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President Trump is being moved to hospital after being diagnosed with coronavirus, out of an "abundance of caution" according to the White House. We speak to Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post's National Political Correspondent. Meanwhile, the rate of unemployment in the US has fallen to 7.9%. But the jobless rate in the world's biggest economy is much higher than it was before the pandemic struck. We speak to Loretta Mester chair of the Cleveland Federal Reserve and member of the Federal Open Markets Committee, which sets interest rates in the US. And Chris Low of FTN Financial in New York gives us the market reaction to today's news.

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