Slate's Will Saletan on the timeline of Trump's coronavirus response and the new revelations from Bob Woodward's book

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

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Will Saletan compiled a comprehensive timeline of "what Trump knew and when he knew it" about the coronavirus pandemic. He says the chronology proves that Trump is responsible for many deaths. Brian Stelter asks Saletan about his conclusions. Plus: What do Bob Woodward's taped interviews with Trump add to the timeline? Saletan says Trump exposed one of the news media's vulnerabilities: "We're not really prepared as a press corps for an authoritarian. We're not prepared for someone who just lies... And it turns out that we're not as effective as we would like to believe we are at stopping politicians from lying if they're willing to simply ignore us."

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0:00.0	What did he know and when did he know it and what did he tell the public?
0:07.0	Those questions of course, newly relevant about President Trump and the coronavirus pandemic.
0:13.2	But how much are we really learning from Bob Woodward's new book?
0:17.8	How much did we already know?
0:20.3	Those are some of the questions on this week's Reliable Sources Podcast.
0:23.0	So let's get into it. Let's cue the music.
0:25.0	I'm Brian Stelter and this is our weekly Reliable Sources Podcast edition.
0:30.0	Our chance to go more in-depth talking with media leaders and newsmakers,
0:35.0	talking about how the news gets made.
0:38.0	What is news?
0:41.0	How does something resurface to the top of the national news agenda?
0:45.0	Well, Bob Woodward is showing us now.
0:48.0	The leaks from his forthcoming book Rage have been front and center for several days.
0:56.6	Woodward is drawing new attention onto Trump
0:59.6	and the federal government's failures
1:01.6	at the outset of the pandemic in January, in February, and March.
1:07.4	But so much of what went wrong was already public record, and that's what I want to drill down
1:12.2	on with my guest who's joining me now.
1:15.2	Will Salitan is the national correspondent for Slate magazine.
1:19.4	And for months now he's been updating a timeline, a comprehensive timeline of the coronavirus response.
1:28.0	Comparing, contrasting Trump's statements back then to what was really happening.
1:33.0	So I wanted to ask Will where the new Woodward revelations fit on the timeline
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