Summary
President Trump is again backing hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug with no proven effectiveness against Covid-19, but with the backing of a quack doctor who believes that women have sex with demons in their dreams. We also discuss why the Senate race is so fascinating this year, and how baseball is a microcosm of America.
Studio director: Emma Crowe Producer: Harriet Noble Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.6 | You're going to hear some new clips in the America's The Music this week including one |
| 0:09.8 | from an interview that Donald Trump has given Fox News about cognitive issues and being |
| 0:15.1 | in your 70s. Suffice it to say, I'm a person, Emily's a woman, Anthony's a man, we've got |
| 0:21.1 | a camera in the studio so that this can be on TV. |
| 0:24.3 | Person, woman, man, camera TV. |
| 0:29.0 | Just to put that in context then in this surreal interview, the president is discussing whether |
| 0:35.8 | his opponent is up to the job and he is proving that he himself is up to the job because he |
| 0:42.9 | has come out of this cognitive test he says with flying colours. The unbeknownst to him, |
| 0:49.3 | the test would ask him to repeat five words that he'd heard 20 minutes ago and he manages |
| 0:55.1 | to get them all in the right order and as he does so, he then throws this kind of grenade |
| 1:01.7 | out and says, I'm not sure Biden's there, you know, we'll all get there someday. As if |
| 1:07.5 | he's in his sort of teens and Biden's in his 80s whereas there's actually what, three |
| 1:14.1 | years between the two men, but this is the way the campaign is playing out, that what started |
| 1:20.2 | as a sort of sleepy Joe image, Trump is trying to turn into a incapacitated Joe that he's |
| 1:27.7 | not all there, that he can't be trusted because he's not up to the job. So yes, we are actually |
| 1:33.3 | having a debate about whose brain is functioning. |
| 1:37.3 | America. America. From BBC News. I am your president of law and order. |
| 1:45.5 | The US has now surpassed four million cases of coronavirus. The country is crying out for leadership, |
| 1:51.4 | person, woman, man, camera TV. Four kids are just as bright and just as talons white kids. |
| 1:57.4 | Where are you from? At BBC. There's another beauty. |
| 2:05.2 | So there you go. It's Emily in the studio in London and it's John in Washington. |
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