Face the Nation on the Radio 10/4
Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
CBS News
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
President Trump tests positive for COVID-19. We'll have a new CBS News Battleground Tracker Poll AND talk to voters about how the most recent news will impact the election. Plus interviews with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, LabCorps. CEO Adam Schechter, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, and National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien and more on this week's "Face the Nation."
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| 0:30.1 | I'm Margaret Brennan in Washington and this week on face the nation yet another |
| 0:36.0 | bombshell for America to deal with as the government and campaign 2020 are |
| 0:40.8 | thrown into turmoil after the president contracts COVID-19. |
| 0:46.4 | For a president who thrives on creating chaos, his diagnosis has inadvertently shifted |
| 0:52.4 | the course of the last month of campaign |
| 0:54.3 | 2020 and created a crisis in government. What's making matters worse? The |
| 1:00.2 | administration's dramatically conflicting reports on the president's condition. |
| 1:05.5 | 24 hours after being admitted to Walter Reed Hospital, |
| 1:08.8 | Mr. Trump took to social media to contradict his own chief of staff. |
| 1:13.2 | I came here, wasn't feeling so well, I feel much better now. |
| 1:18.0 | But the mystery of where, when, and from whom he contracted the virus is ro growing, as is the number of those in |
| 1:25.0 | Mr. Trump's inner circle who have tested positive. The race to contact |
| 1:30.1 | trace is now potentially a matter of life or death as attendees from all three |
| 1:34.9 | branches of government attended this Rose Garden event a week ago. Now an |
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