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Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As Trump sidelines experts from the CDC and even Mike Pence to grab the limelight as pandemic reality TV show host, is New York's Andrew Cuomo the real leadership in the country right now? And why won't Trump require our factories to start manufacturing ventilators, masks, and gloves to prepare for the accelerating crisis?

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:15.0

And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you and I want to catch up on a whole bunch of things here and then we'll also be taking your phone

0:24.2

calls. We've kind of gone into anything goes coronavirus. But it's, but anyway,

0:30.5

I'm broadcasting from home. Louise and I are sheltering in place.

0:33.6

We've been doing so for a couple of weeks now.

0:36.0

You know, it's been, I think, maybe a month, month and a half.

0:39.3

I've been suggesting that you might want to think about

0:42.1

rearranging your life to the extent that you can't.

0:43.7

I realize many people, in fact, probably most people can't.

0:47.6

And this is a big challenge for our country and a large part of that challenge is the absolute and utter failure of this administration

0:54.7

to allow us to test for this virus, you know, back in January, February or, you know, up

1:01.5

until this week. And so we're just now starting to

1:04.3

discover how bad the situation is in the United States and and it's going to be a

1:08.3

mess but that said there are a lot of things that we can do.

1:13.0

So for example, you know, I needed to get a haircut and yesterday for the first,

1:17.0

literally for the first time in her life,

1:19.0

Louise cut somebody's hair, mine.

1:22.0

So, you know, this is cool. I mean, we're learning. cut somebody's hair, mine.

1:22.6

So, you know, this is cool.

1:24.0

I mean, we're learning how to live together

1:26.4

and to live, you know, cautiously, quietly in our times.

1:29.9

I did want to mention, by the way,

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