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to the south carolina state senate. he was elected when he was 27 years old. he was gunned down on wednesday night at the age of 41, married with two children. to talk more about the massacre in charleston, in addition to dr. warnock in alanna, we're joined in philadelphia by anthea butler associate professor at the university of pennsylvania author of "women in the church of god in christ, making a sanctified world." she has written a new piece for the washington post is called, "shooters of color are called 'terrorists' and 'thugs.' why are white shooters called 'mentally ill'?" anthea butler, would you continue on this point? talk about the issue of who we call terrorists and who we don't. >> thank you, amy, for having me. i really respect this show. the reason why, i believe, that whites are often are white shooters especially male white shooters, are always call mentally ill, is that it is the soft peddling of the structure of racism in america. whenever you hear about a muslim doing something or suspected of doing

. >> the heart and soul of south carolina >> pelley: mine people are killed. the suspect is in custody. >> at some point we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this typei] of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. >> pelley: as america mourn the words of a preacher echo from the past. >> we must note we must not become bitter, nor must we harbor the desire to retaliate withxm'z violence. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting ton charleston, south carolina. >> pelley: so here we are again, another mass shooting in amer6 our neighbors, this time ministers, a librarian and grandparents cut down for nothing. it happened(t( the 1891 church behind me. people studying the life of a man who taught peace and love shot down by man filledt( with violence and hate. it was last night during a bible class at this historic black church here in charleston. tonight a white man is under arrest 21-year-old dylann roof of lexington, south carol

he served south carolina. i think it was a real honor he would pastor at this church given its historical cig significance in charleston. >> it is a quandary. were you aware in your time as governor of concern about threats against houses of worship in your state? >> no. this is so out of place. that's why people are shocked. they're in disbelief. i think that mayor reilly said it well this morning. i think that chief mullen said it well. i think a whole host of community leaders have said it well this well. this is out of character for charleston south carolina. you're left in dispolice chiefbelief. >> an active manhunt underway right now to find this person and get him off the street before he commitments any other atrosa atrocityies atrocities. he said there's a lack of racial harmony in your state and talked about reducing racial violence. do you agree? what do you think the solutions are? >> i would say, no i don't see it that way. we come from a strained past based on slavery existing in our state, as it

south carolina being compassionate and people uniting together. i think this is taking down that flag could be the turning point to get where you say she says. i believe it will happen and i think with the leadership of my good friend jim clyburn who's been a staunch proponent of taking that flag down and the mayor, i think we'll see it. >> mayor riley has been outspoken on this as well. >> he's been great. >> as usual, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> the shooter in that charleston church massacre didn't hide his hatred for blacks as well as other ethnic groups as well. just ahead, the racist online so-called manifesto linked to the shooter and what is being done about hate groups in america. stand by. well, we have 30 years of customer records. our cloud can keep them safe and accessible anywhere. my drivers don't have time to fill out forms. tablets. keep them all digital. we're looking to double our deliveries. our fleet apps will find the fastest route. oh, and your boysenberry apple scones smell about done. ahh, you're good. i

>> that is kind of an answer we have here in south carolina. because of the fact it's over 100 years since the naacp has been around. the confederate flag has represented many things for various people. one of the things it represents is the fact that it is a symbol of hate. and one of two states that still flies the confederate flag. it dignifyies the racial relations in america. >>> there are more questions than answers this morning about the suspect. >> reporter: in his facebook photo, dylann roof is standing in a swamp. his jacket has two flags on it. one from apartheid era south africa the other from white-ruled rhodesia the country that would later become zimbabwe. in another photo he sits on the roof of a car, apparently the same car seen outside of the church. roof's uncle describes his nephew as quiet and soft-spoken, though he worried that his nephew was too introverted. he said: he also said that for his 21st birthday in april, roof's father gave him a 45 caliber pistol. i talked to him on the briefly for a few moments and he said: a

no state in the union has changed more for the better than south carolina. it is typified as the indian american governor spoke today he was flanked by the most popular politician in the state, senator tim scott, who is an african-american u.s. senator. that aside, there are those who would like to use the act of one madman to indict a state or a region or the whole nation for some kind of failing of which he is supposedly symptomatic. how this has anything to do with the confederate flag is unclear to me. 45% said they had negative feelings about it. 50% or more south carolinians have negative flags about the flag than positive feelings. >> what do you think? >> this has been a politically fraught debate going on in south carolina for years. this was thrust in the 2012 race republican we-- this has been a debate that's been going on especially among gop primaries for cycle after cycle. what this has done now with the push to move the flag from the state grounds is allowing many of the candidates who otherwise might be stuck in a tough position here who migh

it's up to the state of south carolina to decide this. if they are asking me i think it should come down. >> they need to get two-thirds of both chambers. when you think back to john mccain in 2000 flip-flopping on this, calling it a symbol of racism and heritage later saying that he was worried that if he answered honestly he would not win the south carolina primary. do you think that this time around where this country is right now, that is a concern for candidates? >> i think the politics of it will be different this time around. i think the statements that you have seen from the gop contenders shows that it's an expectation now, because of what happened in charleston that there will be a different outcome, or rather the outcome will be that the flag will in fact come down. i think some of them don't want to be the first one to say it but they have positioned themselves such that when a decision is made yes, we expected them to do the right thing. no one wants to be the first one to deal with this issue. the contenders have already spo

in south carolina. beat in up in police custody because of that. amy: i want to thank you, brett bursey for joining us. the hearse has just moved on. brett bursey, director of the south carolina progressive network. burned the confederate flag back in 1969. we will be back here in front of the mother emanuel church in charleston, south carolina in a minute. m♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting fro charleston, south carolina outside the historic emanuel ame church where nine people were gunned down on as they attended june 17 bible study. just minutes ago, state troopers brought reverend clementa pinckney's casket down the steps to a hearse. his funeral is being held just blocks from here at college of charleston with president obama delivering the eulogy. the church shooting suspect dylann roof is now jailed next to officer michael slager, the policeman who shot and killed unarmed african-american walter scott ea

the south carolina i grew up in, nothing like that would ever happen. absolutely impossible. >> you mean what happened today. >> what happened today, right. >> with the politicians across the aisle joining in that situation? >> across the aisle, the sort of multi-racial picture of a state that has either, that's always been the true picture of the state. south carolina, at the time of the civil war was one of the few states where there were actually more black people than white people. so it's always, that's always been the true nature of south carolina, but you never saw it. the high councils of power. and you certainly, in order to get rid of the flag on the capital grounds is such an issue in south carolina, to do the right thing in south carolina, amazing. >> mark thompson, if the confederate flag does not belong at the state capital, why did it belong there at the beginning of last week? >> well, it -- >> look what it took to change minds. >> no, it never did. not only with what happened today, when gene lived there, this would not have happened a

that was south carolina's ampligen's history. black people celebrate the fourth of july along with other americans, but that was really the day that slavery was codified in this country. so we want to have a conversation about race in this country and the foundations of white supremacy and racism. it starts in south carolina and the ideology of white supremacy that permeates our nation today with the southern is asian -- southernization of american politics. when we talk about medicaid funding and medicaid expansion in the southern governors, like nikki haley, who fought against medicaid expansion because they did not want to give something to undeserving people who they see as black people. when you talk about voter id laws, trying to keep a group of people from having power, almost like literacy tests and knowing how many bubbles are in a bar of soap. they talked the game now about reconciliation, but everybody uses this code language, here and across the country, to deny black people and people of color rights. this whole idea

the victims murdered inside this south carolina church. charleston, south carolina, overnight. happening right now, an intense manhunt for the shooter. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is thursday, june 18th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. a gunman is on the loose right now after shooting and killing nine people at a prayer meeting in a charleston, south carolina church. frantic church for the suspect at this hour. he is described as a white male in his 20s. the police chief describing this as a hate crime taking place at emanuel african-american methodist church. >> this is a tragedy that no community should have to experience. it is senseless and it is unfathomable that somebody in today's society would walk into a church when people are having a prayer meeting and take their lives. i can assure you that we are going to do everything in our power to find this individual and lock him up and make sure that he does not hurt anyone else. >> let's go live to charleston and bring in ashley killow with the latest. nine people shot. this is

major breaking news out of south carolina. the governor will call for the confederate flag to be removed from the state capitol grounds and expected to make that announcement at 4:00 p.m. we'll carry that live. members of both parties in both chambers expected to introduce legislation tomorrow to expedite removing the flag from the state house grounds. if passed it could be removed by mid-august. and it comes on the heels of last week's horrific shooting at e moonall ame church where nine people were murdered just last hour several city state and community leaders called on the legislator to make the flag move off capitol grounds. >> what we have to do is galvanize and use this window of opportunity in light of this horrible tragedy and come away with a solution and an agenda to rid this state of hate division and racism. >> joining me now is msnbc's adam reiss in charleston south carolina. this is a big development. we expect the governor to make the announcement coming up. what are the hurdles ahead of her as she makes this

i'm here in south carolina. south carolina is one of the early voting states for the 20 service 16 dst 2016 presidential election. we talked to some outside the historical museum to find out. what are the issues you'll vote on or you think will be important to you in 2016 as you look at the candidates? >> income inequality student loan debt. >> reporter: what about for you? >> i think for me it is personal health care is one of the number one things for me. >> reporter: and you say it is personal because you have a sick child. >> that's correct, yes. >> reporter: and what have your health care challenges other than his sickness been? >> well, you know when he was diagnosed, it was stage 4 cancer. so we went through tiers of intense treatment with him. and, you know our insurance policy -- we didn't need to be fighting with insurance policy. we needed to be helping our child survive. >> reporter: were you fighting the insurance? >> he was put on a clinical trial and our insurance policy would not pay for the medi

him earlier today in north carolina. the 21-year-old gunman is now in the charleston county detention center. we're expect him to be arraigned tomorrow. joining us live on the ground from charleston is fox and friends co-host ainsley earhardt is with us. and with us south carolina state representative peter mccoy jr. ainsley, i know you're from this area. i know this is a hard time for the community. tell us the very latest. >> hard time for our country, and definitely hard time for those of us who grew up here or live here because this is just not charleston. it's a loving place. it's a wonderful community. this is a historic area. and you've been here sean. you know how nice the people are here. and we all hate this, that it's happening here in this great city. and i'm here with representative who represents this area. and i know that you were really good friends with representative pinckney. tell me what your relationship was like. he was democrat. you're republican. >> you made a terrific point when we started this i

>> south carolina is one of five crimes that does not have a hate crimes law. it still flies a confederate house in front of the statehouse dome. it's emblematic of the problem, which is words come from these networks that broadcast what they call news but it's not. it's hate speed and coded language and leads people to believe they can walk into a church because it's no longer a house of god, but a killing ground. they can feel free to decent crate and leave blood everywhere and he did so on some ill-gotten belief on a wrong belief that it's okay to do that. he hears that because he watches the news and things like fog news where they talk about things that they call news but they're really not. they use that coded language talk about the president as if he's not the president. they talk about church-goers as if they are really not. that's what he could walk into a church and treat people like animals. >> you have a lot there to unpack but instead of doing that what i would rather do with the time i have left with you, representative rutherford is find out mor

even the governor of south carolina has said that. and that's why there has been bigger discussion about hate crime in south carolina. south carolina is one of five states that does not have any hate crime legislation. and there has been a renewed discussion about that in light of what has happened here. and many lawmakers are saying situations like this and other situations, it should underscore the need to have that here. >> great point. and continued great work down there, jonathan martin thank you for your time. >>> michelle obama talked about the charleston shooting earlier this morning. the first lady is in italy with her mother and daughter. she said saying her thoughts and prayers with are with people isn't enough to fully convey how she feels. >> my heart goes out to the people of emmanuel and the people of charleston. i pray for a community that i know is in pain and with the hope that tragedies like these will one day come to an end. >> reporter: the first lady said she was particularly pained by the fact that the shooting

in south carolina we have pretty swift justice. because he's killed more than one person he's eligible for the death penalty in south carolina. they could move pretty quick if they want to or hate crime or terrorism type trial in federal court, i spoke to the u.s. attorney last night as well as this morning, everybody's ready to deal with this situation because of how horrific it was. >> miss scott, you mentioned that this should be seen in the context of other things that have been true about both race relations and other factors in south carolina and in charleston in particular. do you see that this young man and what happened here as being contextualized in anything else about charleston that we should understand? we're all reporting on the history of this church and trying to understand as much as we can about the history of this young man. is there something about the history of either of those two things we should focus on or get, those of us who don't know as much about the city as you do? >> i want to backtrack a little bit

in south carolina there is a rally where many people are expected to show up. they are rallying to remove the confederate flag from state grounds. governor nikki haley has called on the senate to enter the flag issue on the agenda today. it's not clear how long it will take and if enough lawmakers will bring the vote down to the critical number. so one conservative lawmaker posing the idea his name is state senator lee wright. he's quoted in the "new york times" as saying there are those of us who have ancestors who fought and spilled blood on the side of the south when they were fighting for state's rights. and we don't want our ancestors relegated to the ash heaps of history. nbc's craig melvin joins me now from the capitol grounds in columbia. right now, craig, the "new york times" is reporting that south carolina is set to address the governor's call to remove the confederate, and it appears to be moving forward. what are you hearing there? >> 1:00 the lower chamber here in the state will reconvene. that's the house. they're expected to take up the budget f

to south carolina. that is expected to take place shortly. so gunmen dylann roof a reminder that he was detained by police in north carolina. this is about a 3-hour drive from where the shooting took place at a church in south carolina, charleston south carolina and, of course this location enormously symbolic to the civil rights struggle and the struggle to end slavery in the united states. we understand that that shooting took place. nine people were killed and dylann roof managed to escape. police detained him. some three hours away from south carolina and right now these are pictures coming from shelby in north carolina where dylann roof will be loaded on to the plane and transported back to south carolina. we'll stay across that and update you. moving on to our other story - human selfishness is the reason for global warming. this is the message from pope francis in a long-awaited announcement on an environment. in a tweet the pontiff used stronger language saying the earth, our home is looking lik

- and the heart and soul of south carolina was broken. >> joining us right now from south carolina is governor nikki haley. governor thank you very much for joining us. i know you guys are really busy down there. as days go yesterday had to be one of the toughest of your life as governor. >> it hands down was the toughest. the past couple of days not just for me but for the people of south carolina. i mean this is a devastating, devastating situation to deal with. it's never anything that we thought we were going to have to deal with but we're a strong prayerful state, we'll come together and we'll get through this. >> sure. governor practically speaking are people afraid to go to church now and if so, is security stepping at churches all across your area there? >> you know i mean it's something that we never thought we were going to have to talk about. going to a place of worship is a place that you are vulnerable. you forget the world for a while, you are there to focus and just think about god and all the blessings do you have. never do you think that you have to worry about walkin

. >>> charleston, south carolina, breaking news. they say a white man opened fire in a historic african-american church. nine were killed. >> a church community is mourning their deaths as authorities, including the fbi, are searching for the shooter. authorities are giving a briefing right now. let's listen. >> communication process is in place. same information that you have has been broadcast to law enforcement, at the local, state, and federal level, all across the united states. >> can you talk about the specifics on the suspect? [ inaudible ]. >> well, obviously at this point we want everybody to be vigilant and if they see anything suspicious we want them to call us. right now we have got teams of investigators, we have uniformed officers we have fbi agents all over the city. and along with our local law enforcement partners. so we will be looking for this individual and like everyone else this is all hands-on deck effort with the community, as well as law enforcement. i think with that effort we will find this person quickly

it is south carolina's historic moment, and this will be south carolina's decision. to those outside of our state, the flag may be nothing more of the worse of the past, and that's not what it is to many. the state house belongs to all of us and their voices will be heard, and their role will be respected. we have made incredible progress on racial issues and so many effort, the 21st century belongs to us, because we have chosen to seize what's in front of us, to do what it right is to do it together. i have every faith that this will be no different, it is who we are. second i understand, what i have said, will generate a lot of interest, what i ask is that the focus still remain, on the nine victims, of this horrible tragedy, their families, the mother a.m.e. family, and the south carolina family, we all deserve time to grieve, and to remember, and to heal. we will take it, and i ask that you respect us. we know that bringing down confederate flag will not bring back the nine kind souls, nor rid us of the hate, that drove a monster through the doors of the church t

south carolina -- (bleep) i'm just going to have to retract my up here. let me give you unsolicited advice. how about just take the damn flag down right now [ applause ] hear me out. [ applause ] and then you can debate puting it back up. [ applause ] how about that? now i know as governor, you have to follow the rules but you're a south carolina governor. there were no rules for you guys. i mean the last governor took the appalachia trail to argentina on a mission for secrets. which, by the way is against south carolina law. known what the debate is about anyway. it's not an official flag. it's a relic with no purpose anymore. it's decorative. you don't need a declaration to remove a decoration. okay. [ .look, it's time for a segment we call for the record. for the record, the confederate flag sent a traditional of heritage. it's intimidation. that's not my opinion. that's an objective fact. on march 21st 1861 the vice president of the confederacy, stated that the confederate government was based on the great truth that the negro is not equal to the whit

this is south carolina. but they are trying to do something about this, which is about the government of the state of south carolina. this is the confederate flag that currently flies at the state capital grounds in columbia, south carolina. this flag has been either in this location at a confederate memorial or atop the capital dome for the last five decades. it's remained there through every controversy that's swirled around it until now. yesterday the governor of south carolina and nearly every other top political leader in the state finally called on the state legislature to act to remove that flag from the capital grounds. today the legislature did act. both the south carolina house and senate voted to start debating whether and how to remove that confederate battle flag from the state capital grounds finally after all these decades. this political process has happened fast. the vote to take up this issue was overwhelming in both chambers. the post and courier newspaper has a whip count going about wher

this is south carolina's statehouse. it is south carolina's historic moment. m this will be south carolina's decision. to those outside of our state the flag may be nothing more than a symbol of america's past. the statehouse belongs to all of us. their voices will be heard and their role will be respected. mark: how hard is it politically for nikki haley to do this? al: it shouldn't be hard to this pendulum -- the pendulum has swung. i went to school in the south. i admire what she did today but she could not be more wrong. this is not a symbol of respect and integrity, this is a symbol of hate. to say segregation now segregation forever. it is a symbol of breaking away from the country. john: given your wisdom and long memory, take us through the history of this the confederate flag and the various political battles that have raged over the south over previous years. al: it is interesting a very conservative republican governor in 1996 says we are going to take it down from the top of the state capital and move it to a war memorial ground. the white populati

the governor of south carolina fighting back tears. >> the heart and soul of south carolina was broken and so we have some grieving to do and we've got some pain we have to go through. >> reporter: president obama said he and michelle personally knew several members of the historic emanuel ame church. >> to say our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families and their community doesn't say enough to convey the heartache and the sadness and the anger that we feel. >> allison camkamerata reporting. dylann roof is preparing to face justice at the hand of the courts. i think authorities have charged him, and i'm reading it because i just got it in my e-mail box -- this is from the charleston police department. the bond hearing at 2:00 p.m. eastern. dylann roof charged with nine counts of murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime, so as you can see he's not charged with domestic terrorism. but this is the latest information we're getting from the charleston police department and, of course,s a i said dylann roof will appear in court in charleston

but in north carolina, this new law is a blanket change. it puts no restrictions on what a person is allowed to express their religious objection to. so depending on where you live in north carolina, your local magistrate may only agree to give marriage licenses to straight couples. income county over, the magistrate may believe it's her moral duty the only give marriage licenses to couples who are the same religion. a jew and a catholic? are you kidding me? i'm not going to allow you to do that. that's against my religious or moral beliefs. sure, it's constitutionally protected, but my religious and moral beliefs trump that. under this new law that the north carolina legislature is about to enact over the republican governor's veto, any county magistrate may turn away any couple who applies for a marriage license on any grounds, as long as the magistrate says the reason they're objecting is in some way related to their religious faith. i don't know if there are magistrates in north carolina who agree with that richard and mildred loving ca

no state in the union has changed more for the better than south carolina. it is typified as the indian american governor spoke today he was flanked by the most popular politician in the state, senator tim scott, who is an african-american u.s. senator. that aside, there are those who would like to use the act of one madman to indict a state or a region or the whole nation for some kind of failing of which he is supposedly symptomatic. how this has anything to do with the confederate flag is unclear to me. 45% said they had negative feelings about it. 50% or more south carolinians have negative flags about the flag than positive feelings. >> what do you think? >> this has been a politically fraught debate going on in south carolina for years. this was thrust in the 2012 race republican we-- this has been a debate that's been going on especially among gop primaries for cycle after cycle. what this has done now with the push to move the flag from the state grounds is allowing many of the candidates who otherwise might be stuck in a tough position here who migh

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there is a decision that needs to be made here in south carolina. >> arguments over south carolina's display of the federal flag raged for decades. in 2000, activates won a small compromise having it removed from the the state dome. president obama has said the flag belongs in a museum. >> prosecutors are urged to seek the death penalty and a federal civil rights investigation into the attack is underway. federal authorities describe it as a hate crime investigation but that kind of probe is not possible at the state level because south carolina does not have a hate crime law. legal analyst debbie hines is joining us in washington d.c. she is a former prosecutor in baltimore. attorney hines if you're the prosecutor, what difference would it make whether the state has a hate crime in place now? >> well, in south carolina, it doesn't really make that much of a difference, because south carolina does have the highest penalty involved, which is the death penalty and under the hate crime statute and the federal statute. the highest penalty for a killing as murder such as occurred in charl

, to charleston south carolina. clearly he planned this he spoke about it for six months. >> he planned it and said to witnesses that he was going to kill himself, which never occurred because he got in that car and drove for three or four hours. >> he said he wanted to start a race war. right. but if you listen to his rhetoric "y'all are taking our white women. y'all are taking over." if you listen to that rhetoric and ask you "where have i heard the?" you've heard that coming out of places like the ku klux klan you've heard that rhetoric coming out of places that are very anti-black anti-jewish, anti-establishment type of organizations. it's that same rhetoric. >> neonazi white aryans. most of them just talk they don't actually commit crimes like this. >> that's right, but here's the thing. he may have been involved with this in terms of the act itself but i suspect there may be others who may have put this young man up to this because when you look at him, when i see him on footage, he appears to me to be somewha

unfortunately, south carolina is one of those states. those states see 46% fewer women killed by domestic partners, and fewer law enforcements law enforcement killed by guns. we're going to continue this march state by state until congress wakes up and gets the message. they're typically the last ones to get the message but we have incredible momentum. one thing to point out it "s" it took six votes to pass the original brady law. we're going to stay with it until we succeed like we did the first time. >> dan, we appreciate having you on the problem. >> there is a lot of reason for hope. >> we'll follow your campaign and see what happens. >>> a heatwave in pakistan has now killed nearly 700 people. most of the deaths are reported in the city of karachi where temperatures are reached 113 degrees. the government has called on the military to help in that crisis. >> surgeon pakistan is sweltering. three days of high temperatures have caused widespread heat strokes in the largest city. hospitals are treated hundreds of patients for heat-rela

that young man is in custody in south carolina. he has reportedly confessed already. if federal hate crimes charges really are brought in this case, what does that mean in term of this young man's prosecution? does that change any possible sentence that he might receive. south carolina has no hate crime charges in its statutes. they do have the death penalty. they have the ability to bring federal charge in a place the state charges are already being filed and already as serious as you can get. why did, or why would the federal government clues to get involved in a case like this? and why hate crimes charges in particular? if the new york time is right and this will be a federal prosecution in charleston, what happens to this defendant in terms of the way his case is hand? and specifically in terms of the attention and the publicity he may want to get for his supposed cause through venue of his trial? at this intersection of mass murder and terrorism and hate crimes, this reported intervention raises some really interesting questions about how much we will ever to hea

lindsey graham's hopes rest on south carolina. the senator says if he wins in his home state he believes he could do well across the south and do well with the nomination. he fended off a number of challenges during the senatorial primary last year. won the general election by 14 points making national security the centerpiece of his campaign. highlighting membership on senate armed services committee. and thinks 33 years with the u.s. air force both active duty and a reservist. in greenville, south carolina, i asked the senator what he thought his biggest asset was? >> being the best qualified to be commander-in-chief at a time when the world is in complete chaos. understanding how we got into this mess and a way to get out of it. being a conservative that can relate to people throughout the country. >> reporter: being a conservative who can relate to people across the country. what he means is, he sees himself as pragmatic conservative willing to work with people across the aisle to get things done. while that served him well he

in south carolina. and maybe if i wasn't nearing the end of the run or this wasn't such a common occurrence maybe i could have pulled out of the spiral but i didn't and so i honestly have nothing. i don't want to get into the political argument of the guns and things -- what blows my mind is the disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us and us killing ourselves. we got to do whatever we can to keep americans safe. nine people shot in a church. what about that? hey, what are you going to do? crazy is as crazy is right? that's the part that i cannot for the life of me wrap my head around. the confederate flag flies over south carolina and the roads are named for confederate generals. and the white guy is the one who feels his country is being taken away from him. we're bringing it on ourselves and that's the thing, al qaeda, all those guy, isis they're not [ bleep ]. compared to the damage that we can apparently do to ourselves on a regular basis. i heard som

back here to south carolina. that's the latest live in charleston, i'm jay gray. jim? >> jay thanks so much. >>> now, one of the pictures that hate crime investigators are focusing on comes from roof's facebook page here that we brought up online this evening. so take a look at this apparent profile picture of roof skulking in some woods. it carries a possible indicator of his world view on race go in a little tighter to two patches on the jacket here. they show, according to the southern poverty law center, old flags of racist white minority regimes in south africa. for white supremacists they represent periods of apartheid south africa and renegade rhodesia. barbara? >>> another twist in the rachel dolezal saga. seems howard university raised questions about her race years ago, back when dolezal was a graduate student in howard in 2002. she sued the school for allegedly denying her a teaching job bus she was white. we just learned during a deposition for that lawsuit howard's attorneys asked if she tried to pos

. >> good evening from charleston south carolina. at this hour dozens if not hundreds of mourners are streaming in behind me to the sight of the mass shooting at emanuel ame church just behind me across the street from where we are. this as the man who police say confessed to shooting those nine people in that church is spending the night at the charleston county detention center in cell 1141 b. his neighbor literally in the next cell. former police officer who is indicted in the fatal shooting in april. he made his first court appearance at a bond hearing today attending via closed circuit tv from the detention center and we heard the voice of the man that sat with his victims at bible study for almost an hour before methodically opening fire. >> is your address 10428 garners ferry road is it? >> yes, sir. >> thank you, sir. what is your age? >> 21. >> 21. are you employed? >> no, sir. >> you're unemployed at this time? >> yes, sir. >> thank you. >> family members of the nine people murdered wednesday night were in attendance at tha

this day governor haley of south carolina said in the capital of south carolina the flag should not be flown. she said we will do this in spite of what the state legislature feels. soy applaud her. i appreciate her courageous act. the confederate flag has no place in the future of south carolina. it belongs in the past every place in america not just south carolina. everyone who desires to fly that flag on private property can do so but no state in this great nation should allow this flag to soar above the capitol. we must always stand for what is right. we must stand for equality and justice, back and defend e. we must preserve the rights of every american not because it is the safe thing to do, not because it is popular. we must stand and defend equality and justice because it is the right thing to do. we must take meaningful action to ensure the safety of our citizens. once again our hearts are broken as another community stprug tkpwels to recover -- struggles to recover from a mass shooting. i want to mention a few of them, just a few of them. fort hood, 13 americans killed. this w

robert ray from south carolina, and we heard a bit of the south carolina governor's comments. and she visited today and was visibly distraught. >> we woke up today and the heart and soul of south carolina was broken. and so we have some grieving to do. and we have some pain we have to go flu. parents are having to explain to their kids how they can go to church and feel safe, and that's something that we never thought we would deal with. having said that, we're a strong and faithful state. >> president obama ras emotional when he shared his thoughts and feelings on the shooting this afternoon. >> there's something particularly heartbreaking about a death happening in a place in which we seek solace and we seek peace. in a place of worship. mother emanuel is in fact more than a church. this is a place of worship that was founded by african-americans seeking liberty. >> mike viqueira joins us from the white house and if you would, the president had a personal connection to this church. >> well, that's right. one of his earliest supporters on the presidential campaign trail was p

. >>> good evening from south carolina. i'm chris hayes. there are nine people who are murdered inside the emanuel african methodist episcopal church here in charleston last night. cynthia herd, 54. manager of one of the busiest branches in the charleston county public library system where she worked for 31 years. the library will be renamed in her honor. reverend daniel simmons sr. died in the operating room. he was 74. retired in 2005 as charleston county director of the community development block grant program which funds affordable housing and local development. she was a mother of four. tawanza sanders, 26. he got a degree from the division of business administration. >>> myron thompson, 59, the wife of reverend anthony thompson, a nearby church in charleston. >>> a mom to three children, a speech pathologist and coach for a girl's track team outside charleston. >>> susie jackson was 87, at church with her sister who also died at the scene who was 70 years old. finally, reverend pinckney, the pastor, first ordained at age 18 and was e

first, this is south carolina's statehouse. it is south carolina's historic moment. and this will be south carolina's decision. for those outside of our state the flag may be nothing more than a symbol of the worst of america's past. that is not what it is for many south carolinians. the statehouse belongs to all of us. their voices will be heard, and their role in this debate will be respected. we have made incredible progress in south carolina on racial issues, yes, but on so many others. the 21st century belongs to us because we have chosen to seize what is in front of us, to do what is right, and do it together. i have every faith that this will be no different. it is what we do in south carolina. it is who we are. second, i understand that what i have said here today will generate a lot of interest. what i ask is that the focus still remain on the nine victims of this horrible tragedy. their families, the mother emanuel family, the ame church family, and south carolina family, we all deserve time to grieve, and to remember, and to heal. we will take it, and i as

carolina. in just about two hours protesters will rally to take down that flag. the action comes after governor nikki haley took a stand. >> we are here in a moment of unity in our state without ill will to say it's time to move the flag from the capital ground. [ cheers and applause ] >> we will take you to south carolina in just a manipulate. but we do want to tell you that president obama along with his wife and the vice president will be in charleston on friday. the president will deliver the eulogy for reverent clementa pinckney. he was one of nine people killed in wednesday's massacre. new flonase allergy relief nasal spray. this changes everything. flonase is the 24 hour relief that outperforms a leading allergy pill. when we breathe in allergens our bodies react by over-producing six key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. most allergy pills only control one substance, flonase controls six. and 6 is greater than 1. so go ahead, inhale life, excite your senses, seize the day

many ways reburied the stars and bars and on the part of south carolina history also embedded in the state's law in 1962 the civil rights battle reheating of the legislature of what the question to the top of the capitol dome and 2000 of bipartisan compromise move the to the nearby confederate war memorial unlike the united states and state flags lowered to half staff the confederate flag cannot be lowered state law requires that they must always be flown at a height of 33 the only way it can be taken down is by a two-thirds vote in both the south carolina. senate and carolina >>catherine heenan: she will call a special session of necessary to remove the flag the flag will always be a part of the south carolina but this is a moment in which we consider that flag wall and in a report of our past does not represent the future of our our great state