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Governor andrew cuomo ultimately calls the shots. Looks like that could be pushed back. Governor cuomo speaking to the press, noted a lost spikes in cases happen particularly in states that opened up Indoor Dining too soon. No way to verify that. The fact he wants to be cautious about that at same time he is ripping federal government response on all of this, is obviously going to get a response from president of the United States either with a tweet or something, later on. He has full throttle criticizes the federal government minimizing the entire coronavirus situation. Others middle east disagree with that. We should also say that is the latest period on june 28th. Eight deaths reported in new york state. We should emphasize that is record low number and is down substantially from the 800 daily highs we were seeing in march and april, it is still a stubborn trend that remains as do hospitalizations also going down here. The number of new cases is an issue that has come up again and
You can send us a text at 2027488003 and if you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on social media. A very good sunday morning to you. We take you to the coronavirus dashboard from Johns Hopkins university. The numbers 10 million cases worldwide, the United States counting for a quarter of those and 125,000 deaths. Amid renewed focus on the spread of this virus we are talking about masks this morning asking if you wear them. The topic came up friday at a hearing of the House Oversight committee. This is congressman jamie raskin talking to his fellow republican green. Sman mark [video clip] the mask is not to protect me. It is to protect other people in the event i am infected and the majority of infections are of presymptomatic. We had members of congress who did not know they had it in any of us would do that if that were the rule. Why is this complicated . There is one thing we can do to protect other people. It does not cost us anything.
Do we have remote people . E td okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The hearing will come to order. I believe we have some of our colleagues who are going to be remote. Opening eally have anit. Statement. Well hear from judge wilson here in a bit and well let our two colleagues from mississippi introduction. But ill defer to senator feinstein if she wants to say anything first. Hear fro i will, mr. Chairman. O a thank you very much. Today, as youve stated, were going to hearr from cory wilson nominated to a mississippi seat on the fifth Circuit Court of j appeals. Stated during the nomination hearing for the view District Court in january, i am interested in judge wilsons views on a a number of issues including health care, Voting Rights, womens reproductive afo rights, gun safety, and the rights of lgbt americans. His record of opposition to the Affordable Care act is troubling, particularly because wereorte concernedd ju with co. I hope he will straighten us out on that. A it has been reported that
Hygiene. Thank you for coming. I hope everybody has disinfectant that they can use. We spaced out the room to be as safe as possible to my staff and minority staff, thank you for working together. We are back, we spent 40 something days since the senate has been able to meet. The committee has a lot to do related to the coronavirus but we have other things for the good of the nationlike filling judicial vacancies or getting comments throughout the country about the vacancies and how they are impacting the ability to deliver justice in various states it will be as prompt as we possibly can. My democratic colleagues are requesting hearings on the effect of the virus in Detention Centers for immigration purposes and we will try to Work Together to have those hearings. Im curious myself about safely in the nations prison. Next week we will hear about liability issues related to the virus. What can we do as a congress to safely open up and minimize legal exposure for those to reopen the ame