gun at three different shootings at atlanta area spas. let s bring in kaitlan collins and jeff zeleny in atlanta. jeff, first to you. what do we know about the meeting that the president and vice president are in right now? reporter: we know president biden and vice president harris have been meeting for more than an hour with seven community members including five state leaders here in georgia. they re in the building behind me here on the campus of emeory univ university. it s running a bit long, but we know that president biden is going to be delivering remarks after this meeting. and percentages la, i m told he s going to condemn more forcefully the rise of violence we ve seen here in georgia and across the country directed at asian-americans in the last year during the coronavirus pandemic. president biden is also urging congress to pass the covid-19 hate crimes act. the white house is trying to draw a focus here. the question hanging over a lot of this is some of the
let me stay with you, let me read to our viewers a piece from that reporting. conservatives mount a whisper campaign smearing khashoggi in defense of trump. hard lines republicans are mounting a whispering campaign against jamal khashoggi designed to protect president trump from criticism from his handling of the alleged murder by operatives of saudi arabia and support trump s continued aversion to a forceful support to the oil rich desert kingdom highlighting hs z youth and raising questions. they said he isn t even a journalist. he was killed for being a journalist. he has been working for journalistic outlets, being chased from his own country for being a journalist. this is sick and depraived. this is how they think. donald trump won t be in as much trouble if we make it a little less trouble that we had this journalist killed and dismembered. that s the kind of mind-set.