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When serving the president means risking covid-19

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

How the White House residence staff is responding to the hot spot in their workplace. The owner of a Kansas diner weighs whether to reopen or keep feeding people in need. And the NBA’s push to get out the vote. 

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National features reporter Jada Yuan reports that as the number of people testing positive for coronavirus at the White House increases, there is growing concern that residential workers are being put at risk

The Ladybird Diner in Lawrence, Kan., has been feeding hungry people since it had to close its doors in March. Now, reporter Annie Gowen explains, the owner is facing a choice: She can reopen, but what will happen to the hungry people if she does?

In 2016, only 22 percent of eligible players in the NBA voted in the election. Sports reporter Candace Buckner reports on how the push across the league to get people to the polls this November started with the players themselves

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0:00.0

From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

0:05.0

Hi there is the Mayor, Marissa Lang with the Washington Post.

0:09.0

Hey it's Dossie, I want to pick your brain on the truck.

0:11.0

Hi, Wayne's, Janet Johnson.

0:13.0

This is Post Reports.

0:15.0

I am Martine Powers.

0:18.0

It's Tuesday, October 6th.

0:23.0

Today, who Trump is putting at risk, choosing between feeding the hungry and having a business,

0:29.0

and how NBA players got political.

0:34.0

Over the past few days, we've seen the president seem to flout safety protocols.

0:44.0

I mean, he's done it before, but now he's an active COVID patient roaming throughout the world.

0:49.0

I'm Jada Yuanan, I'm a Features Writer covering politics for the style section.

0:56.0

On Sunday, while he was hospitalized at Walter Reed, he got into a motorcade with several secret service agents in a completely sealed car.

1:10.0

And did what some of called a joyride to wave to his supporters who were gathered outside the medical center.

1:17.0

And yeah, there's an outcry on behalf of the secret service who are being put in harm's way because they're locked in this car with an active COVID patient.

1:28.0

The thing is that the secret service are public facing.

1:32.0

You can see them in pictures and get upset about what's happening.

1:36.0

But there's also the resident staff who are really the tenants of the White House.

1:42.0

They're the people who go in there and work every day and keep the house running, the housekeepers, the butlers, the ushers, the flores.

1:50.0

And when the president got released from Walter Reed on Monday, among the first things he did was walk up the steps, get on a balcony and take off his mask for a photo op.

2:00.0

And that immediately raises concerns about what is he doing inside the house to protect the people that work there from this virus that he's bringing into their world.

2:11.0

And you know, when we talk about the coronavirus outbreak in the White House and the people who have either gotten it already or are at risk of getting it, we think about White House staffers is like the people who work with the president, like the press secretary.

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