Trump returns to White House, a fight over lithium batteries
FT News Briefing
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🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday evening after three days of hospital treatment for coronavirus, although his doctor warned that the president was not yet “out of the woods”. Plus, the IMF is instructing rich countries to spend on infrastructure, and a court case over trade secrets between two South Korean companies could affect the future of electric cars in the United States.
Donald Trump returns to White House after three days in hospital
https://www.ft.com/content/4909a63c-8f7d-4621-9fba-73b5dac2ee5c
IMF calls on rich nations to boost public investment
https://www.ft.com/content/fc7ad858-0fdd-401e-bce5-796a8353ba30
Stakes are high in bitter battle over battery secrets
https://www.ft.com/content/98678ea4-7eba-4873-8815-47b0efe7c9df
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday October 6th, and this is your |
| 0:06.1 | F.T. News briefing. As coronavirus continues to spread within Donald Trump's |
| 0:11.8 | inner circle, U.S. voters still don't know how serious |
| 0:15.0 | the President's condition has been. |
| 0:17.2 | Plus, the IMF instructs rich countries to spend, but spend well on infrastructure. |
| 0:23.0 | And a court case over trade secrets between two South Korean companies |
| 0:27.0 | could affect the future of electric cars in the United States. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Brendan Greeley, in for Mark Filipino. Here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:40.0 | Kiran Stacy is the F.T.'s Washington correspondent, with the rest of the Bureau he spent |
| 0:43.8 | the weekend trying to figure out exactly how serious Donald Trump's case of COVID-19 has been. |
| 0:49.2 | Now, as of Monday afternoon, the President plans to head home, but there's still a lot of details about his stay in a U.S. military hospital that we just don't know. |
| 0:58.0 | Kiran, what happened this weekend? |
| 1:02.0 | Well, let's start with what we know. |
| 1:04.0 | The president was diagnosed with coronavirus at some point, |
| 1:08.0 | late, mid to late last week. |
| 1:10.0 | We were told about it very late on Thursday night, early hours of Friday morning. |
| 1:14.4 | We were initially told that his symptoms were mild, that he would be continuing to work |
| 1:19.2 | from the White House residents, but within hours suddenly he was being airlifted off to Walter Reed's Medical |
| 1:26.1 | Center just outside Washington, D.C. |
| 1:28.8 | He has then spent the weekend at Walter Reed. |
| 1:31.6 | He has been given supplemental oxygen twice when his own |
| 1:35.1 | oxygen saturation levels dropped. He has also been given a highly experimental cocktail |
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