(The Covid-19 Transcripts)
S:
As a former Navy guy, a former intelligence officer, you said Trump has
abandoned the nation, [NY Gov] Cuomo needs to show that New York won't roll over. It's time to call up the National Guard. We are having to step in on the state and
local level in place of the giant void of leadership where the Commander in
Chief should be.
M:
This is the truth and Governor Cuomo is stepping up to be the leader
that the other states don’t have. And
Trump has obviously lost his mind, clearly lost his ever loving mind.
S:
You have tweeted the Hash Tag 25th Amendment Now, how can you watch
these things Trump says and does and not be even more terrified?
M:
He's got this belief that the virus is over and I think in his head,
based on what he's said, he feels that he can isolate the virus to New York,
California, and Washington State and every- I believe the phrase he used was,
it's a geographical problem. He has no
clue. Governor Cuomo was right when he
said what we're having now, which is just starting to go up the curve, we're
nowhere near the peak, every state in the country is going to have in three to
five weeks. And Donald Trump is
incompetent, he has no idea of what he's doing, it's all about his buddies and
the stock market and him and his properties losing cash, he does not care
whether or not American citizens live or die, that is very clear and that's-
S:
It's the Ukraine story all over again, and he's vindictive- New York is
not being nice enough to me, Cuomo is not being respectful, he's basing it on
partisanship. He's going to decide who gets to live and die now and if he gets
a quid pro quo, you be nice to us, it's got to be two ways.
M:
He wrote that in his tweet this morning.
which they read live on air and it was absolutely disgraceful. A real leader, whether in military or
civilian world will jump up and say hey, immediate action now. We have to absolutely take care of everybody,
mobilize every national resource that we have.
The very fact that the entire U.S. Army has not been mobilized and
re-called- and as I said, they don’t have to come with guns at all. We need trucks, we need logistics, the
ability to move people and materials.
Field kitchens could be established at every hospital to take that burden
of these now 24 hour non stop emergency management shifts off of the cafeteria
of these hospitals. These people are
exhausted, we have an enormous amount of equipment manpower and resources in
the Armed Forces. Trump will not pull
that trigger. And to be honest, I think
he wants to leave it where it is so that he can have his friends profit off of
it. A friend wrote to me this morning,
he's not a wartime president, he's a war time profiteer.
S:
Yes, [CONVERSATION; as a former
intelligence officer who has served his country in war, this is like Iraq
sending our men into war without proper equipment based on lies. As an
intelligence professional, when he keep repeating no one could have seen this
coming? Yes you must- this is all in
your book, Plot to Betray America.
M:
It is.
S:
This is another version of him believing Putin instead of our
intelligence agencies. He believed [Chinese Premier] Xi
instead of our intelligence agencies about this threat back in January, right?
M:
When I wrote Plot to Betray it was really about how he compromised
national security for essentially personal profit, and his friends, one of whom
is Vladimir Putin. I'm going to update
it in the upcoming paperback edition right up to now. It's an example of how Trump would rather see
his friends benefit from this, rather than the average American.
When I served in the armed forces
dealing with horrible people on other side of the world, I did it to protect
every American citizen and by extension the rest of the world. Donald Trump doesn't think like that, he does
not see his job as President of the United States as one, he doesn't see
himself as a leader. He is standing
back- remember how they used to criticize President Obama for leading from the
rear? Obama let experts do the job. He does not want responsibility for the
deaths that are coming, and he wants to put that on the governors.
And so he's- this whole thing of
we're not a shipping clerk, yes the U.S. government is a shipping clerk, it is
a logistics hub, we have an entire infrastructure built for this, he eliminated
it. [CONVERSATION ABOUT IMPEACHMENT] it
should be very seriously considered that he has abdicated his responsibility as
president of the United States and you know there's money out there
somewhere.
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M:
We're past damage control mode.
New York state is testing because they need to know how big the spread
of the virus is in order to calculate a whole range of things. Testing is life in this circumstance. Trump does not believe that, he has lied
repeatedly about the tests. We have millions of tests, they're going out, we
have lots of tests. That was weeks and
weeks ago, he is a liar and you cannot trust him to take care of anyone in the
United States.
But Wait until Red America starts to
get hit, and I'm going to tell you, ground zero for him suddenly becoming a
believer will be when Florida starts getting decimated because the governor did
not close the beaches, let spring break go forward, let Disney World go
forward, and they have one of the largest elderly populations in this country.
[Discussion on using armed forced to
move ventilators where they're needed as Cuomo has requested. ]
M: Cuomo is taking this seriously,
he is concerned about the population, particularly of New York City, which has
half the cases in the world right now. We have three cases in my county, they
came in by train from New York City
We know how it's going to transmit,
but this requires national leadership.
[Quotes play from Biden]
M:
We need a nation wide lockdown for fourteen days. Trump in his mind has this belief that he
established a lockdown ten days ago and it's in his head that the whole country
did it, he is clueless. Look his staff
is popping positive for Coronavirus. I
don't want anyone to be sick, it does not help our health care system.
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M:
I went through a program fifteen years ago where we discussed nation killer
viruses. This is not a nation killer,
this isn’t smallpox, okay, smallpox would kill thirty percent of the nation,
and even the vaccine kills three percent who take it. This is not our challenge, our challenge is
to stay home and watch streaming videos.
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