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CNNW Anderson Cooper 360 September 23, 2020

China let this happen and just remember that. China let it happen. Its a shame he said but its chinas fault but at least its not 2. 5 million dead. That was it. Its hard to know where to begin with all that. His press secretary said this today. He has said before that it keeps him up at night thinking of even one life lost. This president has taken this incredibly seriously. Thats kaley. She said her boss was up saying this yesterday. We didnt know it. Now we know it. It affects elderly people, elderly people with heart problems and other problems if they have other problems, thats what it really affects. Thats it. You know, in some states, thousands of people, nobody young below the age of 18 like nobody. They have a strong immune system. Who knows. Take your hat off to the young because they have a hell of an immune system but it affects virtually nobody. It an amazing thing. By the way, open your schools. Everybody open your schools. [ cheers ] it affects elderly people. Thats it he says. Among anyone else it affects virtually nobody in his words. Virtually nobody. Actually, mr. President , it has affected and sickened and killed people in every age group from toddlers to the oldest americans. Weve seen College Football players develop heart issues and children get strokes and people of all ages get sick. It certainly is deadlier to seniors but anyone can get sick and anyone can pass it on to other people. If you believe that it only affects elderly people as the president said, meaning it kills them are elderly people now disposable in this society . Is that the country we now want to live in . If so, the president might want to look in the mirror or get on a scale because he is elderly and obesity is an underlying condition. The president knows what he said isnt true. Hes known it for months. Keeping them honest, he himself said so to bob woodward in march. Now it turning out its not just old people, bob. Today and yesterday startling facts came out. Its not just older exactly. Plenty of young people. Its plenty of young people he said on march 19th when 265 people died. Perhaps when the president said that he was maybe trying to impress bob woodward with his knowledge or make the accomplishment of tackling the pandemic that much more impressive when it actually happened. Except that victory has not come yet. Because whatever the president s motivations were for saying what he said, he never publicly said or acted on what he knew. And even as the outbreak grew, he kept sounding the alarm privately about the virus publicly would magically disappear. This thing is a killer. If youre the wrong person, you dont have a chance. Yes, yes, exactly. A friend of mine died. Very great Real Estate Developer from manhattan died yesterday. Listen, students of mine, i teach a journalism seminar have written me have had it and one of the women said she had it. They said she was cured and they kept coming back with new symptoms, strange things happened. She had intense headaches. She what happened . Shes in agging agony and th telling her, oh, youre cured now. Youre over it. So this i mean, you said it. This is a skorge. Its the plague. That was mid april when about 30,000 americans died and privately he sounded like he understood the threat for what it was. Again, though, he said nothing at the time that it might have honestly alerted the public or did anything to protect them. He said he was tweeting in all caps on april 17th, lib maerate minnesota, liberate michigan and virginia. He was tweeting that with 30,000 of his fellow americans dead and many more dying. With another 170,000 dead since then, the president keeps holding rallies like this one tonight in pittsburgh floating social distancing guidelines mocking people for wearing a mask. As he does, new cases in this country have started rising from a baseline that was high to begin with. 52,000 reported yesterday. Look at the map. New cases up 10 to 50 in 16 states. Up more than 50 in eight. The ones in deep red. They are steady in 20 states and dropping in only six. Today the day more than 200,000 people he took an oath to protect have died, the president again had nothing but praise for the job hes done. I think weve done an amazing job. Theyre having a spike in europe now, as you know, and were always compared to europe and weve done very welcome paired to europe. In my opinion, were rounding the turn. Rounding the turn. He said that yet again. Yesterday he gave himself an a plus on the job talking today with the cnns sanjay gupta dr. Anthony fauci had this response how to grade the president. Take a look at the numbers and make up your own mind. I mean, you know, we dont need a sound byte from me. Take a look at the numbers. Dr. Fauci said this about covid and younger patients. It isnt just the elderly and those with underlying conditions. Because it can be serious in young people, true people with underlying conditions but those are not just isolated at the elderly. There are plenty of younger people who have underlying conditions that put them at risk. Again, the president knew this, said so to bob woodward in march but kept the truth from the public. Dr. Fauci has not. He addressed the death toll today. The idea of 200,000 deaths is really very sobering and in some respects, stunning. If the president is in any way sobered by the same milestone that sobered and stunned the expert in the field, hes showing few signs of it. Truly feeling the impact after all might mean acknowledging the terrible scale of it and also the individual ity and unique value of every life lost. Everything in short that makes us all somebody. But it affects virtually nobody. Its an amazing thing. Dr. Feigen was just 28 years old. She was in her second year of an ob gyn residency at a hospital in houston where she also worked the front lines caring for covid patients. In july she tested positive. By august she was on a ventilator and last week she seemed to be turning a corner and on friday night she developed bleeding in her brain and died early saturday with her parents by her side. Her parents brant and mary jane feigen join us now. Im sorry for your loss. Its beyond words. Mary jane, if you could, id love people to know more about adaline. What was she like . Well, adaline is our second oldest and she was very busy. She was very inquisitive. She was always from a very young age a people person. She loved to talk. She was an early talker. So she had quite a personality right from the time she was very young and it just developed into what she was today. And she was delightful. I mean, people loved her, and she loved to talk to people of all ages, particularly older people. Just because they had a lot of experience. They experienced, you know, hardship, joy, and she just was very pleased to be around people. Brant, the picture of her holding a baby, is that the first baby she delivered . Yes, thats the first baby she delivered as a resident. Wow. That must did she always want to be a doctor . Since she was 5 she would runaround with a setethoscope around her neck. A real one . No, a toy. When she was 11 she had a terrible illness and ended up in a wheelchair and went to a doctor who talked to her like a real human being, like an adult practically and from that day on, she said she wanted to be a doctor to help people like that doctor helped her. That changed the course of her life. Yes. Yes, it did. That one visit to that doctor changed her life. Brant, you wrote something i want to read to people. If you can do one thing, be an adaline in the world and help those less fortunate, have a smile on your face, a laugh in your heart and a disney tune on your lips. Ive been reading about her. She did so much in her time, you know, in her 28 years, its extraordinary. She went to haiti multiple times and helped so many people. Thats what she loved to do. She went to haiti four times on medical missions to help bring medical care to the haitians that lived too far outside the city to get any. She worked as a cna before she went to medical school and, you know, weve heard from a doctor in florida whose mother adaline took care of and touched her. She just loved to help people. She really, really did and thats what she saw was her goal in life was to help women especially but help people, under privileged people. Mary jane, i know one of the things that ive talked to so many families who have experienced a loss is often times it seems like somebody is sort of on making amend or has made a turn for the better and then they dont and i know adaline was in the hospital for more than two months. She was on a ventilator since early august. You were able to be there at the end, which so many families arent, thats god to be a blessing considering the alternativ alternatives. Yes, yes, it was. But we were also very fortunate in the sense that before adaline had turned really ill, she had her cell phone, and we made sure when she was at hca, the first hospital, we communicated nonstop with her because she was so incredibly flightrighten. Not everyone talking. We kept the phone and went around our business so she knew we were connected since we couldnt go in. When she was transported to memorial hermann, we had spoken to one of the nurses and said, could we since we cannot come in, could we at least just talk to her . We couldnt see her but we wanted to talk. So every night before we went to bed, we basically went over what our day was like and then we said we loved her. Then as she progressed a little bit more, the doctors or the nurses were willing to turn on her face time and we were able to see her for a little bit. Most loved ones cant do that. I mean, it just how it felt into place with her phone, it gave us great comfort and on tuesday, the week that she passed away, we were allowed to go in just for 15, 20 minutes and she was very she had a lot of sedation and that day she was very sleepy but if i kept saying adaline open your eyes, she would do it and i am so incredibly thankful that we had the opportunity because she before i left so my husband could see her, i said adaline can you give me a kiss . She puckered her lips and she met my lips and i will forever remember that. That was probably the biggest gift ive ever had and that was the last time i other than the night that we got the call that she had a brain bleed, my husband and i chose not to pursue any further surgery because she was so far gone. There was just so much blood that no amount of skilled physician or technology was ever going to make her better and so i basically held her until the very end and that was pretty much it, you know. So we are very thankful that we had that opportunity. So many parents have not been able to and it breaks my heart. Yeah. My mom died a little more than a year ago and i was able to be there at the end and its im very grateful for that chance. Uhhuh. Yeah. This disease has robbed us in so many ways not just because of her love but the fact we couldnt go in there to be with her and she was so incredibly frightened, she was kind of, you know, being in the medical field, she knew what was ahead of her, and that just made matters worse for her. And now were getting ready to arrange her funeral arrangements and then again, we aare having difficulty because of covid, things you can do and cant do. Covid continues to wreck our lives and everyone elses lives. Brent, is there anything else you want people out there to know about adaline or anything she would want people to think about for about covid . Well, i know she would want everybody to think of the other person. You know, wear your mask. Social distance. Do these things that are recommended to keep people safe. You dont have to want to protect yourself. But at least want to protect somebody else. It may be your mailman. It may be your doctor or your nurse or your neighbor. Youre doing it for other people, not necessarily yourself. Thats what everyone should be doing. Well, she sounds like an amazing person, and just talking to you both, i can tell where she got an awful lot of that from you and your strength is extraordinary and in your grief, i appreciate you taking the time to talk with us and let us know about adaline and what a loss for all of us. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. We wish you peace in the days ahead brant and marcy jane feigen. Thank you. Still to come we have breaking news on president trumps supreme vacancy and more on the pandemic and all the latest news. After the break, a profile discussion of who sources say is the front runner judge amy barrett and top cia assessment on russias attempts to disrupt the 2020 election. Ill speak to the reporter who broke the story tonight. The United States Postal Service is here to deliver your packages. 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Barrett began her career as a law clerk for late justice scalia. It was intimidating working for him. He called you in his office, you had to be prepared to go to the mat and talk about whatever it was and he was always five steps ahead of you. Reporter she went on to become a law professor at notre dame. Before i was a judge, i was a law professor. Reporter where in 2012 she signed on to a public letter protesting abortion and contraception coverage of the Affordable Care act were quote an assault on religious liberty. You are controversial, lets start with that. Reporter barretts devote catholic faith was a point of contention during her 2017 confirmation hearing for the seventh circuit appeals court. When we read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you, and thats of concern. Reporter barrett pushed back insisting no judges religious believes should have any bearing on their interpretation of the law. If youre asking if i take my faith seriously and im a fateful catholic i am my Church Affiliation or religious belief would not bear in the discharge of my duties as a judge. Its never appropriate to impose judges personal convictions whether they derive from faith or anywhere else on the law. Reporter barrett talked about being a mother of seven during the hearing including two adopted children from haiti and a son who she learned had down syndrome when she was pregnant with him. Benjamin has special needs and presents unique challenges for all of us. Reporter barretts personal story and conservative credentials endeared her to grass roots conservatives. Somebody like amy barrett could be a powerful choice to fire up the base. Shes an extremely brilliant juriest and her personal story i think speaks to her prolife believes. Pam brown, thanks. Perspective from Gloria Borger and chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. Gloria, you heard pamelas piece. Do you think nominating judge barrett is the right move for the president ahead of the election . Well, i think if youre talking in the short term political view, sure. She appeals to evangelicals, conservative republicans. She a former law clerk of scalia who donald trump loved. I think she checks all those boxes. I think, though, in the longer term, there are republicans now asking the question do we want to spend a good part of this election talking about how roe v wade would be dismantled, talking about how obamacare and preexisting conditions would likely be dismantled before the Supreme Court after all there is a hearing on that on november 10th before the Supreme Court. So the president could get his win but in the long term will it help him in the general election . The jury, as we say, is still out on that, i think, anderson. Jeff, frankly, the more people are talking about those things, theyre not talking about the pandemic and the president s handling of it so maybe that does help him . Perhaps. Although, you know, one of the things that the Biden Campaign is clearly doing is making the Supreme Court about health care and theyre not making it up because the Supreme Court is going to hear yet another challenge to the Affordable Care act exactly one week after the election, which the new justice would have a voice in. So, you know, it is, you know, to the extent health care is the coronavirus and, you know, if every Single Person who has had a positive coronavirus test, even if theyre recovered are now have a preexisting condition, which could deny them health care. So i mean, the stories are not exactly separate and, you know, i think i have enough confidence in the American People they can remember the 200,000 people have died of this disease at the same time, theyre thinking about the Supreme Court. Gloria, i want to play something the president said on the south lawn earlier tonight. Lets watch. Eight, nine justices, you need that. With the unsolicited millions of ballots they are sending, its a scam, its a democrats know it than anybody else. So you need nine justices up there. I think it

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