Taped Interviews: President Trump admits to downplaying COVID-19 threat

(NBC News) President Trump admitted Wednesday downplaying the threat posed by COVID-19 after new audio recordings reveal he knew how dangerous the coronavirus was weeks before the first confirmed death in the United States.The president told the Washington Post's Bob Woodward in a series of taped interviews that the virus was airborne, deadly and affected young people."You just breathe the air and that's how it's passed. And so, that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also mor