by that suspect were staffed predominantly by people of asian descent. all but one of the women killed were of asian descent. the suspect was apprehended and taken into custody late last night. he was charged today with eight counts of murder. law enforcement says he has admitted to the shootings. police say he told them he has a sex addiction and that s why he says he killed all those women working in those spas, because he wanted to eliminate his temptation for his addiction or something. police say in talking with the suspect, he gave them no indication that the killings were racially motivated, even if they did predominantly target asian women. a police captain in the cherokee county sheriff s department, cherokee county is where the first shooting took place. when he discussed the suspect s explanation for the shooting, he told reporters it was because the suspect was having a, quote, bad day yesterday. that s what he said. as if that was an explanation for why the young
we ll see you here tomorrow night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. it turns out all of our guests are of asian descent and expert about what we ve been seeing in atlanta except for one guest, which is, of course, senator john osoff, who will be joining us and also discussing the situation in atlanta and the situation in the united states senate. so, it s excellent. a night of serious reflection on a situation that really now needs our attention. absolutely. get to it, my friend. thank you, lawrence. thank you, rachel. katherine tai was born to parents who were born in china, went to yale, harvard law school, became an expert in trade and she served in the bush administration as general counsel to the united states trade representative, a cabinet level position. general counsel is a very important job. she continued as counsel to the trade representative during the obama administration when the trade representative was an bomb appoint
that biden doesn t care. he s not worried about those numbers. he s just working and he s ignoring the republicans and that s got to be driving them crazy. i think that his laid back approach has been good. i think that there was some bad casting around his approach early on that he ll be able to work with these republicans. no. on the right. look, i don t know if you heard the open of the show tonight but i m tired of this media baiting about mitch mcconnell. oh, he s threatening. if you get rid of the filibuster. why? why is the media all atwitter about this? what do you think he s going to do? it s not a threat, it s a promise. right. he will do you dirty and play power politics and beat you. always. again. always. that s what he does. you re going to not remove the filibuster because you re worried about what it will mean to mitch mcconnell. he will do it to you. he did it to you in 2017 with the most sacred aspect of super majority which is supreme cour
arrest, there s still a lot more work to be done. we re just not there as of yet. during our interviews we asked that specific question and that did not appear to be the motive. more on that tragedy in a few moments, but we begin with a sweeping and news-making new interview with president biden, his message to vaccine hesitant americans, quote, be patriots. the president also says he won t let senate procedures stand in the way of his agenda but he proposes changing the filibuster and not getting rid of it. and stern words for vladimir putin. he would pay a price. i said i looked in our eyes and i don t think you have a soul, and he looked back and said i think we understand each other. i have dealt with a lot of foreign leaders in my career, it s just know the other guy. you know vladimir putin and you think he s a killer? uh-huh, i do. what price must he pay? a price he will pay well, you will see shortly. the president said his message to migrants is don
and george stephanopoulos one-on-one with the president tonight. the growing crisis on the southern border. the number of unaccompanied children in border patrol custody jumping 25% since last week. and george asking the president about the migrants coming in, who say they re coming because president biden promised to make things better. tonight here, the president responds and should the president tell them not to come? how he answers that. the severe storm threat as we come on the air tonight. 85 million americans on alert from texas to the east coast. several states at risk of devastating tornadoes. ginger zee standing by live from the storm zone. authorities on the scene tonight. the massive house explosion late today. the blast felt miles away. newly released body camera video tonight of a deadly police shooting. officers opening fire on a car. tonight, the family of the driver saying the video contradicts the police account of what happened. the frightening scen