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The Daily DC

Deception and Distraction in the White House

The Daily DC

CNN

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4.4621 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

President Trump announces he is taking a controversial, unproven, and potentially dangerous drug to try to prevent coronavirus. CNN Washington Correspondent Ryan Nobles is joined by CNN Fact Checker Daniel Dale and CNN White House Reporter Stephen Collinson to break down the President's latest efforts to distract and deceive the public on COVID-19.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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A lot of good things have come out about the hydroxy.

0:03.0

A lot of good things have come out.

0:04.0

And you'd be surprised at how many people are taking it, especially the frontline workers.

0:09.0

I happen to be taking it. I happen to be taking it.

0:11.0

Because I think it's good. I've heard a lot of good stories.

0:14.0

And if it's not good, I'll tell you right, I'm not going to get hurt by it.

0:18.0

So I'm taking the two, the zinc and the hydroxy. And all I can tell

0:23.1

you is, so far, I seem to be okay. That, of course, President Trump yesterday telling

0:32.8

reporters that he's been taking a malaria drug as a preventative measure against coronavirus.

0:39.4

An unproven treatment experts say could actually have dangerous side effects.

0:44.1

Hello everyone. I'm CNN Washington correspondent Ryan Nobles.

0:47.1

In again for David Chalien, and this is the Daily DC.

0:51.4

Another grim milestone in the coronavirus fight.

0:59.5

The U.S. yesterday topping 1.5 million cases and 90,000 deaths. But the focus at the White House yesterday was on President Trump's latest muddying of the

1:05.2

medical waters, the latest in a series of distractions, conspiracy theories, and clear attempts to change the subject

1:11.9

to emerge from the West Wing. To break down all this, we're going to be joined today by

1:16.4

White House reporter Stephen Collinson. He'll join us in a few minutes. But first, for more on,

1:20.9

the president and his conspiracy theories is our fact checker, Daniel Dale, who is always very

1:26.5

busy. Daniel, thank you so much for joining us.

1:28.9

Thanks for having me.

1:30.2

All right. So let's talk now about President Trump and this claim that he kind of just threw out out of the blue yesterday,

1:36.7

that he is taking this malaria drug called hydroxychloroquine, very impressed with myself that I got that

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