bialik asked. managed by for. this is d. w. news coming to you live from berlin president trump under fire for playing down the credit virus outbreak in its early stage. warner would still panic we don't want to jump up and down and start shouting that we have a problem u.s. president defends his response after new book alleges he knew about the dangers of the fire is but failed to warn the public also coming out left with nothing what

for the $12000.00 migrants with nowhere left to go after a massive fire destroys the morea temple the greek island of less false we'll hear from the n.g.'s trying to help me grow. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us u.s. president all trumps under fire again for his handling of the corona virus outbreak following an explosive new book in that book veteran journalist bob woodward says trump deliberately downplayed the danger posed by the virus in the 1st weeks of the pandemic at a news conference the president defended his handling of the crisis from said he was not lying to the public but that he did not want to calls conics more than 189000 americans have died from the virus so far i don't want people to be frightened. i don't want to create panic well joining me here in the studio for

more is t w reporter and u.s. expert peter dolls peter what do you make of trump's explanation for apparently misleading the american public about the dangers of the credible right i mean i think one thing to understand about trump is that he is he's a big believer in the power of positive thinking right he likes to talk things up rather than play them down except for apparently in this case he likes to call himself a cheerleader for the country and said you know he wants to project strength and confidence and i think he set one thing last night the really kind of summed up that that either those that i think embody is let's listen and certainly i'm not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy we want to show confidence we want to show strength we want to show strength as a nation and that's what i've done and we've done very well right and so of

course you know what he actually did by withholding information from the public is was in a sense to actually create more panic because he created a false sense of security he repeatedly told americans not to wear a mask even though he very early on knew that the virus was airborne he said that it was no worse than a flu even though we have him on tape on sept 7th saying that you know this virus was 5 times more deadly than the flu so. it created panic because americans did not understand essentially what they were up against the economy has been tanking asked result because they didn't know how to respond to the pandemic and one last thing i will say mean for him to say that he did not want to create panic really just does not square with you know his basic campaign message that we've seen in these past couple months where you know panic is very much driven his message he's you know to treat the unrest that we've seen in connection with the black lives matter protests as the biggest threat to the suburb in the safety of americans he's

betrayed by radical socialist that the you know the fate of the country in the security of the countries at stake here is.