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the el paso border sector. the biden administration still getting hit over a lack of transparency. >> sandra: to "the new york post" covered today showing migrants of the border with the headline "divide and said help." and a rise in crime. >> john: but first lets get to griff jenkins, hes on the border in sunland park new mexico. chris, youve been doing some amazing work. >> thats what the dhs and biden administration doesnt want you to see, and thats access as to what writer lungs ar...

take as much time as you want. >> im done. im done. im done. >> thank you, rachel. thank you. well, we are going to be joined tonight by congresswoman grace meng, who had a moment today in a house judiciary committee hearing that gave powerful voice to the thoughts and emotions that many asian-americans have experienced this week in particular. you could see in that moment a frustration that had been building for much longer than just this week. congresswoman grace meng took on a rep...

this hearing seems to divide us as americans. >> the first congressional hearing in more than three decades on violence and discrimination against the asian american community. many say that its reached a crisis and the question is, what are we prepared to do about it? plus, the fbi releases a whole slew of new videos that officials say are the egregious assaults on police officers during the capitol riot. the question is, will it help them identify more suspects? and the biden adm...

after six women of asian descent were among eight people killed in a rampage at three spas in the atlanta area. joining me now nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett in atlanta, nbc news correspondent dr. john torres and heidi presblea. tell us more about the visit to the cdc and the vice president and presidents visit meeting with asian-american leaders this hour. >> the visit to the cdc officials told us that was the president and vice presidents opportunity to get a briefi...

but, first, the battles over bidens border crisis and big tech dominance playing out in courtrooms across the country. texas a.g. ken paxton leading the charge demanding answers from twitter, google, and the biden administration. heres paxton with me on the program earlier this week. >> we have asked twitter for basically answers that if they are going to operate in our state they have to answer. its state law. and despite that, they have taken this to california to ask a california ju...

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,...

racially motivated. he apparently has an issue, what he considers -- sees these locationings as something that allows him to go to these places. it was a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate. >> now on the one hand, is the analysis as simple as the sheriff makes it? again a certainty here is just what happened, just this pointless loss of life for so many and so many families affected within the asian and american community, is certainly fueling widespread fears in the asia...

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. ...

in washington today the arrest of a 31-year-old texas man outside the naval observatory of the official residence of vice president harris. a rifle ask ammunition were recovered from his vehicle. he has been charged with several accounts. among them carrying possession of unregistered munition and large munition fueling device. the secret service says the secret service operators detained him. vice president harris wasnt there and a bulletin originated in the state of texas. the news c...

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...