If this is what President Trump knew about the coronavirus on February 7th.

You just breathed the air, that's how it's passed.

And so that's a very tricky one, that's a very delicate one.

It's also more deadly than your, you know, even your strenuous flus.

Why was he saying this about the coronavirus in public less than three weeks later?

Sometimes they just get the sniffle, sometimes they just get something

with they're not feeling quite right. And sometimes they feel really bad.

But that's a little bit like the flu. It's a little like the regular flu that we...

It's a question that's dog the president ever since that first recording went public last week

from an interview with the journalist Bob Woodward. Bob Woodward, of course, is one of the Washington

Post reporters who broke the Watergate story that eventually led to Richard Nixon's resignation.

These revelations come from hours of interviews Woodward recorded with Donald Trump for his new book,

It's called Rage. I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down.

Yes, because I don't want to create a panic.

The book is out this week and Woodward sat down with NPR to talk about it.

He's an old school journalist, so committed to impartiality that he said he doesn't vote in

presidential elections. But Woodward said his reporting led him to take a position on this president.

Consider this, the journalist who has covered nine presidents says this one is the wrong man for

the job. From NPR, I'm Adi Cornish, it's September 14th.

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