The West Wheeze
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Trump is now back in the White House after making a Trumpian and very public return, but doctors say he’s still not "out of the woods." Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive along with two deputies in the communications department, but the White House’s contact tracing effort seems to be negligible at best.
The Supreme Court began its new term yesterday by rejecting an appeals case from Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who refused to give out same-sex marriage licenses due to religious objections. But Justices Alito and Thomas used the moment to voice their opposition to same-sex marriage as a constitutional right. We discuss what that means in light of Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, and what other cases the court will hear in the next month.
And in headlines: police shoot a Black man in Texas who was trying to stop domestic violence, the EPA gives Oklahoma authority over environmental issues on tribal lands, and the rock gods rule in the case of Led Zeppelin vs. Spirit.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, October 6th. I'm Ekela Hughes. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what a day where we've removed our Trump medical news |
| 0:12.3 | chips, smashed it and melted all the pieces. |
| 0:14.5 | Yeah, now that we don't have that, we can just look at our phones for the same information all day long. |
| 0:19.5 | That's right. I didn't need the chip anyway. My phone is my heart and soul, and that's the moral |
| 0:25.0 | story. On stage show President Trump leaves Walter Reed and the start of the new |
| 0:37.8 | exotus term, then some headlines. But first, the latest. Trump is now back at the White House. |
| 0:44.4 | Right. Yesterday afternoon he tweeted that he was going to leave Walter Reed Medical Center, |
| 0:48.4 | and in the evening, he returned to the White House, promptly took off his mask, went inside, |
| 0:54.0 | and then the White House released essentially propaganda videos of the entire journey. |
| 0:58.7 | Some of the video footage appeared to show him taking labored breaths. |
| 1:02.0 | In that same tweet from earlier in the day, he said, quote, don't be afraid of COVID. |
| 1:06.1 | Don't let it dominate your life, which comes after more than 200,000 people at least have |
| 1:11.1 | died from it in the United States. Many of them as a direct consequence of Trump not being |
| 1:15.9 | afraid of the virus. It is truly like a horror film. And it's also easier for Trump to say this |
| 1:20.8 | when he's the president and has access to top of the line treatment and care. Aside from the |
| 1:24.9 | usual from Trump, his doctors gave another update on Monday before he moved. So what did they say |
| 1:29.6 | about his current condition and the days ahead? Dr. Conley on the team didn't answer some questions |
| 1:34.1 | about Trump's lung function or the last time that he tested negative for COVID. Those are going |
| 1:38.6 | to continue to be questions going on from here. They said he did meet the criteria to leave the |
| 1:43.5 | hospital. But one of the telling quotes was that they also said Trump wasn't quote, out of the woods |
| 1:47.9 | which makes sense, given what medical experts know about the progression of the disease, |
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