All right, John. Thank you very much. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Prime Time.

The president finally admitted that the pandemic may get worse and that wearing a mask, if you can't

socially distance, wearing a mask is a must. Six months, more than 141,000 deaths, almost four

million cases later, and as half the states in the country fall backwards, Trump is finally admitting

the truth. This is at least what you need to be hearing from this president every day. It's called

reality. It will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better. Something I don't like

saying about things, but that's the way it is. When you are not able to socially distance wear a

mask, get a mask, whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact, they'll have an effect,

and we need everything we can get. We are imploring young Americans to avoid packed bars and other

crowded indoor gatherings. Be safe and be smart. Okay, he had to read it, but at least the people who

are writing it are putting the right things on the page now, and at least he found the will to say

it. And I say at least because that's what that is. This was the first virus briefing since April.

That's the least amount of commitment you can have. Imagine if our president had been on message

all along, how much pain could we have avoided? I know Trump wants praise for owning the obvious. I

know his supporters will say, damn, if he does, damn, if he doesn't. Not when it comes to telling you

the truth, and not when it comes to him hiding the truth for bad reason. So panning him on the back

is not the bar here. You know where the bar comes, right? November, the election will be a vote

on how the president handled this. That's a bar that he has to get over, and it's a bar that you will

set. For right now, is it enough that it took him months to echo the need to wear masks and whip

one out of his pocket? He said wearing one is patriotic. Is that an admission that he has been

unpatriotic all along as he and many of his followers were saying, don't wear a mask, that a mask

is weak, that a mask is in a front to him, many of his followers who continue to freak out about

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