welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day." the u.s. will cross 100 million vaccine shots since joe biden's inaug inauguration. that's 42 days ahead of the biden pledge. the u.s. is averaging 2.5 million coronavirus vaccines a day with 35% of americans partially or fully vaccinated. now, there are plenty of folks that noted that 100 million was a very low bar to begin with, but if you do the math going forward, at the pace we're going, we'll cross 200 million vaccinations within the first 100 days, and honestly, you would have been hard-pressed to find anyone that optimistic. but -- and this is hugely important -- there is concern this morning the u.s. may be on the verge of a new surge. the drop in hospitalizations, i want you to look at that graph. you can see it was going down steeply for weeks and weeks and weeks, but that decline has stopped. it's completely stalled right now. hospitalizations static and may be ticking up slightly in the last few days. meantime in the next few hours, president biden and vice president harris will meet with asian-american leaders in atlanta following the murder of eight, six being asian women. republican congressman chip roy used a hearing not to address the issue but his right to criticize china and deliver a strange reference to lynching, provoking an emotional response from congresswoman grace mention. >> i'm not going to be ashamed of saying i oppose the chi-com, the chinese communist party, and when we say things like that and we're talking about that, we shouldn't be worried about having a committee of members of congress policing our rhetoric. >> 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 bull's-eye on the backs of asian-americans across this country, on our grand pairchts, on our kids. this hearing was to address the hurt and pain of our community and to find solutions, and we will not let you take our voice away from us. >> grace meng joins us now. that moment understandably getting so much attention, but i know you're hearing about it from your constituents as well who have told you repeatedly about the bull's-eye that they have felt directly. what has the response been? >> sure. thank you, erica, for having me and for covering this topic. you know, we've been hearing about it not just in the last few days but all throughout the last year. we've now seen over 3,800 incidents that have been reported across this country. we don't know how many have been reported. we're hearing from people who do not let their parents or grandparents go outside even for a walk around the block. they're scared something might happen. people aren't letting their kids play outside because they're scared they might get bullied. just in the last two weeks, a mom and her baby were taking a walk in the park in the middle of the day. someone came up to her, spat in her direction three times, calling her the cry nihinese vi and to go back. two days ago a 13-year-old boy was just playing basketball at a local park and a group of people threw basketballs at his head telling him he was a chinese virus and he should go home. >> it's so disturbing and yet, i think, so important to hear each account. there was a hearing regarding president trump's anti-racist rhetoric. it provoked rhetoric about 20% of the time after he used words like "chinese virus." congresswoman jayapal told john a while ago people are so caught up in the rhetoric, they can't see the damage it's doing. do you think it's that simple? >> it is simple like that. he has literally for the past year empowered this sort of racist behavior. you have to remember the mind-set of people, especially in the beginning of the pandemic. there was a lot of fear, a lot of unknown about this pandemic. people were losing loved ones, their homes, their jobs. and then when you have a leader who has a big platform constantly, incessantly using phrases like that, it's going to affect people, and it's a direct cause of some of these incidents. >> mitch mcconnell was asked several questions yesterday, which he ignored by our colleagues on capitol hill, specifically about the shootings in atlanta. would not address it. he eventually did put out a short statement. we're going to put it up on the screen, which asian-americans should not have to face discrimination anywhere. why do youly's been such a resistance to condemn attacks on asian-americans? >> first of all, i'm not surprised mitch mcconnell is ignoring what's happened. he ignores life-saving legislation in the senate all the time. but, you know, what we've seen is that even when we in the house passed a resolution that was just symbolic, didn't require any commitment of resources, and i didn't even put in the president's name in my resolution, it was simply a resolution to condemn bigotry against asian-americans, many of whom live in their districts. 164 republicans voted no on that symbolic resolution, and that really says a lot. >> do you think those numbers are changing though? do you think you will see more support moving forward? >> i hope so. we have introduced a resolution again. we think that there is a need for us to remind people that it's not okay to discrimination and to shohei tread toward anyone including asian-americans. so we're going to try again. but we're also pushing legislation. we're pushing two bills that would curb these hate crimes and get more resources out to local communities. >> i know what you're trying to do is maket easier for people to report hate crimes. the hearing was the firsthird oo deal with in years. what do you think was achieved? >> first of all, it was such a source of comfort to have that acknowledgement that this is a real pain and situation going on in our country. we wanted to have a very honest hearing and to work together to find solutions. our member panel had both republicans and democrats testifying. so we talked about legislation. we heard from community members on what resources and support they need. we talked about these two pieces of legislation, and that's part of why i was so upset that mr. roy was just completely insensitive about the focus and the point of the hearing. >> congresswoman grace meng, good to have you back with us this morning. thank you. >> thank you. major diplomatic tension this morning out in public in ways you almost never see. it comes in the first face-to-face meeting between top biden administration officials and their counterparts from china. it's going on in alaska. it began with secretary of state antony blinken. >> the alternative to a rules-based order is might makes right and winners take all, and that would be a far more violent and unstable world for all of us. >> this was just the beginning. then there were the cameras sent out and brought back in and statements made about each other you almost would never see. we have the very latest here, and it's still very much ongoing. >> yeah, it is. these talks are still ongoing in action. they had their first two sessions yesterday, a third this morning. i want to reflect what happened there. behind closed doors, sometimes fireworks explode. this happened, as you said, john, in flonlt of cameras. that's really not normal. after secretary blinken gave his remarks, it went to the chinese. they went on for much longer than they traditionally door and they offered some really aggressive statements about the u.s., going to divisions in the united states, calling out black lives matter protesters. blinken felt like he had to respond. he told the cameras not to leave the room and he talked about the united states not being a perfect country, making mistakes and also making reversals. and national security adviser jake was there calling it the secret sauce. then the cameras left and they were asked to come back into the room. it was clear the chinese wanted their return at a rebuttal, and they accused the u.s. of having a con descending tone. this is in front of the cameras. that ial said the u.s. isn't qualified to speak to china from a position of strength. all of this unfolding as a senior official accused the chinese side of grandstanding. the chinese said they had no intent of grandstanding. we're hearing after the first session, a senior administration official said there were serious direct and substantive conversations that essentially unfolded after the cameras left the room. they got down to business. but this is really extraordinary. you know, this is the first face-to-face meeting between chinese and u.s. officials of the biden administration, and we should also note this is unfolding as u.s./russia relations are kind of on unsteady ground as there are things happening there that are really challenged for the biden administration. so this is something to keep an eye on, and we'll see how these meetings wrap today. >> unsteady ground and shifting, but the biden administration clearly showing it will take a tough posture in different ways to both russia and china. we'll watch this throughout the morning, kylie. thank you so much for that reporting. so there are numbers to look at in terms of the coronavirus pandemic that are very concerning this morning. hospitalizations have stopped dropping, may be ticking up. there are signs that the u.s. could be on the precipice of a new surge in cases. that's next. 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>> there you go again with the theater. let's talk facts. when you're talking infection and you don't keep in context the variants that's an entirely different ball game, that's a good reason for a maf snook joining us now is an epidemiologist. i don't want to spend much time talking about rand paul's health prescriptions for the country. what i want to talk about is what they maybe imply in terms of what we're seeing around the country, which is cases have stopped dropping as much as they are. we've plateaued in the 50,000 cases a day, and hospitalizations which is maybe the most consistent means of measuring where the pandemic is. hospitalizations have stopped dropping, and in some ways, i think we can put that screen back up, you can start to see a little tick up there again. so, doctor, i'll ask you simply, are we on the verge? are these signs we may be on the verge of a new surge here? >> these are definitely signs. if you look across the atlantic, italy was the canary in the coal mine if our first surge last year, and they're in lockdown, which suggests that the spread of b.1.1.7. coupled with the fact we've made policy based on the idea that vaccines are still on the way -- just on the way. we're only 12% fully vaccinated in the country -- suggests we're at a deep risk for another surge. the problem here is these policies have sent a message to the country just like senator paul was right there, grandstanding about this idea that somehow masks aren't still important, and we've got these variants that are bearing down our door. yes, we may have put ourselves back at risk for another surge, and that really is devastating to hear, given the fact we've lost 535,000, 537,000 people now, and we could lose yet more as we note with the flattening out of hospital numbers. >> and you heard dr. fauci. he said we need to stop focusing on this herd immunity. we don't know the magic point that. plays into the messaging, right? people are so eager to go back to 2019, that we're kind of ignoring -- there are multiple canaries at this point. >> you're absolutely right. herd immunity is not a destination. herd immunity is a journey, and we need to look at it that way. we've got to keep doing what we can to increase that community immunity, that herd immunity. meanwhile we've got to do what we can to stop the spread of the virus, so we've got to get all on one page here, that we are still at risk for this. it could still be spreading in our communities, and we have our responsibilities to do what we can to stop it. i'll be honest with you. we have to lay it at the governors' feet. we hear governor abbott saying that. the variants are saying, we can keep doing what we're doing and keep spreading. we have to continue to practice safe practices. that means wearing a mask, practicing safe distancing, getting the vaccine as soon as you can, washing your hands, being vigilant. >> the good news is the u.s. is expected to surpass 200 million vaccinations at the rate we're going, going across joe biden's 100 million. and then the schools are saying kids can be three feet apart instead of six feet apart if they wear masks. this will be an opportunity, i think, dr. el sayed, for a lot more schools to open up. >> i think you're right. it reflects a number of thingth. number one, we know wearing a mask is really, really powerful. it really can make a difference. number two, more and more teachers are getting vaccinated, and they really were the folks at the highest risk for potentially getting the disease at schools. and as they're vaccinated, it makes it a safer environment. number three, new evidence suggesting to us three feet does most of what six feet does, and it's as safe. it helps us go back to the kinds of life that we've been accustomed to that has been so disrupted through 2020 and into this year, and it's really good news for kids and parents. >> if you wear your mask, if you wear your freaking masks, you can do so much more. there are so many opportunities. thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> thank you, john. the last 24 hours, truly a remarkable moment in u.s. diplomacy. very public, very unusual fights with both russia and china. what do they tell us? 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>> what's going on is an intense competition between russia and the united states. president biden is telling the truth. russia has bombed syrians and incarcerated tens of thousands of syrians itself, elected to kill a major opposition leader, and so it's time the united states stood up to the russians. you did not see it under president trump. you're seeing it under ben bernanke -- president biden. sometimes in diplomacy you need to recalibrate. and after four years of really saying nothing to defend democracy, president biden is doing that. i think it's the right step. >> what does it tell you that one of the responses may be obliquely from vladimir putin but directly from other russian leaders is to take the very trumpian line, ripped from the pages of the trump campaign to question joe biden's mental acuity? >> it's ridiculous and obviously an attempt to deflect from the real point, and that's the weakness of the russians achz system and the russians are the human rights violators. putin doesn't belong on the same spaj of a democratically led president of the united states. at the same time he won't listen to anyone in his own country. if you speak up against putin in russia, you're jailed. it's a little bit of theater. you have an american president finally standing up for democracy and human rights. i think, frankly, john, the rest of the democratic world has been waiting for the united states to do exactly what president biden has done this week. >> i think what the united states is trying to do with russia is say russia is a diminished country. china, very different saying they're a major competitor and we're going to treat them as such. how do you attribute this back and ba back-and-forth you're seeing in alaska? >> i saw it as grandstanding by the chinese delegation. they're responding because of the treatment of the uighurs because they smothered hong kong's democracy over the last year. i thought it was trying to change the subject here, but you saw a very measured, i think, very effective response by our secretary of state secretary tony blinken who said, look, the united states has never claimed to be perfect, but we're transparent and we work on our faults. the larger story is president biden has been saying we need to stand up for democracy, we are going to compete with these authoritarian countries. you saw rounds 1 and 2 this week. i think this is the recalibration we need in american foreign policy. >> i think it is interesting. the chinese more than anything seem to be upset about the fact that the united states has been trying to strengthen alliances. that may have been the biggest threat to biden. the other thing is the biden team is taking a different approach not just to the trump administration, but the obama administration as well. >> i think president biden has been also right to suggest that the united states is going to be far stronger in the world if we embrace our allies, and that's nato to counter russia and that's japan, south korea, and australia, and our strategic partner india to counter china. you saw secretary blinken go to japan and south korea with secretary austin. that's a power play by the united states to remind the chinese we have the benefit of this huge alliance system of countries that think like us, train with us militarily, and it's a recognition obviously that we're competing with china for trade because the chinese have been unfairly ripping off the property of american companies. we want this to be peaceful obviously. but finally we have -- the united states is standing up for itself after four years of not doing that. and, again, i think it's been an important week to reposition the united states. >> very quickly, cnn and others reporting that the biden administration is considering a six-month delay in the promised troop withdrawal from afghanistan. how wise is that? >> i don't know what decision will be made by the biden administration, but i do think this is such a major decision after 20 years in afghanistan with the taliban resurging and strong. i think we should be prudent, not plan an early departure as president trump had been planning on, but do right by our troops and do our part to help the afghanistans get back on their feet. >> ambassador nicholas burns, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> thank you, john. if last year is any prediction, we'll likely see a dip in productivity. why, you ask? first round of march madness. andy scholes with the "bleacher report." of course, you're only getting more productive in the next several days, andy. >> reporter: i hope so. this really is the best two days in all of sports. you've got 16 games today, 16 games tomorrow, and this year, all of the games are taking place here in indiana. action actually got started last night with the first four, two powerhouses facing off as michigan state took on ucla. the bruins rolling back from a deficit to force the game into overtime. they would end up beating the spartans, 86-80, the final there. meantime drake and wichita state coming down to the final seconds. the shocker, a chance to win the game at the buzzer, but the three, no good. drake holds on to win its first tournament game in 50 years, 53-52. the games start at 12:00 p.m. eastern today. you can watch on several channels. the men as you can see have a huge weight room setup. the women, a set of small dumbbells and yoga mats. the performance coach posted a picture saying this needs to be addressed. they responded in part it was due to limited space and they were working on more equipment. prince was not a fan of the response. she showed there was plenty of room for a weight room in texas. erica, a lot of people just shaking their heads that something like this still happens. you know, we'll wait and see if the ncaa can find some sufficient weights and put a nice weight room for the women. >> that's ridiculous. when i saw that tweet i thought, good on you, sedona prince, for putting that out there. it's like the madness in march madness. what is that? 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of course, the answer is no. it's considered dead on arrival in the senate. so much for representative democracy, which brings us to another needed conversation. filibuster reform. the filibuster was not, in fact, part of the founders' vision. it was made possible by disgraced vice president aaron burne in 1805. it persisted in the senate but rarely used. you might remember jimmy stewart, "mr. smith goes to watch," speaking until he collapsed to try to stop a corrupt land deal. in reality it was like trying to block a civil rights bill. if you think that was twisted in pow power, look at this. some years there were zero. in the 1970s through 2000, things got heated up with the end of the talking filibuster, allowing senators to put a silent hold on a bill. still they averaged around 24 a year. things went off the rail this century with 340 under george w. bush and a stunning 632 under barack obama to a whopping 529 in just one trump term. you can't look at that term and say defending the status quo is about defending the tradition. it's a break from tradition. it's become a reflection of obstruction. what are our choices? president biden thinks we should go back to the talking filibuster. some thing we should suspend the filibuster to protect voting rights. as they sensibly say, this kind of simple change would not eliminate filibusters. it would restore their original purpose for the minority to demonstrate when it really cares about something leading to maybe constructive compromises. what a concept. whatever the plan, the filibuster should be needed to restore faith. i wonder how that boypoll. that's your reality check. time now for cnn business. the treasury department sent out 90 million stimulus checks this week, the first part of what is a historic rescue attempt of the u.s. economy. chief business correspondent christine romans with more. romance. >> geven more important than those checks is the child tax credit. that's a guarantee. regular direct deposits for the government. this law is sprawling. tax breaks, subsidies for health care premiums, money for agriculture including $5 billion that will benefit black farmers, housing aid, food stamps, money for vaccination distribution and schools and an extra $300 a week in unemployment for the fall. there's money for states, a pension fund bailout. john, i could go on and on and on. all this money, vaccine progress, pent-up demand, all of that expected to usher in a boom. the federal reserve expects the economy to grow 6%. that's the strongest since the reagan administration. you're seeing government bond yields rise on all this optimism. that's bringing up mortgage rates with them, john. the 30-year fixed rate, 3%. the 15-year, 2.4. of course, the higher prices hurts consumers. that risk is hypothetical and the job market pain still very real. we're in the early innings of this rescue of the economy. >> you had me at bond yields. >> did i? 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>> well, john, of course these are significant comments. like you said, this is the first time we're seeing the former president speak on camera about that january 6th riot. he said, look, this really undermines the ability of americans to peacefully protest in the public square. he also really condemned any question that the election was rigged. he immediately said no, it wasn't, when asked about it. take a listen. >> was the election stolen or not? >> no. >> did you believe that our own government in any way was putting our democracy at risk? >> no. i think what's putting democracy at risk is the capacity of the people to get on the internet and spread all kinds of stuff. but democracy -- checks and balances worked. >> he said again he was disturbed and disgusted by what he saw on the capitol on january 6th. he put out a statement, john, as that capitol riot was happening, condemning it. arguing this is not what the country stood for, that the politics of the moment should not dominate any kind of violence on capitol hill. obviously, the former president very, very frustrated by what he saw and very sickened by it. john? >> lauren, thank you. joining us now, andrew mccabe, cnn's senior law enforcement analyst, former deputy director of the fbi. those words from former president bush, as john pointed out, we don't hear from him often. he's very deliberate in any comments and very thoughtful in his timing often. he doesn't want to weigh in. the fact that he was so clear, is there a message that that sends and are the people who need to hear it actually going to listen? >> well, there's definitely a very pointed message that he is trying to send right now. i think, as you mentioned, it's always a significant moment when former president bush steps forward and takes a position on a current issue. clearly this is one that motivates him and affects him deeply. and i think it's incredibly important that conservative voices, like the former president, get out in front of these lies and these myths that are creating -- aggravating a volatile situation in our country with domestic violent extremists. i would assume he feels the same way. whether or not that group is hearing his message today, that's something that we will wait and see as the weeks unfold. >> by the way, he was just stating facts. you know, good for him to speak out, but it's a low bar. he was merely acknowledging what he saw with his very eyes and it was good to hear him say that. the fbi chose to release new videos from the capitol insurrection which we're going to put up so people can see the types of things that have now been released. what do you see in these, and why is the fbi putting them out? >> well, john, i think what we're seeing is the overwhelming significance, the power of crowd sourcing, the identification of these individuals. the fbi has learned over -- in the wake of numerous crises when you don't have someone's identity in your own warehouse of information, it's very effective to go to the crowd, to go to -- what they released yesterday in these videos, you can't describe it as anything other than just an absolute sickening and violent hand-to-hand combat attack in which you have law enforcement officers, you know, brutally beaten by a crowd that's clearly out of its mind. and i would point out the fact these are folks who profess to be supporters of law enforcement. they very clearly are not. anyone engaged in those sort of attacks is no friend to the people in blue, to the people who carry badges and protect all of us. >> how effective nowadays is this crowd sourcing of information? is it -- is it working better at this point, do you think? more quickly? >> oh, i definitely think so. i think as the bureau gets better in communicating these messages out, not just putting them up on their own website but actually producing videos like you saw yesterday from the current assistant director of the washington field office, packaging them in pieces that are easily picked up and replicated and sent out over social media, it gets more effective each time they do it. also investigatively what you're seeing now is a focus really on the absolute most culpable, those folks engaged in the worst acts of violence. they may in some cases be the hardest to identify, so that's why you're seeing the fbi focus on those folks now. >> let me shift gears to what we're seeing around the country. the rise in anti-asian hate crime. there was this hearing on capitol hill yesterday where republican members, it was supposed to be about asian-americans and what they are feeling and the threat that they feel like they're under and the numbers are going up. they turned it around and tried to make it about their free speech rights. their rights to criticize the nation of china. i want to know, because we talk so much about the effect of speech on the actions we're seeing and the fear that the intelligence community tells us is the rise of domestic violence extremists. what do these extremists hear when there are politicians who refuse to very clearly condemn this type of attack? >> when we have figures of significance in our national leadership. so folks on the hill, the former occupant of the white house, pointedly refusing to embrace this sort of language that victims and communities under stress desperately need to hear, the other side, the domestic violent extremists, those folks who are harboring racially motivated animus toward others, they hear that as validation of their points of view and it emboldens them to go further to step out of the shadows into the light and take more aggressive actions. we are seeing the clear repercussions of that now, particularly in the racially motivated extremist categories, the militia motivated extremists. they are far more bold, far more out in the open and far more aggressive today than they were four years ago. that is at least partially the result of having been essentially groomed by the president, the former president of the united states, over the last four years. >> words matter. andrew mccabe, always appreciate you joining us with your insight. thank you. >> thank you. "new day" continues right now. president biden's scheduled trip to atlanta taking on a whole new significance. >> the president will offer his support for the aapi community in georgia and across the country. >> investigators take a hard look into what motivated the suspect to go on a mass shooting spree that left eight dead, including six asian women. >> swwe should not be trying to downplay what happened. this week has been such a challenge. we're actively looking at guidance to update it. >> the president promised 100 million shots in 100 days. just might meet that day 58. >> could be a situation of a lot more infections outpacing the ability of our vaccines to work. this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day." alisyn is off. erica hill with me. we made it all the way. >> we have one hour to go. how about we not screw it up. >> i'll do my best. president biden and vice president harris head to excellent. eight people were killed, six of them asian women. there is an indisputable rise in violence against asian-americans and that was supposed to be the subject of a house hearing thursday. again, it was supposed to be the subject but for congressman chip roy, he turned it into a hearing about him. he took the time to stand up for his criticisms of the nation of china. he also made a bizarre reference to lynching. >> we look at the covid front, the biden administration will meet its goal of 100 million shots in arms in 42 days ahead of schedule. so the u.s. now averaging 2.5 million vaccinations reported a day. and as of this morning, nearly 35% of the population is either partially or fully vaccinated. there is some concern, though, that the u.s. may be on the verge of a new surge. that drop in hospitalizations that we had been seeing, that's now stalled. >> we're going to talk about that coming up. we're going to start with the fear and frustration in the asian-american community. stephanie cho is the executive director of asian-americans advancing justice in atlanta. thank you for being with us this morning. how do you feel this morning? how do you feel that your fears and frustrations and the reality that you have lived are being addressed? >> i think that what i'm seeing is an overwhelming support in the asian-american community. at the same time we're also seeing quite a bit of backlash. me as an individual, i've received a lot of hate mai

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