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Very, very ugly ending to that one hour appearance by the president in the Rose Garden,

refusing to answer our own White House correspondent Caitlin Collins question.

And going after another reporter, several reporters in the course of that one hour

exchange his opening statement. The major point the president repeatedly made is

that anyone who wants a test, anybody who wants a test can get a test.

They said that 9 million people in the United States have already received tests.

Anyone who wants a test, the president said, can get a test, which isn't true.

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