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Tapper: "Do you think posting 8647 is a crime?" Sen. Thom Tillis: "No…It makes no sense to me…I used to work in the restaurant industry and I think 86 has its roots as a cook…I can't find any evidence where 86 is used as a call for violence."

Tapper: "Do you think posting 8647 is a crime?" Sen. Thom Tillis: "No…It makes no sense to me…I used to work in the restaurant industry and I think 86 has its roots as a cook…I can't find any evidence where 86 is used as a call for violence."

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart had a rough night on PBS last night. First, he didn't appreciate David Brooks pointing out progressives are more likely to support violence than conservatives, "I'm not going to just let the comment that, you know, progressives, you know, more than folks on the far-right are, you know, think that violence is justified." He also portrayed the shooting as just another incident of common gun violence, "And, to me, the bigger issue here is gun violence, that why was I not surprised that this had happened? And I have been to that dinner at least a dozen times since 2000. And so, yes, there's an issue of, you know, people feeling that political violence is the way to go and that we are in a highly charged atmosphere. But what's been, sort of, a specter over all of us for even longer is the scourge of gun violence." (1/2)