This was pure evil. It was straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community, outside of the city of good neighbors, as the mayor said, coming into our community and trying to inflict that evil upon us.

The Erie County Sheriff calling the racist shooting rampage at a grocery store in a mostly

black neighborhood of Buffalo, pure evil.

This morning, we are learning more about the victims, the racist ideology that allegedly

drove the suspects hate, and the the far right voices that have made

those beliefs mainstream. We have several guests to help us sort through this tragedy,

including the mayor of Buffalo, who will join us in the fourth hour of morning, Joe,

plus the latest from Ukraine. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell leads a delegation of Senate Republicans on an unannounced visit to Key, even as one of his members slows progress on military aid that Washington has been trying to fast track.

We'll tell you where that legislation stands right now.

And a key component of Russia's propaganda machine is at risk as bloggers embedded with Russian troops are fed up with the repeated failures and our now voicing concern.

Good morning.

And welcome to morning, Joe.

It's Monday.

May 16th, We start with the very

latest on that deadly shooting in Buffalo over the weekend. The White House says the president

and the first lady will visit the city tomorrow to quote, grieve with the community.

Speaking at the National Peace Officers Memorial Service in Washington yesterday, President Biden addressed what

the Department of Justice is investigating as an act of racially motivated domestic extremism.

The lone gunmen armed with weapons of war and hateful soul, shot and killed tenderness in people in cold blood.

We must all work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of America.

The hearts are heavy once again, but a resolve must never ever waver.

Meanwhile, we are learning more about the alleged shooter in the attack.

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