looking at everything to make sure that we discover and determine what the motive of our homicides were. again, it's just very important to let you know that we are not done. in most cases of homicides, we don't have a quick apprehension. there's usually a lengthy investigation, especially when there's involving multiple victims. and so again, we're still working very diligently to ascertain all the facts so we can have a successful prosecution because that's what's most important now. so i was hoping that we would be able to release the names of the victims, but we are not able to do that at this time. and the reason is we need to make sure that we have a true verification of their identities, and that we made the proper next of kin notification. so again, i thought we were going to be able to do that, and out of respect of the lives and of the family, we want to make sure that we do that privately before we release the names of our victims publicly. again, you know, we can have a couple of questions. but again, it's very important that everyone knows that our investigation has not concluded, and it's still ongoing. >> so is the investigation -- the investigation into a possible hate crime, is that still on the table? >> our investigation is looking at everything. so nothing is off the table for our investigations. >> reporter: yesterday after cherokee investigators said that right now they don't think it's a hate crime and this suspect had a bad day and said some things about sexual addiction. people criticized them for saying it so early and for what he said. i know you cannot speak for the people who said that, but what do you make of the position -- >> i don't have a position. i'm only going to comment about our investigation. and again, we're -- we're not prepared to talk a lot about what has been said because, again, we're not trying to try the case in public. this is, again, this is a tragic and, again, we try to remember that eight families are impacted by this. and we wouldn't be doing justice by putting a lot of this information out in the public, and especially if -- in our cases where the next of kin has not been notified. so i know it's tough. i know there are a lot of questions that want to be answered, but again, we just ask that you respect the families that are still mourning and some who may not even know yet. and so that's the real key part of for our victims that our victims' next of kin have not been officially notified. >> reporter: being able to identify the victims of having reached the family members -- >> i'm sorry? >> reporter: do you anticipate being able to release the identity -- >> as soon as we verify and make those notifications, we're working with the office of the republic of korea also to make that verification. but as soon as we are 100% sure and notifications have been made, we will definitely release those names. >> reporter: that will likely go beyond today? >> yes, yes, ma'am. >> reporter: because they're from a different country, that's the main -- >> that creates part of the delay, yes. >> reporter: is there any indication that the -- is there any indication the suspect had visited those spas previously? >> right now, early in our investigation, it appears he may have frequented those locations, yes. >> reporter: both of them? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: is there anything more about the suspect -- did he have encounters at those locations or with any of the victims -- >> not right now. i can't be able to answer. >> reporter: you believe he had been specifically -- >> i can say he frequented the locations, yes. >> reporter: did he target the specific individuals that he shot and killed? >> i will not say that. again, i will just say that unfortunately they were at that location. i can't say that he specifically targeted those individuals. but you know, what i will say is that he did frequent, as the question keeps coming up, he did frequent those two locations within atlanta. >> reporter: is it also -- is part of the problem in identifying the victims, do they not have any family members in the united states, or all the family members are overseas in korea? >> i'm not saying that. again, we just want to make sure that we do our due diligence of that. we may -- some family may reside stateside, some may be even here in the atlanta area. but again, we want to make sure that we do our due diligence to make sure the identification of the victims have been handled first. >> reporter: have you ever -- have police ever been called to those locations -- >> again. i think that was addressed last week -- i mean, we've had recent -- not recent, we've had some incidents there, calls there. but again, that's not why we're here. >> reporter: any word on -- [ all talking at once ] considering his reportedly mental illness -- >> i'm not sure about any mental illness. all we do know is he did purchase the gun the day of the incident. >> thank you. >> all right. so that was deputy chief of police there charles hampton jr., the atlanta police department, updating us on the state of the investigation into the deadly shooting at two spas in georgia, the metro atlanta area, both in cherokee county and atlanta, talking about the inability of law enforcement to yet identify all of the victims, saying they're working with the consular service office, the embassy, the republic of korea, to work on that front. he did, though, say he is not ruling anything out. he was asked about whether or not they were able to determine a motive or whether or not they were taking the issue of this being a hate crime off the table to come he responded saying nothing is off the table, we are investigating and continue to investigate these shootings. there are obviously four asian women that were killed in one of the spas there in atlanta that fall under his jurisdiction. he distanced himself from the comments made by a spokesperson or a police officer at the cherokee county police department, one that has been drawing some controversy, saying that the shooter had had a very bad day and he was able to rule out that this was not based on the testimony or at least the statement given by the shooter that this was not a hate crime. that was obviously something the deputy police chief there was asked about. again, he distanced himself from those comments saying their specific investigation has not ruled or taken anything off the table. we're going to continue to follow the story out of atlanta. we have a lot more on that throughout this hour. we are also following another breaking news story that we're waiting for from the white house. in just a few minutes from now, we expect to hear president biden from the east room at the white house as he marks the milestone of 100 million vaccine doses administered since he took office. now that is 100 million shots in just 58 days, to be clear. that is 42 days ahead of his much-touted campaign promise of getting 100 million shots by his first 100 days. it is a sign of the intensity of this administration's ongoing efforts to curb this pandemic. the current daily pace of vaccinations in the united states, it is about 2.4 million per day, and that 100 million shot is believed to be going out somewhere in the u.s. right about now. we're going to bring those comments to you live once they get under way. meanwhile, one of the first major diplomatic clashes the biden administration is also unfolding at this hour. russia has called its ambassador home, and vladimir putin is responding to biden calling him a killer, saying it takes one to know one. the white house says it has no regrets. >> does president biden regret calling vladimir putin a killer? >> no. the president gave a direct answer to a direct question. >> and in addition to those stories, new exclusive video of a baseball bat attack on capitol police during the january 6th insurrection. nbc news' washington affiliate has just obtained this footage through a court order. we're going to show you more of that exclusive video in just a minute. let's start with today's major milestone for the biden administration. joining me nbc news correspondent monica alba. good to have you with us. while this is a major achievement for the biden administration, no you got that, the work as they have said is far from over. what do we expect to hear from him today as he marks in milestone? what next steps are they working on? >> reporter: that's a good way to put it. there have certainly been moments of incremental progress that can be celebrated, but the road toward any destination resembling normalcy is still a very long one. that's something the white house is definitely clear eyed on, and that's something you're going to hear from the president here in the next couple of minutes. but he is expected to out to the fact that before the 60th day of his administration, they were able to administer more than 100 million shots in arms in these first 100 days. that was a goal that candidate and president-elect joe biden laid out back in december, back when there were a lot of questions about just how feasible and attainable that would be, and then when he took office, the vaccination pace under the former administration was actually at a good enough clip and rate that they were going to feel pretty confident about getting to that goal until that time frame. but the fact that they're hitting it more than six weeks early -- we expect the president to talk about that, but then to also continue to urge americans to be vigilant and to continue to make sure they sign up for their vaccinations once they are eligible. it also comes, though, as we're learning that the u.s. is going to give some millions of doses of the astrazeneca vaccine, which has not been approved in the u.s., to our north american partners, mexico and canada, which won't affect, again, the u.s. population getting vaccinated. but it is a signal that because we expect to have a surplus, now the united states is looking out to help other countries, as well, on this path to vaccination. >> all right, live at the white house for us, monica, thank you. turning to russia where president putin is directly responding to president biden's tough words for him and recalling the country's ambassador to washington, d.c., so the kremlin can begin talks to prevent a, quote, irreversible deterioration of relations with the united states following eye-opening comments by president biden about vladimir putin himself. watch. >> he will pay a price -- we had a long talk he and i. i know him relatively well. and the conversation started off, i said, i know you, and you know me. if i establish this occurred, then be prepared. >> reporter: you said you know he doesn't have a soul. >> i did say that to him, yes. and -- and his response was, we understand one another. >> all right. joining us from moscow, nbc news matt bodner and form u.s. ambassador to russia and professor of political science at stanford university, ambassador michael mcfall. great to have both of you with us. matt, i'll begin with you. bring us up to speed on what else russian authorities are saying right now and the reaction in moscow this evening to president biden's blunt comments. >> reporter: thank you, ayman. it's been a wild ride here in moscow today on this one. to put it mildly, russian officials and the russian state media are not happy with these comments at all. and we've seen some very strong statements just starting with the kremlin's spokesman at his daily briefing today saying, you know, these are negative comments and shows that biden doesn't really want to try to improve relations with russia, and that moscow is going to proceed under that assumption. now what was really interesting today was that president putin himself actually waited pretty deeply -- waded pretty deeply into this. earlier in the afternoon he was on russian state television, and he was asked about that killer comment. and he had this really rambling response where he -- he recounted the history of native americans in north america and said, you know, it takes one to know one. and then asked if he would say anything to biden if he had the chance, he said, yeah, i would just wish him good health. sincerely without irony or any joke. and you know, throughout the afternoon, we saw that theme played with in the russian state media. very interestingly actually, just about an hour or so ago, president putin again on russian state television said that he just came up with an idea and wants to propose some kind of online, one on one, live-streamed discussion with biden before the russian and american people. and i don't know about you, but that kind of sounds like a clubhouse invitation to me. and so i think we'll just have to wait until tomorrow's kremlin press briefing to get a sense of whether or not that's a legitimate proposal or what's very clear at this point that putin has decided that it's time somehow to have a substantial discussion with the american president. >> yes, to that point, ambassador mcfall, the kremlin says that its ambassador had been called back to moscow as a -- as these u.s. ties had reached a, quote, blind alley. your reaction to what you're seeing out of russia this evening, this late evening proposal, if you will, from vladimir putin to have a one-on-one conversation with the american president in front of both russian and american publics, what do you make of all of this? >> well, it's a pretty dramatic action to recall your ambassador. that's only happened a few times in u.s./russian and u.s./soviet history. they're trying to make the statement by calling back the ambassador. the substance is not going to change. we're talking about the theatrics of u.s./russian relations. guess what, president biden doesn't want to improve relations with russia. and guess what -- president putin doesn't want to improve relations with the united states. when they can cooperate as they just recently did in extending the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty, both governments are going to do so, and i applaud that. but i don't think there's any desire by either the kremlin or the white house to have a reset in relations and to figure out ways to improve relations. that era is over. >> let me play for you since you brought up the issue of mutual interest, let me play for you what jen psaki, the press secretary, said about the dispute earlier. >> president biden and president putin certainly have different perspectives on their respective countries and how to approach engagement in the world. but where they agree is that we should continue to work -- look for ways to work together, as was noted in part of president putin's comments. and there are areas of mutual interest. >> do you see any daylight there between what president biden said and what jen psaki is saying in terms. cooperation and areas of mutual interest? here's the president calling the russian leader a killer, and at the same time saying he has no soul, but at the same time jen psaki saying if there's areas of cooperation, we're going to work on it. >> i do. but i think it's limited. so the basic philosophical approach of the biden administration toward russia, not that different than their approach toward china, by the way, is to engage when they can, contain when they must, and that's -- they're going to both of those things. but there's a deficit in terms of bilateral issues where the united states and russia can actually cooperate on something substantively. in the multilateral dimension, i think there's more there. on pandemics, on climate change, on stopping iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. in those multilateral issues, i think russia and the united states can cooperate, but the bilateral agenda i think is very thin. and neither side has any illusion that's some happy talk and some nicer words between the two presidents will somehow launch this bilateral relationship in a different trajectory. >> ambassador, when you survey where we are right now in our relationships around the world, are you at all concerned that we have these relationships with both china and russia that can be ad best described as adversarial? here you have president biden talking about the russian leader in these terms. you also have calls by republicans and democrats for the biden administration to take a tougher position with china. we'll see what comes out of that meeting in alaska with the secretary of state. but you have to be looking at this and saying these are the three biggest superpowers in the world. obviously not equal, but nonetheless influential. and yet, the u.s. has adversarial relationships with both of them. >> that's exactly right. so that's an analytic statement. that's an enormative statement. that's the book -- right now, it's exactly about the three powers. and what i would say about that is there are structural tensions between the united states, russia, and china, that has to do with power and also has to do with idealogy and regime type. it's not an accident that both china and russia are auto cracies. we, the united states of america, are also an ideological power, and both mr. putin and mr. xi know that. i not the challenge moving forward for diplomats is to manage those sets of issues so that we don't fall into military conflict first and foremost, but also make sure that we cooperate when we can, we contain their belligerent actions abroad when we must, and first and foremost try to manage these relationships, not try to have some breakthrough either with china or russia. i just don't think that's in the cards right now. >> all right. that was an inadvertent plug for your forthcoming book, you have a standing invite to come back when the book is ready to talk at it at length. ambassador mcfall, sir, thank you. always a pleasure. greatly appreciate your insights. matt staying up late in moscow with that news, as well. disturbing news in washington. a san antonio man was arrested near vice president kamala harris' residence and was found to have an ar-15 rifle and large amount of ammunition in his car according to police. the vice president and her husband, doug emhoff, have not been living at the observatory since the inauguration as it's undergoing repairs. this comes as congress just received an intelligent report laying out the rising threat of domestic terrorism. the unclassified executive summary of the report requested by president biden particularly warns about the danger of white supremacists and militias and predicts that some threats could likely grow in the coming months. joining me is jennifer wexton whose virginia district includes parts outside of washington, d.c. congresswoman, thank you so much for your time. you have probably seen the report. it echoes what we've heard recently from fbi director christopher wray and the department of homeland security. do you think congress is doing enough right now to address these growing domestic threats? >> well, we are definitely taking it more seriously than we did in the past. and i'm glad that the biden administration is taking it seriously, as well, because these are real and growing threats and they're going to continue to be a threat in the future. so we need to do what we can to learn as much as we can about them and help combat them. >> you recently sent a letter to your colleagues from dr. serena liebengood, widow of the capitol police officer who died by suicide after the capitol hill insurrection. i want to read a part of her letter. "i am writing to express appreciation for your recent exchange with acting u.s. capitol chief pittman regarding my late husband's death in the wake of the january 6th attack upon the capitol. her reluctance to designate his january 9th suicide as being in the line of duty is a wrong which must be rectified. " there's no way to convey what our family is going through as we struggle to