
Does the governor run the government or does Josh do it? With the storm coming in August, Jolly Ned announced that there was no need for a state of emergency, that things were under control. Then, after disaster struck, he started placing blame on others. Todd plays cuts from August, then moves to yesterday's press conference, when again Ned demonstrates that Josh is the one who runs the state. For more evidence of the power stress between the Governor and his COO, see Emily Brindley's column "Gov. Lamont’s inner circle agonized over image, messaging amid controversial age-based rollout of Connecticut’s COVID-19 vaccine program, documents show" from last week in the Courant. Then, we move to coverage of the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd.