Trump: “This thing is a killer if it gets you”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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When speaking to Bob Woodward back in April when nearly 30,000 Americans had already died from Covid-19, President Trump admitted that the virus “is a killer if it gets you. If you’re the wrong person, you don’t have a chance.” Meanwhile, he was telling the public the country needs to reopen and the return of live sports. Carl Bernstein, journalist, author and CNN Political Analyst, joins AC360 to react to the President’s comments and says “we’re witnessing a homicidal president.” Plus, a top spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services claimed, without evidence, the Center for Disease Control has a “resistance unit” to work against Trump. Michael Caputo, a defender of the President, made these claims after sources told CNN he and his team demanded to see weekly CDC documents before they were released. Dr. Tom Frieden, former Director at the CDC, tells Anderson Cooper the virus responds to “science-driven action” and what we’re seeing is “an attempt to meddle with science.” Airdate: September 14, 2020 Guests: Carl Bernstein Dr. Tom Frieden 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, our top story tonight are all about what happens when facts and science
0:04.8	are shoved aside in the name of power and politics.
0:07.4	We begin with pictures.
0:08.4	The president tonight speaking to his second straight indoor campaign event in the last
0:11.5	24 hours or so.
0:13.3	And as you look at that, understand just how dangerous it is.
0:16.6	Not because I'm saying it or the experts are, even the president's own experts are saying
0:21.0	it.
0:22.0	It's what the president himself has said repeatedly, but privately and in no uncertain terms.
0:26.6	The president himself, as you'll hear in a moment from a part of his interview with
0:29.6	Bob Woodward that you haven't heard before, saying coronavirus is, quote, a killer.
0:34.4	So the president knows that he knows it's a killer.
0:37.8	It's airborne in his words and still he's holding events like these tonight in Phoenix.
0:42.9	And last night at a mass rally in Henderson, Nevada, virtually the only mass were on the
0:47.5	people on camera behind him.
0:50.1	The rest went without jammed together for hours, shouting and screaming.
0:54.4	Now perhaps the president's supporters who are there, feel like they're just doing what
0:57.7	the man they came to see is doing.
0:59.5	Some in their unmasked noses at political correctness and people worry about a virus.
1:04.9	They might think they're all in this together with the president, but let's be clear.
1:08.3	The president isn't taking any great risk in that room.
1:11.7	Those who actually come in contact with him are tested.
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