the shooter told investigators according to a sheriff who spoke at a press conference today that the attacks were not racially motivated. it is fair to ask whether we have any reason to believe or take on its face that an accused spree killer said but that is what authorities are telling us so for now that is the official word. what we can t deny is that some attacks against the asian-american and pacific islander communities, something we ve reported on extensively on this show and something that president biden and kamala harris herself a member of the community underscored today. whatever the motivation here, i know that asian-americans are in very very concerned, because as you know i ve been speaking about the brutality against asian-americans for the last couple of months and i think it is a very, very trouble some. it is tragic. our country, the president and i and all of us, we grieve for the loss. we re not yet clear about the motive. but i do want to say to ou
voting rights legislation. senator warnock s whose state was at the center of calls by trump was on the floor. watch. we are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have ever seen since the jim crow era. this is jim crow in new clothes. since the january election, some 250 voter suppression bills have been introduced by state legislatures across the country from georgia to arizona, from new hampshire to florida. using the big lie of voter fraud as a pretext for voter suppression. the same big lie that led to a violent insurrection on this very capitol. the day after my election. make no mistake. this is democracy in reverse. rather than voters being able to pick the politicians, the politicians are trying to cherry pick their voters. i say this cannot stand. the legislation the senator is promoting there takes direct aim at institutional barriers to voting and create national standards for voter registration. according to dem
desperation. i know that many of you watching are among them, and you know the reason for your pain. covid. the problem is so huge and so persistent, president biden says the fix should be too. not so fast, say the right side of the aisle. a lot of this help for the poor, for the hungry, the desperate, not really about covid. so let s not do it. you think i m making it up? listen to the leader of the opposition. only 9% addresses the fight against the virus itself. you get this massive bill with only 1%, 1% for vaccinations. it s stuffed with non-covid-related spending that even top liberal economists say is wrong for the recovery. what caused the loss of the jobs and the wages and the businesses, then? our economy still has 9.5 million fewer jobs than at this time last year. at the rate that we re growing right now, because the recovery is so great, at the rate that he calls so great, it will take us two years to get back to where we were. you think mcconnell would go gi
intuit quickbooks helps small businesses be more successful with payments, payroll, banking and live bookkeeping. we have breaking news. the biden state department has completed its 45-day review of the former president s executive orders that restricted immigration from certain countries often referred to as the muslim ban. and it is officially ending those restrictions. the biden administration says applicants from the affected countries may no longer be denied on the basis of nationality, and the department has taken a number of steps to ensure that applicants previously refused visas will not have future applications prejudiced in any way. a state department official tells cnn those applicants may now re-enter the diversity visa lottery. also under current regulations, those who visas were denied prior to january 20th, 2020 may also be reconsidered but those individuals must split new applications and pay a new application fee. don t miss full circle, our digital news
able to achieve without also acknowledging the cataclysmic situation american women find themselves in today. one that threatens to wipe away many of the advancements we re supposedly celebrating. let s start with the unemployment crisis. the latest jobs report reveals that overall unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 6.2%. that number doesn t tell the whole story. for example, since the pandemic hit, the retail sector has lost nearly 363,000 jobs, 98% of which belong to women. pandemic related job losses are hitting women of color especially hard. we talk about that a lot. compared to this time last year, total employment for white women is down just over 5%. for black and latino women, that rate is nearly double. a bunch of factors continue to contribute to the disproportional impact on women of color, including an overrepresentation in industries that have been hit hardest such as hospitality and leisure. in addition, the coronavirus crisis is forcing an impossible ch