Director for European Affairs and author of the new book isolationism, a history of americas efforts to shield itself from the world. Professor charles koch joins me now via skype, from chevy chase in maryland. Thanks so much. Charles for coming on before i get to the book. If i may, what do you make of the fears here in britain about joe biden presidency after . , he tweeted that u. K. , violation of the good friday agreement will impact on any trade deal you know, on balance. I think british folks should breathe a sigh of relief with bidens election in the sense that we will have again in the white house, someone who values partnerships abroad, who believes in the transatlantic relationship, who believes in a strong europe has a good partner. Does biden support brecks it know when he was Vice President . Did his boss, barack obama, go to the u. K. And argue against brecks it . Yes, and so there will be some tough conversations between Boris Johnson and joe biden about this issue. But
Its like social distancing Counter Measures like shutdowns the toll could go fall but modeled the worst Case Scenario of 1500000 to 2200000 deaths so what were going to see and thats weve got to brace ourselves in the next several days to a week or so were going to continue to see things go up we cannot be discouraged by that because the mitigation is actually working and will work. A somber President Trump said the mitigation measures were a matter of life and death i want every american to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead were going to go through a very tough 2 weeks. And then hopefully as the experts are predicting as i think a lot of us are predicting after having studied it so hard you can start seeing some related the end of the tunnel but this is going to be a very painful very very painful to excess in the city at the epicenter of the pandemic the rate of infection continues to rise the number of hospital admissions in new york city increased by 12 percent in the la
Tested more than any other country by far not even close and tested accurately meanwhile the u. S. Federal reserve has made new unemployment estimates rob reynolds has more on that from los angeles. So theres some pretty bad news from the u. S. Central bank the Federal Reserve saying that 47000000 americans could wind up jobless and the Unemployment Rate could reach as high as 32 percent President Trump said that at the end of this pandemic prices the u. S. Economy will come back the governor of florida says he doesnt want a cruise ship with coronavirus patients on board to dock that 4 people have died and dozens of sick on board these on dime cruise liner its heading towards florida to possibly through the panama canal passengers showing those symptoms were removed and taken to zaandam sister ship the most of them and again i got in miami says that u. S. Authorities may allow the boat to dock elsewhere. Theyve been on this cruise ship since the beginning of the month they began in poi
Crosshairs of this as well but as a general rule this is something that amateur rappers are facing and there are a number of reasons for that but one of them is i mean above and beyond the fact that they lack the name recognition that well known artists like tupac or have its that theyll select the resources to mount anything like a vigorous defense and so they become more vulnerable its easy for prosecutors to use rap lyrics against these young amateurs either to get convictions or more often to scare them into taking a plea bargain when we dont have the help in the pony you say we dont really know the extent. To which people have been incarcerated for in essence rob because most of our forces are a lot of them are forced to play out thats exactly it we dont have a sense of the true numbers the truce scale of any of this i mean we know that the 5 or so 100 cases that weve identified are just scratching the surface but thats exactly right were certain that the majority of these cases w
Began and more than 12000 Health Workers have been infected also hospital Officials Say they not only need more test kits but also some training on how to use them. When this Government Crisis Committee comes out to say we have everything it is not true when they say we have 300000 test kids well thats all very nice to have 300000 kids but those kids must be tested by professionals who know how to do it if not why do you need them so we also have this problem when they say we have 300000 kids daily i can tell you that it is not true so much of her own now from madrid with more on those latest infection numbers. 14 percent of the total amount people have that have tested positive from coronaviruses spain 5000. 00 in total 12300. 00 are Health Care Workers the thought of growing up from coronavirus house has reached 7800. 2 up to date weve seen how the Health Care Workers have been struggling have been claiming because they are lacking the running out of protective measures they dont hav