And good evening. There's breaking news tonight. The president has just commuted the prison

sentence of his former campaign adviser and longtime confident Roger Stone. But whatever

it means and whatever it says about the president's view of the law, it's also distraction

tonight from his failures on the most important issue facing the American public today.

So we'll get to it shortly, but we begin tonight with the most central fact of the pandemic.

The coronavirus is winning and the Trump administration has no plan for stopping it. That's the truth

tonight. And it's been the truth for every night of this pandemic.

It is as sad and simple as that. The virus is winning and there is no plan at the end

of a week that saw new cases in this country. Top 60,000 a day, the most anywhere on

earth, the most ever in this pandemic. And at the end of a day that has just seen a major

American city Atlanta roll back its reopening to phase one because cases they are spiking.

Tonight more than four months and 134,000 lives into this growing, not shrinking pandemic.

There are two brutal weeks of cases spiking, hospitals filling up and now I see use overflowing.

The president of the United States still does not have a plan for turning this around. What

he does have, as shown by his statements and actions and actions not taken, is a plan

for downplaying, a plan for ignoring, plan for sometimes even mocking the single greatest

preventable loss of life in this country's peacetime history. Whether he is, as his niece

Mary Trump suggests in her new book, Simply and Capable of comprehending the suffering

of others, or whether he comprehends it and just doesn't care, he's made it abundantly

clear he does not want the country to know about it. He does not want you to pay attention

to this virus, or to do the very basic things that would actually work to curtail the spread

of the virus. It's clear he does not want the country to have the kind of shared fact-based

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