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Anderson Cooper 360

Pres. Trump: Mask wearing is “patriotic” when you can’t distance

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

President Trump tweets out a photo of himself wearing a mask and says that “it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can’t socially distance” one day after an interview aired where he continued to downplay the impact of coronavirus in the United States. The President also said in that interview, “I don’t agree with the statement if everybody wear a mask everything disappears.”  CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta explains what is behind the President’s change in tone and why daily Coronavirus Task Force briefings are going to return. Also, Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Florida International University infectious disease expert Dr. Aileen Marty discuss what needs to be done to get the pandemic under control in Florida and across the country. Plus, CNN’s Gary Tuchman takes us inside an intensive care unit treating Covid-19 patients in Georgia. Airdate: July 20, 2020 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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0:00.0

So the president says, I'll be right eventually about the pandemic that has now taken nearly

0:06.5

141,000 American lives.

0:09.4

John Berman here in Ferranterson.

0:11.6

And that's a strange way of looking at things at a time like this, because in the meantime,

0:15.7

with nearly 141,000 mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, friends and neighbors gone from

0:21.6

this earth in less than five months, and tens of thousands more projected to die, he's

0:27.0

made decisions that put their lives in this country at risk, apparently, to prove that

0:32.1

he's right.

0:33.3

In other words, Americans may now be sacrificed in the name of vanity, and the president

0:38.4

is not even bothering to hide it.

0:40.5

I'll be right eventually.

0:42.0

I will be right eventually.

0:44.0

You know, I said it's going to disappear.

0:45.6

I'll say it again.

0:46.6

But does that go into this?

0:47.6

Is that discreditable?

0:48.6

And I'll be right.

0:49.6

I don't think so.

0:50.6

Right.

0:51.6

I don't think so.

0:52.6

You know why it doesn't?

0:53.6

We just got it.

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