The Cost Of Coronavirus
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Premiere Networks
4.6 • 43.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Senator Cruz and Michael satellite in from a safe social distance to break down the social, political, and economic costs of the Chinese coronavirus—and who should pay.
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| 0:00.0 | The stock market is tanking, businesses are closing, and whole cities are locked down. |
| 0:06.9 | Even though we are socially distanced by about 3,000 miles, the senator is here to help |
| 0:12.2 | us break down the coronavirus chaos. |
| 0:15.2 | This is verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 0:23.4 | Welcome back to verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Michael Knowles. |
| 0:26.6 | Senator, I'm sorry that we are still so socially distanced, but thank you so much for taking |
| 0:32.0 | time to break this down. |
| 0:34.1 | I have about a million questions for you, and we only have about 25 minutes. |
| 0:38.2 | So let's get right into it. |
| 0:39.9 | The whole country basically has come to a standstill. |
| 0:42.8 | People are being locked down and laid off, and nobody has any idea what is coming out of |
| 0:47.9 | Washington. |
| 0:48.9 | You've been there for about two days. |
| 0:50.6 | What's happening? |
| 0:51.6 | Well, you and I are certainly socially distanced. We're about 3,000 miles apart. |
| 0:56.4 | You're enjoying sunny California, which is right in the heart of the challenges we're seeing |
| 1:04.7 | from the coronavirus. |
| 1:06.2 | I would note, by the way, that even though you are in California, will you promise everyone |
| 1:12.6 | that you're not going to burst into your rendition of imagined and stressing them? |
| 1:17.8 | Luckily, I'm apparently not enough of a celebrity to have made it to that compilation. |
| 1:23.7 | That, frankly, was more sickening than the virus as far as I can tell. |
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