the president will condemn, quote, the terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation. we are told the president will call on americans to, quote, give hate no safe harbor and to reject the lies of racial animus that radicalize and divide us. he will also call for federal legislation to keep guns from the mentally ill. this morning, we are getting new details about the suspect in buffalo, the investigation and new copycat threats against that city. this cell phone video taken by an eyewitness at the moment the suspected shooter was taken into custody. new evidence shows he spent several months carefully planning the attack. he was here. we found some things that show that he was here in early march. and then again, we know that he was here on friday, basically, doing reconnaissance on the area. the suspect had also considered attacking churches or elementary schools. according to his own social media posts but he hesitated beca
and divide us. he will also call for federal legislation to keep guns from the mentally ill. there is cell phone video the moment the suspect was taken in by police. he spent months carefully planning it s attack. he was here. he was here in early march. then again, we know he was here on friday basically doing reconnaissance on the area. a manager at tops, the store where this attack took place, tells the news, he was was actually seen the day before the attack. he was wearing the asame tacticl jum jumpsuit. he was told to leave because he looked like he was bothering customers. and we ll have more on the disturbing details in a moment as well as how he was easily able to purchase a firearm, including the one he used to gun down ten people, despite the fact he d been given a mental health evaluation less than a year ago. cnn has obtained a photo of two of the rifles that the shooter brought with him to the scene in buffalo. and writing appears all over then, including a
all right. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, may 17th. i m john berman, brianna is off this morning. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with us. thank you, thank you. and where you normally are, the white house, we have live pictures of the white house. very shortly, president biden will gadepart for buffalo to me the families of the mass shooting there. the president will give us a preview of what the president will say, he will condemn, quote, the terrorism motivated by the hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation and to give no sage harbor to recreate the lies of racial animus that radicalize