And good evening. Thanks for being with us. If divisive inflammatory racist words could

kill the coronavirus, then the president of the United States would be heading to Stockholm

right now to pick up his Nobel Prize in medicine. Instead, tonight, the same as every night,

he's safe inside his biological bunker, surrounded by people wearing masks and frequently

getting tested. And from the safety of his biological bunker, he's encouraging the rest

of us not to follow the best scientific advice. He's trying to persuade the country that

the virus is simply vanishing. Or if that won't work, he's trying to divert people's attention

elsewhere to smearing a black NASCAR driver, supporting the Confederate flag and statues

of traitors, which he claims is part of our proud heritage.

So knowing it's a diversion, we begin tonight where attention ought to be, on the facts that

we all have to face right now. Whereas White House Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci

put it today, quote, we are still need deep in the first wave of this. Today, the country

crossed another milestone, 130,000 lives lost by tomorrow or Wednesday. It'll surpass

another three million known COVID cases that milestone. Those are facts. So is this. We

now have more cases than any other country on earth and more fatalities. Again, than any

other country on earth. We're number one for cases and for deaths. America is first.

It is a fact that because of how much worse we are doing than any other country on earth,

this can't travel tell their parts of the world, can't fly, for example, to Europe where

the virus is largely under control. This chart showing the US and European Union, showing

why this country is now a pariah, the two different past that we have taken versus Europe.

Why it's now in the eyes of our friends and allies, why we are now in the eyes of our

friends and allies, the object of puzzlement, and yes, even pity. It's also a fact that

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