Georgia Governor Brian Kemp faces resistance from mayors and business owners over move to re-open state
Anderson Cooper 360
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🗓️ 22 April 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Aaron, thanks. Good evening everyone. A lot of news breaking tonight, including a |
| 0:03.8 | dire warning from the director of the Centers for Disease Control and |
| 0:06.6 | Prevention. Robert Redfield telling the Washington Post that winter could |
| 0:10.0 | bring a second wave of the coronavirus. He says, and I'm quoting, there's a |
| 0:14.2 | possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will |
| 0:17.5 | actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through. Now this is |
| 0:22.0 | because he says it would likely coincide with a seasonal flu outbreak putting |
| 0:25.6 | another massive strain on hospitals having to deal with both the coronavirus and |
| 0:30.1 | the seasonal flu at the same time. Director Redfield who was not at tonight's |
| 0:34.3 | task force briefing was also asked about the anti-stay at home protesters as |
| 0:38.0 | well as the president's call to quote, liberate certain states. It's not helpful |
| 0:43.2 | Redfield said. Meantime at the briefing, the president was sending mixed |
| 0:46.9 | signals again on the one hand. He said this. I would say that you keep away |
| 0:52.9 | until this thing is gone. It's going to be gone at some point. It's going to be |
| 0:56.3 | gone, gone. And I would say you keep away and you do the social distancing. So |
| 1:03.2 | there he is, seeming to suggest the virus will determine when to end statewide |
| 1:07.0 | restrictions and that people should do the social distancing as he says. But at |
| 1:10.8 | the same time, he also said this. You have people you can't break the country. At |
| 1:16.4 | some point you have to go back. Now hopefully the governors are going to do |
| 1:21.1 | because I want the governors and I've always wanted that you could go a |
| 1:24.1 | litt federalism. You can call it whatever you want. But the governors, I want them |
| 1:28.1 | to do it. And to that point, he was asked about Georgia Governor Brian Kemp's |
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