Anderson Cooper had an extended interview on Wednesday with Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, who is calling for casinos, hotels and restaurants to reopen in the city given the wrenching loss of jobs and revenue.

Cooper, though, had a lot of questions over just how wise such a move would be at this moment and how it would work.

At one point, he showed a report from Chinese researchers that outlined how the virus spread in a restaurant.

“This isn’t China. This is Las Vegas, Nevada,” she interjected.

“Wow, that’s really ignorant,” he said.

“That’s ignorant to say?” she asked.

The interview went on for about 15 minutes, with Goodman defending her calls for reopenings but also arguing that it is not up to her to determine how businesses practices social distancing.

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Cooper asked her about the risks of reopening the public spaces where people will be in close quarters, but also traveling to and from the city.

He asked, “Doesn’t that sound like a virus Petri dish. How is that safe?”

“It sounds like you are being alarmist. I am not. I have lived a long life,” she said.

Then Cooper asked her, “So you don’t believe there should be social distancing?”

“Of course,” she asked.

He then asked her how that would be done in a casino.

“That is up to them to figure out,” Goodman said. “I don’t own a casino. I don’t know anything about building a casino.”

She later added, “I am not a private owner. That is the competition in this country. The free enterprise will be able to make sure that what you offer the public meets the needs of the public.”

And on it went. At one point during the interview, Cooper took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes.

Goodman argued that with the shutdown of the city, “so many families who can’t even afford to get the groceries for their family because they have been out of work for six weeks.”

But she also seemed to suggest that the city had survived previous outbreaks without the need for closures.

“I’d love everything open because we’ve had viruses for years that have been here,” she said.

It’d be hard to label the interview as acrimonious. Rather, Goodman had words of praise for Cooper.

“You’re a very good interviewer,” she said at one point. “I have watched you for years, and you are wonderful. And I not going down that road. I am sticking for what I am asking for.”

He said that Goodman actually “has no authority over casinos and what happens on the strip. But she takes no responsibility. I was surprised I guess that she’s not really working on testing or contact tracing or doing anything it seems like other mayors are to try to ramp up the availability of testing.”

Jimmy Kimmel, a native of the city, tweeted about the interview afterward.

Her wrote, “Dear Las Vegas. It would appear that your mayor Carolyn Goodman is dangerously misguided. I am not easily shocked anymore, but the interview she is doing with @andersoncooper @cnn right now is bonkers.”