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Welcome to Potsave America, I'm John Favreau. I'm Dan Fyfer. On today's POT, Dan's

conversation with political message guru Anat Shanker Osorio about 2020 campaign ads and the race class narrative. This is part of his campaign experts react series, which you can find of course on youtube.com slash crooked media. Smash that subscribe button right Dan.

That is correct and you missed one thing which is when you do campaign experts react you need air quotes around experts.

It's a very important part of my story. No one can see that I wasn't making them. Before that, we'll talk about today's jobs report what it means for the 2020 campaign. And then we'll answer some of the questions you all sent in over the last few days.

But first, check out Potsave the world this week. Tommy and Ben unpack all the details about the explosive reports that Russia paid Taliban linked militants to kill US troops in Afghanistan. They try to understand why Putin would do this. How the US should respond and the latest on the intel with congressman Adam Schiff.

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New episodes drop on Fridays. Dan, what are you guys talking about this week?

This week we are talking about how Joe Biden's decision to select a woman. How that's going to affect the process. And we take deep into the two previous times a woman has been on the ticket.

Obviously Sarah panel 2008, but also Joe Dean for our in 1984 and what lessons can be learned from how those played out in a list of talks to Rebecca Tracer about Joe Biden's selection and what challenges the eventual nominee will face in the media.

Can't wait. Great. Check it out guys tomorrow Friday. All right. Let's get to the news.

So neither of us knew it was jobs day Dan because we forgot tomorrow was a holiday and because we've lost all conception of time and space here in Donald Trump's pandemic written hellscape.

That was a surprise this morning. Nonetheless, the labor department announced this morning that employers added 4.8 million jobs in June and the unemployment rate fell to 11.1%.

But we're still 15 million jobs short of where we were in February and there are signs that the job situation is actually deteriorating now that a spike in COVID cases is causing businesses to close again.

1.4 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week and more than 800,000 filed for benefits under the federal pandemic unemployment assistance program.

And the number of permanent job losses actually rose this month to 2.9 million.

Dan, I'm sure you reacted to this news the same way that Donald Trump did this morning who said the following at a brief press conference where he took no questions.

It's all coming back. It's coming back faster, bigger and better than we ever thought possible. These are the numbers. These are not numbers made up by me. These are numbers. Your thoughts.

I mean, you what I I turned it on this morning as you mentioned, we didn't know this job. Stay be the reason the jobs are coming out on a Thursday instead of a Friday. It's because apparently tomorrow is a holiday, which I forgot that there were distinctions between working from home and just being at home. I didn't know how it is.

I was always still a thing, which is weird because I had huge plans for the July weekend, per usual. Huge huge. So I watched them this morning at 6.30 AM, R time, which is how I like to start all of my days and I turned it on still a little blurry.

I'd from waking up to early again this morning. It felt almost like I was watching C span classic.

Like what he was saying was so disconnected from the reality, like if you just were to like parachute into watch press conference, you would not realize that we were the middle of a historic recession.

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