10/29/18 10/29/18 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracacy now! >> this is the most horrific crime scene i've seen in 22 years with the federal bureau of investigation. members of the tree of love synagogue conducting a peaceful service in the place of worship were brutally murdered by gunman targeting them simply because of their faith. amy: pittsburgh is in mourning after a gunman opened fired at a synagogue on saturday morning, killing 11 jewish worshipers in the e deadliest antiti-semitic

attack in united states history. moments before the massacre, the gunman posted a message online attacking the jewish refugee organization hias. it helps resettle refugees from around the world. we will speak with two hias volunteers in philadelphia, rabbi ari lev fornari and david glosser, a retired doctor who is the uncle of steven miller, who has helped push some of president trump's most hard-line anti-immigrant policies. then to brazil where jair bolsonaro, a far right former army officer who openly supports dictatorships and torture, has been overwhelmingly elected to be brazil's new president. protesters took to the streets soon after the election results were announced. >> i am in mourning, not for me, but for brazil, which does not deserve this.

it does not deserve this ignorance. the brazilian people are ignorant. brazil owes a lot to lula. amy: we will speak to the intercept's glenn greenwald about how the election of bolsonaro threatens the future of brazil's democracy. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. pittsburgh, pennsylvania, is in mourning after what's being described as deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. on saturday, a 46-year-old white man named robert bowers allegedly stormed the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh's squirrel hill neighborhood, yelling "all jews must die" as he opepened fire on worshipers preparing for shabbat services. swat officers arrived on the scene of carnage 20 minutes after the rampage began and detained bowers after a shootout. bowers had an ar-15

semiautomatic assault rifle and at least three handguns at the time of his arrest. the 11 victims ranged from 54 to 97 years in age. six others were injured, including four policemen. on sunday, some 2500 people gathered for memorial services to pay their respects and call for healing. this is pittsburgh mayor bill peduduto. >> i think the approach that we need to be looking at is how we take the guns, which is the common denominator of every mass shooting in america, out of the hands of those that are looking to express hatred through murder. amy: just before the shooting rampage, the gunman robert bowers, wrote on a far-right social media site -- "hias likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. i can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered.

screw your optics, i'm going in." hias refers to the hebrew immigrant aid society, a humanitarian aid nonprofit group that has provided assistance to refugees coming into the united states for more than 130 years. just last month, hias condemned president trump for capping the number of refugees allowed into the u.s. this year at just 30,000, writing -- "president trump has once again betrayed america's history and global leadership in providing safe haven for innocent human beings fleeing violence and persecution." on saturday, president trump said the shooter should face the death penalty and claimed that if therere had been armed guards inside the synagogue, the results would have been different. pres. trump: little to do with it, if they have protection inside, the results would have been far better. this is a dispute that will

alwaysys exist, suspect. but if they had some kind of a protection inside the temple, maybe it could have been a very much different sitituation. they did not. amy: a group of jewish leaders has told the president that he is no longer welcome in pittsburgh until he announces white nationalism. 11 members of the pittsburgh affiliate of bend the arc of a jewish partnership for justice, wrote the letter to trump that reads in part "our jewish community is not the only group you have targeted. you have also deliberately undermined the safety of people of color, muslims, lgbtq people, and people of disabilities." yesterday's massacre is that the first act of terror you incited against a minority group in our country." their letter came after trump cheered on a group of young black republican leaders at the white house east room on friday shoutedwere hacked and

"soros" and "lock him up." it was a reference to george soros, a frequent target both of republicans and neo-nazi groups. soros is jewish and survived the not jacket asia of hungary before becoming an advocate for refugee rights. this is president trump as that event event ont room friday. pres. trump: they are called globalists they like the globe. i like the e globe, too, but we have to takeke care of our p pe. mobileleists. amy: meanwhile, the fox business network has pulled in episode for program after a member of the right-wing organization judicial watch eight anti-semitic remarks attacking george soros. on thursday, chris farrell described the state department as soros occupied territory to lose dobbs and house republican majority leader kevin mccarthy

has deleted a tweet he posted last week suggesting three wealthy jewish them a credit donors were trying to buy the midterm elections. between by mccarthy posted tuesday and deleted wednesday read "we cannot allow soros, star, a bloomberg to buy this election. get out and vote republican november 6." also referencing tom steyer and michael bloomberg. -- infferson, down jeffersontown,n, kentutucky, a e man arrested for shootg andd killing two african-american customers at a grocery store last wednesday was seen unsuccesessfully trying to entea predominantly black chururch shortly before hisis shooting rarampage. police say 51-year-old gregory bush was captured on a surveillance camera trying to force open the doors of the first baptist church of jeffersontown for several minutes before turning his attention instead to a nearby kroger's supermarket, where he

killed to the african-americans, maurice stallard and vickie lee jones. bush reportedly stopped shooting after he was confronted by an armed bystander, ed harrell, in the parking lot outside the supermarket. this is harrell'l's son, steve zinnnninger, speaking withth a l nbc affiliate. > so your dadad was confrontg the shooooter? >> yes.. >> did that man say anything? how did your dad figure out? was himd not realize it untitil he saw the gun by insis. sasaid "don't shoot me, i will e you. whitestone kill whites." -- white don't kill whites." amy: gregory bush has a history of making racist slurs, and a long rap sheet of misdemeanor charges including domestic violence, menacing, and making terroristic threats. in 2009, a judge ordered bush to surrender his guns and undergo mental health treatment, after his parents claimed bush threatened to shoot them in the head. bush's father said his son "carries a gun wherever he goes."

it's not clear whether bush's guns were returned when the court order expired in 2011. gregory bush faces two counts of murder and 10 counts of wanton endangerment at a november court hearing. prosecutors are investigating the murders as a possible hate crime. in florida, cesar sayoc, the man suspected of sending a series of explosive devices to high-profile democrats and cnn, is appearing in court today where he will face federal charges and a possible prison sentence of up to 48 years. sayoc, a 56-year old man from aventura, florida, was picked up friday after investigators tracked him down thanks to a fingerprint left on one of the bomb packages. on friday, authorities intercepted more suspicious packages destined fofor califora senator kamala harris, billionaire donor thomas steyer, and new jersey senator cory booker, bringing the total to at least 14 packages sent.

sigh out, who is working at a -- sayoc, who was working as a dj a strip club, was active on social media praising trump and attacking his political opponents, including those targeted by his mail bomombs. himsocial media post showed at rallies wearing "make america great again's goat account and his twitter account was produce the reported to the company after he made threats to a political commentator in the past but no action was taken. the intercept is reporting that sayoc's home was foreclosed d on in january of 2009 by indymac bank, a failed bank which was renamed onewest bank just two months later and taken over by steven mnuchin, who is currently the u.s. treasury secretary. investigators believe that sayoc was living in his van, where he built the bomb devices. his van is covered in pro-trump/pence stickers, as well as images of prominent democrats with crosshairs over them. the images include hillary clinton -- one of the targets -- and filmmaker michael moore.

an outtake from moore's recent film "fahrenheit 11/9" shows sayoc at a trump 2020 last year. -- 2020 rally last year. >> cnn sucks! cnn sucks! amy: that protest was in melbourne, florida. cesar sayoc was among the protesters chanting "cnn sucks!" in brazil, far-right candidate jair bolsonaro won a sweeping victory in a presidential runoff election on sunday, marking the most radical political shift in the country since military rule ended more than 30 years ago. bolsonaro dedefeated rival fernando haddad of the leftist workers' party by a margin of 55% to 45%. 55% to 45%.

bolsonaro is a former army officer with a history of making racist, misogynistic, and homophobic comments. he has praised b brazil's former ship, spokenet or in favor of torture and threatened to destroy, imprison or banish his political opponents. bolsonaro has also encouraged the police to kill suspected drug dealers and once told a female lawmaker she was too ugly to rape. environmentalists warn bolsonaro will speed catastrophic climate change by opening up vast swaths of the amazon to agribusiness giants who will replace rainforest with fields of soybeans, corn, and sugar cane. bolsonaro's election was met with dismay by thousands of protesters who poured into the streets of sao paolo and other cities in brazil and were met by riot police after the results were announced. mourning, not for me, but for brazil, which does not deserve this. it doesn't deserve this ignorance. the brazilian people are ignorant. brazil owes a lot to lula. amy: later in the broadcast, we

will go to rio de janeiro to speak with award-winning reporter glenn greenwald about the rise of jair bolsonaro. in indonesia, a passenger jet carrying 189 people crashed into the sea near the capital jakarta shortly after it took off monday morning. search and rescue workers reported finding wreckage and personal belongings from lion air flight 610, but no sign of any survivors. a cause of the crash is not yet known. saudi arabia has rejected a call by turkish president recep tayyip erdogan to extradite suspects accused of killing saudi journalist "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi so they could be tried in turkey. saudi foreign minister adel al-jubeir said saturday that 18 suspects would be tried in saudi arabia after a saudi-led investigation. turkey says a squad of saudi hit men lured khashoggi to the saudi consulate in istanbul on october

2, where they tortured him and cut him to pieces using a bone saw. presidenent erdogan hahas demand that saudi officials show him where khashoggi's body is, and name those responsible for ordering the killing. for more on our coverage on the murder of khashoggi, you can go to democracynow.org. in gaza, an airstrike from an israeli drone killed 3 palestinian teenagers sunday near the heavily militarized separation barrier with israel. the deaths capped a weekend of violence. on friday, israeli forces shot and killed five palestinians as they joined weekly protests under the banner of the great march of return. the gaza health ministry said 170 others were injured, many by live fire. overnight friday, israeli warplanes pounded parts of gaza with dozens of bombs, leveling buildings, as palestinians fired about three dozen rockets towards southern israel before a brief ceasefire took effect

on saturday. in india, federal authorities raided the offices of amnesty international's india branch in the latest crackdown on civil thursday society groups by the hindu nationalist government of prime minister narendra modi. investigators spent over 10 hours searching tax records in amnesty's bangalore headquarters before freezing the ngo's bank accounts. the raid follows a similar government action against the environmental group greenpeace earlier this month. german media is reporting chancellor angela merkel will not secret election when her term ends in 2021. she will also not seek leadership of her party, the heavyou -- cdu suffered losses on sunday with far right a of the party making gains. enjoy merkel has been leader of and they since 2000 german chancellor since 2005. and in tennessee, federal judge has ruled the memphis police department violated an agreement

to stop in gauging in political surveillance. the aclu successfully argued in court that memphis police broke a 1978 consent decree on it set toa phony facebook profile surveil activists with black lives matter and other civil rights groupups. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. >> ♪ amy: that was the e scene at a candlelelight vigil in the squirrel hill neighborhood of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, saturday night, just hours after a gunman opened fire at the tree of life synagogue.

11 worshipers were killed in what is being described as deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. the victims have been identified as cecil rosenthal -- cecil rosenthal, joyce fienberg, richard gottfried, rose ballinger, jerry rabinowitz bernice simon, sylvan simon, , daniel stein, melvin wax, and irving younger. they ranged in age from 54 to 97. six others were injured, including four policemen. the worshippers were gathered on saturday morning for sabbath services when a 4646-year-old mn named robert bowers entered the synagogue armed with an ar-15 and three e handguns. he yelled "all jews must die" as he opened fire on worshipers. when bowers was finally taken into custody 20 minutes later, he reportedly told a swat team officer he "wanted all jews to die." this is fbi spspecial agent bob jones. >> this is the most horrific

crime scene i've seen in 22 years of federal bureau investigation. members of the tree of life synagogue conducting a peaceful service in their place of worship were brutally murdered by a gunman targeting them simply because of their faith. amy: just before the shooting rampage, the gunman robert bowers, wrote a message online saying -- "hias likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. i can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. screw your optics, i'm going in." hias refers to the hebrew immigrant aid society, humanitarian aid nonprofit group that provides assistance to refugees coming into the united states for more than 130 years. he posted the message on gab, a site frequented by neo-nazis, white nationalists, and far right users kicked off twitter for racism or harassment. the shootiting rampage caps a hate-filled week in america. on wednesday, a white man with a history of violence fatally shot

two african-americans at a kekentucky groceryry store follg an apparenent failed attempt to attackck a black church. on friday, authorities arrested an avid trump supported named cesar sayoc who is accused of mailing bombs addressed to cnn 14 and political opponents of president trump. including the clintons, the obamas, as well as george soros, tom steyer, senators kamala harris as well as senator cory booker of new jersey and others. for more, we go to philadelphia, pennsylvania, where we're joined by two guests. dr. david glosser is a retired neuropsychologist who has volunteered with hias in philadelphia helping refugees. he is also the uncle of stephen miller key political advisor to , a president trump who has pushed for a crackdown on immigrants.

david glosser recently wrote a piece for politico magazine headlined "stephen miller is an immigration hypocrite. i know because i'm his uncle." and we are also joined by ari lev fornari. he is a rabbi at kol tzedek synagogue in west philadelphia as has worked with hias well. we welcome you both to democracy now! david glosser, your response to what took place in pittsburgh on saturday morning, the murders? good morning. before i begin, i would like to express my condolences to my many friends and relatives in pittsburgh and specifically in the squirrel hill region where they live. we have now been subject to the of our political leaders, abandoning their moral responsible is. the question has been asked, what happens when hate speech becomes legitimized? it becomes acceptable in our

political discourse to condemn and vilify innocent people based on race or religion, national origin or color? the answer has made us a very clear in the last few days. and in the last week with a pipe bomb attacks upon our political opponents of mr. trump. mr. trump has made it his policy to vilify and dehumanize hispanics, muslims, nonwhites, calling them subhuman animals that are investing our country like so many insects or rats. make no mistake about it am a this is the same kind of propaganda that is identical to the racist rants of nazi party rallies in germany in the 1930's. now trump spews the same poisonous messages to his supporters and claims innocence when this inflammatory vitriol is sprayed over society. he claims innocence now that

this political gasoline catches fire and people get hurt and killed. i would love to say i am surprised, but i am not. more shockingly, the republican congress has tolerated is vilification. where there have been cries of outrage, the so-called responsible people in our country in positions of political leadership, the silence has been deafening. silence tendsis to legitimize the crazy conspiracy theories, the heat speech, the threats, the violent whitef the most noxious nationalism of the political spectrum. mr. trump is not ashamed to tell us among the champions nazis in charlottesville, there were many fine people, drawing a false moral equivalency to those protesting against these kinds

of actions and the nazis themselves. should we now be surprise that will armed white nationalist -- isolatedted friendless loners seeking vavalidation for their empty lives, that the act out on their hate? i think not. mr. trump did not pull the trigger in the synagogue, he did not well those bombs. but for the first time in 50 years, he is made ticketed hate speech in america a legitimate tool of political manipulation. his endless barrage of excited hatred threats and lies have consequences as we have seen. i regard mr. trump is a hopeless moral imbecile. but those politicians know better, still do not say much. they don't stand up and loudly denounce his hate speech. they don't denounce his lies.

they are hypocrites. they are cowards. there deafening silence condemns limb more loudly than any courtroom ever could. and so what can we say? we have to take the actions that are most prudent, that are loudest, that are the most effective. that means getting out and voting. glosser, thed made hisbowers, justification very clear. he tweeted minutes before, used gab, not twitter, going into the synagogue saying he wanted to kill all jews. but specifically going after a jewish organization called hias, the hebrew immigrant aid society , a group that you work for as well as our next guest ari lev fornari. he immediately made the link

between jews and immigrants helplping immigrants coming into this country. among his gab posts he said "i've noticed a change of people saying illegals that now say invaders." he wrote this just six days before. he said "i like that" as he referred continually to the caravan of people coming up. you were particularly close to this story in an unusual way. you are a volunteer for hias and , jewish with refugees and non-jewish, from all over the world, trying to resettle in the united states. and your nephew, stephen miller, is one of president trump's advisers, particularly on the issue of immigration. your headline in the political attackthis is before the

this weekend, stephen miller is an immigration hypocrite. i know because i am his uncle." can you talk about this linkage tot bauer made from jews jewish organizations, bringing in refugees, see called them, invaders? a language that president trump himself has used. >> let me tell you little bit about hias. hias helped to rescue my family about 100 years ago. and now serves to protect desperate refugees worldwide. i am proud to be a volunteer for them. most every american family in the united states, apart from those who came unwillingly as slaves and apart from those who are native americans, everyone else came here by a large to flee danger, oppression, hunger, and fear. and together those folks have built a nation, fought wars, an event the cause of freedom and justice in the world. backs onot turn our

this fundamentally american mission or let opportunist politicians turn us against them. the words of the statue of liberty should be remembered, give us your tired, your poor career huddled masses yearning to breathe free. i am particularly horrified and the cynical, political exploitation of poor people trying to escape from oppression. we cannot solve all of the problems in the world, but we can certainly -- the united states is a large, powerful, wealthy country very good at absorbing immigrants, as you can determine just by going out in the street and asking anybody you see where to the family come from originally. we need to do our duty to help people who are desperately fleeing from horrible conditions, as my family did 100 years ago. amy: it is interesting in your piece, you write a stephen

mimiller would not be here, president trump's senior adviser, if it warned for immigrants being allowed -- if it weren't for immigrants being allowed into this country. some of your family surviving the holocaust and being brought here. had -- it was back in 1903 that my great-grandfather followed his older brother out of a little village in what is now belarus. terrible conditions of persecution and mob violence against jews. he came to the united states because the door was open. 1906 they were able to send for the rest of the immediate family. of the 74 of our family that belarust get out of because immigration laws of the united states had changed, they were all murdered in the years leading up to and during world war ii. the whole town, which originally

had been about 5000 jews in the early 1900s, most of them left, leaving about 2000. onlye 2000 that remained, seven are known to have survived the war. stephen miller certainly would not exist if my parents would likely have gone up the crematoria chimney and never met. i would never have been born, his mother never would have been born, certainly stephen miller would not have been born. i understand and respect the history of refugees and immigrants because of our families personal experience, even if stephen a mr. trump do not. esther trump's grandfather -- mr. trump's grandfather am a from what i understand, he was on a run from the german prescription into the army. his grandmother was an impoverished scottish refugee looking for a better life in new york. you would expect these people to have a little more compassion, little more realization that

immigrants are this good for country and have been good for this country. instead, they've turned this poisonous vilification of people and dehumanizing them. this feeds into the crazy coconspiracy theories that leadd people, these unhinged people to act outand sayoc their own personal inadequacies by being something important through violence. amy: we're going to have to go to break -- >> it is an old story. amy: we're going to go to break and come back to this discussion, dr. david glosser, uncle of stephen miller, speaking to us from philadelphia. he is former faculty member at boboston university scschool of medicine and jeffeferson medical cocollege. hias.a volunteer for jews back in a momoment.

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amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we talk about the horrific shooting rampage on saturday in pittsburgh, just before the massacre, the gunman, robert bowers, wrote a message online to bringhias like's

invaders in that kill our people. i can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. screw your optics, i'm going in." in addition to david glosser, we're joined by ari lev fornari, rabbi at kol tzedek synagogue in west philadelphia. rabbi, start by responding to what took place on saturday. you are rabbi for a philadelphia congregation in another part of pennsylvania, but you also workk with hias, the organization that the shooter was directly attacking. >> thank you, amy. it is an honor to be back on your show. i want to begin by saying this has been a devastating week in a devastating weekend for jews probably around the world and certainly jews in my congregation and around pittsburgh and philadelphia. we are in this state of what is referred to as a suspended state of grief before there is -- the

really are words or actions to figure out how to respond. i want to extend my love and condolences to all who are expressing direct loss in pittsburgh and the tree of life congregation. your opening segment, hearing the jews gather in prayer on a saturday night singing the words to end shabbat brought back the gathering we had at the calvary center for culture and community in our neighborhood gathered in the same way. there were about 100 of us in west philadelphia singing those same words and offering words of inspiration and grief together, finding solidarity in our gathering. what r really strikes me is that this political violence is not happening in isolation. the murder of these 11 jews in pittsbsburgh iss linked to the murder of the two black shoppers in kentucky, to the slaughter a black worshipers interested in 2015, to the burning of mosques

around the country, to the attack on the sikh temple in wisconsin. there's a long history of politicall violence and we are seeing a surge in it. i hold trump and the republican party and his supporters and his enablers directly responsible for this. we need to be making the connections that bowers itself is making, which is we need to be sing the interconnection of trump's language targeting all of us, targeting immigrants and muslims and people of color,, ququeer and trans bodies, and sg ourselves as all targets of whitee nationalism and to understand that anti-semitism anand racism are at the core of white nationalism. this administration's targeting all of us, and we will not be divided, which is why i am so inspired by the leaders of pittsburgh who are saying "trump, you're not welcome in pittsburgh until you denounce white nationalism." that is what is responsible to all of this. my own synagogue, like the tree of life in pittsburgh, works directly with hias.

we have been sponsoring and supporting three refugees in our neighborhood for the past two years, supporting them to find housing and work and necessary medical appointments, sharing aoceries and meals, and being source of community and connection to help them get resettled. we have also been participating local -- aty at a group of white nationalist showed of about six months ago to terrorize and provoke violence during one of theheir friday prayers. for about six months, a group of community neighbors led by our group showed of every friday and had signs that said, west philly jews support our muslim neighbors.s. love your neigighbor as yoursel. we need to b be showing up andnd bebeing a voice of solidarity ad making the same connections of these white nationalists are making, which is we are all vulnerable to white nationalism that trump and his supporters

are provoking and enabling. i really see this as a pivotal moment, as we are one week away from the midterm election, that we need to get out the vote and unseat and all mechanical everyone running for office who is direct ties to white stephenism specifically king and the fourth district of iowa. i'm drawing great comfort from these fears, brave people of color, women who are running against longtime incumbents and trying to unseat these racist leaders in our country. amy: it is interesting you might mentioned voting -- you mention voting. on saturday, not long after the shooting, i believe it was high school kids in pittsburgh, right in that area in squirrel hill, organized just a vigil. they were so horrified people could come together and spontaneously the chant that broke out in a vigil was "vote." and your reference to the 11

members of the pittsburgh affiliate of bend the arc come a jewish partnership for justice writing that letter to president trump. trump said he will be going to pittsburgh, i think, sometime this week. they wrote "our jewish committed is that the only group you targeted. you have also to liberally undermine this idea people of color, muslims, lgbtq people, people with disabilities. yesterday's massacre is not the first act of terry you incited against a minority group in our country." saying "unless you are announces -- white nationalism, that he can't come to pittsburgh. >> yes. these are the kinds of connections we need to be making because we actually have power in numbers. not only get out the vote, but showing up for each other. saturday night, at the tower's center, our dear friends and allies from our muslim and christian clergy came and spoke .nd saying and shared words

there were about 100 of us present. in the moments where our words fail us, they said, we will be your standing stone, and offered the words of jewish liberation from 100 years ago, which is we will outlive them. we will do this in the streets together. jews are not alone, immigrants are not alone, people e of color are not alone. i was thinking about this a connection to my own work related to immigrant justice. i spent some time at u.s.-mexico border in august as part of a --rgy action to be providing to be resisting this and administration's criminalization of h humanitarian aid on t the . border. what we know is the criminalization of immigration is directly connected to the violence being perpetrated against transponder, people of color, black obvious. has beenng as the us in existence, there has been the violence against black and brown

bodies has been condoned by the state will stop this is a time where we need to rise up and resist and reclaim a sense of connected space that is not built in state power but in our relationships of solidarity and interdependence. amy: i want to ask also about what happened, this remarkable moment on friday afternoon, most aren't paying attention because the accused bomber, cesar psy out, had been arrested. there was a lot of attention on this van he was living in that had all of these targets on its and pro-trump signs. he was at a melbourne, florida, trump rally recently. but soon after that, president trump was in the east room with young black leaders. mini rally ised a

he attacked the global us. and young people wearing hats chanted "soros" and "lock him up." this was in the white house on friday. i think it was wednesday, trump in the middle of the night,, tweeted, puttingng the word "bombs" and saying ththis is taking attention away from whaht we want toto focus on, the caran , the threats, as he perceivives them, of persecuted people comingng up into this country. isse yeah, what we're seeing trump coming further and further out and saying his true colors. we saw he came out just we know the word that comes before "nationalist" is white. an anti-somatic slur. we're seeing this in media and manipulation that hitler used to rise and nazi germany.

i will trump and the entire republican party and their silence complicit for these acts of violence in this murder, the blood is on their hands. it is not just about getting dissemination, it is changing the discourse of who is in powerer. this is not t a side project. this is the project of this administration. outeed to be speaking saying, trump, you need to denounce white nationalism and we need to hold accountable all of our test change the face of who is in power in this country because this violence is not happening in isolation. as we are saying, it is escalating terribly. this past week has been devastating. it is an assault not just on our bodies, but on our souls. one thing we have in our tradition, and a place where people are not acting human, we need to strive to be human. we need to stay connected d to r community. glosser, do you

want to publicly address your nephew, trump senior adviser stephen miller, here? continue the same message i've been trying to get across for the last many months. unacceptable to utilize hatred, bigotry to advance your political ends. this is a shallow, chevy expression of ambition. it is poisonous to the country come destructive to society, and a complete repudiation of your own background and your own past . amy: dr. david glosser, thank you for being with us, uncle of stephen miller, trump senior adviser. dr. glosser is a volunteer with hias. rabbi ari lev fornari kol tzedek at kol tzedek synagogue in west philadelphia, also works with hias.

were held all over the country last week. fornari is holding one in philadelphia. in the significance of this, the pittsburgh temple of life participated in this as well. we will continue to follow this story. when we come back, we will be joined by glenn greenwald. president trump just tweeted his congratulations to jair bolsonaro, the far right now president-elect of brazil. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to brazil, where a far right former army officer who openly supports dictatorships and torture has been overwhelmingly elected president. jair bolsonaro's election marks the most radical political shift

in brazil since military rule ended more than 30 years ago. he won 55% of the vote, easily defeating fernando haddad of the leftist workers' party. bolsonaro campaigned on a promise to end corruption and crack down on crime, but many fear the future of democracy in brazil is in danger. for decades, bolsonaro has openly praised the country's former military dictatorship once saying the dictatorship should have killed 30,000 more people. he also has a history of making racist, misogynistic, and homophobic comments, spoken in favor of torture, and threatened to destroy, imprison or banish his political opponents. he has also encouraged the police to kill suspected drug dealers and once told a female lawmaker she was too ugly to rape. he also said he would rather hear his son had died in a car accident that learned that his son is gay. on sunday night, bolsonaro claimed he would help liberate brazil. >> you are my witness that i will be an advocate for defending the constitution for

democracy, for freedom. this is my promise. it is not one of a political party. it is not the word of a man. it is an oath to god. >> we will liberate brazil and the foreign ministry from the ideology of its international and the foreign ministry from the ideology of its international relations that is subject to brazil to in recent years. brazil will no longer be different from the countries of the developed world. we will seek bilateral relations that add to the economic and technological value of brazilian products. we will restore international respect for our dear brazil. amy: thousands of protesters poured into the streets of sao paulo and other cities in brazil to protest bolsonaro's election. mourning, not for me, but for brazil, which does not deserve this. it doesn't deserve this ignorance. the brazilian people are

ignorant. brazil owes a lot to lula. amy: jair bolsonaro directly benefited from the jailing of former brazilian president luiz inacio lula da silva, who had been leading all presidential polls earlier this year. lula has been in jail since april on what many consider trumped-up corruption charges. bolsonaro will be sworn in on january 1, 2019. just moments ago, trump tweeted "had a very good conversation who won hislsonaro, race by substantial margin. we agree that brazil and the united states will work closely together on trade, military, and everything else! excellent call. wished him congrats!" to discuss the implications of bolsonaro's victory, we go to rio de janeiro to talk to glenn greenwald, pulitzer prize-winning journalist and one of the founding editors of the intercept. welcome back. your response to bolsonaro's victory? >> well, i think it is really

important to put it into its proper context. prolonged time, the western media was referring dam as brazil's trump. that is how he was marketing himself. he is by far the most extremist leader, now elected anywhere in the democratic world, far closer as we discussed before to duterte, the president of the philippines or even the dictator of egypt. journalist has made the remark he is far more extremist than duterte. the key thing to understand about bolsonaro, he comes not from this modern alt-right movement, the type of donald trump or marine le pen, but the cold war far right that carried out enormous atrocities in the name of fighting d domestic communism, which is what bolsonaro believes his primary product to be. he recently vowed to cleanse the country of left-wing opposition, which he sees as a communist

front. the threat and the ideology is far more extreme than anything the democratic world, but the dynamics as far as why he won are quite similar in that it was driven not by a sudden far right ideology convergent on the part of this population of brazil, but anger and desperation on hopelessness about the failures of the establishment class. amy: during an interview with brazilian television program ago, -- a must 20 years ago bolsonaro said -- "through the vote you will not change anything in this country, nothing, absolutely nothing! it will only change, unfortunately, when, one day, we start a civil war here and do the work that the military regime did not do. killing some 30,000, starting with fhc, not kicking them out, killing! if some innocent people are going to die, fine, in any war innocents die." talk about his stances, glenn greenwald, on many issues from

rights,sues to women's etc. that is why i say he is a real throwback to the kind of far right movements of the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's than he is of this updated modernized version. if you look at far right leaders throughout the west, you don't see much of a focus on, say, abortion and lgbt issues, if anything, sometimes the far right in europe collects those issues as a way of inciting xenophobia against muslims saying muslims are regressive and want to drag the country back thousands of years in terms of social issues, where as bolsonaro is this much more old-school fascist where a major part of his campaign was depicting lgbt's as a direct threat to children, saying the recent lgbt's want to infiltrate public schools as they want to convert people's children into being gay so they can have sex

with them. honestly, highly inflammatory claim to make a better mamarginalized p population inia society ththat is already pretty conservative on social issues. the much graver threat is the fact that he explicitly reveres and wants to replicate the worst elements of the military dictatorship. when he stood up recently in 2016 on the floor of the congress and voted to impeach dilma rousseff, he specifically said he was doing it in honor of the unit for his colonel who tortured not only dissidents in general, but dilma specifically. this is the kind of regime he wants to reinstate, whether he will be able to do that is a looming question. but that is s definitely his intention. amy: foreign policy has headlined jair bolsonaro model is not berlusconi, it is gerb ils. glenn? >> that is why think the western

media is only now starting to come to grips with that he really isn't even placeable on the standard ideological spectrum that has come to define even this new right movement that has obviously succeeded in the u.s. and u.k. with brexit and is flourishing in many places in western and eastern europe. he is far more extreme than that. comparisons and the like are healthy and productive are something i prefer to leave to the side because that tends to generally obfuscate. i prefer to use nazi analogies for people have committed genocide. but i think the threat that he poses to just a sick human rights, the right of -- the ability to have an ongoing viable democracy can't be overstated. amy: and president trump applauding him, the significance and the importance of the u.s.-brazilian relationship? mean, we all know now

how president trump sees the world, which is in a very simplistic framework or people who say good things about him are people that he likes and people who say bad things about him are people that he hates. jair bolsonaro is somebody who is consciously modeled himself on donald trump. his children, when they can to new york and met with steve bannon, trump --bolsonaro himself saluted the american flag and talked about how much he loves the united states under trump. effusive he was very in his praise of trouble he spoke to him, therefore, trump's current plaster in his child like manner is to view jair bolsonaro as somebody that is an ally and a friend and some of you wortrthy of praise for that reason alone. amy: we are speaking to you in this aftermath of the pittsburgh massacre, what the adl has described as the worst anti-semitic attack in the united states in u.s. history.

if you could comment, as you look north, but this is your country, the united states, what happened this weekend and share your thoughts? at the socialook media history of the murderer who entered the synagogue in pittsburgh, you see something much different than the social media history of the individual accused of sending pipe bombs to various democratic politicians and media newsrooms. that person, the pipe bomber, seems to clearly have been directly inspired by and formed by trump and the trump movement, whereas the killer who slaughtered -- slaughtered jews in the pittsburgh synagogue is the more traditional, neo-nazi hard-core kkk white supremacist who sees donald trump not as an ally, but as a tool of the jews

& his own. i think he is more on the fringes of american political life. so i think the attempt to try and blame trump or trump's rhetoric for this attack is a much harder case to make than for the pipe bomber, who clearly was motivated by trump's enemy list. nonetheless, once you start creating this atmosphere in a country where scapegoating becomes the norm and where you start encouraging people to look at marginalized and vulnerable minorities as the source of teacheses, history violence against those groups are the inevitable outcome. so i think it would be a mistake -- i would be personally cautious to draw too many lessons about the synagogue shooter. he seems to be a very familiar kind of outlier in american history. i nonetheless do think the climate, not just in the u.s. but throughout the west and democracies generally, has become one where these kinds of -- this kind of rage against marginalized groups is becoming increasingly pervasive.

amy: you can't say bowers tweeted out a message attacking jews and refugees right before he went in and killed jewish worshipers because he used gab. if you could explain what gab is. as most of us know of for longtime silicon valley has not wanted to regulate or censor political content and wanted to view itself as the at&t of the internet. obviously, at&t does not censor people. if you want to use -- if you're white supremacist and what use the telephone, and lets you. silicon valley has begun, because the public has been demanding it, censoring barredal content, those from using facebook or twitter. as is predictable other social promisempanies making a to people not to censor them began to emerge and gab was designed to essentially allow the far right censored from

twitter to migrate their and you social media there. and that is where this killer, otherothers, like neo-nazis who are banned from facebook and twitter have migrated to come and it has hub of that and the wake of this pittsburgh shooting, they have now been censored in a sense by private financial firms that will process their payments and internet companies that won't post their site any longer, and attempt to suppress these views, which never really works, rather than trying to address and or contain them or defeat them. 'sy: and president trump response to what took place in the progressive jewish leaders and pittsburgh saying, you are not welcome in pittsburgh until you renounce white nationalism? i mean, president trump posted the tweet this morning i thought was so far over the line

-- amy: we have five seconds. >> the thing about cnn being the enemy of the people in the wake of this pipe bomb, like i said i'm more cautious about blaming trump -- amy: we're going to do part