A lot of controversy of the photo the idea of using vegas as a control group for testing whether social distancing actually works the mayor joins us from the have you changed any of your opinion carolyn. You know i think what i was trying to get across is we werent broken you know you dont build a city with such great. Tourism and convention numbers if we hadnt already been a very safe place and one that was so proud of its Health People wont come to a community and or visit a hotel if it isnt absolutely clean and the food healthy and i think what happens from it perhaps a bad choice of words im not even sure what the were. The reality is what i was saying it wasnt broken and sco we really were ready to continue as we were and we would show the whole world that we were safe from wonderful place Great Entertainment great food Great Conventions and across the most fabulous weather you could imagine so it was a turn the attire and the laws it is time to survey says the vegas will open in certain degrees over the next month or so will have if they have tables theyll be separated separate from slot machines no nightclubs. Restaurants limited capacity isnt that a good start. Well you know i dont think much has changed thats the tragedy we still dont have our arms around this very significant virus that really has set a death toll around the world. So we really are where weve always been with that were very aware of it and everybodys terribly concerned a lot of people are extremely frightened and certainly i understand that but it is we have no prevention yet. We have no treatment if ones diagnosed yet and we certainly have no vaccine yet so far so nice and wholesome the city if all 0 since you say a true why open the city. Where people abandon the date jewelry why open it well i dont see thats what im trying to say we have been so careful about being a healthy place and operating in the best interests of good health and safety for all of our visitors and our residents of course to and so that i have been asking because we now have 36000000. 00 plus at a work we have a lot of people that are waiting for their Unemployment Compensation their destitute and so we are a Service Community and so to go ahead and get started is very important but it could recur in the fall could recur in the summer or continue on or if can come back annually and we know that with the flu vaccine some people opt not to take it but we dont have the vaccine yet and so is my sense or sorry. You disagree with your governor says so and he closes all of has seen those in hotels you disagree with that action i am not in a position to agree or really disagree i have this city we are a city of about 700000 were a 155 square miles and ive been very very confident that we operate our city very carefully with great health and great concern for the enjoyment and good health of our visitors and costs our mayor or what to me what you want to happen what would you like. Apple or do you want. Well 1st and foremost i want to take care of all the unemployed and get them their compensation and their due their devastated their frightening their frightened their down to their very last dollars and they have children i really do want to work to see the schools open ive been passionate about education and especially our Little People being in school they dont learn as well by Virtual Education they need to have teachers qualified teachers and back in the classroom and i know the job of the governors extremely challenging and if you read some of the things that i have said its not a criticism of the person it is about getting us back and letting people earn let them have the right the dignity to provide for their families and themselves and their parents you are vegas open all of the mcnish sheens go in the slot machines in blackjack dealer everybody come in you or you want that now in the end that i was not calling for that i wasnt calling for that i was calling really for the city of las vegas where im very very confident that we have built our city always with the customer and arrests again and to employ a 1st in mine for health and good health and safety all the time with there was right transportation and everything we were claiming and we just our lives wonderful Wonderful Community and i cant use a grip what happened with you and anderson cooper. I was asked to do with street a 5 minute interview which turned into a 25 minute. Enter available call and then no i never regret anything because im here to promote our community for most the greatness of the most Diverse Community of people and cultures i love it here moved here from the heart of manhattan loved it since 1964 im so proud of the people were all just one group working together to do the same thing and promote the beauty of this fabulous exciting place to live and work and to help each other and be a a family of people that believe in what las vegas says here they have of the people surveyed in a recent number of poll said they would be very uncomfortable going into a casino wouldnt you if the casino a wide open and people using slot machines and you were the current pandemic when you feel uncomfortable walking in that crowd would you. Well you know its an interesting thing i am i really the the yes from what i understand the poll and i really havent looked at it detail other than how governments interact i was told by some people in our press that it was taken mostly in the north and nevada area and we are down here in the south were about 6575 percent of the population of course the casinos down here generate the monies that these cities and the governments and the state operate on and so to walk into a hotel if i could be assured the hotel with absolutely healthy and Everything Everything was clean and i could be assured of good health absolutely if i could be assured it was a good health and clane other than that you know to suppose on something weve never shut this country down we certainly and thats not even my or all my only concern is a spade in nevada where we are a tourism and Convention State you know you but you can it with all the things you say with this kind of virus which you admit is a virulent virus you have with all things and all the hotels of cleanliness and everything you cant guarantee Safety Health put on a camp. No no i left they were everywhere well the question is on the other hand this hour long show will be a lot of this could have gone on for 234 years then whats happening to our state its gone what happens to future generations what happens to all these people whove lost their jobs then theyll lose their homes and then what do you have you have not thanks were brave people and what we need to do is be working on and which i am fully in favor of as i said we were not broken in this city a las vegas we were clean weve not had an epidemic we have not had any complaints you not had we have constant inspections we have laws we have ordinances we have everything to keep everybody as safe as possible right the problem is as possible and with a virus like this its not possible mayor you cannot tell me that las vegas would be safe and open right now you cannot would be that would be absurd and oh well in looking at las vegass you know there was confusion on the part of some that the city of las vegas is a confined area and the whole of whats called las vegas is unincorporated clark county and other municipalities i was not referring to them i was referring to our city that prides itself in its cleanliness good health and safety strip is not in your city right you know basis not we have no actual issue theres a lot of this. Yes a little man. You know had i been they asked there was a preemptive comment by a person who actually was brand america under one of the previous administrations talking about how the city has no jurisdiction out in the county its absolutely true we are confined to this city back down trees and im very proud of what we do because we do not that i would say anything different anywhere else but we have this area and so to know the pride the excellence of all the people the Small Business people who fill sex exciting places where tourists are now flooding the millennial didnt particularly love that downtown we have so much whining on and its wonderfully safe and has been there is a person is trying to recall you have a common. Its america its simple believe me i thought in my brain so many times in the middle of the night why i wish that person more narcisse but thats the rag of the american way. Carolyn thank you so much for joining us and i hope everything straight so nice to see you me too thank you and everybody stay sail what politicking after with us. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. The isolation for community. Are you going the right way or are you being. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Aura made in the shallowness. To recruit some of you have our Little People we can keep blurry i mean remember i think that leads. To the problem. Buddy him to speak in the group who we know was really who are asleep each. And when we get in the. Business which was when the president. Mentioned shes too young was that of a plane you need. The year in the street if you will see ask yourself how are you going to survive how are you going to protect yourself a little bit feel cools off your focus the upper the flu the local quality to it in order to put a few of you through the door the corporate will kill a lot of the missiles or it is a very good local Customs Office because it is there it is going to see what im up to it is that it. Is known as using technology where theyve been able to name x. s peoples private information on the cell phones and see what youve seen if you have crossed coughs with somebody who is positive and turn on a virus and if youre not if you have a meeting seen your message because part of somebody has tested positive keys you must be in our in tina. But i think that there was interesting thing is that all the people around them or are in the same situation. Well go back to politicking progression Political Commentator Bill press joins us well dig into the lay of the 2020 Campaign Landscape and well discuss of course the colbert 19 pandemic he is the host of the pod cast the bill press he is in our Nations Capital bill more than 30 u. S. States are taking steps to ease social distancing you think this is working. Im afraid its too much too soon larry. Look im as n. C. As anybody to get out of the hat damn house right now i mean its. Its been 2 months and. At the same time. I think getting out too soon im not ready to go out to some ballgame or out to some concert or even out to some restaurant and the idea that this thing is behind us i think is a little premature there are 1300000 cases in the United States 80000 almost 80000 dead now. I think we need to see but let me put it this way i want to agree with donald trump on one thing he said the white house said when you have 14 days with cases going down then we ought to open up not one of those states that you mentioned not one of them has met that criteria yet so i think they stuck to that would be we feel a lot safer now the white house is saying anyone entering the west wing has to wear a mask finally is a good idea. I took about freakin time let me tell you you know i i go to the briefings you know weve talked a lot about it i havent been to a Briefing Since march 13 because i saw then that that that that was going to become a coronavirus hot spot it is there youve been in there many times i have to that that thats like being on a submarine in the west wing the rooms are so small the carters are so small and so close there is no way you can self distance in the west wing and i think they waited far too long to require everybody to wear a mask and now what do you got steven millers wife the Vice President s press secretary has the coronavirus the president s valet the guy that brings him as i do a diet pepsi and has his and serves him his meals in the oval office has a corona virus anthony found she and Robert Redfield the head of the f a c. D. C. Ourself quarantine and and donald trump and mike pence who are also exposed refused to quarantine and refused to wear a mask so im afraid its going to get worse and i tell you the reporters i got a notice today again from the White House Press corps and they said unless you absolutely have to be there or do not come to the white house its too dangerous whats your overall assessment of how trump has handled this. Bed lee i think you know the problem is he waited too long we last 2 months where. We could have been doing some social distancing he could have been curry stays to lockdown he didnt so january february were lost because he saw this as some political thing democrat you know whatever blame it on china blame it on obama. And i think were suffering a lot of people have died because of that last time what number one number 2. I think he made a mistake in not putting forth i think there should have been a National Plan for how every state would do their self distancing and a National Plan to help every state get all the masks they needed the ventilators they need it instead as you know what the president said was they its up to you governors you know everybody kind of do their own thing and its up to you or you know its not my job you got to go by the masks and all that kind of stuff so i just think we lost or lost the that didnt have the leadership from the white house that you should have in terms of a crisis. Oh we have trump economic advisers predicting dire forecasts about unemployment saying it could surpass 20 percent they also say theyre looking at an economic recovery in the 2nd half of this year whos right. And then thats Wishful Thinking if i ever heard it back i mean i dont know how larry i dont know how we get out of this were going to recover you know weve been through bedtimes before not not of bettors us in our lifetime. But were brazilian and creative and a strong people i know were going to come out of it but its going to take a long time and right now get this 20000000 jobs were lost in april there are 30. 00 to 33000000. 00 americans out of a job right now as you said that the Unemployment Rate is 15 or specs to go to highest 20 percent we havent seen it since a Great Depression its not gone it im sorry Stephen Newton it is not going to turn around overnight its going to have to be a gradual recovery and it will be i believe there are some on the right saying that you fell as the democrats you dont want to get better because you wanted to be big trouble for the president and over can you believe that i dont believe it and its just simply not true that you know thats a typical blame somebody else were you know. Every day the one thing i can do larry living in washington i can get out of my our house we live on capitol hill. And i can go down the Washington Mall as far as i can for a long nice walk and its no problem self distancing because this is nobody else there right on the whole Washington Mall today i saw 4 people right i didnt get close to any of that my point is on the way back theres a house and in the window its got a big banner and i see it every day and it says were all in this together nobody wants the economy to fail nobody wants more people to die were all in this to get there so i think thats just thats just nonsense former president obama in a telephone conversation call the situation chaotic is that a term you would use oh yeah but you know what i think the president was talking about another telephone call was the situation at the department of justice where attorney general bill barr dropped the charges against Michael Flynn former National Security advisor Michael Flynn who pleaded guilty to lying to the f. B. I. Admitted that he lied to the Vice President and bill barr said i dont think any crime was committed well larry. I think you and i were taught that lying to the f. B. I. Is a crime right. Its certainly the other side it is i dont know i dont either and i think what obama was saying is that thats right it really does undermine our system of justice and we know that flynn even though he fired him flynn was trumps buddy and of bill barr. Is pretty clear it was just doing a big favor for Donald Trumps buddy. Do you think joe biden should figure out ways to get out more. Yes. What he i dont know how he does i dont know how he does it i think. They. You know that hes getting out online for local t. V. Stations but seems to me theres got to be some way they can get him they can get him around more theres another school of thought larry on that by the way i agree he should get out more im not im not changing my mind but there are others who say since trump is making such a mess of everything that the best thing to do is just to stay out of the way but you know when the other guys screw it up so badly the you just shut up and let them do it but id like to see more id like to hear more of joe biden a tape of the latest the latest that ive heard is in the biden camp that theres they see now that if he succeeds hes going to take over a country thats in his bed shape as it was when f. D. R. Became president and that he is going to have to be an f. D. R. Kind of president and do big things big time on the economy real fast to bring this country back or f. D. R. Had the new deal he put the government dorcy had people building things like stadiums and highways and yep yep yep yep and we have talked about we talked about infrastructure right that dows had not nows the time