CDC Projects up to 218,000 Coronavirus Deaths by October 10th

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ex-White House aide says Trump only cares about himself and reelection. The former White House aide also revealed that Trump said maybe “Covid is a good thing” because he doesn’t have to shake hands with “disgusting people”. Trump holds crowded event no social distancing, few masks despite telling Woodward virus is “so easily transmissible” as U.S. nears 200,000 deaths. Former WH Aide on coronavirus: “It was shocking to see the President saying that the virus was a "hoax”. Trump holds crowded event in Wisconsin as the state sets a daily record for Covid-19 cases. Trump blames blue states for virus death toll. Michigan officials admit ballot misprint, reject Trump’s claim of illegal behavior. CNN will host a town hall with Joe Biden tonight; audience attends drive-in due to coronavirus. Trump stokes culture wars in speech announcing commission to “promote patriotic education”. 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	This is CNN breaking news.
0:07.0	You want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer in the
0:13.2	situation room. We're following breaking news. As the US coronavirus death toll is nearing 200,000
0:20.4	tonight. We have a very grim new forecast of what to expect in the next few weeks.
0:25.0	The CDC, projecting about 20,000 more Americans could die by October 10th.
0:31.0	This is a former top official in the Trump White House
0:34.4	now says the president could have saved lives, lost a coronavirus, but he's been too
0:38.9	concerned about re-election. Stand by for more of this very public condemnation of
0:44.0	President Trump's handling of the pandemic by a lifelong Republican who is now
0:48.8	endorsing Joe Biden. And just a few hours from now CNN will host a truly extraordinary town hall with the former vice president Joe Biden
0:57.0	It will have an unprecedented drive-in format to comply with social distancing.
1:03.0	First, let's go to our Chief White House correspondent, Jim
1:06.0	Acosta, Jim.
1:07.0	First of all, tell us more about this truly stunning rebuke of the
1:10.0	president by a former top Trump administration official.
1:15.0	Well, if President Trump has a new former administration official turned critic, Vice President Mike
1:19.6	Pence's former Homeland Security Advisor, Olivia Troy, came out today to slam Mr.
1:24.4	Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
1:27.0	Troy says in a video for an anti-Trump Republican group that the president thought
1:31.3	COVID-19 might be a good thing because he wouldn't have to shake hands with people.
1:35.0	The White House is denying the claims coming from this former aide and Vice President Pence just described Troy as a disgruntled former employee.
1:43.2	That just came in a few moments ago.
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