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That's nice nice. Well, thank you so much for thinking of all of us. We are certainly thinking of everyone in Europe and the UK as well

Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Asma Khaled. I'm covering the presidential campaign. I'm Aisha Roscoe

I cover the White House and I'm Mara Laias and National Political Correspondent. So President Trump just concluded another press conference about the government's response to the coronavirus

And this time he had a somber tone as he made a number of new recommendations

You know as Mara you've said he was no longer minimizing the issue and in fact he acknowledged that this crisis could last through the summer

It seems to me that if we do a really good job

We'll not only hold the death down to a level that is much lower than the other way had we not done a good job

But people are talking about July

July

Something like that. That was the most stunning thing about this briefing

There was no we've got this under control

He of course talked about how great a job the government was doing he gave himself a 10 on his own

Handling of it, but to hear the President of the United States say what we have heard health experts say

But it's really different when it comes from the leader of your nation that it could last till July and August

He even acknowledged that there could be a recession is the US economy heading into a recession

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