Good Friday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. More than 6,000 people have died from the novel coronavirus in the United States.

And our country is locked up, stir crazy at home, trying to make sense of an interminable quarantine as the gray winter turns to bright, warm spring.

And your government? Seemingly stir crazy as well. And he to bright, warm spring. And your government seemingly stir crazy as well,

and he'd infudes it seemed nonsensical,

hatching arguments that are detached from reality,

and involved in hijinks that assume were a bunch of dopes.

The show, Donald Trump sent Chuck Schumer a letter Thursday,

scolding him for being a partisan,

calling him a lousy senator,

and indicating the New Yorker

sent him a letter that was a Democratic public relations stunt. The reality, the letter the president

sent Schumer was nothing but a Republican public relations letter, said Schumer and Trump had been on

the phone twice that day, Schumer's office said. The president warned Schumer that he was in the process

of sending the very nasty letter, but would try to stop it and would apologize if he couldn't. The show? The U.S. NS Comfort, a hospital ship

cruised up the Hudson River this week to help relieve New York City hospitals that were

overtaxed from the coronavirus crisis. Images of the white ship with the red cross in front of the

Statue of Liberty flooded Twitter.

People took it as a hopeful sign that the U.S. government was coming to aid its most iconic city.

The reality?

The New York Times is reporting this morning that the ship has taken 20 patients,

and the 1,000 beds are largely unused, its 1,200-member crew, mostly idle. The head of New York's

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