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Welcome to the Commentary Daily podcast today is Friday April 24th. I am John

Pudhore. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always senior editor

Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. Hi John.

Associate editor-in-oh Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John. And joining us today,

big cheese at the American Enterprise Institute editor of National Affairs and author of

Commentaries May 2020 cover story of Mirror of the Plague. Yuval, our old friend Yuval

and how are you? Hi John. Great to be with you. Thanks. So our political class is a wash in

rage and hysteria over Donald Trump using during the daily briefing yesterday about whether or not

there would be a way to somehow internalize disinfectants into the human body in a way that would have

the effect that disinfectants apparently have on the virus outside the human body, you know like

wiping down a surface which kills it outright. And you would think that that he had you know

basically told everybody the swallow bleach and so there's a lot of hysteria going on. Meanwhile,

I want to I want to report to everybody. I don't want to go into the details of it but the Washington

Freebeak and has a piece today by our old colleague Alana Goodman about the couple in Arizona that

ingested the fish tank cleanser based on supposedly based on Trump promoting hydrochloroquine

a month ago. And if you read between not that deeply between the lines, this is a more deeply

gothic story than we understood it first and that this is maybe more like an episode of Colombo

or or you know a novel by Jonathan Kellerman than it is what we were led to believe it was in the

first place. So I just wanted to say that look up a lot of Goodman's piece in Washington Freebeak and

for some interesting reading on the Trump is killing people by recommending bad medical cures.

Can I add to the anxiety in the press here that sort of a story that does tails with it. So Joe Biden

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