Talking Feds Now: Positive Uncertainty

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Recorded on Friday night, in the wake of the mind-blowing revelation that both the President and the First Lady have tested positive for COVID 19, Laura Coates, Norm Orenstein, and Michael Schmidt join Harry to analyze the dizzying questions of law, medicine, national security, and politics that Trump’s sickness put into play. The Feds discuss the Administration’s stunning irresponsibility and the prospect that more VIPs fall ill. Then they analyze the political implications for Trump, the election, Barrett, and more See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Talking Feds, a round table that brings together prominent former federal officials
0:13.0	and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal
0:18.2	topics of the day.
0:19.8	I'm Harry Littman.
0:21.2	The haunted house roller coaster ride that is the Trump presidency suddenly plunged off
0:27.0	the tracks this week with the news that both the president and the first lady have tested
0:32.0	positive for the coronavirus.
0:34.9	Trump decamped to Walter Reed leaving a flurry of questions in his wake, legal questions
0:40.8	about presidential succession, operational questions about running the government, national
0:46.1	security questions about preventing adversaries from exploiting the confusion, medical questions
0:52.1	about the gravity of his condition and the identification of others whom he may have
0:56.9	infected and political questions about the impact on the election, the Supreme Court
1:02.8	confirmation and more.
1:05.2	And it was beginning to look as if the Rose Garden ceremony for Amy Comey Barrett had
1:10.9	been a sort of super spreader with several attendees.
1:15.8	John Johnson, Tom Tillis, Kellyanne Conway, Chris Christie, now having tested positive for
1:22.1	the virus.
1:23.2	The stunning revelations came just two days after a presidential debate between Trump and
1:28.5	former Vice President Biden, which the president, seemingly incapable of suppressing his interjections
1:35.4	and third grade insults, turned into a 40 car pile-up.
1:39.8	And just around it all out, 11 coronavirus cases have been traced to the pre-debate planning
1:45.3	or setup for the presidential debate held in Cleveland on Tuesday.
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