Excerpts of @MarkMeadows' jaw-dropping CNN interview:

1) He says WH is focused on limiting deaths, not spread. "We’re not going to control the pandemic," he says. "What we need to do is make sure that we have... vaccines or treatments to make sure that people don’t die" from it.

2) @MarkMeadows derides Biden for promoting masks: “This president is leading, while Joe Biden is sitting there suggesting that we’re going to mandate masks.”

”What is Joe Biden’s plan for the pandemic?” Meadows asks later. ”He’s going to wear two masks, like he does every day?”

3) Meadows argues that masks aren't "the answer," since experts admit they wouldn't make schools perfectly safe.

He suggests mask science is dubious because WH virus officials Fauci and Birx, "the people you like to tout," changed their views. (They now strongly urge mask use.)

4) When @jaketapper cites cases in which people "got the virus at these Trump rallies" (he cites examples in MN, DC, and OK), @MarkMeadows suggests that masks wouldn't have helped, because reporters who "have worn masks religiously" also get infected.

5) Meadows defends the campaign's refusal to require masks at rallies.

@jaketapper: ”Why don’t you require supporters to wear masks at rallies?”
Meadows: “We live in a free society.”

Meadows: “We give out masks.”
Tapper: “They don’t wear them.”
Meadows: “It’s a free society.”

6) When Tapper asks about NYT's report that Meadows "sought to keep news of the outbreak" among Pence's staff "from becoming public," even as Pence campaigns, Meadows replies, "Sharing personal information is not something that we should do."

Video here: https://cnn.it/2J6s1Gr