Biden: “More people may die if we don’t coordinate”
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
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🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. On a day the world got to celebrate the disability of a second vaccine that could |
| 0:05.1 | be ready to deploy in weeks, President-elect Joe Biden made it clear today during a speech |
| 0:08.7 | in Delaware that it takes more than just vaccines to end the pandemic. We have to cooperate |
| 0:13.3 | together. He said all of us, not just across party lines, but in his words, also cooperate |
| 0:19.1 | with the World Health Organization and the rest of the world in dealing with this. |
| 0:23.2 | Now the symbolism of the event couldn't be missed. It just met with two groups that famously |
| 0:27.2 | do not always get along, corporate leaders and labor unions. Biden's message was this, |
| 0:32.4 | if we want our businesses to fully reopen, if we want to resume our lives and put this |
| 0:36.3 | pandemic behind us, if we want to have not just a Thanksgiving in a Christmas, but as Biden |
| 0:41.2 | said, next Thanksgiving in Christmas, we have to do everything possible in spare no |
| 0:46.1 | effort to fight COVID. And that the American people have issued a mandate, said Biden, |
| 0:51.7 | quoting him, they want us to cooperate. They want us to deliver results, he said. He didn't |
| 0:56.4 | directly mention President Trump when he said those specific words, but he didn't have |
| 1:00.3 | to, at least at first. Because with the good news of a possible vaccine comes a need to |
| 1:04.9 | coordinate the distribution of it and the rising cases across the country call for coordination |
| 1:10.4 | between current government officials and the incoming administration. But that is not |
| 1:15.3 | happening. That is still not happening because the current president who will leave office |
| 1:20.3 | on January 20th, whether he likes it or not, is still blocking the incoming Biden team's |
| 1:25.1 | transition. President like Biden was asked about it this afternoon. |
| 1:30.7 | What do you see as the biggest threat to your transition right now, given President Trump's |
| 1:34.3 | unprecedented attempt to obstruct and delay a smooth transfer of power? More people may |
| 1:40.3 | die if we don't coordinate. Look, as my chief of staff Ron Claim would say, you handled |
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