During breaking news coverage of the Michigan synagogue attack on Thursday, MS NOW host Katy Tur decided to connect the attack to the Republican Party in multiple instances of the first hour, including a placement of blame of “Donald Trump’s war in Iran.” Additionally, Near the end of her first hour, Tur turned to talk about anti-Semitism on the far-right in the midst of the synagogue attack with fellow MS NOW host, All In’s Chris Hayes. Katy Tur Reports was in continuation of MS NOW’s breaking news coverage that started around 1:30 PM Eastern after a driver rammed into Temple Israel near Detroit. In her first instance, Tur connected the attack to “Donald Trump’s war in Iran.” Here’s that in full: So, Rob, one of the things I heard from the sheriff was that he had been in contact with federal authorities on the threat situation for the past few weeks, which would seem to line up with the war in Iran. This readiness for anything that could happen as a result of Donald Trump's war with Iran. Did you hear that in the same way that I did and, I guess, if they were to investigate whether there was a nexus here, how did they go about doing that? It is not the connection to Iran, but it is more the direct connection made to Trump as if he is directly responsible for a crazed person’s ramming of a synagogue.   MS NOW is already suggesting the Republican Party has something to do with the Michigan Synagogue shooter: "The Republican party is having, right now, a real fight on its hands, has a real fight on its hands amid wings of the Republican Party that are extremely antisemitic or… pic.twitter.com/bcjsrtxpmU — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 12, 2026   Then, 55 minutes into her show, she made a wider connection to the Republican Party with Hayes: The Republican Party is having, right now, a real fight on its hands - has a real fight on its hands amid wings of the Republican party that are extremely anti-Semitic or flirting with anti-Semitism. And Republicans on the other side of the party who are saying, hold on, what are you doing? This is not - this is ripping us apart.(...) More egregiously, she minimized the anti-Semitism seen on the left in the Democratic Party:  (...) Democrats are having a fight on that as well, but it's been pretty pronounced within the Republican Party. While it has become clear that there is a loud minority of anti-Semitism on the right, that are actively promoted by left-wing outlets, there is a striking denialism of the existence of left-wing anti-Semitism under the guise of “free Palestine,” but if Tur wanted to connect the shooting to Iran, why would she make a big deal about Republicans? For his part, Hayes would go on to talk about "groypers” and the “Nazi adjacent part of the [Republican] Party.” It is clear that Tur and Hayes pre-determined their conclusion on who they wanted the shooter to be as Tur ended her segment with, “History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. Right? Yeah. Chris Hayes, thank you so much. Really good to have you.” The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s Katy Tur Reports March 12, 2026 2:04:08 PM Eastern KATY TUR: So, Rob, one of the things I heard from the sheriff was that he had been in contact with federal authorities on the threat situation for the past few weeks, which would seem to line up with the war in Iran. This readiness for anything that could happen as a result of Donald Trump's war with Iran. Did you hear that in the same way that I did and, I guess, if they were to investigate whether there was a nexus here, how did they go about doing that? (...) 2:55:30 PM Eastern KATY TUR: The Republican party is having, right now, a real fight on its hands - has a real fight on its hands amid wings of the Republican party that are extremely anti-Semitic or flirting with anti-Semitism. And Republicans on the other side of the party who are saying, hold on, what are you doing? This is not - this is ripping us apart. Democrats are having a fight on that as well, but it's been pretty pronounced within the Republican party. CHRIS HAYES: Yeah. I mean, I think. TUR: There’s Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson along. HAYES: Yes. I mean, there's a bunch of different axes and it gets very sort of difficult to disentangle them. I mean, there's, you know, there is a rising sort of avowedly white nationalist, you know, groyper, Nazi adjacent part of the party that is sort of ordering, increasingly, I think, ordering its politics around, not just criticism of the Israeli government, but a view of Israel as the single most powerful world actor, and as Jews as the single most powerful world actor, and as Jews manipulating America to prey upon it.  And these are, of course, the oldest anti-Semitic tropes. And you have someone like, you know, Nick Fuentes, who went on Tucker's show and someone that was - worked with him is going to be part of the College Republicans now at the national level. Like it's not that far. Michelle Goldberg's got a great column in the New York Times today about Florida candidate who's sort of drawing on that energy. And it, you know, it remains, I think, a kind of fringe tendency, but it's getting larger. TUR: History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. Right? Yeah. Chris Hayes, thank you so much. Really good to have you. (...)