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During a SALT speech in Las Vegas yesterday, Joe Biden made a surprising remark about Hillary Clinton when speaking about the 2016 presidential election:
I never thought she was a great candidate. I thought I was a great candidate.
He later qualified his comment, saying: "Hillary would have been a good president." He still maintained he probably won't run for president in 2020.
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The airline industry got a $58 billion lifeline in the coronavirus federal aid package. But the path is unclear for these companies, whose operations and prospects will be forever changed by the global pandemic.
Why it matters: People may want to minimize travel for the foreseeable future. Investors, analysts and industry watchers are trying to determine how much airlines will need to spend — and how much more in lost revenue they'll see — while they adapt to the new reality.
President Trump said at a press briefing Tuesday that he "didn't see" memos from his trade adviser Peter Navarro warning in January and February that the coronavirus crisis could kill more than half a million Americans and cost close to $6 trillion.
Why it matters: Trump insisted that despite not seeing the memos, he did "more or less" what Navarro suggested by banning non-U.S. citizens from traveling from China effective Feb. 2.