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happen but not by the guy that lied to the american people and looking for a distraction to cover the mistakes. the book is not a postmortem. we are in the battle with coronavirus and president trump is still responsible for leading the nation and the pandemic response right now and for at least another four plus months. right now he is focused instead on fudging the facts that he lied about how easily the virus was transmitted, this is what he told woodward on february 7th. >> and so, what was president xi saying yesterday? >> we were talking mostly about the virus, and i think he's going to have it in good shape but it's a very tricky situation. >> indeed it is. >> it goes through air, bob. that is tougher than the touch. the touch you don't have to touch things, right? the air, you breathe the air and then that's how it's passed and so that's a very tricky one, a

delicate one. it is also more deadly than your, you know, even than your strenuous flus. people don't realize we lose 25,000, 30,000 people a year here. who would ever think that, right? >> this is what he was telling us publicly less than three weeks later on the 26th. >> this is like a flu. of the 15 people, the original 15 as i call them, 8 of them are returned to their homes. we are going down, not up. substantially down and not up. when you have 15 and the 15 will be close to 0 in a couple days is a pretty good job we have done. >> he lied about how deadly the virus is. this is what he told woodward february 7th. >> this is more deadly. this is five per -- you know, this is 5% versus 1% and less than 1%. you know? so this is deadly stuff.

>> but publicly trump was saying this to our own dr. sanjay gupta three weeks later. >> talk about the flu, and comparison to the coronavirus, flu has a fatality ratio of 1%. >> correct. >> this is between 2% and 3%. >> okay. >> given that -- >> we don't know exactly what it is. and the flu is higher than that. >> more people get the flu but this is spreading, maybe within communities. >> it may, it may. >> that is the expectation. does that worry you? >> no. >> that seems to worry the american people. >> it is what it is. we're ready for it. we are really prepared. >> the president didn't even fulfill his most important duty as he described it to woodward saying it's quote but really the job of a president is to keep the country safe, to keep it

prosperous. okay? he didn't keep us safe and now 191,000 americans are dead. look. no one should think that we were ever getting out of this pandemic free and clear but a lot of those people, those americans, did not need to die. a colombia university study says if the u.s. issued seesocial distancing guidelines a week earlier then 36,000 lives could have been saved. and if it had been two weeks earlier when the president knew for at least three books that this was airborne 84% of deaths and 82% of cases could have been prevented. in a health crisis like this one honesty from a president is a lifesaver. dishonesty is a death sentence. history proves this. we are not reinventing the wheel here. this was the lesson learned 100 years ago and documented by modern historians. in john berry's book "the great

influenza" of 2004 he says this on the last page. those in authority must retain the public's truth. the way to do that is to distort nothing. to put the best face on nothing. to try to manipulate no one. lincoln said that first and best, a leader must mack whatever horror exists concrete. only then will people be able to break it apart. it didn't happen v to happen like this. but when a president ignores science and history and lies to the american people the results arive evitably deadly. i want to return to chief correspondent dana bash and dr. yasmin with us, a former cdc disease detective and a cnn medical analyst. doctor, you certainly know a lot about health policy so knowing the details in early february that it travels through the air, that the rate of infection or deadliness is what it is,

knowing that, that younger people do get it, not just the elderly, what should have been the federal response in response and when should that have happened? >> we know now, knew then and scientists saying it then, the response should have been much stronger, more robust and started way earlier than it did. to learn now that the president had this intelligence from high ranking officials about how quickly this virus could spread, about how the death rate compared to the flu and that he then lied to us we have seen over the last few months how the lies took lives. those lies were deadly and early on in this pandemic i kept being asked about the chinese government, people asking me as a publg health doctor where the chinese government being honest and transparent but the american government withholding the truth from its citizenry and as

someone that studies public health xhunss thcommunications lying to us again and you tell people the truth. yes, people can get scared but you tell them the truth in the way that can help them plan, mentally and logistically. the truth doesn't cause v to cause panic, especially when it's backed up by a government saying here's what could happen and here's how we try to protect your life. that did not happen. >> i think we have seen americans in crises are -- they rise to the occasion. right? that they can handle the truth and really 101 when it comes to public health. dana, i wonder as republicans are absorbing this information about what the president said about coronavirus, what are they saying? >> not much. you know, how many times -- we can't even count how many times

something that the president has done or said that has been detrimental to his party, never mind his own reputation or his own political prospects but to the people also running on the republican ticket, and for the most part with a few very, very few exceptions, republicans don't say much. this seems like a completely different question on a completely different level. and that is why particularly the republicans who are colleagues are talking to on capitol hill where you and i used to run the halls, brianna, most republicans aren't saying much at all because there's not much more for them to say, if this is a political calculation and talking raw politics here they feel if they're running in a purple state, for example, if they say anything that is going to infuriate the republican base

in their state which for the most part is still very much supports donald trump then it's game over for them because it's very unlikely to get the majority of democrats and maybe some independents. so that is still the political calculation. there are some who might say you know what? politics be damned, i'll do and say the right thing and not seen much of that from people who are kind of vulnerable at home politically. >> doctor, i want to go back to something you said about that the president saying that and the white house that he wanted to maintain calm and doesn't pass the smell test to you. it sounds like you're saying that isn't even how you would keep people calm. >> absolutely. you give people the truth. i live in northern california right now. we are dealingi with wildfires every day. is it frightening?

yes. but do i have a go bag ready? yes. you need to be prepared. and the american people were denied that opportunity to get man tally ready, to get physically and lo gist ekally ready in case this panned out as bad as it has and i especially think, brianna, black americans, indigenous americans, people of color because they're hardest hit with death rates four times higher than white americans. this cost lives. i'm asked what difference could it have made? look. the point is there are almost 200,000 americans who cannoten gau engage in this debate because they're dead and their president lied about and the government failed to protect them from. >> doctor, dana, thank you so much to both of you. the pandemic, of course, not going away, not going to stop talking about it. join anderson cooper and sanjay

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of the new book "rage." >> i wanted to always play it down. i still like playing it down. >> while donald trump told america the virus was nothing to worry about, he knew it was deadly. >> joe biden himself slammed the president over the comments that he made to woodward. in an exclusive interview cnn's jake tapper saturday down with the democratic nominee to get his immediate reaction to the revelations. >> in his upcoming book bob woodward reports that president trump understood the serious risk posed by the novel coronavirus in early february. take a listen to what the president told woodward february 7th. >> breathe the air and that's how it's passed. and so that's a very tricky one, a delicate one. it is also more deadly than your -- you know, even your strenuous flus. this is deadly stuff. >> as you know, the president spent much of february and even march downplaying the risks of

the novel coronavirus saying it would disappear, the heat would make it go away. what's your response to this news about what he was telling bob woodward on february 7? >> it's disgusting. we lenned tharned that we turne 190,000 americans dead. and he knew this? i understand he had just gotten off the phone when he did the first interview with woodward, gotten off the phone with xi jinping and praising xi jinping of transparency and nothing to worry about and this is going to go away like a miracle. what in god's name would -- i don't get it. i truly don't get it. it is like the way he talks about our veterans. just astounding to me. >> the way president trump explains this to woodward on march 19th. >> i wanted to always play it down. i still like playing it down. >> yes. >> because i don't want to create a panic. >> he said something similar

this afternoon. didn't want to create a panic and downplayed it saying leadership is about confidence. >> yeah. and that's why we have no confidence in his leadership. look. you saw what colombia medical school pointed out in march. had he acted one week earlier over 31,000 more people alive, a week earlier 50,000 some alive. this caused people to die and what did he do? acknowledge that if you breathe it in the air and won't put on a mask. he's talking about ridiculous to put on mask. what do you need social distancing for? why have the rules? it was all about making sure the stock market didn't come down, the wealthy friends didn't lose money and that he could say that in fact anything that happened had nothing to do with him. he waved a white flag, didn't do a damn thing. think about it. think about what he did not do.

and it's almost criminal. >> woodward reports that former defense secretary james mattis said that trump quote has no moral compass and that even floated collective action with dan coats, the director of national intelligence because trump is quote unfit and woodward says that coats couldn't shake the suspicion that putin had something on trump. what do you make of this from his advisers? >> look. i know a lot of those folks and i have served a long time with dan coats, i know mattis, a fine guy. i just -- i think trump has just stunned everyone around him, just how corrupt his thinking is. think about this. remember he said under oath -- not under oath. he said to the american people that he didn't get that briefing on how dangerous coronavirus was. he didn't get that from the intelligence committee. he never read the reports. didn't have anything to do with

that. he saw the reports. he knew them in detail. at least we know he can read. think about it. think about how misleading it was and all those folks and why did he not? let's assume he didn't want to worry people. why in god's name didn't he move quicker on the defense production act to provide ppe, the protective equipment for doctors and first responders. why didn't he do that? okay. he says he didn't want to panic people. make sure people are the equipment they need. say this is in caution. he didn't even do that. >> how do you make the connection -- i have relatives all over the country, all over the political spectrum. how do you make the argument to a relative i have in texas who says, yeah, this virus is horrible but it is not trump's fault but china's fault? >> let's assume we'll take both those points. it is china's fault.

if it was china's fault why did trump praise china? why did he say how transparent, how transparent xi jn piinping d be? while i insist they have access to see what is happening to know the detail. why did he not encyst on that? the virus is not his fault but the deaths are his fault because he could have done something about it. i would say to your uncle he could have said something about it but he didn't talk -- there's no need for social distancing. he actually went so far as to suggest it was a violation of american freedom to maintain to wear a mask. again, 190,000 dead and climbing. what's he doing now? he still has not moved. look at the schools that are not opening. we talked -- i know you have young children.

guess what. they start school like ended last year at home. think of the people that don't have the resources to do that. think of the choice the single mom to make, will i go to the $7 an hour job and lose my -- or stay home with my kid? i can't afford to bring anybody in. he is doing nothing to help. nothing to help. >> jake is joining me now. it is great to see you and talk about this interview that you did with the former vice president. do you think that this will change the direction of his campaign? >> i think the focus has always going to be on the economy and on covid-19. the biden campaign feels like these are the areas where trump is the weakest as of right now although obviously before the pandemic trump thought that the economy was his trump card as they say. and that they are the ways this affect people the most. you heard him in that interview

talk about the reality that those of us who have kids in school are a lot of us, millions of us, forced to con ternd wite because the government failed to get the pandemic under control and not sufficient testing, we have this failure of a system going on and that affects people where they live in a way that memes and tweets and rage from president trump does not. >> and biden is really focused on this feeling that he thinks americans have and very logically so that they no longer trust the leadership of this country. there's a difference between focusing on that and fixing that. >> i asked them that question because you talk about how much the public lost faith in so many institutions, the media, the

government. how does biden if he intends to win and restore faith how does he intend to do that? and the campaign has a simple answer which is tell the american people the truth. straight talk. shoot straight. that joe biden is somebody that whatever people think about gaffes made in the years and he is known as somebody who sometimes shoots too straight. i think people would say. that that is the idea, that's the way you restore faith is that you just shoot with the american people and i think it is fair to say that when you listen to the woodward tape of february 7th and all that president trump knew at the time and i have to say just as somebody who's followed the story intensely as i know you have, i am surprised at the degree to which he knew on february 7th that the virus was airborne and the virus was five times deadlier than the regular flu because that is not at all in any way what president trump

was saying in public. and this wasn't a comment making in private to dr. fauci or to vice president pence. this is a comment he was may recollecting on the record with a journalist so he knew it would see a light of day some point so it is remarkable and i think it is a fair question given that he is the commander in chief what would have happened. he didn't want to panic anybody but what would have happened if we had an idea of how deadly the pandemic was on february 7th opposed to a month later? >> i think, jake, going through this pandemic, we learn really what the 101 is of responding to a pandemic and for public health officials they know this very clearly and certainly the president told this, you have to be honest. right? you spell out the situation and the key to being able to manage something which is certainly the key to an economic response is telling people the truth. >> yeah. and obviously president trump's

involvement in what were daily coronavirus briefings corrupted that process of people telling the truth. i have to say as an american, as a news consumer and as a journalist it is trfrustrating don't have the daily coronavirus briefings anymore with just the health experts, with birx and fauci and giroir and azar. i would love to have that just so i have a better idea as somebody trying to report on this and somebody trying to live through this with my family where we are and what's being done and we don't have that and i think that if president trump were to bring back those coronavirus briefings that might help restore some faith of biden but i don't think he's capable of doing that without participating in them which, of course, was the problem to begin with. >> thank you so much. jake tapper. you can catch the full exclusive interview with democratic

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all right. the senate just voted on a procedural motion to advance the gop skinny stimulus bill. i want to get to capitol hill and cnn's phil mattingly. this was a $500 billion measure that needed 60 votes to advance so where is this? >> reporter: it's dead. essentially to put it bluntly. no. i won't toss it back to you with just that. look. set the stage for what this was. this was a senate republican stimulus proposal. this was put together by republicans over the course of the last several weeks as a kind of effort to try to shake something up in negotiations that have been at a stalemate

now for weeks but also to provide some political cover for their republican members up in tough re-election races, didn't want to go home and say we haven't done anything on unemployment insurance and a slimmed down proposal and failed. all democrats voting against moving forward, one republican rand paul objected to the spending generally and long has done that and the big question now is where does that actually leave things? the negotiations between speaker pelosi and treasury secretary n mnuchin nonexistent now. crucial items as that initial

stimulus, initial $2.2 trillion is sucked out of the economy. republicans have made clear they won't go near that. they want something in the range between 1 trillion and 1.5 trillion so i guess the bottom line here is for people who were expecting or for economists who said it was noecessary for more money to be pumped into the economy it is not coming any time soon from capitol hill and i think the reality is when you talk to members on both sides of the aisle there is a very, very legitimate sense that nothing is going to happen with the expectation that as you know well in election season by the erra end of lawmakers tend to leave and right now there's no plan, no off ramp, no negotiation scheduled, no gang of anybody set up to negotiate. people are more or less throwing up their hands and assume that there might not be a second stimulus. >> let's go through the parties who are impacted by this.

unemployed americans, what does this mean for them? >> reporter: obviously if you are unemployed you get the state base benefits if you're within the time within doe but the thing that the march stimulus provided is $600 federal enhancement. that was huge. i have talked to a number of people. that federal plus up was enormous to stabilize things waiting for the economy to open back up and expired the end of july and saw the president move forward on a $300 supplement to that and seen that tap out. so if you wanted more of that federal urn employment enhancement it's not coming. the next round of stimulus checks, another round of checks and that won't be there and small business funds huge for the economy and closing the doors, right now that is not

available. the ppp expired last month. >> and states that are having problems, cities having problems, just quick before you go, phil, where are they in all of this? >> reporter: they're in the same place, no more funding than they got from the initial stimulus. $150 billion in the initial stimulus and there's problems unlocking that money for some states. democrats want 900 plus billion dollars for states with a $500 billion shortfall in revenue and right now getting neither of those things. >> it is sad, phil, to hear you go through that. it is so important people hear that. they're hung out to dry by congress and congress will probably be going away. phil mattingly on capitol hill, thank you. president trump in his own words revealing the existence of a secret nuclear weapons system? that's next.

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new nuclear weapons system, this yet another jaw dropping moment from the president's interviews with bob woodward. >> but i have built a nuclear -- i have built a weapons system that nobody's had in this country before. we have stuff that you haven't seen or heard about. we have stuff that putin and xi has never heard about before. what we have is incredible. >> putin and xi have now heard about it and we now know that the president disclosed that secret information during his very first interview with woodward. i'm joined by cnn contributor miles taylor who was chief of staff for the department of homeland security during the trump administration. miles, what is your reaction to this disclosure? >> well, thanks, brianna. i would say this. after having served two and a half years in this administration i thought i'd seen and heard it all but here we are with the president

shocking everyone those of us who heard him say some of the most shocking things ever said in the oval office of the white house. the concern here is very clear, the president of the united states has one primary obligation. and that's to protect the american people and part of that is to protect our national security secrets. people joked when donald trump came in that can we trust this guy with the nuclear codes? here's donald trump basically proving to us in realtime that he can't be trusted with the nation's secrets. this is the type of information that if someone like me with a security clearance came out and validated we'd go to prison. this would be prosecutable, criminal release of classified information. i won't confirm or deny whether what donald trump said was true but once again if someone below the president had made these types of disclosures it would be criminal in nature. what's worrisome here is by

talking about sensitive programs everyo he is giving adversaries a road map to try to find more about the programs. right now i'm sure the chinese and russians telling operatives to find out more about this and about a program that if it exists they otherwise wouldn't have known about. this is damning and it is damaging to our national security. >> and former defense skaek james mattis said trump is dangerous, unfit and no moral compass. fauci says that trump's attention span is a minus number. i know you have your own firsthand experience working with the president. what have you seen? >> look. i actually think those comments were generous and i'll tell you without citing any of those individuals by name those are some of the tamer comments that people at the senior levels of the administration made about the president. the concerns were severe. i think dr. fauci's comment of the president having a minus

number attention span is generous. the president could not focus day-to-day on his actual job. you would go in to meetings with the president on sobering, weighty issues and he would be distracted by something else. we were in there to talk about school shootings and he was getting ready to meet with parents of children that died in the classrooms and the president didn't want to talk about the meeting and he wanted to talk about how beautiful the walls should be and told us at the time i want the wall to be a work of art. this is as parents and children waiting in the next room to talk about lost loved wi ones. i would say that this sentiment you heard expressed in those quotes by jim mass tttis and dr fauci were widely shared and are still shared by people in the administration and i urge them to put bad ideas back in the box when they emerge from the oval

office but others that found they can no longer do that it's time to speak up and speak out. >> i want to also just get your reaction to allegations from a whistle-blower at dhs where you were chief of staff sharing the top political appointees were told to alter intelligence reports to match what the president was saying publicly. what is your reaction to this news? >> yeah. i would say that we need to withhold judgment at least initially and treat this one with kid gloves. this is a whistle-blower who reportedly removed from the i don't know for compiling dossiers of reporters, something that should not happen in an intelligence office, so while these things are sorted out we need to deal with those allegations with kid gloves. that said, the allegations thech themselves are worrying and one piece of the complaint i ended up being able to value date and

the individual told to adjust assessments of russian interference and specifically that the president threatened to fire a top dhs intelligence official for telling the truth of interference. that's true. i was on the phone that night with the white house when individuals were saying that president wants the top dhs intelligence leader fired because that person testified on capitol hill that russia did intervene in 2016 and expressed a preference for trump to win the election and information that they have publicly validated and said is true but the president wanted us to fire that person for making those statements. if that doesn't have a chilling effect on the intelligence community i don't know what does. >> miles, you're named in the whistle-blower complaint specifically. alleging that you were part of a campaign that he felt did not line up with the facts so i hear you saying maybe -- what do you say to this allegation? >> yeah.

no. very important. i believe in the allegation, the whistle-blower says that the secretary of homeland security inflated the number of terrorists crossing the border to make it seem like a bigger threat. the big story is the secretary never made such a public statement. no reporter can find that statement. the real story is we were worried that the white house was misstating the number of terrorists crossing the southern border and used data that we'd given them and the secretary ordered to release a fact sheet to make clear very few terrorists crossed the southern border. we were concerned about the white house politicizing that information. it was a clarification of the case. >> we know white house officials were overstating, misstating. miles, thank you so much. this is just in to cnn, hearing that president trump will hold a news conference this amp amid the fallout from the

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top of the hour now. i'm brianna keilar. we have learned that president trump will hold a news conference next hour in the wake of explosive recordings of him

talking with journalist bob woodward. in those tapes, the president admits that back in early february, he wanted to quote play down the dangers of the coronavirus and then he ticked through the details of how contagious and deadly the virus is. that is more than a month before the white house's first official call to stay at home on march 16th. >> now it's turning out it's not just old people, bob, but just today and yesterday some startling facts came out. it's not just older -- >> yeah, exactly. >> older people, but plenty of young people. >> so -- so give me a moment of talking to somebody, going through this with fauci or somebody who kind of it caused a pivot in your mind because it's clear just from what's -- what's on the public record that you went through a pivot on this to oh, my god, the gravity is