what do you say to your critics that believe that your rhetoric is emboldening white nationalists and inspiring this anger? so my critics are political people. they re trying to make points. in many cases, they re running for president and they re very low in the polls. a couple of them in particular very low in the polls. i think my rhetoric it brings people together. as the president met along with the victims in dayton, ohio and in el paso, texas, demonstrators in both cities made clear they viewed trump as part of the problem. actually, trump made the point for them. on a day meant for mourning, the president spent much of his time airing political grievances and taking cheap shots at his political enemies. in between dayton and el paso, for example, trump tweeted watching sleepy joe biden making a speech. so boring. our country will do poorly with him. he wishes. it certainly wasn t sleepy joe we saw today. trump readily, eagerly attacks islamic terrorism, but
in their custody. now the victims, more than 20 it s going to shake up not only people are wounded and 22 your community, congresswoman. specifically being treated at it will shake up the country and local hospitals and 11 at one our viewers around the world who are watching right now are going hospital and 11 at another to continue to ask what is going on and then they will ask the hospital. an official at the el paso next question, what can be done mayor s office saying there are to stop this? multiple fatalities, multiple because as you correctly point out we ve gone through too many fatalities. the exact number of people of these horrendous mass killed is still not known or at least has not yet been released shootings in our country in recent years. publicly. here is what we re hearing among other things from eyewitnesses. wolf, we have the solution. they are right in front of us, i was in a sports store and a what we need is the will to act little kid runs in there a
floating the idea of tieing gun reform to immigration bill but backs off talk of gun reform when he goes before cameras at the white house after so many deaths will washington act this time? and climate of fear. in a rare public statement, provoked by the mass shooting. president obama calls on americans to reject, and i m quoting now, language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments. he doesn t name names. but will president trump see it as a personal attack? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we re following multiple breaking developments in the investigations of the mass shootings in el paso, texas, and dayton, ohio. as well as the political fallout right here in washington. the combined death toll now, 31. nine in dayton, 22 in el paso. where two victims died in the hospital today. el paso police tell cnn the suspect has been cold in h
firing killing nine people including his own sister. [ sound of gunfire ] oh [ bleep ]. [ sound of gunfire ] dude, what the [ bleep ]? what the [ bleep ]? [ sound of gunfire ] police are still looking for a motive. but an initial search of his family s home they found writings that show he had an interest in killing people. we have live coverage from both scenes of the deadly shootings. tonight federal authorities are calling the deadly mass shooting in el paso a case of domestic terrorism. ed, good evening to you. you have been on the scene all day in el paso. what more are you learning about the victims? well, tonight has been a night of vigils across the city and we started hearing the first names of the victims in this shooting. one of the ones we learned about is 86-year-old angie engelsby. she was mother of the two people desperately looking for her. they went nearly 30 hours without knowing exactly what happened to her. her family tells me tonight that she is o
was wearing body armor. the ohio shooting following another shooting in texas, at a walmart supercenter in el paso. police are working through the night. the governor of texas says the el paso shooting will be prosecuted as a hate crime. first, to el paso, texas, where morgan is standing by. bring us up to speed. good morning. an active scene here in el paso, where this took place. the shooting was in this walmart, about 50 yards behind me. that s where police say the man began making his way inside that building, shooting people row-by-row. we heard from cashier who said, it sounded like someone was dropping large boxes inside the building, only to realize her worst nightmare was coming true. we heard various stories of that, as people realized what was happening inside the store. on the other hand, there were people that had nowhere to go. with school coming up next week here in texas. instead, they had to take cover wherever they could, as the gunman made its way thr