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a climate more conducive for generations of home grown acts of violent hatred but not everyone wants to confront the problem or even admit it. some people want to look away to not see the mass killings in el paso, pittsburgh, the rise in anti asian and driven mind set being cut from the same ugly cloth. today in the first congressional testimony since being confirmed dhs secretary made the connections and the threat clear. >> right now at this point in time, domestic violent extremism,...

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. thats overt obvious racism. >> right. these are the things that we need to dig into as both of us do in therapy to figure out whats going on. ...

>> the skis, cnn, breaking news hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. im proud rica whitfield, and were tracking two major breaking news stories this afternoon, next hour, president biden is set to attend a state dinner in france. i will bring that to you live as it happens, you the is there in paris with the first aid dr. jill biden, plus the french president and first lady. and dramatic new developments in the middle east for israeli hostages rescued from g...

murder and shootings at three massage spas in and around the city. of the eight killed, six victims were of asian descent. its hard to ignore, who was targeted, or overlook the fact that this did not happen in a vacuum. it happened, as three new reports explain, each, from its own angle. at a dangerous moment for this country in a climate more conducive than its been in generations for homegrown acts of violent hatred. yet, as we will talk about tonight, not everyone wants to con front...

you got to see what happened in atlanta as an opportunity. i dont know what were going to find out, about what this shooter understands of his own motives. i am, certainly, not giving him any excuses. but, is there any, other reason, other than the obvious here, for why he targeted asian-american women? even if it was a sex thing, why did it have to be them? why were they the object of his desire? or his affliction? and even if the analysis is strained -- >> i could tell you. >> its no...

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the suspect in the killing spree that left eight people dead at three different spas in atlanta felt tortured by sexual addiction. >> six asian-american women who were shot and killed yesterday. >> the asian community is once again being target. the country still averaging over 50,000 new cases every day. >> when we see a plateau like that that predicts another surge. >> we are vaccinating really well. thats the good news. these variants are spreading thats the bad news. this is "n...

morning. a lot going on. >> yeah, there is. >> we have important new developments after the murder of eight people in georgia. six of them asian women. asian-americans on edge in the u.s. and you can understand why. authorities are noting the suspect claims the shootings were not racially motivated. but he says were the result of sexual addiction. a sheriffs deputy facing backlash for this description of the suspects frame of mind. >> he understood the gravity of it. and he was pretty ...

representative bea nguyen, the first vietnamese-american to be elected to the georgia statehouse. we were speaking to lisa ling. she said too often when there are killings like this, we focus on the suspect, on the shooter. we dont ask what should be the first question which is, tell me about the victims. how are the victims? how are the people targeted? in this case, the six asian women who were killed, but also the asian american community in general. so thats my first question to yo...

potentially another covid search. as more states open up, as air travel numbers open up and hit records since the start of the pandemic, the cdc is warning new variants could wipe out all the progress weve made recently if we let our guard down. but first, we begin with our colleague natasha chen. she joins us in georgia. good morning. there is new surveillance video from close to one of the scenes of those murders. what can you tell us this morning? >> yeah, poppy, it was actually tho...