Trump on Covid-19 death toll: “It is what it is”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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With more than 156,000 Americans dead from the coronavirus, President Trump says the death toll “is what it is.” David Hart lost his husband, Dr. Joseph Costa, to the deadly virus. They were married for 28 years and Dr. Costa had been on the frontlines fighting Covid-19 before it took his life. Hart joins AC360 to share memories of his late husband and says he’s blessed for every second he was able to be with Joe. Plus, after weeks of attacking mail-in-voting, President Trump is now encouraging voters in Florida to vote by mail saying their election system is “safe and secure.” Just a day earlier, Trump threatened to sue Nevada after the state approved a plan to mail ballots to all registered voters. In a tweet, the President accused Nevada Democrats of orchestrating an “illegal late night coup” that makes it impossible for Republicans to win the swing state. Democratic Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak tells Anderson Cooper his priority is making sure voters “have every legitimate legal option to vote.” Airdate: August 4, 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	Good evening for days.
0:02.8	We have been pointing out the President Trump, the self-proclaimed wartime president, has
0:06.2	avoided mentioning the fact that more than 150,000 people in this country have died on his
0:10.7	watch.
0:11.9	So far, he rarely, in any detail, even mentions the dead.
0:16.1	But in an interview released today, the president has asked about the daily death toll.
0:19.9	More than 1,000 Americans now dying a day in his response?
0:23.7	Five words.
0:25.0	It is what it is, he said.
0:28.3	It is what it is.
0:30.6	That is our consolar and chief.
0:32.8	That is his message to the mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and children and
0:36.7	friends of all those Americans who have died and all those people still reeling from their
0:41.4	loss.
0:42.4	It is what it is.
0:44.6	It would be a cruel and heartless thing to say if it came from any individual, but it
0:49.3	didn't.
0:50.3	It came from the most powerful office holder in the world.
0:52.8	The president who early on, for crucial weeks, the month of February, ignored the spread
0:56.7	of this pandemic, saying it was going to magically disappear and who continues to claim.
1:01.6	As you will hear, that it's all under control.
1:05.1	It is what it is.
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