It’s Easy to Talk About Lysol
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🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss where efforts to curb virus transmission go from here with epidemiologist Amesh Adalja, Trump’s purge of investigators general, and what Sanders’ exit should mean for the Democratic party’s agenda.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, Emily, and John improvise a story together.
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| 1:01.2 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for April 9th, 2020. |
| 1:04.3 | It's Easy to Talk About Lightsall edition. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm David Plotz. |
| 1:07.9 | I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:14.5 | John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes is in his home in New York City. |
| 1:15.7 | Hello, John Dickerson. |
| 1:16.9 | Hello, David. |
| 1:24.0 | And Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and of Yale University Law School, |
| 1:28.7 | shuttered Yale University Law School, is in her home in New Haven, Connecticut. Hi, Emily. |
| 1:34.4 | Hello, hello. Yeah, law school has moved to Zoom. It is not shuttered. I didn't, I guess I didn't literally mean it. It's physically shuttered. On today's Gab Fest, we will visit again with Dr. Amos Adalja, |
| 1:40.6 | the doctor and epidemic expert who talked to us a few weeks ago, how are we doing |
| 1:45.4 | with COVID-19 compared to where he thought we'd be when we talked to him a few weeks ago? |
| 1:51.5 | Then, inspectors general, President Trump's extraordinary, dangerous, and dictatorial attacks |
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