murder. that was the real racist part. he saw them outside of himself. >> a way to go to heaven. he did not see them as human. he had to preserve his christianity as all causes. a double marginalize -- they were not doubly marginalized. he perceived them as sex workers. he perceived them as ex sex wors and asian. that was the racist part of him. that's overt obvious racism. >> right. these are the things that we need to dig into as both of us do in therapy to figure out what's going on. there is so much strange to fit it in the box when sometimes it is like porn, you know it when you see it. i don't know his context of his relationship of the spas. the fetish of asian women is well-known. is that his thing? if you want to charng a hate crime, fine. find your criteria. we are talking about society and people are attacking our asian brothers and sisters. we know why they are doing it. >> i live in atlanta for seven years and went and visited atlanta many, many times in years and worked there part time for nbc news when they needed people to fill in for their bureau, probably about 10 years off and on. there are plenty of places you can get massages or strip clubs that don't involve asian women. the fact that he picked those places said something about his motivations even if he's not saying out loud to investigators. if you will allow me to move on because chris, i interviewed an officer tonight that i want to interrupt and run it now. i got to give people the news of the day. from the cap itol insurrection, he did not realize how emotional he was going to get. he talked about his fight as an american and as a patriot and as a black man to protect the people in it. he says there are people out there, we love this country but it was surprising to see the hate coming out of the people at that capitol that day. it is an unbelievable interview. >> he still kept other people safe at his own risk. >> we have been dealing with this topic of race and bigotry and unconscious bias a lot lately. we need to do something about it. i am going to run. i love you. >> all the hate directed at minorities and others, you know it makes me love you more. >> i love you. more relationships like this so we treat people as humans and we see the humanity in others and not demonizing people. thank you, chris, this is "cnn tonight," i am don lemon. you have to stay around to watch this interview. it sums up with everything we are dealing with now. i am going to take you through the news of the day which a lot is relatable, similar topic, okay? first, i want to take you to atlanta and i want to tell you what we know of the crime that's spreading fear in the asian communities across this country. deadly shootings at three atlanta spas killed eight people, six of them are asian americans. he's a 21-year-old white man, charged with eight counts of murder. he took responsibility for the shooting, indicating that he had a sexual addiction and may have gone to the spas in the past. i want you to listen to it, this is the terrifying 911 call from one of the crime scenes. here it is. >> do you have a description of him? >> a female or female? >> they have a gun you said? >>. >> some guy came in and shoot the gun so everybody heard the gunshots and some ladies got hurt, i think. everybody's scared so they're hiding. >> and in the sign of just how serious the white house is taking this. the president joe biden is asking two top advisers, susan r rice and cedric richmond to hold the community and calling the rise of asian americans troublesome. >> whatever the motivation here, i know the asian americans are very concerned. you know i was speaking about brutality against asian americans for the last couple of months and i think it is very, very troublesome. >> so, kamala harris, the first black and south-a asian-america condemning this. >> our country, and the president and i, we grieve the lost, we extend to the families of those been kill. it speaks to a large issue of violence in our country and what we must do to never tolerate it and always speak out against its. >> the former president of the united states barack obama tweeting out tonight, although the shooter's motive is not clear yet. the identity of the victim underscoring an alarming rise in anti-asian violence that must end. investigators say it is too early to tell whether this was a hate crime or motivated by race but six of the eight people killed were asian women. we have to look at the full picture here. whether or not the suspect has a sex addiction. gender is a hate crime category under georgia's new law. i talked about that moments ago with chris. >> so if the women were targeted out of hatred for them or scapegoating them for his own problem, it could potentially be a crime. it does not haves to be racially motivated to constitute a hate crime in georgia. i want to be clear right now. very clear that we don't know what the motive was in this case. i mean, really? we do know what happens. when hate is allowed to fester in this society as it has been over the last few years. we have seen it in charlottesville, jews do not replace us, backlood and soil, have seen it in the capitol insurrection and we have seen it in the death of ahmaud arbery and breonna taylor. >> he understood the gravity of it and he was fed up and at the end of his ropes and yesterday was a bad day for him and this was what he did. >> he had a bad day? eight people are dead and he had a bad day? that's something you say if things did not go so well at work or cranky with your partner or kids, you got into a disagreement with the boss. that's a bad day. flat tire or you're late or traffic ticket. it was a bad day for eight people who were shot to death. it was a bad day for their families and asian american people all across the country when are terrified they'll be the target of the next explosion of violence. it was the bad day for people across the country who are horrified by the hate and the abuse of asian americans. nearly 3,800 incidents reported to stop aapi hate between march of last year and february of this year. like i said we know what happens when hate is allowed to fester. we know the danger to everyone of was. alejandro mayorkas testifying today that lone wolf domestic terror is the greatest threat to this country. >> are you currently more worried of domestic violent extremist lone wolves? >> right now at this point in time, domestic violent extremism, the lone wolves and ideology of hate and others and extremism that are willing and able to take those ideologies and execute on them, it is our dp greatest threat in the homeland right now. >> how long are you going to continue to ignore and try to make excuses for it? >> how long are you going to say people who are pointing that out are being racist or discriminating against domestic terror, specifically the white wing domestic terrorists. you heard the fbi director and you heard him. it is hate that endangered all of us. the kind of hate that poisons america's conversations. even after we learn of the s shooting in georgia. the former president using a ra racist slur over the fox propaganda of the network. >> we were the envy of the world and when we got hit with the china virus. >> let me apologize. i am sorry for insulting your ears with that dribble. that racist dribble. you know what you voted to get rid of him. i i am sorry for playing the sound byte but sometimes i have to just to show you, how terrible the former one-term, disgraced is signature insurrection president is. even with hate spreading across the country is still up to his own terrible and dirty tricks. we saw all kinds of hate and it came ahead on january 6th. that brings us to january 6th right now. there it is. we saw it with our own eyes. i have to tell you some in the gop want you to ignore what you have seen with your own eyes. congr congressman voted responding to the insurrection to the capitol and why? why would he vote against honoring these american heroes? why don't i let him tell you? >> i am all for the medals but the speaker legislation contains language that was neither fair nor accurate, we now know there was no armed insurrection. >> no armed insurrection? what do you call the flags and flag poles that the officers were beaten with? what do you call the bear spray or toxic spray? those are arms. how do you know how many people were armed? most of them were not arrested that day. they were not arm. i want you to tell that to the five people who were killed. tell that to the police officers who were beaten within an inch of their lives. even using those bike racks and barricades as weapons. those are arms too, gohmert. tell that to american hero harry dunn. have a seat because i want you to hear what he said. he was called the "n" word dozens of time. this was a short time ago. here it is. >> i want to make it clear that this is not about me. this is about about standing up for what's right. and, spoke to some people that i trusted, some close friends of mine and i said i don't want to miss the mark today, i want to make sure my point gets across and it does not get diluted with playing the left or the right or i am playing the race card because that comes up a lot. i didn't wake up that morning and want to be called [ bleep ], plain and simple. i didn't asked to be call that. i didn't bring race into it. i just wanted to do my job. i wanted to talk to my do co-workers. we need to grow from it as a country and race and profession. so many teachable moments here and i don't want it to get away. >> that was a small part of the interview. you will want to hear the entire interview with officer dunn in a short moment mhere. you don't want to miss it because there is a lot of emotions from officer dunn as he talks about what happened on that terrible day and the latest of the deadly spa shooting in atlanta, that killed eight people. authorities say it is too early to call it hate crime. >> yes, i am connecting the dots here and saying that this kind of antiasian hate has to stop. 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first of all, that is not and was not normal. nobody should be subjected to go through what me and my colleagues went through. we dealt with terrorists who held back on changing the results of an election a and -- sorry, i got a little emotional right there. that intro kind of -- man. took me back there for a moment. >> i want you to be honest. why is that officer dunn? >> just today i guess it was a bitter or sweet kind of moment that we were acknowledged of getting the gold medal of the amazing honor. if i can say so it is humbly well deserved for my co-workers and myself. the circumstances in which we got it did not come at a great loss. we lost some colleagues and just thinking about it is fresh now. you have good days and bad days and just thinking about it takes you back to that hell day. it was tough the live through and also tough to relive and talking about it. >> you know i have seen some interviews with you. i have never seen you this emotional. do you think in the beginning were you in a state of shock and now all of a sudden you are coming to the realization of what happened, why emotional this time? >> i think that's just part of the healing process. you allow yourself to be honest about your feelings and stages of grief and there is no timeline of how you heal and talking about it has been therapeutic for me. honestly that's why i am still talking. there is more to say. i want to tell stories of the heroes that day, my co-workers fought some fights and after my first interview, a lot of them came to me and expressed their gratitude speaking out and giving us a voice and some more shared with me stories of their hells that day and just thinking about it, it was rough. it is rough. i guess i carry that a little heavy today, i guess. >> listen, i appreciate you sharing and all of this. i want people to know. i mention how you were called racial slurs. here you are, a police officer, protecting the capitol. that's your job as a police officer and here you have this group of people who starts storming the capitol and trying to over take a place, the symbol of democracy and you as a peace officer calling you the "n" word. what was it like? take us through what happened? >> i said before at this particular moment when i was called and i will refer to it as a racial slur. i said it earlier but that word is a weapon has been said before. i don't want to give it power especially at this moment right now. i am going to refer to it as a racial slur. at that moment i was unable to process when it happened. once i had time to sit down and put it all together. it was overwhelming that here we are giving so much and putting our lives on the line to protect democracy and keep it and we are being called racial slurs, traitors, any weapons these people could use because they were upset something so -- you know i guess it is harder for me now because at the time i did my first interview, i didn't know the pain that a lot of my colleagues had suffered. they shared it with me and i am rawlings it them now in my head. >> what did they say to you? > > >> it was bad. i will share one story. one of my colleagues said he was called a racial slur, he was carrying a rifle, a long gun that day and a group of terrorists came to him and said you think you are a tough "n" word with that gun. put that gun down and we'll show you what type of "n" word you are. nobody deserves that. nobody deserves to be talked to like that especially this guy. he did not deserve -- yeah, it was rough. we keep coming back and back, we love our country even though it does not love us back. >> people around the country loves you. it is just that group of insurrectionists and racist folks don't know what real patriotism is. >> there are a lot of people who are rooting for you. >> i got to ask you though about some of our lawmakers. like senator ron johnson who says he was not afraid of the insurrectionists of the people who were there because he knew they support law enforcement and that he would not be hurt but if it was a group of black lives matter, or antifa, he would felt completely another way. he was saying those people were patriot and they love their country and they were not racist. what do you say to him? >> i can't comment directly to any of the ansenators'. those people there on the 6th, they were there to cause harm. they came prepared for a fight. they hurt us physically and emotionally. i can only speak to the black lives matter movement at the capitol this summer. they did come up. i do know that they did not attempt to breach the capitol. there were officers who listened with them and some of them took a knee with them. and what happened at the capitol, i am not talking about any other states or country, state capitol, i am talking about the united states capitol when these two things happened, black lives matter did come to the capitol. they protested behind the bike racks and they did not attempt or hurt anybody. nobody was arrested. i can speak for those facts. >> you can't comment on what senators had to say. i remember louie gohmert and other trump's allies want to rewrite the history of january 6th. you don't want to comment on their comments? how important was it to you of the event on that day? >> it is always important to tell the truth and be honest of what happened regardless of what it is. that was attempted insurrection. they attempted to interrupt democracy. that's what they attempted to do. i don't know any other way to describe it. officer sicknick was killed. we had officers that took their lives because of the stress that they endured from that day. that's what happened. i don't know how you can word it any different and what exactly happened. >> i want to ask you something you have been vocal about and that you have talked about with me. you talk about the dark place you were in following the insur insurrection. you also worried of your fellow officers who are dealing with depression and who have been dealing with depression in law enforcement and even before the insurrection and now afterwards are dealing with depression possibly even suicide. why is this so important to you? what do you want to say about it? >> i will start first thing that i don't think dealing with depression or any type of stress related to an incident is a color thing that several white officers, asian american officers that went through hell also. but, the black officers struggle with different, we fought against not just for people that hated what we represented but they hated our skin color also. they use those words to prove that. they showed that they hated us and they hated our skin color. why it is so difficult because a lot of people don't know what it is like. we feel like sometimes we are alone alone even though we are not. as well as people across the country had an out ppouring support. it is hard to put in words because everybody is affected by things differently but black officers can relate with each other and we kind of lean on each other a little more as a support system because we know what it is like to face racism as a minority, i guess so. >> i want to make it clear that this is not about me. this is not about me. this is about standing up for what's right. and i spoke to some people that i trusted and some close friends of mine and i said i don't want to miss the mark today. i want to make sure my point gets across and it does not get diluted with i am playing the left or the right or the race card because that comes up a lot. oh, why you play the race card? i didn't wake up that morning and want to be called the -- i didn't asked to be called that. i didn't bring race into it. i just wanted to do my job. i wanted to talk to my co-workers and say this is a moment. we need to dpgrow as a country d a race and a profession. so many teachable moments here. i don't want it to get away. >> officer harry dunn. i commend you for your candor and for being brave enough to come on television and talk about these things in such an open and honest way. i thank you again for your service, i am sorry for what you went through. there are people in the force and people in the world like you. thank you very much. >> thank you for having me, i appreciate it. >> thank you, everybody. >> officer dunn did not sign up to be a spokesperson or to come on international television to tell his story, he signed up to be a police officer. you can understand his emotion and you can understand if he was a bit nervous or he was not quite sure of what he's supposed to say but he came on tv and said it. and, i think we all should respect him for saying it and respect his experience because he's speaking from officer dunn's experience and the experience of police officers who were directly involved in the insurrection. hold your criticism about playing the race card and all those things that people who don't want to deal with the issue of race in this country that you bring up to try to scapegoat it. stop it. you heard the man. we need the take care of this problem in our country. a man who serves this country in many, many ways. listen to him. listen to him. do the work. so authorities in atlanta are saying it is too soon to say what the motive was in the deadly spa shooting in the atlanta area, the fear that asian americans are feeling tonight is very real, our show is just beginning here on cnn. we'll be live from atlanta, next. everyone. everywhere. where everyone is included. where everyone has access to information, education, opportunity. ♪ ♪ ♪ when everyone and everything is connected. that's really beautiful. anything is possible. good morning. cisco. the bridge to possible. we visited mars...mars! and people with diabetes are still pricking their fingers? 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charges. he's charged with eight counts of murders. six asian women among those kills. police officers don't know the motive and we'll have much more on the investigative part of the story on the broadcast. the murder striking fear into the hearts of millions of asian americans. violence against the community spiking since the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic one year ago. i want to bring in our cnn's am b amara walker. thank you for joining us. the attack against asian americans all across this nation. how is the community reacting tonight, explain to us what people are feeling right now. >> reporter: yeah, don, it is not the first time and sadly won't be the last. like first of all, as you were mentioning, investigators have been saying too early to say whether it is a racially motivated crime. for the asian american community says it is hard to ignore the fact that six out of the eight victims were asian women. all three businesses employed a lot of asian workers. so this has been a traumatizing time for the asian community. they are seeing increasing hate across the country. >> it was evil. it was so obvious. she hated me because of the way i look. >> reporter: the hate is pa papable. >> yesterday we were at the restaurant and i was getting my plate and this lady was sitting at her table and she's eating her meal and she just looked at me very disgustingly and i stared at her. >> reporter: miseon and her husband tell cnn they are vigilant after the shooting in atlanta where it is legal to ca carry handgun with a permit. >> it is an asian accomplishment. >> reporter: incident from verbal harassment had many asian americans feeling threaten for their lives. >> i didn't lose anything, all of my belongings are with me. i think it is a hate crime. >> reporter: a violent attack left danny chen with two black eyes left him feeling partially blind. they're stepping up patrols for predominantly asians neighborhood. the new york police department are doing the same. they hit too close to home for georgia state representative, vy nguyen. whether or not we can determine if this was a hate crime. >> reporter: investigators say it was too early to determine whether tuesday's shootings are a hate crime. experts argued that most of tuesday's victims were asian women. >> well, he went to three different locations, all asian business owners and all employing asian workers and killing six asian women and when you think about how our country view asian women, there is a sexualization of asian women prevalent in hollywood and media, it is not a new concept. those things are intertwine. >> reporter: six out of the eight victims were asians. according to stop aapi hate and asian american pacific islander advocacy group, there had been 3,000 anti-asians incidents reported. it starts with acknowledging the history of racism against asians in america. >> what we are in the process right now in this country is rehumanizing individuals who have been dehumanized from the beginning of getting here. >> it is going to be -- this is a moment that'll lead to a movement. >> we don't need to keep it silent. don't be afraid to talk about it. >> reporter: and donna, i want to mention, miseon that i met, i approached her assuming that she would have a story about racism. she did. most of us asians do. i would say about ten minutes ago someone driving by shouted "virus" in our direction. back to you. >> oh boy. amara, thank you so much. i appreciate your reporting. you stay safe and i will see you soon. thank you very much. >> as you can see from amara's reporting and everyone has been talking about tonight and today. the fear in the asian american community is very real. andrew yang is joining me to talk about that next after the break. the harry's razor is not the same our razors have 5 german-engineered blades designed to stay sharp so you can enjoy lasting comfort and we never upcharge you for high quality harry's. available in store and at harrys.com 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questioning a madman about his motivations strikes me and millions of other americans as a complete waste of time. the fact is if you target workers in an asian-owned business in an asian community, you know exactly who you're going to find inside those establishments. and it is asian women. and of the eight shooting victims, six were asian women. and as an asian-american, this feels exactly like what it is, which is that asian women were targeted in a devastating hate crime that is senseless and tragic and as you said, i think about them, their families, their children, the people who will never see them again. >> you're right. police aren't offering a motive. it is hard to ignore that six of the victims were asian women. he was going into asian establishments. how do you balance that right now looking at this case? >> the facts are plain. particularly given the context where new york city where i am now has seen a 900% in documented anti-asian violence incidents. and even that number, we know, is an under estimate because there are many people suffering in silence. they will not call the authorities. they will not shear their story. and that's common place. i talk to victims of this sort of violence in new york city and this phenomenon is real, it is growing more veer lent, more prevalent. it is one reason why last night's killings feel more like a continuation of a trend that many of us are feeling? seeing around us every day. >> listen, i want to get quickly from you what you want people to hear. how can people be better allies for the asian community? >> the worst part about this sort of violence, don, is that it is so dehumanizing. like this man targeted people based upon their race and you know, the way they looked. the message has to be that asian-americans are human beings. asian-americans are just as american as anyone else. that this kind of hatred and violence has to stop. that we have to start seeing each other as human beings. you and i talked about this earlier today. and the simplest step, and i am going to take this from jumani williams, a friend here in new york. he said we can start by greeting and being friendly to people that we would not ordinarily greet. and you may surprise someone. but that to me is like an immediate step toward seeing each other as human beings and trying to open up our sense of who is in our community. to me, everyone should be in our community. we have. so more to share than differentiates us. if americans start to feel way, then these incidents can diminish instead of rise. >> you know i always say get a friend who doesn't look like you, all kinds of friends. and it starts with relationships. andrew, thank you. so. it is good to see you. we'll talk more. i'll see you soon. >> so we'll talk about the civil rights act. what is on the horizon. voting rights. senator amy klobuchar, next. kee. turns out it's mostly water. so, we switched back to tide. one wash, stains are gone. daughter: slurping 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job. and then to follow with the other people that shouldn't be