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Anderson Cooper 360

Sen. Bernie Sanders on the election and new Woodward audio with Jared Kushner

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

With 6 days to election day, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a former Democratic presidential candidate, talks to Anderson about the White House race and what he thinks about the latest CNN national poll. Also, legendary journalist Bob Woodward releases audio of his interviews with Pres. Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. In some of the taped interviews, Kushner described the political calculations the President made – instead of coming up with a federal plan to tackle the coronavirus.   Airdate: October 28, 2020   Guests:  Sen. Bernie Sanders Bob Woodward To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

And good evening, it is, as you know, just six days until election day during an election

0:04.2

season that's been defined by one thing, the coronavirus.

0:07.4

President Trump doesn't want it that way, of course, but the virus doesn't have a preferred

0:11.2

candidate.

0:12.2

Doesn't bend to anyone candidates will.

0:13.6

It won't be gaslit, left unchecked, or not taken seriously.

0:17.3

It simply rages.

0:18.9

That is what the virus is doing right now across this country.

0:21.4

And according to health experts, that's what it will continue to do long past election

0:24.8

day.

0:25.8

But tonight is both campaigns cross the country.

0:27.8

We're getting another reminder of just how cynical the Trump administration has always

0:32.4

been about the pandemic that has now killed nearly 228,000 Americans.

0:37.1

We now know from the words the president's own son-in-law, on tape to Bob Woodward, in

0:41.4

newly released clips, clips we'd never heard before, that the plan was, from the start,

0:46.6

what we've long suspected it was, but hoped it wasn't.

0:50.2

Simply put, according to Jared Kushner himself, someone who's never held any position

0:53.6

of public responsibility before in his life, the plan was to leave the hard work of

0:57.6

tracking and containing the virus to the states.

1:00.9

That's all the messy work, the stuff that you might get blamed for.

1:05.6

The plan was, they take credit for success.

1:08.8

Human life is be damned, the opening up.

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