The Democratic National convention. This afternoon, my guest is independent senator from vermont , bernie sanders, the former democratic residential candidate, longestserving independent and congressional history. Senator sanders, you spoke monday night. Thank you for being here this afternoon. Sen. Sanders my pleasure, bob. Thanks for having me. Bob senator sanders, your speech, and president obama called President Trump a threat to american democracy. That was a theme running through both of those remarks. Is that breaking through at this convention, that idea . Sen. Sanders well, i truly hope that it is, and not just to the convention but to the American People. Bob, just within the last week alonge, sent out a tweet that said if i, donald trump, lose the election, its because the election is rigged. Now, stop and think for a moment what that means. Hes behind in every national poll. That doesnt mean he cant win. Lose,es saying is if i its not because i really lost the election. Its
Trump. This took place earlier today in albany. Good morning. Lets talk about where we are today, in terms of the data. Total hospitalizations ticked down again. That is good news. We will take it. It is better than going up. Again, this is one day, but it flattening, reducing slightly, depending on your point of view. Are you an optimist, a pessimist . A pessimist would say we are basically flat, optimist would say we are starting to trend down. It is a personality test. Net change in total hospitalizations is on decline. The three day average, which is more accurate than any one day number also says the same. The icu admissions is down. Thats not that telling to me, because the entire hospital is now basically an icu ward. The number of intubations is down. That is very good news. Intubations 80 of the time wind up in a person not recovering. So that is really good news. And the counter narrative, counter fact, number of new cases that walked in the door of a hospital is still about
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2027488001. And if youre a medical professional, call 2027488002. Good friday evening. Well begin, as we always do, was with the numbers. Curment of johns hob kinls university. 2. 2 million cases across the globe and more than 153,000 depths as a result of covid19. In the United States, 692,000 confirmed cases and nearly 7,000 deaths in the u. S. Joining us from baltimore is dr. Leana wen, the former president of planned parenthood the city commissioner from baltimore. Shes the author of a book and the visiting professor of Health Policy and management at George Washington university. Dr. Wen, thank you for being with us on cspan. Guest of course. Happen happy to join you and thank you for the invitation. Host there are reporters that in the city youre in, in philadelphia, in chicago and washington, d. C. , we have not reached the peak yet. What does that tell snull guest two things. One, when we hear we have yet to reach the peak, it definitely brings a level of fear because we dont k