so their actual records can be assessed. for only understandable focus on trump s nickel problems and controversies and rhetoric, it was his substance handling of the covid pandemic that impacted so many laughs and dragged him down in the eyes of mary and americans who concluded he found the 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, the last two months, where you say to yourself, a, this is the leadership test of a lifetime. no. no. no hesitation. that is a small part of one of trump s new for the interviews with bob woodward, conducted across the upper of the pandemic and through the campaign. wilbert secured more time with trump than any other writer. 20 and others across that stretch, trump sometimes making the calls, something he apparently not regret. the former president is so when woodward, we should note, over publishing the
are linton-ites, wait will turn to mr. woodward, who joins us later in this program. but first, we will walk through some of his reporting. largely, chronologically, as a pandemic first that america. if journalism is the first draft of history, let me put it like this. tonight we are attempting at least the beginning, or a bit of, or a step at, the second draft of history. documenting the pandemics early days. knowledge that was gathered later and developed overtime, headlines, and information, as it came in. this virus would define our lives and caused so many deaths, killing more than 1 million americans, more than a number of americans killed and both world wars. again, we all live through it, we think we know it, we are tired of. it took more of our fellow citizens lives that both world wars. so this couldn t matter more. it also of course up in the