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This Isn’t Trump’s Katrina (Except When It Is)

Radio Atlantic

The Atlantic

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Vann Newkirk joins Isaac Dovere to discuss Floodlines—the new Atlantic podcast about Hurricane Katrina—and what lessons the disaster response in 2005 has for the coronavirus crisis in 2020. (After their conversation, listen for the full first episode of Floodlines.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're going to be. Hey, this is Kevin, the producer. I'm sitting in an empty studio in an empty office here at the

0:19.9

Watergate. Precautions around the coronavirus have kept everyone at home, including the host of the ticket, Isaac Dauver.

0:27.0

But I have Isaac on the line from his place in DC. Hey, Isaac.

0:32.0

Hi Kevin. Yeah, I got the jump on everyone else from working from home because

0:36.6

I flew out to Detroit on Monday to cover a Joe Biden rally that turned out it seems to be the last rally that we will be seeing for a while.

0:48.0

I was in Cleveland by Tuesday expecting to go to a Bernie Sanders and a Joe Biden rally that separate rallies and they got

0:53.4

cancelled and so our podcast was bringing you a lot of reports from the road but

0:59.7

it looks like we're not going to have much to report about from the road for a couple of weeks and maybe

1:04.6

longer than that.

1:06.3

But I'm glad that I rushed out to those last couple of events because it looked like that was probably

1:11.7

the Democratic race wrapping up and sure enough because of what happened in the results on Tuesday and with the response to this pandemic, that may be where we are.

1:21.6

Wow.

1:23.0

It's incredible.

1:24.0

I mean, we've been covering the Democratic nomination race for months.

1:27.0

I mean, you've been out there for the better part of a year now.

1:30.0

More than a year.

1:31.0

Yeah, and it was basically settled on Tuesday, but it is far from everyone's mind this week.

1:36.8

Yeah, this is a week that would have otherwise been consumed politically by, it says Bernie Sanders drop out now, what is a possible

1:46.4

deal look like between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, how does Joe Biden begin pivoting

1:51.0

to the general election, all those sorts of things.

1:54.1

But it is so far from anybody's minds for very good reason

1:58.5

that it's hard to even conceive the fact that this was a major week in the Democratic primary

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