Unemployment and poverty that it could cause. To stave off those avoidable deaths, America Needs to rein reinervate the economy. And were listening to ted cruz and mike lee. Each has proposals that could kick start our economy and keep it going strong on a longterm bas bases. I would now like to invite senator cruz and senator lee to join me. Before we start todays discussion. I want to give each senator to offer some introductory remarks. Senator cruz youre up at bat first. Good morning, its a pleasure to join you. Thank you for taking the time to participate and, paula, good to see you and mike, its good to see you and what a testament to the wonders of technology that were able to have an intimate conversation thousands of miles apart and im pretty sure that through the el electrons, this is qualifies as social distancing. The fact that were able to do this so easily is a testament to the opportunities that have been presented by this enormous crisis. As a nation, were facing two si
Trump. They also discussed the groups influence on followers of use of the coronavirus. Im Deputy Editor of the atlantic. Thanks for joining us for this weeks edition of the big story. In case you havent joined us before, the big story is digital evinces will go behindthescenes with reporters and editors to talk about some other latest work. This week im really excited. Were going to talk about conspiracy theories. We recently launched an entire project on conspiracy theories called shadowland. You can find it on a website theatlantic. Com shadowland. And on the cover of the june magazine executive editor Adrienne Lafrance, [inaudible] that almost resembles a new religion. Before we dive into this conversation about qanon mr. Budgett about a few housekeeping items. First of all you can get part of the conversation. You can do that by typing a question into the q a box on the bottom of the screen. I think some of you and mages of that so please continue to do that throughout the entire
Dealing with the pandemic but its right there and put on full display, our societies inequality and injustice. This display hasnt been in words or theories, its been in death. Our societies inequality span over 400 years of slavery, segregation, jim crow and racism. These inequalities exist in many forms, healthcare, Public Safety and justice. Back and African Americans make up just 8 of the states population nearly 18 of covid19 deaths over the past several months have been from that same community. Inequality in healthcare results in death, pure and simple. Our justice system, lady justice is supposed to be blind but many in our eight feel, rightfully so, the color is all thats seen. Incarceration rates bear that out and incidents from breanna to minneapolis, it is very real. Disproportionate death and in my short time as governor, ive felt a lot. Individuals try to create fear and terror in my own family but thats been a few days, maybe a week. Certainly not a lifetime. I will never
I am chief executive of the city club and a proud member. May 22. As we take these steps towards reopening the economy and state, the city club is continuing with virtual forms and still presenting from the studios of 90. 3 idf stream our public media partner. We are very grateful for the partnership and support. We all know that the coronavirus pandemic has put an incredible amount of pressure on the American Healthcare system. A shortage of supplies and Healthcare Workers, sharply declining revenues and Massive Health insurance losses due to unemployment. Shaking the foundation of our countrys infrastructure. As states began to reopen end as the number of coronavirus deficit in cases is expected to plateau, we have the chance to talk about what is working and what is not working when it comes to the ways in which we deliver healthcare. We talk with two local ceos who are also physicians about the pandemic, the changes are hospitals needed to make a what the future of Healthcare Deliv
Primarily focus on the coronavirus and what another round of stimulation such could look like. This is about one hour. All right. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. My name is cliff johnson, the general manager here at bloomberg government. I am actually delighted to welcome you to a 2020 springhill watch event. Hopefully by now youve all the chance to take a look at the newest addition of rock biannual hell watch report that explores what to watch on capitol hill across more than 20 different policy areas and, of course, this report also examines the effect of covid19, the need for related relief legislation as was both parties agendas and plans for 2020. Today were incredibly excited to build upon of a reporting ts expert analysis through conversation with a key lawmaker that is senator john thune of south dakota who was shared with us today discuss the current state of affairs. You can participate in todays discussion on social media by using the hashtag bgov want to be sure