Welcome. Our guest tonight for the hour is bob woodward. His new book and the subject of it cannot be more timely. The title of the book is rage. The subject is Donald Trumps leadership. We are, of course, experiencing a steep recession and the president ial election a little more than a month and a half away. He spoke 18 times to the president in making the book. He recorded the conversations and youll hear many exchanges for the first time tonight. Others have already been released and theyve already become front page news, establishing in the president s own words that he knew very early on just how deadly and contagious covid19 was. He did not share that with the public, with the very people whose security, health and welfare are supposed to be every president s, any president s First Priority. Once more, the president suggested to woodward in a conversation on the 19th of march, his First Priority was to withhold the truth to, quote, play it down. He said and continues to say he w
Public, with the people health, security and welfare are supposed to be any president s first priority. Whats more, the president suggested to woodward on the conversation on the 19th of marg marge, his priority was to hold it down. He said he wanted to minimize panic. Well speak with bob woodward about that and more over the next hour. The book is called rage. Thanks for being with us. Thank you. So Jared Kushner today said President Trump was very forthcoming with the American People about what he knew and when he knew it. I want you to respond to that but before you do, i want to play a conversation you had with President Trump back on april 13th about the virus. This thing is a killer. If youre the wrong person, you dont have a chance. Yes, yes, exactly. And like a friend of mine died very great Real Estate Developer from manhattan died yesterday. Listen. Students of mine, i teach a journalism seminar have written me have had it and one of the women said she had it. They said she w