To kick things off, Andy and former presidential candidate Julián Castro wrestle with the recent revelations from Bob Woodward, including that the President acknowledged the gravity of the pandemic in interviews with the journalist back in February. Despite that start, the conversation ends in a hopeful place about where the country is headed and Julián’s new Lemonada Media podcast, Our America. Plus: Andy announces the show’s latest donation!

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Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

• Pre-order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response, here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165 
• Subscribe to Our America wherever you get your podcasts: https://smarturl.it/ouramericapodcast
• Watch Bob Woodward talk about his interviews with President Trump on 60 Minutes: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-bob-woodward-rage-60-minutes-2020-09-13/
• Read more about Kristin Urquiza, who spoke at the DNC after her father died of COVID-19: urquiza-dad-covid-trump.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/us/politics/kristin-urquiza-dad-covid-trump.html
• Learn more about how the pandemic has affected migrant workers in America: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/08/08/900220260/without-federal-protections-farm-workers-risk-coronavirus-infection-to-harvest-c
• Check out this opinion piece Julián wrote about how to prevent the next housing crisis: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/perspectives/next-housing-crisis/index.html

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