Rep. Judy Chu on the increase of anti-Asian incidents in the US: 'These are very, very alarming and they're not helped by President Trump whose been calling this the 'Chinese virus'. Every time he says that, it just fans the flames of xenophobia.'
Congresswoman Judy Chu joins Ayman Mohyeldin to react to the recent uptick in reports of attacks on people of Asian descent in the United States.
Chu says there are now over a hundred attacks being reported per day and that President Trump's insistence on calling the disease the 'Chinese Virus' "fans the flames of xenophobia."
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