In a leaked phone call to former staffers, Barack Obama describes the U.S. response to the coronavirus crisis as an "absolute chaotic disaster."
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00:00this election that's coming up on every level so important because what we're
00:07what we're going to be battling is not just a particular individual or a political party
00:16but what we're fighting against is these long-term trends in which
00:20being selfish, being tribal, being divided and seeing others as an enemy
00:34that that has become a stronger impulse in American life and by the way you know we're
00:42saying that internationally as well and it's part of the reason why the response to this
00:51global crisis has been so anemic and spotty and it would have been bad even with the best
01:00of governments it has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset of what's in it for me
01:15and to heck with everybody else when that mindset is operationalized in our government so
01:24that's why I, by the way, am going to be spending
01:30as much time as necessary and campaigning as hard as I can for Joe Biden