Good evening with more than 136,000 dead in this country due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The President of the United States today stepped into the Rose Garden and tried to turn

into one of those political rallies that he can no longer do because of the

bombers under his command and said, quote, hope we don't have to use them.

And both sort of things, he did three years ago with the wall, undocumented

immigrants, all the old applause lines. But there was no applause, only silence.

Because this wasn't some stadium pack full of supporters who'd come to cheer and cheer.

We're accept of a president, but that shouldn't surprise us.

That he chose to do it in the Rose Garden just steps away from the Oval Office.

That too should not surprise us either. That's how numb we are.

We listen to this man muse and meander rant and regurgitate the same tired tropes and untruthful

claims. We watch him boast and brag and preen and do that odd thing with his nose when he sucks

in air very loudly. And none of it surprises us. That is how far we have fallen.

More than 136,000 of our brothers and sisters, our moms and dads, grandparents and friends,

or dead. The president did briefly mention them, but only to boast about how many more people

would have died had it not been for his actions. He calls it leadership, but to call it that would

be misleading. The largest single peacetime loss of life in this country since the 1918 influenza

pandemic and no end in sight. And today, the president was taking another victory lap yet again.

The graves are still fresh, but this president ignores them and he spreads more falsehoods.

And standing apart from so many others, opponents and supporters alike, including within his own

circle, who are now beginning to face reality. So before we play you, some of what he had to say

from the biological bunker he lives in, where everyone is tested and where is masked to protect him,

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