>> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day." erica hill is with me this morning. developing overnight, security increased in cities across the country. new concerns of anti-asian crime after a deadly murder spree near atlanta targeting the massage parlors. at least eight people killed. according to the "atlanta journal constitution," six of them were asian women. >> a suspect, 26-year-old robert aaron long is in custody and police are not talking about a motive but the concern that these shootings could be racially motivated is real. ryan young is in atlanta with the late-breaking details for us. good morning. >> reporter: erica, just a devastating attack. leaving a lot of people in the community asking why. you can see one of the massage parlors across the street here and this was surrounded by police for hours and we're waiting to hear what the motive was. a shooting rampage at three spas in the atlanta metro area tuesday, leaving eight people dead and one wounded. police apprehending one suspect, 21-year-old robert aaron long of georgia. video evidence suggests it's extremely likely that one person was responsible. >> the georgia state troopers performed a pit maneuver. and the suspect was taking into custody. >> reporter: the first one took place at the young's asian massage and two people die at the scene and two more died at the hospital. one individual is also wounded. >> in 2020 we had one homicide in cherokee county and we have had at least three today. so it's pretty shocking for not only our responding deputies and public safety but for the community here. we take this very serious. >> reporter: the other two took place, the first at gold spa and while police responded they learned of another across the street at aromatherapy spa. atlanta police say this investigation is a high priority. >> we do have some witnesses that were in the location around the location. it is an extreme priority for us. >> reporter: according to atlanta police, the suspect's vehicle was seen at the crime scene at cherokee county and also on the same street at the shootings in atlanta. >> we heard numerous gunshots coming from across the street. >> i won't say they any names but they're nice girls. they do great massages over here so it's just unfortunate. >> reporter: authorities tell the "atlanta journal constitution" six of the victims were asian women and police had no immediate indication of a motive for the shootings. but the killings came at a time when attacks on asian-americans have increased is since the coronavirus pandemic and that's left some questioning if race played a role. stop aaip hate, the nation's leading group called the deaths an unspeakable tragedy and added the latest attack will only exasperate the fear and pain that the asian-american community continues to endure. john, one of the things we're waiting for today there may be a news conference with several involved in this. let's not forget that georgia state patrol officer was able to make the pit maneuver on the roadway after the great description came from cherokee county. we're hoping that police can also tie all of the little pieces of this investigation together for us and give us a motive. >> ryan young for us in the area of the crime, thank you so much for being there for us. please keep us posted. we're waiting to hear from law enforcement as the morning progresses. i want to bring in the former public safety director for dekalb county. look, law enforcement has not released any evidence of a racial motivation yet, but obviously there are questions and concerns this morning. the "atlanta journal constitution" reporting six of the eight victims were asian. we know there's a rise in anti-asian crime across the country. so how is this being investigated now? what would you do to answer that burning question that so many people are asking? >> well, i think as evidence continues to be collected as a result of what happened last night, and i think we all could pretty much reasonably assume, john, that considering this climate that we're in today, living in this pandemic, we certainly have seen an uptick of attacks towards asian-americans across this country. and actually, since march of last year. up until february of this year, there's been over 3,800 cases that have been reported of attacks toward asian-americans in this country, primarily in the large -- in many of our large cities across the country. but we also have to keep in mind that a lot of these events are incidents that are not being reported at all, so the numbers are far greater. i think we can reasonably conclude that race is going to play a part in all of this so now it's incumbent on all of us as americans to make sure we're in tune with our asian communities and we're there to provide the support that they need as they go through this very horrific time in the history of this nation. >> so what do you go, go through social media, searching the car for any kind of evidence, interviewing associates? if it does bear out that this was racially motivated then an obvious concern would be if there are others involved or is this on just on him? >> that's absolutely true, but we must consider the fact that there are attitudes out there in this country that people believe somehow that asian-americans and they all get lumped into one group, even though we know that there are a variety of asian-americans across the globe, around the globe from a variety of different countries. but asian-americans are pigeon holed like many other minority groups in this country, and then many will deem somehow as a result of this pandemic they're the cause of it. and that is not true whatsoever. so i think it's important for us to acknowledge that this type of racist attitude do exist and here again i think we can reasonably conclude that there's going -- that race is going to be a variable in all. but i know -- i certainly do -- i'm optimistic enough that we as a nation, all of us, are going to take some responsibility and do what we can to make sure that every american, and particularly asian-americans in this country feel safe. so many police departments across this country at this very moment are taking actions and going into the asian-american community and making sure that high levels of patrols and connectivity to the communities more so than ever is now being practiced. but this is something i believe that we will get through, but we cannot minimize this in any regard. >> what specific precautions would you take? >> well, i would tell you what i would do if i were chief. i would reach out to the asian-american communities and i would make sure they feel comfortable in contacting us if need be. so that -- [ indiscernible ]. other citizens throughout our entire -- to make sure that they stay very vigilant and keep their eyes and ears open. the statistics, the data, is clearly stating to us there's an uptick in these types of attacks, both passive and aggressive. so we need to take some real action. >> thank you very much for this. the president has now been briefed, the president has been briefed on these shootings. eight people dead in the atlanta area and we're expecting a news conference this morning. we'll bring it to you live when it happens. we want to go to jeremy diamond who has more on that. >> reporter: good morning. we have a statement from the white house press secretary, jen psaki, she said that the president was briefed overnight. quote, white house officials have been in touch with the mayor's office and will remain in touch with the fbi. so clearly, the white house keeping a close eye on this, of course it was just last week that president biden talk about the uptick in violence against asian-americans in the united states and he condemned it wholeheartedly in his first primetime address in the oval office as he addressed the coronavirus pandemic. some other news happening overnight and that is president biden's comments on the filibuster in this interview with abc news. the president for the first time offering his most direct endorsement yet of overhauling the filibuster process. he's not talking about eliminating the filibuster altogether. which is what some progressive democrats would like to see the president's support in the senate. but he is talking about major reforms, requiring senators to actually hold the floor and talk if they want to object to legislation. listen. >> i don't think you have to eliminate the filibuster. you have to do what it used to be when i first got to the senate and back in the old days when you used to be around there and that is that if a filibuster, you had to stand up and command the floor. and you had to keep talking -- you couldn't call for, you know -- no one could say quorum call. once you stopped talking, you lost that and someone can say i move the question of. so you have to work for the filibuster. >> so you're for the reform, you're for bringing back the talking filibuster? >> i am. that's what it was supposed to be. >> now, the press secretary said that the president would not advocate for any changes to the filibuster, not even that he was opposed to eliminating it, but he was opposed to reforms. clearly his position has changed or the statements last week was inaccurate. there can be a scorched earth reform in the senate. >> thank you. president biden also talked about the surge at the southern border. and had a message for migrants who may be thinking about heading to the u.s. that's next. need a change of scenery? kayak searches hundreds of travel sites for flights with no change fees. so you can book a great deal now, and always change later. kayak. search one and done. pain hits fast. so get relief fast. only tylenol rapid release gels have laser-drilled holes. they release medicine fast for fast pain relief. tylenol rapid release gels. some say this is my greatest challenge ever. they release medicine fast but i've seen centuries of this. with a companion that powers a digital world, traded with a touch. the gold standard, so to speak ;) we're carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we've created a brand-new way for you to sell your car. whether it's a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions. and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready, we'll come to you, pay you on the spot and pick up your car, that's it. so ditch the old way of selling your car, and say hello to the new way at carvana. see every delivery... every yikes... and even every awwwwwwww... wait, where was i? 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>> yes, i think he probably will end up being prosecuted too. a woman should be presumed to be telling the truth and should not be scapegoated and become victimized by her coming forward. number one. but there should be an investigation to determine whether what she says is true. >> a lot of people saw that and said wow. look, to leap into the idea that the governor can be prosecuted, that can't help the governor. >> no, that was stunning. i can't imagine that governor cuomo was happy about that because at the moment no one is talking about prosecution and president biden introduced that into the conversation. it's not criminal, it's a fact-based investigation about what happened. so he also affirmed he thinks if it's concluded that governor cuomo engaged in misconduct he should resign and that's very different than what he had said on sunday night on a topic that president biden has been trying to avoid getting dragged into for a variety of reasons. i don't know if this moves the ball forward but it suggests that president biden who is one of two people who can impact cuomo's faith, the other being karl hastings in new york, he needs to take a step back publicly too. >> it's interesting to see what more unfolds. more reaction to the comments. there's been a lot of talk about how helpful former president trump could be in terms of vaccine hesitancy, specifically among his supporters. so he actually addressed that, calling in and saying he thinks people should get the shot, right? he sort of understands if you may want to, but he thinks it's a good idea. we do have the sound, i'm sorry. i can play that. >> i would recommend it and i would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly, but, you know, again, we have our freedoms and we have to live by that and i agree with that also. but it's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works. >> a little couching in there but that's the way it rolls without the former president. impact, what do you think that could have? >> i think it's important that he said it. i think there have been -- there's been clear polling that conservatives are very hesitant about this vaccine. and part of the reason that people believe that is the case -- i mean, there are a number of reasons but one that can mitigate is former president trump talking to the supporters. i think it was unequivocal, i don't want to understate that. but how ingrained the attitudes are about the vaccine and how much he repeatedly told his supporters that the coronavirus was done, i'm not sure that one interview will do the trick. if he wants to do something it would take a sustained service campaign. with we'll see, i'll be surprised that could happen, but it could. >> let's hope he continues to speak to people as clearly as he did last night on that subject. maggie haberman, thanks. so coronavirus cases now rising in more than a dozen states. what do these rising case numbers tell us? 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>> i don't think so. there are two things working against the virus, one is the weather. as it gets more warmer and humid it is more difficult for the virus to get transmitted and more people are getting vaccinated. in general, the trend for both cases and hospitalizations and deaths have been down. but i do think the next six to eight weeks could be rough. we're not there yet, it's still winter and it's just hard to watch people sort of all come together for the spring breaks, you know, maskless, not social distancing. i think there may be a couple surges related to that. i feel badly for the cdc. they're allowing some people some freedoms but people have opened the doors and opened businesses makes sense, but doing that at the same time you release mask mandates doesn't make any sense. >> obviously as we see the cases going up in ontario and in canada, there are concerns of a third wave there as well. i makes vaccination all that much more important and we heard from president biden on the subject and i think what is a perceived increase in vaccine hesitancy as well. let's listen to this. >> how do you get the politics out of this vaccine talk? >> i honest thought to god we had it out. once we guaranteed enough vaccine for everybody, things would start to calm down. well, they have calmed down a great deal. but i don't understand this sort of macho thing about i'm not going to get the vaccine. i have a right as an american. my freedom to not do it. well, be a patriot, protect other people. >> what do you think of that, doctor? >> i think he's right on. you know, this is going to become an issue over the summer. right now we don't have enough vaccine for the people who want it. i think by the summer, then you're going to see the percentage of the population that doesn't want to get vaccinated. we need to get at least to 80% population immunity. and if we can't get there because a critical percentage of the population is chooses not to vaccinate, that's a problem. this is the first virus in history that's become political. certainly the virus doesn't consider it that, to be that. i mean, it will kill democrats or republicans, but so it's so hard to understand how this came to be. >> hard to understand, we talked over the last several months about how effective these vaccines are, right? and we have heard from a number of experts about their safety but i know there's growing concern too about what we're seeing in europe and how that could include the hesitancy here when it comes to the pause of the astrazeneca vaccinations in europe is there any reason that should give anyone any pause this morning? >> we need to understand what's going on in europe. we need the data. we know there have been tens of millions of doses of the astrazeneca vaccine that have been administered. we know that some people had suffered flood clots following the vaccine, but that's fairly common. while there are at least 600,000, for example, people who suffer from flood clots, this vaccine doesn't prevent blood clots. look at the number of people who have been vaccinated versus unvaccinated to see whether there's an increased incidents in blood clots. we need that information from europe. presumably they'll come out with a statement tomorrow and we need to know the data but in answer to your question, could that influence the way we perceive vaccines in general, it could but i hope not. hopefully it doesn't. >> so doctor, one of the world's greatest children's hospitals in philadelphia so you know that moderna is beginning trials with kids to see if children, fairly young children, how the moderna vaccine works with them. the question that parents around the country have, you know, what are the chances that our kids will get vaccinated, a dose of the vaccine, before school starts in the fall? 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>> no. again, i think everything deserves context. what i'd love to ask about florida if we had done things differently in florida what would it look like? >> reporter: an epidemiologist said comparing one state to another is complicated with florida's humidity and new york's density and the sizes of the gatherings has played a role and now desantis has outraged many by trying to take away their authority to put such rules in place. it's that combative desantis. >> we have succeeded and i think that people just don't want to recognize it. >> reporter: who's become a darling of many republicans. he declines most interview requests. appearing only on propaganda programs. >> please come back soon. >> we will, thank you. >> reporter: charlie crist, a former governor, is among the democrats thinking about challenging desantis for re-election next year. >> in hindsight, do you think he deserves any credit for what he did? >> it's too early to tell. 33,000 of my floridians are dead. does he deserve credit for that? probably not. but could it have been better? maybe so. >> reporter: he and others are calling for a justice department investigation into whether desantis gave preference to donors after invitation only vaccination clinics were set up in two upscale communities. >> was there preference given to certain caucasian, wealthy communities in my state? because it certainly looks like it. >> reporter: a spokesman for the governor called the accusation ridiculous and has dismissed the critics who accused him of mischaracterizing the covid data. now desantis is seen by many as a potential 2024 presidential candidate. >> we are an oasis of freedom and a nation who is suffering. >> reporter: his future depends on the outcome of the pandemic and he hopes to make that his new calling card. now, desantis is the nation's youngest governor at 42 years old, all eyes are on him and his decisions. of course, the final chapter of the pandemic has not yet been written. there are still covid cases here in florida, of course. and across the country. but no doubt his decisions are getting a second look and his standing is stronger than other governors across the country. but erica, it is clear, so many factors go into how one state is compared to another, like the humidity, for example, here in florida. but his decision to open wide, he is standing behind that and celebrating it. erica? >> jeff zeleny, great reporting. appreciate it. thank you. well, you just saw there in jeff's report, governor desantis's performance in florida and governor newsom is facing a recall and newsom said he's concerned about the effort. >> am i worried about it, of course i am. the up or down question, the zero sum nature of the question is challenging and vexing, so we're taking it seriously. i have to do my job every single day but i'm going to fight this thing. >> joining us now is democratic congressman raul luis of california. you know, in terms of that recall, governor newsom was also asked about it and the fact it's been gaining steam during the pandemic. here is his response to my colleague jake tapper. >> you have people that are part of the lead coalition that started this petition that are avid proud boy members, part of the 3 percenters, the right wing militia groups and supporters of the qanon, white supremacist groups and that's factual. so at the end of the day, that's the origins of this. >> there's the governor talking about the origins of this recall, but we can't ignore the fact that it has gained steam during the pandemic. and there are now -- about 2 million californians who signed on. is the governor being overly dismissive of constituents who are not happy with him? >> no, he's not overly dismissive. you just had governor desantis on and talk about florida and comparing florida and california is like comparing apples to oranges, two completely different states. not only is there more humidity in florida, but also the density in california is greater and the population is greater. you also have to consider the prevalence of the different variants and the different viruses on both states. so given that high risk factor of california, governor newsom has done an incredible job and given the lower risk factors in florida, governor desantis could have done a better job in saving more lives. so i credit governor newsom for saving millions of lives and yes, people are fatigued. they want to go back to a sense of normalcy and now california is moving in that right direction. because people are getting vaccinated and he's leading the charge in making sure that there's equity in vaccinating the highest risk communities. >> you know, let's pick up on that in terms of vaccinations because you're a medical doctor. you have been doing vaccinations i think at a local rite-aid. there's been much made of the hesitancy, specifically in the black communities, based on the medical history and the atrocities in this country but lately the talk is about republicans, specifically republican men. former president trump actually coming out and saying that it is safe and it is effective last night. meantime, we have president biden weighing in as well. i want to play a little bit of what he had to say about vaccinations. which we may not have had, but president biden is talking -- he was asked about the politics when it comes to vaccinations and he said -- oh, i think we have it. let's play that for you. >> how do you get the politics out of this vaccine talk? >> i honestly to god thought we had it out. i honest to god thought that once we guaranteed we had enough vaccine for everybody, things would start to calm down. well, they have calmed down a great deal. but i just don't understand this sort of macho thing about i'm not going to get the vaccine, i have a right as an american. my freedom to not do it. well, be a patriot, protect other people. >> how concerning is some of this hesitancy for you? >> you know, it is concerning that there are people who because of political reasons don't want to get the vaccine. and yes, there are reasons why the african-american community, hispanics, native americans given their history with the medical establishment may be concerned but the greatest factor if those communities is not whether or not they want the vaccine. it's the systemic barriers that exist where you have very few doctors, very few clinics. and you have decreased resources so they're not getting the vaccine. hell, i was just in the hardest hit communities in my own district administering vaccines myself and in an hour we got 700 people in the community and with governor newsom's attention to underserved areas, we were able to inoculate 577 with eisenhower health in a very underresourced community senior center in the city of coachella. >> so you're -- so in terms of the hesitancy among republicans, you know, how is that being addressed? is it getting enough attention, because the more people vaccinated, the more it benefits everyone. >> it does. we need to reach out to everybody because it doesn't matter if they're republican or democrat. democratic. it's all about protecting them and their families and i think that president trump being more forceful and also our ability to combat misinformation through the qanon and the social media and other things are going to be very important. ultimately, when people are going to get vaccinated and protect their families and themselves and they will come around. >> and before i let you go, i want to start -- we're rapid fire this morning, tight on time. when it comes to immigration, president biden saying very clearly in an interview, don't come here to migrants. is that enough? >> you know, no, that's not enough. i mean, one, it's important that people realize we're in the middle of a pandemic and it's not safe for them, especially with the cartels and the coyotes that are taking advantage of them and retraumatizing them during the journey. but that's why we need the u.s. citizenship act so we can address the root causes of the problems so they don't need to leave and they can stay where they are. this week we'll pass the dream and promise act to give a pathway to the migrants and giving people peace of mind, help our economy, stabilize our food supply chain and help the dreamers who are nurses, doctors, job creators during this pandemic to really give and serve the -- everybody in our country. >> we'll have to leave it there. we'll be following the efforts later this week, seeing how those play out. representative, luis, thank you. nearly half of republican voters say they don't plan to get vaccinated. so how much of the hesitancy is due to vaccine misinformation? 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chief business correspondent christine romans has more for us this morning. >> good morning. nice to see you. president biden was in pennsylvania yesterday. he's on this help is here tour trying to show people the government can work for you. erica, this rescue is so big. more economists are forecasting an economic boom later this year. morgan stanley sees 7% growth. goldman sachs, 8%. that's faster than china and the largest u.s. expansion in generations, bouncing back from the covid crash. thousands of dollars are now going to low-income and middle-income families. stimulus checks, jobless aid. vaccine progress is part of those optimistic calculations. there's also enormous pent-up demand when the economy starts opening up from eating at restaurants to traveling. as the economy recovers, could it overheat sparking inflation? that means higher prices and less purchasing power for consumers and companies. a recent survey of portfolio managers cites inflation as the top risk ahead of covid. but treasury secretary janet yellen has said rising prices if they happen, would be temporary. jerome powell has also downplayed inflation concerns, and we expect he will again today when the central bank finishes its policy meeting. powell is more concerned about jobs and with good reason. the job market is still in a deep hole down 9.5 million jobs in this pandemic. that means the central bank is in no rush to end its bond purchases let alone start raising interest rates, which is what you'd expect in an overheated economy. and when will this administration start talking about raising corporate taxes? a lot of buzz in the business world about whether a joe biden and the democrats will be able to roll back those 2017 corporate tax cuts. all the way to 21%. will they jack that up a little bit? >> maybe soon? christine romans, thank you. former president trump after secretly receiving a vaccine in january just now finally expressed public support for it. listen. >> i would recommend it, and i would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly, but, you know, again, we have our freedoms and we have to live by that. and i agree with that also. but it's a great vaccine. it's a safe vaccine, and it's something that works. >> joining me now is former republican congressman denver riggleman. he co-authored a report entitled "viral disinformation of the covid vaccine and reaoad to reconciliation." the president supports the vaccine while acknowledging that many people who follow him don't want to get it. how significant is this? >> well, it is significant, but it took long enough. my text messages blew up last night and this morning. people talking about this, john. what they are saying is it might not matter that much because a lot of this is baked in. it's almost become institutional, this distrust of the government. as far as the anti-vax things out there, i still get facebook messages and i think facebook is where it's almost most viral with anti-vax conspiracy theories almost every day. i wonder if it's a little too late what president trump said because this mistrust is baked in. >> you co-authored a report on the rise of misinformation and conspiracy theories surrounding the covid vaccine. how does it connect with the larger political environment that we're living in? >> it's tribalism. and it seems to me that you have to pick one side or the other and i had somebody tell me the other day, listen, people are now thinking, do i got to pick our crazy over their crazy? and that's the kind of things we're thinking about is that government or maybe some of the missteps from government and there's a kernel of truth to some of these people who go a little crazy on conspiracy theories. you have this sort of disjointed effort to deal with the covid vaccine or deal with the economy, people automatically want to reach for things based on the fact they want to control their lives and have some kind of answer to what's going on with them. so the issue that we have again with antivaanti-vaxing, you sawr stadium. it's advancing, not retracting. that's the fear we have, it's based on data and seeing this rehash of the old new world order experiences or covid-1984 is really disturbing. >> i want to go back to the 2020 post-election nightmare. you'll remember this comment. listen. >> the company counting our vote with control over our vote is owned by two venezuelans who were allies of chavez, are present applies of maduro with a company whose chairman is a close associate and business partner of george soros. >> okay, madness there. yesterday the u.s. intelligence community released a major report detailing how russia attempted to damage president biden's candidacy by engaging in a huge disinformation campaign, in part by utilizing president trump's allies and the dhs released a companion report saying those claims made by rudy giuliani were, quote, not credible. your takeaway? >> well, of course they're not credible. it is just randomized crap that giuliani was throwing out to try to influence votes or spread types of disinformation. we do know there's russian participation and disinformation. it's not something that's hard to do. john, you can make personas, do those type of things but that is really not that big of a deal. and what you have is these russian propaganda peddlers where they don't understand where this information is coming from. there's a lack of information on their part but also a willing participation and trying to win, trying to use these conspiracies to make money. this is about follow the money. and you know, it's funny. you talked about anti-vax also. this rolls into that entire disinformation scenario. the only issue that i had after my vaccination is this overwhelming desire to buy microsoft products, that's it. even saying that as a joke because bill gates is part of this, right, anti-vax, what giuliani said about venezuela and chavez which could have been some russian disinformation propaganda or personas. all of this is wrapped into distrust. it's wrapped into the simple fact that people aren't trusting what's happening. it doesn't take away their ignorance or danger of it. we have to have a group or people that are willing to state facts without regards to party because, you know, crazy isn't party specific. the far right might have a hold my beer moment but it's not party specific. we have to have people willing to spout facts regardless of the party they belong to p. thank you for the work you're doing, congressman denver riggleman. 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