The Al Franken Podcast

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4: Michael Lewis On How Trump’s Handling of Covid-19 Has Proven His Book, The Fifth Risk, Tragically Prophetic. Apr 19, 2020

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In The Fifth Risk, Lewis portrayed Donald Trump as a man totally ignorant of and disinterested in the actually functioning of the federal government. The book’s title refers to the potential catastrophe that an administration fails to plan for and prevent.

49: Mental Health and Criminal Justice Apr 12, 2020

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Miami Dade County Judge Steve Leifman and Norm Ornstein on Judge Leifman’s remarkably successful Jail Diversion Program, which saves lives and big bucks. An inspiring, feel-good story about changing the lives of our society’s most vulnerable.

3: Dr. Leana Wen Discusses the Tortuous and High Stakes Path that Dr.'s Fauci and Birx Must Navigate Apr 05, 2020

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Dr. Wen is an emergency room physician, professor at GW School of Public Health, and fmr. Public Health Commissioner for Baltimore under two mayors. The second, who was recently sentenced to 3 years in prison, is arguably crazy, giving her unique insight into the dilemma that Fauci and Birx face in dealing with an inarguably crazy president.

2: Austan Goolsbee on Virus Economics Mar 29, 2020

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The former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama speaks with clarity and common sense about how virus economics are different than normal economics.

1: Andy Slavitt, Former Medicare/Medicaid Head Discusses the Pandemic Mar 22, 2020

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One of the earliest and most outspoken critics of Trump's mishandling of the pandemic, Slavitt reviews its tragic consequences and where we go from here.

45: MSNBC's Andrew Zimmern Talks About Food, Immigration, Climate and Addiction Mar 15, 2020

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Turns out food is important. Andrew Zimmern, host and producer of MSNBC’s new series, “What’s Eating America” talks about the intersection of food and health, immigration, climate, and addiction – including his own harrowing journey to sobriety and grace.

44: Documentarian Alex Gibney Tells the Cautionary Tale of the Oligarch Who Defied Putin Mar 08, 2020

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Russia’s transition from a brutal dictatorship to a fledgling capitalist democracy and back to a brutal dictatorship.

43: Pulitzer Prize Winner Dave Fahrenthold Catches Us Up on Trump’s Corruption Mar 01, 2020

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In a time of an international health and economic crises, it’s good to have a POTUS who can be trusted by the world community. Instead, we have a grifter with an entire family of money-grubbing, lying grifters.

42: Is Democracy in Danger? Legal Experts Dahlia Lithwick and Ian Bassin On Trump, Barr and The Abuse of the Criminal Justice System Feb 23, 2020

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Dahlia Lithwick of Slate and Ian Bassin of Protect Democracy discuss Trump's sickening lurch toward autocracy post-impeachment with the cooperation of Bill Barr.

41: Intelligence Expert Malcolm Nance Makes the Convincing Case that Trump is a Russian Asset Feb 16, 2020

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The author, commentator, and career intelligence officer lays out Donald Trump's decades-long relationship with Putin, the KGB, and Rusky Oligarchs. With a cast of unsavory characters like convicted Russian stooges Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, Nance leaves little doubt that the President of the United States has been and continues to be in cahoots with corrupt money-launderers and murderers. A fun show!

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