Veteran investigative journalist Carl Bernstein delivered an unforgiving assessment of President Trump on Sunday, excoriating the commander in chief for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Watergate sleuth told CNN the president, whom he noted has exhibited “demonstrable instability,” is too self-absorbed to adequately handle the health crisis, and has cost American lives because of his unwillingness to “mobilize” enough testing that health officials have said is necessary to safely start reopening the country.