'How can you say the campaign is not part of the problem?' asked a CBS News journalist who pointed out few masks and no social distancing at Trump rallies.
She also pointed out that Trump “packed” a church in Arizona, “one of the hardest-hit states,” with. “How can you say the campaign is not part of the problem?”
Pence responded: “I want to remind you again that free speech and the right to peacefully assemble is enshrined in the Constitution” — even though wearing a mask and following social distancing guidelines do not prohibit free speech. “Even in a health crisis, the American people don’t forfeit our constitutional rights.”, said at the briefing just minutes earlier that Americans have a “societal responsibility” to help stem the spread of COVID-19.
In congressional testimony Tuesday, Fauci called masks, hand-washing and social distancing the most “Dr. Anthony Fauci: "You have an individual responsibility to yourself, but you have a societal responsibility...We can either be part of the solution or part of the problem...the only way we're going to end it is by ending it together."
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