limits of had it is executive power are tested. certainly the added layer of a racially motivated crime. a hate crime in the word of the jacksonville official, certainly length itself to the president s frustration on this issue. the president back at the white house now. certainly learning more about this incident as more details come out. and i suspect we ll hear from the president on this in short order, if not tonight, in the coming days. kevin, thank you very much. back with us, isabel rosales. you have new information or some new reaction from the governor of florida. i ve been texting with his press secretary. i asked specifically if he plans to divert campaigning for president of the united states and he said we will let you know. he did share with me a video statement from the governor who
it should never happen. it should never happen. i think, i think we have a great country with great people who care about one another. and there are outliers. there are outliers in just about everything. these people take the opportunity to, you know, write their story or whatever they decide to do, and do these horrible things. it s not acceptable. i don t think that s the way the world believes. it there are problems all over the place. i don t think the world believes that way. i don t think this country believes that way and i know our city doesn t believe that way. i ve been down to jacksonville lots of times. it is a terrific community. i m so very sorry that your community is going through this right now. sheriff t.k. waters, we really appreciate your time. thank you very much. if you can, as best you can, keep us posted on how this investigation develops. thank you. i appreciate it. thank you for your time.
is condemning what happened, sending his couldndolences to t victims and the community of jacksonville and calling the shooter in this case, a scum bag. watch. i was able to speak with sheriff t.k. waters in jacksonville about the horrific shooting that took place. this shooting based on the manifesto that they discovered from the scum bag that did this was racially motivated. he was targeting people based on their race. that is totally unacceptable. this guy killed himself, rather than face the music and accept responsibility for his actions. so he took coward s way out. but we condemn what happened in the strongest possible terms. we ve offered support for sheriff waters and the city of jacksonville and we send our condolences to the victims and their families who are the victim of a very cowardly act.
three people were killed before the gunman turned the gun on himself. he is described as a white man in his early 20s. adding the swastikas on the guns, the shooting is being investigated as a hate crime. joining us now, tennessee state representative justin jones. he was expelled and reinstated from the state house for his outspoken protests in favor of gun reform laws in the wake of that mass shooting at a private school in nashville. representative jones, thank you very much for joining us. i know we ll talk about your efforts to get gun reform in the state of tennessee. unfortunately, and this is not really a surprise, i suppose. we re learning about another mass shooting, this time in florida. it is in jacksonville. you heard the horrific details that we re all learning about. what is your sporns? what is your response? i ve heard my republican colleagues tell us, there is no issue of gun violence. to be honest, i m frustrated.
it is just chilling that today is the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. this water shed moment that was for the fight for equal rights and also the fifth anniversary to the date of a mass shooting that happened in jacksonville. today, we re seeing and hearing from a black sheriff, sheriff t.k. waters, describing these manifestos that were found per the shooter that has not been identify. several manifestos intended to go to his parents, to the media and the sheriff s agency. can sheriff said it included the n word multiple times. he said the writing made it very clear it was racially motivated. plus the victims, three of them, were all black. he calls the shooter a maniac, that he targeted a certain group of people, black people. no surprise that the fbi has opened a hate crime investigation, and is investigating this as a hate