While the president revises history from the White House briefing room, Trump 2020 goes into

cleanup mode. The campaign has started to send cease and desist letters to local TV stations

that air an attack ad that highlights Trump's comment that the hype around the coronavirus was a hoax.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Our response to coronavirus depends on trust in institutions, which was already anemic.

Early on in this pandemic, optimistic Democrats would say, you know, the NIH will get as much money as they want forever.

And I'm not sure that we emerge from this with people saying, what we need is more science.

And as statistical models change, and some begin to question the modelers, remember.

Picasso said art is a lie that helps us see the truth. That's the case in all the best models.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. It was a horrifying week of widespread death.

Tonight, coronavirus cases over 2 million worldwide.

In the U.S., the death toll now topping 32,000.

But it was in some ways an ordinary week in Donald Trump,

his threat to send Congress packet.

I will exercise my constitutional authority to adjourn both chambers of Congress.

His claims of absolute power over the states.

When somebody's the president of the United States, the authority is total.

And that's always got to be. His scapegoating of the United States. The authority is total. And that's the way it's got to be.

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