Welcome to stand together, uniting discrimination town hall by the Human Rights Commission. And im the host and i produce programs at the commonwealth click of california and kcew, San Francisco bay area. This is the first of many town hall decisions that discussions that we will do to discuss the discrimination. What we need to to do to come together as communities so well try to get to all of the major issues today but if we dont, dont worry, this is one of the many town hall discussions that well do. Before we begin our program, here are a couple of special leaders in the city who have remarkeds. And id like to introduce you to the executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. Director davis . Thank you so much, michelle, and i look forward to the conversation with our panelists. We are very grateful for this opportunity to have a conversation together. We will continue to have discussions. We are saddened by the increase in case incidents of hate crimes, but we a
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that seeks to deny the real fears in the communities. as a result of historic racism exacerbated by a former president and media allies who describe the coronavirus pandemic as the china virus or kung flu for more than a year up to and as recently as this week. the right is doubling down on the violence trutherism with this comment from congresswoman chip roy. we believe in justice. there is an old saying in texas find the rope and get a tall oak tree. you know, we take justice very seriously. we ought to do that. round up the bad guys. my concern about this hearinging is that it seems to want to venture into the policing of rhetoric in a free society. now we are talking about whether talking about china, the chi coms, whatever phrasing we want to use, if some people say we think those people are the bad guys. i think the chinese communist party are the bad guys. and i think that they re harming people. those remarks prompted an immediate outcry, among these colleagues in
shortly. elsewhere we are covering hearings this afternoon on the senate side on covid response, including dr. fauci testifying on that, 2:00 p.m. eastern. the senate is in at this hour this morning. and they will vote on the nomination of javier becerra to be health and human services secretary at noon today. the house itself not coming in this morning. there is some training that members and staff are going through. in morning hour this morning. they come in at noon. will take up two bills today on u.s. immigration policy. you re watching live coverage of this hearing about to get under way on c-span. i remind members we have established an email address and distributions dedicated to circulating exhibits, motions, or other written materials and members may want to offer as part of the hearing today. if you like to submit those materials, the cite is judiciary docx@mail.house.gov. i ask unanimous consent that our judiciary colleagues participating in today s hearing. hear
in washington today the arrest of a 31-year-old texas man outside the naval observatory of the official residence of vice president harris. a rifle ask ammunition were recovered from his vehicle. he has been charged with several accounts. among them carrying possession of unregistered munition and large munition fueling device. the secret service says the secret service operators detained him. vice president harris wasn t there and a bulletin originated in the state of texas. the news continues right now. we ll hand it over to chris cuomo for prime time. i appreciate it, there is no question there has been a surge in violence and hate against asian americans. anti-asian crimes surged by nearly 150% in 2020. and we know the increase spiked there ut the pandemic and we know just yesterday trump went on hate tv and spewed his anti-asian hateful covid slur. and he did it again to deflect blame for the virus he chose to spread across our country. here s what we don t know. we