Two Mayors and Longtime Friends Take On COVID-19

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🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The Mayors of Oklahoma's two biggest cities are coordinating their responses to coronavirus -they're also lifelong friends. CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash is joined by Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt and Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum to discuss how their friendship has helped their cities in fight coronavirus and what the process of reopening the economy looks like in Oklahoma.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	what one thing more than anything else keeps you up at night right now how we get back to normal
0:07.0	you know i think that's probably the biggest one that i'm trying to think through when testing
0:11.2	is not readily available at every drugstore and doctor's office but how do everyday people
0:17.9	get restored confidence that they can go out and go to a movie theater or go to a
0:23.9	restaurant or go to a concert.
0:30.7	That was Tulsa, Oklahoma Mayor G.T. Bynum telling me last month about the biggest challenge
0:36.7	his city faced, how to reopen their
0:38.9	economy. And now a month later, Oklahoma has reopened, one of at least 42 states across the country
0:45.3	that's begun the process of returning life to normal. Hey, everyone, I'm Dana Bash, CNN, chief
0:51.6	political correspondent. I'm in for David Chalien and this is the Daily DC.
0:57.4	Today on the podcast are the mayors of Oklahoma City and Tulsa. They're working together to try
1:03.3	to figure out exactly how their cities will reopen and it's not just because they represent
1:07.9	the two biggest cities in the state of Oklahoma, but also because
1:11.5	they're longtime friends. And they're navigating the challenges that this pandemic brings for all
1:16.9	mayors and local leaders across the country. And they're here to give us insight into how they're
1:21.9	thinking about these tough decisions. Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt and Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum, thanks so much for joining me.
1:29.5	Mayor Holt, I want to start with you. You guys go back 20 years and I heard from your colleague here last month that you have really kind of worked hand in hand trying to navigate this pandemic together.
1:44.5	Yeah. In our state, our two metros represent really about two-thirds of the population of the state.
1:52.0	And we've always been, you know, I don't expect everybody knows the Oklahoma City and Tulsa rivalries,
1:57.1	but there's been a little bit of a rivalry. We're kind of the two big cities of the state.
2:00.6	You know, it's a pretty steep drop to the third biggest city. And so we, however, have been friends for 20
2:07.6	years. We knew each other in D.C. back when we were in our early 20s. And so, you know, that
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