Stocks plunge 2,300+ points amid coronavirus pandemic, worst day since 1987 "Black Monday"
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. Today, a top administration official admitted in sworn testimony that when |
| 0:04.5 | it comes to testing for the coronavirus, this country is failing. You know this. We know |
| 0:10.2 | this. Any doctor on the front lines of the pandemic knows this, but today was Dr. Anthony |
| 0:14.0 | Fauci, who again under oath admitted what the vice president who heads the coronavirus |
| 0:17.9 | task force has not admitted and what the president has not had the courage to admit either. When |
| 0:22.3 | it comes to testing for the virus, this country is failing. And let's be frank, because as |
| 0:26.8 | the president himself said last night, this is not a time for politics. This is a time |
| 0:30.2 | for truth, for honesty and facts. So fact, our president has failed to take this virus |
| 0:35.1 | seriously from the beginning. Fail to get tests that actually worked into the hands of |
| 0:39.0 | the medical professionals all across this country who needed them weeks ago. Failed last |
| 0:43.6 | week, despite confident talk by the vice president of a million tests being shipped out, and failed |
| 0:47.9 | this week by the president who repeatedly says anyone who wants a test can get one. How |
| 0:52.6 | do we know these failures? Because doctors and hospitals across the country are telling |
| 0:56.7 | us. Because our own government still can't say how many of our fellow citizens have actually |
| 1:00.9 | been tested. We know we're failing because we can compare our response to the responses |
| 1:05.2 | of countries like South Korea, which has now tested roughly 20 times more people than |
| 1:09.1 | have been tested here. And our failure is made all the more painful because we had warning |
| 1:14.0 | that South Korean, China and other hard hit countries did not. We saw what was happening |
| 1:18.8 | there, and we did not do enough. Our failure is a scary truth, but at least it is the truth. |
| 1:25.6 | And listening to our president, the truth, like the test for the virus, well, that is in |
| 1:29.5 | short supply. Today, the president continued to lie about the availability of testing for |
| 1:34.8 | the virus. And he did it, even as Dr. Anthony Fauci was telling the truth. Here's what |
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