10 Sep 2020

Covid-19: Fresh claims Donald Trump downplayed pandemic

From Morning Report, 8:10 am on 10 September 2020

Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis is coming under renewed pressure.

Trump knew just how dire Covid-19 would be back in February - even though his public messages portrayed the opposite.

It is among the many revelations contained in Rage the new book by Bob Woodward - the Washington Post journalist who along with Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.

Correspondent Simon Marks speaks to Susie Ferguson.