thank you all so much for being here. president biden and the first lady are in puff low right now paying respects to the step people killed in the racist mass shooting at the tops supermarket. this hour they are meeting in private with the families of the victims. first responders as well as meeting with community leaders. the president will also be speaking publicly this afternoon where he s expected to call out the racism that he vowed to fight when he candidate, the racism we ve seen that is pervasive, that is motivating this shooting in buffalo. there are also new details coming out about the investigation and how long the suspected shooter was planning this attack. we re talking months. cnn has learned the suspect was considering attacking a church and an elementary school before deciding to target the market, and there s new vines video that is capturing the moment that the suspected shooter, can you see him right there in the camo, camo pants, the moment he was taken
families and how they have been affected and hearing about the children that lost a grandmother, an ankle, a cousin, it really grieves my heart and, again, the people who are here to protect us on that day did not protect us with the information that they had to make sure that we were safe. i mean, have you this documented posted in april on a social media platform and then called discord, and then have you that hate-filled rant posted later on 4chan. the fact that this was out there for months, we re hearing these details, you know, he s been possibly radicalized for months, maybe even a year as shimon says, do you see these as missed warning signs, councilman? i do, and i think that, again, we have to do a better job in protecting our citizens, and this was an opportunity to ensure that happened, and, again, we have families who are begrieved, we have ten families who have been deeply affected by this tragedy, and we missed this opportunity. you know, we have to look at
remember the charging documents, although they have begun of course with allen weisselberg and the trump organization, it has not named specific aside from that particular person. so the more people that talk about this issue and essentially confirm what the d a s office already said in an indictment, the worse is for them to say, yes, we knew about certain things and we knew it and it was okay. what the tax code clearly says, it s not. ryan, does it sound like former president trump is using this case as part of a perhaps a political comeback? you know, i think he would be he would find other cases and other things to be angry about and reasons to be egrieved, right? but he is clearly using this whole play book of, you know, pick your term, the deep state,
national media are going to choose somebody who has been a child molester of a 14-year-old girl over somebody who has been a career prosecutor who happens to be a democrat? i hope to god we are not in that place. but there was a recent pew poll that says that over 40% of each party view the other party as an active threat to democracy. so that is dangerous. there are republicans who have come out and withdrawn their endorsement. senator mike lee of utah, senator cassidy of louisiana. the national republican senatorial committee has ended its fund raising agreement with the moore campaign. but let s be frank. honestly, roy moore could absolutely still win. yeah, he could. and you know, this is we haven t mentioned steve bannon in this, but this is bannonism on trial. bannon is trying to create this sense of egrieved identity group
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