Good to have you with us. California has reversed the easing of many coronavirus restrictions as the number of infections in the us state continue to rise sharply. The United States as a whole has now recorded more than 3. 3 million cases almost certainly an underestimate. All this with the nations top Infectious Disease official underfire from the white house. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes has more. Testing times. They rolling back of californias reopening plan because the virus is still spreading fast. The new measures mean sweeping closures of businesses that involve people getting together indoors. Restaurants, bars, cinemas, and museums are all being forced to close. More than 7000 people have died from covid 19 in the state and the rate of new cases has risen to 8000 a day. We are continuing to see hospitalisations rise in the state stop we are continuing to see a modest increase in icus. And the number of beds represented by icu patients throughout the state of cal
Exemptions. I see some exemptions that are clearly explained in terms of we understand under the case law. I would disagree with your assessment of the grandfathering exemptions. The regulation itself says it is a right and its a definite. Your case hinges on how we construe the grandfathering . Not necessarily. The other exemptions have about be taken into account as well. Weve gone through them. Have i missed some . No, that is the point. Well, theyre insignificant. Corporations you cant argue that as a basis. That is why were here because we dont qualify for any of the exemptions. Were saying rifra requires we begin an exemption because of those other exemptions. We dont pretend were a religious corporation. We have say the exercise of religion is not necessarily limited to people in the quote, unquote, religion business. Anymore than in the bill lotty case, the Supreme Court rejected this approach that freedom of speech for corporations for corporations in the speech business. I fr
Workplace that faces a key Senate Procedural vote today. We will hear your thoughts on the employment nondiscrimination act and what you think it means when it comes to Public Opinion on gay rights in america today. Give us a call with us ono catch up all your favorite social media pages. You can also email us. Good monday morning to you. I want to take you to the headline in todays wall street journal. Vote to procedural proceed to debate is happening today. Here is the story in todays new york times. We will be looking at more from that story later but heres the front page of todays arizona republic. Over to the concorde monitor, the hometown paper of senator kellyayotte. We are getting your opinion on the employment nondiscrimination act. Also the status of Public Opinion on gay rights in the United States, some comments are already coming in on our facebook agent morning. Our Facebook Page this morning. That is from facebook and we want to hear your comments, our phone lines are op
And then it would be the courts response ability and the courts ability to hold the government to account. To return toke former congresswoman harman and ms. Pell. The challenge of the authorization that authorizes secret activity, it almost seems like a contradiction. How do you address laws that we dont want to talk about in public . Democraticke a fully function and the government will fully comply, but how do you write about things that the government doesnt want to talk about . We can talk about the purpose of the program in the framework for the program. Certainly, i recall very specifically in the debate on the fisa amendments in 2008, that is what we did. Maybe members of congress for not paying much attention, but it was out there on the airwaves what the issues were. Certainly, the telephone metadata had been disclosed by the New York Times and then partially declassified by president bush in late 2005. There was conversation out there. Congress can do that and that should ha
Everybody in washington is very concerned about this phenomenon called the sequester which is the benefit of the audience, these automatic indiscriminate acrosstheboard cuts, 5 to domestic agencies, 8 to the pentagon, youve been looking at the kind of impact this will have. What do you expect . How much damage do you think it would do for Government Operations . How badly would it affect your constituents and people across the country . Well, needless to say, being an appropriator, i think its an idiotic way to do business. These are indiscriminate cuts. Theyre not thought through but are automatic across the board without any consideration of good, bad or evil, or whatever. So i think the cuts are devastating. Im sad to see it take place but i dont see an effort being made realistically to stop it. Do you, mr. Chairman, do you think that once the sequester actually takes effect, that people will see the wide ranging implications of this and they would actually start working together t