Thank you very much, everyone.

Earlier this week, President Trump got up in front of the cameras for one of his daily press briefings, flanked by two huge flat-screen televisions.

Now with that, I have a couple of interesting,

we have a few clips that we're just going to put up.

A few minutes in, the president asked to dim the lights.

Then he teed up video snippets that put a positive spin

on his administration's response to the coronavirus,

a pandemic that has cost tens of

thousands of American lives.

Someone had even scored this video with a kind of West Wing soundtrack.

We could give you hundreds of clips just like that. We have them.

We didn't want this to go on too long.

But I just want to say...

For members of the press, watching this spectacle unfold,

you could sense this disbelief settle over them.

One reporter asked, who made this video?

Other reporters jumped in to say, Hold it, are you saying you couldn't have acted sooner to prevent people from getting sick? You couldn't have done more back in, like, February? On January 30th. What did your administration do in February for the time that your travel ban bought you? A lot. A lot. And in fact, we'll give you a list. What we did.

He said at some point, we'll give you a list of everything we did. And you actually, you saw that list, right?

I did see that list. I saw it circulating on Twitter by one of his campaign staff. Dan Diamond is a reporter over at Politico. He was watching this press conference play out, waiting for that list.

The list of things that the Trump campaign was touting, the list of items across February, I counted it up.

There were 20 distinct achievements as they saw it.

But when I actually looked at those 20 things, seven of them were

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