Any books are sold. We return now to the topic of school and university reopenings. Our guest is sidney mcphee, president of middle Tennessee State university. Viewers mightve seen you when you participated in a Panel Discussion at the white house last week to talk about reopenings and how it might happen. What did you tell the president and the Vice President at that Panel Discussion . Good morning and thank you for having me on your show. I told the Vice President and the president that our university was being very measured and had taken great preparation to safely open our university for our students and our employees this fall. There were a number of challenges that we had to address in order to make sure the campus is safe and that we were ready for the onset of 22,000 students and 3000 faculty and staff at one of the top universities in tennessee. You announced that middle Tennessee State university you were the first to announce that you would open in the fall. How do you plan
Last week to talk about reopenings and how it might happen. What did you tell the president and Vice President at that Panel Discussion . Guest good morning and thank you for having me on your show. I told the Vice President and ourpresident that university was being very measured and had taken great preparation to safely open our university for our students this fall. There were a number of challenges that we had to address in order to make sure the campus was safe and that we were ready for the onset of 22,000 students and 3000 faculty and staff at one of the top universities in tennessee. Middleou announce that Tennessee State universityunivet to announce that you would open in the fall. How do you plan to do that, and what changes does that mean for how your students will experience school . Yes, we were the First University in the state to announce in april that we were going to offer inperson, oncampus courses, and bring our students back. At that time, the curve was flattening,
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After 10 00 this morning. The p has been calling for rate cuts and more of them, the reaction was essentially they didnt do enough. This is the president s tweet, the Federal Reserve shut asking, further ease and come into other countrys competitors. Were not on level playing field. Not fair to the u. S. Finally time for the Federal Reserve to lead, more easing and cutting. After that, jay powell gave his press conference, 11 00 here on the east coast and the chair of the Federal Reserve was asked whether or not there was any political pressure for this move. As he has, time and time again, he said no. Here was powell from earlier today. Well always make our decisions in the interests of the American People to Carry Forward and try to achieve mandates congress has given us and were never going to consider any Political Considerations whatsoever. We will not do that and it is very important that the public understand that. Reporter right now here in washington President Trump is speakin
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