Of several jewish grandchildren. His daughter is a Jewish American and his soninlaw is a descendant of holocaust survivors. Tomorrow, the president and first lady will travel toll pennsylvania to express the support of the American People and grieve with the pittsburgh communit community. Well, just minutes later, sanders defended the president against accusations that hes enflaming anger and Division Within the nation as it faces the death of 11 members of the synagogue. Plus, a man accused of a racially charged double murder in kentucky and a suspect accused of sending more than a dozen mail bombs to critics of President Trump. Here was sanders, moments ago. And then this morning, suggesting that the news media is responsible for the anger in the country. How does he do that, when, in the case of the pipe bomber, this was somebody who went to trump rallies, this is somebody who had a van covered with attacks on the media and praise for the president. The shooter in pittsburgh is somebody who was provoked, it seems, by the caravan that the president has spent so much time talking about. Why is he out there, when youre saying hes trying to unite the country, why is he out there making attacks . The very first thick that the president did was condemn the attacks, both in pittsburgh and in the pipe bombs. The very first thing the media did was blame the president and make him responsible for these ridiculous acts. That is outrageous, that that would be the very first reaction of so many people across this country. Im not finished. The only person responsible for carrying out either of these heinous acts were the individuals who carried them out. Its not the president , no more than it was Bernie Sanders fault for the individual who shot up a baseball field of congressional republicans. You cant start putting the responsibility of individuals on anybody but the individual who carries out the crime. But why is the president suggesting its the news media . The president is the one placing blame here. No, the president is not placing blame. The president is not responsible for these akcts. Again, the very first action that the president did was condemn these heinous acts. S the very first thing that the media did was condemn the president and go after him and try to place blame, not just on the president , but everybody that works in this administration. The Major News Networks first Public Statement was to blame the president and myself included. I mean, that is outrageous that anybody other than the individual who carried out the crime would hold that responsibility. Well, were going to delve deeper into the politics and the hate crimes, as well, over the next hour. I want to begin with exactly what happened here in pittsburgh at the tree of life synagogue. Federal prosecutors are now seeking approval to pursue the Death Penalty for the suspect, who shot and killed 11 people in the synagogue saturday and wounded 6 others, including 4 police officers. I want to go to cnns jean casarez. She is outside the federal courthouse where the suspect had his first appearance this afternoon. He arrived in a wheelchair. Jean, explain what happened. Reporter well, i was in that courtroom and we already know the date of the next hearing. It will be on thursday, the preliminary hearing at 10 00. The defense actually waived any issue of bail today, so this defendant remains in federal custody at this hour. But he was wheeled in to this federal courtroom. He did not walk in. He had civilian clothes on. I saw his face very, very clear in this relatively small courtroom when he was wheeled in, he was appearing to be extremely aware, very calm, very collected. I didnt see outwardly any nerves at all or any anxiety. And then once he sat between his two assistant public defenders, they actually took the handcuffs off of him, so he could sign paperwork. He consulted with his attorney and then signed the paperwork. The handcuffs were put back on him and thats when the proceeding actually got started. The magistrate judge looked and spoke directly to him and asked him, first of all, if he was the defendant, saying his name. And he said, yes, i am. And it was a very loud, booming, confident voice. And then he was asked if he had received a copy of the complaint. He said, yes, sir, in answer to that. The judge actually listed the charges. He asked if there should be a full reading of the complaint. The defense said, no, your honor, we waive that, as well as we waive you saying in court the possible penalties in all of this. I noticed on his right side, right leg, right foot, white. And i think it was a bandage. He was obviously wheeled in, in the wheelchair. But the proceeding did not last very long at all. He announced that he financially the judge asked him if he signed financial forms saying he could not afford an attorney, he said, yes, i did. And the judge said, well, then one will be appointed for you. It will be from the public defenders office, not necessarily the attorneys in court today. But with that, it was over and on to the next preliminary hearing. And i should say, if the defense doesnt waive it, because this is a full evidentiary hearing, where you put evidence on to see if theres probable cause that this case proceeds to trial. That would be on thursday, anderson . So the next that would be the next time that he would be in court, thursday . Yes, that is correct. All right. Jean casarez, thanks very much. I want to go back to the white house, to the white house response, in particular, to this tragedy. Our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta, was in the briefing room. I wondered what you made of Sarah Sanders responses, jim . Reporter well, wianderson, you heard, the press secretary did say that the president and the first lady will be heading to pittsburgh tomorrow to remember the victims of the tree of life synagogue massacre. But then it got pretty contentious, as you saw, in that briefing. Members of the press, including myself, were trying to press sarah on some of the president s rhetoric, which the white house doesnt want to take any responsibility for. Theyre obviously pushing back on the notion that the president s rhetoric has anything to do with any of these violent acts weve seen over the last week. At one point, Sarah Sanders said that we and the press were blaming the president for these acts, which i dont think is the case. I suppose there might be some individuals out there who are blaming the president directly for these attacks. But i think what has been said, by cnn and other news outlets, is that the president s rhetoric has created this climate where these sorts of things can occur and that the president doesnt recognize the power of his own words on occasion. As we saw earlier this morning, anderson, the president was tweeting that the fake news is the enemy of the people, as he likes to put it. And soy asked sarah about that, noting that even former members of the administration, theres one particular former member of the administration, david lapin, who used to work under chief of staff john kelly, department of homeland security, said that the press is not enemy of the people, and heres how the exchange went. Youre not going to state for the record, then i mean, if the president is going to say the Fake News Media are the enemy of the people. And if youre going to stand there and continue to say that there are some journalists, some news outlets in this country that meet that characterization, shouldnt you have the guts, sarah, to state which outlets, which journalists are the enemy of the people . I think its irresponsible of a News Organization like yours to blame responsibility of a pipe bomb that was not sent by the president , not just blame the president , but blame members of his administration, for those heinous acts. I think that is outrageous and i think its irresponsible. Aeshnderson, we went back an forth there for a couple of more minutes and Sarah Sanders just did not want to name individual outlets. She went on she said that there were individual journalists, i suppose, that the president refers to as the enemy of the people, but we did not get a straight answer out of this white house as to which News Organizations they deem to be enemies of the American People. And i asked whether or not sarah and the president and others here in this administration should reserve that kind of language for true enemies of the American People. And she just offered no regrets, no apologies. And my guess, anderson, is that were going to continue to see this kind of rhetoric going forward. Anderson . Yeah. I should point out, a third pipe bomb mailed to cnn was intercepted. Just stunning. Jim acosta, appreciate your reporting. I want to go back to brooke. Brooke . Anderson, well take it. Thank you. Cup next, the man accused of sending those pipe bombs to 14 critics of President Trump goes to court, just after another of suspicious package was intercepted. This one addressed to the cnn center in atlanta. Find out what were learning about the suspects disturbing past on social media. Hi im joan lunden. 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And hes been digging into this suspects troubling social media past. And what did you dig up . So it was interesting that you mentioned when we were coming to this, that they have 100 people whom he targeted. We were looking through all of his tweets and we found more 230 separate threats that he sent on his twitter account alone, at people. So, you know, looking through 4,000 of th 4,000 of this mans tweets, we were able to see how he was just taken in by so many of these farright conspiracy theories. Theres this sort of this usual stuff that we see on the right, believing obamas a muslim, theres the fake pizzagate conspiracy. But he also sort of bought into many of these antimedia conspiracy theories. He thought cnn had faked polls, faked live shots, was funded by obama. He really believed all sorts of very, very farright crazy things. This is the guy, when we were all covering this sitting here on friday that the news was breaking, that they found him in his van down there in florida, that he was standing there at a trump rally in 2017 with a sign that was critical of cnn, right . Thats absolutely right, he had that sign critical of cnn. And so when were looking through this, too, its very interesting, because you see sometimes his rhetoric sort of following the president s. We know that he was, you know, a trump superfan, went to rallies, went to the inauguration. But at times, when sending Death Threats at cnn, he actually used the same rhetoric as the president , calling cnn the enemy of america. Using the president s own words. Mmhmm. So frightening, all of which, at least investigators have this treasuretrove of evidence and ramblings online to use, to use against him, presumably. Andrew kaczynski, thank you so much for looking in all of that for us. We also of course, are following another attack, seemingly fueled by hate. In the state of kentucky, a white man is accused of killing two africanamericans last week at a grocery store. This is near louisville. Police say just moments before the shooting, the suspect was seen on Surveillance Video trying to open the door and get into this predominantly black church down the road. Thank goodness he couldnt. Moments after shooting in this grocery store, the 51yearold suspect exchanged gunfire with a, with someone in the parking lot, an Armed Civilian in the parking lot. No one was injured during that shootout and a the suspect was arrested a short time later. The Common Thread in the kentucky murders, the mail bombs, the pittsburgh synagogue shooting, is that in hindsight, the warning signs always seem to be there. The suspects have either a lengthy arrest record or a history of posting racist as we were just chatting, posting racist or extremist threats, sometimes both. So why are these attacks so hard to stop before they happen . Well discuss that, next. For your heart. Omethig or joints. But do you take something for your brain. With an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in Clinical Trials to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Captured lightning in a bottle. Over 260 years later as the nations leader in Energy Storage were ensuring americans have the energy they need, whenever they need it nextera energy. We will take you back to pittsburgh and our coverage of the tree of life synagogue with anderson here in just a second. And also, we should mention, the white house where President Trump and the first lady are planning to visit tomorrow. But people are questioning the nations Divisive Political discourse and if its directly fueling the violence and hate we are seeing across this country. Extreme rhetoric about immigrant caravans, contentious Midterm Election that is just eight days away. Lets delve into this whole conversation, too, about the role of social media. Oliver darcy is our cnn business reporter, and laurie segall, our cnn business Senior Technology correspondent. So laurie, just starting with you, really simply, you know, to my understanding, part of the reason why this is happening, we were just talking to Andrew Kaczynski about the ramblings online is social media. Tell me more about that. Sure. I think theyve struggled on getting on top of content. Ive just spent the last month out in the barrier in San Francisco having these hard conversations with these leaders. And they cant seem to find this fine line. Theres a lot of nuance here. And you know, i think regulation is coming down the pipeline, but a lot of these social Media Companies have forever been uncomfortable with being, you know, the role taking the role of editor. And i think youre seeing this play out. They havent moved quickly enough. And then theres the problem that as they move, a lot of the evil, a lot of this stuff is going to other platforms, where theres less moderation, like gab. And youre seeing a lot of the issues. One thing ill say thats really stuck with me, about a year ago, i interviewed someone who studies the internet and the state of social media. And he said, im worried that our world is beginning to resemble a chat room. That hate is moving offline. And look north than last week with the Police Sirens and people screaming, move back. And you hear that hate moving offline. We heard it here personally. In my time covering tech, i dont think its ever been so bad. I think this is a very challenging time for Tech Companies if their role and a lot of this hateful rhetoric and a lot of misinformation thats feeding it and going viral, making our world begin to resemble a chat room at its worst. Sam, what do you think . I worked in tech and i know how important it is for these platforms to be neutral platforms and not to become the arbitrators of whats good and bad. In a digital age, when theres instantaneous content amplification, i think many Tech Companies are thinking about what inciting violence, which is a crime, means in the digital age, but hateful propaganda existed well before social media. In the holocaust, 600 million jews were killed without a single tweet. Which your father survived. He did. And we often talk about the characteristics of hateful propaganda during that time. So to counter hateful extremism of any kind, you have to go to the source. Social media is a vehicle just like Media Outlets of any kind are. And to really fundamentally address it, we have to go into the communities and the schools and start spreading real information. So part of the conversation is, of course, whats happening online. The other part is whats happening on tv. Like a segment earl