PBS NewsHour

Moral questions about who may have profited off the pandemic

Clip: 10/15/2020 | 6m 21s | Video has closed captioning.

In late February, when the pandemic was beginning to take hold in the U.S., President Trump and his team downplayed the risk to the American public. But a new report finds that key advisers to the president were conveying a very different message to other audiences -- and some financial traders may have profited as a result. Amna Nawaz talks to author and former investment banker William Cohan.