A stop to those surveillance powers all right its time to boost your i. Q. Ever since the coronavirus pandemic forced stay at home orders which ultimately led to the shutdown of a lot of businesses congress has passed several relief measures aimed at getting americans back on their feet but after trillions of dollars got rubberstamp prove the country as a whole is nowhere near reopening and americans are becoming impatient with elected leaders and today the u. S. Treasury secretary and the Federal Reserve chairman were grilled by members of the Senate Banking committee wanting to know where all that money went arties Rachel Blevins has been monitoring the hearings today and shes joining us now. What is the current status of these loan programs for businesses and local governments so todays hearing mark the 1st time that officials were questioned by the Senate Banking committee on that 2. 00 trillion dollar cares act that was passed and the hearing was held remotely in order to abide by social distancing rules now there this comes after a report from the Congressional Oversight Commission which found that out of that 500000000000. 00 that was put aside for loans for businesses and local governments very little of it has actually been spent and im sure that treasury secretary steve said they plan to spend all of the money they just havent done it yet and he was also questioned about accusations that the government has moved to help large corporations while many Small Businesses still need help take a listen to his Response Companies such as boeing that i had expected would need to borrow from us on a direct basis were able to borrow 25000000000 dollars in the primary markets so i would say in the best Case Scenario the markets open up and we dont need to use these facilities in the case of main street facility the municipal sicilia which we expect both to be up and running by the end of the month we expect these to have a big impact on both those markets. Now that means Street LendingFacility Program he referenced is a 600000000000. 00 program that was set up for small and midsize businesses that dont qualify for other programs of it even though its supposed to be up and running by june its still not clear exactly when those businesses will see the funds they desperately need and what unemployment we are seeing record numbers right now nothing like weve seen since world war 2 right how did the officials respond to the concerns that americans that are out there that cant pay their bills right weve seen more than 36000000 americans who have fallen through unemployment and members of the committee expressed concerns about how those who no longer have an income will still be expected to pay for their bills such as rent and to that Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said that the major goal right now should be getting americans back to work to close what he had to say. Long periods of unemployment. Can really affect peoples ability to go back to work because they lose their networks they lose skills lose contact with the job market so i think anything that people. Intact is probably it openly in their job but in the meantime keep them out of solvency and things like that if should that should the expansion take start leader or take take longer to get going. Now its important to know the nesta made 44 percent of americans who have fallen for unemployment are either still waiting for benefits or a been denied and what about essential workers are there any provisions for that right while lot of these service to industry workers have been expected to stay on the job because they are essential and members of the committee expressed concerns for those who are still making low wages but at a much higher risk and there was quite a Fiery Exchange over that take a listen. Put their lives on the line for very low wages and theyre still worried about their paying the bill so see is that fair well mr senator i just want to thank all the essential workers whether it be the Health Care People the guys take a thanking is great but these are these are people what is it fair that our economy pays the essential workers so little in such work conditions. Now as for that 3 trillion dollar stimulus package that was passed by the house recently the focus appears to be on allocating the funds that have are already been passed before they move forward. All right obviously this is going to go on for a lot longer today. Thank you for that update thank you for. Taking a look now at the coronavirus numbers worldwide cases are now topping 4800000 with about 319000 reported deaths and right here in the u. S. There are now about 1500000 cases and 90000 deaths these are the highest confirmed numbers of any single country so far. And President Trump says the World Health Organization made several inaccurate and misleading claims about the coronavirus and accuses the agency of moving too slowly on monday night truck tweeted the letter he sent to the agency and in it he said the only way forward is if the w. H. O. Quote demonstrates independence from china and commits to quote improvements in the next 30 days heres our peter oliver now with the story. This is all taking place against the backdrop of the 73rd United NationsHealth Assembly taking place pops the most important one of those gatherings albeit even if this one is taking place virtually the being all the global stage and while it would seem like the perfect opportunity for nations to come together and work collectively to try and establish a vaccine to get aid to those nations that need it most what its being used for what this platform is being used for by the United States is an opportunity to point the finger of blame firmly at the World Health Organization and accuse them of essentially letting this crisis spin out of control there was a failure by this organization to obtain the information that the world needed and that failure cost many lives in an apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak at least one member state made a mockery of their transparency obligations with tremendous cost for the entire world u. S. President suspended funding for the world health old. Ation amid this pandemic. His critics say that hes using them essentially as a scapegoat for his own administrations failings in dealing with the covert 19 pandemic saying that if you look at the United States having the highest number of cases around the world the highest number of fatalities as well and also looking at the spiraling unemployment figures in the United States china for their part of the World Health Organization of the night be imminently these claims that are being made against them by the United States from beijings point of view theyve pledged money to countries that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus they also sent doctors and aid to africa and other developing nations china will provide 2000000000 u. S. Dollars over 2 years to help with the covert 19 response and with economic and social development in affected countries especially developing countries of the World Health Organization has said that there will be an independent inquiry into how they responded to the code crisis there director general says that yes there were some things that slipped through the net but that theyve learnt from them that he stood vehemently behind his organization while its also being calls for unity and a unified approach to fighting the virus from 2 of europes heaviest hitters. On a full. Join forces would be disciplined damning and we need the w. We true because of its irreplaceable coordinating role and here we have the opportunity to provide a unified response to the pandemic that is free of complacency and unfounded accusations that now country can solve this problem alone we must work together. The great show is replaceable. And that is the resources to provide support to developing gun cities which must be our greatest. Weve got a strong because all systems well the world Health Assembly continues all and choose to be looking for more of a unified approach to fighting the fire a sin less of the the finger pointing that we saw on monday. And Chinas Foreign Ministry is mincing no words saying the u. S. Is trying to smear china with finger pointing over the cove it outright by threatening to what hold funds from the w. H. O. Listen. Be willing that the above mentioned open letter of the us leader is full of language like maybe and it tries to mislead the public in this possible way to slander unionism suspension or control launchers and shirk the us his responsibility i know for incompetence in its own mentioning draw this is few to me and here to weigh in with an International Perspective former u. K. M. P. George galloway so george what do you think of the chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman for the language there. Well blistering indicates that china is rapidly running out of patience with those mounting the scapegoating campaign they have just as predicted would started with retaliate against australia sometimes insultingly referred to as the gum on china shoe they have placed 80 percent target on all australian goods and services coming into china which will of course have a devastating impact on australias economy which relies very heavily on trade with china and the will shortly i predict do the same with canada and both are a warning shot to the United States and to britain for about martha that china isnt going to put up with this for an unlimited time the truth is mandela you and i can delude ourselves into imagining that your country and mine which have by far and away the warst record on the coronavirus pandemic the greatest number of cases the greatest number of deaths we are rapidly catching up with you with a mere fraction of your population but you and us are the worst in the world now we can delude ourselves that is a mere coincidence down to the fact that both of our leaders. Are stunning blogs or we can be a little more thoughtful about the under marjoram is our model our model of capitalism that we share in common and our contempt for International Organizations and cooperation on the edge on the National Level our believe in unilateralism on the boule in the china shop and little john bull trotting along behind and uncanny similarity george between the u. S. And u. K. Numbers but george i mean this is is clearly a finger pointing exercise i mean we have the white house contending that china had the original findings of the virus then china saying the u. S. Simply didnt do enough to contain the outbreak at the end of the day why does this matter at this time george i mean can we compare it to those infamous Hillary Clinton sound bite heard all around the world when she sat for 13 hours before congress about libya saying what difference does it make. Well it doesnt right this moment make a difference on the european spokesman you just go to late are making the point in the middle of unimagined say lets compare to as many do to the 2nd world war for people to be quarreling amongst each other this kind of base level on this level all on disability can only weaken any alliance can only weaken any fight against the next or stensholt threat which it grew up with 19 obviously is but of course the day will come when what everyone done when they did it will be germane and will have to be properly on the lies and the w. H. O. Have conceded sure that they made some mistakes there or as i hope and small mistakes but. Complete and in a week to the blunders that your country and mine have made now george for the record for the viewers here this is a rare time that you will ever hear me quote Hillary Clinton but the president wraps ultimatum to the w. H. O. Has sent the organization scrambling to reorganize theres a mad dash by them to review their member state response to coronavirus could this perhaps george be a good thing brought upon w. H. O. By trumps threats the same way that we saw movement at nato and they started upping their payments once trump threatened to withdraw the us. Wish you would withdraw the us i dont think the w. H. O. Will miss donald trump i dont think theyll miss the United States governments. Affairs theyll miss some of the finance but that will be made up i think that the United States will be the loser from this this cost of isolation doesnt have any validity in the face of a virus that quite obviously knows no boundaries doesnt recognize boundaries or National Flags and so you can withdraw into your own council but when your council is as bad as britain on Americas Council as you have in britain they are falling apart today blaming each other the reality is were all going down the plug and i think that the british and American People are probably going quickly to cotton on to the are we got to leave it right there always appreciate your time George Galloway thank you for those insights. By privacy activists want to stop the f. B. I. From getting access to your web history during this Global Pandemic were going to discuss that and then over at sports were going to have shares 2nd round action from the ultimate hall vaulting showdown and remember to go. 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That at how close of a vote are we talking about here well were talking about is about as close as you can get miller were talking about one vote thats how short these amendments came from being passed and the frustrating thing about it if you are a privacy advocate as i am if youre someone who believes in Civil Liberties its pretty disappointing when you had 3 different sitters who didnt show up including Bernie Sanders a senator from vermont nebraska senator ben sass and then Patty Murray Patty Murray had said that she would have voted for these amendments had she been there but she wasnt there and so we came we came short on this whats fascinating about it is essentially the laws that are now in place allow the f. B. I. And cia to run amok on the internet and signatures did not stop them when they could have all my gosh bad i mean so basically while this pandemic is happening americans are you know out of work theyre probably at home on the internet a lot how does this translate to them to the average joe you and me. Well it well it translates in a couple very important ways you know its important for people to remember that this is all part of the continued surveillance of the patriot act this goes back to the patriot act in that it comes out of that continued surveillance of the american citizens so just give you an idea of what this means it essentially means that if the cia or the f. B. I. Want to go through your browsing history your eye of history they want to see what youve been looking at what youve searched on the internet what youve read they were able to do so and they dont have to go to with judge and get a warrant to do so and thats pretty significant because this really is and its fascinating that the u. S. Senate even has a voice in it this really should be a Supreme Court issue its an issue of a 4th amendment unlawful search and seizure the unlawful search of your personal documents on your computer and essentially thats what the f. B. I. And cia can do any time they want and the thing is they dont have to have a suspicion that youve done anything wrong you dont have to be accused of a crime there doesnt have to be any reason for them to say there is