Obama official: Pandemic Wasn't Unforseen

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🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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President Trump says the Obama Administration didn't prepare his team for coronavirus. But CNN National Security Analyst and former Obama Homeland Security Adviser joins CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash to go inside the pandemic prep session during the Presidential transition and discuss the Trump response so far.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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0:30.5	Don't forget, the cupboard was bare. The other administration, the last administration left us
0:35.3	nothing. We didn't have ventilators. We didn't have medical equipment.
0:38.7	We didn't have testing.
0:39.6	The tests were broken.
0:40.6	You saw that.
0:41.6	We had broken tests.
0:43.4	They left us nothing.
0:49.5	That was President Trump on ABC News,
0:52.0	blaming the Obama administration for coronavirus failures on his watch.
0:56.9	Hey, everybody. I'm Dana Bash, CNN's chief political correspondent in for David Chalien, and this is the Daily DC.
1:04.2	Pointing the finger at his predecessor is a frequent Trump refrain anytime anyone asks about his own administration's missteps. When David Muir reminded
1:12.7	him that this happened as the last of his own four-year term was beginning, here's what he said.
1:19.2	Well, I'll be honest, I have a lot of things going on. They wasted a lot of time on Russia,
1:24.6	Russia, Russia, Russia. That turned out to be a total hoax. Then they did Ukraine, Ukraine, and that was a total hoax.
1:30.4	Then they impeached the president of the United States for absolutely no reason.
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