"99 days to the election (with Mehdi Hasan)."
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🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan joins to discuss the state of the presidential campaign now that we’re less than 100 days out, how COVID reached deep into the White House and forced major changes to Trump’s campaign, the latest with COVID relief in Congress, how Trump’s message went from calling Biden soft on China to member of Antifa, and how the media can learn from the mistakes of 2016. Then Jon F. interviews Mother Jones' Ari Berman about voting during the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome back to Potsayev America, I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:23.1 | It has been a very exciting week for us here at Crooked Media. |
| 0:27.9 | John and Emily Favreau welcomed a new baby boy, Charlie Favreau, |
| 0:31.5 | into the world, and we are just overjoyed for them. |
| 0:34.9 | Hannah and I quickly stopped by their place |
| 0:36.8 | when they got home from the hospital. |
| 0:38.2 | We dropped off Leo, their pup. |
| 0:40.1 | We got to see Charlie from an appropriately distant vantage |
| 0:43.5 | point, and so I can confirm the early news reports |
| 0:46.4 | from over the weekend that Charlie is, in fact, adorable. |
| 0:49.5 | And we can't wait to fill his sweet little brain |
| 0:51.8 | with our liberal propaganda. |
| 0:53.0 | But for the next week or so, John is |
| 0:55.6 | going to take a little bit of time off to change diapers |
| 0:58.1 | and hang with Charlie instead of hate reading Twitter. |
| 1:01.2 | So he is not on the pod today. |
| 1:02.7 | And now, if you're friends with the Favreau family, |
| 1:05.5 | really any of them, you know that they don't just arrive |
| 1:08.9 | on time, they get there early. |
| 1:10.8 | Charlie is no exception. |
| 1:12.2 | He arrived a couple of weeks before his due date, |
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