In the clips below, Tapper opens the exchange by asking Pelosi’s thoughts on Trump’s desire to “relax” social distancing guidelines for some parts of the nation. The question: Do you think he should?

Pelosi advised that we should be “taking every precaution” and that Trump’s “denial at the beginning was deadly.”

"I don't know what the scientists said to him,” Pelosi continued to Tapper, “when did this President know about this, and what did he know? What did he know and when did he know it? That's for an after-action review. But as the President fiddles, people are dying. And we just have to take every precaution."

Tapper asked Pelosi if she thinks Trump’s “downplaying” of the “risks” of the coronavirus for several weeks had “ultimately cost American lives?” Pelosi said yes. “Yes,” she replied, “I am. I’m saying that.”

"I'm saying that,” she explained, “because, the other day, when he was signing the bill, he said, just think, 20 days ago, everything was great. No, everything wasn't great. We had nearly 500 cases, and 17 deaths, already. And in that 20 days, because we weren't prepared, we now have 2,000 deaths and 100,000 cases.” Then the speaker continued and discussed the need for testing, more personal protective equipment, and the needs of healthcare workers.

In the now-viral clips, embedded below, Pelosi says what is on everybody’s mind at this point.

x TAPPER: When you say TrumpÃ¢ÂÂs denial was deadly, are you saying his downplaying ultimately costs lives?



PELOSI: "Yes I am ... when he was signing the [coronavirus] bill, he said, 'just think, 20 days ago everything was great.' No, everything wasn't great." pic.twitter.com/dLnF2fFmXU Ã¢ÂÂ Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 29, 2020

x .@SpeakerPelosi says the President downplaying the severity of #coronavirus is Ã¢ÂÂdeadly."



Ã¢ÂÂAs the President fiddles, people are dying. We just have to take every precaution.Ã¢ÂÂ #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/y8bFNbaPJy Ã¢ÂÂ State of the Union (@CNNSotu) March 29, 2020

“This is such a tragedy. We don’t even know the magnitude of it because we don’t have adequate testing,” she added.

Here is the exchange on YouTube as well.