This is going to be a very painful, very, very painful two weeks.

When you look and see at night the kind of death that's been caused by this invisible enemy, it's incredible.

That's President Trump this week, talking about the coronavirus pandemic that he first called a hoax, despite

warnings from scientific advisors. Just last week, he was still optimistic about opening up the

economy right away. I'd love to have the country opened up and they're just raring to go by Easter.

Now the president has accepted projections that 100,000 to 200,000 Americans will die in a very short time.

A lot of people are positive and they hope for the best.

Because when this gets the wrong person, meaning a person that qualifies, generally speaking, under the list.

It is ravaging. It is horrible.

He even told CNN's Jim Acosta he has prevented the death toll from being even worse.

Look, Jim, I think we've done a great job. We're going to see how it comes out.

But when you look at minimal numbers of 120,000 people,

when you look at it could have been 2.2 million people died and more if we did nothing.

It was on Tuesday that the president claimed his actions have reduced the death toll,

and it's important to put that claim in context. Just one day before, I talked with David Sanger,

National Security correspondent for the New York Times. After months of downplaying the pandemic,

Trump had finally said he'd declared war. And I asked Sanger, how that was going.

Well, Warren, what he's done so far is try to have the rhetoric of a wartime presidency,

but it's not clear to us that he has actually been willing to take the responsibility of a wartime leader.

At one point, Trump even said it himself.

No, I don't take responsibility at all because we were given a set of

circumstances and we were given rules, regulations, and specifications from a different time.

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