Biden says if he was president he would've pushed for U.S. scientists to be allowed into China to investigate the source of the coronavirus in China & claimed Trump Admin didn't push for this. False. The U.S. pushed to be allowed to investigate on the ground & China blocked us.
Biden again admits that (despite what he's sometimes said) a national mask mandate cannot be done. Biden says he'd get all 50 governors in a room & ask them to mandate masks in states, & if governors say no he will go to mayors & councilmen to ask them to institute mask mandates.
Biden is using notes to answer a question on taxes.
Biden dodged again on court packing but seemed way more open to it than normal. Biden says "I'm not a fan" of packing but "I'm open to considering what happens from that time on" if ACB is confirmed before the election. Biden says he'll give his position before the election(?).
Biden said bounties were put on American heads in Afghanistan by the Russians (Russia-Taliban bounty story remains unconfirmed per top U.S. generals). Biden said more U.S. troops are in Afghanistan now than when he left office. Wrong. It was ~8400 end of 2016 & is under 5000 now.
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