Trump Promised Corporate Partnerships To Fight The Virus. They Haven't Materialized.
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🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Also, the White House is working to reduce wage rates for foreign guest workers on American farms. Opponents of the plan argue it will hurt vulnerable workers and depress domestic wages.
This episode: campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, and investigations correspondent Tim Mak.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Molly and Brandon from Boston, Massachusetts. We were supposed to get married this Saturday, but our wedding has been postponed |
| 0:07.2 | This podcast was recorded at 2.10 pm on Monday April 13th much like our wedding date things may have changed by the time you hear this |
| 0:16.1 | Here's the show |
| 0:20.2 | Oh so sad post-boning a wedding is no fun |
| 0:24.7 | Yeah, but on the upside having a wedding in spring in Boston is always a little risky so hopefully you'll be able to get married when the weather in Boston is slightly better |
| 0:33.8 | Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I'm a smakholid. I'm covering the presidential campaign and I'm Mara Laias and National Political Correspondent and we're joined by our old Washington |
| 0:43.3 | Desk friend Tim Mack. He's now part of NPR's investigations team. Hey Tim. Hey there exactly one month ago president Trump had this to say |
| 0:51.8 | To unleash the full power of the federal government that this effort today. I am officially declaring a national emergency |
| 0:59.6 | Two very big words and Tim your team NPR's investigations team found that many of the promises Trump made at that moment when he declared this national emergency |
| 1:09.4 | Have largely been unkept |
| 1:11.8 | So take us back in time and remind us what the president actually said what happened |
| 1:16.3 | So there was this |
| 1:17.8 | This big press address in the Rose Garden on March 13th and the president was flanked by leaders from giant retailers and medical testing companies |
| 1:27.0 | And he promised a mobilization of public and private resources to attack this crisis at the same time |
| 1:33.7 | We've been in discussions with pharmacies and retailers to make |
| 1:38.4 | Drive-through tests available in the critical locations identified by public health professionals |
| 1:44.2 | The goal is for individuals to be able to drive up and |
| 1:50.0 | Be swabbed without having to leave your car and he said he was working at this drive-through testing situation at national retailers |
| 1:58.3 | So that there would be a website |
| 2:00.5 | Integrating screening directing you to a drive-through testing location and presenting results. I want to thank Google |
| 2:06.8 | Google is helping to develop a website. It's gonna be |
| 2:11.0 | very quickly done |
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