jonathan greenblatt,'d like to start with you first.i we are s learning about the depths of hatred of theur pitt suspect, but your report, as i mentioned earlier, has comed in one yaea nearly 60% spike in ancti-semi attacks and harassment. broadly speaking, what were you documenting, and why do u think this is happening? >> at the a.d.l. , we have beinn fighate for ener 100 years and tracking anti-semitic inc in the united states since the late 1970s. in the past year we saw a increase of 57%. that was a year-on-year spike, the largest we've eveseen, and it included acts of harassment, ndalism, and violence. i would attribute it to a few factors. number, oneabsolutely the political environment. we know that the white supremacists feel emboldened when their language ends up literally on the lips of our leaders and their rhetoric is retweeted. the president has been doing f th some time, an we've called it out durinhis candidacy and more recently when he's been in the white house. you've seen other political araders, as you mentioned in the open, fe mongering about george soros and jewi

>> jonathan greenblatt, we wanted to talk to you one on one. thank you for being here tonight.ake a turn, obviously a lot of sad stories, but there's a lot of fireworks in these midterms. we're seeing celebrities like will farrell go out for the democrats. we're back in 30 seconds. in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >>> believe it or not, we're eight days from the midterms. and jason johnson is here. we have a saying where we take a turn, we are turning for some of the saddest stories of the week to what is now just inside a week away a giant midterm election. i have a lot to get to. but first, your look of the land right here, what's going to happen? >> this map is getting bigger and bigger for the democrats. i think as much as we pay a lot of attention to florida or georgia where a lot of the celebrities are, i think one of the things that's overlooked a lot is ohio. ohio might get a democratic governor and michigan might get a democratic governor and wisconsin. these governor races a

joining me this morning, the mayor of pittsburgh and jonathan greenblatt. a campaign filled with rhetoric from missouri -- >> this whole campaign has been a big scare tactic. >> to florida -- >> i'm not calling this racist. i'm simply saying the racists believe he's a racist. >> to a former president. >> that is not spin. that is not exaggeration. that is lying. >> nine days before the election, house campaign chairman steve stylers and his democratic counterpart ben ray louhan. our analysts are kristen welker, erick erickson, amy walter, and joshua johnson, host of one-on-one npr. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press". >>> good sunday morning. as our colleague journalists wrote on twitter yesterday, the worst anti-semitic attack in u.s. history took place today, day as of the largest attempted assassination of u.s. leaders in history. it's a deeply unsettling assessment that has the advantage of being accurate. this after a week of violence and terror. on friday a florida man cesar sayoc was arrested for sending as many as 14 pipe bombs to critics of pr

the adl league ceo, jonathan greenblatt, is joining us right now. nathan, thanks so much for joining us. how devastating is this attack for you, for the entire jewish community? how are people in the jewish community dealing with this? >> well, i'll be honest, wolf, i think the events of yesterday in pittsburgh are nothing less than soul-breaking. i mean, all of our hearts are torn apart. the idea of elderly parishioners being slaughtered in the pews and in the halls of a synagogue on shabbat morning, it is hard to think of something more sacrilegious. and you imagine that in that synagogue, on that day, there were families who were worshiping, others who were celebrating a bris, right? the baby-naming ceremony for their child. my mean, i, myself learned about this when i was walking out of my synagogue. and it's just absolutely wrenching. and our hearts, our prayers, our thoughts are with the community in pittsburgh, because we are all pittsburgh tonight. >> i know that the adl has been incidents in the united states for decades, for at least 40 yea

. >> joining us now, jonathan greenblatt. jonathan, welcome back. that's a weird thing to say at a time like this. we spoke earlier today. help us understand for people in the jewish community, to ali's point, we often think this is something that jews have not had to face for decades but that's not the case. it is a reality and two days ago we were reminded of just how real it is. >> that's right. i mean, i think anti-semitism is a prevalent part of the human condition of thousands of years. there's a reason why it's called the oldest hatred. jews lived as a minority in various countries around the world literally for 2,500 years. here in the united states, it's fair to say that the jewish community lives with tremendous privilege. it wasn't always this way. when the adl was founded, it was au around the time of leo frank lynched in the south. he was found guilty and what amounted to a sham trial of killing a young girl. when the governor intervened in that landmark case and clearly not due process, commuted the sentence from the death penalty to l

jonathan greenblatt, ceo of the anti-defamation lead, tom freeman, and david frum. tom, let me start with you. what is the big takeaway from these two events, particularly the last one as i said, the synagogue, which just strikes me as a terrible sign, some kind of a canary in a coal mine. >> thanks for having me. for me, it goes back to a column i wrote a week before the election. i quoted one of my teachers who said, we're living in an age of moral arousal. moral arousal is a good thing, when it's racism and anti-semitism and abuse by men to women in the workplace. but when there's no governor on this moral arousal, it can lapse into moral outrage. then you find yourself in a huge storm. that's where we really are today. where does all this moral arousal come from? we live in the age now of social networks where anyone who is morally aroused can have a mega phone and express that to the world. we saw that the people were using these platforms, what these platforms also do is give comfort to racists and bigoted people. bigoted people have never had it more comforta

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joining me now is the ceo of the anti-defamation league, jonathan greenblatt.nk you for being with me. a powerful, devastating sentiment. how devastating is this for you? >> this is, as you mentioned at the top, this is the most lethal and violent attack on the jewish community in america in the history of this country. >> just stop for a second on that. that is profound and profoundly sad. it is sa and brooke, it will be more sad tomorrow as the stories of the victims come out. and what i've heard already is heartbreaking. and i think first and foremost our thoughts need to go out to the families and the victims who went into a synagogue to worship, who went into a synagogue to pray, and there was a bris taking place. >> there was a bris? go ahead and explain what a bris is. >> when a boy baby is born, a male baby, eight days into its life it's brought to the synagogue for a service where the baby gets its name. at this moment of hope, suddenly there was this act of horror where a man ran into the synagogue with automatic weapons and murdered in cold blood 11

joining me is nicole hammer who researches hate crimes and jonathan greenblatt. nicole, you wrote yesterday that the seeds of pittsburgh were sewn in charlottesville. can you just explain what you meant by that? >> sure. so one of the things that was so dominant in charlottesville was and symbols and those things s - kind of dropped away from the analysis of what happened in charlottesville shortly thereafter. but i think what pittsburgh shows us is how important and how central anti-semitism is to white supremacy, especially this new type of white supremacy we're seeing in america today. >> jonathan, i wonder if you agree with that. about the impact of charlottesville as we're showing some of the video of that, you know, tiki torch march by young white men mostly chanting jews will not replace us, chanting blood and soil which former nazi slogan. has this become more normalized under -- in the last two years? >> it's deeply worrysome. the fact of the matter is nicole is right. that rally in charlottesville which was about preserving confederate statues degenerat

jonathan greenblatt was the antidefamation league noticed a rise of 57% last year, compared to 2016, that's the biggest since 1979 pnt tho. those incidents occurred mostly in 2016 for the first time in years. >> we see people bringing a tox it sity in -- tox is sity. >> reporter: they show more than one in 5 crimes were prompted by hatred or bias. more were against jewish. >> there's so much hate speech right now, that we -- so much tribalism, so little coming together, that we need to focus on that. >> the adl also just released a report that found social media harassment targeting jewish americans has increased around the midterm elections and two-thirds of those online attacks were from people were not bots. meg oliver, cbs news, new york. >>> the florida man accused of sending packages containing pipe bombs to prominent democrats and other critics of president trump is said to make his first court appearance in florida today. he faces five federal charges and more than 50 years in prison if convicted. he was arrested saturday after they identified him through fingerprint and dna

. >> reporter: jonathan greenblatt with the anti-defamation league noted a 57% increase in anti- semiticidents nationwide last year compared to 2016. that's the biggest spike since 1979. those incidents occurred in every state in 2017, for the first time in seven years. what changed? >> i think our polarized environment. we see people-- you know-- bringing a kind of toxicity into the political conversations we've just never seen before. >> reporter: f.b.i. stats show in 2016 more than one-in-five hate crimes were prompted by religious bias. out of those 1538 offenses, more than half were anti-jewish. that's far more than hate crimes targeting muslims, catholics, or any other religious group. >> there's just so much hate speech right now. that we-- so much tribalism, so little coming together-- that we need to focus on that. >> reporter: the a.d.l. also hest released a report that showed social media harassment targeting jewish americans has increased around the midterm elections. and jeff, two thirds of those online attacks were from people, not bots. >> glor: meg oliver, thanks very muc

jonathan greenblatt is here. he's the ceo and national director of the anti-defamation league. and jeffrey herf, history professor at the university of maryland. he's also the author of "the jewish enemy: nazi propaganda during world war ii and the holocaust." gentlemen, thank you so much. and just my condolences. i'm not sure if you know people there, but it's just an awful, awful day and it's been an awful weekend. so thank you so much for doing this. i'm going to start with you, jonathan, because your organization, the anti-def-nation league is reporting that anti-semitic incidents were up 57% in the united states in 2017. you write that it's alarming but not surprising. talk to me about that. >> it's not alarming. it's incredibly alarming. but not surprising. because we've seen an increase in anti-semitism over the past 18 to 24 months np 2016 after almost a 15-year decline we saw a spike of anti-semitic incidents of 34% weighted toward the second half of the year. and then of course last year that 57% spike, the single largest surge. the adl has seen after 40 years of trac

jonathan greenblatt/ ceo, anti-defamation league:"that's the single largest surge we've ever seen sinced tracking this data." nothing is sacred, not human life or places of worship or even where the dead are buried. in omaha, nebraska, a veterans memorial scarred with a swastika. in indiana, a synagogue desecrated. in sacramento, california, flyers targeting jewish students on campus. "it screams of the same type of graphics and the same type of design that the nazi's used." this is in potter's county, pennsylvania, just a few months ago. nats "this is my country." "this is also my country"."you guys didn't win the culture war... get the fááá out of here, fáááing now." and no one can forget the torch bearing men in charlottesville, virginia spewing their hate-filled rhetoric.natsot:"jews will not all this, the a-d-l and those who track hate, say there is no doubt political rhetoric is in part to blame. that rhetoric can be subtle or in your face, like us representative steve king for example, re-tweeting messages from a known nazi sympathizer and claiming ignorance.rep. steve king, (r)

discusses a nation on edge with the ceo and national director of the antidefamation league, jonathan greenblatt. >>> and some other headlines this morning, the suspect charged with mailing more than a dozen of pipe bombs with critics of president trump is set to appear in court for the first time tomorrow. 56-year-old cesar sayoc is charged with five federal crimes after leading authorities on a nationwide manhunt. investigators say they were able to catch him after finding a fingerprint on one of the packages, as well as spelling mistakes on the suspect's social media that matched the packages he is charged with sending. >>> the boston red sox are one game away from a world series title after they rallied to score four runs in the ninth inning last night against the los angeles dodgers. the red sox bounced back following a crushing loss in the longest game in world series history. now hold a 3-1 series lead. game five is tonight in l.a. where the red sox can close it out. >>> and there were two big winners in last night's $750 million powerball drawing. if you live in new york or iowa, check y

let's turn to former homeland security secretary jay johnson and anti-defamation league ceo jonathan greenblattt me sta with you, mr. greenblatt. you said this is likely the deadliest attack on a jewish community in american history. yet, anti-semitic rhetoric and attacks have been on the rise. put this in context, and how shocked were you by this? >> i was horrified and everyone in my organization, the country was horrified by what happened yesterday. in some ways we weren't necessarily surprised. at the adl we're on the front lines of fighting hate for over 100 years and tracking anti-semitic incidents for four decades. what i can tell you is in 2016 we saw a 34% increase in acts of harassment, vandalism, violence against the jewish community. last year a 57% increase, the single largest surge that we've ever seen in anti-semitic acts in the united states. this event that happened yesterday, this terrible tragedy -- and our hearts break, they break for the families and the victims and the community. let me tell, you, we should not look away when anti-semitism is on the rise. we need to act. >

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going to speak to the former homeland secretary jay johnson and the anti-defamation league ceo jonathan greenblattus the powerhouse roundtable will discuss the president's response. that's coming up later on "this week." >>> to the other major federal investigation, the suspect accused of sending pipe bombs to former presidents and democratic politicians will make his first appearance in court tomorrow. >> we're seeing exclusive images of cesar sayoc. abc's kenneth moton is on the story. >> reporter: overnight abc news obtained exclusive images of package bomb suspect cesar sayoc during his alleged campaign of terror. he was a door host at this gentleman's club seen here over the one-week period the fbi said he was mailing explosive devices to high profile democrats across the country. >> we will not tolerate such lawlessness, especially not political violence. >> reporter: early friday morning, the day fbi agents took him down, sayoc was in the club, a place he's worked for two months, paging through a notebook for an hour. new this morning law enforcement sources say it appears his white van was

we had a conversation yesterday with adam greenblatt of the anti-defamation league who was saying that there are six more -- jonathan. did he say six or nine white nationalists running for office under the republican flag in this election. >> i'm not sure why republicans don't say, nope, i don't want to associate myself with this. doesn't make any sense. >> we don't do that. republicans i know who are friends are not nationalists, they would like smaller taxes, smaller government. some of the things i agree with them on. not racist. >> when the president calls himself a nationalist and say, oh ali, that's not a dog whistle. >> not today. >> in today's day and age you are not sharing it in a bubble and if you are the president, the honor of the oval aufofficeo better. no dog whistles. >> they lead to very dangerous places. >>> the treasury predicts to issue more than 1 trillion $in debt this year making sense because the deficit is running up and in one year's time the federal government nearly tripled the amount of debt that it's racking up. a former fed chair says it only gets worse. we'll break that down for your