this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. y i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. we expect an update from buffalo police after that racist massacre in upstate new york. ten innocent people killed by a racist domestic terrorist who targeted individuals in a predominantly black area of town saturday. officials say it could have been worse. police believe the shooter planned to continue his rampage after leaving the store with his sick goal of killing as many black people as possible. he was wearing tactical gear, armed with a semiautomatic rifle. he had surveilled the area the day before. this shows the moment the suspect was arrested. the erie county sheriff called the attack a straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community. he lived at home with his parents more than three hours away. today, investigators are parsing through a 180-page screed written by the killer. it details how he had been radicalized and was fixate
once you go down that road, once you accept that idea of evil pernicious intent on the part of your adversaries, all bets are off. you can t just have a debate anymore about immigration. it s now kill or be killed. they are responsible because that rhetoric is inherently irresponsible. cornell, the killer, the suspected killer, he wrote a screed in which he talked at length about his hideous ide ideology. he did not mention any particular congressman or channel. he talked about being radicalized online. congresswoman cheney is calling on republican leaders to reject white supremacy, anti-semitism, as well as people who believe in it. explain why if this individual didn t cite any republican politicians or fox personalities, why you still think is important for them to be condemned if they are repeating, echoing, parroting the same kind of racist theory.