Al Gore on Trump’s Attacks on Science

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Chris goes one on one with Former VP Al Gore on Trump’s assault on science despite wildfires, hurricanes, and coronavirus pandemic. Then, Chris talks with Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak about absentee voting. Chris wraps up the show with Harvard Epidemiologist, Dr. Michael Mina on testing the coronavirus vaccine and back to school season. 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	I'm with you is always time well you with your pretty words.
0:04.8	How many times do I have to say that?
0:07.4	Thank you very much my brother.
0:08.7	Have a good night.
0:09.7	I'm Chris Cuomo.
0:10.4	Welcome to Primetime.
0:12.0	Here is the reality.
0:13.8	The head of the CDC says the COVID vaccine will not
0:17.8	be ready for most of us for about a year.
0:20.5	And that your best bet to be safe right now is to wear a mask.
0:25.0	This is not a new reckoning.
0:28.4	Everyone involved with the making of the vaccine or on the task force
0:32.0	agrees with the two propositions told us today.
0:35.9	And yet the president attacked the head of the CDC for saying so.
0:40.8	Said he must have heard the questions wrong.
0:43.6	Then forced an odd clarification from the CDC.
0:46.6	Why?
0:47.7	Because the CDC head, Dr. Redfield, said what Trump doesn't want you to hear.
0:54.1	Like his other opponent, science, which he says doesn't know what it's talking about.
0:59.8	This from the man who says heard mentality when he meant heard immunity.
1:06.2	Or maybe not.
1:07.2	After all, Trump's not banking on the science of immunity.
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