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Speaker 1: navigating folks for how to understand and navigate through the

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Speaker 1: economic fallout of all this. I think one of the

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Speaker 1: frustrations that based upon my reporting that I can tell

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Speaker 1: you is, Okay, if they're not going to come back

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Speaker 1: to Washington, and why aren't they voting virtually or why

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Speaker 1: aren't they doing anything virtually? Uh? I mean, if they're

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Speaker 1: why can't they why can't they have a virtual type

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Speaker 1: to help constituents. You're following me, I hear you, and

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Speaker 1: I do see that. I mean, it's a it's an

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Speaker 1: important argument, but these we elect these members of Congress

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Speaker 1: going to actually help us out more so than trying

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Speaker 1: to help people through the morass of the federal bureaucracy. Alright,

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Speaker 1: coming up, we're gonna check in with Max Burns are

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Speaker 1: for about Joe Biden's day on MSNBC where he finally

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Speaker 1: addressed those allegations. But I want to steak with policy

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Speaker 1: from a standpoint when lawmakers do return. Brian Darling, as

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Speaker 1: you are someone who advises businesses, you have the ear

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Speaker 1: of top Republicans in the Senate and in the House.

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Speaker 1: What are you going to be looking for them to

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Speaker 1: do in the immediate short term as it relates to

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Speaker 1: any type of package coming out of Congress, Well, you

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Speaker 1: look at the Phase four. I mean, the Phase four

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Speaker 1: it's going to be more partisan than the last two packages.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to be unanimous. There will be some pushback.

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Speaker 1: So what I want to see is does Congress move

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Speaker 1: forward with an infrastructure package? Does Congress move forward with

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Speaker 1: other things that aren't directly related to the coronavirus crisis?

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Speaker 1: Um in, how partisan does this fight get? Because the

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Speaker 1: going to take to pass the bill. So I'm wondering

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Speaker 1: And what in terms of the fight that Congressman Roy

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Speaker 1: have left, Brian about, uh, the conservative fight that's coming,

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Speaker 1: if it's not, if it might be post but the

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Speaker 1: national debt and government spending, Well, we're facing approximately twenty

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Speaker 1: one year. And the fight is going to be over

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Speaker 1: where do we cut and what do we spend our

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Speaker 1: open up their purses and pocketbooks just to get some

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Speaker 1: once we get a little bit past this this crisis,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be time to look to reorder our

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Speaker 1: priorities and go to figure out where we're going to

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Speaker 1: spend our money. Brian Darling always appreciate hearing your insights

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Speaker 1: and your thoughts. One of the best two knows virtually

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Speaker 1: everyone in the Republican Party. Brian Darling, former senior communications

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Speaker 1: director for RAMPAUL and the founder of Liberty Government Affairs

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Speaker 1: be All my friend. Coming up next next Burns once

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Speaker 1: Harry re allegation. If you're listening to Bloomberg nine one,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Television and for Bloomberg radio. It's Friday, folks, Friday folks,

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Speaker 1: and I'm excited to see the flyover tomorrow from the Thunderbirds.

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Speaker 1: You no, it'll be something to look forward to five

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Speaker 1: And uh, you can catch the flyover from the Thunderbirds.

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Speaker 1: Gonna and the Blue Angels gonna be amazing, gonna be

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Speaker 1: goose bumps. You know, the whole, the whole, the whole

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Speaker 1: nine yards. And it's all being done in to show

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Speaker 1: support for the folks on the front lines of doing

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Speaker 1: all the hard work front lines for COVID nineteen. Breaking news,

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Speaker 1: breaking news out of Joe Biden world. You ready for this?

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden just wrote a letter that was released today

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Speaker 1: May one, to Julie Adams, Julie E. Adams, Secretary of

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Speaker 1: the Senate, I am writing to request your assistance in

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Speaker 1: determining whether twenty seven years ago, a staff member in

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Speaker 1: my United States Senate office filed a complaint alleging sexual harassment.

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Speaker 1: According to public reports, the staff member, Ms. Tera Reid,

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Speaker 1: has stated that in she filed such a complaint with

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Speaker 1: the office responsible for enforcing Senate employees rights in the workplace,

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden goes on to write in this letter to

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Speaker 1: Julie Adams, the Secretary of the Senate, that he quote

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Speaker 1: request that you take or direct whatever steps are necessary

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Speaker 1: to establish the location of the records of this office, and,

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Speaker 1: once they have been located, to direct a search for

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Speaker 1: the alleged complaints, and to make public the results of

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Speaker 1: this search. End quote. Wow. A three paragraph letter from

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Speaker 1: from Joe Biden, former Vice president likely Democratic presumptive Democratic

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Speaker 1: presidential nominee. Max Burns is on the line. He is

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Speaker 1: a Democratic strategist and a contributor at The Daily Beast

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Speaker 1: and The Independent. Max, Wow, I need your reaction. What

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Speaker 1: do you think of that letter? I think this is

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Speaker 1: the right decision for Joe Biden. This is obviously something

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Speaker 1: that should be taken very seriously. I don't know whether

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Speaker 1: deserve a full and transparent investigation. So I think trying

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Speaker 1: to source that initially, that early complaint from will be

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Speaker 1: a huge step in in dissessing the credibility of the clients.

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Speaker 1: So Joe Biden went on Morning Joe earlier this morning,

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Speaker 1: uh and he said he was asked very indirect, direct

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Speaker 1: I thought mikuld did a great job with the interview.

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Speaker 1: I mean in terms of her question she asked every

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Speaker 1: I think she did. You know, Mika Brasinski. I think

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Speaker 1: Brazinski did a great job, and she asked him directly

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Speaker 1: whether or not, uh these out there is any merits

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Speaker 1: to these allegations. And I'm just gonna read the direct

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Speaker 1: quote from Biden. Quote, No, it is not true. I'm

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Speaker 1: saying unequivocally, it never never happens, and it didn't end.

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Speaker 1: Quote do you think the joke that this puts the

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Speaker 1: story behind Biden? I mean, for him to come out

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Speaker 1: now and release this letter to the Senate, it would

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Speaker 1: suggest that they still feel that they're going to have

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Speaker 1: more to do about this Max. But does it do

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Speaker 1: enough to to silence the questions from from progressives on

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Speaker 1: this issue. I think yeah, it's thinking definitely the right

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Speaker 1: step forward in urging transparency, not going to Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: boy hiding behind NBA's delaying, distracting. But I think Republicans

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Speaker 1: will certainly try to spin this as much as they can.

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Speaker 1: This is the distraction they've been hoping for from the

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Speaker 1: president's mismanagement on coronavirus. And regardless of what the truth is,

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Speaker 1: Republicans will certainly try and convince America that this is

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Speaker 1: true and that Joe Biden is unfit. I think Republicans

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Speaker 1: would say that the Trump, especially Againada Trump, he took

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Speaker 1: of these elected officials handled these allegations and all of

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Speaker 1: the different strategies that they that they that they deployed,

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Speaker 1: why not? I mean you gotta remember, I mean which

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's interesting, to say the least in terms

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Speaker 1: of where things go. Sticking with Biden World, Max Burns,

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Speaker 1: Democratic strategists. You know, we were joking about it earlier

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Speaker 1: How do you think Biden World is doing in terms

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Speaker 1: groundwork rather for the for the next you know, for

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Speaker 1: the for the sprint up to the election come come

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Speaker 1: the summer. Is this just a wait and see period

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Speaker 1: or are they are they able to keep moving forward

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Speaker 1: or what? How do you see it? We're watching Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden sort of learn how to engage with voters online

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Speaker 1: and on YouTube and streaming sort of day by day.

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Speaker 1: It's a challenge for the Democrats because you can't hold

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Speaker 1: big rallies. You can't get Barack Obama out there packing

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Speaker 1: a stadium to rile people up and get them ready

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Speaker 1: to vote. Right now, people are just trying to figure

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Speaker 1: out what is the maximum that we can do safely,

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Speaker 1: and that seems largely to be online activism, digital engagement.

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Speaker 1: There's no telling when that's going to end. But I

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Speaker 1: know that there's a lot of pent up energy within

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party to get out and take this fight

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Speaker 1: directly to Donald Trump in the summer. Well. See, That's

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Speaker 1: what I just find fascinating is because I don't know

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Speaker 1: if the if we won't know until November, but I

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Speaker 1: don't know if the online activism is working or not

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Speaker 1: for either party, because I think Americans right now just

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Speaker 1: have so many more important pressing issues on their mind,

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Speaker 1: putting food on the table, making sure that they can

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Speaker 1: keep their job if they're fortunate enough to be in

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Speaker 1: a situation to keep their job, or to not be

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Speaker 1: for a looad, providing for those in their family who

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Speaker 1: aren't in the in the in the same situation. And

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Speaker 1: to your point, Max Burn's Democratic strategist, President Trump just

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Speaker 1: announced a trip to Arizona. I mean he's going to

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Speaker 1: Arizona on May five, next week. The President is going

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Speaker 1: to visit Arizona. And it's fascinating to see how the

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Speaker 1: battle lines in this have played out. And the President

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Speaker 1: the economy as as quickly and as safely as possible,

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Speaker 1: whereas Democrats have said, no, wait a minute, we gotta

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Speaker 1: rely on on science. We have to take uh, we

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Speaker 1: have to be much more um. We have to we

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Speaker 1: see that playing out in the halls of Congress where

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Speaker 1: the Senate's going to convene on Monday. Speaker Pelosi arrived

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Speaker 1: at a different decision, but from a political standpoint, do

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Speaker 1: you think that Republicans being more aggressive in reopening the

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Speaker 1: president forecasting that he feels safe enough to go out

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Speaker 1: of the of the the White House. Do you think

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Speaker 1: that just goes to show or does that put Democrats

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Speaker 1: at a disadvantage for not being able to have in

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Speaker 1: person rallies. I think the most important thing right now

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Speaker 1: is increasingly alone on this. The governor of Arizona actually

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Speaker 1: their extending their shelter in place and they're lockdown. So

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Speaker 1: the President is actually going against the advice of the

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Speaker 1: governor who state he's visiting. And this is something that

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has always done. But the rest of us

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Speaker 1: are bound to a bit more of a fact based,

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Speaker 1: evidence based way of handling this crisis. Give me something,

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Speaker 1: Give me some good news, Max, give me some what's

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Speaker 1: one thing on your radar as it relates to this

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Speaker 1: that you're that you want to talk about. We got

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Speaker 1: a minute left. I'm keeping an eye on Stacy Abrahams.

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Speaker 1: She launched an incredible sort of full blast media campaign

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