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The Daily 202's Big Idea

Trump says he wants to hold a rally on Saturday night

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, Daily News, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Plus, the FBI charges six men with plotting to kidnap Michigan’s governor, and a top Republican fundraiser is charged with secretly being a foreign agent for China.

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0:00.0

Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

0:05.6

202 for Friday, October 9th. In today's news, the FBI charges six men with

0:12.4

plotting to kidnap Michigan's governor.

0:15.5

A top Republican fundraiser is charged with secretly being a foreign agent for China.

0:21.9

And the president gets passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize again.

0:27.0

But first, the big idea.

0:32.0

Calling into Sean Hannity's Fox News show on Thursday night and coughing frequently,

0:37.2

President Trump said he is going to try to do a rally on Saturday night in Florida

0:42.0

if his staff can pull off the logistics.

0:44.7

He said he wants to have another rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday night, adding, quote,

0:49.6

I feel so good.

0:51.8

But even as Trump asserted that he's quote clean and doesn't believe

0:56.0

he's contagious any longer, his doctors have offered only limited

0:59.2

information about his condition. It remains unclear when the president last tested negative for the virus,

1:04.8

a question White House officials dodged for a fifth consecutive day on Thursday.

1:08.9

White House doctors have also declined to release basic information about the viral load detected within the

1:14.9

president. White House physician Sean Conley, who was released only brief memos describing

1:19.4

Trump status since Monday, said earlier in the week that he would like to monitor the

1:23.2

president through this coming weekend to ensure his health does not relapse.

1:27.4

On Thursday, Connley says he believes Trump's on track to safely return to public

1:30.9

engagements on Saturday. It appeared that he released

1:34.2

that memo under pressure from the president. While Trump has been working from

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