Proposals put out to expand Rural Broadband, especially in this time of covid. Which ones are you supporting and which ones do you think would benefit your largely rural district . Guest thank you for having me on. Its important we talk about Rural Broadband. I have been engaged in this for years and one of the cofounders of the caucus and also have groups meeting all the time because this is not a republican or democrat or independent issue but this affects everyone in the rural area and its important to get this out as soon as we cant because during this, 19 you will see the effects and what can be done when they have the broadband of our rural areas. Everything from telehealth and i talked to so many doctors that they have telehealth but again if you dont have the access and a problem so that is one of the first things on the telehealth side and we have educational side here in the state of ohio where they share closing schools and say we have the kids doing it remotely from home an
Johnson space center. S bob behnken and doug hurley spent nine weeks aboard the International Space station traveling 27. 1 millionmilance orbiting over 1024 times, and, today, our crew is home. And splashing down 45 years and nine days after the last american smash splashdown on earth. Melts ago, our two favorite space splashed down off the coast of pens control and aboard the spacex crew dragon and just concluding our first launch america mission. This historic landing left the first return of commercial built and operator american spacecraft from the International Space station. And to discuss this historic mission. Talk more about watch america and what we have in store for nasa is we have the briefers. Let me introduce them. First Jim Bridenstine, nasa administrator, president and ceo of spacex, steve stitch, commercial crew program manager, International Space Station Program manager and end fire crews . Astronautses, who are together and speaking us to today. So well start with
Congressional democrats in the white house still at an impasse over the relief bill and joining us on the phone this morning is jeff mason, who covers the white house for reuters. Is there a sign that this could be resolved by the end of the week . Guest thats a good question, steve. I dont have the answer to that. Seems that both sides are eager to get to a solution, but if you just as you just played in the clip, he said that they are not close. So, its just hard to say. The longer it takes, the higher the political pressure is going to be on both sides to come up with a solution and the more the blame game is going to be employed. We have got, as i dont need to tell you or the viewers, so many people across the country who are suffering from unemployment and from this virus in its economic and health implications. From expiredey, unemployment benefits, is no longer in the pockets of people, they will look for someone to blame and that will increase the political pressure. Not only t
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