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Anderson Cooper 360

Pres. Trump contradicts Pence: "Anybody who needs a test gets a test"

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

President Trump insisted that anybody who needs to be tested for Coronavirus can get tested. In his own news conference, Vice President Mike Pence bluntly replied to questions about the availability of testing kits. And Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins Jim Sciutto to discuss the mixed messages and explains how the U.S. is behind in testing compared to other countries. Airdate: March 6, 2020To 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

Good Friday evening to you. Anderson is off tonight. I'm Jim Sudo. We begin with perhaps

0:06.1

the clearest example yet of how the president of the United States is conducting himself

0:10.9

in the face of the growing coronavirus outbreak. And it is growing, topping 100,000 cases globally

0:17.6

today. The death count now rising as well. But here's the question, does that figure

0:23.6

grossly understate how many Americans are actually infected? And more disturbingly, is

0:28.7

the president deliberately standing in the way of an honest account? Let's take a look

0:33.1

at what we learned today. We learned tonight that 21 passengers aboard the grand

0:37.2

princess off the California coast have tested positive. But only 46 of the more than

0:42.3

3,000 passengers and crew on board have even been tested yet. So this afternoon, with

0:47.9

all that as the backdrop, with the markets falling and civic life in this country shrinking,

0:53.2

the president visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Vice President's

0:57.9

task force held a briefing a short time afterwards back in Washington. It's possible

1:02.9

that much of what the president said got lost in all the live coverage of that. But because

1:07.7

his remarks are so apparently revealing of how he approaches what, after all, affects

1:12.6

all of us. We're showing them you upfront and at some length, his own words, presumably

1:17.8

reflecting his own thoughts and sensibilities and priorities here. He began the day with

1:23.7

his senior counselor, Kellyanne Conway, declaring that the outbreak has been contained, which

1:30.0

itself and evidently is not. Just looked at the numbers and with questions growing about

1:34.1

the availability of testing. President Wade in on that and then segue to the Ukraine

1:38.9

phone call that led to his impeachment.

1:43.0

Anybody that needs a test gets a test. They're there. They have the test and the tests are

1:47.7

beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test. As of right now and yesterday, any

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