CNN’s Amara Walker Gets Emotional Reacting to Biden Remarks on Anti-Asian Attacks: ‘It’s a Cathartic Moment’

CNN correspondent Amara Walker got emotional on air Friday, reporting live from Atlanta, as she reacted to President Joe Biden’s speech condemning anti-Asian hate crimes.

Biden talked about the rise in attacks against Asian-Americans, speaking in Atlanta days after the shootings at three spas, and said, “Hate can have no safe harbor in America.”

Walker said she “can’t overstate” how much it means for Asian-Americans to see the president and vice president acknowledge these concerns from a community “that has felt invisible for so long.”

“And for the president to come and say, I see you, I hear you, I feel your pain…” Li said, starting to get visibly choked up, “…and to elevate this issue, I think a lot of us — it’s a cathartic moment, because the first step is to be seen and to be heard.”

She said their words gave people comfort that “we are being heard.”

Walker talked about the feeling of being dehumanized as “a foreigner in your own country” and even brought up the Trump administration’s “flippant use” of language like “kung flu.”

You can watch above, via CNN.