The following is satirical.
Vice President Mike Pence is under attack for refusing to say &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; but instead declaring that &#8220;all lives matter.&#8221;
On CNN, the lovely Miss Brian Stelter flew into a girlish pet at the news and hand-bagged the VP, declaring, “Black Lives Matter is a highly effective organization whose defund the police policies have achieved more innocent black deaths in a single weekend than the police have caused in the last two years.&#8221;
&#8220;Their uplifting battle to destroy the traditional family will finally end white privilege by miring black Americans in inescapable dysfunction, making white people feel really guilty so they stop walking around with those smug looks on their faces,&#8221; Stelter continued. &#8220;And BLM fund-raising goes to support the Democrats whose unshakeable commitment to black people can be seen in every city they govern, although you don’t want to see it too close cause you can get killed in those places.&#8221;
&#8220;And yet all Mike Pence can do is say ‘all lives matter,’ which is clearly a dog whistle to Christians with their secret belief in universal love for mankind,&#8221; Stelter concluded.
The lovely Miss Stelter was so upset, she then went to bed for the rest of the day and sobbed pitiably into her nightgown.
At the New York Times, a former newspaper, Editor in Charge of Flagrant Historical Distortion, Nicole-Racial Grift wrote, “For too long Vice President Pence’s self-righteous refusal to commit adultery has signaled his support for the oppressive patriarchal institutions of honesty and decency that would have kept someone like me from achieving my high position. Fortunately, the New York Times has abandoned those institutions, leaving me free to break the chains of fact and history that have for so long enslaved my people, namely lying crazy women.”
Black Lives Matter spokesman Killian Rage said his movement would not be stopped by the Vice President’s lack of support but would press on with their mission to tear stuff down and burn businesses until it leads to something really great.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/roger-goodell-wants-to-include-colin-kaepernick-in-his-plans-to-transform-the-nfl-into-a-distant-memory-satire">Roger Goodell Wants To Include Colin Kaepernick In His Plans To Transform The NFL Into A Distant Memory</a>

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Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX is set to launch Dragon Demo-2 next Wednesday, a mission that will send NASA astronauts into space from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade.
American astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will launch from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 and fly to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Crew Dragon capsule. The last such launch came in July 2011 and became the final mission of NASA&#8217;s space shuttle program.
Crew Dragon Demo-2 will also be the first two-person orbital spaceflight launched from the U.S. since STS-4 in 1982.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just been an incredible journey to get us this far, and in some ways it&#8217;s really hard to believe we&#8217;re gonna launch next week, but it&#8217;s incredibly exciting,&#8221; Hurley said on Tuesday during a meeting of the National Space Council, a policy-steering body led by Chairman and Vice President Mike Pence.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a real honor to just be a part of this program and to launch American rockets from Florida one more time,&#8221; said Hurley, 53, who was on board that last space shuttle flight.
Hurley, the mission commander, and Behnken will conduct experiments on board the ISS, where they are scheduled to stay for one to four months, until the next Crew Dragon launch. They will then return to Earth for a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Canaveral.
The first stage booster on the launch will also attempt to land autonomously in the Atlantic Ocean on a SpaceX floating barge called &#8220;Of Course I Still Love You.&#8221;
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Dragon Demo-2 is a priority for the agency.
“We need access to the International Space Station from the United States of America. Commercial Crew is the program that’s going to make that happen. It’s essential for our country to have that capability,” Bridenstine told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-launch-astronauts-u-s-soil-first-time-nearly-decade-n1186356">CNBC</a>.
SpaceX has a $2.6 billion contract with NASA&#8217;s Commercial Crew Program to conduct six such flights, and also flies robotic resupply missions with the cargo version of Dragon,  first sent to the ISS in 2012.
The flight comes amid some turmoil in NASA. On Tuesday, the agency announced that Doug Loverro had resigned as associate administrator for NASA&#8217;s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. Loverro&#8217;s former deputy, former NASA astronaut Ken Bowersox, has taken over the job as acting associate administrator.
&#8220;Next week will mark the beginning of a new era in human spaceflight with the launch of NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station,&#8221; NASA officials wrote in a statement about Loverro&#8217;s departure. &#8220;This test flight will be a historic and momentous occasion that will see the return of human spaceflight to our country, and the incredible dedication by the men and women of NASA is what has made this mission possible.&#8221;
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Despite her position as third in line to the Oval Office, the White House is not making any plans to welcome in a &#8220;President Nancy Pelosi&#8221; in the event President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence both become incapacitated and unable to carry out the duties of the presidency because of a coronavirus infection.
Trump critics have surfaced the scenario several times this month, perhaps secretly hoping that, after news spread of several coronavirus cases in close proximity to both Trump and Pence, a succession was possible. But White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany put a swift end to any anti-Trump fantasies Thursday afternoon.
&#8220;White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany revealed Thursday there is no procedure in place to facilitate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ascension to the presidency should President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence become incapacitated by the coronavirus,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/14/trump-pence-coronavirus-258299">according to Politico</a>.
McEnany seemed annoyed by the mere question.
&#8220;That’s not even something that we’re addressing,” she said. “We’re keeping the president healthy. We’re keeping the vice president healthy. And you know they’re healthy at this moment, and they’ll continue to be.”
McEnany then criticized reporters for sounding gleeful at the possibility that the Speaker of the House could, at some point, end up in the White House: “The president’s healthy. The vice president’s healthy. And I think that’s something all reporters should be celebrating, and the American people, as well.”
That echoes President Trump&#8217;s thoughts on the matter from a press conference Monday. Trump said &#8220;President Pelosi&#8221; &#8220;would be a disaster.&#8221;
&#8220;Never going to happen,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We’ll keep our vice president very healthy, and I’ll stay healthy. Never going to happen.&#8221;
The president and vice president are both tested multiple times per week, the White House has said, using the Abbott rapid response test that returns results in around fifteen minutes (though the Abbott test has come under some scrutiny this week for regularly returning false negatives).
Last week, though, members of the vice president&#8217;s team tested positive for the novel coronavirus, leaving some in the White House concerned that the infection could spread among senior White House officials and others close to the president. The president&#8217;s office issued rules, earlier this week, requiring staffers in the West Wing to wear masks at all times, except during mealtimes and when working by themselves in their offices, Politico says.
Because of Pence&#8217;s close contact with the infected staffer, Trump and Pence are speaking only by phone.
Pelosi, of course, would only become president if both President Trump and Vice President Pence died or were somehow incapacitated to the degree that neither could adequately perform the duties of the office of the president. If the coronavirus were to take Pelosi out, too, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) would assume the office, as he is president pro tem of the Senate.
If a slew of federal legislators were somehow wiped out, the mantle then passes to members of the Cabinet, beginning with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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White House: No, We Are NOT Making Any Plans For ‘President Pelosi’

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Vice President Mike Pence wants residents and staff at every nursing home in the United States tested for the coronavirus after a remarkable number of deaths have come out of such facilities.
The U.S. has roughly 15,000 nursing homes and one million nursing home residents. On Monday, Pence said that governors should prioritize testing at those healthcare facilities to prevent even more deaths among those especially vulnerable to Covid-19.
&#8220;I want to say what we&#8217;re urging with regard to nursing home testing is &#8230; let&#8217;s just get everybody in the homes everybody on the staff, let&#8217;s get them tested,&#8221; Pence said, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mike-pence-test-nursing-home-residents-staff/story?id=70624362">ABC News</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;re really asking for every governor to focus, over the next two weeks, on testing 100% of the residents and workers, then setting up routine surveillance of all of the workers,&#8221; added Dr. Deborah Birx, who is in charge of coordinating the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic.
Senior care facilities have been exceptionally hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Currently, 33 states are tracking deaths in long-term care facilities and reporting them as a percentage of total coronavirus-related deaths.
In many cases, such facilities account for more than half of total coronavirus deaths. In three states – Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire – the death toll in senior care facilities makes up at least 70% of the total coronavirus death count across the state, according to data collected by the <a href="https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/state-data-and-policy-actions-to-address-coronavirus/">Kaiser Family Foundation</a>.
ABC News conducted its own survey of state data and found that the total number of reported coronavirus-related deaths from people living in nursing homes in the U.S. is about 31% of the national total. Notably, that percentage is drawn from just 35 states that report deaths in long-term care facilities. If the other 15 states are assumed to have similar a number of deaths, the percentage of U.S. coronavirus-related deaths from senior care facilities rises to roughly 40%.
“I was on a phone call last week, where four or five patients came into our hospital just in one day from nursing homes,” Dr. Sunil Parikh, an infectious disease specialist at the Yale School of Public Health, told <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/11/nursing-homes-us-data-coronavirus">The Guardian</a>. “It’s just a staggering number day to day.”
Parikh recommends doing exactly what Pence has called for: testing everyone that works for or is living at senior care homes.
“What I would like to see is the ability to test the entire nursing homes,” Parikh said. “This symptomatic approach is just not cutting it. Many states, including Connecticut, are starting to move in that direction … but I hope it becomes a national effort.”
The industry group National Center for Assisted Living is also on board with Pence’s plan.
“We strongly agree with the vice president and Dr. Birx&#8217;s recommendation today for testing of all nursing home residents and staff and call on the federal government to help with this endeavor,” NCAL CEO Mark Parkinson told ABC News. “Without access to more testing, long term care providers are at a severe disadvantage in identifying more of these asymptomatic residents and staff who could be contagious and an endangerment to others.”
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Pence: All Nursing Home Residents, Staff Should Be Tested For Coronavirus

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough has apologized to Mike Pence and Sen. Ted Cruz after he posted a phony video about the vice president and then bashed the Texas Republican when he complained about it.
“About last night: I gotta work on some things myself,” Scarborough wrote on Twitter. “I feel really bad about retweeting the Jimmy Kimmel video. I feel worse about being provoked. I apologize again to Mike Pence, to my Twitter followers, and to Ted. I’ve got to do better.”
The brouhaha started after Scarborough, host of &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; shared a video created by late-night talk show host Kimmel over the weekend. The clip showed Pence carrying &#8220;empty&#8221; boxes of personal protective equipment (PPE) into a hospital &#8212; supposedly for just a photo-op. But the clip was missing some key context: the full footage from C-SPAN showed Pence helping out with full boxes of PPE and later jokingly asking his staff that maybe he could carry the empty ones &#8220;just for the camera.&#8221;
Scarborough shared the Kimmel video, which Twitter eventually labeled as &#8220;manipulated media.&#8221;
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Mike Pence caught on hot mic delivering empty boxes of PPE for a PR stunt. <a href="https://t.co/IduvGhiPwj">pic.twitter.com/IduvGhiPwj</a>
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“Mike Pence pretending to carry empty boxes of PPEs into a hospital is the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he’s doing. A big box of nothin’ delivering another box of nothin&#8217;,&#8221; Kimmel said. The video has more than six million views.
But Pence was just making a joke, which was apparent to anyone who watched the full video.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s an unedited version of @VP Pence delivering PPE to Woodbine Rehab Center. The clip from @JimmyKimmel and sent viral by @mattmfm &amp; others is quite deceptive. Pence is clearly joking when he talks about empty boxes for the camera, &amp; shuts the van doors right after the quip,&#8221; Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy wrote.
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Here&#39;s an unedited version of <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> Pence delivering PPE to Woodbine Rehab Center. The clip from <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JimmyKimmel</a> and sent viral by <a href="https://twitter.com/mattmfm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mattmfm</a> &amp; others is quite deceptive. Pence is clearly joking when he talks about empty boxes for the camera, &amp; shuts the van doors right after the quip. <a href="https://t.co/HyV8iBiljS">pic.twitter.com/HyV8iBiljS</a>
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Scarborough eventually pulled down his tweet, saying, &#8220;I guess Twitter is a full time job. I apologize to Mike Pence for retweeting a tweet that had been disproved. I’m deleting now.&#8221;
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I guess Twitter is a full time job. I apologize to Mike Pence for retweeting a tweet that had been disproved. I’m deleting now.
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But Cruz had already gone on the offensive by then.
&#8220;Hmm. When you’re on the defensive for being dishonest &amp; corrupt, perhaps best not to forward fraudulent stories from Jimmy Kimmel (that he’s admitted were false)? You are claiming to be a journalist, after all&#8230;.&#8221; Cruz tweeted at Scarborough.
Scarborough fired back.
&#8220;Ted, when I make a mistake I admit it. You remain mired in shame because you kowtow to a man who called your wife ugly and said your daddy assassinated JFK. Me messing up a tweet or two will never erase the shame you carry every day of your life,&#8221; he wrote.
But Cruz came back with a powerful counter punch.
&#8220;Joe, you chased after Trump for 2 years like a teenage girl throwing her panties at the latest boy band; now you pretend to be this indignant paragon of virtue outraged at everything he says &amp; does. All to get invited to DC cocktail parties &amp; thrill the 13 people watching MSNBC,&#8221; Cruz tweeted.
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Joe, you chased after Trump for 2 years like a teenage girl throwing her panties at the latest boy band; now you pretend to be this indignant paragon of virtue outraged at everything he says &amp; does. All to get invited to DC cocktail parties &amp; thrill the 13 people watching MSNBC. <a href="https://t.co/XG9P0Bwrbp">https://t.co/XG9P0Bwrbp</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1258894748447891458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Kimmel also apoligized, but threw in a dig. &#8220;It would appear that @vp was joking about carrying empty boxes for a staged publicity stunt. The full video reveals that he was carrying full boxes for a staged publicity stunt. My apologies. I know how dearly this administration values truth,” Kimmel wrote.
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Joe Scarborough Signs Copies Of His Book &#8220;The Right Path: How Republicans Once Mastered Politics &#8211; And Can Again&#8221;

‘I’ve Got To Do Better’: Joe Scarborough Apologizes To Ted Cruz After Twitter Spat

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On Monday night, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel responded to the uproar over him <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jimmy-kimmel-runs-supposedly-damning-video-of-mike-pence-delivering-empty-boxes-kimmel-was-lying">showing a deceptive video</a> about Vice President Mike Pence and subsequently mocking Pence. In the rant, Kimmel engaged in whataboutism targeting the Trump administration, mocking Christians, accusing some Trump supporters of hypocrisy, and concluding with a list of charges against Trump that would not be out of place in a Democratic Party campaign ad.
Kimmel began by recalling what had occurred last week:
<blockquote>Thursday night, I showed a video. It was one of these embarrassing photo-ops of Mike Pence, the vice president, carrying boxes delivering PPE to a facility for senior citizens. It was a publicity stunt to show how much they&#8217;re doing, but that happens in politics, okay, fine. The trouble started because at one point in the video after awkwardly lugging a heavy box to the door, Mike Pence finds some empty boxes in the back of the van. Why there were empty boxes in the back of the van, I don&#8217;t know, but he finds them and he says, &#8220;Can I just carry the empty ones just for the camera,&#8221; which turns out he was joking. How anyone can tell when Mike Pence is joking, I don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t know, but he was joking. I didn&#8217;t know because I&#8217;d only watched part of the video.</blockquote>
Kimmel couldn&#8217;t resist taking another shot at Pence:
<blockquote>It turns out there were 29 minutes of this on C-Span that apparently indicate he was joking about carrying the empty boxes for the camera, which again I didn&#8217;t know because I don&#8217;t have the mental endurance it requires to watch Mike Pence deliver boxes for 29 minutes on C-Span. But I should have watched the whole thing, I guess.</blockquote>
Then he turned to the people who had slammed him for his actions vis-a-vis the video:
<blockquote>Bottom line is: I was wrong; he was joking. I didn&#8217;t know, I made a mistake, and when I found out I was wrong, I acknowledged it by taking the video down and tweeting an apology — of sorts — to the best of my ability. Apologizing to the Trump administration for spreading untruth is like apologizing to Barry Bonds for using steroids. It&#8217;s hard. But the outrage from the MAGA hats, the outpouring of venom was disgusting. Stupid, too. But mostly disgusting. Some of these lunatics have the audacity to use the word “Christian” in their bios, but that didn&#8217;t stop them from wishing death on me, on my family, on my son. Some of them said they hope my son dies.  They threatened my wife.</blockquote>
Kimmel then used the accusation against him that he had used a doctored video to segue to an attack on Trump:
<blockquote>There were hundreds of horrible, hateful, sometimes violent, Twitter and Facebook posts because I showed what they kept calling a doctored video, which was not a doctored video by the way. We didn&#8217;t do anything to it. We didn&#8217;t doctor the video. Doctors are the people Donald Trump doesn&#8217;t listen to. And doctored videos are something Donald Trump posts all the time. Some of his paid campaign ads are doctored videos that had to be removed for violating the rules about that sort of thing.</blockquote>
Then he worked in an attack on some Trump supporters:
<blockquote>But these people who blindly pledge their allegiance to Donald Trump instead of this country are so — their hypocrisy runs so deep, they don&#8217;t even seem to be aware of it anymore. It&#8217;s like when an Uber driver wears too much cologne.</blockquote>
Then he leveled a snide accusation that people associated with Pence aren&#8217;t thinking about the tragedy of thousands of people dying from the coronavirus:
<blockquote>The communications director for Mike Pence&#8217;s campaign tweeted all day about this Friday, all day, it&#8217;s the only thing he tweeted about. And I got an email from the vice president&#8217;s office requesting that I apologize on air. On Twitter wasn&#8217;t enough, I guess; they wanted it on air, because this is what they&#8217;re thinking about while thousands of Americans are dying every day. Jokes from late-night talk show hosts.</blockquote>
Kimmel then reverted to some whataboutism:
<blockquote>But okay, you know what, it was my mistake. I do apologize to the vice president, again for spreading misinformation about him. Spreading misinformation is their thing and I stepped on their toes.</blockquote>
And another attack on Pence:
<blockquote>But now that I&#8217;ve done that, I would like the vice president, since he asked me to apologize, to ask his boss, who lies every time there isn&#8217;t a McNugget in his mouth, to apologize for the following perversions of decency and democracy. Mike Pence has stood by and warmly enabled with a smug little twinkle in his eye these things for four miserable years.</blockquote>
Then the list that could have come from a Democratic Party campaign ad:
<blockquote>We would like an apology for: separating thousands of migrant children from their parents, inviting the Taliban to Camp David, siding with Vladimir Putin over US intelligence, calling neo-Nazis “very fine people,” using campaign money to pay off a porn star, mocking a 16 year old climate activist, mocking Christine Blasey Ford, obstruction of justice, ignoring warnings on Coronavirus, downplaying the dangers of coronavirus, mishandling the coronavirus, we still don&#8217;t have tests for the coronavirus, why are we opening the country when we have no tests for coronavirus, there are about 15,000 more. But let&#8217;s start with apologizing for those and we&#8217;ll get to the rest.</blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jimmykimmel</a> explains he’s the victim of his false Pence video: “The outpouring of venom was disgusting. Stupid too, but mostly disgusting. Some of these lunatics have the audacity to use the word ‘Christian&#39; in their bios, but that didn’t stop them from wishing death on me.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/WElMkizaL0">pic.twitter.com/WElMkizaL0</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1260209751650193408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Vice President Mike Pence&#8217;s office is pushing back on a report from Bloomberg News on Sunday afternoon that said Pence was reportedly self-isolating away from the White House after one of his aides tested positive for the coronavirus last week.
Bloomberg News reporter Jennifer Jacobs tweeted: &#8220;Vice President Mike Pence is self-isolating away from the White House after an aide was diagnosed with coronavirus on Friday, per several people familiar with the situation. Pence has repeatedly tested negative for Covid-19, including today, I’m told.&#8221;
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BREAKING scoop: Vice President Mike Pence is self-isolating away from the White House after an aide was diagnosed with coronavirus on Friday, per several people familiar with the situation. Pence has repeatedly tested negative for Covid-19, including today, I’m told.
&mdash; Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1259603437664243714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Jacobs noted in her report that Pence did not attend a meeting yesterday with President Donald Trump and top military leaders.
The move by Pence comes after his press secretary, Katie Miller, who is married to White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller, tested positive for the coronavirus last week.
&#8220;Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, who visited the White House on Wednesday and spent time near Miller, is considering self-isolating, according to two people familiar with the matter,&#8221; Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-10/pence-self-isolating-after-aide-tests-positive-for-coronavirus">reported</a>. &#8220;The state’s health director, Caitlin Pedati, accompanied Reynolds on the trip and is planning to self-isolate, one of the people said.&#8221;
Pence&#8217;s office quickly released a statement saying that Bloomberg News&#8217; report was not accurate.
A spokesperson for Pence told CBS News, &#8220;VP Pence will continue to follow the advice of the WH Med Unit &amp; is not in quarantine. Additionally, VP Pence has tested negative every single day &amp; plans to be at the White House tomorrow.&#8221;
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VP Pence’s office says he is NOT in quarantine. “VP Pence will continue to follow the advice of the WH Med Unit &amp; is not in quarantine. Additionally, VP Pence has tested negative every single day &amp; plans to be at the White House tomorrow.” &#8211; spox <a href="https://twitter.com/devin_omalley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@devin_omalley</a>
&mdash; Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulaReidCBS/status/1259615484733009928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The news comes after news broke on Saturday that three top scientific officials on the White House Coronavirus Task Force had entered into self-quarantine after possible exposure to the coronavirus.
The individuals who entered self-quarantine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-two-other-top-members-of-task-force-enter-quarantine-after-possible-coronavirus-exposure">include</a> Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Dr. Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
“The president’s physician and White House operations continue to work closely to ensure every precaution is taken to keep the president, first family and the entire White House complex safe and healthy at all times,” White House spokesman Judd Deere <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-aides-rattled-after-positive-coronavirus-tests-and-officials-send-mixed-message-on-how-to-respond/2020/05/09/6dab2df6-920d-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html">said</a>. “In addition to social distancing, daily temperature checks and symptom histories, hand sanitizer, and regular deep cleaning of all work spaces, every staff member in proximity to the president and vice president is being tested daily for covid-19 as well as any guests.”
A separate report from The New York Times noted that the Secret Service had nearly a dozen members that had active cases of the coronavirus and nearly two dozen members who had already recovered from the coronavirus.
“The Secret Service has 11 active cases of the coronavirus and 23 employees who have recovered, current and former government officials said Friday, but it was unclear whether any were agents or served in the White House,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/us/politics/white-house-coronavirus-safety.html">reported</a>. “The service, which has 150 offices across the country responsible for protecting a variety of dignitaries and investigating financial crimes, also has 60 others undergoing self-quarantine.”
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BREAKING: Report Claims Pence Self-Isolating After Possible Exposure To Coronavirus. Pence’s Office Denies.

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After MSNBC host Joe Scarborough publicly apologized for tweeting an out-of-context quote that Vice President Mike Pence intended as a joke, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) dunked on him in a series of exchanges that promptly derailed into accusations that the “Morning Joe” co-host dedicated two years to chasing anti-Trump stories “like a teenage girl throwing her panties at the latest boy band.”
It started with a clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live.
On Friday morning, pollster Matt McDermott tweeted a segment from Kimmel’s show — about Vice President Mike Pence delivering boxes of PPE as a publicity stunt — but also added his own caption: “Mike Pence caught on hot mic delivering empty boxes of PPE for a PR stunt.”
The tweet has since been labeled as “manipulated media,” and the full video <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jimmy-kimmel-runs-supposedly-damning-video-of-mike-pence-delivering-empty-boxes-kimmel-was-lying">actually showed</a> Pence making a joke about wanting to carry empty boxes “just for the camera” after delivering the real boxes of equipment.
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Mike Pence caught on hot mic delivering empty boxes of PPE for a PR stunt. <a href="https://t.co/IduvGhiPwj">pic.twitter.com/IduvGhiPwj</a>
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/1258750892448387074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
Scarborough, apparently not knowing the story was fake, posted the “just for the camera” quote in an effort to dunk on the Trump administration.
Enter Cruz. 
“Hmm. When you’re on the defensive for being dishonest &amp; corrupt, perhaps best not to forward fraudulent stories from Jimmy Kimmel (that he’s admitted were false)? You are claiming to be a journalist after all,” Cruz told Scarborough.
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Hmm. When you’re on the defensive for being dishonest &amp; corrupt, perhaps best not to forward fraudulent stories from Jimmy Kimmel (that he’s admitted were false)? You are claiming to be a journalist, after all&#8230;. <a href="https://t.co/tYsgKJGxpR">https://t.co/tYsgKJGxpR</a>
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1258857624562470918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
Although Scarborough deleted the tweet and apologized about an hour later, it’s unclear if he got Cruz’s original message, because he proceeded to bash the senator about his association with Trump despite the bitter 2016 primary season.
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I guess Twitter is a full time job. I apologize to Mike Pence for retweeting a tweet that had been disproved. I’m deleting now.
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1258876876673691649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
“Ted, when I make a mistake, I admit it. You remain mired in shame because you kowtow to a man who called your wife ugly and said your daddy assassinated JFK. Me messing up a tweet or two will never erase the shame you carry every day of your life,” Scarborough told Cruz.
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Ted, when I make a mistake I admit it. You remain mired in shame because you kowtow to a man who called your wife ugly and said your daddy assassinated JFK. Me messing up a tweet or two will never erase the shame you carry every day of your life. <a href="https://t.co/eJa4qWzqA2">https://t.co/eJa4qWzqA2</a>
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1258877672417120258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
After Scarborough accused Cruz of having been “mired in shame,” Cruz told the MSNBC host who he thought should really be the one feeling ashamed.
“Joe, you chased after Trump for 2 years like a teenage girl throwing her panties at the latest boy band; now you pretend to be this indignant paragon of virtue outraged at everything he says &amp; does. All to get invited to DC cocktail parties &amp; thrill the 13 people watching MSNBC,” said Cruz.
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Joe, you chased after Trump for 2 years like a teenage girl throwing her panties at the latest boy band; now you pretend to be this indignant paragon of virtue outraged at everything he says &amp; does. All to get invited to DC cocktail parties &amp; thrill the 13 people watching MSNBC. <a href="https://t.co/XG9P0Bwrbp">https://t.co/XG9P0Bwrbp</a>
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1258894748447891458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
Scarborough responded at-length, including an accusation Cruz sold his soul to Trump.
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Ted, Trump called your wife ugly and said your dad killed JFK. The difference between you and me is the closer Trump got to power, the more I criticized him. The closer Trump got to power, the more you sold your soul to him. You even sold out your own father’s name for Trump. <a href="https://t.co/jx83IE6JQ4">https://t.co/jx83IE6JQ4</a>
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1258905469898366977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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PS. I don’t do cocktail parties. I went to University of Alabama and University of Florida. You’re a Harvard and Princeton boy who spends your life around lobbyists and billionaires. You can cut out the man-of-the-people BS. Nobody believes anything you say.
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1258906661567320064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Senate Impeachment Trial Of President Trump Continues

Ted Cruz Exchanges Blows With Joe Scarborough Over ‘Manipulated’ Pence Story

On Friday morning, after blowback erupted from late-night host Jimmy Kimmel playing a deceptively-edited video in order to attack Vice-President Mike Pence, Kimmel offered a snide apology on Twitter, writing, &#8220;it would appear that <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/VP" data-focusable="true">@vp</a> was joking about carrying empty boxes for a staged publicity stunt. The full video reveals that he was carrying full boxes for a staged publicity stunt. My apologies. I know how dearly this administration values truth.&#8221;
On Thursday night, Jimmy Kimmel ripped  Pence, asserting that a video showing Pence carrying empty boxes to a rehabilitation and healthcare center was an attempt by Pence to “pretend,” adding that it was &#8220;the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he’s doing. A big box of nothin’ delivering another box of nothin’.”
One problem: the video had been deceptively edited, as the complete video shows Pence at the Woodbine Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Alexandria, Virginia, delivering boxes full of personal protective equipment (PPE) from FEMA.
Kimmel stated:
<blockquote>Here he is, with no mask on, wheeling boxes of PPEs into a health care center and doing his best to lift them. What a hero. (laughing) Just barely in the door. And since it was going so well, and also because he didn’t realize he had a mic on, Magic Mike decided to keep it going. Listen in closely here:</blockquote>
The video shows someone saying, “Those are empty, sir. We’re good to go.” Pence responds, “Well, can I carry the empty ones? Just for the camera?” Someone answers, “Absolutely.”
Kimmel continued, “Mike Pence pretending to carry empty boxes of PPEs into a hospital is the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he’s doing. A big box of nothin’ delivering another box of nothin’.”
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Mike Pence caught on hot mic delivering empty boxes of PPE for a PR stunt. <a href="https://t.co/IduvGhiPwj">pic.twitter.com/IduvGhiPwj</a>
&mdash; Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/1258750892448387074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Here’s the complete video:
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Kimmel has targeted Pence before; in March 2018 he tweeted, “That’s not the point. We don’t make films like Call Me By Your Name for money. We make them to upset Mike Pence.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jimmykimmel</a>: &quot;We don&#39;t make films like &#39;Call Me By Your Name&#39; for money. We make them to upset Mike Pence.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/E1lLYXTlWg">https://t.co/E1lLYXTlWg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oscars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Oscars</a> <a href="https://t.co/uSbTVYZ1Ll">pic.twitter.com/uSbTVYZ1Ll</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/970467862711123968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Kimmel routinely takes shots at figures within the Trump administration; in December 2018, referencing reports that one of the leading candidates to replace Gen. John Kelly as Trump&#8217;s chief of staff was none other then Trump&#8217;s son-in-law and key adviser Jared Kushner, Kimmel decided to work in a sexual reference to his wife, Ivanka, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-jimmy-kimmel-cracks-sexual-joke-about-ivanka-james-barrett">saying</a>,&#8221;I guess the thinking of [Trump] is: if he’s good enough to screw my daughter, he’s good enough to screw the country.&#8221;
In August 2019, Kimmel went on a rant in which he branded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell an “evil soulless odd creep,” called Republicans “cowardly” for refusing to appear on left-wing cable news shows after the mass shootings over the weekend, and finished with a flourish, referring to Trump supporters as people who have been “repeatedly punched in the head” and calling President Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric the “Douches of Hazzard” for being fans of MMA fighter Colby Covington.
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Kimmel Offers Snide ‘Apology’ For Video About Pence: ‘I Know How Dearly This Administration Values Truth’

On Thursday night, Jimmy Kimmel ripped Vice President Mike Pence, asserting that a video showing Pence carrying empty boxes to a rehabilitation and healthcare center was an attempt by Pence to “pretend,” adding that it was &#8220;the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he’s doing. A big box of nothin’ delivering another box of nothin’.”
One problem: the video had been deceptively edited, as the complete video shows Pence at the Woodbine Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Alexandria, Virginia, delivering boxes full of personal protective equipment (PPE) from FEMA.
Kimmel stated:
<blockquote>Here he is, with no mask on, wheeling boxes of PPEs into a health care center and doing his best to lift them. What a hero. (laughing) Just barely in the door. And since it was going so well, and also because he didn’t realize he had a mic on, Magic Mike decided to keep it going. Listen in closely here:</blockquote>
The video shows someone saying, “Those are empty, sir. We’re good to go.” Pence responds, “Well, can I carry the empty ones? Just for the camera?” Someone answers, “Absolutely.”
Kimmel continued, “Mike Pence pretending to carry empty boxes of PPEs into a hospital is the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he’s doing. A big box of nothin’ delivering another box of nothin’.”
Here’s Kimmel:
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Mike Pence caught on hot mic delivering empty boxes of PPE for a PR stunt. <a href="https://t.co/IduvGhiPwj">pic.twitter.com/IduvGhiPwj</a>
&mdash; Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/1258750892448387074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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But here’s the complete video:
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After all the boxes had been delivered, Pence stood outside and delivered a moving message to the staff of the center, saying:
<blockquote>Well, hey, everybody, I’m Vice President Mike Pence and it’s great to be here. Great to be here at the Woodbine Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center. On the behalf of your president, on the behalf of all us on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, frankly, on behalf of a grateful nation, it’s my great privilege to be here today and help deliver some additional personal protective equipment. You all are receiving one of the first installments, you might be glad to know, of PPE that’s gonna be going to every nursing home in America. 15,400 nursing homes will be receiving gowns and gloves and masks: all the personal protective equipment that I had the privilege of delivering here today.</blockquote>
He continued:
<blockquote>I’ve got with me the head of the Center for Medicaid/Medicare Services as well as members of our White House Coronavirus Task Force team; we just couldn’t resist the opportunity to come and do a little bit of heavy lifting, but most importantly just to say thank you. Thank you for the work that you do; caring for and loving our grandparents, aunts and uncles, moms and dads. I just reflected a moment ago, and yesterday when we celebrated National Nurses Day in the White House, I said yesterday that the American people really do understand that during this time of the coronavirus epidemic, that those of you that wear the uniform of nurses, and to the same extent, our doctors and other healthcare workers, you’re not just providing world-class healthcare that every one of us would want our family to have, but we also understand that you’re filling in for family. We know the emotional weight that’s placed on you. We see the way that all of you here at Woodbine and all of you at nursing homes around the country have stepped up is truly inspiring, and I hope today’s delivery is just one more piece of evidence of the profound gratitude the American people feel to each and every one of you.</blockquote>
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Members Of The Coronavirus Task Force Hold Press Briefing

Jimmy Kimmel Runs Supposedly Damning Video Of Mike Pence Delivering Empty Boxes. Kimmel Was Lying.

President Donald Trump fired back at reports that he is disbanding the coronavirus task force that took Americans through the last several months of the pandemic, posting on Twitter plans to keep the team together &#8220;indefinitely&#8221; as the administration pursues a coronavirus vaccine and successful therapies for COVID-19.
Late Tuesday, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/05/white-house-break-up-of-coronavirus-task-force-237769">Politico released a report</a> claiming that the White House was considering &#8220;winding down&#8221; the coronavirus task force and shifting its focus from the disease itself to economic recovery.
Instead of a centralized team of experts, which now includes Vice President Mike Pence, infectious disease specialist Dr. Deborah Birx, and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Politico said the Trump administration would farm out various aspects of coronavirus management to agencies like Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Pence seemed to confirm the plan to news sources Tuesday, when he told reporters that “[w]e’re having a conversation about that and about what the proper time is for the task force to complete its work&#8221; and that &#8220;[w]e’ve already begun to talk about a transition plan with FEMA.”
The vice president called those talks &#8220;preliminary,&#8221; but mainstream media sources reported the comments as confirmation that the White House would be bringing a swift end to its in-house COVID-19 project.
President Trump dismissed those reports Wednesday morning, suggesting that the White House&#8217;s coronavirus team would continue on &#8220;indefinitely,&#8221; and that it would feature a rotating cast of experts, rather than two or three permanent members, so that the administration could shift focus quickly based on need.
&#8220;The White House CoronaVirus Task Force, headed by Vice President Mike Pence, has done a fantastic job of bringing together vast highly complex resources that have set a high standard for others to follow in the future,&#8221; the president tweeted, citing his administration&#8217;s accomplishments.
&#8220;Ventilators, which were few &amp; in bad shape, are now being produced in the thousands, and we have many to spare. We are helping other countries which are desperate for them. Likewise, after having been left little, we are now doing more testing than all other countries combined, and with superior tests,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Face masks &amp; shields, gloves, gowns etc. are now plentiful. The last four Governors teleconference calls have been conclusively strong.&#8221;
He then suggested that a second coronavirus task force, charged with &#8220;opening up&#8221; the American economy, could be subsumed into the existing coronavirus team.
&#8220;Because of this success, the Task Force will continue on indefinitely with its focus on SAFETY &amp; OPENING UP OUR COUNTRY AGAIN. We may add or subtract people to it, as appropriate,&#8221; he said.
Concluding the tweetstorm, the president reiterated that the current COVID-19 team is not just focused on outbreak management and strategic oversight, but on guiding the development and approval of key medical breakthroughs: &#8220;The Task Force will also be very focused on Vaccines &amp; Therapeutics. Thank you!&#8221;
The White House&#8217;s coronavirus task force is holding only sporadic press conferences but is expected to address media this week, particularly as states begin to resume economic activity.
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Trump Fires Back At Reports He’s Breaking Up Coronavirus Task Force: Team Will ‘Keep Working Indefinitely’

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On Saturday, White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx appeared on Fox News with host Jesse Watters to discuss the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
At the beginning of the segment, Watters asked Birx about a statement made by Vice President Mike Pence regarding when the United States could begin to turn the corner.
“The vice president said the other day that Memorial Day, which is basically in a month, we will have turned the corner on this virus and will be in a much, much better place,” Watters said. “Is that your assumption as well?”
Birx replied:
<blockquote>We believe that both the hospitalizations, the ICU need, and frankly, the number of people who have succumbed to this disease, will be dramatically decreased by the end of May.</blockquote>
She continued, noting that the volume of cases “are a different issue” in light of the expansion of testing. Whereas previously, tests were prioritized to the sick, as well as front-line workers, expanded testing will likely uncover “cases that may have been and are currently circulating in the community, but maybe in that more asymptomatic or very mild state,” Dr. Birx stated.
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The comments to which Watters was likely referring came when the vice president recently appeared on Geraldo Rivera’s radio show.
“I think, honestly, if you look at the trends today &#8230; I think by Memorial Day weekend, we will largely have this coronavirus epidemic behind us, and [then] state and local officials will begin to reopen activities,” Pence said. “You&#8217;re gonna see states in the days ahead begin to do that – but the key for President Trump, for all of us, is we want to do it in a safe and responsible way. We don&#8217;t want a resurgence, and we think that the key to that is the phased approached the president outlined to the nation and to the governors last week.”
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Be sure to tune in tomorrow at 9:40 for <a href="https://twitter.com/GeraldoRivera?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GeraldoRivera</a>&#8216;s exclusive interview with Vice President and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> Task Force leader <a href="https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Mike_Pence</a>. It looks like there could be some light at the end of the tunnel. <a href="https://t.co/Ur2WQ4J6JX">pic.twitter.com/Ur2WQ4J6JX</a>
— Newsradio WTAM 1100 (@wtam1100) <a href="https://twitter.com/wtam1100/status/1253383395591233537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
Pence made <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pence-u-s-could-largely-have-covid-19-epidemic-behind-us-by-june-if-current-trend-lines-hold">similar remarks</a> on Thursday while speaking with radio host Rush Limbaugh.
The vice president first discussed antibody testing, therapeutics, and potential immunity:
<blockquote>I will tell you that our team will not be surprised to see evidence in the days ahead, particularly as these antibody tests continue to scale across America, that a large number of Americans have been exposed, contracted it, and ultimately developed the antibodies in their system to defeat it…
And it’s among the reasons why our nation, should the coronavirus reemerge at any time in the future … will be in a much better place. We’ll have new medicines called therapeutics. We’re working around the clock on vaccines. We’re deploying testing to make sure and identify, quickly contact, trace, and isolate people that have it.
But make no mistake about it: If some of those early studies hold out, there will be an awful lot of Americans in the fall and in the winter of next year that actually enjoy a degree of immunity from the coronavirus. And that will also be a bulwark against this as well.</blockquote>
Pence later added: “Because, as we track this data state by state, county by county, we’re getting there, Rush. And I truly do believe … I truly do believe, if current trend lines hold, that by early June we could largely have this coronavirus epidemic behind us, and begin to see our nation open back up and go back to work.”
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Dr. Deborah Birx

Dr. Birx Suggests ‘Hospitalizations’ And ‘ICU Need’ Could Be Significantly ‘Decreased By The End Of May’

On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence spoke with radio host Rush Limbaugh about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
After speaking about the recent protests over lockdown restrictions, as well as timing as it pertains to the reopening of the economy, Limbaugh asked Pence about new antibody tests out of California and New York suggesting promising potential immunity development.
Pence replied, noting that there may be “good news” in that “there is the highest likelihood that, if you’ve had this coronavirus in the past that you will enjoy some immunity from it in the future.”
“I saw this morning, at least it was reported that Governor Cuomo said that some of their antibody testing was showing very significant amount of people who had had the coronavirus and were not aware of it, what they call asymptomatic,&#8221; Pence stated. “What I would tell you is it’s something that we have been watching for, and frankly anticipating, for some time.”
Pence added that the administration’s “health experts have been very clear from early on, the fact that the coronavirus is three times more contagious than the flu, and the fact that, as we have done testing, we have been able to see trends that suggest that many people that have the coronavirus will have either just flu-like symptoms or no symptoms at all.”
<blockquote>I will tell you that our team will not be surprised to see evidence in the days ahead, particularly as these antibody tests continue to scale across America, that a large number of Americans have been exposed, contracted it, and ultimately developed the antibodies in their system to defeat it&#8230;
And it’s among the reasons why our nation, should the coronavirus reemerge at any time in the future &#8230; will be in a much better place. We’ll have new medicines called therapeutics. We’re working around the clock on vaccines. We’re deploying testing to make sure and identify, quickly contact, trace, and isolate people that have it.
But make no mistake about it: If some of those early studies hold out, there will be an awful lot of Americans in the fall and in the winter of next year that actually enjoy a degree of immunity from the coronavirus. And that will also be a bulwark against this as well.</blockquote>
Pence then complimented the American people for following guidelines, but also asked that they keep it up.
“We urge them to continue to practice that social distancing, to continue to, you know, use the drive-thru at your local restaurant,” the vice president said. “Avoid gatherings of more than ten, listen to your state and local authorities.”
Pence concluded by offering an optimistic perspective on when the pandemic could largely be in the rear view mirror:
<blockquote>Because, as we track this data state by state, county by county, we’re getting there, Rush. And I truly do believe … I truly do believe, if current trend lines hold, that by early June we could largely have this coronavirus epidemic behind us, and begin to see our nation open back up and go back to work.</blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-antibody-test-results-suggest-covid-infection-rate-significantly-higher-than-reported">previously reported</a>, a recently-conducted antibody text in New York showed that a larger number of New Yorkers than previously known may have had COVID-19 and developed antibodies to it.
“More than 21% of the New York City residents given coronavirus antibody tests earlier this week tested positive, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday,” according to MarketWatch.
More antibody tests will be necessary in order to better understand the penetration of the virus into the population.
COVID-19, which originated in China’s Hubei province, has infected over 2.7 million people worldwide, and led to more than 190,700 deaths, <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">according to data</a> from Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) Global Cases map. More than 738,200 people have recovered.
In the United States, there have been more than 868,300 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and over 49,800 deaths. As of publication, 80,174 individuals have recovered from the virus in the U.S.
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Pence: U.S. ‘Could Largely Have‘ COVID-19 ‘Epidemic Behind Us’ By June ‘If Current Trend Lines Hold’

Vice President Mike Pence announced on Monday during the White House Coronavirus Task Force that 20 million antibody tests are now being produced per month, which will likely be a key component to reopening the economy.
&#8220;A point that I will ask Dr. Birx to expand on in just a moment is that fact that beyond the new 15-minute tests by Abbott laboratories, beyond what we expect to be, a new antibody test which may well be approved by the FDA in just a matter of days,&#8221; Pence said. &#8220;An antibody test that would be produced at the rate of 20 million tests a month.&#8221;
&#8220;The reality is that those commercial laboratories that the president brought in here the better part of two months ago and initiated the public and private partnership with, have been producing hundreds of thousands of tests every single week,&#8221; Pence continued. &#8220;But as Dr. Birx and our team have apprehended, we believe at this point in time that of the Roche equipment out there that does the high-speed testing, and we informed governors of this today, we think that some 20% of that capacity is not being used. With regard to the Abbott m2000 systems, we told governors today that we think 75% of that laboratory capacity that exists in the United States today is not being utilized by our governors.&#8221;
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2.5 million tests performed so far.
Yet 20% of the Roche high speed capacity isn&#39;t being used &amp; 75% Abbott Labs N2000 capability isn&#39;t being used by our governors. 
If Govs &amp; state labs would activate machines existing machines, testing would DOUBLE overnight. <a href="https://t.co/QMJNnvLjdq">pic.twitter.com/QMJNnvLjdq</a>
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Pence&#8217;s comments may refer to Abacus Pharma International (API) which produces a coronavirus anti-body test called &#8220;COVID-Rapid.&#8221;
NBC Miami <a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/south-florida-company-creates-rapid-antibody-test-for-covid-19/2217449/">reported</a> last week:
<blockquote>The company says it&#8217;s a simple blood test that can return results in 15 minutes. They say the accuracy to determine antibodies is 100% for old infection, but it is not designed to diagnose COVID-19.
The company that manufactures it, Abaccus Pharma International, says tens of thousands of tests are currently in a warehouse in Pompano Beach waiting to be distributed. Puerto Rico has already ordered 3 million tests, and the company also plans to donate 10,000 to the city of Miami.
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The company says it will have the capacity to make 20 million tests a month.</blockquote>
&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to be able to contribute,&#8221; CEO Vincent DeGennaro said. &#8220;This is not about selling tests for us, this is about getting people back to work and helping repair our damaged economy and to try and minimize the impact the disease can have in our community here in Miami.&#8221;
Earlier in the press conference, Pence highlighted Dr. Deborah Birx&#8217;s efforts in expanding testing capabilities nationwide
“Dr. Birx has been leading an effort for the task force from early-on on rapidly expanding testing. It was early on that the president formed that public-private partnership with commercial labs and as we stand here today more than 2.5 million tests have been performed and when we add in the estimates of labs that we have to assume with reasonable projections have not yet reported into the CDC,&#8221; Pence said. &#8220;We think that number could be closer to 3 million tests that have been performed. As has been mentioned, the new 15-minute test, we are working closely with Abbott laboratories that the president and our team met with today here at the White House to rapidly increase the availability of cartridges.”
“Abbott is producing roughly 50,000 cartridges a day. FEMA acquired an initial supply of that and distributed those to the states. We are working with the states to not only distribute what’s being made but also work with other suppliers to create additional cartridges,&#8221; Pence continued.
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On this Good Friday, the day that Christians believe Jesus died on the cross, President Trump delivered a hopeful Easter message from the Oval Office where he promised Americans that &#8220;our nation will come through&#8221; this trying time of darkness.
With Bishop Harry Jackson at his side, Trump first began his address by recalling the importance of Good Friday and this coming Easter.
&#8220;On this Good Friday, Christians from all around the world remember the suffering and death upon the cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. At Easter Sunday, we will celebrate His glorious resurrection,&#8221; Trump said.
The president then thanked the many fine people who have been battling on the front lines to defeat this &#8220;invisible enemy&#8221; – COVID-19.
&#8220;At this holy time, our nation is engaged in a battle like never before, the invisible enemy,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Our brave doctors, nurses, and responders of all are fighting to save lives. Our workers are working to deliver critical medical supplies, our best scientists are working around the clock to develop life-saving therapeutics,  and I think they are doing really well. Our people are making tremendous sacrifices to end this pandemic. Though we will not be able to gather together with one another as we normally would on Easter, we can use this sacred time to focus on prayer, reflection, and growing in our personal relationship with God.&#8221;
The president then asked all Americans to pray that God will heal the United States of this pandemic and to pray for those on the front lines.
&#8220;I asked all Americans to pray that God will heal our nation and bring comfort to those who are grieving, to give strength to the doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers, to restore health to the sick and to renew the hope in every person who is suffering,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our nation will come through like never before. I thank the many families who have prayed for me and for my family. Your prayers are felt and I am forever grateful.&#8221;
After thanking the vice president and his wife, Karen, the president quoted scripture, recalling the Prophet Isaiah.
&#8220;Almost 3000 years ago, the prophet Isaiah wrote these words: &#8216;darkness covers the earth but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you, for the war Lord will be your everlasting light,'&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;As our nation battles the invisible enemy, we reaffirm that Americans believe in the power of prayer. We give thanks for the majesty of creation and for the gift of eternal life, and we place our trust in the hands of Almighty God.  I&#8217;d like to just wish everybody a very happy Easter, we&#8217;re going to be celebrating that very special day and it&#8217;s going to be, hopefully, a very good weekend and a very productive weekend.&#8221;
The president then invited Bishop Harry Jackson to deliver remarks of his own, who thanked Trump for giving federal relief to churches.
&#8220;Good Friday &#8230; is one of the darkest days in the Christian faith in that Christ stood in substitution for our sin. But the resurrection is our victory. But it parallels with the Passover,&#8221; Jackson said. &#8220;We want this plague to pass over. We want everyone in America to be safe.&#8221;
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Vice President Mike Pence’s office has blocked CNN’s access to administration health officials over the way the network has covered the Coronavirus Task Force daily briefings.
For the past week, Pence’s office has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/media/pence-office-tv-bookings-coronavirus/index.html">refused</a> to make available health officials, such as Drs. Deborah Birx or Anthony Fauci, for appearances on CNN, according to the network. CNN has frequently refused to air the opening portion of President Trump’s daily press briefings, only to cut in when Trump begins taking question from reporters. As CNN reports:
<blockquote>CNN often only broadcasts President Donald Trump&#8217;s question and answer session, which sometimes includes the health care officials, live on-air.
After Trump leaves the podium, CNN frequently cuts out of the White House briefing to discuss and fact-check what the President had said. A CNN executive said that the network usually returns to such programming because of the extensive length of the full briefing that includes Pence, which can run in excess of two hours.</blockquote>
The White House has approved two non-health officials, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and White House economic adviser Peter Navarro, to appear on CNN within the past week. Pence’s office has not blacklisted any other network from bringing on administration officials.
&#8220;When you guys cover the briefings with the health officials, then you can expect them back on your air,&#8221; a Pence spokesperson told CNN.
Trump has conducted daily Coronavirus Task Force press briefings since late March, bringing in various department heads and experts in his administration to showcase how the government is working to slow the spread of the pathogen. During the briefings, he often gets into contentious exchanges with members of the press.
Trump touted the briefings’ ratings on in a pair of tweets on Wednesday, comparing the briefings to Monday Night Football and The Bachelor.
&#8220;The Radical Left Democrats have gone absolutely crazy that I am doing daily Presidential News Conferences. They actually want me to STOP! They used to complain that I am not doing enough of them, now they complain that I ‘shouldn’t be allowed to do them,’&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;They tried to shame the Fake News Media into not covering them, but that effort failed because the ratings are through the roof according to, of all sources, the Failing New York Times, ‘Monday Night Football, Bachelor Finale’ type numbers (&amp; sadly, they get it $FREE). Trump Derangement Syndrome!&#8221; the president added.
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&#8230;the Fake News Media into not covering them, but that effort failed because the ratings are through the roof according to, of all sources, the Failing New York Times, “Monday Night Football, Bachelor Finale” type numbers (&amp; sadly, they get it <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24FREE&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$FREE</a>). Trump Derangement Syndrome!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1247897591611682818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The media at large received mixed reviews on its handling of the coronavirus last month. A <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/300680/coronavirus-response-hospitals-rated-best-news-media-worst.aspx">Gallup poll</a> of 536 adults conducted between March 13-22 found that 44% of Americans approve of the media’s work, while 55% disapproved. The Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.journalism.org/2020/04/08/as-newsrooms-face-coronavirus-related-cuts-54-of-americans-rate-medias-response-to-the-outbreak-positively/">surveyed</a> 11,537 adults in its American Trends Panel between March 19-24, finding that 54% of adults said the media has done an excellent or good job while 46% rated the media’s coverage as fair or poor.
Trump’s average approval rating has <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html">fallen</a> about two points since a high of over 47% in late March in the early stages of the government&#8217;s coordinated response to the coronavirus pandemic. It now sits at 45.2%, according to Real Clear Politics.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-forming-task-force-to-reopen-economy-key-members-named-follows-his-good-idea-tweet">Trump Forming Task Force To Reopen Economy; Key Members Named; Follows His ‘Good Idea’ Tweet</a>

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Pence Blacklists CNN After Network Cut Back Airtime For Coronavirus Briefings

Vice President Mike Pence told Fox News&#8217;s Sean Hannity on Wednesday night that when the coronavirus pandemic is over that the Trump administration will hold the World Health Organization accountable for its actions during the pandemic.
&#8220;The president talked yesterday about withholding monies for the WHO after they basically unchecked to spread Chinese propaganda as it relates to the virus. The comments earlier today were if you don’t want many more body bags, you should reframe from politicizing it,&#8221; Hannity said.  &#8220;There’s no need to use COVID to score political points. We need to behave. That’s how we’ll defeat this virus, no need to point fingers.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, that’s nice that they’re on the attack, but the reality and the truth is &#8212; is they didn’t verify a thing and they went forward with false information,&#8221; Hannity continued. &#8220;And as that one British study said, 95 percent of this could have been prevented had in fact China opened themselves up to the world for help and assistance for early mitigation. And yet, the WHO, which we fund the vast majority of, they didn’t do their job on any level.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, you know this is a president who believes in accountability, and the American taxpayers provide tens of millions of dollars to the World Health Organization,&#8221; Pence responded.
&#8220;As the president said yesterday, I expect we’ll continue to do that. But that doesn’t mean that at the right time in the future we aren’t going to ask the tough questions about how the World Health Organization could have been so wrong,&#8221; Pence continued. &#8220;I mean literally at the time that President Trump set up the White House coronavirus task force in January and suspended all travel from China, just days before that the World Health Organization was continuing to diminish the threat of the coronavirus and its impact in China.&#8221;
Pence concluded, &#8220;We’ll get to the answers of that, and we’ll create accountability, just like the American people would want us to do.&#8221;
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<blockquote>SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS HOST: Vice President Pence, thank you for joining us. Glad you could be here. You spoke to &#8212;
MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you, Sean.
HANNITY: &#8212; Republicans and Democrats today, and what is the plan now? What is your main focus at this point?
PENCE: Well the focus today, as President Trump has made clear from the beginning, is to continue to engage every American to do their part to slow the spread. And it really is inspiring to see the way the American people have stepped up and put into practice the social distancing guidelines.
Everything from personal hygiene, to staying home from work if you can, avoiding unnecessary travel, but staying away from groups of more than 10 people, using drive-thrus at restaurants.
I mean, what we’ve seen in terms of progress in California and Washington, where the numbers remain low and steady &#8212; and what we’re just beginning to see in the greater New York City area, and of course New Jersey, and Connecticut, and Louisiana, is evidence of the beginning of a stabilization, which is a great credit to the people of all the states that I mentioned.
But as we made clear to those members of Congress in both parties today, we need every American to continue to do their part. And we will hasten the day that we put the coronavirus in the past, but it’s going to take all of us to do it.
And the good news is, Sean, all evidence suggests that the American people are doing just that. They know our future is in our hands. And as we put the president’s coronavirus guidelines into practice, we’ll get there.
HANNITY: Tell us what you envision for May 1st. We have a $2.2 trillion relief package. We opened up the Fed for another $4 trillion in loans. I know some conservatives were a little nervous about another $2 trillion for infrastructure.
But what does May 1st look like in your mind in terms of opening up the country for business again? How does that work?
PENCE: Well we’re 22 days away from the 30 days that President Trump asked the American people to work together to slow the spread. And what I can tell your viewers is that we will follow the data very carefully.
And while it’s just the beginning, we are seeing evidence that in the areas most challenged &#8212; and we grieve the loss of life in New York City that was reported yesterday. We grieve all the families that have lost loved ones. But while we grieve, we don’t grieve like those who have no hope.
And some of these – what we’ve seen in California and Washington state, and what we’re beginning to see in New York, and New Jersey, and Louisiana and elsewhere is evidence of stabilization.
I think the American people can be encouraged if we all continue to do our part, we could be in a very different place by the end of April, and we could be able to come to the president to work with governors to look for ways in &#8212; in weeks, not months to begin to, as the president says, to reopen America, to reopen this economy.
HANNITY: The president talked yesterday about withholding monies for the WHO after they basically unchecked to spread Chinese propaganda as it relates to the virus. The comments earlier today were if you don’t want many more body bags you should reframe from politicizing it.
There’s no need to use COVID to score political points. We need to behave. That’s how we’ll defeat this virus, no need to point fingers.
Well, that’s nice that they’re on the attack, but the reality and the truth is &#8212; is they didn’t verify a thing and they went forward with false information. And as that one British study said, 95 percent of this could have been prevented had in fact China opened themselves up to the world for help and assistance for early mitigation.
And yet, the WHO, which we fund the fast majority of, they didn’t do their job on any level.
PENCE: Well, you know this is a president who believes in accountability, and the American tax payers provide tens of millions of dollars to the World Health Organization.
As the president said yesterday, I expect we’ll continue to do that. But that doesn’t mean that at the right time in the future we aren’t going to ask the tough questions about how the World Health Organization could have been so wrong.
I mean literally at the time that President Trump stood up the White House coronavirus task force in January and suspended all travel from China, just days before that the World Health Organization was continuing to diminish the threat of the coronavirus and its impact in China.
We’ll get to the answers of that, and we’ll create accountability just like the American people would want us to do.
But what I can assure you is that what President Trump has this team doing everyday, getting up early, staying up late, is making sure that the American people know that what &#8212; what every single person in this country can do to slow the spread, to put &#8212; go to coronavirus.gov to put those guidelines into practice in your family, in your community.
And he has directed to spare no expense to make sure that we have the broadest amount of testing available, new testing developed, and that most importantly our healthcare workers in America have the resources, the protective equipment, the ventilators to be able to provide the level of care to people that are struggling with the coronavirus.
HANNITY: Do you think the country will be up and running on May 1st, one. And number two, 2.2 trillion, 4 trillion made available by the Fed. There’s talk of another 2 trillion. Do you worry about the sheer amount of money that we’re talking about, unprecedented amounts of money?
PENCE: Well, America is the strongest most prosperous nation in the history of the world. And as we reflected on with members of Congress in both parties today, President Trump is truly grateful.
Then in three different pieces of legislation we’ve demonstrated that we’re going to do whatever it takes to get American families, American small businesses and critical American industries through this challenging time.
But as in terms of when we can reopen America, I would just say to you I wouldn’t speculate on a date, but I can assure you that that’s in the hands of the American people. If every one of us will continue to do and implement the president’s coronavirus guidelines for America, if everyone will continue to put into practice all the things that you’ve &#8212; that you’ve been articulating on your program everyday, we’ll continue to save lives, and we’ll reach that day much sooner than people &#8212; people thought in the beginning of this outbreak.
HANNITY: All right. Mr. Vice President, as always, thank you for taking time out of your busy day. And obviously these &#8212; these press briefings everyday, taking a lot of time, a lot going on behind the scenes.
We appreciate you being with us. Thank you, sir.
PENCE: Thank you, Sean.​</blockquote>

White House Coronavirus Task Force Speaks To The Media In Daily Briefing

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On Tuesday night, Bloomberg News released a tweet designed to make Vice President Mike Pence appear to be cold-hearted and ruthless when he spoke to food workers, writing in the tweet that Pence “tells U.S. food workers to ‘do your job’ as some fall ill.” If that weren’t enough, in the caption below describing the article the tweet linked to, Bloomberg wrote, &#8220;Pence to ‘Vital’ Food Workers, ‘Show Up and Do Your Job’ During Virus.”
Then, to complete their disingenuous trifecta, Bloomberg printed the opening lines of the article, which stated, “Just hours after a labor union reported what may be the first poultry-worker deaths associated with the coronavirus in the U.S., Vice President Mike Pence …”
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In the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/pence-tells-u-s-food-workers-to-do-your-job-as-some-fall-ill?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=business">article</a>, Bloomberg admitted Pence actually said at the press conference, “You are vital. You are giving a great service to the people of the United States of America and we need you to continue, as a part of what we call critical infrastructure, to show up and do your job.”
But Bloomberg tempered that by putting quotes around Pence saying the government would work tirelessly to protect the workers, writing, “In return, Pence said, the government will ‘work tirelessly’ to ensure their workplaces are safe.”
Here’s what Pence actually said, and you judge whether Pence sounded cold-hearted:
<blockquote>We all have in our hearts and our minds our healthcare workers and I’ll speak for a moment about the supplies and resources that we’re working to provide for all of them. But right below our healthcare workers are all the people that are working in critical infrastructure around the country, and some of the most important people are working in food supply. From the farmers and the ranchers to our processors to our distributors to our truckers to our grocers: Americans are keeping food on the table for our fellow Americans.
And let me begin by just saying what I said to some of the most prominent CEOs of meat and grain industry companies in the country; companies like Tyson Foods and Hormel today: not just these companies but to all the hard-working people working in food supply today: Thank you. Thank you for what you’re doing to keep those grocery store shelves stocked; thank you for showing up for work every day and working hard to keep that food supply rolling in America.
You know, it was more than five weeks ago that the president brought in all of the grocery store leaders in the country, and there he received a commitment that no grocery store in America would close. And they haven’t. But it’s been these heroic Americans from the farm to the fork that have made it possible for Americans to have one less worry. And they’re truly inspiring heroes.
That being said, I did hear from the industry today that there have been reports of some plants having reduced capacity because of people having concerns about exposure to the coronavirus. In fact, over the last several days there’s been some incidents of worker absenteeism, and some plants have actually been forced to close temporarily.
And so, on behalf of the president, on behalf of our entire team, on behalf of a grateful nation, let me just say to all of you that are working in the food industry at every level across the country: Just understand that you are vital. You are giving a great service to the people of the United States of America and we need you to continue, as a part of what we call our critical infrastructure, to show up and do your job and know that we are going to continue to work tirelessly in working with all of your companies to make sure that that workplace is safe.</blockquote>
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ABC “Nightline” host Byron Pitts, a devout Christian, used his final question Wednesday evening to ask Vice President Mike Pence if he talks to God about the Americans who have died or will died “because of steps the federal government did not take soon enough.”
“Mr. Vice President I have a final question for you. I &#8212; and I ask this not in a political way, but for you, sir, like so many of us in our nation, are you a person of deep faith. No one doubts that. When you talk to God in your moments alone, do you find yourself worrying at all that people you represent and care deeply about have died and will die who did not need to because of steps the federal government did not take soon enough?” Pitts asked, according to <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/04/02/abcs-pitts-pence-do-you-talk-god-about-those-who-died-because-you">a transcript</a> from Newsbusters.
Pence ignored the implication and instead focused on coming together and fighting the virus.
“Well, thank you for mentioning that we are talking about one American at a time and I promise you, that&#8217;s the way President Trump thinks of this, it&#8217;s the way I think of it. We wanted the American people to see the numbers so that we understand the challenging days that lie ahead, but I want people to know that our future is in your hands, that if every one of us will do and put into practice the Guidelines for America that we can bring those numbers down. I &#8212; I really do believe we&#8217;ll get through this and we&#8217;ll come out stronger than ever before,” Pence responded.
Pitts also asked Pence why the Trump administration wouldn’t give a national stay-at-home order, even though the vast majority of the country is currently under one at the state level. In another question, Pitts asked Pence why he keeps hearing from doctors and nurses that they are low on supplies when President Donald Trump says every day that resources are being sent to the states.
“Vice President Pence, bridge this gap for me if you would. You and the President have insisted that resources are available by the thousands for states who need them. But yet, governors, Republicans and Democrats, say they don&#8217;t have what they need. On our air every single night, sir, we have doctors, nurses, foot soldiers on the ground who, with tears in their eyes, say they don&#8217;t have what they need. How do you explain that discrepancy?” Pitts asked.
In the same interview, Pence told Pitts that Americans should limit church services to no more than 10 people and that he and his wife Karen Pence were “enjoying worship services online.”
“We’re so grateful to churches and synagogues and places of worship around America that have heeded the president’s coronavirus guidelines for America,” Pence said, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/01/mike-pence-tells-americans-to-avoid-large-church-gatherings-amid-coronavirus/">according to</a> the New York Post.
“We really believe this is a time when people should avoid gatherings of more than 10 people,” he added, “and so we continue to urge churches around America to heed to that.”
Pence suggested that if everyone comes together and follows social distancing guidelines, we will hopefully be through the worst of the coronavirus by Memorial Day.

Nightline Hosts Asks Pence If He Talks To God About People Who Died From Alleged Government Inaction On Coronavirus

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Vice President Mike Pence told Fox Business host Charles Payne on Wednesday that the Trump administration was aiming to lower the number of projected deaths from the COVID-19 outbreak, and that the American people need to understand that the numbers that they are hearing are &#8220;just projections.&#8221;
“We&#8217;ve been following the data every single day since the president stood up the White House Coronavirus Task Force in January and when he tapped me to lead it, now more than a month ago,” Pence said.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve been working with Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the leading experts on infectious diseases in the world, and her team, to try and model where we think we are headed in the Coronavirus epidemic in this country,&#8221; Pence continued. &#8220;And late last week looking at the progress we&#8217;ve made because of the mitigation efforts the millions of Americans put into effect over the last 15 days, and because of the strong efforts by states like Washington and California, New York, and New Jersey, she came forward to the president with the very latest numbers.&#8221;
&#8220;But they are just projections,&#8221; Pence said. &#8220;And let me be very clear, we hope for better. And the American people need to know that our future is in their hands, that it&#8217;s the reason why the president made the decision on the spot Saturday to extend for 30 more days the president’s Coronavirus guidelines for America.&#8221;
”We continue to make it clear that we want the American people to focus and be attentive to their state and local authorities in areas where there’s significant outbreak, but the way we hasten the day that we put the Coronavirus behind us as a nation and the way that we lower the number of heartbreaking losses in this country is by putting into practice the 30 days to slow the spread,&#8221; Pence continued. &#8220;And the president thought it was important that the American people see the same data that he had seen in making that call.&#8221;
Pence added, &#8220;And we’re very confident, just as tens of millions of Americans did in the last 15 days, that we’re going to see families all across this country put the health of America first, and recognize that by all of us doing all that we can that we’ll lower the number of losses, and we’ll also reach that part of this where we can.&#8221;
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<blockquote>CHARLES PAYNE, FOX BUSINESS NETWORK HOST: All right, sir, as the head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, the American public was hit with some very sobering numbers last night, a minimum range between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths in the ensuing weeks.
Can you give us an update from that line of thinking to just really zero in on how those numbers were &#8212; how you arrived at those numbers and what else can be done to perhaps make it less critical, less &#8212; to Dr. Fauci&#8217;s point, that perhaps we don&#8217;t have to hit those numbers?
MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Charles, it&#8217;s good to be with you and thank you for the question, because I think Dr. Fauci touched on what we all hope also came through to the American people.
We&#8217;ve been following the data every single day since the president stood up the White House Coronavirus Task Force in January and when he tapped me to lead it, now more than a month ago.
We&#8217;ve been working with Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the leading experts on infectious diseases in the world and her team to try and model where we think we are headed in the Coronavirus epidemic in this country.
And late last week looking at the progress we&#8217;ve made because of the mitigation efforts the millions of Americans put into effect over the last 15 days, and because of the strong efforts by states like Washington and California, New York, and New Jersey, she came forward to the president with the very latest numbers.
But they are just projections. And let me be very clear, we hope for better. And the American people need to know that our future is in their hands, that it&#8217;s the reason why the president made the decision on the spot Saturday to extend for 30 more days the president’s Coronavirus guidelines for America.
We continue to make it clear that we want the American people to focus and be attentive to their state and local authorities in areas where there’s significant outbreak, but the way we hasten the day that we put the Coronavirus behind us as a nation and the way that we lower the number of heartbreaking losses in this country is by putting into practice the 30 days to slow the spread.
And the president thought it was important that the American people see the same data that he had seen in making that call.
And we’re very confident, just as tens of millions of Americans did in the last 15 days, that we’re going to see families all across this country put the health of America first and recognize that by all of us doing all that we can that we’ll lower the number of losses, and we’ll also reach that part of this where we can –
PAYNE: Right.
PENCE: &#8212; once again begin to reopen America and put America back to work.
PAYNE: I agree with you 100 percent. It feels like all hands on deck. And the American public is certainly behind you.
I’m looking at the Chris Murray model, and it suggests that April 16th could be sort of the high water mark if you will, 2,600 deaths.
How often is the team reevaluating its own modeling to give us an update in terms of, again, maybe these projections are too high, maybe they’re too low. And also how will it inform just how much longer the nation has to be shut down?
PENCE: Well, you speak about the Murray modeling, and what I can tell you is that Dr. Deborah Birx and her team did modeling that very closely aligned to what the Murray modeling suggested, Charles. And that was the information that was presented to the president over this weekend when he made the decision to call on every American –
PAYNE: Right.
PENCE: &#8212; regardless of whether you’re in a community that’s impacted by Coronavirus, to continue to avoid gatherings of more than 10, work from home if you can, use a drive thru instead of going into restaurants. If you’re sick, stay home. All of those principles are available.
Although I must say to you, Charles, as you’re a great champion of American free enterprise, I’m sitting here at the Walmart Distribution Center in Virginia. This is one of the – one of the companies that we will refer to as critical infrastructure.
These are the folks that are keeping food on the table. You know, from the farmers working in the field, to a distribution center here, over 1,000 strong people are coming to work every day. They’re loading those 18 wheelers.
I had a truck driver today talk to me about how proud all of our trucker justifiably are, that they’re keeping the food supplies rolling.
And then you saw the president bring all the grocery store owners together more than a month ago –
PAYNE: Right.
PENCE: &#8212; and they all committed. Every grocery store in America is staying open. Many of them are having hours for seniors so we can protect those that are more vulnerable. I mean, the food supply in America is strong.
We’re developing vaccines and therapies at a record level. We’ve spun up a whole new approach to testing in America. And it’s all because President Trump has engaged free enterprise, the private sector in America in an unprecedented, all-of-America, public-private partnership.
And in conjunction with all of federal health officials, in conjunction with the great leadership at state levels, with conjunction with all those incredible healthcare workers working in hospitals, ICUs, and emergency rooms every day, I know we’ll get through this and we’ll get through it together.
PAYNE: It’s interesting that you brought that up. And again, you know, it’s amazing, when we talk about essential workers, we’re talking about folks who work – cashiers at the pet shop store, right?
So when I – when I suggest to you that I think the fate of free market capitalism is on the line right now and that the administration and big business have got to show the American people that this is the best system &#8212; and you&#8217;re going to have a lot folks saying, hey, you’ve got people who are uninsured, you have people who are being left out. You’ve got private equity saying that they want to get paid by the federal government.
This, to me, is the moment of truth when capitalism is being tested, and it is your administration – you and President Trump – that have got to prove that it is the best way to go about life.
PENCE: Well, I actually think American business is proving that every day. Other than the pride that we have for the courageous doctors and nurses and healthcare workers in this country that are on the front lines, I know President Trump and I couldn&#8217;t be more proud of the way American businesses have stepped forward.
I mean literally every business we&#8217;ve reached out to and asked us to increase medical supplies, or help us construct more of the N95 masks for healthcare workers or build ventilators, every business has said, we&#8217;ll drop anything, we&#8217;ll go to work, we&#8217;ll make it happen.
And companies like this distribution center that I&#8217;m at here in Virginia &#8212; I mean, I&#8217;m telling you, the fact that you have got farmers in the field working, you have got grocery store clerks working the checkout counter, it&#8217;s keeping food on the table for every American.
What you&#8217;re seeing is, the American people are rising to the challenge, our businesses across the country are rising to the challenge.
I mean, the president announced this weekend two of the largest health insurance companies in America waived all co-pays on &#8212; not Coronavirus testing, but Coronavirus treatment. I mean it is remarkable.
I had one company tell me the other day that they were building ventilators, and they were going to do it on a not-for-profit basis. I mean this is America at its best.
We know we&#8217;re all in this together. And we have a president, who from very early on has taken one unprecedented step after another. I mean, suspending all travel from China, screening all passengers from South Korea and Italy, suspending travel from Europe, the U.K., and Ireland.
But in the midst of all of that, what the president’s also done, Charles, is bring American industry to the table and say, we need you to step up, this is all hands on deck. And American industry has responded as never before in my lifetime.
PAYNE: Vice President Pence, I want to say thank you for your efforts. We appreciate it. And also thank you for taking the time. I appreciate it and hope to see you again very soon, sir.
PENCE: Thank you, Charles.​</blockquote>

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