The President Has Covid-19
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🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In a tweet overnight, President Trump said that he and the first lady had tested positive for the coronavirus. The news comes after a White House aid, Hope Hicks, tested positive. She had been traveling with the President in recent days, including to the debate on Tuesday.
House Dems passed a new slimmed down relief package yesterday, but Republicans still say it’s too expensive. In the meantime, layoffs continue across industries and about half the jobs that were lost between February and April still haven’t returned.
The Senate officially subpoenaed the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter for a hearing on how they moderate content that’s posted on their platforms. As the election nears, Facebook says it is adding additional restrictions to political ads that will go into effect immediately, but critics stay it's still nowhere near enough.
Special guest Yedoye Travis joins for the headlines: the DOJ’s task force on policing gets halted because it’s almost all policemen, skateboarding cranberry juice guy boosts Fleetwood Mac’s sales numbers, and closing the loop on a British zoo’s swearing birds.
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Comedian and writer Yedoye Travis
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, October 2nd. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Akila Hughes, and this is what a day where we are currently processing Trump's October |
| 0:13.1 | Surprise. |
| 0:23.0 | On today's show, the current state of the COVID economy and how tech companies are preparing |
| 0:27.2 | for the election, then some headlines. |
| 0:29.6 | At first, the latest, and it's really the latest. |
| 0:32.5 | We had to re-record the top of the show because of some breaking news overnight, so we'll |
| 0:36.5 | get into the rest of the show in a moment. |
| 0:39.2 | But our lead story, of course, is that early this morning around 1 a.m. Eastern, President |
| 0:43.9 | Trump tweeted that he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus. |
| 0:48.9 | The news came after a close White House aide, Hope Hicks, who had been experiencing symptoms |
| 0:53.1 | tested positive. |
| 0:54.5 | Hicks had been traveling with the President in recent days, including to the debate on Tuesday. |
| 0:59.2 | In his tweet, Trump said that he and Melania would begin a quarantine immediately. |
| 1:03.4 | The Trump's physician put out a statement confirming and saying Trump was, quote, well, |
| 1:07.9 | but the statement did not say anything about whether he was experiencing symptoms. |
| 1:12.0 | In this news comes after the President has spent months downplaying the pandemic, which |
| 1:15.4 | has killed over 200,000 Americans and infected at least 7 million, as well as sowing mistrust |
| 1:21.0 | and spreading disinformation that has Americans questioning his credibility on the matter. |
| 1:25.8 | It's unclear as of now who else may have contracted the virus while traveling or working |
| 1:30.4 | or meeting with the President. |
| 1:32.8 | It's also unclear what impact this will have on the presidential campaigns. |
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