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Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Yahoo News Reporter Alex Nazaryan and Epidemiologist and Public Health Expert Kathryn Jacobsen, Yahoo News’ Public Health Contributor, join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." This will be the first in a series of podcasts from Skullduggery focusing on the Coronavirus and its effect on politics, the 2020 Election, and everyday life. First up, Nazaryan fills us in on his recent conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Then, Jacobsen lays down some important guidelines as to how the public should be handling this situation now and in the immediate future.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Azagov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:20.7	The other day, you said that you were not responsible for the testing shortfall.
0:24.6	Very simple question. Does the buck stop with you?
0:27.7	And on a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your response to this crisis?
0:32.6	I dreaded a tent. That was Yahoo News White House reporter Hunter Walker,
0:37.3	grilling President Trump on his handling of the coronavirus crisis.
0:41.6	And listening one of the more striking, though not really surprising responses we've heard in
0:46.6	some time, the President rated his performance as perfect. It came on a day that the Dow Jones
0:52.9	industrials tank nearly 3,000 points. And the US government issued draconian new guidelines,
0:59.2	recommending that all Americans avoid groups of more than ten people.
1:03.2	Across the country, schools are closing. Bars and restaurants and health clubs are shuttering,
1:08.8	and the public is more confused than ever. How long will this national emergency last?
1:14.6	And will we end up, like Italy in national lockdown? We'll talk to Yahoo News reporter Alex
1:20.5	Nazarian, who just interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci on where we're headed,
1:25.2	and with public health expert and epidemiologist Catherine Jacobson on this special coronavirus
1:31.2	episode of Skull Duggery.
1:40.0	Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop. Well, I'm not a crop.
1:43.9	I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best intention still
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