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will commit additional acts of violence, it's more a question of when. welcome to thursday. this is "meet the press daily." i'm chuck todd. six asian women are dead when gunman aaron long went on a two-county rampage targeting spas in the area. while a motive has not yet been determined, the reality is this happened to have happened during a massive rise in asian american violence in this nation. a year after the prior administration referred to the pandemic as the china virus or the kung flu. now our leaders are being forced to recon with a ugly reality. two senior administration ...

of korean descent. at this time, the motive, however, is unknown. it is unclear if the attacks were racially motivated. a 21-year-old suspect is now in custody. there's a picture there. security is ramping up in other asian communities as a precaution. secretary of state antony blinken, who was in south korea, gave this message just moments ago. >> horrified by this violence which has no place in america or anywhere. we will stand up for the right of our fellow americans, korean americans to be safe and to be treated with dignity. >> we begin this hour with the latest on the shooting...

There's a john lewis voting rights act. one bill that the democrats want to pass. it would restore protections in the voting rights action that protects against voter suppression and then there's expanding voting access and making election day a federal holiday, election day. the democrats have these proposals. the question is if this president gives this speech today and the math does not change, is there a fallback plan, or is this all or nothing? >> right. to this point it seems kind of all or nothing for democrats. they have said the john lewis act. they have -- they also have that voting ...

Saying air force one comes to our district. i thought that's a really extreme. this person we are talking about the event. stacey abrams. this is an event custom made for stacey abrams. >> i don't know if it's that. >> what is it? >> i would say the elements is there for one to speculate. i do know some of the activist groups on the ground have said they're boycotting this not to happen. some are frustrated that it took joe biden this long to come out and strongly deal with the filibuster question and joe, you and i and mika had this conversation on the show that i have been pushing. i came in...

50 democrats are signed on to the exact details of what we need to protect the right of every american citizen to vote and to get that vote counted. to get rid of gerrymandering and beat back dark money. all 50 of us are there. we just got to make it across the filibuster question. there are a lot of different ways we can do that. keep in mind, joy, the united states congress just created an exception to the filibuster. >> they did. >> literally in the last two days when we all said, oh, yeah. we're going to raise the debt ceiling and make it filibuster proof. let's do it one more time and get...