Coronavirus: Ron Klain on what went wrong

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In new Skullduggery podcast, Ron Klain, President Obama's former ebola czar and top advisor to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, warns the worst is yet to come in coronavirus crisis. He also critiques President Trump's performance and tells hosts Daniel Klaidman and Michael Isikoff what he's doing personally to stay safe.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:20.0	Few people know more about public health threats and how the US government should deal with them
0:25.2	than Ron Claim. In 2014, Claim was tapped by President Obama to be the White House Ebola's R
0:32.3	when there were widespread concerns about how the country was responding to outbreaks
0:37.3	of the disease emanating from West Africa. Before that, he served as Chief of Staff to two
0:42.8	Vice Presidents, Al Gore and Joe Biden. And he's now a top advisor to Biden's campaign.
0:48.8	We'll talk to Claim about the coronavirus crisis and how Donald Trump's White House has handled it
0:54.3	on this episode of SkullDuggery.
1:03.2	Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop.
1:06.2	Well, I'm not a crop.
1:07.1	I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.
1:10.6	My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true.
1:13.7	But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.
1:16.6	I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
1:20.7	There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.
1:34.5	I'm Michael Isogoff, Chief of Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
1:37.6	And I'm Dan Clyde, Minister and Chief of Yahoo News.
1:40.3	Okay, it's a cough. I think people are really not going to be all that interested in hearing us
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