Pres. Trump says he thinks at some point Covid-19 will just disappear

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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As the U.S. sees the highest single-day increase in new coronavirus cases, Pres. Trump repeats his claim that he thinks at some point the illness will just disappear. Florida Democratic Congresswoman Donna Shalala and Clinton White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta speak to AC360 about lack of guidance from President Trump. Also, former National Security Adviser to Pres. Obama Susan Rice reacts to reporting from CNN’s Jim Sciutto. Multiple former Trump administration officials who briefed the President told Sciutto that Trump's resistance to intelligence warnings about Russia led his national security team - including those who delivered the President's Daily Brief to him orally - to do so less often. “You don't intimidate the messengers .. this President is derelict in his duty as commander in chief to brush off information that is critical to the life and death of our service members and do so just because he doesn't want to hear bad news,” says Rice. Airdate: July 1, 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	A very good evening to you four months into a pandemic that has now taken nearly 128,000
0:08.3	American lives in no small part because the president of the United States has decided
0:13.5	to occupy a persistent state of denial.
0:17.3	That same president today remarkably declared victim and said once again the virus will
0:23.4	simply go away.
0:26.4	I think we did it all right.
0:28.2	We did a great job.
0:29.2	We're credited with doing a great job and I think we're going to be very good with
0:32.7	the coronavirus.
0:34.5	I think that at some point that's going to sort of just disappear.
0:38.3	I hope.
0:39.3	You still believe so.
0:40.3	Disappear.
0:41.3	I do.
0:42.3	Yeah, sure at some point.
0:44.3	Just disappear.
0:45.3	You said those remarks, which are not new, which are a theme for this president.
0:50.2	In fact, come as cases are in fact rising in 37 of the 50 states now, just two states
0:57.5	in the entire nation show infections declining.
1:01.8	Those remarks and that claim by the president that we did great that this will all disappear
1:07.3	are set against that chart, a curve that is not just rising, but rising more steeply
1:13.6	every day.
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