protect the nation and the public interest? both men have now served as president, so their actual records can be assessed. for all the understandable focus on trump s legal problems and controversies and rhetoric, it was his substantive handling of the covid panic that dragged him down in the eyes of many americans who concluded he failed that task when faced with that all-important leadership test. as for trump, he said at the time he did not see the emergency as his test of a lifetime. was there a moment in all of this last two months where you said to yourself, ah, this is the leadership test of a lifetime? no. no, and no hesitation. now, that is a small part of one of trump s news worthy interviews with legendary journalist bob woodward who secured more time with president trump than any other writer. 20 interviews across that stretch. trump sometimes making the calls. somethinge apparently now regrets. the former president is suing woodward, we should note, over p
course of a week. we are still knee-deep in the first wave of this. we cannot ignore it, and we cannot call it a hoax. and we cannot misrepresent the facts. that was also july. now everyone knows covid was a health crisis, but it also morphed into a misinformation and propaganda crisis. as donald trump now runs for office again, it is worth recalling the lengths he went to blame and confuse the issue. he took the unprecedented step of making the u.s. formally quit the main international body for coordinating this kind of response, exiting the world health organization in the middle of a pandemic. you saw that in a movie, it might seem like a hard plot point to believe. that was amidst the testing shortage, cases peaking. and there were other steps as well. trump later made a step toward publicly supporting masks, even publicly donning one himself. these tapes also show that no
senior adviser of president biden. andy, there are covid cases peaking. is there something the government should be doing now to get ready for what may come for the future any different? it is a great question and it is indeed the cases are peaking. i think it may be some time before hospitals ease up on the crisis. we still have a little bit of time to go there, we should all be conscious of workers there and i think it will come time in february when things are settled back down for the president to start talking about the plan ahead how to make sure that we do everything we can to help people live with whatever comes next, utilize the tools and sending out tests or anti-virals. we have a great armor now and should be prepared for what is