a climate more conducive for generations of home grown acts of violent hatred but not everyone wants to confront the problem or even admit it. some people want to look away to not see the mass killings in el paso, pittsburgh, the rise in anti asian and driven mind set being cut from the same ugly cloth. today in the first congressional testimony since being confirmed dhs secretary made the connections and the threat clear. right now at this point in time, domestic violent extremism, the lone wolf, the affiliation of individuals following hate and other ideologies of extremism that are willing and able to take those ideologies and execute on them in unlawful, illegal violent ways is our greatest threat in the homeland right now. in that, and other vent statements the priority as the new administration embraces that the old administration tried to down play but important to mention professionals were also sounding the alarm. here is the fbi director testifying last septembe
murder and shootings at three massage spas in and around the city. of the eight killed, six victims were of asian descent. it s hard to ignore, who was targeted, or overlook the fact that this did not happen in a vacuum. it happened, as three new reports explain, each, from its own angle. at a dangerous moment for this country in a climate more conducive than it s been in generations for homegrown acts of violent hatred. yet, as we will talk about tonight, not everyone wants to con frontd the problem or even admit it. some people want to look away, to not see the mass killings in el paso and pittsburgh. and the white supremacist, conspiracy-driven mindset culminating in the capitol insurrection, is all being cut from the same, ugly cloth. today, in his first congressional testimony since being confirmed, dhs secretary, alejandro mayorkas made the threat clear. right now, at this point in time, domestic-violent extremism. the lone wolf. the loose affiliation of individuals f
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because as you know, i ve been speaking about the brutality against asian-americans for the last couple months. and i think it s it is very, very troublesome. but i making no connection at this moment for the motivation of the killer. i m waiting for an answer. police say the man arrested for the rampage has admitted to the shootings. eight people are dead in a ninth wounded in the atlanta area. but as you heard from the president it s not clear if anti-asian racism was the motivation here. six victims were asian women. the other two victims were white. investigators say robert aaron long gunned down four people first in a spa in cherokee county and shot a fifth who is expected to survive. investigators say long then traveled less than an hour south to atlanta, shooting and killing four more people at two massage businesses across the street from each other. today the sheriff in cherokee county where long is in custody says he is talking to convertings and telling them
he considers a sex addiction and sees these locations as something that allows him to go to these places and it s a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate. you heard him, a temptation he wanted to eliminate. but the atlanta mayor is praising police for acting so quickly because they say this could have been so much worse. the suspect indicated that he was heading down to florida perhaps to carry out similar crimes. we have much more on that. other top stories this afternoon, president joe biden is defending the administration s handling of the thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the border, urging anyone considering migrating to the united states to stay home. i can say quite clearly don t come over. and in the process of getting set up, don t leave your town or city or community. and exciting news in the fight against the pandemic. access to covid vaccines is expanding to any person 16 or older in multiple states. as of now, all 50 states have fully va