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    Rage

    Josh Barro talks with Right panelist Michael Brendan Dougherty and Left panelist Jamelle Bouie about the fires (actual and metaphorical) this week: the real, destructive wildfires in California and the West, and the explosive interviews he gave to…

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    KCRW placeholderBy Jamelle Bouie • Sep 11, 2020 • 53m Listen

    Wildfires are raging in the west. The pandemic is still raging, with nearly 200,000 Americans dead. What is the government doing? Congress still cannot agree on additional aid for Americans. President Trump has resorted to using disaster relief funds to pay for additional jobless benefits and is eyeing more executive action, but is there a bigger response coming for any of these crises?

    President Trump took a lot of heat for statements he made to journalist Bob Woodward, detailed in Woodward’s new book Rage, about how he knew how bad the coronavirus was and downplayed it on purpose to avert panic.

    Ariel Edwards-Levy (senior reporter and polling editor at the Huff Post) tells the panel about the state of the presidential race and sticks up for polling: why you should believe it more than a lot of people say they do.

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      Jamelle Bouie

      New York Times opinion columnist

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      Josh Barro

      Former host of Left, Right & Center

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      Michael Brendan Dougherty

      the National Review

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      Sara Fay

      Former producer of Left, Right and Center

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      Ariel Edwards-Levy

      reporter and polling editor at Huff Post

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