President Donald Trump claims America is in the closing moments of the pandemic - and that it's all over for New Zealand.

The US president has told a campaign rally in Pennsylvania the US is hopefully seeing the end of its outbreak, while claiming New Zealand's situation is getting worse.

The US now has five and a half million cases of Covid 19 and 172,000 have died.

Radio Hauraki Breakfast host Matt Heath joined The Panel on The Weekend Collective to discuss this, along with the other big issues making news this week.

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