Rate of Coronavirus up in 23 States, Led by California, Texas, Florida & Arizona

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The rate of new coronavirus cases are up in 23 states. The states leading the charts include some of the largest: California, Texas, Florida and Arizona. President Trump is refusing to answer the question on whether he asked for coronavirus testing to be slowed down, after saying it at a Saturday rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was asked during an interview with E.W. Scripps News Monday. The White House insisted the president was speaking "in jest" when he made the comment "slow the testing down." The White House is also defending Trump's use of the racial slur "Kung Flu" to describe the Coronavirus. During a press conference Monday, the White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said, Trump was only pointing to the origin of the disease, China. The United States has now surpassed 120,000 confirmed Coronavirus deaths with almost 2.3 million confirmed cases. New York City and Washington D.C. have entered phase two of reopening cities with restaurants and retail shops. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said, the state went from the highest transmission rate in the United States to the lowest. In Florida, the State's Health Department confirmed on Monday there are now more than 100,000 coronavirus cases. Now, Miami officials are requiring residents to wear a mask when out in public. 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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0:43.0	I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.
0:45.0	We're following an alarming surge of new coronavirus cases across the United States.
0:50.0	Some of the largest states, including Texas, California, Arizona, and Florida are all seeing very dramatic rises with Florida passing the grim milestone of more than 100,000 confirmed cases.
1:04.6	Meanwhile, President Trump is refusing to directly answer questions
1:08.4	about whether he asked for coronavirus testing
1:11.0	to be slowed down, as he said at a weekend rally and the White
1:14.7	House is defending the president's use of a racial slur to describe the
1:18.8	virus and claiming there's no second wave of infections on the way.
1:23.6	But as the president and his team downplay the pandemic,
1:26.6	the US has now surpassed 120,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths with almost 2.3 million confirmed cases.
1:37.0	Worldwide there are more than 9 million cases and almost 470,000 confirmed deaths.
1:43.8	Let's go straight to the White House right now.
1:45.4	Our White House correspondent Boris Sanchez
1:47.4	is joining us Boris terrible new coronavirus numbers
1:51.2	and they're confronting the White House.
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