captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: i'm margaret brennan in washington. familiar crises challenge this country and the biden administration. one presidential goal down: 100 million covid vaccinations in not 100 but only 58 days. but is the race to reopen outpacesing it to shut down the virus. los angeles was the center of the outbreak, and now they're reopening, we'll hear from mayor er gasoline. and moncef slaoui and dr. scott gottlieb will also be here. a shooting rampage in

atlanta puts the spotlight on and ugly outcome of the coronavirus. >> racism is real in america, and it has always been. xenophobia is real in america, and it always has been. >> brennan: we'll talk with tammy duckworth about the push to pass new laws protecting asian-americans from hate crimes. plus the ping-pong politics of blame starts up again with a record number of migrant childre crossing the southern border. prescripresident biden has faced this challenge before as v.p. does he have any solutions now? bier>> biden: to repeat what trump did, take them away from their mothers, we're not doing that. >> brennan: ohio's rob portman is just back from the region. it is all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪ is

>> brennan: good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." it is the second official day of spring, a season that brings with it the complications of warmer weather. this year it is spring break, and a spring surge in unaccompanied children atothe southern border as they seek a better life in the u.s. we've got a lot to get to today, and we begin with senior national correspondent mark strassmann. [yelling] >> reporter: despite a curfew and a pandemic, miami beach jammed with spring breakers last night until police fired pepper balls to break up the party. >> we've got too many people coming, and we have covid at the same time. >> reporter: irresponsibility unmasked. to health officials, this is the other march madness. >> you can hardly see the sand because of all of the umbrellas on the beach. >> reporter: and reverse

covid progress. over the last two months, new cases and daily deaths both have plummetted. but... >> doctor: you are seeing increases in number of cases per day. >> reporter: the so-called u.k. variant blamed for up to 30% of new infectons. viral spread. the t.s.a. reports eight straight days of more than one million people flying. relaxed covid restrictions, and resentful attitudes, like this mask burning in arizona. >> we are the people, and we're done putting a muzzle on our face. >> reporter: in the vaccine rollout, more than 14 million americans have been fully vaccinated. but there is no vaccine for covid era racism. three spas became homicide scenes, six of them asian women. the confessed killer could face georgia's new

hate-crime law. this 75-year-old woman yelled in chinese. in san francisco, she beat her attacker bloody with a stick. >> it is painful and infuriating at the same time. >> reporter: during the pandemic, thousands of asian-americans have been assaulted, physically and verbally. >> biden: they've been attacked, blamed, scapegoated and harassed. we cannot be complicit. >> reporter: it is a covid contradiction. vaccines have made millions of us feel more protected, but many asian-americans feel more vulnerable than ever. >> brennan: that is mark strassmann in atlanta. we want to go now to the west coast and the mayor of los angeles, er eric garcetti. good morning to you, mr. mayor. >> mayor: good morning, margaret. >> brennan: when we spoke last in january, it was the epicenter of a covid outbreak. now we're at 50,000

infections a day. are you confident there is not a fourth wave coming? >> mayor: covid makes you never competent, but i haven't felt this optimism in 12 months. here in los angeles, we have a positivity rate of 1.9%, and we estimate between half and two-thirds of our population has antibodies either because of explosion to covid-19 and vaccinations. so it is very different context from when openings happened last july, or when the openings didn't happen in december but we saw the virus burn through our city. and we're making sure that the vaccines get to every community through a lot of equity programs that dr. fauci has praised, some of the best in the country. >> brennan: the c.d.c. said you had two variants of concern. how do you know that l.a.

isn't opening too fast too soon? >> mayor: you never know, but you have to follow the data. the data is very clear. if we were a state, we would have the second lowest positivity rate. and our state is the third lowest case rate in the country. i believe some of the variants have burned through los angeles. it is the only way to explain what happened in january and december, when we had the same number of closures and we didn't have to case rate. our population is much stronger. our vaccinations are accelerating, and we can take these steps. it was a year to the date that we closed down movie theaters and restaurants, the first big city to do that in america, march 12th, taken we have reopened cautiously, with the lessons learned. it is time to start hugging our loved ones against, and certainly that comes fro getting a vaccine. >> brennan: on vaccines, before the biden administration took office, you have been

petitioning joe biden for direct shipments to your city, instead of going first through the state. why are they blowing off your request? >> mayor: well, we still keep asking, our cities. and i want to praise the biden administration where we have seen them hit their targets early -- >> brennan: but you said a few days ago you can't meet the president's target of may 1st, opening up all vaccination centers because he didn't give you enough supply. >> mayor: i didn't say those words. i said, you give us more, and we have double the capacity. i think cities across our country, mayors have been very clear, are the right places to add more vaccines. i'll continue saying that to our friends in the administration. i'll keep saying that, especially when cities are larger than most states. we're larger than 23 states, and our county is larger that 45 states. give us more, and we'll get them into more arms. >> brennan: okay. california, when you rank it by the c.d.c. numbers

that we looked at, is among the most unequal states. we're talking about the city that you control. but you also said in a speech at harvard that many of these deaths could have been prevented if it had been distributed by zip code, really targeted. have you talked to your friend, gavin newsom, about his plan? and did you tell him you were frustrated? >> mayor: yes. we've talked, and he actually did a great move by making sure that 40% of all of our vaccines -- and i don't know if other states have done this, but 40% are targeted now towards the most vulnerable. that is allowing us to be able to put that into zip codes with mobile teams. we deliver to people in their homes, and we're working with local community-based organizations. i look forward to when the federal regulations are not handcuffed and allow us to target anybody in a hot spot. i think that is two or three weeks away. even as some of our numbers have plummetted, some of the lowest

hospitalizations in a year -- ts to go into a geography of a neighborhood and knock it down before it spreads throughout a city. >> brennan: when you say two, three weeks away, what are you talking about? >> mayor: that is the time when we'll have enough supply to be able to have states and/or the federal government to allow us to go into the hardest-hit zip codes and say anybody, regardless of age, can be vaccinated there. >> brennan: i want to ask you about this really troubling spike in hate driecrimes because your city has really experienced some when it comes to asian-americans. last year you cut about $150 million from the police budget because of the black lives matter programs. do you need to push that money back to the l.a.p.d. so they can police this kind of ethnic targeting? >> mayor: no, i think that is the wrong frame. we are re-imagining public safety with our police departments. we know they need police response and

education, and community-based groups that can help be the eyes and ears. we have no tolerance for the hate here in los angeles, a great city filled with folks of asian-american and pacific island ethnics. we had an attack here in korea town just a couple of weeks ago, and we're putting together some of the best programs in the country. l.a.p.d. is absolutely part of that, and that is absolutely the false kind of dichotomy. we need to make sure there is a police officer to answer, and we have more officers this year, including with the police department hit because of the fiscal crisis, and also making investments in the human side of this to make sure community organizations are well-funded, too. >> brennan: mr. mayor, thank you for your time. we want to take a closer look at this specific issue with this wave of racist attacks on asian-americans. tammy duckworth joins us now from capitol hill. good morning to you, senator. >> good morning.

>> brennan: you heard mayor garsetti tack about what is happening in his city. christopher wray says from where he sits so far, it doesn't look like these shootings were racially motivated. from where you sit, is he is wrong? >> from where i sit, i want to see a deeper investigation into whether or not these shootings are racially motivated. it looks racially motivated to me, but i'm not a police officer and investigating the crimes. i have sent a letter to director wray and attorney general garland asking for a deeper investigation into crimes that involve asian-americans to see how many crimes have been underreported as hate crimes. we know that crimes against asian-americans have increased by over 150% in our nation's major cities. that is over 3800

additional crimes last year. but we also know many of these crimes go underreported as hate crimes and are just classified as a mugging or harassment or vandalism, but when they are really targeted at asian-americans in particularly. >> brennan: when director wray appeared in congress, he said that the f.b.i. is already trying to address this with training and liason events and they put out intelligence reports about what is happening in the asian community. what more do federal law enforcement need to be doing? and don't they already have a civil rights division dealing with these kind of crimes? >> well, they do, but the problem is the crimes often are not reported as a hate crime or race-motivated crime at the scene with the local police officers because people just don't see asian-americans as a minority group that gets attacked on a regular basis. if you're asian-american like me and my family, you know it happens on a regular basis. oftentimes the crimes get reported in some other way. or when you say, hey, i think it was race

motivated, the authorities don't pay attention to that and reclassify them. that's what i've asked director wray and attorney general garland to take a deeper look into. let's see how bad is the underreporting. >> brennan: i want to ask you about another dimension to this issue that i thought was raised in an interesting framing by the atlanta journal in constitution. they have a front-page story saying before the killing spree in that city, georgia led an industry that exploits asian women. given the national conversation about comodification, i wonder what you think about this story. were those women in atlanta being exploited and victimized twice? >> i think any time you're part of a minority group, you're much more susceptible to being exploited. that's why i want us to take a deeper look at the

situation here. asian women in particular have this stereotype that they are weak and submissive, and they're oversexualized. and so what happens is they become the victims of crime far more. two-thirds of them were against asian women. we really have do deal with t we need the real data has to what is going on so we can fix it. >> brennan: the president on friday endorsed a bill i know you are a co-sponsor of called "the covid-19 hate crimes act." all of the co-sponsors are democrats. do you have any pledges from republicans to sign on? >> we don't at this time and it is astonishing to me. the house passed a bill that was a resolution against hate crimes against asian-americans tied to covid. and we have actually republicans who voted against it. and mitch mcconnell at the time, because republicans were in charge, wouldn't even let us vote on it in the

senate. where could you be that you would not be willing to vote on a bill that would condemn violence against any person. >> brennan: on immigration, i want to ask you, president obama, as you recall, was heavily criticized. he was even called the deported in chief. president biden now is coming under heavy criticism for this crisis at the u.s. border. from where you sit, does the administration need to send a stronger message to discourage migrants from making the trek to the u.s.? >> let's make it clear: we have a situation at the border and that is as a result of four years of failed policies, inhumane policies and a dismantling of the asylum system by donald trump. we all saw what donald trump can do on january 6th. he's had four years to basically undermine our immigration system --

>> brennan: but they're coming now. >> but as a result of him dishant teldismantling system ae pathways for seeking asylum that used to exist. i know president biden is going to be committed to repairing that system that donald trump broke in order to make it not only work better but to make it humane so these kids can apply for a asylum from their own countries before coming here. >> brennan: quickly, secretary of defense austin was in afghanistan this morning. in about 40 days, u.s. troops are scheduled to be pulled out. do you think president biden should leave a residual force, and how big and for how long? >> i think secretary austin is there on the ground, and i would listen to the military commanders. i've also said we need to

remove the old force and vote on a new one, but listen to the commanders on the force along with our allies. i'm anxiously waiting to hear back from secretary auaustin and to hear his recommendations. i want american troops to come home, but i also want to fight the bad guys and not allow them to come here. >> brennan: senator, thank you for your time. "face the nation." will be back. don't go away. relieving pain and debilitating symptoms. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. most common side effects were nausea and tiredness. serena: migraine hits hard. hit back with ubrelvy. the anytime, anywhere migraine medicine. this is the planning effect. if you ask suzie about the future, she'll say she's got goals.

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with this current administration. their message this morning is a clear do not come. will those words change what is happening? >> no. i mean people are going to listen to actions and watch actions and not listen to words. i spoke to a number of migrants. i spoke to single individuals who were coming over at night, and men who told me they heard what president biden said but they were coming anyway because they could make 10 times more in the united states. i talked to children and talked about the messaging, and what they're hearing is you can come in to the united states as a kid, which you can. so they're going to keep coming. the problem here is that the biden administration on day one have made a half dozen changes and it encouraged more people to come to the border, and they didn't put anything in place to deal with it. either another policy to discourage people from coming, or to put the preparations in place, including the sheltering shelted the holding facilities.

i saw isn't of them the other day. kids are overcrowded. they are in situations you would never want your kid to be in. it is irresponsible. they said it is more humane. i don't think it is humane to encourage kids to make this treacherous journey and live in these kinds of conditions. >> brennan: specifically on that issue of children, the biden administration has kept the trump administration policy, title 42, during the pandemic, pushing people back across the border without due process because of this pandemic, but they're allowing children to stay. are you saying children should be expelled, even if they're trying to seek asylum? >> well, it's not so much a matter of expelling kids. it is a matter of telling them they are not going to be able to come across the border during a pandemic -- >> brennan: they're in u.s. custody because they're not being expelled. >> exactly. so now it is a different situation. but we ought to put in place the provisions that were in place previously while we prepare ourselves. i think there are five

things e can do right away: one is help the border patrol finish this wall that hasn't been completed. you have openings in the wall that is making the job impossible. and provide the technology. and second, stop the magnet of work by putting a mandatory verifying system in place. and third, let's deal with this asylum issue in a manage more logical way. let's have rapid a adjudications at the border. and people can find out, do they qualify? right now it is four, five years before they know, and they're living in the united states. only about half even show up for their court cases. no wonder they're in the united states for several years. at the end of the day, only 15% qualify. finally, in therms o terms terme third country system,

let's allow these individuals to seek asylum in their countries. if you're in honduras, you can apply in honduras or in mexico. encouraging these kidders kids tocome is not a humane thing. >> brennan: the white house is asking for $4billion in aid, a billion a year for central,, to help the countries of origin keep their people in their own countries. is that a reasonable number. >> probably. we've spent 3.6 billion in the northern triangle alone, so el salvador, guatemala, honduras. and they've had issues in natural disasters, including the hurricanes. so it hasn't made much a difference in terms of the poverty rates. it is a little better. everything i talked about

was to stop the pool factors. you need to reduce the pool factors. on the push factors, i'm for that, but it will take many years, some say a decade, to make some substantial progress. let's tie that aid to them helping us in terms of the asylum process. and let's tie the aid to dealing with the corruption and make sure there is transparency, there is an adherence to the rule of law so we can make the fundamental changes in these countries to help those people. >> brennan: will you press d.h.s. to give journalists access? >> absolutely. this should be transparent. it is amazing to me how little my constituents know about what is going on down at the border. it is a situation spiraling out of control. as the rio grande valley chief said in a tweet yesterday, there is no end

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