nation." we're coming to you on a solemn evening. 11 confirmed killed. plus six injured in today's hate attack on the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh. the deadliest ever on the jewish american community. the suspect is in custody. 46-year-old robert bowers has expressed explicitly anti-semitic views both on social media and when he was apprehended earlier this afternoon by pittsburgh police. >> the actions of robert bowers represent the worst of humanity. we expect to file criminal charges shortly, perhaps as early as today. justice in this case will be swift and it will be severe. >> the president is slated to take the stage within the hour for a campaign rally in illinois. earlier today he address the shooting in pittsburgh.

>> this wicked act of mass murder is pure evil, hard to believe, and frankly, something that is unimaginable. our nation and the world really shocked and stunned by the grief. this hfs was an anti-semitic act. you wouldn't think it would be possible in this day and age but we don't seem to learn from the past. >> joining me now, pete williams, nbc news correspondent. pete, what can you tell us that you've learned so far? >> well, indeed, in addition to the 11 who were killed, six injured and authorities say none of those, fortunately, none of the victims were children. four of the injureded were police officers, the other two a 61-year-old woman and a 7 ol-year-old man, 70-year-old man

who was wounded by gunfire in the torso. he is said to be in critical condition. law enforcement officials say they did not nope anything about robert bowers before today. he was not on the law enforcement radar. he was not known to the local police or the federal authorities before today. they do say they believe he acted alone and they say when he entered the snaug this morning at about 10:00, he was carrying four weapons. a semi-automatic, assault style rifle, ar-15 style rife and at least they say at least three handguns. they don't know the which weapons he used in the shooting but they say he walked into the synagogue, opened fire and then as the first responders were arriving, he came out. that was his first exchange of gunfire with police. then he went back inside the synagogue to hide from them. he had pursued him. there was more gunfire with the police. he was wounded either in the outside or the inside and

finally, surrendered and he was taken to the hospital. he is said to be in fair condition with multiple gunshot wounds and whether he's talking to to authorities now or not, we don't know. in addition to what happened in pittsburgh, as a matter strictly of a precaution, police departments nationwide have on their own not because they've been told to but just on their own vin decided to build up security around houses of worship and synagogues. new york was the first to do it as it usually does, again not because of any specific threats. they don't think this was part of any larger plot. they think testifies acting on his own. new york has done it it, so has chicago, atlanta, washington, d.c., los angeles, san francisco, seattle. so lots of cities is ash the country are shore og up security, not only at synagogues but other houses of worship.

bowers will be charged by the federal government. so the justice department is taking a stand against this deadly hate crime. he will be charged with a federal hate crime that makes it against the law to attack someone while they're engaged in a federally protected right which here is enjoying a house of worship and using diddley force -- deadly force to do so. that could bring the death penalty if he's convicted. we expect the charges will be filed within the coming hours. >> i heard at the press conference they said it could be as early as tonight we didn't hear at the press conference a lot about robert bowers. but they did very clearly say he will be charged among other things i would imagine, he'll be charged with a federal hate crime but the u.s. attorney in pittsburgh and the fbi said that. what is the basis, if you know, that they can say it was a hate

crime? social media we're told he said some very explicit things at the scene. give us the picture of what we can ascertain. bowers even though they did not give us a lot of information. >> so i think three things here. one is the simple facts of the case. he walked in and opened fire on a synagogue while people were engaged in the freedom of worship, freedom of religion. so that fact alone probably is enough to to merit a federal hate crime. in addition, witnesses have said that at the scene, he shouted something about killing jew, and then his social media which law enforcement people are familiar with, they were actually pointing it to us earlier today, he has a string of vial anti-semitic comments going back several weeks. just a few hours before the shooting, he was very critical of a jewish refugee organization

around for well over 100 years that helps people that are made refugees by nothing other than the fact of who they are or their religion. and it's called hias, h- >> a-s. he had critical things to say about that and he said finally quoting him from this posting, social media posting, screw your optics, i'm going in. so for all those reasons, al, they believe they have sufficient evidence to say this is a hate crime. >> pete, when weep look at this, the tree of life synagogue, do we know yet what kind of if any security they may have had there at the synagogue? >> we don't. but just based on what some of the people associated with the snaug were saying i don't think they had much. if they did, i don't think they had anyone who have armed. this was the point the president made today.

he said houses of worship need to have armed guards. sadly across the country some have decided they have to do that, but clearly most houses of worship in america large and small don't have people with weapons. >> now, we are clearly, this is something that has stunned the nation, stunned people around the world. and we've gone from charlottesville to -- from before that charleston where we're seeing people just outwardly dealing with questions of violence and i don't think today is a day of the glaim blame game. but i want to emphasize this is the largest attack on jewish americansing in a place of worship in history. am i correct? >> i don't know about in history but probably -- >> i mean in the united states. >> yeah, i'm sure in the united states. that's what some jewish organizations are saying today. >> where do we go in terms of

the charges will be filed and clearly the names of the victims have not been released i would assume they want to contact family members first and move on. one of the things i saw emphasized was the bravery of law enforcement, the first responders. many of us are very vocal when law enforcement does something we disagree with. but they seem to have been heroic affects. i i understand a couple wounded out of law enforcement actually ran into active fire. >> no question about that. you're absolutely right about that. this is extreme bravery and valor under fire by those first responders. knowing that there was a man with a gun with semi-automatic weapons and for all i know, you're looking at some of the weapons they're carrying, i guess their firepower was matched to his but you know, i'm not sure that the first ones who

arrived on scene were as well armed as the ones we're looking at right now. those are the s.w.a.t. team. still, nonetheless, immediately ran to the scene. you know, there's a saying among law enforcement people while most people are running away from danger, they're running toward it. this today was certainly an example of that. >> no doubt about it. they were wounded and risked their lives during that. pete, stay with us. let's bringing in msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. danny, what can you tell us. >> pete, we'll go right to you, danny. >> the federal government has taken jurisdiction over they away from the commonwealth of pennsylvania which is the state of pennsylvania. ordinarily under federal law, the law presumes that the state will prosecute in cases can of hate crimes. there are exceptions however. if the state asks the federal government to prosecute or if

the federal government believes that it is especially suiteded to handle this hate crime, that's an exception to the general rule that states are responsible in the first instance for prosecuting hate crimes such as this. in the federal system, there are a number of different kinds of hate crimes, several of which provide for a potential death penalty depending on the circumstances. of course, pennsylvania also has the death penalty but similar to federal law or the federal system, no one's been put to death in pennsylvania for over of two decades. so it's not used very often. >> now, we do not know if the state made this request of the federal government or not. but we do know the federal government is in charge of this investigation. and charging and whatever other legal processes uses to deal withholding this person, bowers, accountable. >> that's correct. this is one of those instances where federal and state law

overlap so this is overlapping jurisdiction between both the federal government, fbi and other investigators and state and local authorities. so they happens a lot in the criminal law and this is just one of those instances because the federal law is a hate crimes law and then also in pennsylvania, of course, pennsylvania would handle local murder cases but has an ethnic intimidation version -- >> joining me now is nbc's geoff bennett following the president in mur frfrees borrow, illinois. what is president doing in the middle of all of this. >> there was a question whether or not the president was going to even show up here. for a time today, he wondered whether he might cancel this rally. he decided to show up here. i can tell you the people here

will be happy to see him. when we drove up the line of trump support others stretched some 300 yards. the thing we're waiting to see is what the president says if anything about today's violence and, of course, the uptick in political violence we've seen this past week. the question is, will we see twitter trump or teleprompter trump? i'm referring to what is now an established ritual where the political moment, a nation in crisis requires the president t to hue to the traditions of the president he does that up to a point. today we saw that in the reverse. the president was asked about it as he was boarding air force one. there was a certain coarseness to his language. he suggested if the snaug had an armed guard, perhaps the results would have been different. he also talked about the policy implications, the death penalty. someone asked him if it meant we

should have tighter gun restrictions. he said he didn't think it would make a president. in indianapolis, he did say one thing that caught my ear. just because we're all memories and all come together doesn't mean we still don't fight hard. that to me was a line that suggested it was intended toe give him political cover to return back to the divisive stylings of which donald trump is known for. in fact, in that speech he delivered before the future farmers of america gathering he was attacking elizabeth warren. fine line or ten days to go before the midterm elections. president trump feels he's at his political best on the offensive, on the attack. we expect when he comes to the 12th district of illinois, this is a hotly contested house seat, i expect him to be true to form saying a lot of partisan things you might not expect to hear from a president on a day like today. >> well, it is ten days before

the election. as tempting as it is for me to take the president, i think today it's about 11 people dead in a vicious hate attack. we should not get in front of that. thank you, geoff bennett. up next, still a very active scene in pittsburgh where 11 people are dead. after a man opened fire in a synagogue. we're continuing to stay on top of the latest developments an as we learn more about the suspect. we'll be right back. weea lrn mo. we'll be right back. take off to the big city. find fortune... romance... ...find freedom, just one touch away. ♪ because the sky has no limit.

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we're back with the latest on the shooting in pittsburgh. 11 people have been confirmed dead after 46-year-old robert bowers opened fire on worshipers and law enforcement at the tree of life sflae sin nothing. joel ruben fourth generation congregant of tree of life synagogue. let me first ask you, give us a feeling or give us the thoughts you have as one that knows this synagogue and explain to the nation what this synagogue means in that community. >> thanks, reverend al, for having me here. that will ha synagogue is at the heart of the community.

there are a variety synagogues in crown hill which is one of the bright lights of american jewish life especially urban american jewish life in the country. my family as you mentioned were fourth generation. my grandmother is 96, still lives in pittsburgh, she was born in pittsburgh, proud daughter of immigrants to this country that took care of us and made us part of the fabric of the city. that's really the point here is that the synagogues are part of the fabric you have pittsburgh. pittsburgh has a rich tradition of openness and tolerance and ethic diversity and the synagogue tree of life, beth shalom my great grandparents helped to found. these are really symbols of america for the american jewish community. what took place this morning is an attempt to terrorize our community and it won't work, but it is deeply deeply upsetting. > so to get an understanding, if

someone is trying to make a hate attack on the jewish community, squirrel hill generally and specifically treef life would be a target ha they would go. we don't know whether the robert powers or bowers lived there or not but it would be a place that you would express your hate if you had it toward the jewish community it would be a primary target. think of the apollo theater for an attack against the african-american community or think of so many venues that are. >> a major church that's been there a century or more. >> yes, it's hard to talk about it without feeling deeply emotional because it's part of our beating heart. it's part of our soul. it's not anything that a pittsburgh jew doesn't know

about. squirrel hill is the heart beat of the pittsburgh jewish community and it's a vibrant neighborhood for pittsburgh. it's right near car na gi melon university and the university of pittsburgh. it has professors mingle with students there. it's a working class neighborhood with a lot of mom and pop supports. it's a real energizing exciting place for the jewish community, yes, this is it. >> i understand it has a minister myself of another life, it struck me when i heard both orthodox and nonorthodox jews worship there. it's like a center for the faith, is that correct? >> yes, this synagogue, there are three synagogues that have space now at that synagogue. there's tree of loof, dor hadash, another synagogue whose name is escaping me as i'm working through this. it's reconstructionist, it's

conservative. >> you day yim, reformed, orthodox and hasidic neighborhood right across the street. people are out and about and it's a highly diverse jewish community. >> joel ruben, thank you for joining me. joining me by phone is news analyst howard fine. man who is a pittsburgh native. howard, we've known each other a long time. this is an atrocious act and a sad day. give us around the country a sense of pittsburgh in terms of the demographics and how the jewish community in pittsburgh, the pivotal place that it is and operates as a community in the general city of pittsburgh. >> well, reverend al, let me say you and i have known each other for a long time. without sounding maudlin, it's comforting for me to talk to

you. >> thank you. >> we're buddys and you can understand the horror and the pain of a place like there. on a day like there. yes, i grew up in pittsburgh. i actually attended and was bar mitzvahed at the tree of life. since you're from new york, you know the role these kinds of places play in the jewish community and in the city as a whole pittsburgh's not new york. it's a smaller city in which ethnic neighborhoods live side by side in -- not to be naive about it, there are rough moments but generally speaking in great harmony. there's great ethnic pride in pittsburgh, religious pride. catholic protestant, jewish, muslim, hindu, et cetera. because of the layout of the city with a lot of rivers and bridges and hills and valleys and so forth, each neighborhood kind of has its own very, very zing identity.

it's not like manhattan where things change block by block. you have to go across a bridge to get to another neighborhood. so the large jewish community of squirrel hill is right in the middle of the city. and again, it's western pennsylvania. so there are lots of parks and trees and rivers and creeks and valleys and so on. it's a an very beautiful place. squirrel hill sounds almost like a country estate. in fact, there are squirrels'sing all over the place and the big parks that bound the neighborhoods. having grown up there, rend al, i can tell you it was a fabulous place to grow up as both somebody who's jewish and somebody who is american because the civic pride of the city which is now expressed in the sports teams, the steelers and penguins and so on is something everybody in the city participates in and only a city of that size which is big but not gigantic would feel that

way. and it's a very diverse jewish community. as has been said. there's everything from ultraorthodox walking around in their long black coats and black hats on saturday not driving anywhere and so on to assimilated jews who are practically secular who are go away to prep school. i mean, pittsburgh, the pittsburgh jewish community, squirrel hill in particular is unique in that it has everybody from lower middle class people, jews who work in gas stations and garages and are waitresses in restaurants and take the bus and in the old days the trolley every day to very wealthy captains of industry to participate in the highest levels of corporate life in the city. and it was a great place to grow up. i've got to say my basically reaction, reverend al is one of shock and disbelief that in this

sort of paradise that i grew up in, and convinced me of the utter sure possibility that any jew could grow up to do anything in america that, this kind of thing would happen, that an anti-semitic attack like had on a synagogue during a religious ceremony and on the sa bath for the mere fact that these people were jews is just -- it shocks me beyond words. >> you know, i said that you are a native of pittsburgh. but you're also a very prominent and respected writer, and i've read your writings down through the years as we've known each other. we have had communities around the country where there have been clashes and rhetoric and some of us have had to say we went over the line with rhetoric. and i remember mrs. king and martin iii telling me how you've

got to be more careful what you say and all of us should use this as a day to really look into ourselves. but we have seen charlottesville, now we see this outright mass murder. we saw charleston, blacks. i mean, are we normalizing this? you state tate charleston and you take what happened today with tree of life where people go in a house of worship and kill people, where are we at and what do we need to do, howard? >> well, i'm just writing it about that now, reverend al, trying to think it through in my mind. i appreciate what you said. you know, i've known you for a long time. you grew up on the streets. you're a tough customer. i think you've learned over the years there's in my view, you've become a wonderful voice for reason and police discourse. i think that's what we all need. we all need to grow up, reverend

al, and acknowledge the humanity of everybody that we're arguing with. you know, the founders wanted us to argue. i wrote a book about this. they wanted us to have disputes but they also at least put on paper the idea that all men are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights. in other words, we're supposed to argue vehemently. that's good, that's how we make progress but respect the humanity of others. at some root level. i think what's happened in this country and frankly donald trump is a part of it, but he's not the only reason for it. is that we've gotten into a period of arguing by denying the humanity of others. i think to some extent social media is to blame because it's all to easy to use as dehumanizing propaganda. i think the nature of our politics where we support the

extremes and give money to the loudest voices has hurt. and i think donald trump has -- he has such jungle-based view, such a remorseful cynical view of politics as a cutthroat business where you can only win by cutting down others -- i don't want to sound naive here but that's the way it's done. that's where we are. >> as i said, there will be time for me to deal with donald trump. i think all of us including me and everyone needs to reflect and see where this can lead if we're not all more conscious of humanity as you said of all humanity. thank you, howard fineman. up next, more on the breaking news we're following out of pittsburghing where 11 people were fatally shot at a synagogue and the suspect has been identified you're watching politics nation. identified you're watching politics nation. i landed.

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earlier today at a rally in indianapolis, the president addressed the shooting in pittsburgh. >> anti-semitism and the widespread% accuse of jews representing one of the ugliest and darkest features of human history. the vial hate-filled poison of anti-semitism must be condemned and confronted everywhere and anywhere it appears. there must be no tolerance for anti-semitism in america or for any form of religious or racial hatred or prejudice. you know that. you know that very well. >> up next, more reaction from today's tragic shooting at a pittsburgh synagogue. we'll be right back. g at a pittsburgh synagogue we'll be right back. ♪

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the results woulds have been far better. this is a case where if they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him immediately. so this would be a case for if there was an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him. >> as we wait for the president to take the stage in illinois, i want to hear from the faith community about today's tragedy at the tree of life synagogue in

pittsburgh. >> joining me is joe watkins pastor of the christ evangelical lutheran church in philadelphia and rabbi debra waxman, president of the reconstructionist rabbinical college. i spent the afternoon saying we march together on criminal justice and others. tell me as one that is a leader in. the faith what this says to you. we're a little over year after charlottesville. we're here now with the largest mass murder of jewish americans a synagogue in history. how do you as a person of faith, a faith leader, how do you try and move the community forward? >> thank you so much for having me on and for asking that question. i appreciate the two parts of

your question, both my own faith and how to lead and how to talk together with communities about this kind of happening. we -- the jewish community has always felt tremendous amount of hope and of confidence about the place that we could find here in america because of the promises embedded in america's founding documents. that all people are created equal and oh we -- we understand this to be a place full of potential, some of which is realized but we also understand that we ourselves are only as safe as the most vulnerable among us, which is why the liberal jewish community has been so identified with refugee rights, with calls for trying to dismantle structural racism so this is this moment of we have been living since charlottesville with

uncertainty. is this a blip in time? are we still on this trajectory of inclusion and of fulfillment of potential or is this the harbinger of something different. i think what we do at this moment is as much as possible take comfort from the widespread condemnation and the widespread support that are extended our way, that we turn inward to bolster ourselves and we turn outward to partner with other communities to work to achieve the vision of inclusion and of fulfillment that we think is really truly possible on american soil. >> you know, reverend watkins, talking about inclusion, the civil rights movement in the '60s that preceded you and i in terms of our active lives because we were kids, there were -- this bond. i talk a lot about and will

continue to talk about voting rights and voter suppression and criminal justice. but let's not forget two jews and a black, good man, cheney and southwesterner died to get the right for blacks to vote. we're still fighting ha fight. rabbi abraham, joshua herbal and others marched with dr. king. that will inclusion is something that should be addressed in the pulpits tomorrow of nonjewish faith leaders. >> i agree with you so much, reverend al. you should never play down your great history in civil rights. you've been a champion for people of color and for all americans over the years. >> and you're a republican saying that. >> i'm a republican saying it because it's the truth. >> thank you. >> we've got to say what's true. i'm also a pastor of a church and our hearts go out tonight to the families of those who lost their loved ones in pittsburgh to all those people, innocent people slaughtered by that man

today. and our hearse go out to the police officers who cared enough for their neighbors to put their lives online to try to save them. our hearts go out to their bravely and we're just prayerful tonight. we have to talk about it in our pulpits. it's important for people to talk about these things if we're going to teach people part of loving god who you can't see is to love your neighbor who you can see. that message has to be loud and clear and strong. the answer is not for us to have armed guards at the entrance of our church, the church that i serve is a place that welcomes everybody. we're a place of people who in some cases are spiritually sick. we welcome them in so they can get well. we want them to know the same god we know. and so our churches are meant to be a welcoming place. so the whole message is to be about love and loving your neighbor as your love yourself and tonight, we mourn for those

families in pittsburgh but we hope there's hope going forward for our nation to really be together. >> rabbi, you know the president right away said they should have an armed guard there. and we dove know yet what the investigation will say. they have already said that bowers can had one rifle and three handguns. but what i'm concerned about faith leaders dealing with is the moral climate in the country. in one week, we've dealt with pipe bombs and now a massacre. what are we normalizing to our children in this country? of all races and all faiths where every day is this diet of violence and this diet of man's inhumanity to man? where is the moral compass in this country going? >> i mean, i think that's the critical question. i think one of the things that

where the need to arm synagogues and churches i think first of all, four police officers were wounded in this shoot-out. i don't know that any one -- what it would take to have stopped him. it took a fairly massive force to stop him. what i think that does is that diverts attention away from what you just pointed out. what we need to be doing as faith leaders and all the moral leaders across the country is articulate what it is that we want to be living for, what it is our lives are on the line. what do we want to be risking and how do we put forward that vision of love, that vision of recognizing every individual is created in the jewish tradition we say in the image of god. how do we put that forward in ways that are compelling that urge people to step forward, to pro actively build that we want

to see and in a way that dismantles and disare ups the hatred and the deterioration that we're seeing. >> and i think that is the question before us, joe watkins, how we go forward, continue to fight against wrong, racism, memo phobia xenophobia but also do it in a way we don't become what we're fighting. thank you pastor wat kins and rabbi waxman. up next, the latest developments out of pittsburgh and the shooting that has left 11 people dead. be right back. s left 11 people dead be right back. ♪ ignition sequence starts. 10... 9... guidance is internal. 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... ♪

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ask your doctor about xeljanz xr. an "unjection™". let's bring in msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos and michael balboni, a former new york state security adviser. seconds ago, the president just tweeted, "all of america is in mourning over the mass murder. >> jewish americans at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh. we pray for those who perished and their loves ones and our hearts go out to the brave police officer who's sustained serious injuries. these evil anti-semitic -- this

evil anti--ant semetic attack is an assault on humanity. it will take all of us working together to extract the poison of anti-semitism from our world. we must unite to conquer hate." plaintiff balboni, the president making those statements and certainly i have a lot of issues with the president but he said earlier that we should have armed people at every church. first of all, i don't know how feasible that is because a lot of houses of worship are small and can't even afford that. in your advising homeland security here in new york, is that something that is even possible? >> i don't think it is. it's not sustainable. when you take a look at this type of violence across the country, it is obviously horrific when it happens but it is not the real problem facing school districts or house of worship. take a look what happened in florida. you had the parkland shooting

and many school districts died decided to experiment with having an armed guard. they haven't seen any real reduction in any type of threat that was there beforehand. they have seen an increase in insurance cost. you say that's just a cost to pay. who is going to pay for that. a lot of districts say we never had an issue and will it truly make you safer. there is an individual who knows anything about tactics will go after that individual first. so you'd -- it changes the nature. i advise a lot of school districts. if you want to change the mission, the mission of education, you you don't want to the change the mission of religion. armed camps people won't ascent, too. armed guards are not the answer for everyone. >> danny, where does the investigation and where does the federal government who you told us earlier is now in charge,

where is the next step? what should we be looking for over the next day or so as grieving families now have to collect the remains of a loved one who just went to worship today? >> it's horrible. procedurally what happens is the government will likely file an affidavit of probable cause, a criminal complaint laying out the bare bones of a crime. i safely that because they may he amend or supersede the indictment later on once he is indicted and he will be indicted. but for the time being, the mission is to allege crimes that they know can stick for the time being so that they can successfully hold him and he can be detained pending the ultimate indictment that will certainly come probably in the next week or so. >> we are told he so far looks as though he operated alone. how will they assure us of that over the next couple of days. >> right now they're going through his personal effects, going through his car, through

his home, social media footprint. they're talking to everybody who possibly knew him, who is his associates, where did he get the weapons from. that is going to be designed to see did he communicate with someone who said yes, go, or i'll help you with this witnessingly or unwitnessingly. that's how they'll determine he acted alone. >> let me thank danny and michael. up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. michael. up nex mt,y final thoughts stay with us [woman 1] this... [woman 2] ..this... [man 1] ...this is my body of proof.

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day. the attack by the shooter was because he was against jews. but the attack was really against all of us. and until we all feel each other's pain, we have not grown to where we should as a country. whether it's blacks in a chuj in charleston, people marching against kneeio nazis in charlottesville, whether it is this despicable act today in the tree of life, we must understand that we can disagree without hate, without venom, and out looking the other way when it's not one of ours. we should all mourn tonight for the 11 families that have lost a loved one and then we ought to get up and do something about bringing this country to one standard and fighting against racism and anti-semitism and

homophobia and xeen know phobia because we all have a part in setting the tone. we can't just look at one or two people and talk about how crazed they are if we are creating a climate where people that are crazed feel that they can go forward and done what was done today. today was painful for all of us. we must be big enough to taking that pain and use it to water our sees of growth where we can become a nation that can debate without debasing others. and where we become a nation where the tone from the top in the white house to your house and my house is saying that we all must have one nation under god indivisible with liberty and yuts for all. that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern. now the news continuing with

alex witt. >>. it's a very horrific crime scene. it's one of the worst that i've seen. >> it's a terrible, terrible thing what's going on with hate. >> he made anti-semitic comments about killing jews as he came out of the synagogue. >> we could hear the shots and we were standing in our living room and we could just hear rapid fire. >> there's nothing much i can do right now. i feel horrible for all those people inside. >> if they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him immediately. >> these were our neighbors, these are fellow pennsylvanians. and this is an incredibly sad day. there you're hearing leaders of today and those affected by the shooting, this terrible shooting. i'm alex witt at