Arguing that the current health care system is failing at a time of great importance, MSNBC Live guest host Yasmin Vossoughian tried to use the worsening coronavirus pandemic to push likely Democratic nominee Joe Biden further to the left on the issue and get him to support a single payer system.

Most of the interview pursued the theme of Trump being slow to respond and not doing enough, but towards the end Vossoughian got to the policy question, "I do have one final question for you because as you’ve been seeing, our health care system seems to be crumbling underneath this crisis. There is not enough. There is not support for the health care system, not enough support for the American people inside of the healthcare system. Are you now reconsidering your position when it comes to single payer health care?"

The question came as countries around the world, regardless of the type of health care system, struggle with surging case numbers. Biden, for his part, said no and offered generic ideas such as more funding for hospitals and vaccine development. However, he misled when trying to show how he would do things differently than Trump:

But for example, we had people when our administration, we had CDC people in other countries because we wanted to anticipate when in fact another virus would occur, when in fact a pandemic might occur as a consequence of a spreading virus in another country, to act quickly. The president withdrew those people. I insists -- I didn't insist-- I suggested we should have people in China at the outset of this event, when it all started, in Wuhan province. And what happened? We did not insist that they go into the areas.

The CDC's original offers to go to China in the early stages of the virus were rebuffed by the Chinese government and as for the withdrawn people, one expert told Reuters, "In the end, based on circumstances in China, it probably wouldn’t have made a big difference" given the Chinese government's cover-up.

Instead of correcting the record, Vossoughian spread more Democratic talking points, "If you become the nominee and then you do win the general election—al of ifs there—how quickly in that manner can you reassemble the pandemic team that the president got rid of?" Trump did not get rid of the pandemic team. We know this because people, who not that long ago were unassailable impeachment witnesses, have written op-eds saying they were part of the team.