U.S. Nears New Record for Daily Coronavirus Cases

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🗓️ 24 October 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Chris discusses the United States reporting over 75,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day despite Trump's claims of "rounding the corner beautifully," with Van Jones and Charlie Dent. Then, Chris goes one on one with Tom Friedman discussing economic strains caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Chris wraps up the show with presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. 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	Have a good weekend, my friend.
0:01.2	I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Prime Time.
0:04.1	More than 50 million votes have already been cast,
0:07.9	and we are 11 days out from Election Day.
0:10.7	Now, to the extent that a campaign is about making a case,
0:14.5	the issue before you, as judges,
0:17.5	is whether this president has dealt with the pandemic
0:20.9	well enough.
0:22.7	And a short time, we've jumped from 40,000 cases a day
0:26.0	to 70,000 new COVID cases a day.
0:30.5	The second highest total ever,
0:33.2	more than 75,000 new cases recorded just today.
0:39.2	The highest peak was in July.
0:41.4	223,000 dead now.
0:43.9	Projections say that may double by the new year.
0:47.7	Did you hear this president tell you any of that last night?
0:51.7	Why not, do you think?
0:53.3	Have you ever heard of a commander in chief
0:55.7	being rewarded at the polls for hiding the reality of a crisis?
1:00.9	That's what lost Herbert Hoover,
1:03.5	the presidency to FDR during the Great Depression.
1:06.9	That may be the Republican Trump should compare himself
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