WH Press Secretary: “There has been no change” in Trump’s tone on coronavirus

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 25 July 2020

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The U.S. is on track for topping 1,000 daily coronavirus deaths for the 4th straight day. In the last week President Trump canceled the Republican National Convention activities in Jacksonville, Florida, encouraged Americans to wear masks and changed his tone on the severity of the deadly virus. White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx said California, Florida, Arizona and Texas seem to be plateauing after weeks of surging cases and deaths. Dr. Joseph Donnelly is an emergency room physician in El Paso, Texas and has been treating Covid-19 patients throughout the pandemic. He joins AC360 to describe his experiences and says this virus is nothing like the flu. Plus, the CDC recently released new guidance to help schools reopen in the fall. Trump said he would be “comfortable” with his son and grandchildren returning to school for in-person learning. Arne Duncan, former Education Secretary for the Obama administration tells AC360 if we “had a White House that led, had a national plan, we wouldn’t be jeopardizing our children’s chance to go back to school in the next couple weeks.” Airdate: July 24, 2020 Guests: Dr. Joseph Donnelly Arne Duncan 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	So, for all the talk of the president's change of attitude about the pandemic, more than
0:05.2	145,000 American lives into it, the president's spokesperson now says, change?
0:11.4	What change?
0:12.4	He's been totally consistent.
0:14.3	John Berman here in Feranderson, there's a lot to get to tonight after a week that saw
0:18.1	the four millionth confirmed coronavirus infection.
0:21.6	We start off with spin that would be comical except to anyone grieving the loss of a loved
0:26.1	one.
0:27.1	The frontline doctor is an overburdened hospital, making agonizing decisions about who
0:31.0	even gets treated, except for parents worried and confused about sending their kids to school,
0:36.2	except for millions of laid off workers and other 1.4 million this week about to see their
0:41.3	unemployment check shrink.
0:43.2	To them, what you're about to hear must sound far different than spin and close to perhaps
0:48.3	to contempt for the reality we're all now facing.
0:53.3	There has been no change.
0:54.3	He hasn't changed, in fact, and just speaking on COVID generally, the way I've heard him talk
0:58.8	privately in the Oval Office is the way he's talking out here.
1:02.2	The only thing that changed is the president taking dozens and dozens and dozens of your
1:06.0	questions each and every day because he felt the best way to get information to the American
1:10.2	people was for him to be out here answering your questions and providing this directly.
1:15.8	No change, she says, and in fairness, perhaps she's right, just not how she intended.
1:21.6	You can make a case the president has consistently failed to take the pandemic seriously and the
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