And good evening, a very full hour ahead, including a look at what our lives could look like

if, as anticipated, we soon have a glut, not a shortage of COVID vaccine.

That and the mistaken belief expressed today by Senator Ann Paul, that being vaccinated

is a license to put the people around you at risk by being an inconsiderate jerk.

We begin, though, with a different manifestation of the kind of tone deafness that Senator

Paul is showing toward anyone who's lost someone to COVID or to the people in his own medical

profession whose lives are complicated and jeopardized when people like him stop masking

up.

It's a deafness to the eq trauma that Asian Americans are coping with in the wake of

the Atlanta area shootings and the ongoing attacks and fear of more attacks they face daily.

Today, a House Judiciary Subcommittee heard testimony from Asian American lawmakers

about the climate of hatred that they and their constituents are experiencing.

The committee also heard from Texas Congressman Chip Roy, the ranking Republican who used

part of his time to finally recall the good old days when lynchings in Texas were OK.

There's old saying in Texas about, you know, found all the rope in Texas and get a tall

oak tree.

You know, we take justice very seriously and we ought to do that.

Round up the bad guys.

So to a community living in fear of random acts of violence during a hearing to address

that violence and discrimination, Congressman Roy there seems to praise the idea of mobs

of people lynching other people from trees.

And just as as Americans of Asian descent are being slandered with false allegations of

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