All programs are available as podcasts. Hi. I have got with me a wonderful author who has written a fantastic book. John, you are a distinguished law scholar and distinguished historian and you have given us a book for the ages at exactly the right time that we needed in the midst of a pandemic. You said that your goal is to do a citizens guide. What did you mean by that . Great question. I wanted to write a book that would be a first draft of the history of law epidemics for the year of covid and beyond. It would speak to an interested reader, not just a specialist in the field. I thought my value added may be to translate to readers that are just fascinated by the blizzard of legal issues that have arisen no. Of course, we never thought about it now. Particularly, what can we learn from them and what will we know when its going to be over. I want to begin, john, if i can, at the end of your book. Then i will pivot back to ask you more about this question. America has two histories. O
Plus the far left squad demanding biden get with their program, fuming what they see as defense hogs and other essential highlevel officials that dont align with their socialist platform. Big tech going off the rails. Amazon apparently reversing course after the latest covid booklet, critics crying censorship and where does this end . Too new york city, redeploying cops to patrol the subways after a series of attacks in which victims were pushed onto the tracks. While on the west coast, politicians of seattle still planning to cut nearly 20 of the citys police budget. How much longer will and is american citizens have to put up with all this . Im in for elizabeth mcdonald, the evening edit starting right now. David let us start with breaking news of President Trumps part of general michael flynn, form of National Security advisor may be part of several between now and inauguration. General flynn resigned from his post a month into the Trump Presidency after speeds over 2016 phone call
Measures of the Federal Reserve is leading the way, after spending trillions buying Mortgage Backed securities, corn rat securities, Treasury Bonds all that sort of thing this is another arrow in its quiver that is not really been explored or to my ive been following these bites here, even explain what a main Street Lending facility will be, but the very talk of it did bring us off our lows. Again, just throwing that out there as one of the reasons why we dipped from down about 280 points to now down about 180 points. Lets get the read in the meantime about the worries for the Market Going Forward here, and that will be in another couple of hours or so, the president outlining his plans to respond to china, presumably on this crackdown going on in hong kong and throwing in their concerns the president has about how the chinese handled the coronavirus, something is up which has a lot of stocks that depend on trade with china down. Blake burman with the latest. Hey, blake. Reporter hi th
President unveils his plan for reviving the Worlds Largest economy but there are doubts about whether it will work. And the rush to make masks in kenya as the World Health Organization walled 300000 people could die across africa. And canadians come together to help societies most vulnerable get the goods and services they need. Welcome to the news hour its 1500 g. M. T. 6 oclock local here in doha welcome to the news hour we begin in china where the coronavirus pandemic has stopped decades of Economic Growth the countrys g. D. P. In the 1st 3 months of this year shrank for the 1st time since records began on the news comes as the government revised the death toll in the city of where the pandemic began officials now say 50 percent more people died than. Its the reported from beijing our correspondent katrina you reports. The coronavirus pandemic has Strained Health systems around the world and now its caused the uninterrupted growth of the worlds 2nd largest economy to falter for the
Member preston, absent. Member walton. Here chair williams, absent. Acknowledging that we do not have quorum but we have an extremely Important Information that is presented to the committee today we will proceed with the meeting, and we would like to start with the Ramaytush Ohlone land acknowledgment. We acknowledge that were are the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards and in accordance with their traditions the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as as peoples that that reside in their traditional territory. Working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. I would like to move on to agenda item 2 which is an opportunity for Public Comme