Pence Like Nobody's Watching
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
At least 5 aides of Mike Pence including his Chief of Staff have tested positive for Covid-19, but Pence still isn’t going to quarantine. The country is seeing record numbers of new cases, with over 85,000 new cases last Friday… that fits with a recent admission from White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that the federal government is “not going to control the pandemic.”
Over 59 million people have already voted in the election and far fewer votes are undecided this year than they were in 2016. We take a look at how Trump and Biden are spending their final week on the campaign trail and how polls are looking in key states.
And in headlines: police fatally shoot 19-year-old Marcellis Stinnette in Illinois, Spain declares a national state of emergency, and HHS blows a deal with Santa.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, October 26th. I'm Kila Hughes. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Gideon Resick and this is what a day where we were trying desperately to stay calm |
| 0:12.5 | in the last eight days before the election. |
| 0:14.8 | Yeah, I've told myself not to go and make a run on all the toilet paper like we did back |
| 0:19.0 | in March to stay calm and I think that this will be okay. |
| 0:22.8 | I am returning 4,000 crest whitening strips that I bought in LaFrenzy yesterday for no reason |
| 0:27.9 | at all. |
| 0:28.9 | You didn't need those. |
| 0:29.9 | On today's show, the pandemic hits new records in the US. |
| 0:37.5 | Plus, if you look at what's in store for the final week of the presidential campaigns, |
| 0:41.0 | then some headlines. |
| 0:42.4 | But first the latest. |
| 0:43.9 | So here's what we have to do. |
| 0:45.8 | We're not going to control the pandemic. |
| 0:48.0 | We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigations |
| 0:53.5 | that are going to get control of the pandemic. |
| 0:55.9 | Because it is a contagious virus just like the flu. |
| 0:58.8 | But why not make efforts to contain it? |
| 1:01.3 | That was White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows on CNN yesterday, basically giving up |
| 1:05.6 | one controlling the virus. |
| 1:06.9 | And look, I'm not surprised. |
| 1:08.5 | Nothing really surprises me about this anymore. |
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