And good evening, the alleged Lanah area mass killer is in custody tonight, facing up

to eight counts of murder and shootings at three massage bars in and around the city.

Of the eight killed, six victims were of Asian descent.

And while please point towards some kind of sexual obsession as a motive and not racial

hatred as such, it's hard to ignore who was targeted or overlooked 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'll talk about tonight, 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 and Pittsburgh,

the rise in anti-Asian violence, and the white supremacists conspirecy driven mindset culminating

in the capital and direction as all being cut from the same ugly cloth.

Today, in his first congressional testimony since being confirmed, DHA Secretary Alejandro

Mayorkas made the connections and the threat clear.

Right now, at this point in time, domestic violent extremism, the lone wolf, the loose

affiliation of individuals following ideologies of 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 recent statements and priorities, the new administration has embraced a notion

that the old administration tried to downplay, even though it's important to mention some

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