three people in a gold's spa. then we are told he walked across the street and kill another woman at another spa. his car is shown at all three crime scenes. he was arrested driving south about 150 miles from atlanta. officials say 6 of the 8 victims appear to be asian and police are investigating the possibility that the attacks were racially motivated. this comes amid an increase in attacks on the asian community since the coronavirus pandemic. the new york police department says it will deploy counterterrorism in the city out of abundance of caution. we will keep following this story all morning and bring you any new developments as they happen. let's go now to the white house and coronavirus with the white house aiming to distribute more than 2 million doses of covid-19 vaccine in the next week. that would be a new record in the u.s. fight to contain the coronavirus. states are expected to receive more than 16 million doses of the three approved vaccines. that is slightly higher than what they got last week. federally administered program such as mass vaccination sites and community health centers will receive most of those doses. the increase in supply comes as more states lift their eligibility criteria to receive vaccines. in an interview with fox news last night, former president trump encouraged his supporters to get a coronavirus vaccine. but added a caveat that everyone has the freedom to choose whether or not to do so. >> 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. >> those new remarks come amid recent polling that shows half of all republican men and 47% of trump supporters say they would not get a vaccine if one was made available to them. now this. for the first time, president biden says he supports reforming the senate filibuster favoring a return to the chambers very old standard that could make it easy for his agenda to pass through the evenly split senate. >> i know you've been reluctant to to do away with the filibuster. aren't you having to choose between the filibuster and advancing your agenda? >> yes but here is the choice. i don't think you have to eliminate the filibuster. you have to do when i first got in the senate in the old days when you used to be around there. and that is that a filibuster, you had to stand up and command the floor and you had to keep talking along. you couldn't call for, you know -- no one could say, you know -- once you stop talking, you lost that and someone could move in and say i move the question of. so you got to work for the filibuster. >> you're for that reform and bringing back the talking filibuster? >> i am. that's what it was supposed to be. >> pretty significant shift for president biden who has, up to now, defending this the filibuster in its current form pretty intensely. and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is not backing down on this, issuing this warning, should democrats make changes to the filibuster. >> nobody serving in this chamber can even begin -- can even begin to imagine what a completely scorched earth senate would look like. this is an institution that requires unanimous consent to turn the lights on before noon. everything that democrat senates did and president bush and trump, everything the republican senate did to president obama, would be child's play, compared to the disaster that democrats would create for their own priorities if -- if they break the senate. >> but majority leader chuck schumer doesn't seem fazed by the threat. >> senator mcconnell is always looking for a diverse. he knows how popular arp is. he knows he and his whole caucus opposed it and that the american people, even republicans, we just surveyed in new york state, 55% of republicans are for th arp since it passed so he is always looking for a diversion. we democrats, all of us believe we need big, bold change. as i've said before, we hope our republican colleagues will work with us to produce that change. we will try to get them to work with us. but, if not, we will put our heads together and figure out how to go and everything is on the table. >> joining us now no one better than to talk about this than the cofounder of punch bowl news, john bresnan. great to see you. good morning. i want to talk about one of your tweets in a second. first, mcconnell on the floor saying i don't think you've imagined how bad things are going to be if you do this. it sure seems like mcconnell has begun to imagine such a scenario. >> you know, we asked him about that. he said, you know, i went up to him afterwards. i said was there a specific threat you were talking about? was there a specific issue? he said, no, we just want to make sure it's out there. but, you know, he is clearly sending a message to becomic leadership and clearly he is sending a message to democrats who are on fence about this joe manchin and dianne feinstein and others. he is going to bring hell if they, you know, if they change the filibuster, he is going to like he said, he is going to make it hard to turn on the lights in the place. he has a point. the senate works on unanimous consent. they have to get consent to everything. it's not like the house where the house runs everything through rules committee, the speaker runs things through the rules but not the same way in the senate. he's got a point. he could make it very difficult to do anything, to make committees meet, to bring to start the day. he could forge votes on anything. so, you know, his threat is not an idle one. >> so, john, for those viewers who, you know, i think you and i, obviously, spend a ton of time thinking about this. we fully understand. . when we say unanimous consent, it means any single one senator can stand up and stand in the way of things and refuse to turn the lights on, so to speak. everyone basically agreed we are not doing that and all 100 of us think that is a real pain and not do that any more. mcconnell is saying i'm giving up on that if you make this change. let's talk about what you tweeted last night which is -- it's a significant shift. he saying let's change and how the filibuster works because we have big important issues pending that we know republicans aren't voting for. do you think the change would make it more likely that his agenda will be passed? >> you know, it's not quite an accurate description of what the senate was like when he got there. they actually changed the rule the year before to allow silent fill a busters. mike mansfield from montana changed the rule to allow -- a talking filibuster, in some ways, would be worse. because a group of senators could hold the floor for weeks, and you couldn't do anything, you couldn't do nominations, you couldn't do any kind of business. you could do legislation. the idea behind the silent filibuster they saw as a reform in 1972 the senate can proceed on other business while there is a filibuster. if you have a talking filibuster. that is the business of the senate. nothing else moves. so that with the idea the time when they put it in, the silent filibuster, it was a reform. now, of course, it's abused. the president is right about that. when he first came to the senate that entire congress, there were 31 filibuster to move forward on a matter. last congress, there were 298. so, you know, he's got a point that senate is not working. something has got to change. but it may be a talking filibuster may not be the way to do it. >> yeah, right now, it's like you can send an email and hold up any one of the priorities but it's a good point that being able to send that email means the senate can still keep doing other stuff. i think bottom line, its look like we are heading toward another round of further disintegration of anything left of getting anything done. thank you for your deep expertise and long experience to this and helping us understand. thank you. we get an update on tiger woods condition following his rollover crash last month in los angeles. plus a new release at a intelligence report about foreign adversaries to interfere in the election. we will have a check of those stories when we come back. also your weather. also your weather. 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"the boston globe" is reporting he purchased. he owned 2% of the premier league champion liverpool football club. james and his long time business pattern murphy carter are the first black partners in fenway sports group history. loyola chicago is back in the ncaa tournament and sterp sister jean will be there too! the school confirmed the 101-year-old chaplain will watch her beloved ramblers in person for the first time on friday this season. she became a celebrity in 2018 while rooting on loyola in its surprising run to the final four. this year, she has her eighth seeded ramblers making the elite eight and top ranked gonzaga winning it all. return of march madness means another shot of the big payday from the company's billionaire ceo. warren buffett brought back his bracket challenge to the employee who correctly predicts the games. and the winner's prize will be doubled if final four includes creighton university which is based in buffett's hometown. omaha, nebraska. time now for the weather. let's go to meteorologist bill o'kern. >> my grandfather's great grandfather and his three brothers came over from ireland and name was o'kern. that is how i ended up with my last name. >> love it. >> a decent story. today is a dangerous weather days. we only get a couple of these every season. we are going to have tornadoes. we are going to have big tornadoes and severe weather and we will be fortunate to get through days like today without fatalities. it's a matter of where the tornadoes occur and how bad they are and who gets hit. right now, the storms are moving through texas. dallas is going to get hit with probably strong winds. the tornado outbreak portion of this forecast will be later on this afternoon. going through the overnight and all day tomorrow. it's very rare to get these high-risk days. that pink area is the area of greatest concern. that is the greatest chance of seeing tornadoes that could be strong and on the ground for a long time and during the overnight hours where we have a little bit of lead time. a big heads-up to all our friends from little rock to memphis and especially central mississippi and areas of alabama. we, unfortunately, tomorrow morning, at this time, will likely be talking about big tornadoes that did a lot of damage throughout the south. >> fingers crossed everyone stays safe down there. bill karins, thank you for being with us. see you tomorrow. ahead here, president biden's new comments about the harassment allegations against new york governor andrew cuomo. coming up on "morning joe," nancy pelosi will be joe m and mik's's guest. why are you awake on this st. patrick's day? 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>> our thanks to john sherick for that report. last week the president condemned this violence in his address. we may hear him address the issue again when he and the vice president visit atlanta on friday to promote the covid relief package. president biden traveled to pennsylvania yesterday to promote the relief package. biden toured a black-owned union shop that supplies and installs flooring. he promised with the passage of the american rescue plan, quote, more help is on the way. it's to highlight key components of the deal in battleground states. multiple house and senate aides tell nbc news the white house is also pushing for prominent democrats to hit the road to tout the package includes bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and raul ruiz of california. joining me now, is co-host of the #sisters and law podcast is kimberly atkins and also an msnbc contributor. thank you for being up with us this morning. i am glad you're here because what a difficult and horrific story breaking overnight, that six asian women along the eight victims it seems allegedly of these crimes. horrible crimes committed in georgia. this is, obviously, something that president biden did focus on in his address to the nation, the rise in anti-asian sentiment and now this violence crime against people. what should we be doing now to try and reassure our asian neighbors and friends that we don't think this is okay. i mean, it's just such a difficult and terrible time for that community and for all of us. >> yeah. i mean, this is a crisis situation that requires responses from -- in a number of ways. at the very basic level, there needs to be an underscoring of the fact that asian americans are not our enemies, that any rhetoric that demonized them in the past is wrong and shouldn't be tolerated. then we need our law enforcement and our investigators at all levels to be aware of how dangerous it could possibly be in order to try to stop these types of attacks. we have been seeing this whether it's shouting slurs at people to more physical altercations and this horrific tragedy, seems to be the worst so far. it's a big problem in our nation right now. kimberly, what is your sense of our lawmakers can do? president biden talked about it in his speech trying to set an example but, you know, some of the rhetoric and the way people speak in the u.s. congress, for example, sometimes raises questions about this. i mean, is there anything that leaders should be doing to try to push back against this as we head into this day here while we grapple with it? >> yes. at the very least, they should realize that words matter and words have consequences. you know? there is some talk among members culture and people aren't free to speak the way they want. well, speaking in a way that demonizes a particular community of people in this country can have horrible consequences in our history is replete with examples of that. and if they are standing up as leaders, they should lead by example not use this sort of language and condemn if forcefully. if ef-used it in the past, they can renounce that and apologize and really try to bring this nation together right now so that we stop seeing these sort of deadly attacks. that is the very least that the people who are elected can do. >> we should, of course, remember the way that the previous administration spoke about coronavirus in a way that seemed to really be denigrating to our asian american neighbors and friends. kimberly, let's talk for a second about a new initiative that you all have going at the boston globe. reimagining the emancipator which was the first anti-slavery newspaper founded more than 200 years ago. fascinating project. tell us about it. >> yes, it's a collaboration with the globe's editorial board and boston university center for anti-racist research. what it does is reimagine these abolitionist newspapers. these are newspapers that, at the time, during the civil war era and afterwards, that they really pushed forward the conversation about anti-slavery imagining what it looks like and pushing boundaries and not just taking small incremental steps like some of our leaders were but really reimagining the country in which black people were truly free and in which they truly were part of that community. we are bringing that into modern day, at a time where we have seen for a year cries out for racial justice. it's not just about criminal justice reform. it's really identifying and examining the solutions for the racism that exists in all of our american systems, whether it's criminal justice, whether it's financial systems, housing, education and beyond. really bringing together thought and scholars and journalists to tackle it in a really comprehensive way but also in a way that is very forward looking and innovative. >> best of luck with the new project. we will definitely be following it here. kimberly atkins, thank you, as always, for getting us with us. your perspective is very much appreciated this morning. still ahead, mitchell obama's totally different approach to get kids to eat their vegetables. 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>> yeah. well, here is the deal. they are not. >> do you have to say, quite clearly, don't come? >> yes, i can say quite clearly don't come. we are in the process of getting set up don't leave your town or city or community. >> president biden urging migrants not to make the journey to the u.s. as the white house works to get a handle on the surge at the southern border. nearly 4300 unaccompanied children were in border patrol custody as of sunday afternoon according to data obtained by nbc news. the new figures are a record high. nearly 3,000 of those children have been in custody over the 72-hour legal limit. the average stay in border patrol custody for unaccompanied children was 117 hours. on saturday, border patrol encountered 517 unaccompanied minors crossing the border in a single day. the single day average was 565 as of saturday and up from last month. joining me now, is msnbc contribute victoria soto. thank you for being here, victoria, this morning. this, obviously, a humanitarian crisis for these children. the president trying to say clearly we don't have a handle on this right now, don't send your children because we are not equipped to handle it. why is it that we find ourselves in this situation and how does what happened during the last administration impact their ability to try and solve this problem now? >> we have the trump administration having put pretty much a block on the border over the last couple of years, especially during the covid pandemic and being in the public health crisis that we were in. even before that, we saw a very blunt instrument to dealing with the border and with migration. part of what president biden is dealing with now is trying to go in and fine-tune how you deal with immigration in a more detailed matter and taking humanitarian concerns into account. but going beyond that, we have to think about the root causes of why people leave. because this is not a new phenomenon. if you're recall, we started seeing this migration movement in 2014-2015 because the situation in central america, especially in the northern triangle countries, is so dire. poverty, climate change, gang violence. these folks are leaving their house. the decision to migrate is not easily taken. people know they are putting their lives at risk. until we deal with the root causes, president biden can say don't come, it's not safe, but we need to focus on what is going on from the push backers health. >> the homeland security secretary mayorkas we are supposed to reach the maximum at the border the last two decades. clearly, this message is not getting through. i absolutely understand your point about trying to work on some of these root causes but what avenues of communication are there to try and tell people, hey, this is not something that is going to work right now for you? >> there is the avenues of communication that have to start in the home countries but the other thing i know that the biden administration is trying to work on is the process processing of these refugees they are processing through in mexico. it was not humanitarian to begin with. i think there need to be some new ways of thinking about how to process central american migrants. our system in the u.s. was set up to process primarily young single mexican men coming over. what we aring now is total different demographic. not just families showing up at the border but also see how we are going to process through mexico and at the border for these family units. >> victoria soto, thank you for getting up early with us. we appreciate your insights this u my grandma's traditional irish soda bread. we have been making it for my entire life. that looks delicious. >> dave says i'm up feeding my adorable 7 week old baby daughter emma and maybe having a guinness, too. no time like the present. it's 5:00 a.m. somewhere. we received this picture of a festive bib which is a better look. her owner in las vegas says she's keeping him up because she simply can't stand the cone of shame. ah, that's too bad. and glen does point out i see you forgot your green today. yes, you're right, glen. it's way too early to remember everything in the morning. that's my bad. i'll have to fix it if i'm going to be back any time later on today. coming up next, we're going to look at the axios one big thing. coming up on "morning joe," house speaker nancy pelosi will be our guest and ireland minister will join ahead of his meeting with president biden. 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is this a sign of some impending normalcy? >> i would say so, kasie. i think that the interesting thing is particularly having covered the trump administration for so long and now looking at the biden administration is their very different approaches to coronavirus protocol on the white house complex. the biden administration lowered staff to a much decreased level compared to the trump administration has been testing staff every single day. but we learned that this week they sent out an internal memo telling staffers only receiving tests once a week rather than every single day. this is just mainly because most of their staff has been vaccinated at this point, at least those who are on the white house complex every single day. and i think that it is a step toward normalcy. there was this bubble around joe biden, even before he took office, to keep him protected. much different from the lax attitude we saw from the former president. and so, they're looking -- they still have a ton of protocols in place, but this is kind of the first step i think easing some of these restrictions under the pandemic. >> one of the few places where vaccinations have been pretty widespread and hopefully give some of the rest of us hope that once we're all eligible, things could maybe go back to normal for us as well. axios is also reporting on 2022 endorsements from former president donald trump. what have you guys learned about this? >> well, i think it's no secret that most republicans across the country are vying for the former president's endorsement. he's still arguably the most powerful republican in the country and trump endorsement could really clear the field in any primaries. we're starting to see a lot of people line up to ask for this. he's very eager to stay in the game, to stay in politics and one big way the former president is trying to do that is through these endorsements. of course he doesn't have twitter anymore. he's not as omnipresent as he has been before because he doesn't have social media. and so this is one way he's looking at staying relevant. and, yeah, people like -- even current senators like james lankford and todd young are looking for those endorsements. interesting to see who he dolls those out to in the coming weeks. >> thank you for much for get ing up early with us. we appreciate it. we're still learning details about the shooting in the atlanta area overnight, it's very clear it has rattled the asian american community in a deep way and the group stop aapi hate says there's been 38 reports -- 3,800 reports of hate incidents targeting asian americans over the course of the last year during the pandemic. this is an incredibly important story that we're going to keep following and reporting on here. thank you all for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning. don't go anywhere, "morning joe" starts right now. ♪♪ good morning. and welcome to "morning joe." it's wednesday, march 17th. let's get right to the news. a georgia man is in custody accused of killing eight people in a horrific shooting spree at three different massage parlors in the atlanta area yesterday. the spree began around 5:00 p.m. when police say 21-year-old robert aaron long walked into

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