Aid from ukraine. What that means for the president s impeachment trial. But first the last weekend of 2019 ends in violence and bloodshed as people at worship are attacked in new york and texas, less than 24 hours apart, in what are being described as acts of pure evil and downright hate. In new york were following breaking news. They have filed hate charges against a man for stabbing five people that were at a hanukkah celebration inside a rabbis house. There were antisemitic statements inside the antisemitics home. I grabbed the coffee table on the floor, hit him in the face, and thats when he came back outside after me. He told me, hey, you, ill get you. And he started walking towards me, and i was going before him like a few feet screaming, hes coming, hes coming. Then in texas, a gunman opens fire at the west Freeway Church of christ, killing two parisioners as they prayed. However, police say it reallyul. A congregant who was carrying a gunshot the perpetrator just six seconds i
Knife. I dont know what it was. And thats when i started to run out through a side door, together with all the people in the dining room. I came back in, grabbed the coffee table that was on the floor, hit him in his faith, and thats when he came back outside after me. He told me, hey, yao, ill get you. Were covering both of these horrific attacks. Cnns Brynn Gingras is in muncie, new york, and lucy kafanov is outside the church just west of ft. Worth, texas. Lucy, walk us through exactly what happened during the shooting. Ryan, it happened so quickly, less than 24 hours ago, the gunman dressed in dark clothing walked into the church, he sat down in a back pew, he then gets up and appears to have an interaction with one of the Church Members before pulling out a long gun and opening fire. Two armed volunteers respond swiftly, taking him down. The whole thing captured on camera, because those services were live streamed. And i should warn our viewers, the footage is incredibly disturbin
But it can make jews feel that way. Brynn gingras is on the scene in new york. Officials offered details on some of these handwritten journals they found in the suspects home. What can you tell us about that . Its a bit of the evidence that investigators say they found not only in his home, but also in this suspects car. Hes in federal court on those hate crime charges. Let me give you more details about that evidence they uncovered. The journals, there were writings on them, had nazi symbols, writings about adolf hitler, according to investigators, there were internet searching they say they found in his home as recent as the 27th or 28th, rather which was the night before this attack took place. Some of those searches were German Jewish temples near me, for example. If you talk to his family who did give a News Conference not long ago. These are all the ramblings of someone with a mental illness, there was no antisemitism behind this attack. Investigators other than what was in this
Troops. How many more sparks can this powder keg take. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with the politics lead. It is official, secretary of state mike pompeo will meet with the president of ukraine this week in kiev. Arriving after the top diplomat there, bill taylor who testified in the impeachment inquiry was encouraged to leave his post. And as we learn new details about the white house efforts to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to ukraine to at least in part push ukraine to commence an investigation that might help President Trump political has admitted in emails obtained by the New York Times mulvaney asked about with holding the aid nearly a month before that now Infamous Trump ukraine conversation and only to be cautioned by one to say expect congress to become unhinged and a known meeting with top Security Officials trying to convince him to release the aid arguing it was in the best interest of the United States, ome only to be rebuffed b
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