with the crazy details, ashley. dhs reportedly decided to cancel the border and written up in a letter to resign. although given the option to stay, nina said with the board s future uncertain, she will be leaving dhs and the board has been put on hold. backlash from republicans and democrats, and what it would mean for free speech. questions have also been raised over her past social media and particularly her tiktok videos. nina jankowicz has been subjected to unjustified and vital personal attacks and physical threats and congressional hearings and media interviews. the secretary has repeatedly defended her eminently qualified and underscore the departments information work and will continue to do so. speak with the board has never convened. the board has intentionally mischaracterize. but this port is shut down because of disinformation, is that it is what is happening here? mischaracterizations with outside forces. nina jankowicz speaking out last night, list the
stereotypes in this attack. this isn t just a local story either. this speaks to the fear of asian americans nationwide and how they have been targeted especially since the start of the pandemic. we ve just learned that the president and the vice president will be traveling to atlanta tomorrow. they will be meeting with asian american leaders when they are there. let s start with natasha chen, she is joining us from cherokee county, georgia with the very latest. if we could just start with the latest on the case. why was this first court appearance canceled? reporter: yeah, we talked to the magistrate court clerk this morning and she said that the appearance was canceled at the request of the defendant s attorney and would not share any contact information for that attorney. right now we don t know when it will be rescheduled. and at this point, he is still being held in the cherokee county custody, this is one of two counties where he now faces a total of eight murder char
arrest, there s still a lot more work to be done. we re just not there as of yet. during our interviews we asked that specific question and that did not appear to be the motive. more on that tragedy in a few moments, but we begin with a sweeping and news-making new interview with president biden, his message to vaccine hesitant americans, quote, be patriots. the president also says he won t let senate procedures stand in the way of his agenda but he proposes changing the filibuster and not getting rid of it. and stern words for vladimir putin. he would pay a price. i said i looked in our eyes and i don t think you have a soul, and he looked back and said i think we understand each other. i have dealt with a lot of foreign leaders in my career, it s just know the other guy. you know vladimir putin and you think he s a killer? uh-huh, i do. what price must he pay? a price he will pay well, you will see shortly. the president said his message to migrants is don
the fbi believes it was an industrial type strength bear spray and according to the documents this is the this canister they were using they sprayed in the faces of these three officers. one of them is officer sicknick. i ll read you just a part of the affidavit. it says, quote, officer sicknick, edwards and chapman standing in a few feet all react one by one. they immediately retreat from the line, bring their hands to their faces and rush to find water to wash out their eyes. this is one of the many, many assaults, that we saw that day on january 6th which the fbi says that people who were in this pro-trump mob used bear spray, pepper spray and other things to attack these officers. in this case officer sicknick went back to his office. he fell ill and was taken to the hospital. he died the following day. now, one of the things that s interesting is right now they re only charged these two men are only charged with assault on a federal officer. these are nine counts in
more than 529,000 americans have died, the highest death toll of any nation in the world and nearly 2,000 people in the united states are still dying each day. this isn t over. and the numbers don t tell the whole story. it is the lives interrupted, the families suddenly broken, so many people left to die and grief alone that really hit that does hit the hardest and cannot be forgotten. mothers and fathers and brothers, sisters and friends and coworkers, so many taken too soon. i know i m going to remember michelle, a nurse whose brother-in-law, sister-in-law and mother in law were all admitted to her hospital and she was the only person able to hold her mother-in-law edna s hand as she passed. unlike in a normal circumstance where you would be together gathering as a family, we ve all had to work through this separately. and there is also danielle lopez whose uncle was killed by the virus last summer. it just i m sorry, i m trying to even process that all that th