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Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

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Jim, I'm happy to report we have a normal compliment

of Martini's today, at least in category.

Good, bad, and crazy.

I can't promise that the content will be normal, but let's start with the good.

And the good came yesterday at the White House coronavirus briefing.

Dr. Deborah Burks is the coordinator for the coronavirus response,

and I'm sure you've seen her at many of the briefings

if you've had a chance to see those.

What she had to say yesterday is hopefully

quite reassuring to folks.

Now, what she had to say is focused on where we are right now and obviously circumstances could change,

but there's been a lot of reports out there that everything is completely swamped.

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