sunset monday to mark the massacre. he and vice president harris will be in atlanta tomorrow to meet with leaders of the city's asian-american community. earlier today atlanta police insisted the investigation is far from over. >> we are not done. we're still working very diligently to ascertain all of the facts so we can have a successful prosecution. >> the investigation into a possible hate crime, is that still on the table? >> nothing is off the table for our investigation. >> is there any indication the suspect visited those spas previously? >> it appears he may have frequented those locations, yes. all we do know is he purchased the gun on the day of the incident. >> on that same line the fbi is assisting local law enforcement with the investigation. this was interesting. tonight the fbi director chris wray told npr, quote, it does not appear that the motive was racially motivated. the suspect who's charged with eight counts of murder waived an arraignment scheduled for today. the killings outpouring of anger in washington. today for the first time in three decades the house held a hearing on anti-asian violence and discrimination. the mood became tense after one lawmaker's comments. >> we believe in justice. there's an old staying in texas about find all the rope in texas and find a tall oak tree. we take justice seriously, and we ought to do that, round up the bad guys. my certain about this hearing is it seems to want to venture into the policing of rhetoric in a free society. now we're talking about whether talking about china, chi-coms, chinese communist party, whatever phrasing we want to use and some people are saying we think those guys are the bad guys. i think the chinese communist party, running the country of china, i think they are the bad guys and i think they are harming people. >> i want to go back to something mr. roy said earlier. your president and your party and your colleagues can talk about issues with any other country that you want, but you don't have to do it by putting a bulls eye on the back of asian-americans across this country, on our grandparents, on our kids. this hearing was to address the hurt and pain of our community, to find solutions, and we will not let you take our voice away from us. >> now, after that exchange, congressman roy, the rope and tree fellow from texas, later told nbc news that he had, quote, no apologies for his remarks. meanwhile, the federal investigation into the capitol insurrection, let's not forget, is focusing more intensely on those rioters who carried out some of the most vicious assaults on police officers that we saw that day. as nbc news correspondent tom costello shows us, the fbi has released new videos in hopes that the public can help identify those suspects. and fair warning here, it's violent and disturbing. >> more than two months since the attack on the capitol, dramatic new video enhanced by the fbi of ten suspects, what it calls some of the most egregious attacks on police officers that day. among the videos, an unknown suspect tried to pull the gas mask off a police officer in full riot gear. the assailant isolated in photos and videos. more video of an attacker beating officers with a table leg and nails. this attacker trying to smash his way through gas doors with a cattle prod, suspects spraying officers with an orange chemical. another assailant wanting for hitting and punching officers. here an older man breaks through a barricade and charges police. the fbi asking for the public's help in identifying all the attackers. the fbi has arrested two suspects for assault on brian sicknick, who later died of unknown causes. a d.c. grand jury has indicted both men on ten counts. >> tom costello with that report. as the white house continues its campaign to get all americans vaccinated, the president today announce that we're about to hit his goal of 100 million vaccines in the first 100 days of his administration. >> tomorrow, 58 days into our administration, we will have met my goal of administering 100 million shots to our fellow americans. in the last week we've seen increases in the number of cases in several states. scientists have made clear that things may get worse as new variants of this virus spread. getting vaccinated is the best thing we can do to fight back against these variants. >> the president will now have more help in his plan to carry out these next vaccination goals as well as his plans to strengthen obamacare. today by the narrowest margin, 50-49, the senate confirmed javier becerra to lead the department of health and human services. it's a lot. to talk about it, let's bring our lead off guest, peter baker, carol lenning from the "washington post," also the author of the forthcoming book "zero fail: the rise and fall of the secret service" which we're looking forward to coming out may 11th. and kurt bar della joins us, former spokesperson for the house oversight committee, former republican who has since joined the democratic party. he's also a contributor to u.s. today and the "l.a. times." peter baker because of your beat, i would like to begin with you. biden's approach along with his vice president to these atlanta murders is altogether different for those who have been paying attention these last four to five years. talk about his effort, something he feels genuinely, to fill the empathy gap and go down there and have a conversation about this tragedy. >> well, that's right. look, this is a president who is doing what presidents usually do, right, which is to try to bring people together in moments of turmoil and tum multilike this rather than try to divide them. president trump, of course, obviously played to racial divisions and was somebody who tended to stir the pot rather than pull people together. president biden came to office on a promise he would unite, on a promise he would appeal to better higher virtues, and this is, i think, an example of that. he wants to go to atlanta to demonstrate his concern over fears that many asian-americans have given the spike in hate expressions and violent assaults that have been experienced in the last number of years, particularly in the last year since the covid virus, which of course the last president used asian influence terms to describe, which a lot of people think actually stirred rather than bring people together. >> kurt, your piece in "the l.a. times" was very direct. you said trump and the gop put a bull's-eye on the backs of asian-americans today. kevin mccarthy was asked about his own past comments. we'll play his reply here. >> do you regret using terms like chinese coronavirus? >> i would wait to see why the shooter did what he did, but the virus came from china. and i think the knowledge we had at the time is exactly that. i don't think people from the standpoint should go after any asian from any shape or form, and i condemn every action to that. >> so, kurt, there's your republican leader in the house who, for the record, voted on the side of the insurrectionists. we've yet to hear from mitch mcconnell at all over in the senate side on this. the question to you is, are republicans unable or unwilling to recognize harm from the words they've used? >> well, brian, they're unwilling. and the best example of that was today when chip roy, at a hearing about violence and hate crimes against asian-americans, thought that that was the appropriate time to quote toby keith song -- toby keith, by the way, is from oklahoma, not texas, but be that as it may -- to quote toby keith lyrics and use the image about lynches. i shows the ignorance. chinese americans were the target of one of the biggest lynchings in american history in the 1870s. to use that type of imagery, rope and trees, at a hearing convened to talk about hate crimes and then to not even apologize about but it but double down on it, it shows republicans are not capable of understanding their rhetoric. they don't care. they don't value people who are not white. they have made a decision time and again to use inflammatory rhetoric like chinese virus and kung flu to talk about something that has created a situation where people are actively creating hate crimes against asian-americans. if the situation in atlanta hasn't happened it wouldn't change the fact there's been a 68% increase in attacks. we've had people attacked on the streets of new york, people spit on and called derogatory comments while eating at restaurants outside in the bay area. we've seen time after time, incident after incident of hate crimes and hateful rhetoric targeting asian-americans and it is 100% driven by the rhetoric of the republican party. >> indeed absent the atlanta violence there was still need for the hearing that was held today. carol, i want to take advantage of your years of reporting on and around law enforcement. how does law enforcement deal with the fact that there is enormous public pressure based on everything we can see about these murders to name this a hate crime while they're not comfortable with it yet hitting that mark? >> i think what is a problem for law enforcement is a concern amount of literalness in their criminal statements of fact. so, this perpetrator, this murderer, alleged murderer, alleges his motive was an addiction. and he did buy a gun in the midst of a falling apart of his life, his family kicking him out of the house. and he said that his shooting was basically because of this addiction that he had to these spas that he visited and he was taking out his violent rage against them. well, that's all very literal and fine. but the truth is that the majority of people killed were asian women. and you've got to have a connection between, you know, viewing those lives as less valuable to this particular perpetrator and hate crimes. why did he show up at something titled young asian massage. yes, he probably did frequent those or frequent something like it. but it's the challenge of law enforcement to stick to the facts but also see the bigger picture. and i think i would agree to one element of what the fbi director said, chris wray. it doesn't appear to be racially motivated at this moment, but let's see what the rest of the facts are. sometimes investigations take a little while, and we all should be patient. but it is a wonderful opportunity to discuss the hatred that lots of political leaders have sewn. and i think as peter and also kurt make so clear, these political leaders have worked this bone, and it has been to their benefit. president trump showed them the way, calling something and blaming something on china was very effective. it took it away from having to actually assess his own handling of the coronavirus because in a xenophobic way, he could decide to blame some country where a lot of asians live. and it has worked like a charm in terms of deflecting a lot of the responsibility. blaming is a great political tool. and unfortunately as grace meng pointed out, it also puts a bull's-eye on people. there's a reason why a man showed up with an assault at a pizza shop. he was urged by republican conspiracy theoryists to believe that the democrats had a pedophilia ring in the basement of this pizza shop. >> there was pressure on the left today on social media at the news media wondering why this wasn't branded the trump virus from the start. peter baker let's rely on a broad area of your reporting for years, the nation formerly known as the soviet union, now russia. here is a sampling of the interplay just in the last 48 hours between putin and biden. >> you know vladimir putin. you think he's a killer? >> mm-hm, i do. >> so, what price must he pay? >> the price he's going to pay, you'll see shortly. >> peter, is it because in recent years we are so not used to a president not praising the virility and strength of the russian leader that we've forgotten what quote/unquote normal relations between putin and an american president look like? >> yeah, it's interesting. the phrase, mm-hm, i do, is doing a lot of work there. this is not exactly a full-throated condemnation by president biden, but it's so in contrast with president trump who exonerated putin and said we're killers here too and made us equivalent to putin's russia back when he was asked about it. i think that even that small snippet of president biden, even that relatively modest, mild comment was seen as a sea change. russian media is lapping it up tonight. they love it. they're going after biden and making it a big to do. that's helpful to putin in his domestic audience, which he's having trouble in his own country. i think it's good from his point of view to have an enemy to focus on. biden and the united states has always been a good enemy. his comment is meant to pick up on trump's line from last fall about biden's age and whether biden lost a step or not. when he says i say without irony, if you listen to it in russian, there's irony in his tone. he means that as a jab. this is all talk. so far the biden administration has only taken relatively modest steps in terms of sanctions, sanctioning russians who aren't likely to come here and don't have assets here. they say they have more to come and we'll have to wait to see what that is and see if it takes the pressure. >> kurt, let's keep it in the world of politics. gop has been going culture war of late, but do you think they see genuine traction in this ongoing humanitarian crisis at the southern border? >> well, it's kind of back to the future here, brian. we saw for the better part of the last decade the republican party constantly used the issue of immigration and the border as their primary issue to talk about. remember when eric canter, the then house majority leader lost his seat in the 2014 cycle, lost to a guy named dave frat who ran on immigration. this has been at the heart of the republican party orthodoxy for so long. when they have nothing else to talk about and when things aren't going their way, often times they return to the issue of immigration. it was the issue that propelled donald trump to nomination in the first place, the whole build the wall, all immigrants are drug dealers and coming here from mexico to kill us all. and they're going back to that again. and what we've seen overtime is their messaging on immigration is code for racism. it is just another frontier on their effort to attack people that aren't white. this time when it comes to the border, it's that white people have to fear brown people. it's that they have to worry about them being drug dealers and cartels and gang members that are going to come and perpetrate violence and mayhem on them. it has nothing to do with the humanitarian elements on this, which are very real. it has to do with them trying to use this issue and use people of color to scare white people into voting for them. this is the playbook that we've seen so often and they're going back to it now because they can't talk about successes. they can't talk about a track record that's done anything positive for the american people. they can't talk about covid-19. 500,000 people were dead under their watch. they can't talk about a blooming economy. the economy fell apart on their watch. what do they do? they go back to culture wars. this time it's immigration, but it's really racism. >> and the last word from carol lenning. it was unprecedented the media presentation by the fbi today still looking for these suspects. we're reminded of the idea of americans sacking their own capitol was pretty unprecedented at the time. >> absolutely. these videos, sri to say, brian, they work. people who are neighbors and friends, this is tried and true. put out the videos and somebody's going to call that 800 number. it happened actually quite a bit this summer. you may remember the fbi put out pictures and videos of people who were desecrating federal monuments. but i'm reminded when i watch these videos i'm thinking of the statement that was released by george bush or made public today actually. he said it in february as part of a presentation. but in this remark, he said, basically watching the siege on the capitol made him sick to his stomach. and some of these videos do that for me now. >> yeah. in fact i want to play that later in the hour. i can't think our big three enough for helping along our conversation tonight. great thanks. coming up for us as our country takes on two stubborn deadly viruses at the same time, one medical, the other societal, we'll talk to two of our favorite guests about meeting them both and how. and later, why would anyone shoot down the idea of a shot in the arm? we'll ask some of the vaccine deniers about their reasoning for not getting it, all of it as "the 11th hour" is just getting underway on a thursday night. j underway on a thursday night this is worth. that takes wealth. but this is worth. and that - that's actually worth more than you 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yours. you can say whatever you want under the first aechlt amendment. you can say racist stupid stuff you want, but please stop using words like kung flu and ethnic virus. i am not a virus and when you say things like it hurts the augs american community. >> democratic congressman ted lieu of california former guest on this broadcast during today's antidiscrimination hearing. back to talk about that author, activist, comedian former producer of "the daily show" and mark mcken nonis back with us, former adviser to george w. bush. gentlemen, good evening and welcome to you both. today at a hearing on combatting hate and violence, just so we get this right, a congressman from texas equates justice and lynching in real time out loud we can hear him say it. it would indicate to me we're not all on the same page. would you like to take a whack at how much remains to go in 2021? >> yes, brian, we're not all on the same page, and clearly representatives roy's mask was not always on his face. he was sloppy in more ways than one. it's go tess grotesque to cite lynching in a hearing designed to honor and acknowledge the pain of a community subject to racial violence. if there is a resource that people would remember right now, check out stoppaapihate.org. this is an organization that has taken it upon itself to document some of the pain, the trauma, the struggles of the community of members of the asian deaccident in the u.s. for the past year since the president of the united states unleashed a fuselage of ugly upon them by weaponizing a global pandemic and putting a target on the backs of some of our own people in this country. it's ugly. it's sick. it's sad. and if i would just add, i know what it feels like as a black american to be excluded, to be overlooked, to be devalued by law enforcement and others. so, my own heart is open and out for my fellow americans who are suffering right now. you are not alone. >> mark mckinnon, it leaves me to ask you