Welcome the politicking im larry king should businesses be protected from coronavirus related lawsuits Republican Leaders have said any future economic aid package will pass or fail on this issue will start the conversation with former republican congressman Bill Mccollum of florida he also serves as the attorney general of that state and he joins us from florida all right bill should businesses be protected from future lawsuits well i think most of them should be very because the fact is that we are trying to come out or will be trying to come out of a severe Economic Situation in which Small Businesses particularly are vulnerable d already and i have litigation going on about connections to the virus itself particularly those that may be charged with some aspect of the actual disease or some precipitation or aggravation and it strikes me that that thats wrong the same thing is true with the doctors high. Spittles and all the care givers them out there giving care its not easy in norm
About how her organization is approaching testing, treatments and vaccines and which countries she says are doing the best right now handling the pandemic. Plus, the interim president of new yorks mta joins us to discuss a path forward for pass transit and whether people will ever feel comfortable riding in a crowded subway car again the biggest subway system in the country. Lets focus on the big stories were watching kayla has the latest on a new 3 trillion relief bill proposal. Mike diving into the Federal Reserves Corporate Bond Purchase Plan which kicked off today. Kayla, lets start with you and washington relief. We are waiting to hear from House Speaker nancy pelosi to discus what they are calling the heroes act this second wave of multitrillion dollar stimulus that now democrats say is needed to jumpstart the american economy. Pelosi has urged her conference to think big, even as many fiscally minded democrats have raised concerns b about the price tag. In this 3 trillion packag
The doctors we and we didnt know how bad the virus was going to be so now we have a lot more we dont have everything we want we dont have all the to discus we dont have all the masks although theyre being produced very rapidly right now but we have enough to be able to save a lot of lives and and handle the situation of people kamil larry this country was based on risk we all took risks as americans years ago our ancestors anyway did when the ohio territory or through us territory was settled incredible number of plagues of diseases if you read back on history that our forefathers withstood lot of people died but a lot of people lived they didnt shut down their businesses they went on they accepted some of that as a reality of life so in things true of war we dont like casualties none of us do but in a way were in a war its not the same exactly but we are so if we can minimize them we save every life we can we take every step we possibly can do which were going to the process of doing
Numbers, iook at the want people to recall the context of these numbers and remember what we have accomplished. We were faced with the situation where the infection rate numbers were going straight up. That was only 30 days ago. 30 days ago that we saw the number of cases, the number of people coming to hospitals, everything was going straight up. That number would have just continued to go straight up. And that is why all the projections, national projections, state projections, local projections turned out to be incorrect. Excuse me. Because they were all believing that that line was going to continue to keep going up. When happened is, new yorkers, americans, changed reality. Literally change reality. They literally changed the path of the virus spread and reversed the spread, and that is what the closedown procedures did. That is what the masks that done. Have that done. That is what the masks have done. That is what the social distancing has done. And new yorkers and all across th
Linking up in a New California program, our farmers this year have gone through quite a shock wave like all of us have. But theyre working every day to continue the kind of town to fall nutritious productivity that is the hallmark of California Governor Gavin Newsom announced wednesday a statewide partnership between the states 41 food banks and 128 farmers and ranchers to provide 21 Million Pounds of Fresh Produce a month. The governor says another 200 farmers are interested in joining connecting california farms farmworkers connecting the cause of our food banks. Getting product and produce that otherwise would literally be thrown away as waste and now providing a tax credit to the farmers of 15 . The Governor Also Announced the federal government is helping california expand its Calfresh Food Stamps Program as of wednesday ebt cardholders can now use their benefits at Online Grocery Stores Like Walmart and amazon providing more convenience and safety from covid19 for 2. 2 million mo