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What happened to Build Back Better?; More COVID questions answered; Plus the former Danville police deputy who killed Laudemer Arboleda is convicted

Still of Danville Police dash cam video. Caption by Mercury News.

On today’s show:

0:08 – John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation joins us to discuss what happened to the Build Back Better bill.

0:34 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us again to discuss the latest COVID science and answer your questions about the virus.

1:08 – Danville police Deputy Andrew Hall was convicted last week of assault with a firearm for fatally shooting Laudemer Arboleda on November 3rd, 2018. Arboleda’s mother, Jeannie Atienza joins us along with Veronica Benjamin, co-founder of Conscious Contra Costa and Contra Costa District Attorney Diana Becton.

1:34 – Elizabeth Kolbert (@ElizKolbert), staff writer at the New Yorker joins us to discuss her her latest book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future