Rep. Clyburn endorses former VP Biden before South Carolina primary

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Former Vice President Joe Biden says he is counting on a victory when South Carolina holds its primary and he's received a big boost. Long-time South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn is supporting him in the race for the White House. Clyburn joins Anderson Cooper to explain why he wants Biden to win the nomination. Plus, could Andrew Yang, the former Democratic presidential candidate, be Michael Bloomberg's running mate? He tells AC360° the Bloomberg campaign isn't the only one to reach out to him about an endorsement and about possibly being a running mate. Airdate: February 27, 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	Good evening. We begin with the latest in the coronavirus its impact and the
0:04.7	administration's response to it. We learned today about a whistleblower
0:08.0	complaint alleging that federal health workers who were sent in late
0:11.3	January to help receive the first American coronavirus evacuees were not
0:16.3	given the right infection control training or protective gear. Now if the
0:20.5	whistleblowers complaint is correct it's a sign of just how problematic the US
0:24.6	response has been. We're talking about federal employees order to help
0:28.2	process Americans evacuated from Wuhan China. Ground zero of the outbreak.
0:32.8	American federal employees who were going to be sent are the the people who
0:37.4	evacuated they were going to be sent directly into quarantine and these federal
0:41.5	employees didn't have protective gear according to the whistleblower
0:44.2	despite being face-to-face with potentially infected patients. More on that in a
0:49.2	moment. Also today we learned new federal guidelines after it was revealed that
0:53.2	the first American patient believed to have caught the disease here had to wait
0:57.2	days to be tested for it and there's late word as well and what the public is
1:01.1	told and by whom. It all now has to go through the vice president's office. The
1:05.7	New York Times reporting the Dr. Anthony Fauci the face of so many public
1:09.4	health emergencies over the years has been told by the White House not to speak
1:13.2	out without clearance and then of course there's the financial impact the virus
1:17.3	continues to have.
1:20.1	Down with dust wheels losing nearly 1200 points on the day more than 3200 so
1:27.4	far this week. The Trump administration claims that they are ready for anything
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