be great. we should stop counting o