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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday October 7th

2020 I'm John Pott hordes the editor of commentary magazine with me as always associate editor Noah Rothman

Hi Noah. Hi John executive editor a greenwald hi Abe. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. Hi John and joining us today

A.I. Scholar founding editor of the Washington Free Beacon

Washington commentary columnist for commentary magazine Matthew continuity. Hi Matt

Hi John. So Matt um you and I were having an exchange yesterday

over text about the

president's announcement that he was

directing his people to suspend all

negotiations and talks over a stimulus bill

with Nancy Pelosi in the house until after the election which of course Trump said he would win and then they could could make a deal

and I was fascinated to hear you say or read you say that you thought that this might tell

worse for Nancy Pelosi than it would for Trump and the Republicans. Can you elaborate on this theory?

All right well sure let's stipulate that Trump and the Republicans might already be screwed

and so the damage to them would be marginal from a lack of any deal but let's also go back and rewind the

clock a little bit. Now remember in the spring Pelosi House passed this $3 trillion bill I think it was

to the next stage of relief that was the thing was called the Heroes Act and that of course is a

dead letter in the Senate and so for much of the summer there was no movement on another

coronavirus stimulus bill because the two camps are just so far apart and also because

neither camp thought it was really in their interest to do any more stimulus the sense of necessity

that we encountered in the winter when the coronavirus first hit was no longer there that sense

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