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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Donald Trump has confirmed he intentionally downplayed the lethality and threat of the coronavirus crisis since early February, as revealed in audio recordings with Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward. In a week when the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 passed 190,000, Trump acknowledged he has been misleading the public about the virus while privately telling Woodward it was more deadly and more contagious than publicly understood.\\xa0 Democratic presidential nominee, former Joe Biden, condemned Trump's mendacity as a 'dereliction of duty'.\\xa0 But criticism of Woodward is also reverberating in journalism circles. Investigative journalist DAVID SIROTA, founder of the 'Too Much Information' (TMI) newsletter, charges that while Trump's actions constitute a 'horrific crime against humanity,' he was aided and abetted by Woodward's decision to withhold the crucial information for seven months until the publication of his book. Sirota discusses whether Woodward himself had a duty to warn the public earlier, and the broader issues of 'access journalism' and corporate-owned media. Also today: a new Microsoft report finds that Russia is taking active measures to interfere in the 2020 election and directly contradicts the Trump Administration's assertions on election interference by China. DHS whistleblower Brian Murphy alleges high-ranking Trump officials ordered him to alter US intelligence reports to remove references to Russian interference and add threats from China. Murphy also says he was instructed to change data to support the Administration's false claims about terrorists on the U.S.-Mexico border, and to match Trump's misleading claims and rhetoric regarding 'antifa' and minimize the far greater threat from white supremacists. This is NOT how intelligence gathering is supposed to work. Plus: Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"