hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m dana bash. we begin with breaking news. the man who massacred jews at a pittsburgh synagogue is now staring down the death penalty. a jury just found that shooter guilty on multiple counts nearing 40 counts so far, they are still reading in that courtroom. it includes capital offenses and hate crimes. i want to go outside the courtroom. that s where we have danny freeman live in pittsburgh. danny, what are you hearing so far president bush. reporter: as you said, we re getting live reports from inside the courtroom. so tar we have been through 40 counts, including special instructions, they have all been found guilty. and that is including the 22 capital ompss. he faces 63 federal charges, already convict ed of 41 now. and then also the use and discharge of a firearm to commit murder during and relation to a crime of violence and possession of a firearm. and also convictioned on all of the hate crimes he was accused of earlier. i
what does it say when it comes to precedent of this kind of hate crime in the legal system? a couple important things here. the fact that the justice department chose to bring federal charges, orderly a murder is a state level crime. i think it was a powerful statement by the united states department of justice made under the prior administration when this event happened that we are going to prosecute this as a hate crime. we re going to argue and prove to a jury that the reason that this man went into a synagogue was intentional because he hated jewish people. he had posted things online that he wanted to kill all joois, but there was a strange defense argument that actually he wanted to he was angry at immigrants. and the jury has soundly rejected that. so now we know that a jury has found, and i think this is quite
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