>> Several of Vice President Mike Pence's staffers have tested positive for coronavirus.
But Pence refuses to self-quarantine even though the CDC indicates that he should self-quarantine.
He claims that he and his wife have taken coronavirus tests, and they've tested negative.
So as a result, as a so-called essential worker, he's going to run around and do campaigning
for Trump in several different states.
So at least five people in Vice President Mike Pence's orbit have tested positive for
coronavirus in recent days.
That includes his chief of staff Mark Short, close aide Zach Bauer, and outside adviser
Marty Obst.
Short has been a key aide involved in the US coronavirus response.
He has been reported to have advocated for an economy-first approach to the pandemic.
He has also been one of the driving forces in the Trump administration to basically discourage
listening to Dr. Anthony Fauci or any of the advice he has in regard to the pandemic.
Now, Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, recently had an interview with Jake Tapper,
where he indicated that they believe that Mike Pence truly is an essential worker.
Let's watch.
>> Short is now positive for the virus.
>> That's correct.
>> So CDC guidelines say that Vice President Pence should quarantine for 14 days.
Now, I understand the White House is trying to get around that by saying the vice president
is an essential worker.
But Mark, how is going all over the country campaigning, how is that essential work?
It's not like he's helping to contain the virus.
In fact, the opposite.
He's holding rallies that could be spreading the virus.
>> Well, actually, he's not just campaigning, he's working.
So- >> He was at a campaign rally at Tallahassee.
>> So just in, >> Rally in Tallahassee.
>> Now, I'm not saying that that is only part of what he's doing.
And as we look at that essential personnel, whether it's the vice president of the United
States or anyone else, >> But he's not following CDC guidelines.
>> Jake, CDC guidelines does say essential personnel if they were masked up.
>> Yes, it says, if they wear a mask.
>> And I spoke to the vice president last night at midnight.
And I can tell you that what he's doing is wearing a mask, socially distancing, and when
he goes up to speak, he will take the mask off, put it back on.
>> This is all about helping Donald Trump campaign and nothing more.
It's not about doing essential work.
Essential work would actually be sitting down, listening to members of the CDC, listening
to Dr. Anthony Fauci, and carrying out their guidelines.
Encouraging Americans to wear masks, and keep themselves safe during this pandemic.
Pence has engaged in none of that, 0% of that.
The essential work that they're referring to, is campaigning.
And I'll give you the specific examples.
Pence, for instance, is going to Minnesota on Monday, and back to North and South Carolina
on Tuesday.
He's also expected to return to the upper Midwest this week.
The official said Pence would continue to be tested, but like Trump, still plans to
be on the road every day for the next week.
And of course, he's rarely seen wearing a mask while he's doing this.
So Cenk, take it away.
>> Yeah, well, how about the Biden-Harris team?
There was an outbreak of two people on Harris's team that got this a little bit earlier.
Yeah, she stopped campaigning.
Is Pence gonna do likewise?
Of course, not.
And look, I think they fundamentally don't understand simple facts, even when it comes
to their own health.
I mean, Trump keeps saying, even after he got corona, I learned a lot when I got coronavirus.
You should have learned a lot on our behalf 10 months ago, anyways.
But then he goes on to say, I got treated, some say cured.
No, no one says you're cured.
You're an idiot.
You don't know a thing.
So Mike Pence keeps saying, no, it's okay, I'm getting tested.
No, I know that's good.
Then you know whether you got it or you didn't, but that, getting tested doesn't mean you
prevented it.
I mean, it's possible they don't understand really simple things like that.
Testing is after the fact to see if you have it.
The test doesn't prevent you from getting it.
I don't think they even understand that.
They're incredibly dense.
And of course, whatever they do understand, now, if you're MAGA and you go, no, they get
it, man.
They just wanna spread it to us.
But they're smart enough to understand they're spreading it.
Wait, how is that better?
We showed you that video of a rally there.
Almost nobody had masks.
They're all scrunched up next to one another.
I mean, this is Darwinism on steroids.
>> If Darwin was around to see this, he'd be like hashtag told you.
Okay, But I'm- >> But Cenk, but the one thing that I wish
people would understand is, if Mike Pence gets coronavirus, it's not like he's gonna
show up to an overcrowded hospital and they're gonna tell him to F off because they don't
Have the resources to take him in and treat him.
That's what average Americans are gonna deal with, and that's assuming they have health
care coverage.
And feel comfortable walking into a hospital without having to deal with bankruptcy later.
So the point that I wish people overall, average Americans would understand is that the world
that these people live in that Trump administration officials live in is very different from the
world that average Americans live in.
If you get sick in El Paso and you're an average American, you show up.
It's very likely right now considering how overwhelmed their hospitals are at the moment
that you'll get turned away.
That there's no way that you're gonna get the treatment you need.
And that's again assuming that you have health care coverage.
Let's say you don't have health care coverage, and you're lucky enough to get taken in by
a hospital that isn't overwhelmed.
You're very likely gonna deal with bankruptcy later on.
I mean, we live in a different world than members of Trump's Administration.
They're so brazen about their disregard for human lives.
It's unbelievable to me.
It absolutely is.
>> Okay, now speaking of El Paso and Utah, let me read you a quote from how Utah is handling
the overflow at their hospitals.
Quote, this is from, here I'll give you the source in a second.
It's from a local paper.
They said, under the proposed rationing criteria, patients who are getting worse despite receiving
intensive care would be moved out first.
People who are getting worse would be moved out of intensive care first, why?
Because there are ready going to die.
Hold on, let me keep reading.
In the back to the quote, if two patients' conditions are equal, the young get priority
over the old since older patients are more likely to die.
That's a literal quote.
That's from the Salt Lake Tribune.
Guys, do you know what that is?
That's a death panel.
Literally, literally, and I don't blame the hospitals and I don't blame them for asking
for guidance from the Utah State government or the federal government.
I'm overflowing, I do not have enough beds.
I do not have enough doctors and nurses.
I've got to prioritize.
Tell me who I should let die and who I should try to save.
So that is a fair question under the circumstances, but the government has gotten so bad, so incompetent,
so inept.
And now Mark Meadows declaring no, we're not gonna try to contain the disease.
They've got to give them guidance on who to put on a death panel.
So I mean, after they made up a thing, it called death panels about Obama Care and pretended
they cared so deeply about it.
Now we have actual death panels in the country under Trump to like, who cares, man?
Just let him die from the Pro Life Party.
The herd immunity idea, don't wear mask, we'll all get it, and eventually, it'll go away
means, yes, when we all get it, a certain percentage will die.
We've already had a couple 100,000 die.
That means a lot more people will die and, yeah, it's a death panel, so what?
We'll rationally care.
Now on top of all this, use love Republicans, some corporate Democrats and almost all the
media asking Comwel Harrison, Joe Biden, are you guys socials?
Are you in favor of socialized medicine?
Wait, are you in favor of privatized medicine?
Privatized medicine is along with the inept Trump Administration, is what's killing these
people in the first place.
So if you don't understand the guys, this is so important.
Not only do I want you to know this, but I want you to tell your family members and friends
this cuz it's true and you could look it up for yourself.
The rest of the world is they're dealing with Coronavirus.
They don't have to worry about paying for tests, treatment or any of that.
They just show up and they get treatment because they have socialized medicine.
Everybody gets treatment.
Here in America, well, do you have the money?
You don't have the money, go die.
You have another issue, we're not containing it anymore, go die.
I didn't make a profit off of you staying alive, go die.
The rest of the world thinks were barbaric.
You're gonna tell me that there's somebody's got a Coronavirus and you're gonna reject
health care for them and we go, yeah, sure, why not?
The rest of the world goes, you guys are nuts.
You let your own citizens die that way like we go, yeah, but we protect them by spending
all of our money on the defense industry.
What are you talking about?
Who's invading America?
So you wasted all of your money on tanks and missiles and all these things that you never
even use.
And when people are actually dying by the hundreds of thousands inside your country,
you just let them die, yep.
So this system we have here is absolutely immoral and barbaric.
Yes, we need to have universal healthcare like the rest of the civilized world.
And that is not where we are.
So which then >> We're talking about non civilized world
leads me to Fox News.
So Fox News as a contagion coronavirus spreading throughout the building.
Say it with me of course.
Of course it is now.
Their top anchors are having a quarantine.
Where do they get it?
They got it while covering the last debate.
And was it because they might have been exposed to Republicans?
Likely yeah, all the Democrats wear masks the Republicans don't wear masks, Fox News
covering the debate gets coronavirus yeah, where they got it from?
Now it could have been from something else.
It could have been at the airport etc, but it could not have been on a plane that they
were sharing with others because one of my favorite parts of this story is they apparently
got sick on their private jet on the way back to New York or due to cloud.
Well, that must be nice.
Well would turn out not to be so nice.
Because then they spread it to one another.
And they're all going to have to quarantine.
So the guys that were quarantining now where the president of Fox media, Fox News media
J Wallace enjoy this irony.
Cheap political anchor Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Dana Perino, Juan Williams.
Now, do we wish ill on any of them, their staffers or the people quarantining?
Unless the people whose names I read are quarantining, they don't necessarily.
They haven't tested positive for Corona virus yet.
They're getting tests now.
So do I wish them poor health?
Of course not.
And especially because there are people like Juan Williams in their who've been fighting
the good fight, trying to tell the Fox News audience.
You guys are nuts and he got exposed as well.
The staffers.
God knows what their political affiliations are, and I feel terrible for them.
But for the folks on air who kept telling people it's not a big deal, now it turns out
they got to quarantine themselves in the middle of the selection.
It's hard to feel a tremendous amount of sympathy for them, so.
It I'll quote the president who they love so much.
It is what it is.