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🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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At the beginning of the pandemic, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York drew ire from lawmakers of all political stripes for sending COVID-19 positive patients back into nursing homes. But resentment against the governor reached a tipping point in late January, when New York Attorney General Letitia James released a blistering report showing that his office significantly underreported the number of COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes. Cuomo has brushed aside those criticisms as a partisan smear campaign, and went so far as to write a book bragging about his leadership during the pandemic. “What is unforgivable, and really, frankly, kind of evil is this alleged covering up of what they did,” Jonah says on today’s show. Tune in to hear the gang chat about K-12 school reopening efforts, the Senate’s acquittal of Donald Trump, and Tim Alberta’s Nikki Haley piece in Politico. Stick around to hear our hosts chat about their Myers Briggs test results. Show Notes: -American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic by Andrew Cuomo. -“Nikki Haley’s Time for Choosing” by Tim Alberta in Politico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah. Is your joined by Steve Hayes,
0:05.0	Jonah Goldberg and David French. Boy, do we have some fun interesting topics today?
0:11.3	We are going to start with Governor Cuomo in New York and the fallout from his COVID-19
0:18.0	handling. We'll move quickly on to school reopenings, whether the Biden administration is
0:24.6	on the verge of a sister soldier moment or something quite different. Then we have to do
0:30.2	some impeachment wrap up. Since we last talked to you, the president was the former president,
0:35.4	was acquitted on the article of impeachment for his actions around January 6th and will
0:40.8	wrap by a forward look at the 2024 Republican primaries as they already get underway with
0:48.4	a very long in-depth look at Nikki Haley in the latest Politico magazine.
1:02.5	Let's dive in. Jonah, why don't you start us off with a conversation about governors
1:13.8	and coronavirus fallout still? To me, the interesting thing is one, I like to set the stage
1:23.7	and I'll start over. Andrew Cuomo, who was sort of by affirmation declared the anti-Donald
1:30.8	Trump, the hero of liberalism, the man who can tell us hard truths, the hands-on manager,
1:38.1	it increasingly appears that he really blew it in terms of how he handled COVID. And I've
1:42.9	always been very forgiving of people who made bad decisions in the middle of the early
1:47.6	days of the pandemic because we didn't know what we were doing and there's going to be
1:51.4	a lot of trial and error. And so the fact that Andrew Cuomo sent so many people back
1:58.0	to old age homes with COVID and then ended up killing, and it seems, thousands more people
2:07.6	than would have otherwise been necessary if they did the right thing. That was bad, but
2:13.5	what is unforgivable and really frankly, kind of evil is this alleged covering up of what
2:21.2	they did. At the beginning of the pandemic, everybody needs clear information and the
2:29.5	Trump administration got all sorts of grief rightly so for playing all sorts of messaging
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