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Days. Yeah, susan and i on saturday were driving up to New Hampshire to go spend some time with her mom and listening to the news radio the whole time up there. And both of us just weeping the whole time that were driving. And we arrived and its like, boy, its really great to be with family and really great to see you all, but you do it with this hole in your heart knowing youre appreciating it all the more because of the loss that youre having those feelings about. Another day in the mass murder history of america. Thanks my friend. Welcome back. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society was established in society was established in 1881 50 blocks from her, on the Lower East Side of manhattan. This photo shows immigrants arriving at ellis island in 1951 under the guidance of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, hias. And after 137 years of Service First to jewish immigrants and then to refugees from around the World Without regard to their religious affiliation a 46yearold man from western pennsylvania decided it was time to stop hias in its tracks. His last social media posting says hias likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I cant sit by and watch my people get slaughtered, screw, your optics im going in. So he went in. He didnt kill the baby boy who was there. He didnt kill the boys parents. He killed 11 other people in the synagogue, all jews, and he shot and wounded four Police Forces before he surrendered. He was there to stop an invasion, an invasion that the president of the United States has been yelling about at political rallies and lying about. What the president and our latest mass murderer call an invasion is group of possibly 5,000 refugees walking in the direction of the most heavily armed military power in the history of the world. They are walking together for their mutual safety, many of the children in that march are barefoot. Many of the women are mothers walking with their children or carrying their children. Many are fathers. Donald trump wants you to be afraid of every one of those people. Donald trump wants you to believe that those people are capable of mounting an invasion against the most mightily defended country in the history of the world. And it worked. It worked with a 46yearold man living alone in western pennsylvania, in that part of pennsylvania that president ial candidate barack obama in 2008 described this way. The jobs have been gone thou for 25 years and nothings replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration and the bush administration. And each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And its not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who arent like them or antiimmigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. Barack obama was condemned by republicans for saying that. Condemned for years for saying that. And on saturday a man who fit that description entered a synagogue clinging to his guns, filled with antiimmigrant sentiment and decided to stop what the president of the United States now calls an invasion by murdering 97yearold rose mellinger. Melvin wax was 88 years old. He was leaving the synagogue when he was murdered. Bernice simon and her husband sylvan were 84 and 86 years old. They died together on saturday at the hands of gunman who was trying to stop an invasion. Joyce was 75 years old. She prayed at the synagogue every day. She said her last prayer on saturday. Daniel stein was 71. He was killed in the same room where his grandsons brisk was held earlier this year. A friend said, quote, he was a guy when you walked in he was the first person you would meet and would help you find a seat. Jerry was 66 years old, he was a doctor. He ran toward the sound of the gunfire to try and help the wounded. He lost his life trying to save life. Richard gottfried was 65 years old. He was a dentist who was generous about serving patients who didnt have dental insurance. He and his wife had just celebrated their anniversary and were planning to retire. Two brothers were murdered. A member of the synagogue said, quote, they were like the ambassadors because they were always there and they will always be there in our hearts. There was also a married couple who were in the in the synagogue who were killed. They died together. They all had to die. They all had to die because they were supporting an invasion. Thats what their murderer believed. Thats why he killed them. He put it in writing. Many of president trumps allies have been telling that mass murderer and everyone else in the country that jews are funding the long walk of the refugees in Central America and that the president and the mass murderer call that an invasion. Fox news, which is owned and operated by an australian immigrant to this country has been relentlessly pushing that invasion rhetoric and pushing that into the head of the mass murderer. Funding what they call the invasion. Theyre not randomly choosing george soros to take the blame for all the evils of the world. George soros is jewish. And everyone who hates george soros knows he is jewish. George soros was the first to receive a pipe bomb in the mail from the rabid trump supporter who is now charged with federal crimes for threatening and mailing explosive devices to democrats and critics of donald trump. And after the news broke a bomb being sent to george soros by the Republican Party launched a Television Ad attacking george soros, calling him a radical who finances democratic campaigns. And yes, george soros does contribute to democratic campaigns. Some of us remember a country where you could do that and not expect a pipe bomb in the mail. Donald trumps first reaction to our latest mass murder was, of course, to blame the victims. This is 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. Maybe there would have been nobody killed except for him, frankly. Nobody killed, if they just had one armed guard. Thats all they needed. So it must be the rabbis fault that there was no armed guard. The president says the armed guard who was not expecting a mass murderer could have stopped the mass murderer. But he doesnt explain why when dozens of Police Officers rushed to the scene knowing there was an active shooter, four of those prepared and ready Police Officers still got shot. And none of the Police Forces who responded were able to kill the murderer. Donald trumps supporters believe the fantasy. They must. It is impossible to support donald trump without fantasy. The fantasy of the one armed guard, the fantasy of the invasion, the invasion of a synagogue by a mass murderer on saturday was a reaction to the lies that donald trump and fox news and republicans have been telling about what they call the invasion approaching our southern border. Adam in the atlantic writes, the apparent spark for the worst antisemitic massacre in American History was a racist hoax inflamed by a u. S. President seeking to help his party win a midterm election. There is no political gesture, no Public Statement and no alteration in rhetoric or behavior that will change this fact. The shooter might have found a different reason to act on a different day, but he chose to act on saturday. And he apparently chose to act in response to a political fiction that the president himself chose to spread and that his followers chose to amplify. So whos next . Who will be the next mass murderer who types on social media, im going in, before he goes in to murder everyone in sight because he believes a lie told by the president of the United States . Who will be next . We dont know, but we do know that americas next mass murderer just like saturdays mass murderer will be the best equipped mass murderer he can be because donald trump and republicans in Congress Make sure that american mass murderers are the best equipped mass murderers in the world. They follow the orders of the National Rifle association to make sure there are no more restrictions on the weapons of mass murderer that are available overthecounter in the United States, that there are no more restrictions on the size of ammunition magazines that you can attach to those weapons of mass murder. They make sure that there are no magazine there are no background checks at gun shows. They make sure there are no more restrictions on the purchase of ammunition including the amounts of ammunition. They make sure. They will always make sure that when a mass murderer comes into your synagogue or your church or your Movie Theater or your Shopping Mall or your kindergarten that that mass murderer will have the very best killing equipment in the world. And those republicans who make sure that those mass murderers are so well equipped will continue to say things like this. Whats it going to take to stop these killings from happening over and over and over again . You know, i think if we had a good answer to that i think everybody in the country would support it. If anybody knows the answer, i think certainly this administration would be all ears. Donald trump and the republicans have no idea how to stop what happened on saturday. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers who was in the synagogue and was able to protect some of his congrugnts from the mas murderer but lives with the regret and the pain that he was not able to protect them all has this suggestion for donald trump and the republicans who have nothing to say about how to stop this. It starts with speech. Words of hate are unwelcome in pittsburgh. We will have local reaction from pittsburgh to the tragedy of the tree of life and Donald Trumps visit to pittsburgh tomorrow. And they were six people wounded in the shooting at the synagogue. They join the thousands and thousands of gunshot wound survivors of american mass murderers. A new cover story in new York Magazine tells what it is like to be shot by a mass murderer and survive. Anthony borger shows his wounds on the cover of a magazine. He saved lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in parkland, florida, when he barricaded the door of a classroom and was shot in the back. Anthony borger says i was in the hospital for like two months. I wasnt bored. The pain wouldnt let me get distracted. It was all over my body, not just where id been shot. Imagined that someone stabbed you with a knife and wouldnt take it out, would just push it in. Michael avenon will join us with what he learned from the surviving members of mass murderers. And offering a hebrew prayer for the dead whose lives were taken by the mass murderer who invaded his synagogue. Today. Back pain cant win. Now introducing aleve back and muscle pain. Only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. Aleve back muscle. All day strong. All day long. 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I said i was standing under the wing of air force one doing a News Conference early this morning, a very unfortunate News Conference. And the wind was blowing and it rain, and i was soaking wet. And thats what i ended up with today. And i said, well, at least you know its mine. I said maybe i should cancel this arrangement because i have a bad hair day. 11 dead, four wounded. Hes worried about the bad hair day. Thats what hes talking about to his followers. Joining our discussion now david frum, Senior Editor for the atlantic, jennifer ruben, and John Heilemann National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and executive producer for show times the circus. David, i do not presume to guide this discussion. I just want you to as we would share with us the feelings that you have about this tonight. I would stress one thing beyond the politics. The wouldbe mail bomber tried to kill people and hurt nobody. The shooter went in to kill, killed making a bomb is hard, firing a gun is pretty easy. And if you have enough bullets even if youre a bad shot killing is pretty easy. If people had to use instruments, were always going to have deranged people and unfortunately were always going to have irresponsible politicians. Jennifer ruben, your feelings tonight. Its a mixture of deep, deep sadness and hope. And the reason i have hope is because donald trump is such a inadequate president , such a small, empty man, we tend to lose track of the fact that hes not the face of america. In pittsburgh in those clips that you were showing there was an enormous gathering of interfaith leaders. In my synagogue in Northern Virginia 250 people showed up on a sunday night, representatives of the Muslim Community showed up as well. America is not donald trump. He is reflective of a narrow group of people, including crazies who will act upon his suggestion. But he is not reflective of america at large. What i see, however, is an utter abdication of responsibility, of conscience by republicans who could at any time cut him off, rebuke him. But they dont, they choose not. And that makes them enablers, makes them complicit, makes them also morally responsible for his actions and his words. John heilemann . Well, so much has been said. To your thing about the bad hair, to me a lot of his behavior beyond obviously not doing all the things that we expect president s to do, the notion he didnt call the obamas when it came to pipe bomber, it feeds into the pittsburgh thing, which is all of it is these are acts of hate, acts of Political Violence carried out in one realm, one set of his critics and one set against a bunch of innocent jewishamericans in a synagogue. And in all of them he basically wants to convey in some sense, none of this really matters to me very much. Theres no gravity here. He puts out official statements that condemns the atrocities and then goes on. He has the rally. He doesnt go down for a day like any other president would or two days or three days. That would have been a debate for the bush house or obama house, how many days do we come off the trail . Theres absolutely no previous president ial candidate or president who would continue campaigning as he did on the day of a mass murder. Senior officials that night said there was a text thread between previous obama officials, bush officials and clinton officials all talking about what would have happened if this had been their white house and all of them would have scrambled into the work and first question would have been we shut him down. And how long do we shut him down, and the president doesnt express the grace but he wants to send a message it seems to me to the people who perpetrate these acts, its okay with me. Because if it was really serious he would not be kind out of there winking at them in the way he does with the thing about the hair. Kind of sloughing it all off and conveying it as a signal which is not an explicit plus an implicit kind of tolerance with it and its all good with me. So the hair point was his signaling to them dont worry, nothing important happened to us on that day. On his point on what other president s would have done, the president lied on saturday when he said that the reason he wasnt going to interpret his schedule is that the stock market opened the day after 9 11. That is lie. The stock market was closed for several days after 9 11. But here he is continuing his political campaigning on the very same day and lying about the reason. Thats such a bizarre lie. I mean, we were there the young people werent but those of us who were, the planes were grounded. We couldnt get into new york. And donald trump maybe he doesnt care about human values, but i thought he cared about stocks and bonds. He would know the stock market was closed. And jennifer ruben, again to this point, no other president would ever have gone out onto a campaign trail after a mass murder like this. And not only did he go out on the trail, he attacked the people who were sent bombs. He reiterated the caravan lie. He essentially spat on the graves of people because he was communicating to the rest of the country it doesnt matter if i perpetrate hate, in fact ill do it again and i dont give a darn whether someone acts upon it or not because not my fault. There is no human being i know of, let alone a politician who would do that. Its not, i think, as john correctly says that hes merely without feeling. We know that. And i think johns right in pointing out that its also a way of committing of saying hes not really affected by it all. But its also another thing. Its also the winkwink, and the nodnod to the people who commit heinous acts that they have not acted outside the bounds of civilized society, that he does not have a single bad thing to say about white nationalists. He does not there are very fine people who march in charlottesville. He does not express any anger at them, any deep emotion. He is giving them license, and that is part of the message that is going out as well. Jennifer ruben, david frum, John Heilemann, thank you joining us in this very difficult discussion tonight. We will go live to pittsburgh for local reaction to Donald Trumps visit tomorrow. And later, extraordinary cover story in new York Magazine showing what it is like to survive a mass murder after being shot with photographs by michael avenon. Here is one of those photographs. William thomas. He was shot and paralyzed at age 18 in 2004. And he said i remember laying on the ground trying to figure out why i cant get up. 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Shortly after that the white house ignored the mayor and announced the president will go to pittsburgh tomorrow before the tree of life synagogue buries their dead. Joining our discussion now erica straussberger where the tree of life synagogue is located. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. Im very sorry for your loss and the communitys loss and were having this discussion under these circumstances. What is your reaction to the president ignoring the mayors request that he wait until the dead could be buried before coming to pittsburgh . Well, thank you for your condolences and thank you for having me. My first and only responsibility is to my constituents. And frankly i have heard loud and clear both by email and by phone from my constituents today and yesterday asking that i do Everything Possible to keep the president from coming to pittsburgh while we are burying our dead. And i have to look out for them. And at the same time i understand while that will add to the trauma of a lot of people that ultimately it comes down to the wishes of the families and of the leaders of the three congregations of tree of life. I dont know exactly where they feel on this but i do know where my constituents stand on this. What do you think needs to happen in your Community Going forward . Well, right now were grieving. Between now and the end of the week we are going to be attending funerals, and we need to be there for each other. We need to take action in ways that are comfortable and that heal. Then we can start to think about action that we can take at the local, state and hopefully federal levels to make sure that we eradicate hate speech by leaders that allow perpetrators of hate crimes to feel emboldened and any other action thats necessary that we are able to accomplish. We need to come together eventually for real action. The White House Press secretary said today that she and no one else at the white house could think of anything that could stop what happened on saturday. Well, i can think of a lot of different things. For a start, we need leaders in this country to lead with love and compassion. I know it sounds cheesy in this day and age in our society, but thats what needs to happen. In fact, tomorrow at the City Council Meeting i will be taking a pledge to eradicate hate from my words and actions, and we need other leers to do the same. If we cant look to the president to do that, lets look to other elected leaders to do that. So thats a start. We can all take action ourselves to do that. And next, you know, sensible gun control. I know that were not talking about that yet at the local level, on the national level, but its far pastime that we actually make some action here at least in the state of pennsylvania similar to what other states have done after terrible tragedies like this. Those are two things that i can think of. The Pittsburgh City Council Member Erika Straussburger thank you very much for your time and joining us. Thank you. And when we come back the new York Magazine cover story on what it is like to be shot by a mass murderer but survive. What it means physically, emotionally. And one of the stories you will hear and see in that magazine photographic story is ashley biaz who was shot in the thigh at age 15 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and she said at the beach i cant wear my leg wrap. People look at me. Its kind of like this happened to me, you cant do anything about it, but you can stare all you want. My ancestrydna results revealed parts of me i didnt even know. I find out im 19 native american specifically from the chihuahua people. What . thats i find that crazy. It traces their journey from the mid1800s from central mexico to texas. Learning about the risks they took for a better life it gives me so much respect and gratitude. 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Brother jeff, as a fellow united methodist, i call upon you to repent. He did not repent. That was pastor will green who was one of two pastors removed from that room by police when they tried to bring religion into that room to jeff sessions. Joining us now is john meacham, president ial historian and an msnbc contributor. And john, i would just like to get your reaction of what weve been through since saturday through tonight. Well, were in one of the darker periods of a dark era, unquestionably. My own view is that to some extent we need to put the presidency in a kind of cultural timeout, if we possibly can, to the extent to which we can. The president has no interest of moral leadership. We are in an era where the climate is so toxic and so sulfurous that i worry as do you, as do so many people that we are at the beginning of something and not the end of something. And so i think and i think explanations like that somehow or another this is about antirelijiosity it is about antiamerican, its about antisemitism, its about hate. But to suggest that somehow or another theres hostility to religion in the Public Square and thats leading to these acts of violence seems to be a beneath comment really. I want to listen to what some of donald trump had to say on saturday after after the massacre at the synagogue and show how it didnt change anything about his Campaign Style and his individual targeting of people, the kind of individual targeting that has im going to tone it down just a little bit. Is that okay . I had a feeling you might say that. Now, i did a tiny bit of research and mikes opponent Brandon Kelly is a vote for nancy pelosi and of course maxine waters. They would say he is the greatest conservative of alltime, but because his name is donald trump you have have haters and they continue to hate. These are foolish and very stupid people. Very stupid people. John meacham, it was impossible to detect a whiff of grief in donald trump after that. Were in a this in honor of bill sapphire, heres an illiterative run for you. Were in an odd position where were faced with a president who is bound up in narcissism, nationalism and nationalist. Take that spiro, he would have loved that. And i think its a remarkable almost sociopathic lack of empathy. We dont need more evidence, but it is a manifestation of the fact the president sees this as role as a reality show and not as reality itself. And do you find as we were discussing earlier in this hour that when the president continues with that appearance and continues in his normal mood with his followers, that he is in some way conveying to them that nothing important to them happened in pittsburgh that day . Thats a very interesting point. Yes, i fear so. If the president does not pause to take note of moments of crisis and moments of grief in the life of the nation, then he does have an extraordinary number of followers who will take their cue from him. And that in fact what unfolded is something to be commented on quickly and in a proforma way. And then you get back to attacking the folks who who were against whom an assassination attempt was launched last week. And i try not to be reflexively anti either side you. You do try to let reason and let a historical sensibility actually decide to what extent is this a stylistic problem, to what extent is it a substantive problem. But were exactly at a point and have been for a while where the style and the substance are one. The american presidency from the very first moments when George Washington said as the first of everything i know that everything i do will become a precedent and i want those precedents to be founded on true principles. John adams when he was Vice President noted the president was the object of all eyes and the subject of all conversation. This has been true for a long time. And the way in which you comport yourself in these moments matters enormously. And so one of the things we know is that the presidency has not changed donald trump. What we dont yet know is has donald trump changed the presidency permanently . What is unquestionable is that he has coarsened the culture of the moment. John meacham, in my struggle for perspective yesterday and today i knew i wanted to talk to you tonight. Really appreciate it. Thanks, lawrence. And when we come back that new York Magazine cover story on what it is like to be shot by a mass murderer and survive. The story includes Sherry Zelsdorf injured at age 33. A 12 year old student brought a handgun to school. She said the shooter was my student. I came back to work on the 14th of february, on the same day of the shooting in florida. 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I must warn you some of the photographs are difficult to look at. Rome shubert was 16 when he was shot at his high school in texas. He said there were two girls sitting by the back door of the classroom and they said, lets go now and i had no idea where he was. I had no idea that i had even been shot yet. Outside i started running. Theres a brick wall anywhere from seven to nine feet tall and a gate that you could climb up, but there were people crowding it so i decided im going to get over this wall, and in an allinone motion i got up and over the wall. Somebody was running past me and i asked them real quick, whose blood is this, and they said its yours, its yours, you have a bullet hole in your neck. I couldnt believe it because how am i running, how am i talking . Colin goddard was shot at Virginia Tech university in 2007. He says, there were 17 people in that room with me. Im one of seven alive today. Eventually i was able to play sports again and return to my same physical state which helped my mental state. However, ten years later im dealing with lead poisoning. My mom forwarded me an article about lead levels in gunshot victims saying, you ever get tested . I was never told to. Sure enough, i had significantly elevated levels of lead in my blood. Joining us is the photographer and new York Magazine contributor michael avadon whose photographs appear in the magazine. Michael, this is just a stunning story. As soon as i saw the photographs and saw these stories, i was wondering since you visited all of these people, what was the most surprising part of your experience talking to these people . I think, lawrence, the most surprising component was how brave and resilient these survivors have been. It really gave me incredible hope and courage myself. Theyve and these are intimate photographs. Theres one man who is naked. How was it difficult as a photographer to get their cooperation for these photographs . Every subject was different, but i think we really talked before the sitting began. I really asked them about their stories, how theyve dealt with this tragedy and how theyve come out the other end and what theyre doing now to cope with it, and also contribute to the discussion about how we can address this problem. This is unlike any other photographic work that i know you have done, you have been doing all sorts of things, but nothing like this. No. What made you take this assignment . Well, this is the first major assignment ive done that had any kind of topical presence, and i have always wanted to contribute to the perseverance of our society in the best of ways in some form with my work. So it really was the first time ive ever explored this type of tragedy, and it was by far the most harrowing photographic experience of my career and my life. What did you find about their spirits and about being in their company . They really are my heroes. They had such kindness, they had such hope, and theyve suffered an unimaginable ways, but they have come out the other end with such dignity. That really was moving, the dignity that i experienced. You know, it is obvious theyre still dealing with this every day from post Traumatic Stress to selfprosecuting at times, feeling insecure about being in society, but a lot of them have just been so brave. It really shows you how resilient the human spirit can be. When people hear the name avedon on a photography spread, they think of richard avedon, who we should tell the audience was your grandfather. Yes. And your name, Michael Patrick avedon, includes a reference to your other grandfather, Daniel Patrick moynihan. I knew them both. Michael, they would be so proud of you for this work. I really appreciate you coming in tonight. Thank you. It was such an honor. 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