In a governor want to take but saving lives is a very easy go goal. My goal is to be unequivocally focused saving lives and protecting them. Good afternoon. Welcome to Washington Post live. This is also a special recording, a live recording my Public Opinion podcast. We have a lot to talk about my guest today, she has represented her state in congress and today shes said to be on joe bidens Vice President ial list, she is new mexico governor, michelle griffith. Welcome. Im delighted to be on your show. Nice to meet you and spend time with you. Likewise. Thank you for being here. I mentioned your the health secretary, a member of congress because they gave you incredible insight and how to deal with the coronavirus early on. You declared a state wide of emergency march 11 when there were only four cases in your state. What did you see that pushed you to move so quickly. Two things, you know this virus is moving so it comes with travelers. We are still dealing with folks trapped on a cru
They can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and detainees. For fiscal year 2020 congress appropriated approximately 3. 1 billion for more than 45000 single adults and family ice detention beds and other custody operations. Over 80 of these beds are operating daily by private contractors and some of whom are at this hearing today. That is a large amount of taxpayer money, money a historically high number of detention beds and demands oversight and accountability. Detention facilities must be held to a High Standard at all times but in this moment it is a vital importance. Yet, over the past few months it is clear that ice in its contractor had not taken this a break seriously and have not treated it aggressively enough. More than 3000 detainees, 280 contractors and at least 45 ice employees assigned to detention facilities have now test positive for covid19. Sadly, we have watched as two detainees a potential third today in the state of florida and contractors due to convoc
And update now on new york States Coronavirus response. Governor andrew cuomo outlined the States School reopening guidelines and talked about president trumps approach to schools as well as the overall federal pandemic response. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. A pleasure to be here this morning. Beautiful new york city. To my left with dr. James whos been working on among other things the School Reopening plan and hes here to talk to us about that today. To my right, melissa, secretary to the governor. To her right rick cotton was the head of the Board Authority whos been doing an extraordinary job overall, building laguardia airport, first newport and the United States in 25 years, redoing john f. Kennedy airport and then if that wasnt enough he had to do was something called covid which obviously impacted the airports and were were so lucky to havm and want to thank you very much for everything he has been doing. This morning were going to
Administration. Way im the Vice President of the institute for Constitutional Government here at heritage. Silence cell phones please john on september the 23rd, President Trump delivered an important speech on religious freedom at the united nations. He said our founders understood that no right is more fundamental to a peaceful, prosperous and Virtuous Society than the right to follow ones religious convictions. He added that too often people in positions of power preach diversity while silencing, shunning or censoring the faithful. True tolerance means respecting the right of all people to express their deeply held religious beliefs. How right he is. During the last administration, religious adherents felt besieged. While the Obama Administration was prepared to honor freedom of worship, freedom of religion was another matter. Obama Administration Officials preached that tolerating religious adherence was great. For a moment, they can find their way to houses of worship and did not
To keep up the struggle with their governments the. Bride aljazeera own cause. All right when we come back to moms for justice ill finally oncet in spain is the notorious wolfpack sentenced right. To repeat election for the mayor of istanbul and why turkeys president is hoping for a different outcome. Hello again well president states it is going to be stormy here across the Central Plains over the next few days we have one storm thats exiting the eastern seaboard were now going to be watching what is happening right here and you can already see the clouds that are already beginning to form now the next few days we have plenty of heat to fuel these storms you can see here dallas at 33 kansas city at 31 and the moisture is coming in from the gulf so a lot of moisture a lot of heat is going to cause those thunderstorms to form across much of this area on sunday we could be seeing some travel problems anywhere from dallas up towards chicago so you are connecting or making flights through