Just one step, but it's an important step. Anderson, thank you very much. I'll see you Sunday.

I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Primetime. My brothers and sisters, let's be honest with each other.

We are at war. The president has finally declared a national emergency as a virus is attacking the

country. Okay? It got the jump on us. The election will decide how people feel about how we got here.

Right now, we have to focus on how we fight back. Tested is about keeping cases down,

but can we treat the ones that we will almost certainly have? We have never been in this situation.

We've also been overcoming odds since the day we were born. We get the facts, we get a plan,

and now as ever, as one, let's get after it.

All right, let's start facts first. The enemy, the virus, does have a jump on us, and let's

be straight about it. We know why. When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days

is going to be down to close to zero, we're great, we close the dead, we stopped it.

Now remember, no one around him told him that or believed it. And here we are now almost

to the day that the president told you it would be over. He realizes the war has just begun.

Now we're in a different phase. To unleash the full power of the federal government that

this effort today, I am officially declaring a national emergency.

Now, he's in a new phase. We have not been in any phase, but this one. He did not act quickly

early on. Why am I harping? I have to because the president still doesn't own the truth.

No, I don't take responsibility at all.

We're steady. Now remember this about the president. It will never be on him. It will always be

about him. That's why our reliance on those around him and in the states and in our selves

is so important right now. Let's start. Take a look at the map. Does this illustrate

quick action by the president to you? The number of coronavirus cases here in America just

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