Two Trillion Dollars
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David are joined by epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves to discuss the latest pandemic debates and also by Civil War historian David Blight on what history can teach us about surviving catastrophe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for March 26th, 2020, the $2 trillion edition. |
| 0:14.8 | I am David Plotz of my closet, Emily Bazelon of Yale University and the New York Times Magazine and her attic. |
| 0:25.4 | Yes. |
| 0:25.9 | joins me from New Haven. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:29.2 | Nice to see you on Zoom. |
| 0:31.9 | And John Dickerson of CBS is 60 Minutes and his bookshelf. |
| 0:36.9 | Hello, John. |
| 0:38.3 | And you have galley of your book, too. |
| 0:40.8 | I do. |
| 0:42.1 | And I would show people, but this is not a visual medium, as I've been led to believe. |
| 0:46.9 | And I just enlarged the screen and looking at myself, all I can say is I apologize. |
| 0:54.2 | You look great. What do you mean? What could you possibly mean? |
| 0:58.1 | It's so nice to see you guys. It's just nice to see you guys, and to see Joss and Bridget. |
| 1:02.5 | So it's great to see you again, regardless of how unshaven or dirty any of us looks. |
| 1:10.7 | On today's Gab Fest, the tug of war over how long the shutdown should last and why will the |
| 1:17.7 | president abet a public health catastrophe by encouraging Americans to get back to normal life too |
| 1:22.9 | soon? |
| 1:24.0 | And do we have even the remotest sense that this pandemic is beginning to change, that we are |
| 1:31.5 | beginning to get any of it under control, even as New York sinks into what appears to be |
| 1:36.4 | an absolutely disastrous situation. We will talk to an epidemiologist, Greg Gonzalez, |
| 1:40.4 | about all of that. Then the largest stimulus bill in world history attempts to forestall |
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