240,000 coronavirus deaths: ‘In what circle of hell is that a good outcome,’ asks Susan Rice
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🗓️ 3 April 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan Cape Art. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Jonathan Cape Art. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Cape Up. |
| 0:08.0 | One of the nightmare scenarios for Susan Rice when she was National Security Advisor to President Obama |
| 0:15.0 | was the possibility of a global pandemic. |
| 0:18.0 | They planned for it. |
| 0:19.0 | They did a tabletop exercise with the incoming Trump administration that included |
| 0:23.8 | pandemic preparedness. They even left a playbook. |
| 0:27.3 | We left behind a 69 page playbook which you know was sort of pandemic for |
| 0:34.6 | dummies if you don't know where to start start here and ask these questions and |
| 0:39.0 | do these things and apparently if they weren't thrown into garbage bins they sat on the shelves and collected dust. |
| 0:45.6 | Today Susan Rice's nightmare is our lived reality and she believes President a very good job if he can contain deaths to between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans. |
| 1:08.6 | In what circle of hell, Jonathan, is that a good outcome? Rice has more to say right now. |
| 1:15.0 | Susan Rice, thank you very much for coming back to the podcast. |
| 1:21.0 | It's good to be with you Jonathan. It's been a little while. |
| 1:24.0 | It's been a little while. You were the National Security Advisor to President |
| 1:28.0 | Obama last we spoke and I let's just jump right on in this on March 13th you wrote an |
| 1:35.5 | out that for the New York Times with the headline the government has failed on |
| 1:39.4 | coronavirus but there is still time. |
| 1:43.0 | That was about two weeks ago. |
| 1:47.0 | Do we still have time? |
| 1:49.0 | No. |
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