Trump plans to hold in-person White House event

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 10 October 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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President Trump plans to hold an in-person event at the White House with thousands invited just a little more than a week after revealing on Twitter he had tested positive for Covid-19 and was hospitalized for symptoms. He’s also planned a rally in Florida just a few days later despite the obvious risk of the virus spreading. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent and he tells AC360 the mass gathering at the White House, which falls exactly two weeks after the event Dr. Anthony Fauci called a super spreader event, is reckless and a terrible idea. Plus, Hurricane Delta made landfall near Creole, Louisiana as a Category 2 storm with winds near 100 mph. Delta is the fourth major storm to hit Louisiana this year. Tom Sater, an AMS and CNN Meteorologist joins AC360 to give an update on the path of the storm and the expected storm surge. Airdate: October 9, 2020 Guests: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Tom Sater 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	Talk about insatiable appetites.
0:03.6	For the president, it seems, one super spreader event just isn't enough.
0:08.3	John Burman here in Ferranderson, we're also covering Hurricane Delta as it makes landfall
0:12.8	on the Louisiana Gulf coast or looking at lake Charles and we'll bring you a live report
0:17.8	from there very shortly.
0:19.7	We begin though with the man-made disaster now unfolding as the president of the United
0:23.6	States grapples with rising COVID numbers, falling poll numbers, and what could be fading
0:28.4	prospects for reelection.
0:30.5	For days now, the president who, after all, has the poker face of a neon sign, has been
0:35.1	telegraphing his frustration at all of it, along with his craving for the adulation he
0:39.8	just can't get from taping info-mursals on the south lawn.
0:43.5	So tomorrow, if all goes to plan, hundreds of supporters will be standing on the grass
0:47.9	there, hundreds.
0:49.9	The president were told we'll be up on the balcony of Vita-style so he'll be a safe
0:53.3	distance from them, which is more than they will be from each other, at the White House
0:57.9	no less.
0:59.3	Hundreds of people, two weeks to the day since the ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett, where
1:04.1	all the people you see in the picture highlighted, have since contracted COVID.
1:08.0	And today, Dr. Anthony Fauci called the affair what it truly was.
1:14.4	We had a super spreader event in the White House and it was in a situation where people
1:20.7	were crowded together and were not wearing masks.
1:23.4	So the data speaks for themselves.
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