A depression greater than the one that catalyzed world war 2 why is britains former Goldman Sachs chancellor outlawing a universal basic income has trump signed checks go out to americans could you be i be the only social vaccine to prevent a western economic apocalypse the us author and pandemic filmmaker sean stone just how catastrophic we badly the u. S. Has handled the pandemic all the support coming up in todays going underground but 1st as the u. K. Enters its 10th week of lockdown it arguably becomes clearer and clearer how coronavirus has exposed Massive Cluster visions in britain from private schools remaining closed while Boris Johnsons government tries to reopen state schools to low wage workers being forced back to work while the rich quarantine at home Little Wonder perhaps that scores of politicians have written to Boris Johnson about a thinly veiled class war london has been hardest hit by coronavirus in the race is on for next years may all elections joining me now via
Last week. That means 38. 9 Million People have been thrown on to the unemployment lines in the last eight weeks. 38. 64 million to be precise. The only bright spot is the weekly claims have consistently come down. That implies that the layoff trend has already hit bottom. Heres the markets reaction to all of this. The dow at the moment is on the down side but not much by. Youre looking at 60 points lower. Youre looking at the nasdaq down about 16. Small losses across the board. Helping the market, astrazeneca, working with Oxford University, they have announced progress on a vaccine. They will do phase three trials with 30,000 american patients in july. If it works, they say they could deliver 300 million doses by the early fall. Then weve got three stories about open up and open up now. 600 doctors delivered a letter to the president outlining the Severe Health costs of the lockdown. They call it a mass casualty incident. Open up, they say. The front page of the New York Post blares
Going to prosecute. The governor calls these businesses selfish. President trump goes to pennsylvania on thursday and later on this program, we will have numbers from businesses in states that have allowed a partial reopening and ill tell you now, business is good. Moments from now, we have Shelly Luther with us. Shes the salon owner who went to jail for opening early, an American Hero on this program today. One hour from now, dr. Anthony fauci begins his virtual testimony before congress. Reportedly, he will say opening too early means needless suffering and death. The democrats will try to drive a wedge between dr. Fauci and the president. We will have, by the way, the latest on the explosive revelations coming out about what president obama was doing to instigate and set off the russia collusion mess. Turns out joe biden was in the key meeting. He was asked about it this morning. He did not have convincing answers. The status of joe bidens candidacy, the markets stunning recovery, o
Weve got breaking news coming into our studios at this hour. A major protest now breaking out in boston, the likes of which massachusetts has never seen before. People are coming out by the thousands to protest massachusetts stayathome orders. Lets bring in john cox, former California Republican gubernatorial candidate. John, great to have you on. Your reaction to this news in boston that america is not waiting. Good to be with you. Elizabeth america is not waiting for the shutdown, stay in place orders to expire. Go ahead. It is extremely troubling, liz. This is a serious illness, as you know i had it. I recovered. I had Three Friends that have been in icu. I found out a few seconds ago, my last friend is making it out but it is great. What we also need to have is a view that were not going to make the problem worse by destroying the economy or by taking away civil liberties. I think what were seeing now is disclosing the unsustainability of some of the reactions. Not just in boston b
The coronavirus crisis, flocking to parks on a beautiful spring day with the weather looking good again today. Shoppers across the south, meanwhile, heading to the malls from georgia to texas. But in other places frustration and anger as pockets of protesters fight the restrictions imposed in their states. Here is the latest this morning. Seven more states will begin to partially reopen for business. They are arizona, florida, indiana, minnesota, missouri, nebraska and new hampshire. All roads into and out of the city of gallop, new mexico, have been blocked as the governor says the coronavirus is, quote, running amuck there. Meanwhile, there are now 1. 1 million cases of coronavirus in the United States, and more than 66,000 deaths so far. Much more on those starts of the story in a moment. Plus, with scientists now focusing on more than a dozen possible vaccines, we will talk to the man who helped to develop a vaccine for another deadly virus about how soon we might see one now. Late