China is taking drastic action to control the coronavirus, but Trump administration budget cuts have eliminated federal programs in this country to deal with the spread of infectious disease.

That's the second part of this podcast. First, it's been a week like no other in American political history.

Three days after the voting, Democrats still didn't know who won the Iowa caucuses.

The field of candidates that moved on to New Hampshire had already lost its claim to diversity.

Members of Congress, the President of the United States.

In his State of the Union address, President Trump, on the verge of acquittal in his impeachment trial,

produced a reality TV show, including a U.S. Marine back from Afghanistan for a surprise reunion with his family.

Trying to keep up our two veteran Washington observers, Andy Kroll, Washington Bureau Chief

for Rolling Stone Magazine, and Norm Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

and co-author of the Bexelling book, One Nation After Trump,

a guide for the perplexed, the desperate, the disillusioned,

and the not yet deported. Welcome to you both.

Great to be with you, Warren. Great to be here.

Norma, Martin, Lord Martin, let me start with you. The Republicans loved the president's speech,

but Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore up her copy as soon as he was done. What do you make of that?

It shows really how unusual the relationships are between Congress and this president,

a dramatically different relationship between the Democrats who run the House and Nancy Pelosi,

who is a strong woman unlike any that Donald

Trump has encountered in his life, and a president who is obsessed with the fact that the House

impeached him, even though he didn't mention it in his speech last night, a rare moment of

self-discipline. And then, of course, as this was going on, the Republicans in the Senate, who will basically

let him get away with anything, and he had fulsome praise for Mitch McConnell and

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