This is the Tom Hartman program.

And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you.

Bob Woodward's book, Rage just came out, or pieces of it are being leaked,

you know, in anticipation of coming out this week.

And he had a series of interviews, I believe he interviewed Trump 17 times.

But he had this one interview back in February where he asked about COVID-19.

And Trump said two things that I think are fascinating.

Number one he said, you know, this is a deadly disease. It's

transmitted through the air. So, you know, Trump acknowledged how bad the

disease was. But keep in mind, this was in February. This is when, I mean, our first case was January 20th,

both here and in South Korea. South Korea, since then, has had a total of about 300 people

die from COVID. We have a thousand people a day dying in America from COVID.

We're closing in on 200,000 dead people.

South Korea has 300 people dead. Same day diagnosis January 20th. So in

February a few weeks later, Trump is getting the intelligence, he's getting the

information, of course he knew all the way back in November

that something was going on with a highly contagious disease in China the US

notified Israel of that in November in December it became clear what it was

and by January there was no doubt I mean you know

the first day of I believe it was January 1st that the Chinese said okay here's the

disease here's the genome here's what we know you know somebody make a

test quick and you know by mid-January the Germans well the world health

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