but first we want to start with the breaking news out of buffalo new york. law enforcement sources say at least seven people have been killed in a mass shooting at supermarket tops. police say the shooter in the incident is in custody, into rifles have been recovered from the scene. including one with a racist term etched onto the weapon. police are investigating whether the suspect was motivated by white supremacist ideology, and may have livestreamed the incident. let s go now to my and msnbc, kylie richard louis with the latest information. yeah we are getting a lot of different occasions right now. this is common at this stage. we are about two and a half hours into this incident. in buffalo new york as you described we have a tops supermarket where this incident happened. and from what you described and what we are learning, yes the suspect from what we are hearing right now, walking and wearing a military style gear. we don t know whether that is pants, whether it s a
community, outside of the city, as the mayor said, coming into our community, and trying to inflict that evil upon us. i urge everyone to stay calm, and we are there to protect the citizens of erie county in buffalo, and we will be out there with the city police department patrolling. again, my condolences to the family s. and this person was pure evil. so, thank you. i m stephen belong to, special agent in charge of the fbi s buffalo field office. we stand here today confronted with feelings of anger, shock, confusion, fear in, and compassion and we feel motivated to help and believe the anguish of those who were killed and injured today and
going forward. i want to ask you, frank, about the one terrorism charge. i mean, listening to you talk, i m thinking back to the post 9/11 posture of when you see something, say something. talk about the terrorism charge for the shooter here. well, look, i applaud this d.a., just as i said i think this could have been handled better regarding the charming announce men, i want to applaud this district attorney because she s clearly levying the most significant charges she has at her disposal here. is this sending a message? is this going to resonate with school systems, parents, and kids? i certainly hope so. but the terrorism charge, you know, back in michigan at the state level, likely has to do with invoking fear in on a mass level, perhaps even i haven t read the michigan statute but perhaps even using a weapon of mass destruction, or
those together as articulated by the president of the united states and various candidates from various offices, including mr. desantis down in florida. the larger, overriding theme is, look, your world is being taken from you. be careful. listen to me. because you are going to be swallowed up by a cultural tsunami. so, follow us whe. well, jim, i do agree the shock is exhausting. but it is also a worry, a fear in, well, i ll just say in my opinion, that we become desensitized. i think what happened in the desantis campaign, those comments that he made were wrong and they should be shocking at this point. but this is the direction of the republican party being led by this president.
positive attitude so the incremental business on monday and tuesday, wednesday, and thursday and friday and saturday way more than offsets being closed on sunday. it works for us. neil: if you can teach teen agencies civility, you are well ahead in the race. now, there has been a battle not republican party among the social conservatives and the pragmatic economic side of the party, rick santorum the most religious of the candidates running, and certainly, putting the c, to catholic and his right-to-life position has gotten criticism and mitt romney not so blatant to speaker fear in interfere in the religious