who was president trump s deputy assistant and trade adviser at the time, quote, essentially verbally awarded a $96 million deal for respirators to a company with white house connections. so the trump administration which, of course, first downplayed the pandemic, was okay in your reporting? is this what you found, that they were okay with breaking rules to reward their friends? oh, they were certainly willing to break rules. i wasn t too shocked to see that. that s actually what set off this whole thing. i saw a contract that had been awarded, and somebody had noted ordered by the white house. and for obvious reasons, you can t have political office and political appointees deciding who gets government money. but peter navarro and the administration, one of few in the trump administration who saw the threat early on, did something remarkable and inserted himself into contracting which is usually left to people who are government experts to make sure taxpayers get a good deal, you
joins us from the weather center. not over yet. reporter: not over yet. how about 150 large damaging hail reports. 2 1/2 inches across gilmore. notice rainfall, also significant. 2 to almost 4 1/2 inches. the concern is the severe weather threat is shifting a little farther towards the east. the population density picks up where upwards of 96 million americans brace for severe weather as we get into wednesday morning, wednesday afternoon.
dollars in fact, $1.8 billion to be exact to deal with roads. $96 million to deal with bridges. $100 million to deal with the lead pipe situation. i have been doing the work, and as a consistent nine-year legislator who has lived here my entire life, if the lines are redrawn where it should be, inclusive of all of cuyahoga county, i m confident i have the best advantage to retain this seat and i hope the people of the 11th congressional district will trust me to continue doing the work that i promised to do. democratic congresswoman shontel brown of ohio, thank you. we wish you the best of luck. want to bring in my panel now. rina shah, principal and founder of relax strategies, adviser for renewed democracy, and former republican strategist. also, immany gandy, senior editor of law and policy for rewire news group. welcome to you both. appreciate it, ladies, for jow joining me this sunday afternoon. let me start with you on this
relationship between russia and china. maybe like the mob, it might cost russia some money but it will be totally excluded because they re putting these relationships in place. but every time we tried to sanction north korea, they may do more things. they bring to the swiss system. $96 million. there are very adept at stealing our currency and money getting around sanctions. you mentioned china they re the ones dropping the bombs right now. are you still more concern when it comes to cyberattacks about china and russia? i think russia is a notch above china, but to put them at tier one actors. i m very concerned about china. one of very concern right now that they are getting a very good template for china to the sing now they were very good template for how they might do something with taiwan. what kind of activities they have going on and this serves as a huge distraction means that
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