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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Tuesday April 14th 2020. I'm John Pothor. It's the editor of Commentary with me as always associate editor no Rothman. Hi Noah.

Hi John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine.

Hi John.

And in the process of closing our May issue, which we will close today and have some highlights up as early as tomorrow.

Senior editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe.

Hi John.

Yes so tomorrow we will have with us on the podcast Jim Megs who was the editor of popular mechanics and has a piece from the May issue which will be the first thing we release.

A really remarkable look at a disaster in 1964 earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska where the elites panicked and the everyday people kept their heads about them and saved the city from disaster.

And it's a very interesting story about a phenomenon called elite panic and we'll go into that pretty extensively tomorrow.

Today we have no guest.

I just wanted to begin by talking about how at around six o'clock yesterday, Abe and I were watching the president at his daily basis.

And he was a daily briefing.

And Abe said Trump is in turbo defensive mode for this presser so I turned it on. That's what Abe texted.

And he was going into all this detail about how they got all these ventilators.

Everything that he's been asked for, he got, you know, and he's sort of laid out all this detail about how Gavin Newsom asked him for this and he got it.

Pomo asked him for that. The Blasio asked him for this.

You know, they mobilized, they martyled their resources. And I said to Abe, I listened to him after the video.

This is a video they put together of all these people praising Trump for being so great. And he's very convincing.

I have to say about how much has been done.

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