Outbreak of covid19 has led to an unprecedented Public Health crisis and a dire economic crisis. We have lost over 110,000 people to the disease, and 40 million remain unemployed. Back in february as the band that it was worse, we knew we needed to take action to help our Small Businesses survive the economic downturn. We started working with the sba and governors around the country to leverage the sba disaster resources available. Can you please mute . Anyone should be muted. Everyone should be muted. As the virus continues to spread, or state and local governments began imposing stayathome orders and business closures. We quickly realized Congress Needed to do more to meet the full scope of the problem, and that is when we started working on what ultimately became the cares act. To help Small Businesses and eligible nonprofits, congress created a new Paycheck Protection Program, expanded eligibility to the program and provided payment and interest relief for current sba borrowers. I
argument for maybe some more time for joe biden in the white house. yes, i think probably. thank you, my friend. president biden was in normandy today, commemorating the 80th anniversary of d-day. and while he was there, he was asked about something totally unrelated. whether he would issue a pardon for his son, hunter, if a federal jury in delaware convicts the younger biden of felony gun possession. here his out president biden responded. as we sit here in normandy, your son, hunter, is on trial. i know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution. but let me ask you, will you accept the jury s outcome, the verdict, no matter what it is? yes. have you ruled out a pardon for your son? yes. pretty clear answer there. but again, this is a yes or no russian. to be honest, shouldn t be that hard to answer. joe biden, as president, with the power to pardon anyone he wants at the federal level will let his son go to prison if he is found guilty by a j
it is possible to say these are the guidelines that both congress and the judiciary have said and i m going to work with in them. clarence thomas has decided he is above those rules. and quite literally, above the law. and that alito set him apart. i think even from someone like sam alito who comes in second, distant second, having accepted many gifts from billionaires. but it is still not on the scale of thomas. what this shows that thomas is in a league of his own. yeah, i would say. claris thompson and sam alito, mutual leagues of their own in different ways. different justices, same court. mark joseph stern, thank you again for your time. and incandescent rage about what is a broken, broken court. thank you, my friend, for joining me tonight. we ll be right back with my colleague, joy reed, coming up next.