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slash Ben. Okay, so let's begin with the international news about coronavirus. The market

seemed to have recovered a little bit this morning. They began up a little bit, so it seems like

the market has found its new bottom, but we think that every day or so the markets are really

up and down. We've seen the markets climb 3%, down 4%, up 5%, down 7%.

Last yesterday, the markets dropped about 8%, which was correction, market correction in territory.

They have been down overall from their highs of about 29,000, which was just a couple of weeks ago.

They are now hovering around 24,000. Probably they will do so unless there's another major shock in terms of the news. Let's begin with the international news about coronavirus. Now, the reason I start with the international news is because I hear a lot from people who are in conservative media, in the conservative world, that the media in the United States are blowing this thing way out of proportion in order to target Trump. And domestically, there's some truth to that. Domestically, there's no question that the media would love to see Trump fall flat on his face throughout this entire process that they can use it as a club to wield against Trump. And because the fact is this, Trump's chaotic style, his chaotic management style, the fact that he sounds awful lot. In most areas of American life, that has very little impact. I think that most Americans have sort of priced the chaotic side of Trump in. The fact that Trump says a lot of stuff on Twitter, most Americans like, okay, whatever, so long as my 401k is fine, who cares? So long as we're doing the right things on foreign policy, let him spout whatever he wants on Twitter. I'm not even on Twitter. I've got a life. I'm not following around the president's commentary day by day. When it comes to things like crisis response, where people look directly

to government for handling, and particularly in a situation like this, where we are talking about pretty significant restrictions on everyday life in the United States, people tend to look to the president for that sort of stuff. And so the media have a new lease on an argument they've been using about Trump

for a while here, which is that his chaotic management style and, in fact, his chaotic rhetoric are really bad overall and have some really significant impacts. Now, in the end, his rhetoric probably going to matter very much at all. In the end, just like every other aspect of American government, what the government does matters a lot more than what the head of the government says and the president of the United States says. Now, again, I'm not somebody who

underestimated. what the government does matters a lot more than what the head of the government says and the president of the United States says. Now, again, I'm not somebody who underestimates what the president says. I think that half the job is what the president says. But again, because people don't take Trump literally as much as they take him sort of seriously in Selena Zito's famous formulation, in the end, the policy is going to be what the policy is going to be.

And so people who are informed are not listening to Trump on coronavirus. They're instead listening to his people. They're listening to Mike Pence. They're listening to Dr. Anthony Fauci from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. That are listening to the U.S. Surgeon General. They're listening to people actually know what they're talking about. So the American public are already starting to price in Trump's commentary and ignore Trump's commentary throughout.

The media would like you to focus

on Trump's commentary specifically because Trump has a habit in these particular situations of stepping

on regs. Now, all of this is true about the media, that the media would love to see Trump fail.

But when people suggest that the coronavirus itself is being wildly blown out of proportion

in the United States, what they are missing is that it's pretty bad abroad.

I mean, the fact is that the Italian government is not doing this to hurt Trump.

The Israeli government is not shutting down travel in order to hurt Trump.

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