Toxic Mask-ulinity

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Congressman Joaquin Castro, Zerlina Maxwell, and Max Boot join Harry to break down a week in which the virus roared back to all-time highs in many states. Red-blue politics, and the suppression of science, continued to complicate efforts to get on top of the virus. School reopenings in particular, which the CDC says are the biggest risk for the virus’s strong return, were completely uncertain. Meanwhile, prospects for comprehensive police reform have waned in the wake of Republican opposition. 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 roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials
0:12.1	and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal
0:16.7	topics of the day.
0:18.4	I'm Harry Littman.
0:19.7	The virus has roared back to dominate national life, even as large pockets of the country
0:25.3	and some of its leaders continue to act as if the worst is behind us.
0:30.2	The numbers are beyond grim.
0:32.8	New case reports have set all-time records no fewer than 11 times in the past month.
0:39.0	We record the day after the old record was shattered by more than 10% with 75,000 new
0:45.9	cases.
0:46.9	The US now has had over 3.5 million cases and 135,000 deaths with both rates trending sharply
0:55.1	upward.
0:56.1	There's essentially no good news.
0:59.0	President Trump tried again this week to claim, we have just about the lowest mortality rate.
1:04.3	In fact, it's the 7th highest and that's about the best we can say.
1:08.5	The red-blue politics of the virus also ensnared the policies around school re-opening in
1:13.7	the fall.
1:14.7	President Trump rebuffed draft CDC guidance for re-opening as too tough and expensive.
1:21.3	As views at the White House is, that schools must open in the fall and the science should
1:26.7	not stand in the way of this.
1:29.0	New footage of the George Floyd killing in Minneapolis in May showed him visibly distraught
1:34.1	and not aggressive toward the officers.
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