Reality vs. A Reality Show

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

Politics, Government, News, News Commentary

4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, Axe and Murphy are joined by former Obama White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to discuss the latest: When reality becomes reality TV: Trump’s daily press briefings threaten to sweep reality under the rug in a barrage of disinformation. Is Trump’s tactic an effective one? Where’s Joe?—In the throes of a pandemic, it seems impossible for Biden to forge a platform of his own. Could Biden's empathetic message be seen as the antidote to Trump, or will the general election simply be a referendum on the president? The Hacks dive beneath the toplines in new polling from the Washington Post and Fox News—what might these breakdowns tell us about turnout patterns in 2020? And Murphy, Axe, and Gibbs reach into the mail bag and field listeners’ questions on whether free market health care works, gubernatorial leadership, and the potential for election postponement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey pull up a chair. It's tax on tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.
0:17.6	Well, here we are in a grim time but nothing can stop the blowviating of the hacks.
0:28.5	How you doing? You've saved. You buried in a bunker.
0:31.2	Doing okay so far so far so good. Me too. Good good good. Well, you'll never guess who I found
0:39.2	sheltering in place. I have an ideal buddy. Robert Gibbs. Hey Robert. Hi. How are you guys?
0:48.4	We're doing well man. How are you? You're in Chicago. Chicago hunkered down for the last couple weeks.
0:54.4	The wave appears to be rising there huh? Yeah when they talk about if you have any
0:59.8	recollection of I know you do obviously acts but McCormick Center is just giant convention center
1:06.0	that they're now turning into a hospital so it gives you a sense of the proportion of what
1:13.2	Chicago Cook County and the surrounding areas about to deal with. It looks like it's the midwest
1:18.8	turn now. My hometown is Detroit. Things are a little grim. They're doing the same thing in Cobo
1:23.2	Hall with 900 beds and Michigan yesterday actually had more deaths than California. If you think about
1:28.8	that on a carpet I think the Midwest is kind of the next rotation of this awful thing.
1:35.2	Yeah well the commander in chief is on the case. He now has a hit reality show every night at five
1:43.6	thirty leading right into the evening news and interesting to watch the phenomenon. You know he's
1:54.0	treating it as such talking about his ratings and so on but I wanted to start this combo with a
2:02.0	clip of a CBS report this morning off of yesterday's events that contains within it a lot of the
2:09.1	elements of what I think we should blow the aid about today so let's take a listen. Moving on
2:14.4	to Washington the president is saying that he may announce new social distancing guidelines today
2:20.8	at a briefing yesterday. He downplayed the needs of states hit hardest by the virus claiming that
2:25.6	testing is no longer an issue and blaming medical workers for the shortage of supplies. Now he's
2:31.2	getting pushed back himself as Wija Zhang reports from the White House. We don't know where the emergency
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