forgotten, the victims in atlanta. i felt like watching your whole show tonight. that's what it was about. so our bill is about not forgetting our democracy. so go ahead. >> thank you so much for saying that. there have been so many people who have brought poignant words and made us think tonight and who inspired us to be better people. you chair the senate rules committee that will hold a hearing on the bill next week. and listen, the stakes couldn't be any higher. republicans are trying to suppress the vote all over the country. how will you get this bill passed? that's the central question. >> let's start with the good. the good is that for the first time, thanks to those incredible senators from georgia, warnock and ossoff, we have the gavel. i have the gavel. jeff merkley, the author of the bill, we have two new senators, and we'll get this bill through the committee. we'll have the first hearing ever in the senate. it has only been in the house. they passed it in the house of representatives and then we bring it to the floor. and my arguments, for passing it, which they will be strong, one. there are nine of them, bipartisan. we have republican governor that's have embraced vote by mail, early registration to vote. this bill, the american people are behind it by wide, wide margins. just like the american rescue plan, remember that. the biggest thing we've done. all about getting to the end of the, the light at the end of the tunnel. getting through this pandemic. that bill as well. it seems like the only republican who's didn't like it worked in the congress. because their constituents liked it. we used a strange way of doing it which was reconciliation. we had no other choice. joe biden was not going to wait six months to get it done. i would make the same, a utility for this bill. we get it to the floor. we see what support we get. and then yes, for this and a whole number of other things, minimum wage which has to be increased. many, many other issues. i believe we should get rid of the filibuster. not everyone agrees with me but you can't let an archaic old jim crow procedure get in the way of the change the american people voted for. >> listen, we've talked about on this program the hundreds of bills out there. many trying to dismantle voting rights in states. if you can't pass, i know you said you'll do it. but if you can't fast senate bill 1 and the dems won't back changes, what is plan b? what are democrats going to do if you can't get this passed? >> well, remember, senator manchin a few weekends ago talked about this standing filibuster and how that is one way. there are many ways to get there. >> president joe biden spoke about it last night in an interview as well. sorry to interrupt. >> exactly. so there are many ways to get there. political parties when they lose an election, they're supposed to examine their policies. figure out how to reach out to more voters. right now the republican party is doubling down on their positions, cpac as exhibit a. and then they've said, maybe we'll just disenfranchise voters introducing over 250 bills in legislatures across the country in over 40 states to basically make it so less people vote. because they don't want the same people to vote who brought in joe biden to victory. that is not democracy. i won't concede that we can't get it done one way or the other. getting support, because of what i mentioned. the byipartisan proposals, or making the procedures to get it done. >> a quick answer if you will. are you worried about this whole scorched earth thing that mitch mcconnell is promising if we try on get rid of the filibuster? >> you know, they threatened that on the last bill and yet there were so many proposals they supported including the restaurant act. people use this rhetoric. i don't really care. the constituents that we have, they're at home. they're bouncing their todd letoddlers on their knees, trying teach preschoolers to hold down the mute button, convenient due and they're out of a job because of the pandemic. that's why we had to get the pandemic bill done. we must do something to save our democracy. if no one ever told you that, it has to be the words of officer dunn. he made it very clear after he was pillored with poles and called the "n" word 15 times and said to his friend, is this america. so our apreply to that questions this bill. this is about everyone having the right to vote. the things school kids say, one nation under god. >> thank you. i appreciate your time and your kind words. we'll see you soon. >> so it isn't clear tonight if the georgia man suspected of killing eight people in georgia will be charged with hate crimes. he's already charged with eight count of murder. police officers saying they don't know yet the motive in this case but also saying that when he was apprapprehended, th believe he was on his way to florida to possibly carry out more shootings. bringing in now ryan young who has been covering this for us from atlanta. good evening to you. this suspect has been charged with murder. six of the eight victims were asian women. what is the latest on the investigation? the suspect's motives? what do you know? >> yeah. think about where we were last night at this time. we had so many questions about this and i still think tonight, there are more investigative parts that we have to figure out. we do know the sheriff's department has been appointmenting to maybe a sex addiction that this suspect had, robert long. they're saying because of the sex addiction, he then wanted to come to places and open fire because he was trying to avoid that. that was one of the things so puzzling when we heard that come out. i want to point this out. we've been talking about the suspect. sort of highlighting some of the people kill. that's what the focus should be on. the names, we don't have the chases just yet. we've seen atlanta pouring out in terms of flowers and other sites. we're just across the street where three other women were killed. this is a community that has been struggling with this. people really upentity the fact this man would commit this violence in metro atlanta. listen to one of the 911 calls as the calls came in. >> do you have a description of him, ma'am? is it a male or female? >> -- >> they have a gun, you said? >> some guy came in and took gun. so everybody heard the gunshots. and some ladies got hurt, i think. everybody's scared so they're hiding. >> when you think about this, the family members of robert long came forward to law enforcement to provide them with that information. gave them that tracking information. we were wondering how they were able to catch him on the road on the way to florida. we now realize it was his parents who gave that information so they could track him and be ready for him as he went into a different county. we know his first court appearance will be tomorrow. he was talking with investigators, not sure at this point if that still continues. one thing you will notice from that mug shot. he was wearing a vest. we know he was on suicide watch for the next 24 hours. there have been so many people lining up over the last few hours. some people coming to shed tears. upset about the violence that's happened in this community. it has kind of made this area just pause in terms of what's happening over the last 24 hours. >> ryan young covering the story for us. thank you. i want to bring in the former fbi assistant director for the division and former agent, she's also a cnn legal and national security analyst. good evening to both of you. i appreciate you joining. chris, i'll start with you. what is the fbi doing right now to determine whether this was a hate crime? >> well, working the sheriff's department and the police departments, i'm sure they're looking at electronic media at this point if they haven't reviewed it already. any social media, any mobile phone, laptop, postings this person made. and i did have a chance to talk to someone very high level in the investigation. it looks like the individual was deeply disturbed. that he's confessed already. his family has provided information about him. he was basically targeting the business. not necessarily the ethnicity. although it is still an open question and there is more evidence to review. >> we're learning that the suspect was in drug addiction rehab last year. law enforcement that he thought about killing himself but decided to help others. that's a quote from him, by targeting the spas instead. if this is confirmed, couldn't he be prosecuted for a hate crime toward women? >> yes, don and this is an important point. race is definitely a basis for a hate crime. but in 2009, gender, gnl identity, sexual orientation and disability were all added to the federal hate crime statute. so if there is a motivation for any of those factors, it could still an hate yim that jurisdiction. this brings to the floor the idea of intersectioniality. this is the idea that someone can belong to two different groups that perhaps the law treats as distinct categories. but there is a specific harm when a person actually embodies both of them. that you might miss if you're focusing on these separate categories. so in this case, asian women. if we're only focusing on race or only focusing on gender, we might miss some of the specific harms that may accrue to a person that embodies this particular category. and i think that what we are seeing is some of the come mexico at this involved in that march idea. >> so, listen, experts told cnn that asian women are uniquely vulnerable to violence. talk to me about that. >> this is what i'm talking about. there can be particular ideas, for example, sexualization that is also intertwined with race. that asian women tend on deal with. >> fetishizing. this person didn't target strip clubs. he really came to a particular time of business. was that intentional? we don't know. but it does overlamb with a specific ethnic community and it does overlap with women who work there. so i think that we need to think about the ways that particular communities who embody different base he's of gender, racial motivated violence can be uniquely targeted in these situations. >> chris, a couple things here. the "new york times" is reporting that organizations that track hate groups are warning about a phenomenon called male supremacy terrorism, driven by aggravated entitlement and detire to preserve traditional gender roles. could that be something that we're seeing with this shooting? >> hard to say. i mean, there are times when someone just goes off. they're mentally imbalanced. they have inner demons. we've seen it time and time and time again. and i'm not discounting the potential for a motive as a hate crime. i'm saying there are times when people just go off. there are many deeply disturbed individuals out there and the internet isn't helpful, the political rhetoric isn't helpful. there are a lot of things. this is the proverbial lone wolf that we're always talking about. it only takes one or two things as the final thing to set them off. >> i want you to talk about that. i just realized, i'm not wearing my glasses or my contacts. i said aggravated male entitlement. aggrieved male entitlement. driven by aggrieved male entitlement and desire to preserve traditional gender roles. what do you think of that? >> this is an ideology, right? i think that there are analysts that have kind of watched the evolution of this. this was sort of in cell group. i think it is true that most of these are lone wolf actors. this isn't an portion has some kind of leadership or structure. but it is based on this idea attack on masculinity. in the dark web, groups that come together around a sense of loss about particular aspects of masculinity and it drives violence. we've seen it in shooting in the past as this being a motivation. so it is hard to actually track this. because it is not organized. and it can be something that someone gets radicalized into on their own on the internet. but it gets to this idea of gender-based violence, i think. >> i'm told we're having a bit of a break-up problem with your picture there but we can hear you clearly. chris, i want to ask but the nypd, deploying to counter this. are you concerned about copy cats? >> always. and i have read up on this. there has been a spike in new york city and about 1660s in the u.s., in asian hate crimes. they're only about 4% of overall hate crimes, this past year it has been a 150% increase. the nypd is always on top of their game. they have a great intel unit and they're being proactive. >> police arrested a man outside vice president kamala harris's residence and a d.c. police department shows he had an ar-15, ammunition, five 30-pound magazines. no one is living there now but what kind of alarm bells is this going to set off in d.c.? >> that's a very serious incident. they apparently got a tip from i believe it was texas on that and they were able, i'm sure there are some pretty frenetic investigations behind the scenes. they were able to acost this individual near the residents. the secret service picked this person up. they interrogated him and they'll do the same thing with his electronic media. is he alone or part of a group, are there others involved? i would not discount one bit the seriousness of this incident. when someone shows up that armed to the teeth. >> that's a lot of ammo. a perfect picture now that we're done. thank you so much. we'll see you soon. even after we learned about shoot things in georgia last night, the former president was still using an anti-asian term, blaming covid on china. how do we fight the hate that has poisoned. so of america? hate that endangers all of us? i've always focused on my career. but when we found out our son had autism, his future became my focus. lavender baths always calmed him. so we turned bath time into a business. and building it with my son has been my dream job. at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com itchy? 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>> not at all. thank you for having me and covering this very important issue and our condolences continue to go out to the people of georgia and the families of the victims. let's be clear. hate crimes against asian-americans are not a new phenomenon. when we look at the numbers and how the incidents have skyrocketed in the last 12 or 13 months or so, we absolutely lay the at the feet of the former president and the republican party. this president who had a wide global part form continued until yesterday to use incendiary words like chinese virus and kung flu. when we tried to pass a symbolic resolution for congress to stand united to condemn bigotry toward asian-americans, 164 republicans would not even vote for that. >> that's what i want to talk to you about. in semithe house passed a resolution that you sponsored that deannounces anti-asian hate. and 164 republicans voted against this measure calling it, and i call it, woke culture on steroids. accusing democrats of trying to rebuke president trump months pft election. tell me about this measure. and what it addresses. >> we wrote this legislation oriole in the pandemic. we wanted the asian-american culture to know that any sort of racism and bigotry was not acceptable. we put the resolution out. i didn't even put the president's name in the language of the resolution. unfortunately, we had leaders like kevin mccarthy who said this wasn't on the minds and was not being discussed at kitchen tables around america. so i want to ask him if these issues are indeed being discussed today after what we saw in atlanta, and after over 3,800 incidents across this country during the past year. >> and representative, just to add to your case, the case that you're making, in case anyone is not familiar with the racism asian-americans have been facing. i want to play some of the vile messages you received in your office after the resolution passed. here it is. >> i'm calling about the karate kid virus. the kung fu virus, whatever it is that came from asia. it's not racist. it's the truth. filthy people. >> hey, you look like a chinese virus, you fat slob. maybe kung fu. you look like a wu han, you fat ugly fat slob. >> so many more like this. so many more audio messages like this. and one even more repulsive. this is why there's fear in asian communities. are folks in other groups banning together, do you think? >> absolutely. and i want to be clear. look, i have thick skin. those voicemails don't bother me but i feel horrible because there are asian-americans telling their parents not to leave their homes. there are parents of kids who are texting me saying, there is no way i'm letting my kid play outside even when it is nice out. they don't want them to get bullied and harassed. one good thing that i see coming out of this is the alliedship being demonstrated. for the past few months we've had leaders in the black, latino, native-american community speak up from months ago until today. just look at social media. look at the news. the outpouring of support from every day community members to leaders, in our allied communities. it is so heart warming. i believe that because of this, we will have increased opportunities to build and to strengthen these coalitions. to work together to fight the roots of racism and not each other. we won't point fingers at any group. >> thank you so much. i'm sorry that you're having to deal with this but i also appreciate your courage for bringing these issues up so that at least people have a chance to vote on it and that it may have one day received passage. thank you. this is what i talk about in my new book. i'm not here to hawk the book. i think it can actually help people with these conversations. like officer dunl said, we have to address the problem. this actually helps to spark a conversation, it helps people realize how to do the work. this is the fire. what i say to my friends about racism. it is out now. check it out and let's start having those conversations. new york governor andrew cuomo addressing president biden. it sounds like he's trying to down play what the president that. can we be besties, simone biles? 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