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Analysts reportedly compiled a report that included it could be, quote, a cataclysmic event. The same source tells abc the top members of the defense department, as well as the white house, were briefed and it was included as well in the president s daily brief in early january. The president s first comment on the disease was in an interview with cnbc on january 22nd. This is what he said. The words about a pandemic at this point . No, not at all. And were we have it totally under control. Its one person coming in from china. And we have it under control. Its going to be just fine. Seven days later, we now know his trade advisor Peter Navarro wrote the first of at least two memos that warned of as many as half a million dead potentially. Today, jim acosta asked a slightly different question. Was he briefed on that memo . Here is the exchange. Just a followup on something from yesterday. Quick question. Yesterday, you said you had ....

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