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Juliette Kayyem: “I have come to believe, and I think the governors and mayors and the private sector and university presidents and…”

On the recordApril 12, 2020
I have come to believe, and I think the governors and mayors and the private sector and university presidents and everyone else has come to believe, that the president has run out of tricks, that he basically -- his anger is because he failed to exert authority when he had it in trying to stop the pandemic, and now is pretending like he has authority when he doesn't.
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Juliette Kayyem

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Kayyem discusses the lack of presidential authority and the response from governors during the pandemic.

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