On today's podcast, we'll be talking with Andy Slavitt.

He's a veteran of Barack Obama's wars over Obamacare, now using his famous mastery of the Twitter feed and a new podcast to help Jared Kushner and the Trump White House cope with COVID-19.

Right now, we're not in a moment that is Democrat versus Republican. We're not in a moment that's

U.S. versus China. We're in a moment where we're trying to keep as many people alive as possible.

But partisanship isn't dead yet. We'll talk with Andy Slavitt after we hear about the

deadly coronavirus pandemic and American democracy, starting this week in Wisconsin.

The U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to allow postponement of that state's primary elections created

an unprecedented spectacle. Masked voters in long lines, trying to stand

six feet apart in order to exercise the franchise. Natasha Carecki, National Correspondent for Politico,

was on the scene. Hi, Natasha. Thanks for having me. Where were you during the voting,

and what did you see?

Well, I was actually in Milwaukee. I'm actually from Illinois, but I couldn't resist.

It was a difficult decision, actually, to go over there just because we were trying to be so

careful about quarantining, but drove over

into Milwaukee, and there was only five precincts left out of 180 because they were so short

staff, they had consolidated. So I went to a site that was called Riverside High School, because

I'd been hearing a lot of complaints about long lines there.

And it was something to behold. I mean, it was just like out of some kind of horror movie or something.

I mean, just looking at the expanse of all of these people who were standing in line, some of them for two hours.

Some of them trying very hard to social distance, others, you know, getting lax and they're right on top

of each other.

They're wearing masks and garbage bags, homemade masks, and, you know, trying to take some

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