we ll tell you where that legislation stands right now. a key component of russia s propaganda machine is at risk as bloggers embedded with russian troops are fed up with the repeated failures and are now voicing concern. good morning. welcome to with the morn mornin it is monday, may 16th. we start with the very latest on that deadly shooting in buffalo over the weekend. the white house says the president and the first lady will visit the city tomorrow to, quote, grieve with the community. speak at the national peace officers memorial service in washington yesterday, president biden addressed what the department of justice is investigating as an act of racially motivated domestic extremism. a lone gunman, armed with weapons of war and hate-filled soul, shot and killed ten innocent people in cold blood. we must all work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of america. our hearts are heavy once again, but our resolve must never, ever waiver. w
with a crime. in social media posts made before saturday s attack, which were reviewed by the washington post, the suspect reportedly explained how he used census data to zero in on a neighborhood with a high percentage of black residents. of the 13 people shot, police say, 11 were black. the gun he reportedly used, a legally purchased semiautomatic that was modified with his father s power drill and a kit he purchased separately. according to the new york times, it also had racial slurs written all over it in marker. we are also learning more this morning about the manifesto allegedly written by the suspect, which laid out the plans for his attack. the pdf which was posted on google doc just two days before the shooting has been reviewed by nbc news. in it are dozens of pages of
called a pedophile by her republican opponent, responded on twitter. in part, quote, anyone claiming to legitimately care about children should stop using rhetoric that will get people killed. boy, that s everything we re talking about this morning. rhetoric that you see on twitter, that you see on even some media and social media sites, and it s rhetoric that is just flying around. mallory, it s good to have you here with us. thanks for having me. appreciate your coming from your hometown, leaving your 15-month-old. this is where we are now. you ve become, in a sense, a voice against this. where do you see this going, and why is it so difficult, do you think, for democrats to to find a voice to push back against this rhetoric? it is terrifying to see. i tweeted this response a few days ago, and we ve seen the result of a horrific shooting,
mainstream. again, house republican leaders not only are using this in ads, but the silence is deafening. no one is criticizing tv hosts that are people on social media that are talking about great replacement theory. they aren t doing it. i mean, yeah, the highest ranking republican is, like, tweeting out her prayers in support for the very people who were killed by a theory that she was promoting on social media. yeah, joe. i want to make this clear, this was not a lone wolf. you can just take it from him. he was trying to remain alive in this shooting, what he wrote in his manifesto. he thought he had a community on the internet that he needed to still issue things to after he
minds like that, it is saying there is nothing wrong with reading this manifesto. there is nothing wrong with having these feelings. they re not marginalized. i think we are beginning you and i are baptist in the best tradition. you reap what you sow. we have sowed these kind of hate seeds. they have allowed them to fester, and we ve legitimatized or normalized them. we should not be surprised. the only question is what are we going to do about it? are we going to aggressively fight it? are we going to show empathy where we ought to show aggressive resistance? yeah. gene robinson, you, too, were in charleston with us after the tragic church shooting. it seems an understatement to say that this conspiracy theory