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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Gov. Mike DeWine

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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0:00.0

The only one on this show.

0:02.0

Aaron, thank you very much, the best of you and the family for the weekend.

0:05.0

I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.

0:07.0

As we enter into the Memorial Day weekend, to honor those who died for this country, where are we?

0:14.0

We see a country that is really struggling with any degree of commitment to fight what our leaders all call a war against this pandemic.

0:21.6

Virus is making a resurgence, and our president, instead of dealing with what he says is a war,

0:26.6

seems intent to divide us in some distraction of some kind of holy war, ordering churches open.

0:33.6

Look, the law is clear. Trump has zero power to override governors on reopening houses of worship.

0:40.3

No governor wants to keep churches or any place of worship closed.

0:45.3

We have a governor tonight from his own party who's strongly advised against filling places of prayer.

0:52.3

So why did the president make the call to want this this way?

0:59.0

What power does he have? What does he think this will do for the rest of us?

1:04.0

Now more importantly, why aren't we focusing on what he should be doing for the rest of us?

1:09.0

Where is the testing? Where is the tracing? Where is the

1:13.0

effort that he puts into the division about going to church about making a plan to fight this virus?

1:19.6

We're still waiting. As we head into this holiday of remembrance of those who made the

1:24.3

ultimate sacrifice, we have to ask ourselves, are we really fighting

1:29.6

this war as best we can?

1:32.5

Let's get after it.

1:38.2

You're either on the side of liquor stores or God.

1:42.0

This president laid out a ludicrously false choice today.

1:46.0

Some governors have deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics as essential,

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