so, congressman lance gooden believes congresswoman chu mus be loyal to the u.s.goodin supported overturning the 2020 election results, an actual ac of disloyalty. -- the rights ugly and fals accusations built on the centuries long stereotype that chinese americans and asia americans more broadly are forever foreigners in their ow land democratic congresswoman jud chu of california joins me now congresswoman, thank you s much for coming back on th show it's great to see you. we have a lot to talk about in terms of what we originall what we wanted to talk to yo about, which is that segment i just outlined. but i do want to get you reaction to donald trump socia media post this morning. what do you make of this development? >> i think that he's trying to incentivize the right to b even more sympathetic to him the fact that he would actuall announced the arrest himself makes me wonder if he's trying to do something similar to a january 6th move, which is t get his supporters to be eve more fervent in their support. -- >> let me get to the piece h wrote on msnbc.com y

and yet, still, lance gooden would consider me a foreigner in my lown land. t to congressman gooden's office for a response to that. he said no one has questioned representative judy chu's loyalty or competence based on heritage that's her fabricated narrative to distract from her ties from a chinese communist party. and then they sent us a link to a picture of you holding a certificate that says there's a logo that looks like it's similar to a logo of some other organization. i mean, the -- there seems to be no connection to what he's talking about here. i wonder what is the impact beyond you, though? what you think this means beyond lance gooden, judy chu? >> well, they are trying to dig up false information and then make implications for things that did not occur. and so, they have these links, these very, very spurious links with -- like, for instance, this picture. what does this picture prove? nothing. but for them, it's absolute proof. actually, i could ask them, have they ever heard any public speech that i made that supports what they are charging me

texas congressman lance gooden and andy ocean has written president biden's attorney general be demanded it's called hate crime this was an assault on american christians, device. >> steve: that's absolutely right. thank you very much, lucas. meanwhile, it while republicans are calling for this to be called a hate crime. the motive is unclear. and while lucas talked a little bit about how the manifesto will be released after the fbi behavioral unit goes through it, i don't think we're going to see it for a long time because they said we will not be releasing the manifesto during an open investigation. and right now the investigation is wide open because they're so many dots that have not been connected. >> the council member said as far as the it manifesto goes brilliant psychological minds and analysts will be combing through it all. there is a fundraiser for the custodian that was killed. his name is mike hill. nickname big mike. he is the father of 8, y'all. they collected more than $500,000. the goal was $25,000 to put towards his funeral expenses and his service did you all the hear

texas republican congressman lance gooden suggested she should not have security clearance or activen the daily caller which alleged she had ties to a front group for the chinese communist party. he also said this. >> i think everyone that's standing up for chinese communist parties should be looked into, yes. i question her either loyalty or competence if she doesn't realize what's going on. >> congressman gooden has stood by his comments and the daily caller defended its reporting on the biden nominee calling it well-research. two other members of the asian pacific american caucus said that nominee in question had undergone an extensive vetting process. chu has responded in an op-ed saying his ugly and false accusations build on the centuries-long stereotype that chinese americans and asian americans more broadly are forever foreigners in their own land, adding, quote, i was not going to let this malicious xenophobic attack silence me in any way, so i have called these comments out for what they are, outrageous, disgusting and absolutely racist. congresswoman judy chu joins us now.

. >> that's a hugeve problemchines so this weekend, congressman lance gooden of texas suggested that maybe judy chu shouldn'tan have a security clearance. we shoulced explain what she was doing with chinese intelligence. >> that's not crazy. but of course, it causedligenc w a complete meltdown inat the media. >> you're a racist. all right. she ugma is the author of the book chinese girl in the ghetto, which is excellent, by the way , a she joins us tonight to assessi all of this. ingmar, thank yothu soyo mucu sr coming on . so i don't really know whatbut this has to do with race, bucat i can't help notice that whenemc the pandemic first started, the chinese government accused anybody who thought maybe it came from the one lab of racismighm. >> so i'm seeing kind of a playbook here. , definitely oh, yes, definitely.. now, i shoul quesy that no one should have her loyalty to america questions based on race. but nobody should be able cry to cry racism in orderracism i to circumvent legitimate scrutiny. >> that's very troubling. tiestimate s to communist china, especially to the chinesem