You should just move close. You physically should move closer to.

I physically. Okay.

For everyone listening, I've made sure you guys are six feet apart.

Yes. Good. Where's the tape measure? I want to see it.

Hey, everyone. I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director. This is the Daily D.C.

Politics obviously taking a backseat for everyone

in this country as the country confronts this global health pandemic. But that doesn't

mean it's necessarily stopping. So it is Super Tuesday three in at least three of the four

planned states. We'll get to that in a moment. There's nobody I'd rather sit and talk to about this moment in American governance in American society than my colleague David Axelrod. He's a CNN senior political commentator. He's also the host of his own podcast, a must listen to The Axe Files with David Axelrod. So please go check that out. I'm sure many of you

already do. David, thank you so much for being here. Always good to be with you, brother.

So I just wanted to start with you before we got into today's primaries. You know, I don't get to

talk to somebody every day on this podcast who actually sat in the seat of power there and was part

of these conversations.

And I just want to know what is it like inside the White House when something like this presents

itself and it just does it take over everything?

And how does that seat of power adjust?

I'm not asking for you to give me insight to today's White House, obviously,

but just that notion of being there at that centralized head of our federal government

at a time of crisis. Yeah. Well, you know, we walked into the White House in 2009 in the

midst of the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression. We'll see where this one goes,

but it looks to be very, very serious. Here you have overlapping crises. You have a health,

a public health crisis that is, you know, raging and we're still struggling to get it under control,

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