Interview with Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What a pleasure. Thank you. I've loved watching you here at home. You're doing a great job. Aaron, appreciate it. |
| 0:05.7 | I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to prime time. Finally, finally, the White House is saying that it asks states, |
| 0:13.4 | what do they need to get testing right so we can reopen safely? |
| 0:19.3 | Two months in, it took them to ask this rudimentary question. |
| 0:25.3 | So now here we are at step one, planning to get on the same page about testing. Trump and Pence, |
| 0:36.1 | celebrating, telling you to be proud of this miraculous moment. Let's |
| 0:41.4 | state news and all the Trump grumps applaud. This show is about the reality. We have a |
| 0:47.8 | governor tonight who was on that call with the truth of how we got here and where we need to be. Okay? Now, what we have to talk about |
| 0:57.5 | is the worry of why you don't want to go too soon. We all want to reopen, but let's look at |
| 1:03.1 | Georgia. We have Atlanta's mayor who has eyes on the ground and a mayor, a message for all of us. |
| 1:09.6 | Then let's take a step deeper. |
| 1:12.0 | What does opening too soon look like in major cities up in the northeast and on the |
| 1:16.6 | west coast? |
| 1:17.1 | We have an expert who will model our future. |
| 1:20.7 | For all the doubts, for all the politics, one thing has been consistent here, us. |
| 1:26.2 | Together as ever as one, we have kept this virus at bay. |
| 1:32.3 | Together, we will get back to where we want to be. What do you say? Let's get after. |
| 1:38.3 | So the Federal Task Force says we need to double our capacity of testing and tracing before the U.S. can reopen. |
| 1:54.2 | What does the President say? Listen to him today. |
| 1:58.7 | We have enough testing to begin reopening and the reopening process. We want to get our country |
| 2:04.6 | open and the testing is not going to be a problem at all. In fact, it's going to be one of the |
| 2:11.0 | great assets. It always has been the problem. It is the problem. And it will be the problem. Okay. Testing and |
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