CBS reporter Paula Reid questions President Trump about what his administration did the entire month of February as the coronavirus pandemic was spreading.
President Trump: I saved tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of lives. You're so disgraceful. It's so disgraceful the way you say that. Let me just...Listen... I just went over it.Nobody thought we should do it and when I did it.You know what we did? What do you do when have no case in the whole United States? When you... Excuse me, you reported it.Zero cases, zero deaths on January 17th. January. I said in January. On January... A lot...A lot
CBS reporter Paula Reid: What did you do with the time that you bought? The argument is that you bought yourself some time and you didn't use it to prepare hospitals. You didn't use it to ramp up testing. Right now nearly twenty million people are unemployed. Tens of thousands of Americans are dead. How is this sizzle reel or this rant supposed to make people feel confident in an unprecedented crisis? But what did you do with the time that you bought? The month of February. That video was a gap for the entire month of February. You had cases in February. January. The entire month of February, your video has a complete gap. What did your administration do in February with the time your travel ban bought you?