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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It would go away without the vaccine, George, but it’s going to go away a lot faster with a vaccine.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC NEWS ANCHOR: It would go away without the vaccine?
TRUMP: Sure, over a period of time. Sure, with time, it goes away.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And many deaths.
TRUMP: And you will develop — you will develop herd — like, a herd mentality. It’s going to be — it’s going to be herd-developed, and that’s going to happen. That will all happen.
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CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: So, I’m sure he meant herd immunity. But I just want to know, what you think people — you used to have constituents.
AL FRANKEN, FORMER SEN. (D-MN): Well–
AMANPOUR: What do you think people get from this kind of conversation, when it means the difference between life and death?
FRANKEN: It’s tragic. It’s tragic and infuriating. And he did mean, whether he meant it or not, herd mentality, because that’s what it is. There is a herd mentality, which is, I’m going to believe what any of this — what this guy says and what I’m reading on Facebook from other right-wing — people who believe right-wing stuff, what I read from Breitbart and get on AON (sic) and FOX. That’s, unfortunately, where we are today. So, it doesn’t end on November 3. Hopefully, it changes, because, if it goes the other way on November 3, if it goes toward Trump, it’s more of this by the government of the United States, which we really, really don’t, obviously, need. But this guy — it will go away? Yes, the sun will go away in, I think it’s four billion years. It will go away. It will consume all the hydrogen, and it will burst into a — it will become a red star and en envelop the first three planets, and, at that point, COVID, if it’s still here, will go away, because we will be enveloped by a red star.
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Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of The Young Vic, discusses the Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic’s effect on the arts. Former Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) gives his thoughts on President Trump’s first televised town hall of this election cycle. Journalists Adrian Wooldridge and John Micklethwait explain how the pandemic has highlighted weaknesses in Western governments.
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