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me now is my panel, britney cunningham, black lives matter activist and msnbc contributor, and kurt bardellamittee and an "l.a. times" and "usa today" contributor. i want to cover a lot of topics, but, kurt, let me start. as an asian-american and a former republican, you have been tweeting about this incident and we hear about hate and terrorism all the time, even the director of the fbi, chris wray considers it to be a former domestic terrorism. now as we have the families and communities mourning their loss, how did we get here, and what can be done about it? >> rev, we got here, in my opinion, in part because of the republican party. this is a party -- this is well before donald trump ever arrived on the scene. you can go back to what used to be their standard bearer, ronald reagan. reagan, who in my opinion was a racist, who used policies such as the war on drugs, the term welfare queens pandering to the kren right to cater to the extreme elements of the republican party base and cloaked racism in public policy. it's no coincidence that when you look at where the republican party is toda

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joining me is kurt bardella, contributor, and host of the show zalina on peacock and michael steele,tical analyst. zerlina, i want to hear your reaction to that. >> well, there's this thing happening in the republican party right now where i feel like they're trying to out racist one another and then they claim when people criticize those comments that they're being canceled, and decry cancel culture and then they fund raise off of it. it's this weird cycle of saying the racist thing and denying the thing you said as racist and fund-raising off of that when criticized by everyone else and everybody heard what he said. we know what he means. we know what that expression comes from and i find it ghastly that he would invoke that at a hearing when we're talking that day about anti-asian hatred and the fact that eight people were killed this week because of potentially white supremacy and white supremacist violence and so that's the issue. the issue is not an expression from texas in which you invoke lynching. >> it was shocking to me that he couldn't dig somewhere in the recesses of his

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. >> kurt bardella, let's focus on that.know, mika, i think he hits on something really important here. so many hate crimes go under reported. and it's become very clear that the tools for law enforcement and public safety officials just aren't there to sufficiently, quadly, thoroughly investigate these things as hate crimes. oftentimes what we and anyone with common sense would categorize as a hate crime, it doesn't get investigated that way. there needs to be a concerted and broad effort by our our law enforcement community to better classify these crimes as hate crimes and to give law enforcement tools they need to follow through and hold people accountable for them. it is crazy that in 2021 we could watch a former president of the united states use the word "china virus," which to people like me, by the way, it's racest. let's be very cheer about that. and watch a bunch of white male republicans stand there and give a standing ovation when he uses that. to people who look like me, you are putting a target on our back. th

for more on this, let's bring in a professor, opinion columnist for "usa today," kurt bardella and katus. >> i want to read something else that graham wrote. a magazine aimed at teens should strain to acknowledge what every adult knows, the point of being a teenager is to make and correct the most mortifying errors in your life. my god, we say all the time, if twitter had been around when we were teenagers -- >> yeah. >> you would know who we were. maybe you like it better that way. it seems to me, kurt, with alexi, i really -- i don't -- it's hard for a lot of people to understand what happened last week. i wanted to bring you on. you spoke out so forcefully, so passionately about discrimination against asian-americans last week, and you have for some time. you move our viewers. my gosh, the response is always overwhelming. i wanted to bring you on and ask you what you thought about alexi losing her job last week over a teenage tweet. >> three tweets. >> i thought, joe, it was a remarkable act of cowardice to do what they did to her. i know her. she's someone that i am proud to call a

. >> kurt bardella, thank you so much. we appreciate your thoughts this morning.attacks in the atlanta area, but we certainly will continue to follow this story and the investigation. >>> now to the fight against the pandemic. the white house is aiming to distribute more than 22 million doses of covid-19 vaccines in the next week. a new record in the u.s. fight to contain the coronavirus. states are expected to receive more than 16 million doses of the three approved vaccines, slightly higher than last week. federally administered programs, such as mass vaccination sites and community health centers will receive most of the dose. the increase in supply more states lift their eligibility criteria to receive the vaccines. >>> meanwhile n an interview with fox news last night, former president trump encouraged his supporters to get a coronavirus vaccine. but added a caveat. >> i would recommend it and i would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me frankly. but you know, again, we have our freedoms and we have

. >> kurt bardella, thank you very, very much.," we have a lot to cover in our next hour, with our next guest, actually. senator kirsten gillibrand joins us straight ahead. >>> before we go to break, i spent some time yesterday with a fantastic group of students at the university of delaware's biden institute. it was the annual women's history month luncheon. it was also equal payday, giving students a virtual opportunity to network with women in leadership. valerie biden owens, the president's sister, offered this valuable advice. >> the biggest thing is, is that life -- life has a way of interrupting. and our journey is not always a direct route. sometimes, we have a bumpy day with really deep ditches. and other times, we can have smooth sailing with a soft breeze. but the key is that under either circumstances, we have to keep moving forward. we have to stay true to our convictions and we have to hold tight to those -- to the perseverance that we will make things better. that we will prevail. >> mika was able to watch that, and