Good evening more than 150,000 Americans have now died in this country's reckoning with

COVID-19, and though it's a milestone, a terrible one to be sure it is neither just a number

nor a statistic.

It is one parent, one grandparent, a lost child, an absent friend, one less measure of

love in the world and many more tears.

That times 150,000.

I wish I could tell you the president of those 150,000 dead and their families and all of

us said something about those deaths today about the grief that so many families are

feeling, but he did not.

Today crossing that miserable milestone of 150,000 deaths, the president ignored it.

Nothing about the 197 lives lost in California or the 216 in Florida.

When confronted with the civilian casualties of his Miss Begodin, so-called whole of government

approach to the pandemic, the self-proclaimed wartime president has little to say, visiting

an oil rig in Texas, a state which reported 313 deaths today.

The president didn't speak of that nor did he wear a mask nor did most people at the event.

The president did not acknowledge the lives lost in Midland, Texas, where he was, nor speak

of the Rio Grande Valley, which a woman there who you'll meet in a moment who lost both

her parents, the virus, calls hell on earth.

This is the extent of what he said at the energy company he was visiting in Texas, a state

I remind you that reported 313 fatalities today alone.

Our hearts are with the people of Texas.

We love our people.

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