Virus. Welcome to the show in the last few minutes u. S. President donald trump has left the hospital where he was being treated at for 19 was seen walking out of the Walter Reed Medical Center in maryland where hes been treated since friday and was driven into a waiting helicopter for the short flight of back to the white house the president had earlier tweeted that hell be quote back on the campaign trail soon. Well straight to washington then and our correspondent Stephanie Simons who is standing by for us just on a before leaving hospital a trumpet tweeted dont be afraid of cove ed dont let it dominate your life but this is a disease that has killed over 210000 people in the u. S. And impacted countless others from where you are how exactly is the virus affecting day to day life. From where i am every day between 800 or 700000 americans die from where i am thousands are out of work a 1000000 out of work 60000 people lost work just in the other few days 34 days ago airlines are shut
Without the partnership of the Partnership Ambassador tony win the senior advisers csis and a friend and thank you very much tony for everything. I think we will have a very interesting and constructive conversation today and when i think about people who are qualified for their jobs and the right people at the right time i cant think of a better person than my friend from the afghanistanpakistan office at usaid. He summoned that have served in pakistan and afghanistan and served in some of the toughest places in the world. Craig is a friend, greg is a patriot and a qualified individual. Thank god he has raised his hand and agree to public service. Thank you very much. Come on up here. Give them a round of applause. [applause] its very nice to see many of my old friends here in the audience particularly i found from cairo was done a lot of the things that need to be done or might be done in afghanistan. Its great to see all of you and i look forward to meeting those of you that i have
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To reiterate a point that president chiu made earlier as well as a few other speakers. We know anecdotally there are many stories of lbes being put in awkward situations, possibly being, you know, not in favorable positions under larger gcs and anecdotally we know that there are many situations like that, but we couldnt get them here necessarily to speak or put their name to paper. So, you know, just as the previous speaker spoke about possible retaliation with a project that hes currently negotiating with, we need full protection. It is very important to all of us. As agencies are hope gli going to be held more accountable, hopefully as we begin to mold policy and further developed, theyre going to be outliers and they may not want to follow the rules and so these policy breaker need to be called out. Please remember we do need the board protection moving forward. Before the next speaker, i want to just take a moment and mention i just had a conversation with our deputy controller and
I want to be under time. Okay. Well, i might go a little quickly. Supervisor chiu, supervisor avalos, my name is josh chen, [speaker not understood], im president of [speaker not understood] lbe subcontractor that does do construction. I just have a few points to make. One is about the agency the Department Needs to be held accountable. Just to give you a state of the union what is going on on the ground, ive seen some 0 requirement, 10 , some like goals. If they dont meet the goals, hard requirements. If they dont immediate the hard requirements. Were asking for a stronger lbe program, some repercussion for agencies when they dont meet the requirement or goal. Weve done work and oakland in other locales. Their lbe requirement is a hard 50 lbe requirement for local lbes of oakland. That gives you a comparison to inconsistency in ag is. What eric said, it is a good ordinance. It definitely helps lbes, but some time the bigger contractors will go right to the unions and to the local resi