Schiff: Claims that impeachment distracted from coronavirus is acknowledgment Trump administration 'screwed up'

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff responded to suggestions that President Trump’s reaction to the coronavirus was delayed because of impeachment by claiming it’s an acknowledgment “the administration screwed up this response.”

“Mitch McConnell said that he believes that the impeachment trial in the Senate slowed down the federal government’s response to the pandemic,” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said to Schiff, a former House impeachment manager. “What’s your response to that?”