But he then went on to defend his decision making in this pandemic his administration's reaction of the virus and Dr Anthony Fauci at the podium moments ago as well, explaining an answer to a question that he gave yesterday saying that earlier mitigation would have saved lives.

Addressing that answer again a short time ago with the president standing right beside him, here's a B C's Terry Moran.

It was an ominous sign.

President Trump Retweeting last night.

An attack on Dr Anthony Fauci.

The original tweet, including the hashtag timeto fire.

Fauci.

This on the same day pfoutch.

He declared in an interview on CNN that the administration's reluctance to call for shutdowns and strong social distancing measures sooner has cost more American lives in the pandemic.

Obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives.

Obviously, no one is going to deny that, but there was ah lot of pushback about shutting things down back then, and here's what found, she said.

Just moments ago, I was asked a hypothetical question on hypothetical questions sometimes can get you into some difficulty.

The nature of the hypothetical question was, if, in fact, we had mitigated earlier, could lives have been saved?

And the answer to my question was, as I always do and I'm doing right now, perfectly honestly say yes, I mean, obviously.

But she went on to say that when he and Dr Deborah Burkes went to the president with their recommendations, Trump listened the first and only time that Dr Burke's and I went in and formally made a recommendation to the president.

The president listened to the recommendation and went to the mitigation the next second time that I went with Dr Burke's into the president and said, 15 days are not enough.

We need to go 30 days.

Dr Fountain.

Just a short time ago, Terry Moran with us Tonight we know the president, then speaking right after Dr Fauci, essentially defending his decision making amid reporting from The New York Times and other outlets of early warning signs, potentially missed internal e mails notes that ended up in the Presidential Daily brief warning of what this virus could turn into.

And Terry, he even had a video produced showing what he says he has done during this pandemic.

He sure Dade David.

It was a remarkable moment showing how these briefings have been transformed into almost many trump rallies, a slickly produced campaign style video trying to counter the argument and the assessment now shared by a majority of Americans.

Polls show that the president was late, that he operated slowly, that a lot of his happy talk and downplaying of the virus, uh, cost lives.

That is essentially what Dr Fauci had claimed on CNN.

But as for Foulke, the president made clear, He said, I'm not gonna fire him.

He's a wonderful guy.

He did add, however, that everything he done is right.

David Terry Moran with us Tonight, Terry.

Thank you.

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