good evening. we are tracking those shootings. we will bring you more information as it comes in. it is a busy night. we begin with this just in, president biden for the first time addressing the surge on the southern border and criticism his break on policy from the last administration is to blame. we spoke with abc news's george stephanopoulos. >> a lot of the migrants are coming in are saying they're coming in because you promised to make things better. it seems to be getting worse by the day. was it a mistake not to anticipate this surge? >> well, first of all, there was a surge the last two years in '19 and '20 there was a surge, as well. >> this one might be worse. >> no, well, it could be. here is the deal. we're sending back people -- first of all, the idea that joe biden said come because i heard the other day that they're coming because i'm a nice guy and i won't do -- >> you're saying this. >> yeah, here is the deal. they're not. >> do you have to say quite clearly don't come? >> yes, i can say quite clearly don't come and what we're in the process of getting set up, don't leave your town or city or community. >> more now from cnn phil mattingly who joins us. phil, does it seem like president biden is or the white house, do they grasp the severity of the situation on the boarder? >> i think white house officials do and you heard the president try to compare it to 2019 or 2020 and i think the reality is from his own homeland security secretary today they are seeing a surge they haven't seen in nearly two decades. it's a significant problem. it's also a confluence of factors right now. it's not any one thing. from the policy side, the biden administration made a change from the past administration. they are allowing in unaccompanied minors. that is a shift. they are doing that because they want to take a more humane approach to immigration. they are turning away any adult that comes to the border on covid-related grounds. however, they were not prepared based on the system they say they inherited to handle the surge of migrants over the course of the last several weeks, and it's only growing. you also have the issue that the president was asked about, whether or not he is part of the reason that migrants believe that the borders are now open. one of the issues administration officials have seen, they seen coyotes, the individuals taking money trying to escort individuals through the dangerous journey saying they believe the policy changed. they are dealing with that and the northern triangle countries. that are dealing with their own hardships. obviously there were hurricanes down there, own issues with their own governments. that's driving a lot of the surge you're seeing right now. so all of this coming together is creating a significant problem and while administration seems fully aware from now the president on down that they have a problem right now, they're also cognizant of the fact that it's going to take time to fix in terms of ramping up facilities, ramping up the ability to move the unaccompanied minors out of the border patrol facilities where they don't belong and aren't supposed to stay more than 72 hours. given that they're overwhelmed right now, they are falling short of that. they're working to address that, but they're saying it takes time, anderson. >> does the president have plans to travel to the southern border? >> i asked him that today as he departed the white house on his way to pennsylvania for his covade relief bill, if you will that just passed arranged he said no, not at the moment. right now i haven't talked to an administration official urging the president to go down there. he had senior advisors go down a couple of weeks ago. they came back and gave him a report while they were down there. many of whom speak spanish and had multiple conversations with minors in custody down there. he's having his officials go down and report. obviously his secretary of homeland security is very deeply engaged right now. no sense in the president going down relying on his team at the moment to try to fix what is becoming a growing problem every single day. >> phil mattingly, stay right there. i want to bring in abby phillip. abby, what do you make of president biden's comments? >> well, i think he is trying to do two things at once. he's trying to get ahold of the narrative here that republicans are trying to use for political reasons to attack him for what is going on the border. and there are i think good reasons for the biden administration to say not so fast. this is in part a result of the trump administration creating a backlog of immigrants who have been waiting in mexico to come over. but at the same time, what he said there, don't come has taken two weeks virtually for this administration to get to that place. a couple of weeks ago, the now department of homeland security secretary said quite the opposite. he said we're not saying don't come. we're saying don't come right now. i think this is an administration that is struggling to settle on where they need to be both in terms of messaging and in terms of policy to not only deal with the long term issues but also to deal with this immediate problem, which seems to be escalating by the day as more and more of these children show up and they need to be housed and they need to be put into homes with sponsors and if they're not put into homes with sponsors, they're being kept in conditions that their lawyers are telling us are just simply terrible. they're just waiting for opportunities to get out of these situations where they should not be in. >> abby, we heard president biden say quote, we're in the process of getting set up, don't leave your town. which makes it almost sound like once we get set up, then it's okay to leave your town. it is -- i'm not sure what the thought there is. >> well, you know, i suspect that what he is referring to is something that we heard from another administration official about a week ago which has to do with standing up a system that allows these migrants to apply for asylum in their home countries before they even make the journey. he didn't say that, but that is eventually i think what administration wants to get to and what's even some democrats i spoke to a border democrat vicente gonzalez over the weekend who has been emphasizing that is crucial to stopping this flow of immigrants coming up through mexico. you've got to get them to go through some of this process in their home countries. the problem is, administration says that is going to take time to stand that system up. the question is how much time do they really have? the crisis is now. they don't want to call it a crisis but the numbers we're seeing at the border certainly suggest it is. >> and phil, why did the president wait this long to say, you know, don't come to the border, there are now more than 4,000 unaccompanied migrant children in customs and border patrol custody. >> there is a belief that his top official saying something similar to that making very clear whether it's the press secretary at the podium each day whether it was his homeland security secretary who eventually came out and made that very clear as well, kind of his top officials getting that word across was going to be enough. i think the reality is the president hasn't been out. he takes questions sometimes when he's departing and takes questions occasionally but the president hasn't been out and had really the opportunity to make that forceful statement do not come now and i think also, administration right now, i think they would acknowledge they're scrambling a bit because to abby's point, they have long-term goals, and i think they feel like they have long-term solutions to some degree, even to the central american minors crises that's occurring, whether it's sending more aid down to the northern triangle allowing minors in the u.s. while they're back home to engage with relatives and help clear the path forward. what they don't have and scrambling for is a short term solution and that's where it sounds a little bit like blame the last guy while you continue to hear from administration officials, so much of this is what they inherited, the system they inherited that they're trying to overhaul on the run as things are moving, and it's obviously a very fluid situation. >> thank you very much. i want to bring you more on the breaking news. at least seven people are dead after shootings at three spas, two in atlanta and another at a nearby county. cnn's ryan young joins us now by phone with the latest. ryan, explain what exactly has gone on. the latest i had is there there were three -- two dead on the scene and one dead at a hospital from a place called young's asian imagine in acworth, georgia, and two other massage spas, one called a therapy spa which seemed very close to each other. there were three people killed and then one other person killed at another spa. so explain what is going on. >> right, so anderson, what we've learned from this information so far, acworth is in cherokee county. that's where the initial shooting happened. it sort of unclear exactly what took place. we don't know if someone walked inside and started shooting and that's where the first three people were killed or at least two people were shot and then one person maybe showed up to a hospital. then the information that's about 47-minute ride from the second shooting scene, the second shooting scene was a spa very close to buckhead. if you know atlanta very well, that's a busy area. this is a very busy intersection where these two spas are located and then apparently, three women were shot in one location and another woman was shot pretty much at the spa right across the street. there is a small grouping of spas in this area. now, i just got off the phone with a few detectives that i know in the atlanta area. they're telling me there's been pretty much a massive callout to law enforcement throughout the atlanta area to be on the lookout for a suspect vehicle but also, they are working this case to see if they are obviously connected. that's a theory they are working with currently. obviously, the chief of police did a news conference the last 15 to 20 minutes where he was talking about making this a top priority. that area of buckhead where the second and third shooting scenes happened, it's a very busy area. you know there is probably tons of cameras that are in that area that police will have to start scouring through to make sure they have images of the suspect vehicle that they can get them out to the public as soon as possible. they have also shut down a large area around the shooting scenes even in cherokee county where they are trying to get any sort of evidence they can to get out there so they can try to catch these suspects. now, i will tell you after talking to someone who was walking on another task force, they were telling me about a crew hitting some of these spas recently but not sure if that's connected to this at all or not. of course, they're also working with the theory someone could have specifically targeted these areas because they're known for the workers they have inside, which would be the asian workers that would be there. in terms of what is going on now, there is a slew of police officers who basically have been brought in for the investigative duties to figure out what is going on with these separate shootings. again, the death toll, so surprising with seven people shot and killed. >> ryan, let me run through some details with you. so the first shooting that's known was in acworth, georgia, correct? >> right. yes, sir. >> that's where three people died, two on the scene and one at the hospital. you say that's about -- that's the young's asian massage, which we're showing video from, that's cherokee county. >> right. so cherokee county is about 47 minutes outside the city of atlanta. >> is it known approximately what time that shooting occurred? >> and that is the part that we're still working on, >> okay. >> when this originally happened, it looked like it was an accident on the highway. so police started shutting down some of the roadways around there and then all of a sudden the word came out there was several shootings that may be connected to this and as all eyes were focused on what happened with that shooting, it became clear something else was happening in the city of atlanta about two hours later. that's when this other busy area close to buckhead had these double shootings pretty quickly behind each other. >> and you said it a 47-minute ride from acworth to the other area. looking at the addresses from the two massage spas in the buck head area, it looks like they're very close to each other judging by the numbers on the buildings. >> absolutely. they're almost across the street from each other. anyone who is sort of -- i'm being redirected here. there is two spas are pretty much right across the street from each other and that had -- they have been there for years. police have kept a pretty strong presence in this area for quite some time. but the shootings are less than a mile away from piedmont park. so at this point on a busy afternoon in atlanta, you would know this area would be packed with traffic. so whoever pulled this shooting off did wit a lot of people probably very visibly be able to hear the gunshots as it took place. >> and we -- >> as -- i assume, ryan, we don't know at this point the timing of the shootings at the buckhead area spas? >> as it was described to me, they were pretty back to back. it appears that the person, whoever did it probably did it on foot. and went from one location to the next. as i'm looking at the scene right now, there are major parts of the street that have been shut down as police start to gather their evidence. >> you said that there is a vehicle of interest that had police released details about that. >> so about -- i want to say about an hour and a half ago, the cherokee county sheriff's department released a picture on their twitter page, a black vehicle. we're not sure how that may be connected to this shooting. obviously, they are taking interest to tweet out and also to add the guidelines from there. we don't know if they have a suspect picture. we don't know if these businesses have video cameras and they may have a direct line of sight on whoever may have done the shooting. these are things we're hoping to get an update from detectives in the near future. like i said, the police chief of atlanta did a news conference probably about a half hour ago when they gave very few details, but obviously, this is an ongoing investigation at this point. >> and i apologize for looking down to our viewers. i'm looking at information as it's coming in. according to a cnn report that police said at the time that they'd responded to the aroma therapy spa, they found one deceased victim. we know all the deceased victims were female, appear to be asian. they didn't know if they were employees or customers at the spa, and the cherokee, i guess that's it for now. ryan, stay with us if you can. if you have to gather more information, we understand. if you can, stay with us. i want to bring in former fbi director andrew mccabe. andrew, what do you make of what is going on? >> yeah, this is a really tough situation. obviously in atlanta, you have three separate locations, multiple homicides at each obviously a terrible tragedy for those folks involved and a hugely complicated investigation to undertake by the police officials. so with all victims -- and excuse me for looking down as well -- asian females, you've got known associates, family members. there are so many potential perpetrators here and so many potential motives for this sort of violence that it's really important that both the police and of course our coverage as well keeps really open mind about this stuff right now. >> yeah, it obviously very easy to sort of speculate and i don't think we should be doing that at this stage, if ever. ryan, you said you had talked to somebody in law enforcement who had talked about burglaries or some folks were going around hitting, like robbing businesses in that area? >> as some of the spas throughout the atlanta area, from what i was told by one law enforcement official but again, when they heard the description of the people who may be involved in this, obviously all law enforcement in this area antennas went up. they understand what has been going on across this country. there are several large pockets of the asian community here in the area. there are businesses that clearly get targeted sometimes but there is also a large presence of asian americans. so this is a conversation from some of the top law enforcement officials to try to figure out how this may be connected and what the next steps may be. they're talking to some of their partners. because obviously, this happening in cherokee county, it's not the same as the atlanta police department. so we have a robust police department in atlanta, but the cherokee county sheriff's department has to work this case. i'm sure the chief will be getting involved, as well. that's the entities here in georgia splitting up how they can go after whoever did this. >> director mccabe, if the cherokee county officials have tweeted out an image of a vehicle of interest, is that something that they would have done based on solely based on eyewitness accounts or closed circuit television accounts i guess? >> you know, it could be any of those things, anderson. it's entirely possible that you have video surveillance either at the crime locations or at the neighboring businesses across the street, that sort of thing that could give you a great vision into a vehicle that may have entered or left the scene at the right time. at the same time, i'm sure those police officers are canvassing those businesses to see if across the street, what have you, to see if anybody saw anything suspicious, you know, vehicles moving at a high rate of speed, people looking like they're fleeing the scene. there is all different kinds of channels to get that vehicle description. we don't know how they are characterizing the vehicle but it obviously something they will be looking closely for. >> and director mccabe, when you have incidents like this in different jurisdictions, i mean one is in cherokee county, the others are in atlanta, on piedmont, just very close to each other, how much more difficult does that make kind of the early part of this investigation? >> you know, it requires a really high degree of coordination between these different agencies. it's likely that their relationships and ability to coordinate are well developed and strong because they are so close to each other. i'm sure they have criminal activity that very frequently overlaps from one jurisdiction into another. but i can tell you that those sheriff's deputies in cherokee and those police officers are interacting and exchanging information realtime phone to phone to understand whether or not they can together develop some some suspects to focus in on. >> there is also the question of obviously is it the same person involved in all three incidents? obviously, the ones that are close together, that would seem more obvious. the question of course is did somebody, you know, go to acworth, georgia and have this incident at the first spa and then drive 47 minutes to the others? >> you know, i know this is an unsatisfying answer but both possibilities are completely in play right now. right? so if you think just from the perspective of is this some sort of a ethnically or motivated hate crime, this could be conducted by an individual who would access all three locations or a small group of people who are looking to victimize that community in an effort to make some sort of statement. if it's an individual offender who for whatever reason decided to commit this atrocity based on family reasons or business reasons or whatever that might be, or it could be somebody who went from place to place. they really is to keep the aperture very open right now. >> ryan young as well. we're going continue to follow this story and bring any new developments as we get them in. the. the new russian intelligence report on 2020. that's next. also, what to make of the race right now vaccinate and what everyone hopes will not turn out to be one last surge of the virus. want to make a name for yourself in gaming? then make a name for yourself. even if your office, and bank balance are... far from glamorous. that means expensing nothing but pizza. your expenses look good, and your books are set for the month! ...going up against this guy... and pitching your idea 100 times. no, no, no! no. i like it. -he likes it! ...and you definitely love that. intuit quickbooks helps small businesses be more successful with 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potential election as disadvantages to russian interests and this drove his empt efforts to undermine his candidacy. in other words, precisely what the former president denied from happening last year and linked to the campaign. >> there has been nobody tougher on russia than donald trump. all of the emails, the emails, the horrible emails the money you were raking in you and your family and joe, you were vice president when some of this was happening and it should have never happened. >> which brings us to tonight and cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. so walk us through this assessment, jim. >> i spoke to an official tonight involved in the 2016 u.s. intelligence assessment on russia's interference in that election and he said to me look at this report and russia has been remarkably disturbingly consistent. in fact, the language of the report reads almost like verbatim from the 2016 intelligence assessment. it begins with this key point and that is that we assess, the u.s. intelligence community that russian president putin authorized this interference and then it goes onto the details of what did russia do to influence this election. it says that it denigrated president biden's candidacy much as it did hillary clinton's campaign in 2016 as well as the democratic party. it supported former president trump just as they did in 2016 but also crucially and more broadly it says that it undermined public confidence in the electoral process and exacerbated sociopolitical divisions in the u.s. what was truly remarkable this time around, anderson, it had an ally here in the u.s. in the former president himself because he has raised leading up to the election since the election and to tonight on fox news raised those same questions about the electoral process calling it a stolen election when there is no basis for it so you had in effect, russia had in effect an ally on the ground here in the u.s. pushing the same divisive narrative. >> and the report also talks about close associates to the president. >> it does. it says russia deliberately targeted close associates of the president and that those close associates repeated, propagated the same lies russia was trying to propagate and it does not name rudy giuliani but it does name andre durkash, whoa is a ukrainian politician and known russian intelligence agent that giuliani met with frequently to get information, dirt on president biden, which giuliani went on the airwaves many times here in this country to claim falsely about president biden, former at the time candidate biden. again, what is different this time around was witting help from americans in russia's election interference, and it's remarkable to see. >> the former president and administration officials said it was really china, not russia interfering with the election. the assessment contradicted that, correct? >> absolutely. leading up, john ratcliffe, former dni under trump, attorney general bill barr on cnn said no, russia is a bigger threat. what we find from this intelligence report is either they were flat out wrong, missed it or deliberately mislead. because in fact the report found, the assessment found that china sat this one out. it calculated that neither result would really make a difference for them, and they wanted to maintain stable relations with the u.s., so they did not interfere. the trump administration got that wrong or lied about it. >> appreciate it. we're continuing to get more information on the shootings in and around atlanta and the latest on covid, the good, the bad and the potentially very much worse. my kids to know... they come from people who... were brave. and took risks. big risks. bring your family history to life, like never before. get started for free at ancestry.com ♪ ♪ like an echo in the forest ♪ ♪ (singing in korean) ♪ ♪ like an arrow in the blue sky ♪ ♪ (singing in korean) ♪ ♪ on my pillow, on my table ♪ ♪ yeah life goes on ♪ ♪ like this again ♪ - 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>> well, you know, i think the image is starting to come into clearer focus. we've been talking about the variants for a long time. obviously professor oster hope has been sounding the alarm on this for some time. the u.k. variant was here in december probably. we're mid march. 49 states now have confirmed the u.k. variant is there. that gives you an idea how quickly this is spreading. when i say it coming into clearer focus, there are trend lines we're trying to figure out as you mentioned, anderson, 15 states have had numbers increase at least 10%. a couple states 40%. but then, you know, florida for example where the u.k. dominant has become more dominant, sorry, the u.k. strain is more dominant, the case is still appears to go down. we're not sure if that hasn't caught up or what is happening there. just show you quickly. italy, france, united states, you mentioned this a minute ago, anderson. you remember last spring, we were all talking about italy. we can show the graph of what's happening now. talking about italy last spring. we're not going to follow that trajectory. of course we did, and now we see what's happening in italy, the blue line in france right now. the u.k. variant is dominant in italy. so that's the concern. so many provinces are going back into the significant mitigation mode in italy. is that going to be a precursor of what happens here? that's the question. >> professor osterholm, in terms the variants in the united states, how concerned are you about them, especially begin what we're seeing in europe? >> all the variants of concern, those are capable either causing more transmission of the virus or more serious illness or evading the immune protection from the vaccine or natural infection are a concern. the one sanjay pointed out that really is front and center is this b.1.1.7, the variant first seen in the u.k. which is about 60% or more infectious than previous strains of the virus as well as it causes anywhere from 50 to 60% more severe illness. that is the one spreading widely right now in the united states. we'll have to deal with the other variants from south africa. and from south america. right now front and center, the next several weeks will be able b.1.1.7 and the race we have between vaccine and the variant and again, of course loosening up as we are right now. we are creating a perfect storm scenario for this virus to spread. >> so professor osterholm, if people continue to travel, stop wearing masks, open things up and this variant is spreading and people not getting vaccinated, what happens? >> well, first of all, there is an assumption made by a lot of people that so many people have been infected or are getting vaccinated that not much will happen, and that's just simply not true. right now we have somewhere between 50 and 55% of the u.s. population that's protected through having had infection before and having immunity or having been vaccinated. but for example, we still have almost 20 million americans that are 65 years and older that haven't had a drop of vaccine. in europe two countries we're following closely, multa and hungary are two countries that have had some of the most active immigration programs going on. they too have been hit really hard in the past, meaning they have a number of people who are immune from previous infections. and right now they have the steepest increase in cases of any of the european countries. so i think it's potential things to come if we continue to loosen up and allow this virus to go willy nilly. >> sanjay, do you have more states rolling back restrictions, air travel up. a lot of activities picking back up. how concerned are you? >> well, you know, it's concerning. i mean, i think that the idea that the 12% of the country has been vaccinated, i think, as dr. osterholm mentioned, i think it's 30, 35, 40% of people over the age of 60 are now fully vaccinated and 60% received one shot but if you look at these new ihme projections, these are the models from the university of washington, they've actually increased their death projection by july 1st now by 20,000 more people. so close to 600,000 people will have died of this by july 1st. it's concerning. you remember anderson, we talked to chris murray a couple of weeks ago and he's talking about the impact of rolling back the mask mandates in texas and said mask use is largely stable in the country, around 75%. but now they're saying in the places where the mask mandates have been rolled back, i guess not surprisingly, you are seeing decreased mask use, and that's a problem. those are some of the states that are fueling that increase. >> professor osterholm, moderna announced the first children have been vaccinated in the pediatric trial including infants as young as 6 months old. if it's proven safe in children, could that vaccine be ready to go for the next school year? >> we're hopeful it could be ready for if not the beginning of school, soon after school begins and we're even more excited about the possibility of having even younger children, children in daycare vaccinated in the future. but for now, that's obviously not a solution. i would say that one of the things that's very concerning about this b.1.1.7 variant is the fact that prior to this time, young kids were really not important from the standpoint of spreading the virus or for that often getting infected and the large outbreak that we have emerging in minnesota just as we seen in europe, kids get ready readily infected and kids transmit the virus, which i think is going to create a new challenge for school openings. i've been saying you can open schools kindergarten through eighth grade safely and what you've seen in europe we're seeing in the united states will raise a challenge to that because this new strain is really spreading in kids. >> wow. professor osterholm, i appreciate it. we're of course also keeping an eye on the breaking news from atlanta where seven people are known dead in a series of shootings at spas. meanwhile, up next, california governor gavin newsom on the recall campaign against him and what he's now saying about going to a fancy restaurant during the height of the pandemic when he was telling others to stay home. i'm erin. -and i'm margo. we've always done things our own way. charted our own paths. i wasn't going to just back down from moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. psoriatic arthritis wasn't going to change who i am. when i learned that my joint pain could mean permanent joint damage, i asked about enbrel. enbrel helps relieve joint pain, and helps stop permanent joint damage. plus enbrel helps skin get clearer in psoriatic arthritis. ask your doctor about enbrel, so you can get back to your true self. -play ball! enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders and allergic reactions have occurred. tell your doctor if you've been someplace where fungal infections are common. or if you're prone to infections, have cuts or sores, have had hepatitis b, have been treated for heart failure, or if you have persistent fever, bruising, bleeding or paleness. don't start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. visit enbrel.com to see how your joint damage could progress. enbrel. eligible patients may pay as little as $5 per month. we continue to monitor the situation in the atlanta area. at least seven people killed at shootings in massage parlors. we'll bring you any updates. now to the recall fight for gavin newsom. we spoke to him earlier today. organizers of the recall face a deadline for submitting 1.5 million signatures for verification. they said signatures collected amount to nearly 2 million. some of the money raised for that campaign by his opponents said was from out of state. >> i received almost $3 million of money some coming from different parts of the country, not just from the state of california. so at the end of the day, it's complicated as to why this is on but that's not determinative. >> snans dan simon now on how a politician who once thought invincible found himself in this situation. >> absolutely. we're taking it is seriously. >> reporter: governor newsom taking seriously the threat to remove him out of office on a media blitz appearing on shows like "the view." >> good morning, whoopi -- >> and including the lead with jake tapper. >> this is the sixth, sixth recall effort in just 25 months since i've been governor. >> reporter: the appearances perhaps an acknowledgement newsom is in deep political trouble. as more than two million signatures to put a recall on the ballot have been collected over the 1.5 million needed to move forward. the governor, who earned high marks for his management early in the pandemic has seen his fortunes fall. amid tight restrictions, cases and deaths soared. small business owners got crushed, public schools were shuttered. the initial vaccine rollout slow and disorganized. and threaten was newsom's pr disaster, showing up at a fancy napa valley restaurant while urging people to stay at home. what on earth were you thinking? >> well, as a friend of over a quarter century was having his 50th birthday. restaurants were open in the state. i wasn't suggesting people should not eat. there were too many people at the table and that was inconsistent with what i was expressing. >> reporter: the bottom line, california has nothing to show for its aggressive moves to fight the pandemic. >> it's been a difficult year. in hindsight, we're all experts about a year ago, it was a year ago this week, california was the first state to initiate a stay-at-home order. and antiimmigrant trump supporters. >> who is behind the partisan recall of governor newsom? >> launching a web site and called stop the republican recall. linking the organizers to those who tried to over turn the presidential election. >> we're extremist and this is that. it's welcome to the campaign. this is the labels they'll throw at us. >> recall organizer a former democrat turned trump campaign staffer says the 2 million signatures he gathered for the recall represent a wide swath of california. >> this is not a republican movement. it's a people movement in california. >> tomorrow is the deadline to have all those signatures submitted. the bottom line if everything goes according to plan for the organizers. this election would be in the fall. possibly october. or november. and if newsom survives this and many political analysts in california think he will. he would be on the ballot again in 2022. for the reelection. >> appreciate it. it has been a busy night. we have more breaking news from president biden. telling the sexual harassment investigation of cuomo should continue. if allegations are confirmed he thinks he will be prosecuted. >> we'll be right back. what about me? 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