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Incidents of harassment, vandalism, and assault heart targeting the jewish community throughout todays in 22. the highest number ever recorded in a single year. attorneys general wiser, breonna, and nestle are back with me. mr. bonta you are californias first filipino attorney general therefore i understand the struggles of facing the aapi community. how has that inform the way you spearhead laws and initiatives in your state? >> we all bring our lived experiences to our roles and mine is growin...

The subject is personal to him. >> i went to school with a very diverse community, very heavily asian. many similar traits to the dino community, many immigrant families, many who come hoping to do more knowing have a chance to go to college. i relate to so many of the fights and struggles that folks in the aa and hpi community have. >> have you seen in the last year that worked to combat the misperception and violence in the community? >> we heard about some of these hate crimes that about thei...

American immigrant family in a way that we have not seen before. its super popular, its hot box office hit, as well as oscar winner. >> nancy, i do want to note, aapi month coincides with mental health awareness. we are already dealing with a rise of racism de directed towards the aapi community, talk to us more about how you feel like the winds, like michelle yeoh, how those winds will be able to lift a community out of a feeling of oppression and out of a feeling of being under attack. >> the ...

Origin then to the united states. and to clarissas point, these terra drone terribly damaging stereotypes, i mean, i thought this was an amazing question. it was asked, in tv or the movies, asian american women are often portrayed in the following types of character roles, the highest response for asian american women was i dont know. that was the response. but then 50% said asian reckon women are geisha, sex workers, prostitutes, or strippers. for men its kung fu martial art experts, seconded b...

Where the hate has occurred. >> carissa, so with as under attack with all of these stereotypes and tropes, lets speak frankly amongst the three of us, and to the viewers out large that are also asian american. our cultures, they often dont communicate well with words. culturally is very hard for us to be able to speak about our emotions, and what is going on. oftentimes its communication through actions instead of words. talk therapy, sometimes it doesnt feel culturally comfortable for us, what ...

Members of San Francisco's AAPI community are calling out banks, particularly Wells Fargo, who back gun manufacturers.

Or what may come from these 80s or trying to restrict the advancements that secretary becerra and his team have made, for mifepristone and misoprostol in this country. >> my thanks to you, amy hagstrom miller, for getting us up to speed on whats going on. we definitely want to have you back as we wait for that texas judge to make his ruling, when it comes to abortion medications. thanks for being here this morning. i appreciate you. and now we want to bring you an update to a story we covered he...

Competent, questioning your ability to serve in congress. theres a lot to say about this. but for those who have -- who did not hear your initial push back on the contention that the businessman in question, mr. or ng, is an agent of chinese intelligence. can you explain why you are confident that he should serve in the position that president biden appointed him to? >> dominic ng is an icon in the ap i community. he brought this back from a time when it was very small, and when there was such i...

He brought this back from a time when it was very small, and when there was such intercessory to be able to have loans for the local asian american community, to a nationwide bank. and hes highly respected by many, certainly in the api community, but also in the entire community. of course he was vetted extensively for this position. and we need him right now, actually, because we want to create closer ties with other asian countries, so that we can make sure that we have allies in asia as indee...

>> certainly, under that pressure -- we will see what mccarthy will do as this moves forward. i do want to ask you, before you go, congressman, about something the new york mayor eric adams said today. because we have been talking so much tonight about the elections and president bidens likely -- very soon announcement that he will be running again -- so, mayor adams is blaming woke democrats for pushing away some voters. he got really specific about it. i wanted to play it for you. >> it is the...