We love our country. Most importantly, we love each other. And i will tell you, there is a lot of prayer in this state. So youre going see all of us try to lift these nine families up in prayer because they need us. And emotional governor nicky haley spoke yesterday as officials announced the suspect in wednesday night ace Fatal Shooting in charleston, South Carolina had been captured. The nine victims are being remembered from coast to coast today. Prayer vigils were held across cities ashgs cross the country club chicago, Denver Portland and more than a dozen lawmakers gathered on the capital lawnol lawn. Its almost impossible to imagine the tragedy. Good morning to morning joe. Were live in washington and we have New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters white house correspond for American Urban Radio Networks april ryan Pulitzer Prize winning communist and editor of the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst, Eugene Robinson and president and south korea of the askman institute, w
School. Was he in trouble at all in high school . I mean just kind of like i dont think he ever got in big trouble but im sure hes been to the Principal Office for aktd acting out or Something Like that. I never had a class with him so i dont know. And tell me now, have you talked to your friends . Have you had a chance to communicate with others who was with this man who is now accused in public of a heinous crime . I had to hear you on the tv to hear you better. But no. Have you talked to other classmates . No i havent talked to anybody. I just i just stayed off social media today because my friends phone has been constantly being blown up by reporters today so i havent had a chance to talk to my High School Friends that associated with him as well. Did he have any friends in charleston . I mean lexington is what, two hours from charleston . Did he have any reason to be in this area as far as you know . I dont even know why he was down there, honestly. I guess he just decided to go t
Victims. I was pray for them and i was since the night before. A devastated Community Comes together and a memorial has been set up outside of the church and around the country churches Held Services with a sign of solidarity with charleston. Nbc chris join us from outside of the em manual church with some breaking news and details, chris . Reporter yes, not only are the police confirming that the suspect has confessed, but craig melvin is saying that his sources are telling him that dylann roof almost did not go through it with but because everybody was so nice to him. This was not a surprise to anyone thats been to the church. I have talked to many members of the church for the last 36 hours or so. We know that everyone was welcomed. Dylann roof was invited to sit next to the pastor and so welcoming was the church. Now he is back here and he is going make the First Court Appearance today at a bail hearing. He was brought back here less than 24 hours after he left the city devastated.
At that church behind me the mother immanuel ame church a church with great racial history. Weep for what happened here last night. Deeply troubled sociopath this dillon roof just inculcating himself with the worshipers at that bible study, pretending to be interested in what they were learning there in that say credit place after 45 or 50 minutes takes out the 45 caliber weapon, we think his father gave him for his 21st birthday and unleashes this awful violence, taking the lives of nine wonderful people how do we know this he allowed some to survive despite the fact as he fired his weapon killing them, shooting them time and time again he spared a couple of people because he wanted them to carry his sick racist message that the reason he was perpetrating this awful violence was because black people were raping white people and taking over our country. Where that cancerous idea grew in this young man i have no idea. But i do know that the community of charleston is united in its revul
Victims and survivors. If theres any legally doubt he said along with my brother. I am sorry for the lives that i have taken. Led federal courage zshau otoole says whenever your name is mentioned, what will be remembered is the evil you did. What will be when you murdered and maimed injury people. Spoke, spoke with quite a bit of an september and spoke quietly and slowly from the defense tampa bay. A lot of people to parse this through with beginning with National Correspondent debra jaric and saw him with his own ideas ideas and how he spawneded and appeared and he wlook looked a when he was arresting the court. One thing we do know it didnt sway the judge or any of the survivors or their families who were in that court listening intently to he was saying. He appeared wearing a dark suit gray button shirt, heavy accent of russian and arabic which is interesting because his wrestling friends said he didnt have an accent in high school. He did not look to some of the jurors who were the