murder. that was the real racist part. he saw them outside of himself. a way to go to heaven. he did not see them as human. he had to preserve his christianity as all causes. a double marginalize they were not doubly marginalized. he perceived them as sex workers. he perceived them as ex sex wors and asian. that was the racist part of him. that s overt obvious racism. right. these are the things that we need to dig into as both of us do in therapy to figure out what s going on. there is so much strange to fit it in the box when sometimes it is like porn, you know it when you see it. i don t know his context of his relationship of the spas. the fetish of asian women is well-known. is that his thing? if you want to charng a hate crime, fine. find your criteria. we are talking about society and people are attacking our asian brothers and sisters. we know why they are doing it. i live in atlanta for seven years and went and visited atlanta many, many times in years and wo
forgotten, the victims in atlanta. i felt like watching your whole show tonight. that s what it was about. so our bill is about not forgetting our democracy. so go ahead. thank you so much for saying that. there have been so many people who have brought poignant words and made us think tonight and who inspired us to be better people. you chair the senate rules committee that will hold a hearing on the bill next week. and listen, the stakes couldn t be any higher. republicans are trying to suppress the vote all over the country. how will you get this bill passed? that s the central question. let s start with the good. the good is that for the first time, thanks to those incredible senators from georgia, warnock and ossoff, we have the gavel. i have the gavel. jeff merkley, the author of the bill, we have two new senators, and we ll get this bill through the committee. we ll have the first hearing ever in the senate. it has only been in the house. they passed it in the hous
sanctions against russia for what they have already done. but we re also on the verge of a measure, a bipartisan measure to be more than prepared should russia continue to act in aggressive fashion towards the ukraine or anywhere else in the region. if you want to send a strong message to putin, it is strongest when it is bipartisan, in the senate and in the congress, which isn t always exactly that. a quick last question, because i want to hear where you are on this, because we heard from house speaker nancy pelosi this morning who signaled she would help push some reforms to the electoral count act through the house. i know you very much supported changing senate rules, getting rid of the filibuster, to get a bigger, broader voting rights passage. i understand the electoral count act changes amount to a smaller reform, it s not what you were hoping for but is it still something you would get behind and support? look, i think we need to do that in response to so many