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coronavirus. you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. obviously no one is going to deny that. but what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. but you re right, i mean, obviously, if we had right from the very beginning shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. but there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then. and as we know, that pushback came from the very top. president trump at first ignoring all the signals and growing evidence that the deadly virus was spreading across the nation. the washington post reporting that he asked dr. fauci last month, why can t we just let coronavirus wash over the country. fauci told him that would result in a lot of americans dying. does that sound like something we ve heard before? the president saying this about a lot of people who were telling him to ride out the virus. but think of w ....
on on capitol hill, and we re about to see some at the white house, right? reporter: that s right, rick. i m going to speak low because the president s about to walk out. senator mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate, is saying john boehner should move forward on a two month deal like the president wants, and they should enter into immediate negotiations here s the president. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you, everybody. please, please have a seat. good afternoon to all of you, merry christmas, happy holidays. you know, we ve been doing everything we can over the last few weeks to make sure that 160 million working americans respect hit with a holiday aren t hit with a holiday tax increase on january 1st. we ve also been doing everything we can to make sure that millions of people who are out there looking for work in a very tough environment don t start losing their unemployment insurance on january 1st. now, on saturday we reached a bipartisa ....
house, right? reporter: that s right, rick. i m going to speak low because the president s about to walk out. senator mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate, is saying john boehner should move forward on a two month deal like the president wants, and they should enter into immediate negotiations here s the president. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you, everybody. please, please have a seat. good afternoon to all of you, merry christmas, happy holidays. you know, we ve been doing everything we can over the last few weeks to make sure that 160 million working americans respect hit with a holiday aren t hit with a holiday tax increase on january 1st. we ve also been doing everything we can to make sure that millions of people who are out there looking for work in a very tough environment don t start losing their unemployment insurance on january 1st. now, on saturday we reached a bipartisan compromise that would do just that, make sure that people r ....
his handling of some of the biggest issues we are facing today. molee line is at the town hall. set the scene for us. what are we expecting? reporter: you know, red, white and blue everywhere, we are awaiting the latest candidate to announce his run for the white house, john huntsman, a former utah governor and he served in the president obama administration as an ambassador to china here is the town hall. the band is playing. it s a little noisy. we are expecting mr. huntsman to be running a bit late. he did announce this morning in new jersey in front of lady liberty. he rorbgd under reagan as a white house staffer and he worked for the bush administration as well. today he talks about civility in the race. so he would not be attacking his republican challengers or for that matter the president, take a listen. we will conduct this campaign on the high road. i don t think you need to run down someone s reputation in order to run for the office of president. of cour ....