This webinar will have a straightforward format after my introduction he will offer 10 minutes or so of remarks, then i will have questions for the senator and we will have a discussion about the economic challenges facing our nation and what congress should do to address them. We will take a couple of questions at the end. Thank you for joining us. If you have a question for senator rubio, submit it by email. Econtalk on aei twitter. Those are listed on the events web page. I am honored to be joined by senator rubio, thank you for being here. Senator marco rubio is the senator from florida, served in local state government, including as speaker of the Florida House before being elected to the senate in 2010 and reelected in 2016. He serves on the Senate Committee of appropriations, the Foreign Relations committee, the special committee on aging as acting chair of the select committee on intelligence, and most important to our discussion is chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Bus
2027488000. Mountain and pacific, 2027488001. You can also send us a text at 2027488003. You can also post to twitter and facebook. With thoseis morning numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. The total number of confirmed cases in this country approaching 1. 7 million. On the right side of the screen, there is that figure, the death 98,929, 98,000 929. Nearly 100 thousand americans have died. A special pullout on the usa today, these are 100 people out of the 100,000 americans who have died from the coronavirus. Different ages, races, and backgrounds they point out. The next 100 days could define a new era, right usa today. It did not take longer than 100 days for the virus to claim the lives of nearly 100,000 americans. Thenimaginable toll, since first person in the u. S. Died from covid19, which is thought to have been february 6 in california. Borne out by the diminished rates of new infections and deaths in may is not enough to keep the u. S. From reaching that grim mileston
Regulations and the endangered species act are hurting the economy and should be repealed. Covid 19 has killed hundreds thousands of people road d worldwide. Theo virus, unfortunately, could call additional early deaths down the road into the off those unemployment and poverty that it could to stave off those avoidable deaths, America Needs to renovate the booming economy before we had covid19. To do so, we have put on this presentation. To listen today from the United States senator ted cruz andla mike lee. Eachtory tha one has ideas about Regulatory Reform proposals will kickstart our economy as well as keep it going strongo on the long term basis. I would now like to invite senator cruz and senator lee to join me. Before we start todayssenator discussion, i want to give each senator the opportunity to offer introductory remarks. Wsenator cruz, you are up at that first. Joi good morning. It is a pleasure to join you. Thank you for taking the time participate. Paul, it is good to see
A really important day for the us Space Program, lay it all out for us, whats going to happen today in florida. We are counting down to the launch of two astronauts, Doug Hurley Bob Behnken at 4 43 eastern time today. This will be the first time american astronauts or any astronaut has launched from us soil into orbit since the retirement of the Space Shuttle nine years ago, july 8th, 2011, was the last time this happened here and the weather permitting it will happen again this afternoon. Tell us more about the mission itself, walk us through the next period of time with this launch. The astronauts should be waking up about now. They will have breakfast, get a weather briefing, then they will be suited up in their spacesuits around midday and head out to the launchpad a little after 1 00 pm eastern and board the spacecraft, go through the final leak checks and voice checks in Mission Control and then, all things being go they will on 4 43 eastern, get into space or get into orbit abou
From this development. Christopher wrays socalled review of it all. In a statement the fbi admitting, quote although e the fbi does not have the Prosecutorial Authority to bring a criminal case, the Inspection Division can and will evaluate whether any current onboard employees, get that . Onboard employees engaged in actions that might warrant disciplinary measures. In other words, well, going on to say as for former employees, the fbi doesnt have the ability to take disciplinary action. In other words, the fbi has successfully, corruptly run out the clock and will have only irrelevancies to offer in this internal review. We will have a lot more on this development tonight. Well be talking with Judicial Watch president tom fitton who has just uncovered an important document concerning the origins of the flynn investigation. In other news here, the Chinese Communist party bending the arc of history as the liberals like to say, bending the arc of history toward totalitarianism. Today ca