Tuesday Morning Politics, 30 Issues: Justice Department; Schools Reopening; COVID and 'Empathy Fatigue' - a podcast by WNYC

On today's show:

Nancy Cook, White House reporter for Politico, previews Tuesday's presidential debate and discusses the latest national political news.
Andrew Weissmann, now teaching criminal and national security law at NYU School of Law and the former lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel's Office, talks about his new book, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation (Random House, 2020), and more generally about what's at stake for the Justice Department in this presidential election.
More students opting for hybrid classroom and remote instruction report back to classrooms this week. NYC Council Member Mark Treyger (Dist 47, Bensonhurst, Coney Island, Gravesend, and Sea Gate) talks about the latest, including the principals calling on the state to take charge of the process.
Eight out of 10 American COVID-19 deaths have been among people older than 65; the rest of the dead are disproportionately Black.  Olga Khazan, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World, talks about how 'empathy fatigue,' the point in a mass tragedy where we no longer see victims as individuals but statistics, is heightened by racism and ageism in our society. 

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