Pence called out to his face over claim that Trump NEVER downplayed the virus

Every step of the way, as the President did again this weekend, we have been taking bold and decisive action at the President's direction to put America's health first, and I promise all of your viewers that we will continue to do just that. because less than a month ago, on March 11, there were eleven deaths in the United States. We are now approaching four thousand deaths in the United States and the next few weeks and months could be one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand. The president said last night that New York and New Jersey and his words started very late in the fight against the

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, but they did it in the United States as a whole and I will reiterate the question, Mr.

The vice president in the United States as a whole had a late start. Well, the reality is that we could have been better off if China had been more communicative. I mean, the reality is that China has been more transparent about the corona

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. than they certainly were for other infectious diseases over the past 15 years, but what seems evident now is that long before the world found out in December that China was dealing with this and perhaps asthma for up to a month before, the outbreak occurred. was real in China, yes, I just pointed out that it would have been nice if the president hadn't been belittling the enormity of this crisis, that coronavirus pandemic, as it was now, is finally on board the models, sir.

The vice president predicts that a hundred thousand people dying are due to a national lockdown, but right now the entire country is not on the same page, as you well know, why not sir? vice president issue a national stay at home order right now well, respectfully, I would disagree with two things you just said. I don't think the president has ever

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the coronavirus threat that we're suggesting. He was suggesting mr. Baier at this time will express gratitude and confidence in the health workers in this country. I refer to the American saying that when I was president, Trump will continue to be confident that we will get to this moment, but with respect to the model, let me just Let me respectfully interrupt Mr.

Vice President what I was actually suggesting was saying that at one point we didn't it was as bad as the common flu and he was talking about car accidents he seemed to be suggesting that at one point there were 15 cases that would go down to zero very quickly that that's what I was basing it on, that's a phrase, but go ahead and make your point. look at the president, the president is an optimistic person, we have been from the beginning, when the president suspended all travel from China and defended the White House. coronavirus task force in January, we've been hoping for the best but planning for the worst and that's been playing out every day, yeah, if you're wondering how much the Trump administration is trying to mislead the American people, just look at Mike Pence.

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s he doesn't believe that quote Trump ever belittled the coronavirus threat and look, I get that Republicans traffic in this Orwellian fever dream where their goal is to rewrite history before our very eyes, but we've been sitting here for days and weeks . watching as the White House and subsequently other Republicans and conservative media pretend that it didn't exist, that it was no big deal and that it would disappear in a few days. Has the CBC informed you? Do you know the words about a pandemic in At this point, oh, we are not at all and we have it totally under control.

What do you care about? Well, we pretty much closed it. You know, a lot of people think that that goes away in April with the heat, since the heat usually comes. it will go away and in April we are in very good shape, although one day it will go away, it's like a miracle, it will go away, I think they could have vaccines relatively soon and they will have something that will make you feel better and that will really take In this place we thought even before, so There's a lot of good things happening because a lot of people will have this and it's very mild, they'll get better very quickly, they don't even see a doctor, they don't even call them a doctor.

We know that we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people who get better there just by sitting down and even going to work, some of them go to work, but as of now and yesterday, anyone who needs a test that is important and a hateful person like the letter is perfect, the transcription is perfect, true, this is not so perfect, but it is pretty good that you are not taking this seriously enough and that some of your statements do not match what your health experts say. CN n, it's really working. and many good things will happen.

My first question is that you said you don't take responsibility, but you dissolved the White House pandemic office and the officials who worked in that office abruptly left this administration, so what responsibilities do you have? Consider that and officials who worked in that office told you that the White House lost valuable time because that office was not disbanded. What does he think about that? Well, I think it's an unpleasant question, but it's something we have tremendous control over. about mr. President, the other day you said that you were not responsible for the evidence deficit. A very simple question: is the responsibility on you?

On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your response to this crisis? I read it at the end, well, you. I say the Americans were scared, although I guess almost 200 dead 14,000 are sick. Millions as you witness who are scared right now. Why are you telling Americans watching you right now that you're scared? I say you're a terrible reporter. what I say Easter is a very special day for me and I see that it's on that timeline that I'm thinking about and I say, wouldn't it be great to have all the churches full? You know, churches are not allowed.

Basically having a big congregation there and most of them I saw on Sunday online and by the way it was fantastic but the order line will

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be like being there so I think on Easter Sunday you will have full churches all over the world. country because we have done a great job, no one has done the work that we have done and it is lucky that you have this group here right now for this problem or you wouldn't even have a country left so I'm sorry but when this administration pretends that it always was on top of this, he is ignoring video evidence spanning literal months where Trump's position was to calmly eliminate him with the powers of hope and optimism.

Now another mind-blowing talking point is that when the wolf asks about America getting a late start, Pence

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s that we would have been better off if China had been more forthcoming, so let me start by saying yes, China is to blame for not warning. to the rest of the world before, absolutely, that is an issue that must be addressed and I am not going to apologize for a policy of denialism and pretending that it is somehow acceptable, but that said, it is our government that owns the response, which was also steeped in denial, so they can Don't get mad that China is lying about the coronavirus and don't get mad that Trump is also lying about the coronavirus.

Seriously, you can't blame China for how we responded once it got here. China did not prevent other countries like South Korea from responding appropriately. If we lived in a vacuum, that would be one thing, but we had the luxury of being able to directly compare ourselves to other countries and see how they responded, so it's not like we're going to watch a hundred thousand Americans die and just hope that's the case. Good job, we can simply compare ourselves to other countries and know immediately how our response matches up and the horrible truth is it's not even close, just look at the United States. and South Korea, we both had our first cases on the exact same day and now look at the difference in the curves between the two countries, they have flattened their curve while ours is increasing exponentially, so I don't know any other way to say this. is a good answer, ours is objectively not a good answer, you can't look at these two curves and think they are even on the same planet.

Now Pence continues to debunk Wolf's point that Trump had

downplayed

the outbreak by relying on the idea that Trump is just an optimistic person but we don't need optimism we can watch Friends reruns if we want to have a good time we needed honesty we needed to prepare we needed experts we needed messaging clear and decisive leadership and we didn't get any of that from Trump, which is why now we are going to have to bury hundreds of thousands of people while the president and his spokesmen are still months later pointing the finger at everyone else.