CDC Director: “I’m scared”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky shared a feeling of “impending doom” with Covid-19 cases spiking throughout the country and said “I’m scared.” President Biden called on state and local officials to “please” reinstate the mask mandates. Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency room physician and the former Baltimore health commissioner. She tells AC360 we’re making so much good progress and “that’s why this is so frustrating because we are so close.” Plus, opening statements began in the criminal trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who’s charged with the murder of George Floyd. Chauvin’s defense argued he "did exactly what he had been trained to do" as a police officer. Mark O’Mara is a criminal defense attorney and successfully represented George Zimmerman, who was found not guilty for the murder of Trayvon Martin. O’Mara joins AC360 to discuss where he thinks the defense will go in this trial. Airdate: March 29, 2021 Guests: Dr. Leana Wen Mark O’Mara 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, Jim Sudo here sitting in for Anderson.
0:05.1	It is sad to think that this time last year, George Floyd had just two months left to
0:11.2	live.
0:12.2	Two months later, his death caught on camera, turning and arrest by Minneapolis police officers
0:18.9	would shake the country, the world.
0:21.6	It would send millions into the streets in the middle of a pandemic.
0:26.9	That's how galvanizing, unifying it was and how in the eyes of many symptomatic it was
0:34.9	of this country's original infection, chronic and often deadly institutional racism.
0:43.4	The events of that fateful moment, just 3 p.m. on the 25th of May, the corner of 38th
0:50.1	in Chicago Avenue, reignited a national reckoning on race and pitted mostly peaceful demonstrated
0:58.6	demonstrators against the president who turned troops on them so he could have a photo
1:03.1	up.
1:04.3	The killing also forced a re-examination of policing nationwide and in Minneapolis, it brought
1:11.5	an enormous settlement to Mr. Floyd's family, which is not the same as justice.
1:19.4	The search for that began today.
1:21.6	Joining us now, just outside the Hanuman County Courthouse in Minneapolis, in a national
1:26.9	correspondent, Sarah Sidener, tell us what you're seeing there tonight.
1:32.5	Well, a little bit of wind here, Jim, but we heard very poignant and pointed testimony
1:39.7	today from a 911 dispatcher, from someone who was on the ground witnessing what was happening
1:45.4	to George Floyd as he was under Derek Chauvin's knee.
1:50.4	And we also heard from another witness who talks about exactly what this felt like to
1:56.6	him as he was watching all this happen.
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