Thank you to all the people who send me letters and tweets and wave on the street or give thumbs up. I cant express how much it means to me. Your energy keeps me going in your smiles like my soul and i thank you. To the 59 Million Viewers who shared in these daily briefings, thank you. Thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt, thank you for believing in me and giving me support. Good lord knows i needed it and dont worry, im not going anywhere. Someone said to me they were concerned because he relied on me to know what was happening. I still do what i do, we just dont have to do it every day and that is a good thing, lets hope it stays that way. I know this period has been hard on all of us. I thought about it every day has climbing a mountain, Mount Everest of social challenges. 42 days up the mountain and 69 days down the other side. Every step, every day hurt and was hard. It was frightening and sad, but i really believe we will be the better for it. I believe we are. I was
Crowd. No shots. Actually well to be. Struck no 1st. Point should your thirst for action. As the country reopens theres an increase in coal but 19 cases is there a balance between economics and held to be found a member of trans Economic Team is a to respond on this edition of politic it. Want them to politicking on larry king as the country is gradually reopened theres been an increase of cold 19 geishas in more than 20 states. Its wheres the balance for the average american Stephen Moore member of President Trumps economic taskforce coauthor of Company Comics inside the american 1st clam to revive the American Economy stephen thanks for joining us today america. How would you describe the state any economy right now well its pretty poor i mean theres no question that weve done serious Severe Damage to the American Economy through the shutdown. Businesses and putting so many millions of americans tons of meds americans out of work so its its sad to me because i really felt like going
Describe the stated he economy right now. Well its pretty poor i mean theres no question that weve done serious Severe Damage to the American Economy through the shutdown. Businesses and putting so many millions of americans tens of millions of americans out of work so its sad to me because i really felt like going into 2020 in the 1st month or 2 of 2020 we had one of the best economies and 30 percent with lowest Unemployment Rate low inflation wages recruit gaining and it looked like it was a good we were in for a lot lot of prosperity and now weve weve just really been sacked so hard by this by this virus of course the protests and riots have been a problem for the economy i do think were going to get out of this larry but i think its going to its going to be as a law and slow travel a lot of this i think by the end of the year hopefully will have an Unemployment Rate less than 10 percent right now the real Unemployment Rates probably closer to 15 to 20 percent as the president react
We are using this time to reach out to our senior phallus, friends and constituents to talk about the important issues and ethics in public life that are at the heart of the councils work. So thank you all for joining us. Todays topic is democracy on the verge, leadership in times of crisis. This title is a play on the title of the new book, lincoln on the verge, 13 days to washington, written by our good friend and carnegie fellow ted widmer. Great to see you ted. Thank you its good to be here. Im going to let ted described the book i will set the outset it is really a thriller. The book is cinematic, its philosophical, it is a great story. And for me it is inspirational. Like all of teds work, lincoln on the verge, uses the path to enlightenment future and suggest a better future. This is not a bad formula for an entrant understanding the intersection of ethics and Public Policy for this and many other reasons im grateful to ted for his own leadership in our field. In addition to his
To my live, secretary to the governor. To her left, gareth rose who has been working with us through this crisis. Dr. Candace johnson, thank you for the hospitality. We talked about our trip to cuba and your greater accomplishment, it was fun. Always a pleasure to be with my friending, my partners, the great mayor of the city of buffalo, byron brown, the great county executive of erie county, mark, thank you for everything youve been doing to get us through this im pleased to report they took a covid test yesterday and i am negative from that test. So that is good news. Take one of those tests, very easy, i showed people ow easy it was yesterday. And when you find out youre negative its a nice sense of relief. I didnt have any symptoms or anything but you know, you dont need to have symptoms and you can have the covid virus. So you take the test, they tell you youre negative, 24 to 48 hours, and it is peace of mind. Theres no reason why people shouldnt be getting tested. We actually ha