Next the director of the federal Housing Finance agency testifying on housing and mortgages during the coronavirus pandemic. House Financial Services Committee Members asked him how his agency is handling the rice in foreclosures and forbearances as well as the operations of fannie mae and freddie mac. The hearing runs over three hours. The committee will come to order. Before we begin, i want to remind members of a few matters including some required by the regulations accompanying House Resolution 965, which established a framework for Remote Committee proceedings. First, i would ask all members to keep themselves muted when theyre not being recognized. It will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of our witnesses. Members are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. The staff have been instructed not to mute members except when theyre not being recognized and theres background noise. Members are reminded that they may only attend one remote hearing at a ti
Attention on the show. The fact that the concentration of cases, still seems to be overwhelmingly in the new york city metropolitan area. That includes all five boroughs. Outside the Greater New York city area. Now that is not necessarily a shock. What tends to be here is the idea that when it comes to the number of new cases and the deaths it is about two out of three in both cases that come from the new york city metropolitan area. Why would i mention that . Because on the 15th of this month were going to see the state ease up on some of the stay at home provisions but that will be largely in upstate new york. So we are telegraphing from what he is saying, this is me making that leap, it certainly doesnt look like it would happen in the new york city area, particularly the concentration of these cases remains in the new york city area. Another footnote on these reports here, most have been at home. Most of these cases, indeed most of the deaths, they are older, they are more likely t
They would set a terrible precedent the aim is to prevent whistleblowers from telling the truth and journalists from giving them a platform. So what this burst round of extradition hearing is coming to a close and more on the way i think its time to get the who the what the where and the why why we still can as we start watching the hawks if you want to know whats going on a city street you want to see. Him so youd like to see see the grass is always state ill see you roll slice mass graves see displays systemic deception is the late show which i will be bringing up the field as. Well call it on the watching dogs. And i want. To bring us on the ground insights into the assads extradition hearings we were joined earlier by journalist 3 cut deed in london who had been inside the courtroom following the case as it went on we started by asking him what he feels after witnessing the hearings firsthand what is the biggest story coming out of the courtroom. I think the big. Perspective i didn
And sally you take. While we get lost in all of the pomp and circumstance of u. S. President ial elections and fears of a virus pandemic i want to solve remember that one of the most important aspects of these 2 major stories is the reporting that has brought them to our doorsteps and newsfeeds. Its journalism the 4th the state that gives us the ability to question candidates seeking Public Office and hold officials accountable for their actions in times of crisis and that for the state has been under attack for quite some time not only from its own internal greedy thirst for higher readerships and the advertising dollars but also externally by governments individuals and corporations seeking to control the narrative and this external threat was on full display recently in southeast London England at the war its crown court where the extradition hearings of wiki leaks founder and publisher Julian Assange have been under way accused of conspiring with former Us Army Intelligence analyst
You even have your managers in ring ballets and just like professional wrestling most of the characters you see on t. V. Are being manipulated and created by the one percent who owns the business all in an effort to get you to part ways with your money and your free time modern Politics Today even runs the same story lines as professional wrestling take the recent headline making Peace Agreement signed over the weekend between the United States and the taliban that turned out to be pure w. W. Wheat you had your faces in the form of my pail in the trumpet ministration and then you had your your heels of the form of the taliban just like every contract siting on a w w w e violence erupted before the ink even had time to dry political reports that just hours after United States signed what was billed as a Historic Deal with the taliban to end the 19 year long war in afghanistan fighting had resumed between the taliban and the Afghan Security forces marking an end to the reduction in viole