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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

Mini-Episode: Andy Calls Senator Amy Klobuchar

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

Lemonada Media

News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Andy brings you into his bubble, as promised, by sharing his call (with permission) with Minnesota’s U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar. They discuss her husband John’s COVID-19 recovery, what an election might be like during a national health crisis, and how the Congress needs to support Americans during the economic crisis.

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0:00.0

Writer, organizer, teacher, and 2022 Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar, Dean Spade says that we need to eliminate the systems that are chewing up our communities and making people live in brutal poverty.

0:13.0

And while we're working that out, people need to feel like others have their back.

0:18.0

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0:31.0

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1:51.0

Hi, I'm Andy Slavitt and this is In The Bubble. There's a lot of questions. A lot of questions about how long are we going to be in social isolation?

2:01.0

What's the path out? And we're starting to see some even more frightening numbers on television. I get that and we're going to work through those things together over the course of this podcast as they come up.

2:15.0

So in my world, things are moving along. I have been in frequent contact with people who are hopefully helping us try to solve this problem both scientifically as well as some of the logistics required to help our frontline workers.

2:30.0

I'm going to keep bringing you information directly on some of those things. One of the things that I have committed to in this podcast is that I would give you an inside peak at some of the conversations I have day to day with people who are trying to make things happen here.

2:45.0

And so I've got a call today with a senator, Senator Amy Klobuchar. And decided to ask her if she wouldn't mind if we recorded the conversation for the podcast.

2:56.0

So this ought to be interesting. I'm going to try to talk with Amy in a way that she and I would normally have a conversation not in a way that she might on cable TV because she's so good at communicating.

3:08.0

There's a lot of information that she has about this virus given how it's affected her and her family personally. Then I think we'll be able to relate to as a person.

3:16.0

So we're going to give Amy a call. Amy someone that we talk to quite a bit. She often calls sometimes late in the evening after a long day. And we have long conversations, not just with me, but with my wife Lana about things going on, things going on in Washington. So hopefully this will be a fun conversation. We're going to give Amy a call now.

3:36.0

Hey Andy, how are you? I'm good. Amy. How are you? I'm doing well. I can't. Good. How's John for those who you don't know. Amy's husband John, who is dear friend to so many of us who was in the hospital with COVID-19. How's he doing?

3:54.0

Well, he's doing a lot better actually. You know, he was he had a really, really long truck. He had a high temperature for 10 days and started coughing up blood. And then when they went to just had him go to the hospital to just look at what was happening. They found out he had pneumonia and he had his oxygen was really low.

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