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considered him her hero. he was 29 years old. george was a security guard in houston who loved the city where he worked and lived. he worked at minute made park and the toyota center, he was known as a warm and peaceful presence. always a hard worker who worked two jobs to support his family. he was 50 clears old. the news continues, i want to hand it over for cuomo prime time. >> thank you, anderson. when this president tells you something about this pandemic that is wrong or worse, every time it is my job to expose it and correct it. ignore him, you say. i wish. i can't. because i can't ignore the reality that you and i are forced to live because of his action and inaction, right? there can be no ignoring the man
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who is keepings from doing what we could be doing that would shorten our suffering, the truth? my kids and in too many places your kids are likely not going back to school the way they should. why? you're hearing it, or you've heard it already, or you're about to hear it. they can't test kids often enough. they can't keep teachers safe. they can't get results fast enough. they can't trace the cases. they can't find the spaces. they don't have the money. the union doesn't want to do it. nobody's talking to anybody. that should not be the case. and at the top of the food chain is our president. trump must be held to account for the inaction. and he must be pushed to act. not just distract like he did again today. proof?
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>> we're beginning to see evidence of significant progress. the virus is receding in hotspots across the south and west. >> first, who wrote that. have you no conscience? no shame? west, california just became the first state to top 500,000 cases and whoever wrote that knows it. the south and the west are on fire. even trump held a map in his hand today that illustrated the reality. does he think you are blind? the numbers that i just told you and that you see everywhere all the time show he is wrong. does he think you are stupid? and the doctor he wants favored on his task force. now he says he's wrong. >> i want to be very clear, what we're seeing today is different from march and april. it's extraordinarily widespread.
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>> now she says he's wrong. why? because it's the truth. that's why trump attacked birx. it's why he attacks fauci. why? he wants people to stop telling you the truth about the pandemic, why? because the truth is, not even people in rural areas are safe. birx just said it. what does trump do? does he own it? try to do something about it? no. he pounces, not with better data, but being what he is too often in the face of fact. not about data. he's a hata. in order to counter nancy, debra took the bait and hit us, pathetic, no sir, you're the one that's hitting us. and this is what is pathetic. >> i think we're doing very well. i told dr. birx i think we're doing very well. she was in my office a little
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while ago. a person i have a lot of respect for. i think nancy pelosi has treated her very badly. very very badly. very nasty. >> he calls someone he says he respects pathetic? why does he do that? because he is baphetic. the quality of taking something serious and reducing it to the ridiculous. creating an anti-climax, it's a perfect fit, isn't it? just like the white house yesterday calling it deeply irresponsible and just wrong for anyone to attack the doctor. anyone, that is, i guess, unless it's the president. reducing a pandemic to the rid cue lois. bathetic, like this. >> invisible enemy. lockdowns do not prevent infection in the future. they just don't. it comes back many times.
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it comes back. the purpose of a lockdown is to bide time to build capacity. >> i mean, have you eaten on the insane root that devours intellect and takes reason prisoner? shakespeare asked it, trump should answer it. the whole point is that we lock down to stop the infection from spreading. the key once we did that was to reopen wisely? that means slowly. social distancing, being careful, wearing masks. the aren't virus overpowered the way it did, in part is because this virus is very powerful and very contagious. but what is the biggest part? because of people who took trump's lead in doing none of the right things. and why would you? when he kept telling you didn't have to? for months, this president lied,
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defied and denied the reality, he did nothing that he could have. if he had treated it the way he did the wall with the same approa approach, we would not be where we are today. ask the governors. red and blue, ask the governors. but he didn't. and now as fall approaches, the reality is, i don't like to say it, i don't like to live it, we're not ready. we can't do what we want to do, what we need to do, get back to work. get back to school in ernest, why? because the reality has always been, if you don't deal with the pandemic, you can't do anything else. you can't wish it away. you can't say it's been too long. you can't say the lockdown seemed to last forever. not when you do them right. middle of a pandemic and this president spent the weekend hitting golf balls and bragged about his large maga turnout in
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hot zones. no masks. bathetic. the key is the we. it's the truth. this man is determined to keep down his golf handicap not the number of cases that are making us sick. should we be pushing on congress? absolutely. but too many on the right are playing the game because they're afraid of him. so it's got to be about us. what we can do, and what we can force our local leaders to make happen. and the reality is sinking into everybody. even trump. you see his last campaign email? asking supporters to wear face masks. i don't love wearing them either. but they can possibly help us get back to our american way of life. where was that months ago? where was that then? you really think that's enough
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now? it's got to be about us. what i can do, what you can do. what we can do for our community, state leaders and pressure on congress. i'm telling you, this president doesn't want to own it. dr. sanjay gupta joins us now to talk about what we have to do. now, earlier today, trump spoke about taking hydroxychloroquine for two weeks and said he didn't test positive. how concerning is it that he's still talking that talk about hydro hydroxychloroqui hydroxychloroquine. and remember that session when he talked about what was in the works to help us, he didn't mention the drug. what's your play here and what's the concern? >> i don't know what the play is any more, chris. this is -- i think i've been spending a lot of time of figuring out the mechanations of how this is working. there's no logic behind it.
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first of all, the hydroxychloroquine doesn't work. as a prophylactic, an early treatment, a late treatment. there are studies that show that. there were observational studies in the past that said, hey, maybe there's something there. you either confirm it or prove it false through a randomized controlled study as has been done. i don't know what the motivation is here still, but we're wasting a lot of time, a lot of money, a lot of resoirss. you're wasting your air time talking about this, we're in the middle of the worst public health crisis of our lifetime, we're talking about something that doesn't work. there may be things that do work, that we're missing out on as a result. i would hate to ascribe a motivation, that would assign some logic to it, and there is none. >> look, i think the play is pretty obvious, when you don't want to deal with reality, you
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create a sur reality, a distraction. that's what the drug is. but again, when he was reading what his people had written for him about what their plan is, remdisivir, other trials, no hydroxychloroquine. it's all sell, but his people aren't buying it. now, schools and the coronavirus. the private schools by and large are echoing what they think is going to happen with the public schools. the best it seems most are going to do, in any kind of cases, any kind of density is this hybrid, sometimes home, sometimes not. i got three different kids in two different schools, they're going to be in a week and out three, that's what it seems. i think the hybrid model is the worst of both worlds. however, i'm going to have to live by it. there's a good chance each of their weeks are going to be different ones. this is going to be hard. what do people need to know right now heading into the fall?
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>> sadly -- and we are in the same boat here, i have three teenaged daughters. the idea that this may be an exercise in futility is becoming increasingly real to me. i get it, we want to send kids back to school, but we're in the middle of a pandemic that's just getting worse and we're not doing anything to stop it. this is going to be adding fuel to the fire. we don't know about kids that are younger than 10. i think the jury's still out on that. the numbers will go up. if we had adequate testing in place, adequate contact tracing in place, if we had brought the numbers down 14 days in a row before opening these school districts, we may have had a shot at this. i was reading a study today, a third of teachers and faculty are considered vulnerable because of age or pre-existing conditions, you're putting them in this situation where they may be spreading the virus to those teachers and vac you willty. you know this, we've been talking about this for months.
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we shut down, there were 4 or 5 people in this country that were infected. now we're opening up when you have 155,000 who have died and millions infected? where is the logic in this? just like you're asking about the hydroxychloroquine, this whole thing denies logic. it's very frustrating. >> especially when there's a better answer. look at the u.k.? we'll discuss it later in the show. how do they get these rapid tests. how do they get it done in 90 minutes? couldn't we be buying up those kinds of tests right now? >> we should have been developing this ourselves. you talked about this early on, there was a strategic method to minimizing this by not testing
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sad to say, i think that's the truth now, you sort of suggested that early on and i thought, maybe we're just behind. i think it was deliberate now at this point to not test, because it would make things look bad, we should have had significant breakthroughs in antigen testing right now. it should be easy to know what your day is going to be like for the coronavirus as it is for the weather. >> do we have it even created? can't we get it from somewhere else? where did the u.k. get it? >> that's another thing, the initial test that was available was a world health organization test. there was this idea that we will create our own test. >> good thing we pulled out of that. >> look, people ask me, what are the mistakes here? it's hard for me to think about what have not been missteps here. chris. wear a mask, physically distance, don't go to indoor crowded places, avoid indoor
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gathers. wash your hands for three weeks. do this for three weeks and we'll be looking at the backside of this curve. how hard is that? how hard is that? >> how pathetic is that? to use the president's word that applied more to him than his subject in that particular context. three weeks we could be in a different place, and yet we're all heading into fall. ready or not, here we come. kids aren't going to be in school the right way, it's going to screw up people's work lives, the economic recovery, our kids. it's going to get worse. the only thing i disagree with this, they're not unforced errors, they were forced error. this task force would have taken a different direction. the heads of those agencies would have wanted to do different things. the governors were asking for different things, trump didn't want to indulge it, that's a
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forced error. in context, you're right, as always, because you're the smarter and better looking guy. thank you very much. >> see you soon, thank you. i've been telling you to get -- we're all in the same boat. u.k. 90 minutes they're getting tests back. us, 14 days. what is going on here? we're supposed to be bringing it all back, making it great again. how? manufacturing. you couldn't get anybody. you got one company in maine to work with on ppe? we can't find anybody to make these antigen treatment? these reagents? really? in months? not one deal? mr. deal maker? that's why we are where we are. news developing tonight on another raging virus, racism. police bodycam video just leaked out in the case that ignited
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i'm about to show you something we have not seen before, it is valuable context body camera video of minneapolis police officers as they are arresting george floyd. this is what the jury is going to be seeing, this is what they're going to have to process, are the officers doing what was reasonable under the circumstances?
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here's what they were seeing and hearing? >> let's see your hands. >> i'm sorry, i'm sorry. >> let me see your other hand. >> i'm sorry. >> both hands. >> put your hands up right now. let me see the other hand. >> all right. what did i do? >> put your hand up there. >> now, what do you see? was he responding to instructions? was he being confrontational? did the gun come out too fast? does it matter, did he show his hands? i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i didn't do nothing. what does that mean? what did it not mean? that was minutes before i can't breathe. the video is from thomas lane's body camera. one of four officers charged in floyd's death. lawyers for two officers say no comment. this is about both sides, their
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best version put into the criminal process and fairness under law. there's a lot more, about 30 minutes of what they'll be able to process in the jury. joey, thank you, good blessings to the family. good health during this difficult time. what stands out to you? >> what stands out to me is to your point, everything has a context. when you look at and evaluate the end result, someone's dead here. the force we use with respect to the neck. i'm looking to context to what informed their judgment as to this being the end result. was he irate, uncontrollable? was he noncompliant. was he in a state where they felt they needed to subdue him? >> i'm sorry, show me both your hands. i don't see what he was doing with his other hand. is that reason to draw the
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weapon? >> the reality is that we talk a lot about deescalation, right? in deescalation, you want to give people common courtesy. i get there's no such thing as a routine traffic stop, to be clear. things can go poorly and badly, every day and twice on sunday. we could debate what the propriety of the gun, it shouldn't be out. it needed to come out, it's for my own protection. what i'm concerned about is what happened thereafter. >> let's go to the next clip, joey. a moment of where they went from there. with george floyd. here it is. >> walk with me. >> ow! >> are you on something right now? >> no, nothing. >> you're acting erratic. >> i'm scared. >> you have -- >> yeah, i opened it up earlier. >> all right. okay.
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>> context? >> the context is, in the event that someone like this ended up dead, you would expect they're fighting, kicking, moving, twisting, they're engaging in behavior that the officers feel they need to subdue. to your point about context, we're all left with the question of why this had to happen. >> drugs, drugs, joey. he was on drugs. >> you heard him ask, foam around the mouth. >> someone's on drugs, that otherwise necessitates the death penalty. it necessitates you putting the knee on the neck. >> crazy strength with the drugs, joey. they can't control him. >> i don't see the crazy strength. i know you're being the devil's advocate here. when you look for context, fear for my life, fear for harm, i don't see it. the fact that i don't see it,
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juries will determine what they determine, in evaluating it in fairness, i don't see why the officers had to apply the end of the day the force that was applied. >> let's see that force. you don't have to be a lawyer to know this -- what was the reasonable reaction to what they were getting? there's this ugly analysis that happens for too many people in every case like this, where they say, if you don't comply, you asked for it. the death penalty for noncompliance? that's what you have to remember. that's perspective, this is the next moment of use of force. listen very carefully to what you're hearing. please, it's not easy, pay attention. >> i mean -- i. >> should we roll him on his side?
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[ moaning ] >> now, very hard, they're going to have to transcribe it, here's what we have figured out. you tell me if you get something else. you hear a declining rhythm from mr. floyd. you know, he's sighing, he is getting slower and slower in his response. the officer says, should we turn him on the side. i'm worried about the drug delirium. whatever he's getting in terms of feedback is in the negative. >> officers protect us every day, we get that, they have a difficult job, i get that, i'm not here to bad mouth or bee summer much the character of officers that are out there protecting us every day. but when something's wrong, we need to say so. is that enough? don't we expect and anticipate that you do more? and at what point do you do
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that? >> we have a duty for our officers to do more. >> without question. the bottom line is that, did you intervene or just say, should we turn him over? does that absolve you of sin? perhaps you should intervene and turn him over and check the other officer for engaging in misbehavior. >> he's a new officer and the other guy is the training officer. this guy's just the rookie. >> so every day, we ask jurors when we're in the court, we say, use your common sense and good judgment. i think officers also have to use their common sense and good judgment. trainer or no trainer. you have a decision to make. a person is crying for their mother, they can't breathe. is saying, turn him over now, do you think we should turn him over? does that absolve you of sin? let's let the jury look at that. i think the jury will say, the officer didn't do enough. >> this is what jurors will be seeing. this will be some of the raw
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stuff with which they have to process. was it reasonable for the officers to do what they did. joey jackson, thank you very much for giving us the experience of what you've learned in these situations and how it will be analyzed. appreciated. and again, bless the family. >> thank you, chris. thank you so much. we'll keep putting the pieces together, any time i get new perspective, any time i think i can forward this and forward your understanding, we will bring it, we will not forget. fairness on all sides. our president keeps taughting our coronavirus testing. it is a con. do you understand? results are taking way too long. i don't have to tell you, you've heard it, you've heard it from your own family or from families that you care about. one day, five days, seven days, 12 days, 14 days. how? it's just that way, you can't do anything about it. really? look right across the pond, okay? do you know what they're doing in the u.k.?
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and xfinity is your home for the return of live sports. if you want proof that it can be so much better here, you can look somewhere else and see that places are doing better that have no distinct advantage over us. the british government now has millions of coronavirus tests that can give you answers in 90 millions or less. let's get some perspective from dr. ashish jah. you know this is making me crazy. did the u.k. develop some technology that is proprietary? did they come up with some
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secret sauce we could have never had here? >> good evening, chris, thanks for having me on. the answer is no, the technology they are using to roll out millions of tests next week, we have that technology, and we have companies that can make those tests. we just haven't had a strategy that allows us to ramp up to millions of those tests being available for the american people. >> let's go through it. president trump says harvard, i love harvard, ashish jah, great name, sounds norwegian, i'm going to call him. you have all the money, everybody's at your disposal, can you do what the u.k. did here? what would it take and how long would it take? what are the answers? the short answer is absolutely, it takes more than -- like the u.k. is rolling it it out next week, we can't roll it out next week, we've sat on this six months. we could get this going in six to eight steps. >> first three steps.
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first step is, we want to do it, okay? the president says, get all the procurement guys in one room, this happens or you're all done. he leaves. great, what's the second step? >> the second step is, you have to identify the technologies, the companies that are going to work. we identify them. bewent through a process and identified companies that can scale up large numbers of tests. then what you have to do, you have to help those companies scale up. they can't produce millions of tests on their own without help on supply chain, without help on generating capital. if they have to go to the capital market and issue bonds. >> no, emergency order. make this stuff, it exists. the science you need, the chemicals you need, everything you need do be made in this country or procured from somebody else.
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let's say we need it now, aren't there places that have it? how did the u.k. get it? >> this is not a loy giftical challenge, this is a challenge of will, this is a challenge of desire to do this. 23 we had applied the full weight of the u.s. government we could have had tests back within 15 minutes or half an hour, but we have not had the kind of strategy that would let us have that kind of testing. >> what difference would 90 minute turnarounds mean? >> we have people as you noted earlier, waiting 7, 10, 14 days. first of all, it gets pretty useless during that time. 90 minutes is a game changer, it lets you know right away, if you're infected you can get isolated. if you're not infected you can feel better and go about your business. it's a huge difference, it would lower the number of infections, it would have a profound --
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>> put us back in school. put a lot of people back in workplaces, you'll have a way to do pool testing -- even if the accuracy level is lower, right? let's say it's only 40 or 50%, but doing it every day, you're going to catch more cases than every 14 days. it's just simple math. one other thing i want to ask you about, that i don't understand. only 2 1/2% of italians have antibodies. despite them being one of the countries hardest hit, only 2 1/2 percent of them have antibodies, but their numbers are going in the right direction. where is the sense in that? >> yeah, so what we know from a lot of these studies is that even though italy -- north italy was hit pretty hard, a lot of folks -- only a small number were infected in the whole population. compare that to us. we've been hit very hard. our best guess is, probably less than 10% of the american people have gotten infected.
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i'm not totally surprised by the italy data. it mines trying to go for herd immunity is a good idea. >> i'm italian on both sides. i have tons of antibodies that's why i'm going to do this plasma thing with sanjay to try to demystify it. they're going to know what's tricky about it. it's different than just having blood drawn. we'll take them through it, because it matters so much. thank you for letting people know it doesn't have to be the way it is here now. god bless you and your family. impeachment, remember that? i remember that's what we were concerned about, that was the crisis. it's over. but trump's legal troubles are not over. it's not -- may not be. they're not over. why? there's new information on an investigation that the supreme court allowed to proceed. it's not being done by congress, okay? it started with those hush money
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trump's legal troubles go beyond hush payments to a porn star. a new filing by a manhattan prosecutor says they're looking into extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the trump organization. now, they also argue that their subpoena for his tax records was issued in connection with a complex financial investigation. the president's response? here it is. >> this is just a continuation of the witch hunt, it's democrat stuff. this is a continuation of the
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worst witch hunt in american history. >> let's bring in a legal mind that knows his way around the courts. preet bharara. you look good now, preet, after some transmission issues. >> thank you. >> anything different here? >> it's a little bit different. there's a confirmation by the d.a.'s office that they're looking at something broader than hush. >> man: payments that have been at the crux of this going back some months. it's been known, because a record was made in the house of representatives when the president's former lawyer michael cohen came to testify, there was a suggestion there and also other reporting which the d.a. cites to, that trump and his organization were inflating income or assets to try to get loans from banks, there's a possibility of bank fraud and other kinds of fraud that they say are legitimate to issue a wide ranging subpoena. you will remember this has been litigated all the way up to the
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supreme court. the president does not have absolute immunity from this kind of procedure from a district attorney's office, he has the same kinds of protections and rights you and i might have as private citizens. this is a final skirnlish under the rules that operate with respect to everyone. i suspect those subpoenas will have to be complied with very soon. >> what does that mean for taxes? >> it means that the d.a.'s office will get them, they'll remain secret. and documents that relate to those tax returns. i know everyone has the question, but what's going to happen before the election, that's only by my count. 92 days away. it will take some time to get those documents. then they have to examine those documents, see if there's others they want to subpoena. the likelihood that there's going to be any huge substantial action, that will be breaking news at the top of your show, before the election is low. >> what do you think of the idea that people are really reaching
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by thinking they'll be a smoking gun in the taxes? that he had these professionally prepared and filed and that's often done with an eye toward making sure the person, the filer is safe. you're not going to find anything in the taxes. >> you know, i don't know. i -- my perspective is always, you never know, you've seen very smart people, very wealthy people who you think would be buttoned down for their own protection, do very very stupid things and engage in very stupid frauds. we've seen the trump foundation that was run like a piggybank for the family, you never know, i'm perfectly able to believe there's a lot of bad stuff in there. i'm also able to believe it was papered pretty well. i think it's impossible to know, which is not a satisfactory answer, but it's the truth. >> based on the filings at this point, you believe they will get the taxes, though? that will be the big takeaway. that someone got them. >> i do, this has been litigated
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at every level of federal court. the district court, the appellate court and the supreme court of the united states. the supreme court did not have patience with the arguments being made by the trump folks. the threshold for getting financial information is not as high as some people think pertaining to a subpoena. tax returns are more protected. you have to have a court order on the reason why you're seeking tax returns. there's a huge predicate laid down. you know, we don't know what other things -- they may be looking at loan applications and other representations made by the trump folks and the trump companies to these banks. what they're missing is trump may have support to those documents and numbers in his accountant's office. i don't see how he gets away with anything other than sort of trying to get the clock to wind down, and hope that the statute
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of limitations kicks in. >> of course, people are saying, so what, how bad can it be, ask his former lawyer michael cohen. that's what put him away in the first place. appreciate you being with us. we've showed you the deep impact that the covid crisis is having on pro sports. now we have a high school football player facing the biggest test of his young life and it has nothing to do with football. he just lost both of his parents to covid days apart. he too tested positive. he's here tonight with a message for all of us in his mom and dad's loving memory. we hope they rest in peace. this young man has a lot of life in front of him. let's talk about it next. try wayfair. you got this!
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covid-19. just last week. and they were young. ewe gene and in their 50s. died days apart in the same hospital. and happened fast. they tested positive for coronavirus just the week before. they left a child on this earth. 17 year-old justin hunter. he tested positive with them as well. thankfully he's been asymptomatic. he joins us now. young man, how are you doing? >> i'm doing good. >> i know you're with family. how are you handling this so far in terms of why do you think this happened? >> to be honest, i really don't know why it happened. i'm not really sure why it happened. but i'm doing good. at first i was very angry.
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very sad and very confused. but i'm doing really good now. >> what's helping you along? what are you telling yourself to keep yourself heading forward? >> that first of all my parents are na better place. they aren't suffering at all. they are probably up there partying having fun. gods got my back. >> tell me about your parents. tell me about what this was like for them. >> they were if you knee them, they were loving. very caring. the type to give and not even expect anything to give back to them. they were just some of the nicest people you would ever meet. >> did they have any what we call preexisting conditions?
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were they sick, pbattling anything? in their 50s. >> no, sir, not that i know of. >> has anybody asked the doctors to explain why it took them so quickly. >> yes, sir. we haven't -- they don't have an explanation. >> when they told you, could you believe this was happening to somebody at your age? >> no, sir. i was shocked. i didn't believe it. >> just a few days apart. were you able to visit at all or wouldn't let you in the hospital? >> wouldn't let me in. >> you are with family now? how's that going? >> it's going good. i have a lot of support. and a lot of i feel a lot of love coming from them. so. it's good. they are helping me. >> you say your parents were
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good people. they gave and gave you a lot. they obviously gave you the start you needed because you are doing very well with your young life. what do you want people to know about them? how they lived opposed to what took their lives. >> how they lived -- they really lived with no regrets. they lived their life. that's really all i can really say. they lived their life. and they were successful in their life. and i want to be just like them when i'm older. >> what do you want to do with your life because i'm sure now as you're figuring out everything will have more meaning. you'll carry purpose because you have people looking down on you. and you know they're watching and they'll see what you do. what do you want to do with your
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life? >> i really love to play college football and take it to the next level and play pros. if that doesn't work, i would like to go into cyber security. and just be the best at what i do. and do it for them. >> how are you keeping your spirits up? i'm amazed by how you are handling this. i have a daughter your age. what is giving you what is a huge testament to your character that you've got an incredible sense of perspective. what do you have inside you that you want people to know? >> first of all, my dad he told me in situations like this i have two choices, the first choice is i can sit here, cry,
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feel sorry for myself and kind of be useful and not do anything. or i can cry, realize what happened. and accept what happened. and move on from what happened. and do everything and in their name and do everything for them from now on. >> what was the last thing mom told you? >> i love you. >> those are the most powerful words. and they put faith in you god has your back. >> yes, sir. >> well, i have to tell you i cannot imagine what you have to deal with. when they put those kinds of ideas in your head and heart, that's the most powerful armor you can have. to protect you against the kind of pain that comes with this. i know you have family. i know you have people that care about you and you'll have more than you know.
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i know there's a go fund me page. i'll put up the information. you should have arms around you. and it's an honor the hunter family. people can see it there. i want to make an offer to you that will make through your family. who taking care of you. when you are ready, when we are allowed to do so. everything is crazy right now. and you have school and figure out and the season will be short if you have it. you have to deal with a lot. when you are ready, i'll bring you up here and show you the city. i want to help you live your life and understand that even though your parents are gone, there will be people who want to put your arms around you. you deserve that and make you proud and i can't wait to see it. god bless you. >> thank you so much. >> i'll be in touch. thank you for letting us see how someone so young and has ever reason to be looking down, is looking up to where their parents are and god's strength
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and direction to go forward. you're an amazing testament to your parents. keep being that every step of the way. we'll be watching. >> thank you. >> god bless you. our thanks to him. and we'll let you know how he's doing. if he wants. he's so courageous, let's carry that courage into more coverage of what matters to all of us together. let's continue it right now. we all want this to be over. it's not going to be over because we want it to. not until a couple of things happen. you have to act together as people who collectively want the same thing. we're saying we want the same thing. we're not doing the things we need to do.
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