our silence is complicity. we cannot be complicit. hate can have no safe harbor in america. it must stop. no, on both sides, bs. no i never heard of it. no right, no left. just reasonable. not both sides. there s only one side. the side against hate. spoken by president biden and echoed by a vice president who is our first south asian, black, and female vp. vp harris also delivered a powerful plea to stop the hate. and then, after they spoke, they did what leaders have to do. they listened. these two did that in atlanta today, in the wake of tuesday s spa shootings. six dead eight dead, six asian women. the suspect in custody with white. this has not been labeled a hate crime. but on one level, the motive doesn t matter, because regardless, it generated fear in the asian-american community. i have to be honest, i don t know how, looking at the circumstances, i don t know how you separate race from the targeting that went on here. and i think one of the indications of th
it s the it s the coronavirus, full stop. the conversation we had today with the aapi leaders and that we re hearing all across the country is that hate and violence, often, hide in plain sight. it s often met with silence. and that s been seen, throughout our history. but that has to change because our silence is complicity. we cannot be complicit. we have to speak out. we have to act. we have more on the story from the white house from cnn s kaitlan collins and amara walker. let s start with kaitlan. so the president wanted to focus on outreach to the asian-american community. he even cancelled another political event. what was the message today? well, they didn t want to be focused on politics. that s why they cancelled that event they scheduled before the shooting happened on tuesday night. and i think, really, what you heard from him especially at the end of his remarks, anderson, was grief for these families of those who were killed. the eight people but also the
not both sides. there s only one side. the side against hate. spoken by president biden and echoed by a vice president who is our first south asian, black, and female vp. vp harris also delivered a powerful plea to stop the hate. and then, after they spoke, they did what leaders have to do. they listened. these two did that in atlanta today, in the wake of tuesday s spa shootings. six dead eight dead, six asian women. the suspect in custody with white. this has not been labeled a hate crime. but on one level, the motive doesn t matter, because regardless, it generated fear in the asian-american community. i have to be honest, i don t know how, looking at the circumstances, i don t know how you separate race from the targeting that went on here. and i think one of the indications of this being a sensitive issue is that while it s generated fear in the asian community, it s also generated animus on the right political fringe that is oddly insistent that this is not a hate cri
country, is that hate and violence often hide in plain sight. it s often met with silence, and that s been seen throughout our history. but that has to change. because our silence is complicity. we cannot be complicit. we have to speak out. we have to act. we have more on the story from the white house, from cnn kaitlan collins and amara walker. let s start with kaitlan. so the president wanted this trip to focus on outreach to the asian-american community. he even focused another political event. what was the message today? well, they didn t want to be focused on politics. that s why they had cancelled that event that they had scheduled before the shooting had happened on tuesday night. and i think, really, what you heard from him especially at the end of his remarks, aroundson, was grief of those who were killed. the eight people but also the six who were asian women where he was talking about not just those directly affected by what happened on tuesday. but really, the
coronavirus. president biden is planning to lon nor the americans killed by the pandemic with a moment of silence and a candlelight vigil outside the white house tonight. let s begin our coverage with dan simons with the latest on the fallout in the investigation into what happened on that united flight saturday afternoon. dan. reporter: good morning, erica. well, the ntsb says the likely culprit appears to be a fractured fan blade that then took out another blade. these are preliminary findings. no conclusions have been made. the regulators want to determine how that uncontained engine failure took place and prevent something like from from happening in the future to do that, the faa is saying all those boeing 777s, they should be inspected, of course, thoroughly inspected before they can fly again. in the meantime, seeing those images, seeing all that debris fly out of the sky, it continue to be mind-boggling. here s how one passenger described the terrifying moments as s