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The Playbook Podcast

October 5, 2020

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The knowns and unknowns of President Donald Trump's Covid case, how senators are preparing for Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearings and more in today's Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Stay tuned for a message from Facebook after the show.

0:04.6

Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

0:09.0

And I'm Jake Sherman. How do you think things are going? President Donald Trump decided to take

0:12.7

his motorcade for a spin around the Walter Reed campus Sunday night, which one doctor said put

0:16.6

Secret Service at a risk, quote, as high as it gets outside of medical procedures for contracting

0:22.2

COVID. Trump has COVID, but we don't know much more than that. We don't know the extent of his

0:26.3

illness, the severity of his symptoms, when he tested positive for the last time he tested negative.

0:31.1

When did he know he might have the disease? We also don't know whether he'll go back to the

0:34.6

White House before doctors suggest he should. We don't know how many people have tested positive who came into contact with him.

0:40.4

New Jersey officials are trying to find the 206 people who attended Trump's fundraiser last

0:45.1

week, but they can't because the RNC didn't provide their numbers or addresses.

0:49.2

Here's what we do know.

0:50.7

The Attorney General of the United States is isolating.

0:53.8

Three Republican senators have COVID.

0:56.3

Votes have been canceled in the Senate for two weeks, and there's no widespread testing in the

1:01.1

Capitol that has been implemented. Joe Biden has tested negative for the third time since Friday,

1:07.4

according to his campaign. Natasha Karecki and David Lim have a piece up on how he's still at risk.

1:13.7

The crisis, and that's what this is, has highlighted the administration's shortcomings.

1:19.5

Everything revolves around Trump's moods to coddle and manage them.

1:24.7

And the White House that didn't have a plan to stop COVID in America

1:28.5

barely has one to handle it now that it's in its own quarters. The New York Times is a look at what

1:34.5

we don't know, as Trump's doctor would only say that the president's x-rays and lung function

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