The President has Covid. The Roundtable -Oct 2
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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How does the President's Covid affect the government, the campaign, the debates, the White House response to the pandemic? With Gabe Debenedetti National Correspondent for New York Magazine, Lauren Burke, Writer for Black Press USA and Chris Lu, Former Obama White House Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Labor.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors, good to see you, and we welcome you to today's podcast in this week's roundtable on this Friday morning, October 2nd, when we all woke up to the stunning news that President Donald Trump and First Lady of Melania Trump have both |
| 0:22.3 | tested positive for the coronavirus. Of course, that is a stunning development, but not surprising |
| 0:30.6 | for a man who admittedly downplayed the seriousness of the virus for months, who refused to wear |
| 0:37.1 | a mask, who mocked Joe Biden |
| 0:39.0 | for wearing a mask during Tuesday night's debate, who refused a social distance, even during |
| 0:44.6 | briefings of the coronavirus task force, who insisted on holding in-person campaign rallies |
| 0:50.8 | even after state health officials begged him not to. |
| 0:55.3 | And for a president who just last night told the Al Smith dinner, quote, |
| 0:59.5 | I just want to say that the end of the pandemic is in sight. |
| 1:04.5 | For this man, it was only a matter of time. |
| 1:08.1 | Still, with only 31 days left till November 3rd, and Trump's spending the next 14 of them |
| 1:14.1 | in quarantine, this throws the country, the economy, and the 2020 campaign in chaos. What happens |
| 1:21.7 | next? Who knows? But let's take a first crack at it with today's panel. |
| 1:32.1 | Gabe Dependidetti, joining us, National Political Correspondent for New York Magazine. |
| 1:32.6 | Hello, Gabe. |
| 1:33.2 | Welcome back. |
| 1:34.0 | Hey, Bill. |
| 1:34.5 | Good to be here. |
| 1:37.7 | Lauren Burke, writer for Black Press USA. |
| 1:39.1 | And welcome back to you, Lauren. |
| 1:40.0 | How you doing? |
| 1:46.1 | And Chris Liu, of course, former Deputy Secretary of Labor under President Obama and senior fellow at the University of Virginians Miller Institute. |
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