russians, the athletes competing under the roc. you ll see china and the usa, people usa listed, they are not fourth and fifth, they are 9th and 13th respectively. team usa still has not won a gold medal. but plenty of time and competitions are still ahead, beginning in just the next few minutes for day three. thanks so much, david. they re still chasing that gold. and on that note, imagine training for years, competing against other elite athletes, and then actually making an olympic dream, only to find yourself grounded because of covid. on january 26th, first-time olympic bobsledder josh williamson posted about testing positive and not being able to fly to beijing with his teammates because of his positive covid test, saying
npr news scott horsily, a part of npr s day one series it looks at four big issues our very first day in office. the series began yesterday with the issue of stack nant wages. scott, good to have you with us today. already we are looking ahead to what, january of 2017? election season heats up we want to look at issues the candidates are talking about or we think should be talking about. cyber security. violent extremism. the fiscal and the problem i tackled yesterday, stack nant wages. are they addressing these at this point? stagnant wages candidates on both sides are talking about. it s a problem that is decades old. it s not something that just started with the obama administration oor that s a remnant of the recession we lived through. steve ratner. there is i think the biggest issue i think really facing the country and this electelectorate.
inside the beltway. they think war is always the answer. i m asking difficult questions of republicans. do you think the invasion of iraq made it more stable or us more safe? we now have isis to contend with. do you think the invasion of libya made us more safe or made the country that s a disconnect isn t it? because i have probably given 400, 500 speeches to republicans, democrats. i haven t met anybody in five years that thinks it s made sense for us to spend $2 billion a week in afghanistan while your own schools and highways and railways are tearing apart. there seems to be in this area more than any other area a massive disconnects between washington and the rest of america. but the interesting thing is people want to paint me as out of step with the republican party. but when you get outside the beltway and go to america. the rest of america is more in line with what i m saying. i think we have to defend ourselves. i m all for doing something to stop isis.
we ll show it later. he s got some ideas, but not very many original ideas, old standby ideas regarding minimum wage and tax changes he thinks would help this issue. there is going to be a robust debate about this issue. i think the candidates who are specific, like bernie sanders, marco rubio, i think voters will reward them more than usual. should he be discounted? bernie sanders? yeah. tens of millions of americans think bernie sanders has better ideas than hillary clinton does. she has more followers. i think he will be a part of the debate. the fact that we have too many deodorants for sale? one of the big problems in the united states him i don t think you deny that. exactly. we have much more on his role at the top of the hour. coming up next is a threat from isis overblown? we will talk to an expert who says the militants are not winning. everybody into evidence to calm down. that s a fascinating fact too,