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all of the presidents really vacillating
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and erratic public pronouncements and
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utterances make a lot more sense in
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light of the 3.3 million jobless claims
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that we saw this morning yeah look he is
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looking at an economic collapse and it's
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not only is it politically difficult for
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him this is the one strong card he was
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bringing in his re-election campaign
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it's also you know something that has
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affected many people in a way that even
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coronavirus hasn't right
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coronavirus is affected now tens and
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tens of thousands of Americans but the
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shutdown so far is affected millions and
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so of course that tug and tug would
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affect any president trying to find the
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right balance between all different
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lives that are being thrown into turmoil
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as a result here now all the public
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health experts say this is a short-term
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pain economically as bad as it might be
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you need to go through this in order to
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make sure you actually you know get to
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the other side on the healthcare crisis
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otherwise you're going to be doing it
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all over again but you can certainly see
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the president looking at those numbers a
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day and feeling like this is
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unsustainable from this point of view
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David you make a point that seems to
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elude the president sometimes that Peter
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Baker also just made that the economic
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recovery is tied to our recovery from
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the pandemic you write today whatever
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happens over the next week or two the
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country still has no viable way to start
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functioning normally again without a
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huge increase in testing even if new
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cases slow the return of typical
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activity will cause new outbreaks this
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is where I don't understand the
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pigheadedness on Trump's part if the
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goal is to turn the switch back on in
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the economy there are some models in
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South Korea and China there was testing
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every two hours so you could have a
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clean universe of people to send back
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into offices or workplaces those things
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don't even seem to be on the table I
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think that's exactly right Nicole and I
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and I think it's there's a really good
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chance that he's not operating in his
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own best political interests even
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setting apart what the interests of the
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country are that he is the leader of and
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so it really we could really see a
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situation in which we come back too soon
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or we have people circulating out in the
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world sporadically like we seen our
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much of the south which makes the
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economic pain as well as the human toll
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much much worse and I just don't see any
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way that there is an easy solution to
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this and the president seems to be
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wanting an easy solution and thinking he
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can will that into being but it's
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extremely unlikely that he can you know
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Peter Baker it's it's the right point
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and it's the only logical conclusion
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he's going to flip the switch on it
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would appear based on just the public
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pronouncements and the dynamics that we
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can all see when we watch these
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briefings before a point where the
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isolation has done what it needs to do
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which is to sort of put out wildfires
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not that he's very good at that either
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but what is sort of the thinking inside
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the White House is it you know pandemic
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be damned we've got to get people back
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to work well look this is a president as
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you know Nicole who thinks in very
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short-term bursts right he lives for the
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moment he's not a long-term thinker and
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so he has been frustrating these last
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few days looking at indicators like the
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ones that came out today on the on the
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jobless claims and he's frustrated and
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wants to be able to move on the thing he
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did by using Easter as his target the
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other day was actually kind of extended
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it's a little bit further remember
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originally it was a 15-day period which
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would expire I think at the end of this
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weekend early next week in effect by
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making Easter he kind of extended out
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just a little bit further the question
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would be in that period between now and
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then are the numbers so dire as some of
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the experts predict they will be are is
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the situation these hospitals so
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overwhelming then in fact it will be
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very hard for him actually to do what he
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says he wants to do will he be you know
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convinced otherwise by the doctor
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pouches of the world and we'll see but I
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think that you know if we really are
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peaking in mid-april it will make it
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much harder we've already seen a number
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of governors who are the ones who
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actually execute these orders including
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Republican governors like Larry Hogan of
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Maryland say no we're moving our return
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to normal data even further they're not
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listening to the president's Easter
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deadline at this point but you can see
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why that would have impacted states that
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haven't been as aggressive particularly
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as David said in the South other places
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where there's been you know a more
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relaxed attitude toward
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