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Today, Explained

Can President Trump fix this?

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

After dismissing coronavirus concerns for months, President Donald is pivoting to serious action to slow the crisis in the United States. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's today explained I'm Sean Ramos from back from quite possibly the worst time vacation

0:08.7

in the history of travel.

0:10.2

But it seemed like a good idea two weeks ago, and that's the thing about this novel coronavirus

0:14.3

crisis where all in so much changes so fast.

0:18.4

On Sunday, the CDC said no gatherings over 50 people.

0:22.4

On Monday, President Trump reduced that number to 10 as he warned that this outbreak could

0:26.8

extend well into the summer.

0:28.8

Yesterday, Ohio's governor said the state would postpone today's primary, then an Ohio

0:34.2

judge said no dice, then the governor said he'd ignore the judge.

0:37.8

Never has the news more needed to be explained so we are going to up our game.

0:43.6

From today on, we're going to open every episode of today explained with an update on all

0:49.1

the latest coronavirus news.

0:51.0

After that, we'll take a quick breather and get on with the regular show, which will most

0:55.8

likely also be about COVID-19.

0:58.5

And you can help us.

0:59.5

Tell us what questions you have, email us where today explained at vox.com, tweet at us,

1:06.8

we're at today underscore explained.

1:08.3

I'm at Ramos for them.

1:10.0

And thank you for listening.

1:11.0

Stay safe and stay smart during this crisis.

1:14.4

All right, let's do this.

1:20.7

The president held a White House briefing today.

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