Another Federal Official Raises Questions About Trump's Vaccine Timeline

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Another federal official raises questions about Trump's vaccine timeline and says that hardly any chance that it will come before the election. Trump said that there will be a vaccine "very soon, maybe even before a very special date, you know what I'm talking about." Trump accuses Harris of "anti-vaccine rhetoric" after the Democratic vice president nominee says "I would not trust Trump" about vaccines. Trump claims that he is getting "very high marks in our handling of the coronavirus" despite polls showing otherwise. The Wall Street Journal says that vaccine developers are preparing a joint safety pledge. The United States coronavirus death toll tops 189,000 as the former FDA chief warns country is heading into the fall and winter "with a lot of infection." The former FDA head says that the agency's scientists won't be "pushed around." Thousands of cases are linked to college reopenings in all 50 states. Trump denies calling United States war dead "losers" and "suckers," and says that "only an animal" would say something like that. Trump is open to an investigation of allegation that the postmaster general reimbursed employees for political contributions. Wolf has a one-on-one with Sen. Bernie Sanders. Biden and Harris raise concerns about Trump politicizing vaccine development process. 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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1:17.6	A federal official familiar with the government's efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine has just told CNN there's hardly any chance at all
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1:29.8	But in a White House news conference earlier today President Trump politicized a
1:33.9	possible vaccine tying it to the election predicting the country will have
1:38.4	one and I'm podium now before a special date. You know what date I'm talking about.
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