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Laura Coates Live

Dr. Ashish Jha on Expanding White House Coronavirus Cluster

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Chris discusses the growing White House cluster of coronavirus cases with Dr. Ashish Jha and Van Jones. Then, widow of broadway actor Nick Cordero, Amanda Kloots, joins Chris to share her husband’s battle with coronavirus after Trump’s repeated downplaying of the virus. Chris wraps the show up with former National Security Adviser John Bolton on the coronavirus risk spreading to the Pentagon. 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

All right, thanks, Coup. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. The White House cluster

0:04.6

keeps claiming victims as more key members of our government go down. And Trump insists COVID,

0:11.1

no big deal. No big deal that now all but one member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are quarantining

0:18.6

after exposure. That Stephen Miller now tested positive mastermind of many of Trump's divisive

0:24.7

policies. Also a fourth press aid has just tested positive. Over two dozen have fallen to COVID

0:32.9

so far and gotten sick and more or likely given the continued unmasked madness in that place.

0:41.2

The cases there are coming faster than anything we've seen before this White House other than

0:46.0

many be indictments and disgraceful exits. The problem is Trump's recklessness has him losing

0:54.1

key players just as the country needs him and his team most. Instead of making it better for people

1:01.0

he seems intent on making it worse, ripping off his mask and letting his COVID breath rip raw

1:08.2

around the White House. Does it make him look like a patriot and chief to ignore the only thing we

1:14.9

have keeping us safe from a pandemic? He said he wanted to get back to work so he gets out of the

1:20.2

hospital but then he abandons negotiations on economic relief for millions until after the election.

1:27.4

People who live in week to week millions are struggling to get by during a pandemic and he's still

1:34.1

choosing just to risk it all. So why would he think a dangerous stunt like a rip-and-off

1:42.2

is masking? You know doing this would be the right message. Shameful but true. Ripping that mask

1:51.6

off was less dramatic than how he's ripping the scab off so many families economic wounds. The

1:57.5

economy is tanking. They need relief. Shame on the Republicans, shame on the Democrats and shame on

2:05.2

this president. Most of those working are going to pay more in taxes to the federal government than

2:10.8

our self-proclaimed billionaire POTUS, saving all that money, only paying $750 a year in taxes.

2:17.4

When he was asked about it in the debate, I pay millions. What about those two years? I paid millions.

2:22.2

No, he didn't. He lets others continue to struggle and then tells you he's the best deal maker

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