99: DeSantis Is A Giant Asshole also Donald McNeil discusses COVID

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In their 100th episode, James and Al bring on veteran of the New York Times, Donald McNeil, for a look at what’s next for us during the pandemic now that the Delta variant is raging in hot spots fueled by the unvaccinated. With other variants on the horizon, what will it take to convince the hold outs and get the country back on the track to health?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Politics War Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt.
0:15.4	Thank you for joining us for our 100th episode, James 100 episodes.
0:20.5	We couldn't have made it this far without our listeners.
0:23.2	We appreciate everything you do to support us in the Politics War Room.
0:27.4	This week we are joined by journalists and the storied former New York Times
0:31.8	Health and Science reporter Donald McNeil to talk about COVID.
0:36.3	Remember, we take your questions each episode so right into Politics War Room at gmail.com
0:41.9	or send a tweet to add Pliticon for next week's show.
0:45.4	We'll get to as many as we can and don't forget to tell us where you're from.
0:49.6	Also, please check out the link to this week's sponsors,
0:52.7	Chile Technology and Blinkist in the Shonos.
0:56.2	We thank you for supporting our sponsors.
0:58.4	It really does make this podcast happen.
1:01.5	Please tell your friends about us and remind them to subscribe and Apple Podcasts and
1:05.6	Spotify Stitcher or wherever you get your podcast.
1:09.6	Hey James Carville, we got a terrific guest but we got a lot to talk about too.
1:16.0	And if anyone doubts the vicissitudes of American politics just consider,
1:21.4	less than a year and a half ago Joe Biden was finished and Democrats were envisioning
1:26.2	Andrew Cuomo as their possible savior.
1:29.6	One very prominent Democrat was willing to bet me the New York government would be the
1:33.2	Democratic nominee.
1:35.4	This week, the best of the Biden presidency, passage of the big end hour infrastructure bill,
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