Trump says 100,000 to 200,000 deaths in U.S. very possible; CA Gov. Newsom talks with CNN about fighting the virus; U.S. reports 835 new deaths today, the most in one day

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Gov. Cuomo: 20% chance someone put on a ventilator will come off; Florida gov issues statewide stay-at-home order amid pressure; Goldman Sachs predicts up to 15% unemployment soon; DOW has worst-ever first quarter in U.S. history; Panama separating men and women in public to slow coronavirus spread; Grocery rush leaves many shelves bare for low-income families; Gov't assistance applications nationwide spike for needy families; U.S. rescues 27k Americans stranded overseas from 59 countries; Trump changes position, now acknowledges virus is dire; Pence: we think Italy is closest comparison to U.S. projectionsTo 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	The death toll right now, April 1st, stands at 4,561.
0:05.0	One month ago today, on March 1st, only one person in the United States had died from this virus.
0:12.0	President Trump is predicting a very painful two weeks coming up.
0:16.3	And with the death rate in the United States,
0:18.6	the death toll rather doubling about every three days.
0:23.0	If we stay on this trajectory, this course,
0:26.0	the total death toll could reach 120,000 in just two weeks.
0:31.0	Of course, hopefully, that will not happen. Hopefully the US
0:35.6	will begin to flatten the curve. This afternoon Vice President Pence claimed here
0:40.0	on CNN that President Trump has never belittled the threat of the coronavirus
0:45.0	which of course is empirically false the president did diminish the threat
0:49.9	belittle the threat several times for weeks on end.
0:53.3	In fact, it was just last week the President Trump continuing to not fully grasp the gravity
0:58.4	of it all said he hoped to lift restrictions so that he could be able to see packed church pews on Easter.
1:06.5	Just over a month ago President Trump suggested that the number of cases in the U.S. would soon
1:11.5	go down to close to zero. Those confirmed cases in the US would soon go down to close to zero.
1:13.7	Those confirmed cases in the US, they're not close to zero.
1:17.4	It's now more than 200,000.
1:19.2	The Director General of the World Health Organization
1:21.9	this afternoon said that in a matter of days
1:24.1	coronavirus cases worldwide will top 1 million with 50,000 deaths globally.
1:31.3	CNN's Erica Hill has more on the increase deaths globally.
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