Biden: Asian Americans have been “attacked, blamed, scapegoated and harassed”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Pres. Joe Biden condemned the “skyrocketing” hate crimes against Asian Americans in the wake of the Atlanta-area shootings that left eight dead, including six women of Asian descent. He said Asian Americans have been “attacked, blamed, scapegoated and harassed.” Asian American Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth tells Anderson Cooper “we have been marching towards more and more violent hate crimes against AAPIs in the last year, in particular in the past four years under the Trump presidency.” Plus, while Biden toured the CDC and thanked the staffers for their work fighting Covid-19, his team announced they met their goal of 100 million vaccinations in his first 100 days, 42 days early. Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins AC360 to discuss how the acceleration of the vaccine rollout is affecting the case and death projections. Airdate: March 19, 2021 Guests: Sen. Tammy DuckworthDr. Sanjay Gupta To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, a lot happening tonight, including new sexual harassment allegations against New
0:04.4	York's governor and a new COVID forecast offering hope but also a warning against letting
0:08.7	our guard down.
0:09.7	We begin, though, with the president and vice president who traveled to Atlanta today,
0:13.4	they visited the CDC, highlighted the ways in which it's helping the country stop COVID,
0:18.1	but their prime focus was on a city and a country in need of a different kind of healing.
0:22.6	President Todd, the two together today, speaking out against anti-Asian violence in the wake
0:27.0	of this week's mass killings there, but also making it clear that words and acts of hatred
0:31.4	against Asian Americans did not come out of nowhere.
0:35.9	We're learning again, but we've always known.
0:39.9	Words have consequences.
0:44.7	It's the coronavirus, full stop.
0:48.5	The conversation we had today with the AAPI leaders and that we're hearing all across the
0:54.3	country is that hate and violence often hide and plane sight.
0:58.7	It's often met with silence.
1:02.9	That's been through throughout our history, but that has to change because our silence
1:08.5	is complicity.
1:10.7	We cannot be complicit.
1:14.5	We have to speak out.
1:16.2	We have to act.
1:18.4	We mourn the story from the White House in San Francisco and Collins and from Emmer
1:21.4	Walker in Atlanta where there's new surveillance video in the case.
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