in fact, the fact that speaker mccarthy had to say today. that he was against violence means that i m not the only on who s concerned about this glad you brought that point up, it seems like he was tryin to walk back his own statement yesterday in terms of coolin down the intensity that he helped amplify i talked about this with m panel before the break but i d like to ge your take on home th republicans generally have bee reacting to trump s post he hasn t even been charge with anything and as you jus mentioned kevin mccarthy announcing that republican will investigate any use for federal funds that are used to facilitate the provision o justice by soros-backed da s across the country that s his words not mine. and this comes as the hous oversight committee is going t
can be sold on the basis of presenting them as ideas. they have decided that we can t convince people to do what we want and live by our religious, so we will tell the federal government to enforce it. i don t like this book or truck shows. the thing that i feel uncomfortable with, i don t feel confident that i can convince people to come to my side, so i need the power of federal government to ban the things that make me uncomfortable. that strikes me as an intellectual collapse and sense of defeat. i am really glad you brought this point up, because i have been thinking about this a lot having been observers or in politics for decades. i can t remember a time when one political party or the leaders of the political party abandon persuasion. they abandon persuasion as a mode of leadership. what they decided is just like you said. they can t persuade the
this community is a majority asian american community. it prize itself in being the very first suburb that is asian majority. so they feel they ve built this very special place, but in the context of what happened just last night, it feels like a lot of wash, rinse and repeat. that after so much devastation from covid as well as anti-asian racism, that this community feels shell shocked. it s not a new feeling. it s just new to this community in particular, and something else, don. you and i chatted about this yesterday. it s very confusing that the profile of the shooter, a 72-year-old man, and then what happened in half moon bay, a man in his late 60s. that s something that the asian american community is very alarmed by, and very confused by. yeah. and just to add to that i was really struck watching the two of you from here yesterday when you brought that point up, and
thank you for yours. take care. is your camera on? cnn s laeyla santiago is with u on this. what more can you tell us? reporter: interesting you brought that point up, victor because that kind of speaks to what her take has been on this. she resigned this morning and says that she was not trying to do any harm or abuse power. that s why she asked him if his camera was on. she knew she was being recorded. you know, the tampa city has a very different take. i want to read to you what the mayor said today saying, it is unacceptable for any public employee and especially the city s top law enforcement leader to ask for special treatment because of their position. public trust in tampa police department is paramount to our success as a city as well as a community. you know, in her resignation letter as well as in some documents tied to an internal affairs investigation, she apologized, called it even poor judgment to have that golf cart
we know that the people are not buying it and that s why people are saying he has got to go. brian: they have a total surveillance state. they have cap cameras everywhere. great people on loyalty to their country. that is almost like their credit rating that you and i would go over to take out a loan. they are doing it on loyalty to the country. now for them to rise up knowing this type of repercussions could be happening to them and their family shows the courage in which they have. and you just wonder where the biden administration is in saying hey hands off these people. people just asking for rights. show some humanity and discretion on campuses this is happening. huge vigils, happening in major cities like shanghai happening also, according to one professor at mit. the anger has been point up for a while. at the 209 congress, provided expectation that all this zero covid policy would wind down. when that did not happen. the frustration has boiled over. remember, they started thi