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Anderson Cooper 360

Bill Gates on Covid and the Delta Variant threat

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Bill Gates joins Anderson to talk about the latest Covid headlines. His foundation has donated billions of dollars to the cause of global health and fighting infectious disease, including development of Moderna's mRNA vaccine technology. Plus, Democratic Congressman and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff talks with Anderson about former President Trump, the 2020 election, and battle over democracy at the DOJ during his presidency. And, Keeping Them Honest, Randi Kaye finds and confronts a Florida doctor who experts say is the ultimate super-spreader of Covid misinformation.   Airdate: August 4, 2021   Guests: Bill Gates Rep. Adam Schiff 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

Good evening.

0:01.0

There's breaking news tonight on several fronts New York's governor Andrew Cuomo facing

0:05.3

the possibility of impeachment, losing support of the very state assembly members who could

0:09.8

make it happen.

0:11.2

One legislative source telling CNN is very possible, they'll go through with impeachment

0:15.2

proceedings unless the governor resigns.

0:18.1

First though, there's breaking news in the battle against COVID.

0:20.5

Late today, a White House official confirmed that the administration is developing a plan

0:24.6

to mandate vaccinations for almost all foreign visitors to the country with some exceptions.

0:29.8

We've also just learned that defense secretary Austin is expected to seek to make vaccination

0:33.6

mandatory for all active duty troops, perhaps even this week.

0:37.7

Those two pieces of reporting come as global cases today cross the 200 million mark and

0:42.2

with the FDA now working as quickly as possible to give full approval to Pfizer's vaccine.

0:48.0

Meantime driven by the Delta variant, but also by growing pressure from private employers,

0:52.2

more people are rolling up their sleeves, up 26 percent from three weeks ago.

0:56.4

That's good news, and while defiance on masking and other mitigation measures is still burning

1:01.2

hot in states like Florida and Texas.

1:04.0

One red state governor, Arkansas, is a hutchinson.

1:07.6

Now says he regrets approving a statewide ban on mask mandates and is working to amend

1:11.8

the law.

1:13.2

Lot to talk about with our first guest tonight Bill Gates, who we've talked to at critical

1:16.8

points all throughout this pandemic.

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