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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp faces resistance from mayors and business owners over move to re-open state

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Georgia Republican Governor is pushing to reopen a range of businesses in the state, including hair and nail salons, gyms, and restaurants despite White House guidelines that suggest waiting for a 14-day downward trajectory of COVID-19 cases. Jamie Booth, an Atlanta hair salon owner, joins AC360 to explain why she will remain closed until at least mid-May to keep both herself and her clients safe. Plus, after President Trump tweeted "Liberate Michigan," the state's Democratic Governor, Gretchen Whitmer, responded in an op-ed saying "we need to get this right" when it comes to re-opening any state. She tells Anderson Cooper she's trying to save lives. Airdate: April 21, 2020To 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

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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