Live now to discussion with main senator angus king who joins Healthcare Providers and Bipartisan Policy Center experts on the use of telehealth during the covid pandemic. Health team led by, Catherine Hayes and others. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the Bipartisan Policy Center we were established a a little over a decade ago by four former majority leaders, senator bob dole, late senator howard baker on the republican side. Senator tom daschle and senator George Mitchell on the democratic side. Senator mitchell from the great state of maine which youll hear shortly his estate, very well represented here this morning. The country is indeed, indeed the world quite frankly is experiencing a once in a lifetime pandemic caused untold suffering and death. Doctors, nurses, hospitals, Healthcare Providers are struggling to provide Critical Care under some very difficult conditions. But if there is any good, and theres that much, but if theres any good to come out of this virus,
Month. Broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our national im certainly glad youre with us. Workers have put down their tools in belarus demanding a rerun of last weeks disputed election with many protesting in cities across the country president Alexander Lukashenko however has said a new vote will only be possible if the constitution is amend it. Non the but we need to adopt and you can situation you must adopt sits in a referendum because the previous constitution was adopted in the referendum and on dylan you can situation we can hold new elections if you want to palm and the presidency and local authorities because the mass protests continue in belarus where the workers from a various a major manufacturers factories plants and other places have walked out on a National Strike and im talking about said Different Industries ultimo have metallurgy mining to name just a few now they have put forward their demands and they are in the elections with all of the candi
Something is outside of his powers something of the group forget about executive you know executive orders there and theyre not laws theyre not passed by congress theyre not things that every citizen has to obey or every u. S. Business has to but in truth theyre really just for Government Employees at the end of the day theyre really just like heres the president s kind of idea of the direction the government is going to go in but and that does eventually filter out the citizens but theyre not like youre going to get in trouble lets say with the ticktock ban thats a private company a bigger that way its not like you can ban tick tock its absolutely ridiculous but when you dig into what these things you know whats what some of these executives really its you know its not what they appear to be especially movie mirrors they have years ago and you know trump is a great advertiser hes a great marker of himself and i think that hes selling things that the general public doesnt understand no
A lot of republican senators who feel as though they are no longer part of the conversation what trump is done in this and i think that you point to some interesting things here. Hes using this to basically circumvent congress and congressional powers but also i think to bolster this authoritarianism that he personally believes that he thinks that the buck stops with him and hes fine with doing that this is the same president who when obama was in office talked over and over again tweeted over and over again about his use of executive powers about him signing so many executive orders and how much of a problem it was and now were seeing him do actually more than what obama did and he is trying to make sure that he basically sizes things up for this election he knew that it was going to take a long time for anything to get through congress the deliberations were not anywhere where people expected them to be and i think that he is using this to say ok well maybe im doing something for the
Governments across the continent are reimposing unpopular safety restrictions sparking widespread discontent. And President Donald Trump threatens federal intervention in new york as a wave of violence sweeps the city amid Anti Police Brutality protests and on rest over a lockdown measures. This is are to international bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. Well roos has entered a 10th day of protest against the president whos accused of rigging the recent election and his favor although demonstrations were initially marred by a heavy handed Police Response they are now largely peaceful belorussian 1 interior ministry has issued a statement saying it accept some responsibility for the way the crisis has unfolded factories across the country have been brought to a standstill by workers strikes and crowds are out on the streets demanding the president s resignation and vowing to keep up the pressure and till their demands are met this is how th