general in history his body and his discovery and stream on max cnn, way to good morning. you relied with the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with breaking news right now for president donald trump is meeting with congressional republicans up on capitol hill, marking a truly stunning comeback in american politics moments ago, the for president arrived at the capitol hill club in washington, right? bye the capital today, he will be trailed by a mobile billboard from the dnc playing this 11 minute video on loop of the january 6 attack. today s visit is apparently the first time trump has stepped foot on the hill since sending a mob of his supporters to fight like hell is he said it on january 6. here s how republican lawmakers reacted in the immediate aftermath of that assault on democracy. take a look the president bears responsibility for wednesday s at rioters. he should have nt me o enough is enough how times have changed three years later, the vast
7175 hate crimes last year up from 6121 in 2016. just getting the data just weeks after pittsburgh. these anti-semitic attacks. the shootings. all of this stuff. what is going on? is it the political climate? i definitely think the political climate has a ton to do with it, don, but i was thinking right before i came on air about it about a 2010 piece i wrote called words matter. and it was about barack obama s second term and the fact that even in west virginia at that time there was a white man, a felon who ran against him in the democratic primary and almost won. it was amazing to me in that moment how much racism had really trickled into the political process. and of course we know that at that point donald trump had started and was the spokesperson at least of the birther movement. so we know exactly what wetric does and how dangerous that rhetoric can become. and we re seeing we re
thinking right before i came on air about it about a 2010 piece i wrote called words matter. and it was about barack obama s second term and the fact that even in west virginia at that time there was a white man, a felon who ran against him in the democratic primary and almost won. it was amazing to me in that moment how much racism had really trickled into the political process. and of course we know that at that point donald trump had started and was the spokesperson at least of the birther movement. so we know exactly what wetric does and how dangerous that rhetoric can become. and we re seeing we re eyewitnesses to that every single day. i want to bring in scott jennings now. scott, anti-semitic hate crimes went up 37% last year. do you think it s a coincidence that we saw a spike in anti-semitic crimes the very same year that president trump said nazis marching in charlottesville were very fine people? i don t like to draw links like that because i don t think you can blam
with a man dead. on your stomach now! oh, i m sorry. [ bleep ]. this video of an officer-involved shooting earlier this month. authorities were recording a sting operation when a felon who on a felon when a reserve deputy shouted that he had a taser, but instead of firing his taser, investigators say the deputy mistakenly pulled the trigger on his gun. you can train someone as much as you can, and you train in every area that you can, but in times of crisis, sometimes training is not going to take you through the scenario. the reserve deputy involved in the shooting robert bates has been placed on administrative leave while this case is investigated. prosecutors will be piecing together their case this week against michael slager, the police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man one week ago.