Hey everybody. It's Jared Yates-Saxton and I'm here with Nick

Houseman. We don't like to do these because if we do an emergency podcast it means

things have gone to pot. But we have to talk about unfortunately the revelations that have come out today from Bob Woodward, who has known since February that Donald Trump has not only known how deadly the coronavirus was, but he has actively covered it up and downplayed the severity of it, which tell me if I'm

wrong, Nick, but doesn't that mean that the president of the United States has misled the American

people and possibly led to, let me check my calculations here, hundreds of thousands of deaths?

It's called leadership, Jared.

Right into the shitter. That's leadership right into the shitter is what that is.

It's called leadership because he doesn't want the rest of the country to panic.

So he must show a strong facade of information that will not panic anybody.

According to my notes and tell me, because what is time?

So apparently the way to calm a fearful nation through a pandemic is to tell them it'll go away

like magic.

It's a hoax.

Or, I don't know, by the way, we've learned in recent months that he has like a nightly phone call with Sean Hannity, where he basically tells him what to cover on the news and what guests to bring on.

To then tell Sean Hannity, one of the leaders at Fox News, and probably

talk to the people at Fox News, into treating it like the pandemic wasn't something to be

afraid of, that they shouldn't wear masks, that it was just an overblown political tool by the

left. And so that's apparently what passes for leadership nowadays, huh? Well, you know,

especially when you compare the timelines, which is what Woodward's book is going to do,

because we can now look back and see what was he saying in February? What was he saying in March

versus what was he saying in private? You know, February, we've been saying this for a long time, was a lost month.

That was the time they could have had a chance to get this under control.

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