Assalamu alaykum. This is Gul Jamal, recording from Tashgent Uzbekistan on the 4th night of Ramadan.

This podcast, in turn, was recorded at 207 pm on Tuesday, April 28th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I will still be here working on my dissertation related to 16th-century manuscripts illustrated in Central Asia.

Mylash, Marhamat. Here's the show.

My O My, Uzbekistan. Wow. I think with almost certainty, that's our first Uzbekistan time stamp, and I love it.

Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.

I'm Mara Laias and National Political Correspondent.

And today, we're going to look at one state that has decided it's time to get back to work.

George's Republican Governor, Brian Kemp, is now allowing businesses like restaurants, movie theaters, tattoo parlors, and barber shops to reopen during the ongoing public health crisis.

He's one of the first governors to make this call.

These are tough decisions to no doubt, but we put measured steps for people that wanted to open.

It was not a mandate. There's a lot of people that have decided to wait and I support that.

But you also have people out there like Peggy that was fixing a loser car.

So we're better off in my opinion, trusting people.

Mara, the president has been eager to get states up and running.

Governors are obviously eager to get their states up and running.

But the president also criticized Kemp last week at the White House for this decision.

So where does the White House currently stand on this?

Well, the president has gone back and forth.

Remember first, he said he has total control.

He said governors can't do anything without my permission.

Then he said it's up to the governors to open up.

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