Trump on coronavirus crisis: “Cases remain low and very stable”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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President Trump held another coronavirus briefing without the nation’s top doctors. He declared “cases remain low and very stable” as the U.S. nears 4 million cases and deaths have topped 142,000 people. California was one of the first states to shut down and seemed to have the virus under control, but after a resurgence, it has surpassed New York with the most coronavirus cases in the country. Dr. Barbara Ferrer is the Los Angeles County Public Health Director and says Covid-19 is set to become one of the leading causes of death in her county. Plus, the President says he will “surge” federal law enforcement officers to Chicago and other American cities even though local leaders are pushing back. Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said it would be a “cold day in hell” before he would agree to a “unilateral, uninvited intervention.” He joins AC360 and says he’s disappointed with the President’s response and it seems like a “reality TV approach” to a very serious problem. Airdate: July 22, 2020 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	But, President did not once mention the single central fact of the coronavirus pandemic
0:05.6	at his briefing tonight, the fact that almost 143,000 Americans have now died.
0:12.1	John Burman here in Ferranarson, nor did the President utter a single word about another
0:15.9	fact, for the first time in weeks the nation's daily death toll surpassed 1,000 and is on
0:21.0	the brink of doing it again tonight.
0:23.6	Or the California, today eclipse New York in total cases, what texts about to do the
0:27.3	same.
0:28.3	And, President also made no mention of these new revised guidelines for reopening schools
0:32.8	we were supposed to have seen by now, which are being rewritten, don't forget, because
0:37.2	the President considers the existing ones too tough.
0:40.6	What we did here, with parents and teachers and school administrators increasingly concerned
0:44.7	about kids returning to classrooms, were statements that could be wildly misleading about
0:49.8	the risk.
0:52.4	I would like to see the schools open, open 100 percent, and we'll do it safely, we'll
0:57.9	do it carefully.
0:59.2	But when you look at the statistics I just read having to do with children and safety,
1:05.4	they're very impressive.
1:06.4	They have very strong immune systems.
1:07.8	But, but you would understand that the children who go to school, then go back to home,
1:12.6	they're with some of them with their grandparents, there's a real risk.
1:15.7	Would you understand of some schools?
1:16.7	They do say that they don't transmit very easily, and a lot of people are saying they don't
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