April 26, 2020: The Trump Show diverts attention from pandemic's true victims; Carson Daly on handling anxiety in a crisis; Brooke Baldwin on her Covid-19 recovery
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🗓️ 26 April 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey I'm Brian Stelter in New York and this is reliable sources. Our weekly look at the story behind the story. We have some big guests coming up in the coming minutes, including the president of the White House Correspondous |
| 0:13.8 | Association, John Carl of ABC News. |
| 0:16.9 | We're going to talk with him about his experiences in the front row at the Trump White House. |
| 0:20.9 | Plus CNN's Brooke Baldwin, she is about to be back behind the anchor desk after |
| 0:25.7 | weeks at home suffering through COVID-19. She's going to share her experience with us in just |
| 0:30.7 | a few minutes. And later, the today shows Carson Daily is going to join me talking |
| 0:35.7 | about anxiety and the struggles that so many people are experiencing right now with all this |
| 0:41.0 | quarantined, staying at home, staying away from loved ones during these trying times. |
| 0:46.0 | Big guests coming up, but let me start here. |
| 0:48.0 | We are all learning what it's like to live in the time of coronavirus. |
| 0:52.0 | We are all adapting, adjusting, trying to figure out |
| 0:55.2 | what the months ahead will be like. Key word there months, could even be years. |
| 1:00.0 | If only we could get certain politicians and media personalities to realize this pandemic is not about them. |
| 1:06.1 | It's about a collective fight, a fight based on medicine, not magical thinking. |
| 1:10.2 | It's about those we've lost and what we're losing and what we can try to keep. |
| 1:15.2 | So would someone please tell the President? |
| 1:18.0 | Because his administration's top experts say this virus will be with us for many months to come |
| 1:22.9 | through the fall next winter until whenever there is a vaccine. |
| 1:26.5 | And yet the president is tweeting like it's already over |
| 1:30.3 | saying every person needing a ventilator got one in the past tense when new patients are being |
| 1:36.4 | hooked up to life support every single hour. |
| 1:41.1 | And it's not just the president, his vice president is saying, quote, I think by Memorial Day weekend, we will largely have this coronavirus epidemic behind us. |
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