Trump continues to ignore pandemic and lie about election fraud

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Pres. Trump still won’t face reality and admit he lost the election. Instead he’s ignoring the Covid-19 pandemic and the record deaths and hospitalizations in the U.S. Some House conservatives are urging Trump to not concede after President-elect Joe Biden wins the Electoral College and want the party’s leaders to battle it out on the House floor. Thomas Friedman is a Foreign Affairs Columnist for the New York Times. He tells Anderson Cooper the fact that Trump won’t take charge and won’t help Biden is despicable. Plus, the Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says armed protesters gathered outside her Detroit home to protest the election results. In a statement Benson said protesters made “unambiguous, loud and threatening demands to overturn the results of the election.” She joins AC360 to explain what happened and says her job is to defend the voters and she will do that every day “despite any threats of violence or bullying.” Airdate: December 7, 2020 Guests: Thomas Friedman Jocelyn Benson 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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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:02.0	79 years ago today, the country was reeling from the loss of 2,403 American lives at Pearl
0:07.4	Harbor.
0:08.4	Those deaths stunned the nation.
0:10.0	There was understandable outrage and fury over the attack.
0:13.3	President Roosevelt declared war in Japan the next day, called it a date which will live
0:17.5	in infamy.
0:18.7	2,403 American deaths at Pearl Harbor.
0:22.9	Right now, the United States is averaging more than 2,200 COVID deaths a day.
0:28.0	It's nearly 1 Pearl Harbor every 24 hours.
0:31.5	By April of next year, the University of Washington's Institute for Health, Metrics, and Evaluation
0:36.5	projects the pandemic will have killed upwards of 100,000 more people in this country than
0:40.5	all the American troops killed in 3.5 years of the Second World War, more than half a million
0:46.1	dead.
0:47.1	President Trump is the one who likened this to a war.
0:50.8	He called himself in fact a wartime president.
0:53.7	That was a long time ago.
0:55.2	Those were in the days when he wanted to be seen as a commander in chief leading the
0:58.4	effort when he took over the coronavirus press briefings and then stopped listening to
1:02.6	the doctors who actually knew what they were doing.
1:05.3	Now the president doesn't seem concerned about being a wartime commander.
1:10.2	Anything he seems more like a deserter.
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