medical examiner s office. autopsies have begun on those. we are doing everything in our power to complete the process in a way that honors both civil and religious law and the cause and manner will be released to the media as they re determined. we have not established a time framework for this. we re only in the initial process of evaluating what will be required to do that. and finally, in talking with the familiies last night, they are n shock and grieving, as you can imagine. my colleagues and i join the authorities in asking for you to please be respectful of their needs for time and space as they deal with this tragedy. today and in the coming weeks, they will need to know that pittsburgh supports them and is lifting them up. thank you. hi. i m jeff finkelstein.
oval office and then they do the event afterward. your reaction to the way the president has approached this, margaret? canceling politics yesterday would have been the easiest thing for the president to do. but he didn t. you know, major league baseball was more solemn that he was at his rally, having a moment of silence and playing a very important game in a very civil way. the president paid lip service to what had happened, but while the rest of us were we were all jewish yesterday. he wasn t. he went about his business. and while he did express sympathy, he then proceeded to attack democrats. and it was so out of place. he s not unlike other presidents, i mean, i remember all of the times when you watched presidents, you know, hold back tears over incidents like this.
to express hatred through murder. reporter: that s the mayor of pittsburgh, pennsylvania just a short while ago responding to some of the comments we have heard from the president of the united states in the last 24 hours in the aftermath of the shooting that took place up the hill from the neighborhood i am standing here. a columnist for the daily beast, morgan, i want to get your perspective of what we have heard from the president. there is a tweet in the immediate aftermath indicating he was going to address it. he did at the tarmac at joint base andrews. spoke about it again. and then we got a fuller message from the president before a group of young farmers of america at a conference he was scheduled to attend. how different is this, the way he s approached this from the way we have seen presidents do in the past? as i go back to history, presidents have made exceptions to their schedule. maybe they addressed this in the
different locations inside the facility where we found deceased victims. do we know how he obtained his firearms, purchased them? i don t i personally don t have that information right now, but we re working closely with our atf partners and i think we have that. mr. mayor, may i ask you a question? yes. you re learning a lesson from this horrid tragedy. is it not time for political classes to get together and talk about getting the gun out of american society? i ve heard the president s comments of how we should arm guards in our synagogues. our churches, our mosques. i ve heard the conversation over the past year about how we should arm security guards in our schools. we re dealing with irrational behavior. there is no way that you can rationalize a person walking
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