A native of Oregon and a graduate of Princeton, Kimberly Strassal of the Wall Street Journal writes the weekly column Potomac Watch. She is also

the author of a number of books including most recently, Resistance at all costs,

how Trump haters are breaking America.

Kim, thanks for joining us.

Hi Peter.

And welcome everyone to this special shelter at home edition of Uncommon Knowledge.

I'm at home in Palo Alto, you're at home where?

I am currently at home in my home in Alaska. I actually split my time between DC and

Alaska, but the kids are here and we decided if we were going to shelter in place, it would be nicer up north.

So, April, still plenty of snow on the ground? Lots of snow on the ground.

Lots of snow on the ground.

It was about 11 degrees last night,

but we're getting lots of daylight already,

so it's getting light before six

and not getting dark until after nine. Any bears coming out of

hibernation I guess I'm running through all my Alaska cliches in my mind here.

Okay next up is Moose the Moose are all out and force. The bears, we haven't, it's still a little bit early, but it's pretty soon they'll be out.

All right. All right, so we take, I'm in California, you're in Washington, and we take both our minds and put them in Washington.

Two quotations. The first is you in the Wall Street Journal on April 2nd.

So just a few days ago as we record this.

Quote, crises have a way of separating the leader-like

from the opportunistic.

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