The Nicole Sandler Show

We survived the final debate of the 2020 presidential election, and will share some of the high and low points of last night's event. I'm thrilled to welcome the Pulitzer Prize winning NY Times columnist NICHOLAS KRISTOF to the show today. He and his wife wrote the book "Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope" last year; on Monday night, the film version of the book debuts on the WORLD Channel and online at worldchannel.org [https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fworldchannel.org%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3tOcYMAnDPSxvm5Ats-AqDSpgQZ-d8WrGEn6QimWAheBlj2lFbU4ZIny4&h=AT3nj4uSfMg6dUN8o7C_hCRb79ctRBCSzBop5Cym3xphdhAtIw4qpIks2id-QV3t6iRFsWSkThmoUYstw2ucsvewRJZCw-mhAJp9XjTrBWXJCyctS9caJtHEfMmPb7yh5jzwcLkOMlGMl6NeXQ] and pbs.org [http://pbs.org/?fbclid=IwAR0NK4ik8Fcyz8ODnMLoqzSQ39cZbrUZlqbgJq9Kk-oa35iyW8HajT98pjw]

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Howie Klein of Down with Tyranny and the Blue America PAC is Nicole's guest every Thursday. They discuss politics from a progressive perspective. Today, we'll tackle the question of what Biden must do, if he's elected, to help us recover in the post-Trump era. Plus, the final debate is tonight, and Trump thinks he's got something on Leslie Stahl and '60 Minutes'. Oy.

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David Daley is the author of the book "Ratfucked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count". We've had a few conversations on this show about that subject. Dave returns to the show today to talk about his cover story at The New Republic, "Inside the Republican Plot for Permanent Minority Rule". We're less than two weeks out from Nov. 3, and anxiety is high as we wonder what dirty tricks the GOP will roll out in the next 13 days.

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Nov 3 is just 14 days away... and we're all stressing. GottaLaff joins me every Tuesday to shoot the shit about the news. Today, she's a bit loopy after a mostly sleepless night -- my regular state just about every day. But there's lots to talk about. Trump's continuing unraveling as we get closer to election day. And Jeffrey Toobin has a masturbatory Zoom problem.

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Since Donald Trump is, in reality, a game show host, I thought that today, we'd play a little game of Who Wants to be a Dictator? Well, we all know the answer to that. But how easy is that for Don the Con to do? We'll find out today in conversation with Kenneth C. Davis, author of "Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy". Later in the hour, I'll check in with Liam O'Mara, progressive Democratic candidate running for Congress from CA-42. Let's increase the squad's numbers! And a thought about taking care of yourself, especially during this pandemic...

Zephyr Teachout is my guest today! The Fordham University Constitutional Law Professor, author and activist explains just how horrific the prospect of a Supreme Court Justice Barrett would be, how terrible a job the Democrats did at her hearings this week, and what we should all be doing right now! But we'll start with last night's dueling town hall forums and the lastest news.