Donald Trump’s medical team say he continuing to improve and could be discharged from hospital as early as today following the announcement of his Covid diagnosis in the early hours of Friday morning. However, they did confirm the president was briefly given oxygen. Anthony Zurcher BBC North America Correspondent joined us on the show from the USA to give us an update.

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