::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

(The Slice): Audio tapes reveal Pres. Trump understood the danger of the Coronavirus being an air born disease in early on and he downplayed it to the public to avoid creating a panic, he said. This knowlege is detailed in veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward's newly relased book, RAGE. The book will be rleased on September 15, while audio cips have already come out exposing the president's thoguhts on several subjects as well as how individuals in the upper orbit of the administration felt about him. "I always wanted to play it down," said Trump in the interview. "You just breath the air and that's how it is passed," the president explained, showing he fully realized the severity of the potential spread. By Woodward's account, Trump learned about the outbreak in early January from his national Security Advisor Robert O'Brien. Withholding the truth was misleading to the public who he assured would not have to deal with the deadly vir...