Good evening. Let's get straight to it. Today, the country's most trusted official on the pandemic gave the sharpest warning yet about where things could be headed.

And whether he intended it that way or not, what Dr. Anthony Fauci told a Senate committee today was also a stark indictment of how we got here.

Based on what you're seeing now, how many COVID-19 deaths and infections should America expect before this is all over?

I can't make an accurate prediction, but it is going to be very disturbing. I will guarantee you that because when you have an outbreak in one part of the country, even though in other parts of the country they're doing well, they are vulnerable.

I made that point very clearly last week at a press conference. We can't just focus on those areas that are having this surge. It puts the entire country at risk.

We are now having 40 plus thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around. I think it's important to tell you and the American public that I'm very concerned because it could get very bad.

100,000 new cases a day. That's the equivalent of the entire population of Manchester, New Hampshire, Pompeo Beach, Florida, or Boulder, Colorado becoming infected with coronavirus every single day.

For a perspective, here's the European Union, roughly comparable to the US in population. Right now, the European Union is averaging less than 5,000 new cases a day.

Even at its peak, even at the worst point in the outbreak, the number stayed under 33 March. Today, heading into July after months of what the Vice President likes to call whole of government effort, Dr. Fauci is warning that we all consume be living in a country with more than triple the worst that they ever saw in Europe.

And two and a half times, the all-time high numbers we're seeing right now, 40,000 new cases a day right now. It's 10,000 a day more than before states began reopening.

It's also far above the kind of containment level where experts say that contact tracing even makes sense anymore. We blown past that.

The senior CDC official telling the Journal of the American Medical Association I quote, we have way too much virus across the country for that right now.

Which is why this country is now a pariah state. Starting tomorrow, European Union countries will reopen travel from 14 countries, including Canada, Montenegro, Rwanda, and Central Africa.

But not the US, the world leader for decades in the study of prevention of infectious disease, the biggest economy in the world.

The only country to send people to the moon and we can't even fly to Paris because Americans are now a health hazard, so much for the so-called whole of government approach that Vice President Pence keeps going on about.

And let's be honest, it's not been a whole of government approach because whole of government means the federal government.

It's been a good luck you're on your own. That's the approach this administration decided to take when they left it to the states.

Remember the President talking about this being a war against an invisible enemy? I mean, if this country was actually invaded by an enemy force and the President left its defense up to individual states the way he did with coronavirus, that President would be forced to resign.

Things are now so bad that states in the Northeast which got hit so hard and made so many sacrifices to contain the outbreak, they have now tightened restrictions on people coming in from other parts of the country.

And 17 states nationwide are starting to close back up. That too is a result of the federal government's lack of a coherent federal response.

All of government response, please. It's every region, every state, every locality for itself or every individual.

Absent months of nationwide federally organized testing, tracing, containment, changing individual behavior in the form of mass-quaring, it's now become a weapon of last resort.

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