Coronavirus. She reacted to senator Kamala Harris being named as joe bidens running mate. Stay well. Osi i will begin and end that way. 90 days ago, Congress Passed the heroes act. When we passed that legislation, which was designed to meet the needs of the American People and the relationship to the coronavirus crisis, it was based andcience, economic institutional expertise as what was needed to address the needs of the American People. At that time, Mitch Mcconnell said, we need to pause. He hit the pause button and 3,750,000 time, americans have become sick, have been added to the infected list. People added to the list. 77,000 people have died. Tens of millions more people are out of work. Clearly, the virus did not take a pause. When some time some of you reporters ask, why cant we resolve our differences, i want you to see how fast those differences are how vast those differences are. And theinistration republicans in congress have never understood the gravity of the situation.
The phone bridge please press starone if you have a question and star2 to withdraw your question if it gets answered. All right. Lets jump. In we will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking my question. I hope you can hear me. Im curious to hear more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time youve been up there as well as do you guys feel like youre getting ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that youd rather see staying up there or coming back to test out the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats several questions, ill see if i can remember all of them. But i think from an onorbit testing standpoint we did have an ability we did inhabitability test, we tested emergency equipment, and just generically how we work with the dragon docked on board. Transferring equipment, transferring supplies. Were going to do a fair amount of that again tomorrow when we return equipment or supp
Hellesen, and actors david salley and Craig Wallace. All these actors appeared on the ford stage, or great works but appeared on the forwards stage, too many times to count. We are thrilled to have them with us today. I am also, i would like to say that we have been watching demonstrations unfold in our neighborhoods and across the nation. As we prayed to the future of the fords feet are, we know we have work to do. We commit to using our platform to tell stories that speak to the present moment with courage, inspiration, feeling, and of course, Abraham Lincolns legacy. Today we are talking with Richard Hellesen Craig Wallace david selby, in a specific play that they all took part in. Fords theater premiered this in 2012. Ford commissioned to at this play, to celebrate the opening of our leadership in 2011. This play explores the relationship between president Abraham Lincoln, played by david selby, and the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, played by Craig Wallace. It seems particularly
Across the nation. As we plan for the future of fords theater, we know we have work to do. We commit to using our platform to tell stories that speak to the present moment with courage, inspiration, healing, and of course, Abraham Lincoln. Today, were talking with richard, craig, and david about a specific play in which they all took part, necessary sacrifices, which fords theater premiered in 2012. Fords commissioned richard to write the play to celebrate leadership in 2011. This play explores the relationship between president Abraham Lincoln, played by david selby, and the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, played by Craig Wallace. It seems particularly important this week to consider the leadership of these two great americans as they helped our country find its way through one of our greatest crises. So i want to start this afternoon just by, first of all, welcoming you all. Thank you so much for being with us, from across the country, california and d. C. We go coasttocoast here. I
Take on some new challenge. Of what, i have no idea yet, ive been so busy, but its been a great run are, and weve gotten a lot done, so im pleased with it. Host well, speaking of that, youre regarded as one of the Telecommunications Experts in the congress because of your background in radio and being on the enc committee. Whats your legacy in telecommunications . Guest you know, thanks, peter. I dont spend a lot of time on that sort of stuff, but i would tell you together the committee did great work opening up spectrum. And really positioning the united states, i think, to have the spectrum when it needed it to advance the new technologies as they come along. And i remember when we passed some of these laws, there were parts of the band that nobody thought had any value that today is like the highest value real estate. Really Young American minds develop new technologies and innovation. I think making sure they have access to spectrum is kind of like, you know, build it and they will