asian man inside a chinatown laundromat. police seized weapons and identify the three men. calvin virgil, jason orozco, and nolande besheers. police believe the surveillance video, the suspect also hurled racial insults. vandals defacing a seattle church with anti-china graffiti crew locals reportedly growing frustrated with whether or not police are on. officials tell local reporters they say it's safe to say there is an investigation. the graffiti says "china you will pay. go home." local residents as we are in seattle, pretty progressive and so many ways. disheartening a lot of ways. tonight the white house and activist are primarily laying the blame on white supremacy and comments by former president trump when addressing the latest violence and attacks on asian-americans. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i am shannon bream in washington. we begin tonight with what we know about the motives of the obama suspect in the series of tragic shootings last night. a people left dead. alex hogan has the facts tonight. >> good evening, new release 911 call shows the moment becomes called police for help. one woman inside one of the businesses hiding, terrified and asking police for help. >> where is he right now? >> i don't know. i'm hiding right now. >> what is he wearing? >> i don't know. please just come okay. >> tragic shooting spree outside of atlanta. eight people are dead. seven victims were women of which six were asian. the violence causing an outpouring of support for the asian-american community. the suspect however, 21-year-old robert long, confessing that he carried out the shooting not over race but because of his own sex addiction. 5:00 p.m. on tuesday, three spas quickly turning to crime scenes. >> he sees them as an outlet for him. something he shouldn't be doing. an issue with porn. he was attempting to take out that temptation. >> multiple investigators say it's too soon to know if race played a factor. >> it's early but the indicators are it may not be. it may be targets of opportunity. >> france in high school and middle school speaking out, surprised and shocked. >> most people had nothing but good things to say about it. >> police released security footage of the suspect prompting his family to step forward. >> very supportive and certainly it's difficult for them. >> officers tracked long down 150 miles away with a 9-millimeter firearm in his vehicle. the man told officers of his plan to head to florida and carry out more shootings. >> robert long is charged with at least four counts of murder and at least one count of assault. his first initial court appearance was scheduled for tomorrow. that has been canceled. there is no new court date scheduled as of yet. shannon. >> shannon: absolutely tragic. alex hogan, thank you very much. breaking tonight, lindsay boylan wants no part of the new york state assembly's impeachment investigation of andrew cuomo. the governor's former aide whose allegations triggered the developing sexual harassment scandal called the probe a sham, tweeting "do not trust carl, his impeachment investigation is not designed to be transparent or to move fast. there is nothing governor cuomo wants more than time. many of us have put our whole lives on the line for this crap. i have not and will not." illegal immigration numbers soar at the southern border. president biden is telling migrants "don't come over." will the message be heated after candidate biden's words seemed to be directly opposite during the 2020 campaign season. white house correspondent kevin corke is digging into it. good evening, kevin. >> evening, shannon. still no trip to the border plan for mr. biden who was at least so far content to let others take the lead in responding to the border disaster, a decision that's getting increasingly difficult to defend as the crisis deepens. every day by the hundreds they come, migrant children part of a tsunami of people looking for a better way of life. but the reality on the ground is daunting. customs and border protection sources telling fox news we are taking in more uacs then we can process. i don't see how we can keep this many kids when we can't find sponsors." there is growing concerns that the biden administration may be restricting the information the border patrol agents can share with the public. nbc reports border patrol officials have been told to deny all media requests for ride along with agents, to send all queries, even from local press, to washington for approval. and to not share information about the number of migrants in custody. >> we are not hiding anything. we do want to be sure that the stories told transparently. but we are also in a situation of urgent need for children and need to move children, that has to take first priority. >> by comparison with the height of the trump administration's child separation policy in june 2018, he allowed media dig were facilities where separated children were being held. >> if you all wanted to grant access to the press, could you just tell dhs to do it? >> we fully support transparency and i would encourage you to talk to the department of homeland security of any requests you have for press access. >> dhs secretary alejandro mallorca scott over and exchange -- got in a tense exchange today. >> how many more have to be kidnapped across america before you take action? >> i find that question to be extraordinarily disrespectful. >> i'm sorry that you feel that way. i'm sure the american people feel disrespected about the border situation. >> female, the federal emergency management agency involved, isn't this an emergency? mayorkas said it was a challenge and he noted in the hearing that he was "not spending any time on that language that we used. i'm spending time on the operational response of the situation of the border. terse response to intense situation. shannon. >> shannon: one that doesn't appear to be resolved quickly. kevin, thank you. 40 republican senators seeking answers tonight about the legality of president biden's executive order. the group sent a letter to the government accountability office seeking a ruling on what they say is an unlawful action infringing on congress' constitutional power of the purse. here to respond to the reported gag order on border patrol agents the president of the national border patrol council, brandon judd. good to have you back. i know that you are speaking in a specific capacity so we will only ask you to comment from that. you've heard the reporting that people cannot request right along. local and state and other media requests have to go to that washington office. data is not supposed to be given out so i can't be leaked. what do you make of it? >> i'm going to be perfectly honest. this isn't anything that's extremely strange. most media requests had to go through washington, d.c. what is strange and let's talk about what needs to happen, not letting the media into these processing facilities, that needs to happen. the trump administration was transparent. we need to take immediate to the border's vacancy was taking place. so that the american public understands what the situation is. when you don't want to call it a crisis, you have to look at what is the definition? why would you call something a crisis? in my opinion the definition of crisis is once border patrol resources are overwhelmed and we cannot secure the border based on what's coming at us and we pull our agents in the processing centers off the line, i would call it a crisis. a week ago i wouldn't have but now i would. >> shannon: we've been told by this administration repeatedly that they would be as transparent as possible. allow us to find out what's going on. how reporters are pressing to get that information. they are being told to go back to dhs. pointing out that it's a federal agency. do you think you're going to get answers? do you think were going to get access? >> i think you will because you continue to press. if you didn't, you wouldn't get those answers. i couldn't encourage the media more than to continue to press upon the administration to give you the numbers you need, the access that you need so that you can paint the full picture for the american public. speaking on behalf of the national border patrol council, i'm a border patrol agent. i patrol the border and i put on the uniform and go out there and do the job. if the public doesn't know what's going on there would be no reason for the administration to act appropriately in trying to secure the border. that's why i encourage the media to continue to press and push forward. if it has to go through washington, d.c., so be it. push it to headquarters but get the access that you need. >> shannon: brandon judd, thanks to you in every other man and woman who puts on the uniform every day, doing a job that's much harder than we understand. thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: let's bring in leslie marshall and former deputy assistant attorney general john yoo. good to see you both tonight. >> hi, shannon. >> shannon: i want to play president biden when he was a candidate in 2019 versus what he is saying today. we'll talk about the messages. >> i would make sure that there is, we immediately surge the border almost people seeking asylum. they deserve to be heard. that's who we are. we are a nation that says if you want to flee and you are feeling oppression, you should come. i can say quite clearly don't come. what we are in the process of getting set up and it's not going to take a whole long time is to be able to apply for asylum in place. so don't leave your town or city or community. >> shannon: john, even those within the biden administration admit they've got a messaging problem. we have reporters and folks talking to people who say we believe he's going to help us. that's why we are coming. that's the message were getting. >> it's not just a messaging problem. president biden is creating incentives, new incentives the ones that existed under the trump administration. we shouldn't assume that immigrants are irrational. they are rational actors. they are coming because they are getting new information that immigration policies in the united states are changing. whether you agree with them or not, trumps immigration policies made it harder for people to cross the southern border. president biden overruled the trumpet executive orders. he says he's restoring this p24 program and it will introduce a bill making it easier for aliens to become citizens. i don't blame people who want to leave countries with a lot of instability to come to the border. president biden is creating incentives that will make the problem worse and worse. >> shannon: it's not just conservatives or republicans were saying that. lastly, we have a number of democratic lawmakers along the border and in texas, members of congress saying you're making it harder for us, mr. president. congressman henry cuellar today. >> don't come now, come later, we needed more concise, clear message. what we are hearing, what they are hearing is people are coming across. they see images of people coming across so cores that are to listen. >> shannon: leslie, he himself, he played some video of the border and situation and there are enormous crowds. people who feel hopeless and i'm sure are fleeing to a place where they think there will be opportunity for them to a system that is overloaded and we are hearing of thousands of kids being held far beyond the legal limits, being grouped together at convention centers and other places. it's not a situation anybody wants. it's not ideal for these young people. >> it's not an ideal situation but here is what an ideal situation looks like. democrats and republicans in the house, democrats and republicans in the senate can pass bipartisan multifaceted immigration reform yesterday. they don't do it. they want to take pictures. they want to visit the border. i think it's good to be informed but the reality is that the covid-19 pandemic reduced beds for children specifically from 13,000 to 8,000. the reality is the covid-19 pandemic increased violence in these countries, reduce financial and economic and work opportunities for these individuals. we also have to remember that a lot of people don't understand you can apply for refugee status from your home country but not asylum so you have to come and be at the u.s. border to apply for asylum which is why you hear the president say we are working on the ability to apply for asylum from your home country. president biden can't do it alone. no president can do it alone. they need congress to help them. >> shannon: the fact is covid started early in 2020. john, this surge started in the last eight weeks. >> the numbers are incredible. the increase in encounters at the border in the last month is up over a third parent up over 175% in the last year. i don't think it's just covid. in fact covid should be slowing it down, not increasing it. the question is going to be whether president biden -- he's now in charge. he can't blame things on president trump. one of the jobs of the president is to protect the sovereignty of the country which involves setting security at the warner and making sure the law is enforced. i agree with leslie, it's up to congress to set those numbers. the president's job is to enforce them. >> shannon: they need to get a lot of things done including cleaning up the overloaded immigration system, the border and everything else in there never seems to be the appetite for parties to do it. we will keep watching it keep asking those questions. leslie and joan, thank you both. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: biden team j nominee under fire for her business ties to a company that allegedly profited off a chemical used in the production of heroin. carrie severino's organization asking senator joe manchin to vote no. how the white house is responding, 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>> shannon: dr. siegel, thank you very much. a conservative group is targeting west virginia senator joe manchin over gupta's confirmation. let's bring in the president of the judicial crisis network, carrie severino. good to see you back. >> hi, shannon. good to see you. >> shannon: i'm going to play a little bit of the ad. it's very pointed. here's a bit. >> we see drug overdoses, death. vanita gupta, she some money, profit. sex has tens and millions invested in a company that made the hidden ingredient in heroin. tell joe manchin vanita gupta or west virginia. >> shannon: the message is specific to west virginia where they've had a shocking, horrific outcome with regard to the opioid epidemic. is it fair to link her to what happened based on reporting that we heard from dr. siegel? >> obviously she's at this point vowing to divest yourself potentially of the stock. she is serious stockholder. father remains chairman of the board. here's the other challenge. on top of her radical and extreme positions on other issues which i think are disqualifying already and have been talked about a lot. she has positions that tie in with some of these concerns. she has advocated for legalization of possession of all drugs. she has advocated for some of the same policies that are benefiting the illegal drug industry. that's a real concerning overlap here. i think it's something that we can overlook. west virginia alone lost 142,000 people to drug overdoses. it's concerning to see someone who would be leadership of the department of justice. >> shannon: here's what senator manchin said. he said i spoke to merrick garland, now the attorney general, he's very high on her and have all the respect in the world on his decision-making. i will be leaning towards a yes vote because of his support. do you think this ad will be enough to change his mind? >> i would hope so. i would think that someone with her record. merrick garland likes to present himself as a neutral, fair, moderate person but the personals policy and you're looking at people working with him. they are the farthest left. she has advocated for reducing sentences for white nationalists and terrorist. she has a very bad record on religious freedom. is he going to stand up to this? i would question it and say i don't see evidence of it and i think senator manchin has to be particularly cautious when you look at her view of drug policy in particular and when you see the damaging effects, the tragedy that happened in west virginia and so many states across the country because of all these problems with the opioid crisis. >> shannon: i want to bring something up from senator mazie hirono, talking about the g.o.p. and the right encouraging no votes against wome