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Anderson Cooper 360

Millions of Americans traveling despite CDC warning

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

One health expert is warning Thanksgiving could be “the mother of all super spreader events” and Dr. Anthony Fauci is asking Americans to keep indoor gatherings “as small as you possibly can.” Millions are traveling for Thanksgiving despite the CDC recommending not to. More than 261,000 people have died from Covid-19 and the U.S. is seeing record hospitalizations. Dr. James Phillips is the Chief of Disease Medicine at George Washington University Hospital. He tells AC360 “people are going to die because they’re choosing to go home for Thanksgiving” and “if we had proper messaging from the top, from the beginning, more lives would’ve have been saved.” Plus, President Trump has pardoned former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Carrie Cordero is a CNN National Security Analyst and a Senior Fellow Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. She joins AC360 to react to the President’s decision and says she thinks this is “just the beginning of the pardons that we’re probably going to see between now and January 20th.” Airdate: November 25, 2020 Guests: Dr. James Phillips Carrie Cordero To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight, two Presidencies separated by 56 days.

0:04.8

Two speeches separated by just a few minutes.

0:07.8

Two visions separated by, well, reality.

0:12.0

John Berman here in Foranderson, there is breaking news tonight.

0:15.3

The president's part of Michael Flynn, who admitted lying to the FBI, more on that in a moment.

0:20.8

But first President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump both addressed the public today,

0:25.8

and they both breathe air.

0:27.9

That's pretty much where the similarities end.

0:30.2

There are events barely a couple hours dry from each other, but they might as well have

0:33.6

been on different planets.

0:35.6

Joe Biden spoke about the pandemic, the sickness afflicting the nation.

0:39.9

Donald Trump also focused on affliction, but it was his own.

0:43.6

He's obsession that the election he lost, he somehow won, and his determination to overturn

0:49.0

the results.

0:50.0

First, Biden on coronavirus.

0:54.2

Just divided us, angered us, set us against one another.

1:00.6

I know the country has grown weary of the fight.

1:03.6

We need to remember, we're at war with a virus, not with one another, not with each other.

1:11.4

Just today, more than 2100 new deaths reported again.

1:16.1

That's the most since early May, and we're not down counting tonight yet.

1:19.7

Hospitalizations just set another new high, almost 90,000.

1:23.5

I think actually higher than 90,000.

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