Now it's turning out it's not just old people, Bob, but just today and yesterday some startling

facts came out.

It's not just old people.

Yeah, exactly.

To plenty of young people.

So give me a moment of talking to somebody going through this with Fauci or somebody who

kind of caused a pivot in your mind because it's clear just from what's on the public record

that you went through a pivot on this too.

Oh my God, the gravity is almost inexplicable and unexplainable.

Well, I think Bob really, to be honest with you, I wanted to always play it down.

I still like playing it down.

Yes, because I don't want to create a panic.

That was President Trump talking to journalists Bob Woodward on March 19th, admitting that

he deliberately played down the severity of the coronavirus because he said, I don't want

to create a panic.

So in his efforts to calm the American public, it seems Trump made comments that he knows

to have been untrue.

That the virus would disappear when the weather starts to warm or that the threat of

COVID was no greater than the common flu.

Was this calming the public or lying to the public and endangering the health and lives

of hundreds of thousands of Americans who listened and acted on what he had to say?

We'll get reaction to these comments from Trump's former national security adviser, Ambassador

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