Chris Christie: “I was wrong to not wear a mask” at the White House

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Chris Christie spent seven days in the ICU after testing positive for Covid-19. Christie helped President Trump prepare for the first 2020 Presidential debate and says he was “wrong to not wear a mask” and urged people to take the virus “very seriously.” Meanwhile, President Trump is falsely claiming the CDC says 85 percent of people wearing masks “catch” the virus. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman tells Anderson Cooper that President Trump is a small man in a big time. Plus, more than 17 million people have already voted with Election Day still 19 days away. There have been hours-long lines in several states, voter registration glitches in Virginia and disputes over mail-in-voting drop-boxes in Texas and California. Jena Griswold is the Colorado Secretary of State where since 2013 every registered voter is mailed a ballot that they can either put back in the mail or place in a designated drop-box. She joins AC360 to discuss her concerns about what’s going on in other states and says “despite the roadblocks that are being put up, Americans are showing up in record numbers” and it’s a “great thing for our democracy.” Airdate: October 15, 2020 Guests: Tom Friedman Jena Griswold 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. Thanks for being with us. One of the president's staunchest supporters
0:03.9	and closest campaign advisors, the man who prepped him for the debate in Cleveland and
0:07.6	caught COVID soon after is broken with the president on it. Though former New Jersey
0:11.6	governor Chris Christie did not directly fault the president for his contracting the virus,
0:15.6	he takes serious issue as you'll see with the president's conduct in the face of what
0:19.4	it was once again, a rapidly growing pandemic. No one should be happy to get the virus.
0:24.4	Governor Christie said in a statement obtained by CNN, and no one should be cavalier about
0:28.7	being infected or infecting others. Now, before we get to the rest of his remarks, take
0:33.2	a look. This is the seven day moving average of new coronavirus infections in the country,
0:37.6	about 50,000 a day now and climbing toward what will be a third peak since early April.
0:42.7	Unlike the one that began after Memorial Day, it starts from a much higher baseline by tomorrow
0:47.5	at the present rate. Cases will cross the 8 million mark and deaths will top 218,000.
0:52.7	Here's how it looks on the map. Cases climbing in 35 states, steady in 12 falling in
0:58.5	just three. It's not how you want it to look going into the colder months. Here's what
1:03.1	that means on the ground. These are hospitalization figures for Wisconsin, which set a record today
1:07.7	from new cases. Remember, hospitalization numbers tend to trail cases by a few weeks, so the
1:12.8	trend you see here is likely sadly to get worse. Ohio today also reported a record number
1:18.4	of cases, and again, they are climbing in 35 out of 50 states. Those are the facts. This
1:23.7	is the President of the United States today.
2:23.9	that
2:47.1	In this country got that message out that would help a lot.
2:50.3	Yet here's what the administration is showing us instead.
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