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The Untold Story with Martha McCallum, exclusive interviews with top newsmakers who share their inspiring

stories of perseverance, positivity, and more. Now, here's Martha McCallum.

2020 was always going to be a big year, mainly because it's the year of a presidential election.

But now we find ourselves in the middle of a global pandemic, and politics are dramatically

changing. In the coming months, we'll see what the impact is on the future of our country

and our country's leadership. My next guest in his Washington Post column writes, Trump can blame the pandemic preparedness

failure on Biden, and rightly so. Joining me now to share his untold story today, Mark Teeson,

former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush, an American Enterprise Institute scholar,

as well as the host of the podcast, What the Hell is

going on? A very important question these days, Mark, always good to have you with us.

Good to be with you, Martha. Or at least good to hear you and be with you, at a socially

distant way. So, you know, Mark, actually the first thing I want to ask you is I know that

this pandemic has touched your family in a personal way.

Your 91-year-old mom was diagnosed with COVID-19. How is she doing? She is actually doing much,

much better. She was in the hospital for about 13 days. It really, it didn't attack her lungs as much as it

attacked her heart. This virus is very pernicious and

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