Interview with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas; Interview with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin; Interview with GOP Reps. Young Kim and Michelle Steel; Interview with Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson

State of the Union

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🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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First, Dana presses Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the Biden administration’s response to the growing surge at the border. Then, Dana talks to Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois about growing calls by Democrats to change the filibuster rules. Next, Dana sits down with the first female Korean American Republicans ever elected to Congress, Reps. Young Kim and Michelle Steel of California, to discuss the rise of anti-Asian discrimination in the US. Finally, Dana pushes Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas about his plan to lift his mask mandate at the end of the month and his decision to sign a near-total abortion ban in his state. 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	Don't come. Thousands of unaccompanied migrant children arrive at the border as agents struggle
0:11.3	to provide adequate care and urge them to wait.
0:14.5	We are saying don't come now.
0:16.4	How will the Biden administration handle what they were refused to call a crisis? I'll
0:20.5	speak to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin
0:26.4	next, and rising hate. Asian Americans increasingly targets of attack and tensions spike after
0:33.3	deadly shootings in Atlanta.
0:35.3	It has been heartbreaking. Asian Americans are Americans.
0:39.7	What can be done to stop the violence? The first two GOP Korean American women in
0:44.5	Congress, Young Kim and Michelle Steele, join me to discuss. Plus, holding out, nearly half
0:50.6	of Trump supporters say they won't get the vaccine as deadly variants spread and states
0:55.9	roll back restrictions. Can they be convinced to get their shots? I'll speak to the Republican
1:01.0	governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, ahead.
1:04.2	Hello, I'm Dana Bash in Washington, where the state of our union is at a tipping point.
1:15.4	The Biden administration is now more than two months into office, and this week achieved
1:20.2	their goal of putting 100 million vaccines in arms for ahead of schedule in just 58 days.
1:27.5	But as there are cautious signs that COVID-19 pandemic is improving, the new administration
1:33.0	is now facing two other challenges, rising domestic extremism. I'll display this week
1:39.1	after the shootings in Atlanta and a surge of migrants at the border. There are now more
1:44.8	than 5,000 unaccompanied children in U.S. customs and border protection custody, and that's
1:50.9	nearly twice the number of children in border patrol custody at the peak of the 2019
1:56.9	border crisis during the Trump administration. That's according to a former border patrol
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