Gov. Inslee: Trump is encouraging "illegal and dangerous acts"
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You have just been watching and listening to the president and his task force on a day |
| 0:04.6 | that the coronavirus death toll has climbed nearly 37,000 people in this country. |
| 0:09.2 | So I'll complain and grow about the lack of a federal strategy on testing and saw the |
| 0:12.9 | president call on protesters in three blue states to quote, liberate those states. |
| 0:17.5 | It's going straight to CNN's chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta. |
| 0:21.0 | So Jim, I mean, or the president and the governors on the same page tonight because that seems |
| 0:26.8 | pretty urgent. |
| 0:27.8 | No. |
| 0:29.8 | Absolutely not, Anderson. |
| 0:31.3 | And, you know, the vice president Mike Pence got a near full earlier today when he was on a conference call with some democratic senators. |
| 0:36.8 | They were telling him what governors were saying yesterday that this country does not have enough testing right now to put people back in their offices, send people back to restaurants and so on. |
| 0:47.8 | And the president was asked about this tonight. |
| 0:49.8 | He kind of punted with the vice president and Dr. Anthony Fauci both answered this question whether or not there's enough testing in this country. |
| 0:57.3 | And they both answered the question essentially the same way saying that there are enough tests right now for states that are in phase one. |
| 1:04.0 | But Anderson, that's clearly not enough to get us to phase two or phase three, which is a little bit more like life as we used to experience it. |
| 1:12.5 | In phase one, schools are still closed. |
| 1:14.7 | People are still teleworking. |
| 1:15.9 | They're not going into the office. |
| 1:17.7 | And so that was an admission, I think, from the vice president and from Dr. Fauci that know the country is not where things need to be right now in terms of testing. |
| 1:24.7 | Now Dr. Deborah Birx got up there and was talking about how a private labs are starting to get into action and that will expedite the process. |
| 1:32.9 | But this government is playing catch up at this point. |
| 1:35.0 | And what you heard from the president, what you're hearing from administration officials, they want to shift this testing burden over to states. |
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