Anderson, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Hello, everyone. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome

to Prime Time, California, Texas and Florida. The three most popular states in our country

are now bursting with COVID cases, thousands of new infections being reported every day.

The crisis is getting worse in this country and at least 23 other states. Turns out the virus

didn't take a summer break just as we were warned. Now you will not hear the president

and I argue any Republican leader within his ear shot say any of what I just told you and it is

all facts. But here's the truth that we have to now accept. Masks matter. The resistance to masks

is stupid, politics even worse, a symptom of a cancerous political culture that's making us

even more sick than COVID. Denial is not a strategy for dealing with the pandemic. You know who

said that? The governor of New York, one of the three states originally a hit hardest. Remember

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, those epicenters went from Oregon, Washington, California,

then here. But now those three states on the east coast are reporting the lowest numbers of

infection rates. What did they get right that isn't happening in the states that are now in crisis?

And those three states also have a big announcement all over the news today. New York, New Jersey,

and Connecticut are jointly declaring restrictions for travelers, a 14-day quarantine for those coming

to those three states from the eight states with the highest infection rates. Now this is going to

be controversial. Why is it the best way to keep numbers down? Joining us now with answers is the

governor of New York, my big brother, Andrew Cuomo. How you doing, Gov?

Good thing you gave me credit for that denial is not a life strategy. I was going to come right

through that camera if you tried to steal that line. Well, I changed it a little. You did say denial

is not a strategy for life. You've told me that many times, but I continue to do it. And I just

expanded it to pandemic. So here's the question for you. What do you now know for sure from your

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