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Laura Coates Live

Actor Chris Evans on Civic Engagement

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Chris interviews Captain America star, Chris Evans on his non-partisan civic engagement project.  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

All right, JB. Thank you very much. Have a good weekend, my brother. I am Chris Cuomo.

0:04.7

Welcome to prime time. One thing is clear as we come to the end of the week and here it is.

0:10.4

What change this week? Why did his tone change?

0:16.4

There has been no change. He hasn't changed his tone.

0:20.0

Now she's trying to get you to think that the president has always said where masks. The

0:24.4

president has always said the pandemic was real and going to get worse. That part's not

0:28.3

true. But she is right about tone. The president's tone hasn't changed. He is still tone

0:36.4

deaf to this crisis. A million cases in two weeks. Turn around times on test results. I don't

0:43.7

need to tell you, but it's true what you know yourself. The results are getting longer and

0:48.8

longer over a week, even longer in too many places. This president offers no plan to increase

0:56.0

our ability to test interest. He says he wants schools to reopen in a week in some places

1:02.2

and offers no plan to help them do it and to help them keep schools open, right? Opening

1:07.9

them is easy. Keeping them open will be hard. How do we keep our kids safe? How do we keep the

1:14.0

teachers safe? Nothing. That's tone deaf. His White House is right. Schools are like essential

1:22.2

places of business. So why don't they treat them that way? Make a plan. Hashtag. Where is the plan?

1:31.8

States are asking for help all over the country. You hear them on this show. They're getting

1:36.4

done. Why? He has waited so long to act that now more than 150 prominent health experts are saying

1:44.0

it's too late. They don't think we should be open in any way right now. 150 of them say we need

1:50.1

to shut down again and start over as the only way to get us back. And yes, I will argue against

1:57.2

that against one of the big minds who is signing on to it. A key co-signer that is about an open

2:05.7

letter to America's decision makers about what they need to do and why. Dr. Zika Manuel, a former Obama

2:11.9

White House policy, Health Policy Advisor, joins us on prime time. Good to see you, my friend.

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