Www. Health. Senate. Gov is our website. I think it makes it possible for us to be table to attract witnesses who have very busy schedules on the same day such as today. Some senators are participating by videoconference. Senators may remove their masks since were 6 feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sarge want at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, our Committee Staff for all their hard work to help keep us safe. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, and then well turn to our witnesses who we thank very much for being with us today. Each witness we would ask that you summarize your remarks in five minutes, which will allow more time for the large number of senators who we expect to participate to present their testimony. Well have one round of questions for a five minute round. Less than four months ago on march 1st the coronavirus situation was about this. At the end of february there were 79,000 cases around the world, only 14 in the Uni
Coup attempt and a botched plot to murder president Nicolas Maduro 2 former u. S. Army green berets are among those in custody and a florida based private security contractor named jordan good dro says he orchestrated the mission known as operation gideon the u. S. Government of course claims no involvement but its no secret that the u. S. Has been backing venezuelas leader opposition figure one by doe whom good 0 reportedly had a contract with that one point regime change in venezuela has been a major goal in washington jesse why else would former u. S. Special forces lead an operation to overthrow maduro. You know brigitta we do this all the time lets not stop here with the current thing in venezuela lets go back to 19 fifties iran where we have all this blowback trouble with a random day we were ready to go to war with them at all times everything we do is based on stopping iran iran iran yet they never tell the American People about how in the fiftys aranda had a democratic elected
On the chin. Again what the experts sort of give they can taketh away. When Jerome Powell talked about the fact even with the flood of stimulus weve already seen, good idea to see more stimulus. He didnt put a dollar figure behind it. The Federal Reserve has spent trillions backing up businesses and banks by buying treasury bonds, corporate backed securities, etfs, and to back up corporate paper. That is unusual, in this particular case unprecedented. He seems to signal we are not out of this by any means. These delays in openings here as we heard new york metropolitan area, broadway doesnt do anything until at least labor day. People add up, lets push stocks down. Now there is good news though. We always want to posit that. Favorable developments on the new york state area, new york city to the point and new york area hospitalization as key level looked at closely continuing a decline has been better than two weeks. Anyway, we have David Lee Miller following all of those new yorkrelat
Its political. Everything is political nowadays, right . It is so easy to say, thats just political. That was the fear. If new yorkers did that, governmentally, they had no ability to enforce 19 billion homes. Staying in their that is why the communication was so important. Give them the facts, give them the facts, give them the facts so they understand why. That worked. The second nightmare was what if the central workers dont show ssentiale e workers dont show up . Someone has to pick up the garbage, the hospitals halfs to run have to run. What if the e central workers said im not going to show up . You communicated so effectively, the fear of the virus, that would be and then the essential workers say if everyone is staying home, im staying home too. It could have happened. I went through the hiv virus, when hiv started. People were petrified. Nobody knew what it was. Nobody knew how it lived, how it was transferred, how long it lived. People were petrified. Nobody wanted to go near
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