-I'm hoping to put 2020 in a memory box
and forget about it.
It was truly not only a crazy year,
but a terrible, horrible year.
-Every piece of the story that we covered this year
was surprising and bizarre
to sort of be doing it from our homes.
-The president spent weeks, if not months,
minimizing the dangers of the Coronavirus.
Even though he knew as early as February
that it was much more severe than the seasonal flu,
he was telling the public that it was just like the flu.
-We average 37,000 people a year.
Can you believe that?
And actually, this year we're having a bad flu season.
But we use thousands of people a year to the flu.
We never turned the country off.
-for the life of me, I will never understand
why he thought it was appropriate to lie
so much about the severity of the Coronavirus
during a deadly pandemic that has claimed
hundreds of thousands of lives in the United States.
-Essentially, Trump's modus operandi is to say,
"I inherited things that were bad.
I made things much better.
And anything that's bad is not my fault."
In terms of blaming the past, he was always blaming Obama
for having bungled the swine flu pandemic, when actually,
everyone believes that they handled it pretty well.
He blamed Obama for not leaving any ventilators.
He would say, "The cupboards are empty."
-We didn't have ventilators when we started.
The cupboards were empty.
The previous administration left us empty cupboards.
The governors have gotten everything they wanted.
Every ventilator -- We didn't have ventilator.
We had empty cupboards when I got there.
-Even though there were actually 17,000 ventilators left,
which was more than enough that they needed in the spring.
-The other thing that I found really shocking
is how willing the president has been to promote cures
and different kinds of drugs
that are just, like, not proven yet.
-Many doctors think it is extremely successful,
the hydroxychloroquine,
uh, coupled with the zinc and perhaps the azythromycin,
but many doctors think it's extremely good.
And some people don't.
Some people, I think, it's become very political.
I happen to believe in it. I would take it.
As you know, I took it for a 14-day period, uh,
and, uh, I'm here.
-And so, I think that's really telling in terms
of his willingness to sort of push the narrative
in a certain direction.
-In terms of the election,
a lot of it is grasping at straws.
He will seize on things that his advocates or his lawyers
have touted long after they have been discredited.
-If you count the legal votes, I easily win.
-Well, there he's basically saying every mail-in ballot
is an illegal vote, which is ridiculous
and has been tossed out by court after court.
-The constant drum beat of denigrating vote by mail.
-But, no, you can't do that.
You can't do the mail-in ballots
because you're gonna have tremendous fraud.
-Telling fairy tales about vote by mail
and the risks of vote by mail, pumping out every day tweets,
statements from the podium, at rallies.
-They're gonna mail out 80 million ballots.
It's impossible. They have no idea.
Who's mailing them?
Mostly Democrat -- Democrat states and Democrat governors.
Well, supposing they don't mail them
to Republican neighborhoods?
-There's a good case to be made that he shot himself
in the foot, you know,
by depressing vote-by-mail turnout among Republicans
or swing voters who might have been inclined to vote for him.
-What was stunning to me is how willing the president
and surrogates were to pick up on innocuous or fully
out-of-context pieces of video and promote them as voter fraud.
-I don't run the elections.
I don't run to see if people are walking in with suitcases
and putting them under a table with a black robe around it.
-But yet none of that actual reality or the fact that judges
have looked at these affidavits and these claims
and thrown them out of court -- none of that matters.
Trump just keeps going as if he actually still has a case.
Biden has this history of jumbling things up
and getting facts wrong.
I mean, it's more -- I think it's much more
of an innocent thing than, you know, in Trump's case.
But Biden is a man that has earned a fair
share of Pinocchios over his political career.
Trump stumbled over the way
he was describing his social security plan.
The White House kept trying to correct him.
Eventually he got it right, but there were certain instances
and there were news stories that seemed to suggest
that he would permanently eliminate the payroll tax.
They then turned it into an attack ad.
-The Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration
just released an analysis of Trump's
planned cuts to social security.
Under Trump's plan,
social security would become permanently depleted
by the middle of calendar year 2023.
If Trump gets his way, social security benefits
will run out in just three years from now.
Don't let it happen.
-To me, it was an egregious example
of particularly how Democrats
tend to play the social security card in elections
to scare elderly voters that those mean,
old Republicans are gonna take away their social security.