Community while we support our Muslim Community. As we support our christian community. Thats what pittsburgh is about. This is a welcoming city. This is the city, if this shooter believed that what he would do would somehow take away our strength in our diversity, he is completely and was completely wrong. Our responsibility is to provide comfort for the community and healing and support. For the people who suffered losses, and for the community as a whole because i feel we all jewish and nonjewish have suffered a loss here. I want to get you up to speed about what we know about the suspect. He was charged with 29 counts including using a firearm to commit murder. He will appear in court tomorrow. The raid happened after fbi agents interviewed him at the hospital where he remains. Squirrel hill, a suburban neighborhood, once home to mr. Rogers is reckonning of what was unimaginable. The youngest on that list, 54. The oldest, 97. That list includes a husband and wife and two brothers. Joining me from pittsburgh is matt bradley. He has the latest out of this city. Hes been stationed outside the hospital. Whats the latest youre hearing about those victims who have been hospitalized. Reporter we have been talking to a lot of these victims. The relatives and family members but as you mentioned four of those people who survived were at the hospital behind me. This is the university of Pittsburgh Medical Center and those four victims are with standing a lot of very profound trauma wounds. Two of them are Police Officers. One of them is in his 70s and doctors say he will have the hardest recovery and that could take several months. I spoke with the doctor who is in charge of trauma here at the university of pittsburgh and he told us about how the victims will be recovering. He said this will be a very difficult recovery for all four of these patients and most of them have sustained multiple gunshot wounds. That 70 somethingyearold he had multiple gunshot wounds to his abdomen. That will be a very long recovery. Because the Police Officers who were shot received gunshot wounds to their extremities. Its much easier if youre a younger man than an elderly person. Theres going to be a lot of attention on that recovery for the next several month, maybe even years. Weve been talk to family members of the victims killed and this just a body blow. A lot of the people say they dont think they will be able to recover. People who grew up there, dont move that far from home. Its such a tight knit community. What ive been learning about the victims is theres a strong strain of Public Service among all of them. Many of this continued to volunteer, helping out disabled people, helping out refugees. Those disadvantaged well into their later years. One thing that really stood out among all of these 11 victim s a deep and abiding faith in judaism even as they entered later years in life. Thank you very much. Local and National Faith leaders are grieving following the synagogue shooting. Pope francis expressed his closeness and called the deadly attack an inhuman act of violence. Joining me is director of religious action center. Nice to speak with you. Youre based in washington, d. C. Talk about your decision to come up here. The reasons for doing it and what youve done over the last few hours. As you just read the names of those who we lost and as rewe reflect on those injured, nose of us who represent the national denomination, i represent the largest, the reform jewish movement. Felt it was important to show up and be present. I just came from the university of pittsburgh where i spent the afternoon with the students there. They are grieving and afraid because this is a time not only of the suffering of the losses but a fear in the Jewish Community. Talk a bit about solidarity. What that means in the context of what happened. You came from that ceremony at the university of pittsburgh. What do people say about what needs to happen here in. This is an unprecedented moment of solidarity. Solidarity among the American Jewish community. Solidarity with people of all faiths. You just mentioned the pope. We heard from Muslim Americans and muslims across the world. We heard from our Christian Brothers and sisters. We are all truly coming together. One should note this wasnt just an act of terror. It was directed at a synagogue that had been working with a very important Refugee Settlement Agency and the perpetrator named he didnt like the synagogue was supporting this group of migrants, Asylum Seekers because he said it threatened some sort of general si genocide. Youre hear having this conversation. What would you add vievise the International Conversation needs to be. Very important. The scripture that was read tells the story of abraham and sarah who sat in their tent with the flaps open at all sides so they could welcome the stranger. Our synagogues cant become bunkers. The whole point is that sin goings are suppo synagogues are supported to be houses of the people. We need to be communities and nations of welcome. We need to worry about the widow and stranger and orphan. We need to worry about all those suffering. We need to show solidarity and protect the jewish communities everywhere and come together, all of humanity to reclaim the soul of our nation. In will be dwhothose who wile a new vulnerability. Your response to that. Is that a vital, vibrant conversation . We need to have the conversation about how to protect the safety and security of all of our folks just as we did after the parkland shooting and School Shootings and now we see shootings in churches. Synagogues are places that are supposed to be places of refuge and welcoming. We have to balance the need to protect those and defend those who come to find comfort and those who have the open doors of welcome. The climate and rhetoric of degrading other humans that would give rise to such acts of violence and terror. Has that conversation been happening . What affect do you think this will have on the conversation . Were having the conversation. We need to elected leaders to make it clear. Remember, its only been 14 months since neonazi thugs marked through charlottesville chanting jews will not replace us. In that story, that morning there were three white nationalists, neo nazis standing outside the synagogue with rifles. Ill ask you how youre processing all of this. You dont live in this community. Youre visiting this community. Hearing about the history of the community. How are you processing what happened here yesterday . These are my friends. The rabbis of this community. Im the father of four daughters. I have to make the same decisions that my friends and neighbors are making about whether its safe to bring them to subside school. Its painful because were mourning the loss and the people who gave their lives and were mourning the loss of the innocence that its safety to go to our synagogues and be fully jewish and american. Is there a pessimism. Are you optimistic that change will be good. How do you feel about that . My grandma came here at 16 years old to escape the brutal violence. She came here as a 16yearold with nothing because she believed in america. I believe in this country and i believe that we will come together and we will overcome this. Thank you very mump fch for time. I appreciate it. Coming up, the president s reaction to yesterdays synagogue attack. The latest from the white house, next. Attack the latest from the white house, next my ancestrydna results revealed that im 19 native american specifically from the chihuahua people. 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When you have crimes like this, whether its this one or another one or another group, we have to bring back the Death Penalty. They have to pay the ultimate price. That was President Trump reacting to the massacre of 11 vimgs victims at the tree of synagogue. During a maga rally last night the commander in chief doubling down on how suspect should be dealt with. The jews have endured terrible persecution. Those seeking their destruction, we will seek their destruction. Joining us now is jeff benne bennett. He covers the white house. Let me get a sense of the evolution of President Trumps commentary beginning with a tweet. Reporter even beyond this. I think we have seen the president employ a particular strategy this week thats been marked by political violence. The first thing he does is he condemns the act. Usually when reading and then he tries to create distance between himself and the perpetrator of said act and in the case of this heinous ooact in pittsburgh, he going a step further. Hes screaming the resulting policy conversation on his terms. Yesterday when hef was asked if the shooting asked a need to revisit the gun laws, the president said no. That has little to do with it. He then pivoted to something entirely different saying the nation should look at its laws surrounding the Death Penalty. He brought that up on his own. Take a look at what he had to say about that issue and the suspected pittsburgh gunman. He was no supporter of nine. His antisemitic tweets, people have seen them. Very antisemitic man. His thought process is sick. We have to bring back the Death Penalty for people like this. Reporter in the same comment the president said he was no supporter and said we have to bring back the Death Penalty. Its an entirely separate debate about whether the Death Penalty is an effective deterrent especially for deranged people. Allies of the president are rejecting any link between his harsh political rhetoric and a rise in violence in the u. S. In a week where we wea avowed trump supporter sent pipe bombs and after this unspeakable act theres people of good conscious who say it isnt enough that what the president says after a tragedy. Thats not what matters. Its the environment created by the totality of his rhetoric that matters most. My colleague jeff bennett. Thank you very much. I want to turn to jeremy peters. Hes an msnbc contributor and reporter for the new york times. Jeremy, let me start with you. Picking up on what jeff and i were talking about. The seeming unease with which President Trump is approaching this. There were so many changes to his tone over the course of the last 24 hours. Thats right. The afternoon when he kind of pulled it together and read from that scripted speech condemning antisemitism and the mass murder that took place yesterday. By the end ofrt nig the night h retweeting a conservative commentator who was reporting conspiracy theories about the bomber in florida. This inability the president has to express empathy and show the solid, steady leadership that people have come to expect from their president s in situations like this. I dont think people really expect that from President Trump any more. Theres been enough of these tragedies since hes been president that we know the play book from which he operates. I know his supporters dont expect it nor do they want it. The rally that you were showing clips from yesterday, jeff bennett and i were both there and one of the most striking things is when President Trump turned to the crowd and said id like to tone it down a little bit. Id like to ask your permission to tone it down on this solemn occasion. The crowd responded with a resounding no. They didnt want him to do that. They pleaded with him not to. When he said he thought about cancelling the speech out of respect for the victims, again, people cried out from the crowd, no. Were glad youre here. Thank you for coming. The kind of normal behavior we have come to expect from president s in times like this is not something that i think people want to see out of this president. At least among his hardest core supporters. It strikes me what were talk about is the feed back loop the president is looking for. Not only did he retweet, he weighed in on the world series. Its about context. Its about realizing, i suppose, the magnitude of whats happened in the context of so much else. I think thats exactly right. We have been talking since President Trump was running in 2016 that the Republican Party was increasingly becoming the party of trump and the party of very little else other than the party of trump. We see that in his rhetoric. In their midterm strategy where they are focusing on the base voters and pushing to the wayside middle of the road voters. Not going to the areas that voted for Hillary Clinton or that only voted for donald trump. The strategy is about appealing to these people who love President Trump no matter what he does or says. What im looking for and thinking about whether or not this rhetoric will affect the midterms is the president s Approval Rating moving forward. We have seen time and again dips after things like charlottes which i will like he failed to be this national healer. People may not be looking to him for that but the country as a whole, theres some people who will be voting on november 6th who are still looking for that. I would look to whether or not President Trumps approval dips below 40. Theres a big difference between 35 approval which was in the range after charlottesville and a 45 approval which is almost close to the 46 of people who voted for him in 2016. Jeremy, youre so good looking at republicans and theres been for the last two years, a group within the Republican Party thats been hoping for change. Optimistic this president will be perhaps more president ial. He will do less of the bombast and more of the traditional governance. Are those folks giving up on him at this point. We have ten more of these rallies on the schedule. No indication that in light of what happened yesterday, in light of the week we had, he intends to change any of his Campaign Strategy heading into the midterms. I wouldnt expect him to change it at in the point andic what Republican Leaders have gotten good at is looking the other way about this kind of behavior. Condemning it with words and tweets but out of the other side of their mouth saying the policies are good. We like the judges. We like the economy. Look at the stock market. Regulations. Its a list they revert to. They can name five or so things, policy wise, that President Trump has done so they dont have to talk about his personal conduct. Lets look ahead to the midterm elections. What can we expect in terms of how this changes the tone. Maybe not at the top. The tone from the president as jeremy mentioned wont change. Well see the situation where the president will say at the beginning, im being nice or toning this down and he will Say Something later like attacking Hillary Clinton and Maxine Waters by name after they received bombs or turning to the Fake News Media and harping on us in way he knows is not the right thing to do in this moment but is politically savvy for himself and his base and the Republican Party moving forward. I think it will be a lot harder for House Republican candidates to explain away the president s rhetoric at a time were seeing so much violence in the span of 72 hours alone. Thank you very much. My thanks to jeremy peters. Mark, i want to get your read on this cultural moment. Give us a sense of where things are in terms of cultural Political Climate in this country. As always, you and your colleagues set out to do something and things tend to change as the week wears on. What changes this week . I dont know if we can understand a week like this. Words are inadd kwequate. We dont have a crime where worshippers are murdered as they are worshipping in their houses of religion. Were trying to lower the heat. The circus this week went to georgia and florida and were really exploring issues of race in the south and where we are today compared to where we were and in the middle of that discovery and exploration, we had the bombings and the murders. There was already we already had a racial overlay and things were looking at. Part of what we see is that we have a culture today in america where grievances sort of encouraged. If you have a gree vooievancgri want to blame somebody its okay. Those are Big Questions we have to figure out as a society and culture. It is a time when the president has to step up. Thats what we need president s to do. This is a time when we need that elevation. We need kind of an electronic blanket to throw over the entire country to absorb this grief. Were looking to the president to see what he does and take the right steps and hopefully hell do that more so. The plroblem is when you campain on division, you govern