hello. we begin in the us, where former president barack 0bama has described the current government s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as an absolute, chaotic disaster . mr 0bama was speaking on a conference call to rally supporters behind joe biden‘s run for president. in a leaked recording he says, what we re fighting against is these long term trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy that has become a stronger impulse in american life. he then adds: it would ve been bad with the best of governments. it s been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset of ‘what‘s in it for me‘ and ‘to heck with everybody else‘ is operationalised in government. 0ur north america coprrespondent peter bowes told me why mr 0bama s comments are significant. we haven t heard words like this, as strong as this from former president 0bama really since before president trump became president. he has pretty much stayed on the
hello. we begin in the us, where former president barack 0bama has described the current government s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as an absolute, chaotic disaster . mr 0bama was speaking on a conference call to rally supporters behind joe biden‘s run for president. in a leaked recording he says: he then adds: 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes told me why mr 0bama s comments are significant. we haven t heard words like this, as strong as this, from former president 0bama really since before president trump became president. he has pretty much stayed on the sidelines during the past three years of mrtrump being in the white house. but we are a different time now and, of course, we re just six months away from the next presidential election and barack 0bama has endorsed his former deputy joe biden for the democrats as their candidate. i think this signals that president 0bama will not be quiet over the next six months. in fact, he is saying that he is going
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