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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for August 6th, 2020, the Stop Counting Now edition.
0:13.5	I am David Plotz of The Business Insider from Washington, D.C.
0:18.0	I am joined from New York City, Manhattan by CBS's 60 Minutes. John Dickerson,
0:26.5	author of The Hardest Job in the World. Hello, John Dickerson. Hello, David. And from, not from
0:32.6	New Haven, but from somewhere else that starts with a new and has a ha in it, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School.
0:41.4	Hello, Emily.
0:42.1	It is a funny thing about going to New Hampshire for me.
0:45.0	Hello.
0:45.5	Yeah, going to New Hampshire doesn't provide a lot of different alphabet.
0:50.8	But it's very lovely here, and I'm so glad to be here.
0:53.5	Thank you for having me, New Hampshire.
0:55.8	On today's Gab Fest, can the school's fiasco be averted? What about the coming vaccine shambles?
1:03.5	We will talk to former Obama Homeland Security official Juliette Chayam about whether we can do anything about these twin possible problems, twin disasters.
1:15.8	Then the census will stop data collection in the field on September 30th, a full month earlier than they planned than they announced, even though 40% of households at the moment are uncounted, is there any way this is not
1:30.5	going to be a disaster? And then what is going on in the presidential campaign and will Joe Biden's
1:36.1	strategy of not doing any door-to-door campaigning or having his people do any door-to-door
1:40.2	campaigning actually work? Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. The census is heading for
1:46.5	disaster. This week, the Census Bureau announced it will cut short by a full month its field data
1:52.6	collection. And to put it another way, they had planned for 10 weeks more of field data
1:57.6	collection. And instead, they announced kind of on the spur of the moment that they're only going
2:01.2	to do six weeks of field data collection.
2:04.0	And in those six weeks, they have to collect information from about 60 million households
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