co coping with in the wake of the atlanta shootings. today, a house judiciary subcommittee heard testimony from asian-american lawmakers about the climate of hatred that they, and their constituents, are experiencing. the committee also heard from texas congressman, chip roy. the ranking republican who used part of his time to recall the good, old days, when lynchings in texas were a-okay. there s old sayings in texas about, you know, find the rope in texas and get a tall-oak tree. we take justice very seriously, and we ought to do that. round up the bad guys. so, to a community living in fear of random acts of violence, during a hearing to address that violence and discrimination. congressman roy, there, seems to have praised the idea of mobs of people lynching other people from trees. and just as as americans of asian desent are being slandered with false allegations of loyalty to a foreign country, racist allegations that have, frankly, a long history in this country
while the number of those vaccinated keeps going up. but u.s. health policy leaders warn that was a that scenario was for several european countries. who are now suffering a surge in cases amid the variants, and easing restrictions too soon. they are now returning to tighter mandates including in some cases a lockdown. now, the cdc director and other health officials urge that restrictions remain in place but at least 16 states now have no mask mandate and the tsa says its screeners just broke a pandemic record with more than 1.4 million people traveling through airports nationwide. on thursday. there is no progress on vaccinations. president biden marking today the 100 millionth dose, two months ahead of the goal he set. in total more than 115 million vaccinations have been injected into arms. more than one in five in the u.s. have received at least one dose, and more than one in ten in the u.s. are fully vaccinated at 12.3%. my next guest says that her coronavirus vaccina
very interesting way. bill: during the trump years this was quite common. make a phone call, take you down there, see what you wanted to see. a very different story in the first two months of this administration. dana: as the feds restrict media access rob portman let fox news tour the border with him. griff jenkins joined him last night and has been delivering incredible reporting from the border for weeks. let s take a look. the residents here in at least the rio grande valley sector of texas where we are say they ve never seen anything like it. the rio grande river is where we re seeing an unbelievable number of migrants coming across this sector here in el paso is on fire as well. hasn t heard the u.s. president now is not the time to come. i listen to the news that they were letting people in. does it frustrate you that the new administration does not call this a crisis? yes, sir, it does. when you see a father with a 4-month-old baby riding on his chest, a
it s going to help us accelerate our nationwide effort to reopen schools safely. last week i directed all states, tribes, and territories to make all adults are eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1. while this is the time of optimism, it s not a time for relaxation. i need all americans to keep doing your part, wash your hands, stays socially distanced, keep masking up as recommended by the cdc. get vaccinated when it s your turn. none of this is political, it s all science-based. now is not the time to let her guard down. at that-based as well. and last week, we ve seen increases in the number of cases in several states, things make it worse as new variants of the virus spread. that that s why we need to vaccinate as many people as quickly as we possibly can. the best thing we could do to fight back against these variance. we have to beat this virus. we have to mentally well. we will do it by setting aside politics and embracing science. another subject could ring u
take as much time as you want. i m done. i m done. i m done. thank you, rachel. thank you. well, we are going to be joined tonight by congresswoman grace meng, who had a moment today in a house judiciary committee hearing that gave powerful voice to the thoughts and emotions that many asian-americans have experienced this week in particular. you could see in that moment a frustration that had been building for much longer than just this week. congresswoman grace meng took on a republican congressman from texas who tried to change the subject of the hearing, when the subject of the hearing was supposed to be about violence against asian-americans. we ll show you what happened in that hearing and grace meng joins us later in this hour. today the fbi released new videos of what officials called ten of the most violent but still unidentified suspects in the january 6th attack on the capitol. quote, the fbi is asking for the public s help in identifying ten individuals sus