Plea for the federal gornment to do more to control this pandemic it comes as United States reports the countrys highest singleday death toll from coronavirus good evening. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and im pam moore more than states are now under stay at home or shelterinplace orders but. The president says a National Stay at home is unlikely. We continue to do our part to kron 4 with social dtancing here in the studio and Health Officials want us all to do the same in the last 24 hours more than 900 people in the u. S. Have died from coronavirus the death toll for americans. Is now more than 5100. And if the Coronavirus Task force projections are correct that number will multiply at least 20 fall there are more than 213,000 cases in the u. S. With more than 9800 here in california. Around the world more than 935,000 people have been infected and more than 47,000 people have died. Th is all according to Johns Hopkins universitys coronavirus tracker map the ongoing out
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In their hearts some more celebrated some were shamed and some were tragically ignored by the world on a world scale and speaking of protesters you couldnt find a bigger cause than those carrying the banner of the Extinction Rebellion those brave souls who shut down streets glued themselves to capitol hill hallways and starved just to shake people in the recognizing the grim meat hook reality that is our Climate Change future and who could talk about the big news of 2019 and not talk about the apprehension the controversial demise of billionaire pedophile and sex trafficker Geoffrey Epstein the political elites man with the little black book the man who owned an island built on sand with a trail of friends and accomplices that includes 2 president s and a prince 2019 also brought us real time looks at how the United States flexes its Foreign Policy in latin america through manipulated headlines jack ryan t. V. Shows and brilliantly covert regime change operations that are no longer cur
Good afternoon. And welcome to the National Press club. The place when news happens. Im andrea edney, immediate past president of the National Press club and and i serve on the bof both the club and of our journalism institute. We have a really, really Great Program ahead, invite you to listen, watch or follow along on twitter using the npclive. For our cspan audience and public radio audience, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public, so any applause a reaction you may here are not, is not necessarily from working press. Let me begin by introducing the head table and a like to ask you to please hold your applause and until all of the head table guests are introduced. Helpful to have the list. So from my left and from your right we have sean butcher, Communications Manager at disabled sports usa and editor of challenge magazine. We have retired navy captain jim noon, command of the American Legion post 20 here at the National Press club. Next to capt
Thank you. Thank you, katie, we are very proud of our partnership with the Fourth Amendment institute of columbia. Foundation, and now have other supporters as well. I want to pick up, right with the notion of these marketplace ideas. I think thats what a lot of people think the internet was going to be. Some people really believe that it has carried, do you believe that social media are performing effectively, as the marketplace of ideas that we all drink about . Stanford, i really dont, all i do is write about how it isnt, and it is a cesspool. You know i sort of you what your answer would be you set me up for that. It is complicated, because it is not completely a cesspool, it is just the way it evolved. You brought up the idea of Public Square. Everybody thinks of these companies, that twitter is a Public Square, or facebook, or read it, or any of these sites. The fact of the matter is most of them are private squares, owned and it to the benefit of billionaires. So, it is not a Pu