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.
Deny. A spring that has been dominated by Public Health cries thats still very much with us. Were facing now also a social crisis that is as old also our country in some ways, the struggle for racial equal and human equality. But then also is very much of this moment, and forces us to confront challenges our society has had trouble with in recent years. This is a time that makes us wonder how strong our institutions are going to prove to be, how were going to rise to a challenge like this. I think you cant help but see it as a time of crisis but because it is a time of testing, its also a tame for us to think about americas strengths, what were good at as a country and how to build on that to address the enormous problems. Host how did we get here . Guest well, thats an awfully complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and equality of the individual on the one hand and some form of strength of community on the other. Every free Society F
Mccarthy on the record fundraising in face of last weeks Impeachment Vote sandwiched between the budget, spending bill and a trade deal with canada and mexico. Also breaking news this morning, the first interview with knew jer congressman Jeff Van Drew on his stunning switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party amides votes to impeach. He has done something never been done before, moving from the Majority Party to the minority party. All that here on sunday morning futures. Our opponent have spent every waking minute of the last three years trying to overthrow the election of 2016 and at a minimum to, sabotage the election of 2020. Thats not going to happen. Were not going to let it happen f it did happen, if they were successful, they will destroy this country. Maria President Trump blasting the democrats impeachment battle while speaking to Young Conservatives this weekend. House lawmakers voting along party lines, impeaching President Trump for two articles, abuse of po
Mccarthy on the record fundraising in face of last weeks Impeachment Vote sandwiched between the budget, spending bill and a trade deal with canada and mexico. Also breaking news this morning, the first interview with knew jer congressman Jeff Van Drew on his stunning switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party amides votes to impeach. He has done something never been done before, moving from the Majority Party to the minority party. All that here on sunday morning futures. Our opponent have spent every waking minute of the last three years trying to overthrow the election of 2016 and at a minimum to, sabotage the election of 2020. Thats not going to happen. Were not going to let it happen f it did happen, if they were successful, they will destroy this country. Maria President Trump blasting the democrats impeachment battle while speaking to Young Conservatives this weekend. House lawmakers voting along party lines, impeaching President Trump for two articles, abuse of po
Forbeing with us today. Lets get right at it. Earlier this week as tom said the knesset passed a bill that will return the reasonableness standard. This is a question, four r our first question for you amir and michael. What is this standard . And what is the Practical Implications of its repeal . Additionally, what are the larger implications in terms of the future of israel as a democracy . Amir, start with you. Amir ok. Thank you halie. Thank you, tom, for the introduction. Michael, great to see you, my friend. And thanks to everyone who joined in order to understand whats happening here. There is a lot of drama. Well do our best. As for the law that was passed this week, the reasonableness standard is a tool that the israeli legal system, it started with the Supreme Court, but also used sometimes by lower courts, has used over the years as a way to conduct judicial review over governmental decisions. This does not have to do with legislation, but executive of the government. It was