Tequila & Quaaludes: Trump’s mismanagement of the Coronavirus

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Three of the most prominent Feds – David Frum, Matt Miller, and Ashley Parker – join Harry to dissect the domestic, political, and international consequences of the President’s erratic management of the coronavirus. Does Trump own his early bungling, or will at least his base once again give him a pass? Are his daily conferences and Biden’s isolation working strongly in his favor? And will there be long-term consequences to the United States's previous leadership position on the world stage? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Talking Feds, a round table that brings together prominent former federal officials
0:11.6	and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important legal topics of the day.
0:16.7	I'm Harry Littman. We are somewhere in the deep middle of the strangest and most frightening
0:22.8	period of our lives. The virus is no longer novel to us, and we've all made radical adaptations
0:29.7	in our daily lives to its ubiquitous manness. We are all of us walking in the middle of an
0:36.8	unknown, thick forest with no idea where the other side lies and when we can hope to get there.
0:43.8	The landmarks are headspinning. There have now been over 1 million confirmed cases of infection
0:49.3	worldwide, 200,000 of them in the US, nearly 90% of Americans and half the world,
0:56.8	half the world are under stay-at-home orders. Dr. Fauci says it should be 100% of this country.
1:04.4	10 million Americans have filed for unemployment, 6.6 million, or more than eight times the
1:10.2	pre-virus record this week alone. The virus is not just affecting, but dominating every aspect
1:16.6	of national life from health care to politics, from economy to leisure. We're going to take up
1:22.0	three of the most pressing of those aspects today with a stellar group of guests whose expertise,
1:27.2	reporting, and analysis have made them go to commentators in these extraordinary weeks.
1:33.2	They are first Matt Miller, a partner at the Strategic Advisory firm, Villanovo,
1:38.6	an MSNBC contributor and the previous director of Office of Public Affairs for the Department of
1:43.9	Justice. He's very well known to listeners in this podcast, and I would say the undisputed RBI
1:50.4	leader of Talking Feds. Thanks as always for being here, Matt. Thanks for having me, Harry.
1:55.0	Next, David from Returns to Talking Feds. David's a staff writer at The Atlantic is the author of
2:00.4	nine books, most recently, Trumpocracy, the corruption of the American Republic. He served in government
2:06.9	as a speech writer for President George W. Bush. Welcome back, David. Thank you so much.
2:12.3	And finally, we're very pleased to welcome for the first time to Talking Feds, Ashley Parker,
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