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Robert next. Announcer this is Washington Week. Corporate funding is provided by life isnt a Straight Line and sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. Fidelity is here to help you work through the unexpected with Financial Planning and advice for today and tomorrow. Kaiser permanente. Additional funding is provided by the estate of arnold adams and koo and Patricia Yuen through the yuen foundation, committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. The corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Once again, from washington, moderator robert costa. Robert good evening. We start with sobering numbers. An update on the health of the nation. More than 95,000 americans have died due to the coronavirus paemic with nearly 1. 6 million nfirmed cases in the United States. Next, a spike in the joblessness rate, almost 2. 5 million americans filed for unemployment last week, pushing the total to more t
Di Corporate Funding is provided by. Welcome to firing line,g, sheryl sandbnd welcome back to firing line, david miliband. Good to be with you. Thank you for having us. David, you are the president and the ceo of the International Rescue committee, and, sheryl, you are, of course, the chief operating officer of facebook. E and o of you teamed up to write an article entitled a second covid crisis is coming. And the subtitle was, if dont act now, women an girls will be suffering from the pandemics fallo for dades. Sheryl, id like to go to you first. Why did you and david te up to write this oped . Well, every time it exacerbatesrgency, underlying inequality, and vulnerable populations are often hit the hardest, and all over the world, that iwomen and girls. And so when you have a crisis like this, if we dont have t a gender lens s, if we arent focused on preventing genderbased violence increases, which are already happening, and makg sure women and girls get the resources and the service
Its the exact opposite. It says that would be a king. Robert next. Annocer this is Washington Week. Corporate funding is provided by life isnt a straight line. And sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. Delity is here to help you work through the unexpected with Financial Planning and advice for today antomorrow. Aughter] announcer additional funding is provided by the estate of arnold adams, and koo and patricia yuen, through the yuen foundaon committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. Theti corpo for public broadcasting and by contributis to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thanu. Once again from washington moderator robert costa. Robert good evening. It was a critical week for the trump presency. At its core it was about his decision to encourage the reopening of america. He veered from claiming total authority toultimately leaving it in the hands of states. But theres no doubt about where he stands. Earlier friy, te president tweeted
Oopen sectorsour economy. I would tell him not to turn th switch on and go. Robert xt. This is Washington Week. Corporate fundings provided by life isnt a Straight Line and sometimes you canlfind your in direction. Fidelity is helping you to work through with Financial Planning and advfor today and tomorrow. Agh additional funding is provided by the estate of adams and howen foundation committed to bridging cultural differences, the publication for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs foundation from viewers like you. Thank you. Once again, from washington,de tor, robert costa. Robert good evening, as the death toll in the United States surges past 50,000e, peo President Trumps asserons how to treat coronavirus continue to roil his administration. The president took no questions b the latestefing following a week of tensions between him and hlth experts. Joining me to discuss these issues are reporters who you r are. Nancy cors, chief congressional correondent from cbs new