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Trump admits to downplaying coronavirus threat in audio recordings

In audio recordings revealed in journalist Bob Woodward's new book, President Trump acknowledged he knew the coronavirus could be transmitted through the air and was five times more deadly than the flu, even as he was publicly saying it wasn't. Ben Tracy reports. (Disclosure: "Rage" is distributed by Simon & Schuster, a division of ViacomCBS)
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