this atrocious attack. officials feared mushing a news conference minutes ago, motive clear. the evidence we have uncovered so far makes no mistake that this is an absolute racist hate crime, prosecuted as a hate crime, someone who has hate in their heart, soul, and mind. no mistake that this is the direction they are going in. a vigil today for the victims of the attack including the governor of new york, kathy hochul who served as the county clerk here in the county from 2007 to 2011. i talked one-on-one with her, years a bit about that. this was cold, it was calculated, it was cruel. it was designed to have mass casualties. there s a plan posted on social media platforms, and that is what angers me the most. that this information was out there. and we need to know because we can protect people before this happens again. i m gonna have that entire interview with the governor in a moment. this is by the way the deadliest mass shooting in the country this year, and bu
because of the politics of washington you, know it s difficult to get done. but hopefully this will be a tipping point from which we can do much better to protect communities like this. and the hate and racism? that drove this meant to do this? sure, it s all social media, and it needs to be tracked march more closely. eliminating hate speech, and that is what is occurring in the nation. this is just the most recent act of gun violence or multiple deaths and injuries occurred. so the whole thing is we can get aggressive of the new laws and existence. he was able to stream it on which. the fact that even got into minutes to streaming this massacre on the social media site congressman, thank you for coming down, appreciate it. live from buffalo we have talked about reports that the shooter was known to law enforcement. or gonna talk more about that
open an investigation and prosecute people who violate the law. so they have been pride plenty of proposals for very sensible domestic terrorism statutes, respecting first amendment rights. and i think it s time we had a serious conversation about it. barbara mcquade, thank you, as always. at the top of the hour i will be joined by buffalo mayor vibrant brown, and district attorney, john j flynn. we will talk about how the city is just funding, and should they face charges for terrorism and hate crimes. and also what this community needs. that is ahead at the pm eastern. and as we ve been saying one of the victims was a former police officer. today, president biden honored law enforcement who lost their lives in the line of duty last year, at an event in washington. when we come back, how he and administration are responding to the deadly shooting. u could say it s the steph curry of footlongs. you could, but i m not gonna.
the fact that the justice department currently investigating this, is going to treat this as a hate crime. that was prompted by white supremacy and that kind of virulent ideology the president saying we all must stand guard against that kind of hatred in our society. but we did not hear from president biden, yasmin, as he was standing at the u.s. capitol, was any kind of talk about a renewed push on gun control or some type of legislation that he might seek. or even really major executive actions that his administration might try to take to reduce the number of these kinds of incidents. which i think is an indication of the presidents acceptance, acknowledgment of the political reality that yes, his party controls washington right now. not only the white house but both chambers of commerce. but that has not opened the door in the past to being able to get serious change on gun policy in this country. the president not expecting that s going to change anytime soon, yasmin. that might
the fire. and then you get attacked for doing that. i think that is the same problem with the editor of the new york times and editor of the washington post. what do we do with these tweets? what do we do with the outrageous statements? if we spend too much time on it, we are playing into his hands. it s not changing. can we finally recognize that there is he is going to be doing this tomorrow and six weeks from now and seven weeks. the same way he did not change once he was it s not changing and let s figure out how we manage it. to nick s point, yes, he has control of washington for the most part, he does have 60 votes in the sfrat senate b in the senate and he still needs the country and needs to elevate that and i don t know if continuing to act like this is going to help him. i will say that is the one thing that they don t have. you know? donald trump would go in these sort of waves. he d be bad donnell for three or four weeks. his numbers would go down.