cities like charleston and pittsburgh and el paso and christchurch in new zealand that have been tragically been victimized by racist rampages and violent extremism fueled by racial hatred. the conversations across this country today do nothing for the families of the victims. they do not erase their pain or ease their horror of the loved ones violent deaths, but at least we have a quorum willing to acknowledge the problem. the ideology that fuels saturday s mass shooting no longer sits on the absolute fringes of our society. ten people were gunned down, three others injured at a supermarket by a shooter who traveled more than 200 miles to target a predominantly black neighborhood in buffalo, new york, a shooter who according to police this morning would have continued with his rampage if he had not been stopped and arrested by police. 11 of the 13 victims were black. the dead range in age from 32 years old to 86 years old. the shooter wrote a lengthy, in which he was inspir
tell us about that. you may have seen an interesting interaction over the weekend. this was not on my bingo card. i had a bit of a standoff on the air on msnbc with a gentleman dressed as paul revere who was preventing reporters from entering a rally rally between mccormick and barnett. sorry, mast ra know and barnett. it is difficult to talk about this with a straight face. i mean, it was a really bizarre scene. all the reporters were there. this was supposed to the big rally for moat of them. mastriano made headlines getting the trump endorsement. we were just being asked to let in and were prevented from doing that, again, by a gentleman dressed as paul revere. michael steele, my serious point is josh is on the ground, but our reporting shouldn t lose sight of the fact that anti-journalist, anti-press access, pro trump at that point,
ramos that he had a picture printed and put it at the front desk saying if he ever came around alert authorities. pete williams, our justice correspondent joining us from d.c. for more on the shooting at the capital gazette i m joined by the dean at the merrill college of journalism at the university of maryland. three of the victims killed had connections to the college. two graduated from there. another taught there. i m also joined by malcolm nance msnbc terrorism expert. he is out with a brand-new book the plot to destroy democracy. thanks to both of you for being here. lucy, let me start with you. this is not targeted in the way someone would think it might be, that it is an anti-journalist, you know, in general move. this suspect had a particular beef with this newspaper.