President Trump ends news conference after contentious exchange with reporter

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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President Trump abruptly ended his news conference after a Chinese American reporter asked him why he always says the U.S. is doing far better when it comes to testing for than any other country. "Maybe that's a question you should ask China, don't ask me, ask China that question, OK?," Trump told the reporter. Andrew Yang, a former Democratic presidential candidate and Biden supporter, joins AC360 to react to the President's comments. Plus, the biotech company Regeneron says it will start clinical trials for a possible COVID-19 treatment. The company's Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. George Yancopoulos, tells Anderson Cooper how this treatment would work on patients with coronavirus. Airdate: May 11, 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	And good evening today.
0:03.6	The president said in his Rose Garden news conference that we have met the moment and
0:07.3	we prevailed.
0:08.3	He said this on a day when we crossed a sickening and stunning milestone, 80,000 deaths in the
0:13.1	United States.
0:14.5	You may recall early in the pandemic, there was an estimate that 80,000 of us would die
0:18.4	in this country, but that wasn't projected to happen until early August.
0:22.6	Today is May 11th, more than 80,000 are dead.
0:25.8	And the president saying, speaking about the American people and similarly his administration
0:30.3	as well, we prevailed.
0:33.1	In other words, mission accomplished or sure sounds like it.
0:37.1	And sadly, we know how that went.
0:39.1	We have met the moment and we prevailed, the president says prevailed past tense as in
0:44.7	it's already happened.
0:46.2	It's over.
0:47.2	prevailed as in we won.
0:49.7	Later the president said he was talking about prevailing on testing, though he didn't
0:52.8	say that at first.
0:54.3	He also then later said we're making great strides toward total victory.
0:58.4	At the same time, the president is saying we prevailed.
1:00.9	He's unable to articulate clear guidance for this country about testing and contact tracing
1:05.6	and all the other elements needed to move forward.
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