nearby. and in the midst of this moral crisis of yet another wrenching national reckoning over just who we are and who we want to be, the leader of the political coalition that controls all of the federal government is continuing to stoke the fires of resentment, fear and hatred that led us to this moment. in miami today, caesar sayoc, the trump worshipping florida man who sent 14 bombs to the president s critics made his first court appearance. sources now telling nbc news sayoc had a list of over 100 potential targets. also in court today the man officials say shouted all jews must die. he was charged with 29 felony counts. the president insists that all of this is entirely unrelated to him. unrelated to his ceaseless demonization of his critics and perceived enemies, unrelated to his defense of the white strem cysts who chanted jews will not replace us in charlottesville,
and all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m i didn t say hayes. tonight the nation is in mourning and in the midst of a profound moral crisis. it is not the first time we found ourselves here during the presidency of one donald trump, but it feels like the worst. there is, of course, the body count. 11 people murdered in their sanctuary on saturday morning while celebrating at their synagogue in pittsburgh. gunned down, authorities say, by a man filled with anti-semitism, hatred, and the worst ideologies human beings have ever produced. those murders, coming just a day after the apprehension of a man authorities say was driven by his own obsessive hatred, to send improvised explosive devices to those who dare criticize the president, and that, coming just two days after a white man in kentucky stands accused of killing two black people in aiken ken grocery store in an apparent hate crime after he was unable to get into a predominantly black church
to follow msnbc contributor michelle goldberg, columnist the new york times, and staff writer of the atlantic latest headline, trump s caravan hysteria led to this. i want to pick up on something steve was saying before. you wrote this. the apparent spark for the anti-semitic spark was a racist hoax, inflamed by u.s. president seeking to help his party win a midterm election. no political gesture, no public statement and no alteration rhetoric behavior that will change this fact. what do you mean by that? i mean that this is written in stone. these people are gone. these people were killed because a crazy man believed what the president was saying, that there was an invasion at our southern border, you know, from thousands of people who are weeks away, who will probably the caravan will probably be much smaller by the time it gets here, if it gets here. and those people will either have an asylum claim and they ll be able to stay or they won t, and they ll be turned away. there